El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-15

/ was practically settled that H. A Jas
/ tro would be reelected president and
/ Dwight B. Heard vice president Heard's
/ supporters for president probably viii
| not present his name to the convention
/ There are no other candidates
There is nothing to indicate where
the next convention is to be- Denver,
Ell Paso and Albuquerque are contest
! ing for the next convention.
During the morning session S12, 900
was raised in half an hour to advance
the work of the association, parttcu-
larIy to work for the passage of the
Lever land leasing law
The address of A Z. Potter, assistant
United States forester, was the princi-
pal talk this morning Dwight b. Heard,
John W. Springer and Sam COwan. at
torney for the Texas Catuemen's asso-
citation, also spoke
Favor Leasing Grazing Lands.
By unanimously passing a resolution
endorsing the Lever bill, introduced at
the Tuesday afternoon session, the del
egates to the convention placed that
organization strongly on record as be
ing in favor of the leasing of public
grazing lands
ident H A Jastro, after the bill had
been read to the assembled delegates by
vice president Dwight B. Heard. He
moved that the resolutions committee
be directed to draft q strongly wOrded
set of resolutions favOring the measure
It was urged by the president that there
be nothing halfhearted in the conven-
tons endorsement
Seconds were heard from all parts
of the house. Mr.. Heard put the Ques-
ton and it was carried with a storm Of
ayes. Not one voice was raised in oppo-
sition.
Cattle Business DvvindIes.
President Jastro talked at some
length in favor of the Lever bill He
declared that the cattle industry is
growing smaller year by year and
would gradually die out were some
thing not done to protect the arid
If we don't do something, not one
of you viii have a dollar 10 years from
now" he said
There was a stiffness in the hall as
the president took his seat 1t was
broken after minute or two by J. n
Parramore, a white bearded, white
haired patriarch, Of Abilene. Texas.
That talk of Mr.. Parramore was one
Of the hits Of the entire convention
He began by urging all who opposed
the Lever bill to stand up like men
and say So" Evidently it was his in
tention to stir someone into action, but
he provoked only laughter. His talk
did more than anything else to show
absolutely that in that gathering there
was not a person opposed to leasing the
public domain for grazing purposes
You talk about fruit growing here
in this valley, and tell of the wonder
ful profits made from your orange
groves but I'd rather have alfalfa with
=
said Parramore. This valley can pro-
duce feed to fatten cattle grown on
all the ranges around here. That IS
the market you farmers must look TO-.
sam CoWan, OF Fort Worth, suggested
that the convention give judge A. ).
Hawkins, a former resident OF the Lone 1
Star state, now living in Phoenix, 10
minutes OF It's time. Judge hawkins
drew the Texas leasing bill when ne
was in the legislature The secretary
was instructed to look him up and
bring MIN before the convention today.
Arid Grazing Ranges.
Aside from the endorsement OF the
Lever bill, the feature OF the Tuesday
afternoon session was an address D.
Prof. J. ). ThOrnber. OF the University
OF Arizona, on Some Problems in the
Restoration OF Arid Grazing Ranges"
Prof. ThOTnber is DCtanist at the uni
versity experiment station
The west and southwest are the
pasture OF the notion, he said
Throughout the west and southwest
there are more than 40O, 600, 600 acres OF
arid grazing lands. This is one-Ilfth
this area, more than 5O,OO0,O 900 acres
are in Arizona. The land cannot be
made valuable for anything else with
IN 20 or so years. at least
Dry farming is being tried in Ari-
IONA 1 have noticed that the dry
farmer does best when he grows cattle
and feeds his stock milo maize, alfalfa
and other crops grown on his land
Ranges Depleted.
Prof ThOrnber spoke OF the present
overgrazed and depleted condition OF
the public ranges and declared with
out qualification that nothing can be
done to improve conditions till an ad-
equate national leasing law is enforced
He also suggested that each state spend
$4,000 a year in studying forage plants,
desert weeds and poisonous weeds but
stated that the real solution OF the
problem lay in government superVls-
90 Elm +L,+ ;s 5er1a+fr,c- +l,a
ranges is interference with seeding by
the, eating Of the plants right into the
gOrund," said ne. If seeding is inter-
Tered with at all, said Prof. Thornber,
1T must be for as brief period as pos
sible. With the disappearance OF our
grasses, weeds are taking our ranges
Fencing the Lands.
The speaker declared that there IS
no way TO reclaim waste areas except
to fence them. He did not advocate
the fencing Of all the public domain,
however. Some, he declared, will not
pay for the fencing, as 1t produces
nothing but annual plants.
Another thing that Prof. ThOrnberg
did not advocate was the fencing Of /
land by individuals. Communities, he I
claimed, Will make much more OF /
success in such undertakings. He sug-
growers lease a large area and fence 4
it into three compartments, each com !
partment to be used third OF the year }
while the plants in the others grow
d. o. Lively, commissioner of the |
livestock department Of the Panama /
Pacific exposition, told of the plans /
being made at the coming fair for an 1
exhibition OF livestock. Mr.. Lively 1
said $4,000 will be distributed in 4
prizes.
A. F. Stryker, secretary of the Omaha !
livestock exchange. The livestock ex- |
changes will ever be found ready to ]
cooperate with the growers. Mr.. !
Stryker said, and suggested that the
National Livestock association coop I
crate with the agricultural colleges
and help them to teach more about I
the breeding Of livestock.
Handsome BadgeS.
Each cattleman, whether delegate
or not is wearing a handsome badge.
1t is claimed that the badge is the most
beautiful distributed at any Of the
of the association. 1t is
in the form of a shield with a Phoenix /
bird rising from red flames above an
other shield enameled in red, white
and blue. Around the edges, on blue
enamel, are the words: American Ma
tional Livestock association, Phoenix,
1913"
Big, broad hated fellows are most
OF the stockmen. There are the real
cowboys. with hands burned by the
RATA and faces tanned by the winds
Of the open ranges. And there are