, 1915-04-29
Stock
ORGANIZATIONS

every locality, working with the
larger stockmen and shipper and
other organizations. To this END
the snockmen of this valley should
get together in a permanent or.
~panization for the protection OF
all under a mutual banner, and in
such an organization, a power
would grow out and to a point OF
where the small stockmen and big
ones would be on equal footing,
and to where they would be recog.
nized among all organizations per-
! tanning to the stock industry.
After a permanent organization
is effected, one in which big and
and little and all will be satisfied
to come into, then committees
could be appointed that would ia
\ c~ilitate matters in handling stock
on the range as well as shipping
and gathering. For instance, a
committee on shipping, a COM
mittee on equalized grazing on the
Forests, and open range, a COM
mittee on general welfare, etc !,
and perhaps on brands and one or
two other matters, such as inspec-
ton at shippong points.
There will be a stock meeting
shortly, at which time and place
it would be- well to discuss these
matters. From the April 1915
Stockman Farmer, we clip a few
interesting items from the report
of the Committee on Live Stock
and Live Stock Exchanges, at the
annual meeting of the American
Live Stock Association in San
Francisco last month; that are
well worth the time to look into,
with a view of helping to remedy:
Your committee, in making this
report. realizes several features that
exist at this time and place. First,
Convention is being held where
the majority of those in attendance
do not go through tbe experiences
in the matter of selling and hand
ling cattle common to others who
live east of the Rocky Mountains,
and whose live stock is sold and
marketed generally at the public
markets, and whose experiences
are quite unlike those of the men
who may live in Arizona, New
Mexico, California, Nevada, Ore
gon and Washington, While the
committee realizes that the great
eastern markets more or less affect
the values of the Pacific Coast,
still it is a fact that those on the
Pacific Coast fortunately have
more independence in connection
with the marketing of their pro-
ducts and do business in a differ
ent way from the people who may
live in states like Nebraska, Iowa,
or Colorado. 1t seems that the
large buying interests have not yet
created markets in the Pacific
Coast country similar to those on
the Missouri River. Then the
cattle produced in Arizona and
New Mexico are sold largely at
home by the herd. However, the
stockgrowers who come in contact
with the eastean market conditions
are seeking support from theiI
Western friends and fellow stock
men, to the end that better con.
ditions may be Established, and
they ask cooperation in some OF
the dilemmas in which they find
themselves y
Those who have followed the
course of the various markets real
ize that one of the most dangerous
features is the control that a few
men are securing over the market.
ing of live stock and everything
concerned in connection with thu
In industry. 1t is a fact that thu
packing house industry, which
was originated for the purpose o
slaughtering live stock, has extern
ded its operations into many othe
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