The Coconino sun. (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1898-1978, 1917-01-19
NATIONAL WOOL GROWERS FAVOR
CLASSIFIED WOOL AND PROTEST AGAINST
INCREASE OF FOREST GRAZING FEES

urday by re-electing all of the officers
who served during the past year, and
against spirited effort to have the
convention Of 1918 held in California
chose Salt Lake for the convention
next year. The officers reelected are:
President, F. j. Hagenbarth; vice.
president; A. j. Knollin, Chicago, Sec
retary and treasurer; DR.. S. w. Nc
Clure, Salt Lake. The following mem
bers were named for the executive
board: Hugh Campbell, Arizona; Fred
Ellenwood, California; P. Miller, New
Mexico; L. E. Thompson, Colorado;
Hugh Wood, Idaho; E. o. Selway,
Montana; J, C. Kinney, Wyoming;
Thomas Austin, Utah; T. M. Roth
rock, Washington; j. NJ. Burgess,
Oregon; A. E. Kimball, Nevada, and
Robert Taylor, Nebraska.
A vote of thanks was extended to
Senator Reed Smoot for services rem
dered by him as a member Of the con-
ference committee in securing the $40
acre amendment to the homestead act,
and to the secretary Of interior,
Franklin X. Lane, for cooperation in
the matter.
The committee on uniform bounty
laws submitted it's report at the morn
ing session, recommending that while
it desired to work in harmony with
the United States biological survey Of
the agricultural department, it be-
ieved the old bounty system should
be continued, as each year by this
system more than 250,000 predatory
animals are destroyed. The committee
stated in its report that to do away
with the old law would result in un-
told damage to the stockmen of the
west.
Results of Bounty System
AS an evidence of the success of the
bounty system in the destruction of
wild animals, as compared with eff
forts of the government through the
biologincal survey, the committee Of
fered the comparison that for the year
ending October, 1916, between $4,000
and 10000 coyotes, wolves and other
wild animals had been destroyed at a
cost of $40 head, under the depart
ment system, while in Montana alone,
under the bounty system, last year
214,S32 head at cost of $3.50 per
head were destroyed.
The report recommended the fol-
lowing rates Of bounties, coyotes and
pups, cats and wolf pups, $3.50;
wolves, SIS; mountain lions and coug-
ars, s25; bears, $25. 1t was recon-
mended that entire hides, including
the front legs from the knees down,
be required for the purpose of identi-
fication and to be used as a check
against the number of certificates is
sued, and that the entire hides Of
cougars and mountain lions be re-
quired on which to claim bounty. 1t
was also recommended that the coun-
ty sheriffs and county clerks be de-
signated as proper inspection officers,
subject to the supervision of the
boards of county commissioners of the
various counties. The report was
adopted.
In order TO controvert the impress
sion which may have gone out from
his discussion Of "Rabies in Coyotes"
before the convention of the National
Wool Growers association Friday,
that only a few cases of rabies have
developed in Utah, DR.. l.. l.. DANES
of the University Of Utah states that
he has diagnosed about 100 cases in
Utah, and that the danger to human
beings has been great as large num-
Der of animals have been found infect
ed with the disease. Twenty persons
have been bitten by dogs affected with
rabies, and have received treatment.
Address by Holiday
J. d. Holiday, president of the Ma
tional Wool Warehouse & Storage
company, spoke on the subject of pre-
pairing and marketing wool, stating
that before the war Germany drove
England out of the market for wooden
yarns by the proper blending of high
and low grade woods and by the en-
ployment of cheap labor and had al
most put the women yarn manufact-
urers of this country out Of business.
The United States, he said, is the
largest importer of woods of any
single country in the world, and that
this country never will be an exporter
of wool. Therefore, he maintained,
that a better grading of wool is neces-
sary to meet the requirements of the
American woolen manufacturer. He
advocated sorting wool into CONNER
cial grades at the shearing pens, stat
ing that at no other time could it be
so intelligently prepared for market.