Arizona republican., 1919-02-14
Tucson Next Meeting Place Endorse Federal Con trol Of Public Domain Water Conservation Set clement Of Soldiers.

Tucson is to entertain the Arizona cattle Growers Association when they meet in convention next year.
 After electing officers for the new Year. endorsing important resolutions urging federal control of public do- main federal appropriation for the destruction of predatory animals, ad- NocatIng soldier settlement and water conservation. the twelfth annual con- tcutlon of the cattle growers associa- tion adjourned yesterday afternoon in this city.
 The final session of the convention was called Co order at 10 o'clock yes tcrd3y morning 1t the American thea fer
 Particularly interesting was the ad- Orr-. of Charles E Hutchinson of the i0Verland Magazine o1 Cloverland. Michigan. who advocated that the cat ucmeu ul Arizona use the large tracts ol uuoccupied land iu his section of thc country for finishing ranches. He pointed out that he had not come Go sell or give anything away but that he Was present It this convention Co tell its members that Inc people of Michi euu Wisconsin and Minnesota had
 
 grazlng land to offer the cattlemen oi the southwest During the fall of 1917 thcrc was great demand, said Mir Hutchinson. for increased production uf all kinds of food, and when the de- mlnd came for increased meat pro- ductious the west was already over crowded The land owners of tho upper peninsula of Michigan. at the National Wool Growers convention ir 1918. presented definite lease options tu western stoCkmcn which was tho first time. said Mf Hutchinson. thai these lands were ever offered tO stock Then for grazing purposes. As re- stdt of this offer 43 western grazer, tnme to Michigan and picked oui aifacts for ranches. During the veal 1918. he said. 2.000.000 pounds Of mes and S2OOu0 900 pounds of mutton wa, sent to the Chicago market.
 Westerners Ranch in Michigan
 The Wcsterners found the grasses growing there very nutritious ant found sufficient good drinking water for their stock and that the rainfall was SO distibuted through the hot sum. mer months SO as to protect the coun- try against drouth hV said. This. h' said. was the first years demonstra ton of what the westerners could do ii this Great Lakes section where tn, United States Department of Interior says there are over 90. 000. 000 acres O cutover lands that are idle <oday and that would make good farming lands with proper development.
 iIc pointed out that the people O that section do not make great claim of what the country will do in a year time, but it is an opportunity wher land can be gotten that will develol into a good permanent ranch that vii hc improved after they have beer grazed tn a couple of years. and even tually this country will become tn greatest dairy section in the Unite, States He said there was an averag of s months grazing season and months when you have to feed Tn winters. he said. are not so severe as il other northern countries because th lakes temper the climate and thes same lakes insure against drOuth am guard off cyclones. tornadoes. hot am sultry weather.
 Mir. Hutchinson said that year az hc had come Co Arizona and intereste : M. King and his partner. M. <. Plum mer. in his proposition and as a resul NNtF NNAEUA n itN NNlNR lbI NUflI m ishing ranch. This ranch. he sal, of 23.f10 acres has .$ lakes and rivers on it. And from that time number of stockmen from every stat west of the Missouri have picked ou tracts in Cloverland. This whol Cloverlaud belt. he continued, is
 nights ride from about one third e f tho population of the United State and Che majority of them are consum 5 CTS. There are found there. he sai, { over 100000 farmers that are pros pering.
 He pointed out that W. E. McBeat one of ArizOna's excellent cattleme carried on the first demonstration i % large way of shipping cattle { Clov9land. The largest shipment his cattle were on the market whe there were 5000 head Of cattle dumT | cd onto the Chicago market one da. 2 But hy comparing the days markt reports of Chicago. where his cattl [ were sold with those of Denver an California. Mr. Hutchinson said. th3 his cheapest cattle Canncrs sold fC