Arizona republican., 1916-01-16
SOME PROBLEMS F0R ST0CKMEN
 IN CONVENTION
Why Coming Meeting at Fl Paso Will Be Most I'm portant In History of As sociation. The Marketing Question Is Vital One

1 The nineteenth annual convention of the American National Live Stock Association, which will be held 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. I 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 l largest in the history of live stock , conventions
 1 To begin with, it is the primary l live stock convention, not only in point of interest and importance but 1t is the first of the many live stock conventions which will be held in the live stock producing area of tthe 1 United States during the winter. It is the convention, therefore, at which 1 the pace will be set and at which the demands will be formulated 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 eight eenth annual convention of the American National Live Stock Asso- citation in San Francisco year ago. 1 the fact remains that while this may be true in measure of live stock producers it falls far short of the truth so far as the 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 diff | ference 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 closed
 The feeding interests are therefore aroused; they are determined to find out at the forthcoming convention of the American National Live Stock Association what influences have been brought to bear to cause the packers, in the face of the enormous demands for meat products and the prevailiDg high prices therefor, to pay less for the raw product at the packing house doors than were for merly paid.
 Producers Are Sufferinq
 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- derstand that the feeders cannot con- tinue to pay the prices they have been paying for range stock, whether cattle or sheep, unless they can gel corresponding figure for the fin ished product from the slaughter house men.
 For reasons given above the mar keting of live stock will be thorough ly threshed out at the Fl Paso con. , vention, and the cattle men know it 1 The members of the Texas Cattle , Growers Association, the Panhandle Southwestern Stockmens Associa tion, and the various local live stocl associations throughout the live stock producing area of the United States are particularly interested anC are urging the attendance of many and influential representatives at the convention.
 Newspapers Are Active
 The newspapers of Texas. Oklaho- ma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico Arizona, Calfornia-in short all of the live stock producing states arc evincing deep interest in the Fl Paso convention and many of them arc calling the attention of the cattle men of their respective spheres in- fluences to the Fl Paso convention and the necessity that the producers of live stock of all kinds be in at tendance to look after their own in- terests.
 The following from the San An tonic Express is a fair sample of the attitude of the newspapers published throughout the live stock producing area of the United States:
 Producers Are Awake
 The producer of live stock is reall ly sitting up and taking notice, and the probabilities are that Texans will attend the Fl Paso convention of the American National Live Stock associ ation in larger numbers this year than they have ever attended any similar convention in the past. There are momentous questions to be dis cussed, and the proceedings will give an intimatiOn as to the drift of sen- timent which will prevail at the ] Houston convention of Texas cattle men, which will be held in March Every man in South Texas has bought more or less Mexican cattle !, in his day, and visit to Fl Paso ) will enable him to tell just what the opportunities are for buying or sell ing cattle of the Rio Grand.e Competition Is Unfair The Fl Paso convention will afford the first step in freeing the cattle industry from the bane of unfair l competition. The Texas Cattle Crow , CTS Association does not meet ir Houston until the third week ir March, and it is absolutely necessary ) that the buying interests be put or ) notice that the live stock producers ) do not propose to longer sit by and , tamely submit to depressed prices al : a time when every other industry ir the statoe is feeling the beneficent effect of a world wide demand.