Bisbee daily review., 1905-01-11
LIVESTOCK MEN
 MEET IN DENVER
CONVENTION IS LARGELY AT. TENDED BY cATTLEMEN AND OTHER PROMINENT PER-
 SONAGES.
President F. J. Hagenbarth Delivers His Annual Address-conVention Will Remain in Session Three Days. Railroad Rates to Be Considered.

Denver. Jan. 'f0.-The seventh an .nuai convention of the National Live Stock Association met this morning and is attended by cattlemen and cat tie growers from all over the United States In addition to the regularly accredited delegates a number. of rail- road men are in the cityf and other in terests ar also represented.
 At the morning session President
 Hagerbaith delivered his annual ad- dress. and spoke in part as follows
 Ii is meet that once more. beneath
 the shades of the inspiring Rockies,
 the plainsmen should gather. The lpast seven years we have travelled far
 and wide. and our council fires have been lighted on the hercic plains of
 Texas; in the city of Saints and Sights; on the chilly shores of the
 Great Lakes; by the banks of the Big Muddy: where laps the potent Pacific
 ano rolls the Oregon, and now ''ye cIags and peaks, We are with you once again" Nor have we. the rangemen.
 cone alone. Our friends and fellow workers in the calling made honorable by Abraham and Isaac. have gathered
 with us Our brethren of the iron
 rail our friends from the mighty fac lt tory. the fancy breeder. the thoughtful feeder. the traders who buy and sell they have all come to meet in friendly council with the men of the plains. and this gathering shall be historic. The lion will lie. down with the lamb and the oils shall embrace the waters. Blazoned aloft on every fleecy cloud, borne on the breath of every breeze We read the legend. "One for all, anG all for one,"
 The year just closed has been a mo- mentous one for the livestock interests and for your Association. Calamitics and blessings have been mixed. The grim reaper Death. has dealt severely with Us. He has taken away in his prime that sterling friend, untiring worker and prince of good fellows, our late secretary, the lamented Charlie Martin. May peace go with him.
 The past year has seen a continual
 ton of the falling prices for range cattle inaugurated two years ago. Sta tistics show this years depreciation to have averaged s175 per head on all cattle marketed. To partially offset the losses sustained by the cattlemen the mutton grower reaped >rich re ward. With depleted domestic mar kets. and worlds shortage of wool the grow of that commodity faces an approaching season which at this time seems to be of the brightest. Tn the face of the years bumper corn crop it would seem that before long, the cat tie feeder must fill his feed lots or store his corn for another year The latter he can not pTofitably do; soon- er or later he must feed. When this movement begins a much enlarged market will open for cattle and prices should move upward.
 During the year the activity of your ASSOI4aN4Ou Has fDGtI SiGdAla AdAl ed by the condition of your treasury. Your committees have, however. been to Washington in connection with leg islative matters in pursuance of reso- lutions adopted at the Portland meet ing. They reported back that all was cone that could have been hoped for in a presidential year. Our political friends at the national capitol. in winning way. baie Us nope for better things in the future.
 Your transportation committee met in Chicago in February with the traf- fc directors Of a number of trunk lines, and in conjunction with efforts made by other influences, succeeded in a measure in softening some of the hardships that railroad practices had imposed upon us.
 In August, under the auspices of this Association the land commission ap- pointed by President Roosevelt held hearing in this city for the purpose of discussing the range question and formulating the Cesires of the range men as to this momentous proposition This discussion brought out the fact that. of late years. a great change had occurred in the trend of our thoughts the public domain The sentiment was indorsed that it was de- sirable that all grazing areas should be placed un6er Sovernnrental jurisdie- :ion. and that a scientific control be established. under the supervision of the department of agriculture, which. recognizing present conditions as a starting point, would seek to estab- fish a new order of things inuring 10 the berefit ,of the range and all con- cerned. Present occupancy to deter mine priority of range right. and changes made to be so gradual and so regulated as not to create commercial distress to those interests directly in- volved