Gunnison news-champion., 1908-01-24
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A mas. meeting Il the csstleasen
runnsng stock GA the eannIsoe Nc
serve ~as called st the court house
lss, SATURDAY. and pressded over by
T " Gray. by v,rtae Of hss po~i-
t,oa as cha,rmxn Of the advisory
boaIi
The talking va. hnsIted 10 those
ruaning stock and Mr.. Gray An
noanced that only the guestsoas ot
a loser ise for grazing and the pres-
ervstion Of our local range for cattle
would he cons,devsd The hrs,
speaker vas Will c. BArnes, VINO 10
connected with the grazing depart
meat Of the fosestry bureau
Mr. BsrDes hes bsen . bag cattle
man in New Aexico and Dut recent
" loined the forestry service, and ~
10 natural with big csttIemen, 10 an
ardent Iesser On FRIDAY night he
save . picture show st the court
ho~se, explaining the views which
we've very good reproductions of
btSVSo. 1UcSt INV, CtoOfttse. IWtti-
ksd forests. etc. In his address
Saturday he gave many facts and
kRxFss Aboat the forsst re~erves
The ere leo, ,taO,OD scres included,
thoush not by any nsesns oil forest
ed areas. On the reserves thers
grassa lsst year .,m0,0O sheep and
l,e0O.0U cattle and horses. About
a million dollars WAS collected in
grazing fees. The speaker created
sone amusement by insisting that
THE fee was not y tax. 1t seems
that Is cents = head for the full
season is the maximum basis and
while he did not hold out any hope
Of this being reduced, he asserted
that it would not be raised for five
years ut least. Evidently Mr.
Barnes ignores the great fact Of
BRYAN.
W. X. kreutzer. supervisor OF the
Gunnison Forest Reserve, next gave
a recital of the work accomplished
during the year. He detailed trails
built. telephone lines constructed,
drift fences arranged for, rangers
cabins erected, etc. The total
amount spent for 1907 was some
thing over $1,000 with more prom
ised for 1908 News-Champion will
discuss this phase OF The matter at a
later time Grazing tax for 1908 is
to he practically the same as in
1907 There are ten grazing dis
tricts, the total number Of head al
lowed being 3S,250 This number
is at present but little more than
half filed.
Mr. Gray then read a petition for
the reduction of the grazing fee,
prepared by himself + r. Hartman
and 4. p Creighton, of Maher 1t
recited the difficulties under which
the stock industry labors here: i.
the short summers long winters,
long haul to market and especially the
poison weed A number Of stock
men were called upon to detail their
loss and 1t ran to astonishing fig
ures, from eight to seventeen per
cent of the total of their herds in
1907 Not all of these cattle had
been found dead with poison, indeed
Mr.. Barnes suggested that a detect
i've was ne ,ded more than a doctor.
However, they were lost on the Gun
nisoa forest reserve A resolution
presented by H. c. Bartlett was also
adopted, asking that the portion of
Cochetopa forest reserve living this
side of the Continental divide be
adjoined to the Gunnison reserve.
The interest of Cochetopa aad Ce-
bolla ranchmen are identical with
those of Gunnison and they belong
to the Gunnison County Stock Grow
ers, so that the request is reasonable
and logical, if we are going to have
any such farce as the presen: system
Of reserves much longer
About twenty five delegates were
going to the association meetings
in Denver and had left that evening
or the next