The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-17
GREAT CONVENTION OF
SHEEP GROWERS OPENS |
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given at Armory hall Saturday evening
by the Commercial club. Armory hall
where all sessions of the convention are
to be held, is reached through the main
entrance to the Commercial Club build
ing on West Temple street.
BY tonight ii is expected fully l. 500 dele
gates and sheep men and their wives will
De I'm the city. The center of the lower
IlOOr OF the tabernacle will be reserved
Tor them at this evenings concert The
PUBLIC viii be admitted to the remainder
of the auditorium floor and the balconies
Scores of stockyard representatives are
already here and have opened headuuar-
ters in the various hotels where the con-
VenuOn delegates Will be made welcome
NJ h. Irwin. traffic manager. and J. =.
Kerr. western manager of the ST. Joseph
missouri, stockyarGs. arrived here late
last evening. and are AT the Kenyon
Several important changes have been
made in the convention program for to-
day. Senator Frank G. Warren. Of Wash
ington. president Of the National Wool
Growers association is in Washington.
and will be unable 20 be present. Dr. j.
preside at all sessions. The Rev. Franklin
). Spaulding ID. D.. Of Salt Lake will
pronounce the invocation this morning.
after which Governor Cutler will welcome
the sheepmen on behalf Of the state.
Fisher Harris. manager Of the CONNER
cial club. will welcome the delegates to
the city on behalf of Mayor Ezra Thomp-
son. Nj Harris address will be fol-
lowed by a welcome on behalf Of the Com
mercial club by Stephen II. Love. Presi-
dent Charles Quigley of the club being
unable to be present. Frank J. Hagen
barth will respond to the various adj
dresses of welcome. This mornings ses-
sion viii close with the annual address
Of Western Vice President Wilson.
Afternoon Session.
This afternoon Thomas ]. Walsh will
discuss Forest Reserves From the
Sheepman's Standpoint. This will be
followed by an address by Clifford Pin
chot. chief forester of the United States
department of agriculture. Washington
on Forest Reserves and the Grazing In
dustry." Then will follow q general dis
Of the sheep industry in the various
states. 1t is expected Chief Forester
Pinchot's address will be particularly in
terestiDg. as at the third annual conven-
ton Of the Wyoming Wool Growers assoc
citation. which closed at Rock Springs
Wyoming yesterday. he was bombarded
with questions for two hours after a
speech on a similar subject. The sheep
perpetrated under the present regulations
of forest reserves. and Mr.. PinchOt will
unquestionably be called upon to outline
in a most comprehensive manner the REM
edial regulations the government proposes
TO enact
Armory hall has been decorated in an
will be devoted by the delegates 20 an in
spection of the Fine and Fat Sheep show
at the fair grounds. The latter opens
this morning with over 1000 sheep and
cattle on display The judges for the
show are William Moss Woods Cross;
A. A. Covey, Salt Lake; W. w. Taylor.
Forest Dale. and Milo Knight of Salt
Lake. No admission fee will be charged
TO the show and the exhibit of sheep Is
said TO be one OF the finest ever displayed
in the intermountain country.
Varied Entertainment.
The program Of entertainment ar
ranged for the convention delegates and
their wives is unusually attractive. The
tabernacle concert tonight will be one of
the best given here in the past two years.
Friday afternoon the ladies OF the con-
vention will be taken through the Holmes
art gallery and later TO a reception and
tea i'm the Bee Hive given by the ladies
Of the domestic arts department OF the
Latter-Day Saints university. Friday
night the wives of the delegates will be
guests of honor at a reception at the
Commercial club and Saturday afternoon
they will be taken TO Saltair. The smoker
10 be given delegates at the Armory hall
Saturday evening will close the conven-
ton.
The official programs FOR the conven-
ton came off the presses last night They
are handsomely gotten up and some 5000
will be issued today.