The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-02-18
SMALL SHEEPMEN
WIN BIG VICTORY
All Who Have Applied Will Be
Taken Care of on Forest Reserve
BIG ALLOTMENTS CUT FIVE PER
CENT FEDERAL PLAN.
+. j. HOrnibroOk Says Big Owners Are
Well Organized and Small Flock
Owners Should Get Together.

The meeting of the representatives
OF the sheep industry with the forest
supervisors held in Shoshone Monday
and Tuesday, an account OF which ap-
peared in The Times of Tuesday, re-
suited satisfactory Tor the small own
ers, as the forest supervisors an
nounced that they would order a re-
duction OF five per cent from the al
lotments of all owners having more
than 5000 sheep in the forests, which
will furnish sufficient pasture for all
small owners that have applied this
year for pasturage on the reserves
during the coming season.
The new ruling will not affect the
rights of any owners who have had
privileges on the Annidoka reserve.
as the largest flock on this reserve
has but 2400 head, and practically all
the sheep grazing there are the prop
erty of resident owners. However the
supervisors announced that they would
cut the allotments of the larger herds
on the other reserves 10 per cent next
year in order to accommodate The
growing needs of small owners. IL is
thought that the allotments will be
gradually reduced until there will not
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any one flock Where the claims of
small resident owners conflict with
/ the privileges of nonresident owners
Of large flocks the policy OF the gov
ernment will be to favor as far as
4 equitably possible, the small resident
owners
The refusal of the supervisors to
reduce any allotments in the Mini
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small flock owners not yet admitted,
is offset by the permission of small
owners on this side of the Snake river
to pasture their sheep in the Saw
tooth reserve. The large flock mas
ters tried to have a ruling made which
would keep the sheep owned south of
the Snake river on this side of that
stream, but the supervisors held that
In view of conditions, the Sawtooth
reserve was the natural grazing place
for small owners on the Twin Falls
south side tract and the Salmon river
tract, and refused to make the ruling
asked by the big owners. The rulings
made at the Shoshone meeting were
in line with those made In Utah re-
Gently by Henry S. Graves, chief of the
federal forest service, who said in re-
gard to conditions there: The large
excess of grazing permits in Utah
over those in other states means that
the small stock owners in Utah are
the ones getting the greatest benefits
out of these forests. This is in direct
line with the national forest policy
which has for its purpose the develop
ment of the resources of the forests
for the largest good of the greatest
number" The reduction OF allotments
Will be made gradually, so that there
will be no confiscation of large flocks
and no unnecessary hardships worked
on large owners. Only those small
owners who have already applied will
( be admitted this year, so that all con-
cerned may know definitely just what
to figure on during the coming season
e. j. Hornibrook, who represented
the Salmon flock owners and settlers
said that the meeting was attended
by about $50 and that all sides were
represented. The large stock owaers
were thoroughly organized and har-
monious, and he was convinced that a
complete organization of the small
owners should be effected in order tc
protect their rights and secure the
benefits of the policy of the forestry