Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-10
Utah WooIgrowers' Association
Meets in Convention and
Discusses Live Topics.
WANTS MANTI MEN oUsTED
Resolutions Condemning Actions
And Statements of Sanpete
Forest Reserve Officials.
President Callister Calls Meeting to
Order and in Speech Refers TO
The Pinchot Incident.

The largest meeting in point OF at
tendance, and perhaps the most i'm
portant gathering held by the assocla-
tion since the organization of the Utah
woolgrowers' association. was called
IN order by E. II. Callister, president
of the association, shortly after 10
o'clock this morning. The meeting was
held in the office of the secretary at
5ls Judge building. but on account of
the number of delegates in attendance
the gathering was adjourned to Ken
nody hail. on Market place. where the
balance of the morning and the after
noon sessions we're held.
President Callister called the meet
Ing to order in brief speech in which
he said that number of questions of
great moment to the sheepmen con-
fronted the gathering, and expressed
the hope that wise and united action
would be taken by the association on
all these matters. The question most
prominent In the minds of the sheep
men, President Calllster said, was per-
heps that OF the regulation of the for
est reserves within the state as related
to the grazing of sheep. and in this
connection he referred to the recent
action of President Taft deposing Gif
ford Pinchot as chief forester. IT think
Mr.. Pinchot is an able man and a
good official" said President Callieter,
''but l do not agree with his forest
policy. and told him so. think he
and the other officials of the govern
ment are at sea with regard to the
est reserves. and L hope one OF
the actions of this convention
Will he to endorse as the successor OF
Mr.. Pinchot western man, or at least
a man who Is familiar with the condt-
tions as they really exist in the west in
'Telanon to forest reserves and the graz
ing 81 sheep therein. The order made
some years ago shutting out 5oO,ouo
sheep from grazing in the Uintah for
est was unjust, and the forest officials
were arrayed against the sheepmen
and In favor of the cattlemen at that
time and had Ii not been for the action
OF President Mckinley. before whom
the real situation was laid by Senators
Smoot, Sutherland and other western
senator's, the sheepmen would have
been shut out entirely from great
.IOTliOn OF range WHlCH VI ii6He
longed to them.
The convention should also take
united action for the eradication of the
lip and leg liberation, called NEGRO
bacillosis We do not wish our state
quarantined by the government because
Of this disease, and in order to prevent
this we must work together to eradi-
cate IT,
Another. point which demands I'M
z5t 10
destruction of wild animals which prey
upon the fiocks. The fockmastcrs must
also be united In this work, or the OK
termination OF the coyotes and other
predatory animals Will never be accom-
plished''
President Callister's address was we'll
received On account of pressing
business elsewhere. he was compelled
, 10 leave the meeting. and called John
z H. Seeley OF Mt. Pleasant to the cnalr'
d MANTT RESOLUTIONS.
The convention then proceeded to the
business of discussing the resolution
offered by the members Of the associa-
lion from Sanpete at the caucus of the
Utah delegation at the meeting OF tho
national association at Ogden recently'
condemning the administration or the
Manti forest reserve, and asking 1or
change In the personnel OF the al
rectory of that reserve. The matter
was passed over at that time, 10 come
up at the meeting OF the state associo-
tion in Salt Lake today, and free and
iull discussion of the matter was had
at this mornings session.
The resolutions framed by the San
pete delegation condemn In unmeasured
terms the conduct OF the Manti reserve
ny the present supervisor. and charge
mat official with undue prejudice
against the sheepmen and in favor of
me cattiemen. The supervisor had
issued orders cutting down the number
o. sheep permitted on the Manti re-
serve until. as one man. who said in
me meeting that he formerly grazed
9svVV sheep was now only permitted to
fsb sheep on the reserve. with
.ne prospect OF being cut down by the
supervisors next order to 500.
STATEMENT CONDEMNED.
The resolutions condemn the state-
ment made in the report of the Manti
spPervisor CHASING the sheepmen OF
me. distrlct as nomads and non-home
ruiiuefs. They assert emphatIcally to
me contrary that the shecpmen own
nlne-tenths or the homes In that sec
uo non- They complain that the range Is
not equally divided between the cat
nc and shcepmen. the former having
tne preference in every instance. and
ci,e as proof the fact that rot nearly
an the feed on the portion allotted
10 cattle %as consumed the last year.
Tho discussion on this subject was
participated In by John c. Mackey
and c. II. Stewart OF Salt Lake county.
H. X, Anderson and A. F. Jensen. of
elant. and others. the general scnti-
ment prevailing that the resolutions
should be adopted as the sense OF the
pody OF the organized sheepgrowers
OF the state, and forwarded TO Acting
thief Forester A. II. Potter as the ex-
preston of the Utah organization on
the subject
Early in the meeting a motion was
carried by which all reports. etc.
should be acted upon BY the conven-
ucn prior to the election of Officers
Tor the ensuing year There Is a great
deal OF sentiment for the rentention in
namely, f. IF. Callister as president
ana G.. B. Stewart secretary The