The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-02-28
The C%attlemen's Organization

Carson Appeal: The Appeal is in receipt OF a communication
from the secretary of the Nevada Cattle Owners Association In an
swer to a n editorial recently published in these columns u a.
acknowledgement was given the communication by reproducing " III
the Appeal of Saturday last
Tn his communication to the Appeal Mr.. Stanton, secretary
Of the Cattle Owners Association, while denying, intimates that his
organization is not in the political game and makes a strong POM
when he claims that the association should not b heid resPonsio'e
for the remarks of individual members of the organization
When the Appeals editorial was written it was based mainly on
the remarks of one individual, but sit was the expression Of no less
than half a dozen other members who attended the organization ana
became affiliated with the Cattle Owners Association at Reno o n the
18th inst. SO it is evident that many members OF the assoclatlon' II
they had their sway, would commit the organization to politics and
have a ticket in the field at the coming elections and do everything
in their power to abolish the existing State commissions.
But on the other hand. ascertained by a careful canvass OF the
sentiment, and cleaned from those who know whereof they speak,
there are many members, and big ones, too, of the Cattlemens Or
ganization who are not only in favor of retaining the various COM
missions now existing in the State but have promised to help them
out in every honest endeavor.
And there is splendid opportunity for them to do so. In 1918
the returns of the Assessors of the various counties of the State
showed that there were approximately 10000 head of cattle on the
assessment roll. On these a tax of SIS and $40 was paid, on milk
cows, S35. On the floor of the convention on the day when the cat
.tlemen organized one of the members asserted that there were 400
900 head of cattle in Nevada. Government statistics, made up to
January, 1914, place the number of cattle in the State, including
milk cows, at over 46S OOO. SO between the estimated number,
carefully compiled, and the returns as actually given to the Assess
ors, there is a difference of 8 $4,000, the number of cattle of which
there is no record on the assessment rolls, and on which no'axes
have been paid.
II, as the secretary of the Cattle Owners Association says, the
organization "feels that with proper management and with proper
support, not only from those interested in the cattle industry, but
from the public in general, it can bring about the changed con-
ditions, it will prove to be a benefit to one of the great
est industries in the State of Nevada, and will accomplish
an ~inestimabe amount of good to the State" and will combine With
this declaration of principle a disposition to assist the State and
county officials in their efforts to arrive at an honest count of the
stock in the State, and to let the commissions alone, for they have
come to stay it will not have been organized in vain and will be
the means of doing laudable work. Following this plan it will have
the earnest support of every one in the State.