The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-12-21

NOn-Partisan Tariff Commission.
WHEREAS believing our present
prosperity is due to war, drouth and
pestilence in other wool growing ma
tions of the world, and that a return
Of normal conditions would again
place wool and mutton produced in
the United States in direct competi-
tion with like products in other parts
of the world, produced at much less
cost, therefore
BE 1T RESOLVED that we heart
lily endorse the action of President
Wilson in appointing non-partisan
tariff commission to protect in times
of stress, not only the wool and meat
growing industry, but every other le-
gitimate industry in the United
States.
Stock Trails.
WHEREAS, on account of so much
of the public lands passing into pri-
vate ownership, and the consequent
fencing, it is becoming increasingly
difficult to move bands of sheep to
shipping points and to summer range
and
WHEREAS trailing them through
narrow county roads imposes hard
ships and cruelty to the animals
themselves, and loss to the owners:
We would respectfully suggest
that where proper and continuous
stock trails can not be established
the Interior Department set aside un-
appropriated Government land con-
tiguous to approved routes of travel
of stock to either shipping station
or mountain ranges, at such inter
walls that stock en- transit may have
a chance to rest and feed en- route.
And we would further recommend
that in the future all County Roads
hereafter laid off and allowed
through a Section Of country mainly
devoted to stock raising, be ordered
established not less than eighty feet
| in width.
Pacific International Live Stock Ex.
position.
| WHEREAS the Pacific Interna-
tional Livestock Exposition has just
closed its sixth annual show-one of
the most successful in its history and
WHEREAS the bad weather which
was experienced during the entire
week convinced the livestock breeders
of the country as we'll as the business
men of the community that the show
had outgrown its tent stage and must
from now on be housed in suitable
buildings to the end that the Pacific
international may maintain its high
place among the other large eXposi-
tions of the country, therefore
BE 1T RESOLVED that the Oregon
Wool Growers Association most
earnestly endorse the movement to
raise sufficient funds to properly f1n-
ance the proposition and that all its
members lend their financial and mo-
raj support to this end,
State Educational Institutions.
WHEREAS our boys and girls are
our most important livestock and
their education our most important
problem, therefore
BE 1T RESOLVED that we most
heartily endorse our State Education
al Institutions, and recommend that
our rural districts incorporate as
high a standing of education as our
City Schools, payins particular at
tention to agriculture and livestock.
National Wool Grower.
REALIZING that much good has
been done our industry by the pub
lication of the National Wool Grow
er, now, therefore
BE 1T RESOLVED that this Asso-
citation continue its moral and finan-
cial support of the magazine, in its
efforts in our behalf.
And we further urge that all wool
growers of the State of Oregon aid
themselves and their industry by be-
coming subscribers to this publica-
tion.
Henry Ireland, Condolences.
INASMUCH as it has been the will
of the creator to remove from our
midst Henry Ireland, supervisor of
the Whitman National Forest
BE 1T RESOLVED; That we
have lost friend to our industry
and that we hereby extend our sin
cere sympathy to the members of his
family, friends and permitees of that
reserve, and hereby recommend that
a copy of this resolution be spread
upon the minutes of this association,
and copy sent to his family.
Thanks.
WHEREAS the Oregon Wool
Growers Association has again been
entertained by the City of Heppner,
we hereby take this means of heartily !
thanking the citizens generally, and .
more especially the Commercial Club
for the genuine Western hospitality
which has anticipated every want,
and facilitated in every way the tran
saction of our business.