The Glenwood post., 1911-04-01
S1OCKMEN HOLD
HARMONIOUS MEET
Session at Carbonda|e a Love
Feast Compared With Others

The regular annual meeting of the
Roaring Fork and Eagle River Stock
growers association was held at Car
bondale last Saturday and was a very
tame affair in comparison with some
of the very strenuous convocations of
the aforesaid organization held few
years age.
w. l.. Girdner called the meeting to
order and stated that the first order of
business would be the election of off
GERS. The election resulted as follows:
j. S. Hum, president; w. H. Harris,
vice president; w. l.. Girdner, treas
urer, and s. P. Sloss, secretary.
In taking the chair Mr.. Hum, the
new president, stated that he would in
sist that in the future all complaints
against the forest officers or the admin
istration of the reserves must be made
to the advisory board over the sigma
ture of the party aggrieved. He said
he had found from his experience of
the executive committee that n lot of
fellows were very generous with their
accusations and complaints when made
orally. whereas if they We're required
to put their complaints in writing and
then prove their statements. there
would be less of the wholesale criti-
cism of the reserves than there has
been for the past few years or than
there is at present.
AS proof of his remarks along this
line Mr.. HUM cited the criticism that
was freely INDUCED in about year
ago concerning a certain ranger. All
kinds of mouth charges We're made
against this man and vet when the su-
pervisor sought to learn the facts he
found that these people to whom he
had been referred would not or could
not give evidence against this ranger
In other words, derogatory statements
had been made against this man which
the persons making them We're not able
to substantiate.
AT the present time the advisory
board is not recognized by the forest
service, not having complied with the
regulations which the service requires
concerning such matters, but it was the
nense of the meeting that they should
apply for recognition by the service in
the future in order that all complaints
of the association or its members might
he made through the board instead
the case in the past. 1t was said that
much trouble and dissatisfaction would
have been avoided in the past had
there been an advisory board recog
nized by and cooperating with the
forest service. 1t was generally con
ceded that the most if not all the
trouble over the above mentioned
ranger should have been avoided and
would haun hnnn had tho N
been acting under an active and rec
ognized advisory board.
Daniel Flynn who has heretofore had
some trouble with the service, or at
least thought he had, said that his dis
putes had all been settled in satisfac-
tory manner and that he was through
fighting. He itimated that the asso-
citation had not stood by him as it
should have done, but he was ready to
bury the hatchet and start over.
William Dinkel said the advisory
board should not under any crcum-
stances receive any complaints unless
made in writing over the signature of
the complainant. He said it was very
easy for people to make derogatory
statements of others, but if called upon
to prove these statements they would
often find it quite embarrassing. He
thought there should be fair play on
both sides and felt sure that if this
rule were invoked we would hear much
less criticism against the service than
Hqretofore. Mr., Dinkel's remarks were
yell received by those present
A. H. Miller deputy supervisor of
the Holy Cross forest. was present by
invitation and explained to the meet
ing some of the regulations of the ser
vice and especially discussed the matter
of cooperation between the service ana
the stockmen in the building and main
tenance of drift fences. He thanked
the members for the invitation they
had extended to him to visit them and
assured them of the desire of the SER
vice to assist the stockmen in every
way possible, consistent with the basic
policy of conservation to which the
government is pledged.
Altogether it was very pleasant
and harmonious meeting. Fred Light,
Charley Harris, George Swigart anil
Jim Zimmerman were absent.
ODD FELLOWS HOLD