The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-01-21
COWBOYS ID GATHER
 AT Fl PASO
Nineteenth Annual Convention of Am eriean National Live Stock Asso- citation Will Be Held in Pass City Next Week.

The Nineteenth Annual Convention of the American National Live Stock Association, which will be in Fl Paso Texas, January 25-27 of this year, will be, from many points of view, the most important meeting of live stock interests ever held within the confines of the, United States.
 For that reason it is expected that the attendance on the part of cattle and sheep producers, packing house interests, cattle buyers, cattle feed CTS and wool buyers and feeders at the Fl Paso convention will be the largest in the history of live stock conventions.
 1t Is The Primary Convention.
 To begin with, it is the primary live stock convention, not only in point of interest and importance, but it is the first of the many live stock con- ventions which will be held in the live stock producing area of the United States during the winter. It is the convention, therefore, at which the pace will be set and at which the demands will be formulat- ed which will be discussed at the minor conventions to be held later in the season.
 Though the live stock men of the country, the breeders of the cattle and sheep which~go to the feeding pens of the North and East, are SUD- posed to have prospered beyond all measure during the twelve months, or , since the meeting of the Eighteenth Annual Convention of the American ] National Live Stock Association in San Francisco a year ago, the fact re- mains that while this may be true in a measure of live stock producers i it falls far short of the truth so far as tie feeders of beef and mutton are concerned.
 Money Lost by Feeders.
 It is maintained by the feeding in- terests that not in the past three or possibly four years has so much money been lost because of the differ ence between the price paid for the raw product upon the ranges and the price paid at the slaughter pens of the packing house systems of the country as during the year just clos ed
 The feeding interests are therefore aroused; they are determined to find the American National Live Stock Association what influences have been brought to bear to cause the packersA in the face of the enormous demands for meat products and the prevailing high prices therefor, to Ipay less for the raw product at the backing house doors than were form erly paid.
 Producers Are Suffering.
 The producing interests-the range masters, who appreciate that they too will be made to suffer if condi tions are not changed, are aligned with the feeders. They readily un Iderstand that. the feeders canno continue to pay the prices they have been paying for range stock, whethe cattle or sheep, unless they can ge a corresponding figure for the finish ed product from the slaughter hous men.
 For reasons given above the mark citing of live stock will be thorough, threshed out at the Fl Paso conven tion, and the cattle men know it The members of the Texas Cattl
 Growers Association, the Panhandl Southwestern Stockmen's Associs
 tion, and the various local live stoc
 associations throughout the liv
 stock producing area of the Unite
 States are particularly interested an
 are urging the attendance of man
 and influential representatives at tn
 convention.