Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1908-01-30

on resolutions and did good work io
Oregon, and If the convention coul' have
prevailed upon DR.. Wilson to accept the
nomination for president, our delegation
would have landed the vice-presidents
place hands down.
$1,000 was then raised by individual
subscription for the purpose OF repre-
sen ing the livestock interests at Wash.
ington. In this the delegation from
Oregon came to the front to the amount
Of about 5000.
After short meeting OF the executive
committee, on which one of the dele.
gates from Morrow county was appoint.
ed, to bond the treasurer and attend to
few other matters, the convention ad-
journed 10 meet again at Pocatella. Ida
no, next year.
Helena is a beautiful city. built as it
Il at the foot OF Mt. s.. Helens, and
commands a grand panoramic view Of
the Rocky Mountains with their spires
and domes, and il one could forget for a
moment that he was in the new world,
it would not take very great stretch OF
the Imagination for him to think that he
was eholding a city in Europe of an
cient castles. But, however. about the
only ca ties the average American builds
js usually in the air. We have no time
for others.
DR.. Wilson in his speech said that
there had not been auy practical increase
in sheep for the past 40 years, yet the
increased consumption of mutton for
the past l6 years has been over 400 per
cent. Ard today, according to govern
ment statistics. there a.e 36 per cent of
all the sheep hocks of the United States
needed for mutton. If the increase
keeps up we shall not have mutton
enough in the whole country in ten
years to supply the demand. The in
crease in sheep the past 40 years has
been 29S per cent; the inc ease IN pop
uAht'ob, lSV PCi SCbts VIZ ibSiChDC
the consumption of mutton. 400 per
cent. he further stated that the value
of the entire wool clip both pulled and
fleece in tha United States for the year
1907 was S7S 263 ,l65, and Tie value OF
mutton for the same period was S64,-
165, ,795. making grand total of $l42.-
42S, ,961.
So, if We keep on plowing up our land
for wheat, increasing our popu.ation,
increasing our demand for mutton, in
creasing our forest reserves. and cutting
down the number Of steep every year
at the same rate we have b en-, the
world will wake up some day in the not
far distant future to the fact that it has
plenty OF bread, plenty of timber, and
ether u aterial from mother earth for
building purposes, but is short, terribly
short, of that most essential of all fab
rics, wool. Then 1t will be that no one
but the very rich will be able to wear
wooden clothes. The man of moderate |
means may perhaps be able TO wear cot
Ton and shoddy clothes cast off from our
more fortunate brother, but pity the
poor devil that has to 90 back to sack |
cloth or fig leaves no matter how we'll he
m " he fed.
So say to the sheep ra ser, hold on
b your sheep, hold on to your sheep
'ange, make tite best te, ms possible with
Uncle Sam tor his range, for 1t will not
be very long In place or putting boun-
" on sheep scalps, and also sheepmen's
,calps, he will be Offering premium to
my man owning an acre of land if be
will raise a sheep on it.
After laying over at Great Falls and
Spokane long enough to take in those
cities. the delegates arrived in Pendl--
,on. There with many handsha kes and
promises to meet again next year at
We parted, each one for bis
district.
". B. B.