The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-03
CHARLES KAUFMAN,

Committee /"
This resolution was adopted at the
end of a very interesting session, at
which Will c. Barnes, secretary of the
cattle sanitary board, spoke at length
on cattle conditions and on the com
ing lease law which he deems a GER
tainty. ]. H. Hatton, of the forestry
bureau, also discussed range condit-
ions and the great need for economy
and care il the use of the grazing
lands of the west.
The session throughout was an in
teresting and profitable one. The
attendance was large. several huad-
red people having been attracted to
Magdalela by the gathering, which
terminates tonight in a grand ball in
honor of the visitors, and especially
arranged by Mr.. J. S. McTavish, of
Magdalena, who has been doing great
work in arranging for the meeting.
E. A. Clemens, chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee of the association,
presided at the sessions today
The following members of the ex-
ecutive committee were elected:
J. w. Medley, of Magdalena; How
ard Sweet, of Socorro: w. P. Saunders
of Magdalena, and c. Chavez. of San
Marcial.
Twelve new members were received
into the association today.
Barnes Urges Concerted Action.
The principal address of the day
was by Secretary Barnes, of the cat
tie board, who drew an interesting
contrast between conditions in the
cattle and sheep Industries. finding
conditions favorable to both. but mar
ket conditions especially favorable to
the sheep growers.
The general conditions in market
and on range Mr.. Barnes thought IA
vorable to the cattlemen He said
that the reason for the failure of cat
tie prices to rise was found in the
oversupply. Mr.. Barnes produced
some astonishing statistics to show
that in the past twenty years, while
there has been a 60 per cent increase
in population, there has been al in
crease in cattle of 125 per cent, so
that consumption has not kept pace
with the increase. He showed also
that the lack of export facilities and
markets mad served to hold down the
prices of cattle. On the other hand,
while there had been an increase of
25 per cent in sheep there had been
an astonishing rise in consumption,
accounting clearly for the advance in !
mutton over the advance in beef.
The lease law, Mr.. Barnes said, was
coming, and the stock growers of the !
west would do well to meet it and to
get the best conditions possible out
of it. Mr.. Barnes was a member of
the presidents special commission to |
frame the proposed lease law. and |
is thoroughly familiar with conditions |
not only in Washington. but on the
range. He told the stock men today |
that their salvation lies in getting |
together and standing together for !
in the new law which will |
allow them to continue on a basis as
nearly as possible adapted to meet
local conditions. Meet the govern !
ment half way, he said and there
would be no legislation enacted which |
would prove disastrous to the cattle |
interests.
Urges Care of the Ranges
Mr. Hatton. of the forest service, |
gave the cattlemen some sound ad-
vice on the necessity for economy |
in the use of the range. He urged |
the need for the segregation of a por
ton of the range for use in the dry
season or dry year. He found that
It was the disposition of the western
stock man to use his good range at
once, and when the dry year came
that he was usually caught unprepar
ed for trouble. The eastern raiser
Of a few cows, he said, kept a full !
barn of old corn for the dry year !
The western cattlemal should like
wise save some of his pasture for the
season of dry weather and sparse
grass.
Overstocling, he found was of the
greatest danger to the western range.
He urged that the time had come in
The southwest for growing fewer cat
lie and for a better grade, and thus
the range. The time had
passed when the stock men of the
west could afford to be wasteful of the
-ange.
The meeting throughout has been
, most successful and beneficial one,
md it leaves the Cattle and Horse
Protective association of central New
Mexico a stronger organization than