The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-02-21
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SALT LAKE
MEETING
LOCAL WooLeRoWERs DISCUSS
ACTION IN ALL PHASES.
Contemplated Bill to Be Presented to
Legislature Occupies Entire Ses-
sion of Ogden Association.

At the Office Of the Utah Woolgrow-
ers, association In Salt Lake Friday
night an important meeting was held
for the purpose OF looking into mat
ters looking to the better protection
of the sheep and cattle on the public
ranges OF Utah. Prominent sheepmen
and cattlemen Of the state. together
with members of the senate commit
tee on forests and forestry and the
house committee on livestock, attend
cd the meeting.
The meeting was harmonious one
and It WAS agreed by all present that
bill should be framed and presented
To the Legislature providing for a tax
of mills for sbeepmen on each head
OF stock owned. to raise fund With
, which to pay bountIes on predatory
wild animals that are SO destructive
10 the locks and herds in the state
at certain periods ot the year Ac-
cording to An enumeration of the live
stock of the state, this tax would
raise fund Of S25,00o or $4,000. To
this amount will be added the expected
appropriation OF $4,000 by tho legis-
lature. and a like sum from the ma
tional government. which in all would
aggregate $4,000 TO be utilized In the
state In the paying of bounties on
these animals. twas finally conclud-
ed BY the members of the conference
that the bounties 10 be paid should be
80 for COYOTES, bobcats, and lynx.
$40 for wolves, bears and mountain
lion,
Those who attended the meeting Fri
day night were:
]. II. Seely, ylco president of the
Utah Woolgrowers' association and
chairman of the senate committee on
forests and forestry. r. w. Sevy. OF
the committee; John \ Henrie, chair
man OF the house committee on live
stock; Representatives A. F, Hay
cock and John NJ. Murdock, and the
following prominent sheep and cattle
men: C. 3. Stewart Of Salt Lake City.
secretary Of the Utah Woolgrowers'
association A w. Crane OF Herri-
man. Mr Benson of Tooele county.
Ben T. Brown of Wayne county, Free
man Bigby, A. A. Callister and Thomas
Jones Of Salt Lake City. Hyrum Nc
Farland OF Ogden. ]. R. Allen of ORA
per. F. B, Kesler Of Beaver, and l., r.
Anderson Of Manti.
At the meeting OF the Ogden Wool
growers association, yesterday after
noon, the action of the meeting in
Salt Lake Friday night was thor
ough1y discussed In all of its phases
and II was the unanimous voice Of the
meeting that the conclusions arrived
at and advocated by the stockmen and
rh nf tha Ia tel ufh
took part In the Salt Lake meeting are
correct. and that the policy advocated
should be endorsed by all the stock
ralserS Of the state. The association
passed u resolution endorsing the
plan designated. and pledging the as
ISOLATION to an earnest and undivided
support of the same, was passed. 1t
developed In the Ogden meeting of
the woolgrowcrs that the cattle, horse
and sheepmen OF Utah In past years
have lost fully one million dollars per
annum by virtue Of the devastations
of predatory animals in the killing OF
stock, hence the stockraisers can we'll
afford to pay 100000 by way OF boun-
ties for the destruction OF such anil
mails.
The contemplated bounty bill will
soon be framed and presented to the
state solons for their consideration,
and 1t is confidently expected by the
stockmon that it will meet no opposi-
tion in the Legislature. The proposed
bounty bill occupied all the time of
the Ogden woolgrowers at their meet
ing yesterday, notwithstanding the
fact that they are much concerned
over the promotion Of the Work for
the arrangements for the national
woolerowers' convention TO be held In
Ocdan nert xoar