Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1914-02-21

The following communication has
been received from the Nevada Cat
tie Owners association;
Reno. New, Feb. 10, l9il.
T. D.. Van Dcvort, editor Carson
City Daily Appeal, Carson City,
Nevada
Dear Sr;-Thc attention of the
Officers Of the recently organized
Nevada Cattle Owners association
has been called to an editorial com
ment which appears in the columns
OF your paper in the is>ue OF Febru-
airy II. which editorial under the
caption Are After the Tax Com
mission" i, directed at our orgaini-
zation The article in effect charges
that our association i organized as
a political machine that it intends
to take an active part in the coming
campaign and will have candidates
for the legislature in every county.
and further intimates that the assoc
citation "only three days old has al
ready Outlivcd its usefulness and l.
doomed to the bittcrest di>appoint-
ment at the outset of it. career.
We feel that by this editorial
comment your paper has done our
association. doubtless inadvertently,
grave injustice, and that our as
sociation would not be doing jus
ticc to itself it it allowed the art-
Gle to pass unnoticed
The Nevada Cattle Owners a>Sv-
citation has now a great deal more
than the fiity-nine member refer
red to in Your article and expects
and hopes to obtain the member
ship Of every person directly en-
gagged in the cattle industry within
the state of Nevada and the ada
cent states to the end that the Of
ganization will become a power for
the good, not only of the industry
in general, but of the state OF Ne
vada. 1t seems to be conceded that
the cattle industry j, the second. i
not the first. industry in important,
within the state Of Nevada. and. q.
is generally known. the industry is
not confined to one section OF the
N'd't' bul - NdlI leu Oh III every
county.
For some time various cattle asSO-
Citations OF cattlemcn have existed
hut owing to the fact that the in
dustry is carried on in every county
in the state a great need has been
felt among the cattlemcn for an or
ganization Of thi, characer for a
long time past.
The organization meeting held in
this city on the l4th inst. was a
public gathering at which the aim
and purposes OF the association
were publicly discussed, and those
aims and purposes are "a set forth
in the constitution of the organiza-
tion about which no privacy exists.
So far as our attention has been
called to editorial comment CON
corning this organization, such com
ment has been favorable and the
association has been received a
the fultillmcnt Of a long felt want
In this connection we probably can
do no better thar to call your at
tention to the editorial comment
appearing in the Reno Evening Ga
zctte in it's issue OF February H.
where it was said in part:
The convention OF Nevada cat
tie owners in Reno today is another
step toward advancement Of this in
du,try and is a most important one
1t demonstrates that there is a pos
sibility OF hearty cooperation and
gives opportunity for each to learr
and profit from the other through
interchange of experience. Cattle
raising in Nevada is being reduced
10 an exact science and is one of the
utmost Importance in view of the
steadily increasing demand for fooC
end the diminishing supply in pro-
portion to the growth Of popula,
ton.
"lf the Nevada Cattle Owners a..
sociation succeeds in making tive
pounds OF beef grow where only
cne grew before. it will have accom-.
plished an inestimabe amount o
good to the state
And to the editorial comment ap.