Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-14
ARIZONA GENTLEMEN TO ENDORSE FEDERAL
 CONTROL OF RANGES
Sentiment of Prescott Con- vention in Favor of Meas ures to Eliminate Friction Between Live Stock Men.

PRESCOTT, Jan. 13.-Prepared for
 a fight to the finish and loaded with ar
 guments, Nogales and Globe delega- tions to the ninth annual convention of Arizona Cattle Growers Association are battling for the 1917 convention for their cities. Collector2of Customs Charles E. Hardy of Nogales made an address on ''The Further Cooperation of the Live Stock Growers Associa- ton and the Two Departments of Gov ernment-the Customs Department and the Bureau of Animal Industry" urging a get-to-together movement for protection against smuggling of dis eased and other cattle across the bor- der from Mexico.
 Xxi Yo" ''Yip Tip" and a hundred other cowboy yells greeted every speaker during the second days ses- sion. Among the speakers were chair man of the State Corporation Commis- sion F. A. Jones, District Forester R. c. Ringland, Chairman of State Tax Commission Charles R. Howe, F. P. Cruice of the Santa Fe and Harry Fur ner of the Southern Pacific. President Dwight B. Heard of the American Ma tional Livestock association presented a paper, which was read by Tom E. Campbell
 Ever since President Hayes, nearly forty years ago, appointed iand com mission to consider. among other mat ters, legislation relating to the control of the open range, the nations great natural stock-breeding pastures, there has been constantly growing convic- tion among practical stockmen of the West that to prevent the gradual de struction of the range through over grazing and build up its carrying ca pacity through intelligent use, some definite national legislation was neces- sary that regulated use under federal control might be substituted for the prevailing conditions of indiscriminate and wasteful misuse. .s3ser q
 With no control of this public range and no determination of the respective grazing rights of the occupants, the stock-grazing industry has naturally been more or less of a struggle for existence Constant clashes of inter- est have occurred between stockmen, particularly between sheep and cattle men, resulting in almost constant fric- ton and sometimes bloodshed.
 Tt is very gratifying to be able to report at this time that there exists today disposition on the part of the sheep men of the various grazing states, to cooperate with the cattle men in securing without further delay | some definite form of federal control for the unappropriated, unreseryed pub | lie lands. 99 per cent of which lie in the grazing states of Arizona, Califor- nit, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Neva- da, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dako- ta. Utah. Washington and Wyoming, and the time seems to have arrived | when fair minded men with practi- | cal knowledge of this grazing question seem to have agreed that the existing waste and misuse of these public lands can no longer be allowed
 This federal control would mean, if carried out along the lines of good judgement, the elimination for all time of the serious friction which has so often occurred between users of the range, particularly between the sheep and the cattle men. It would mean the encouragement of better breeding, the ability to fence legally, would jus