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should pay for this guard expense, just as it does for other projects, by general taxation.
 MT. Redington finally announced that he would recommend to Chief Forester Graves that the toll matter be dropped, and said he believed his recommendation will prevail.
 Woven closely in the foregoing dis cussion was the question of the grad ual squeezing in of the trails. Mir. Duffield brought this question up, and the others were ready to agree with him and cite numerous instances where the boundaries as shown by the map do not agree with those now fixed. MT. Scott said that the way the trails were being squeezed was mak- ing thieves of men, for it was impos- sible to keep their sheep in condition within the present confines of some Of the trails. MT. Duffield said that the Heber-Reno trail was from 2 to 4 miles wide when the Forest Service first took charge, and it is now only from quarter to half mile wide.
 "Why not widen it up and do busi- ness as others do?" he demanded. Then you would not have to have extra guards"
 MT. Nelson said that the map now shows the trail in one place as 5 miles wide, though it now is actually only half-mile wide.
 MT. Duffield asked MT. Redington what he intended to do with a super visor who permits such conditions.
 q believe" Duffield said, "that we should introduce a resolution here asking for his discharge"
 MT, Scott said that the sheepmen had not been consulted in these trail changes. The chief complaints of the sheep men were directed at Supervisor God dard, of the Tonto National Forest, who was not present. There seemed to be very little dissatisfaction with trail conditions in the other forests, though there were some minor ques- tions to be discussed, and these, it was decided, could be best handled by con- ferences between the advisory boards of the various forests and their re- spective supervisors. Accordingly, the meeting adjourned short time later for these various subsidiary meetings.
 Before that, however, Judge Per kins read correspondence with Con- gressman Hayden regarding the gov ernment's intention to import 26,000,- 900 pounds of New Zealand wool for sale at auction in Boston. MT. Hay den enclosed letters from the State Department and President Wilson to the effect that both favored said i'm. portation and that, moreover, there is no law preventing it. Importations of wool during the first six months of this year, according to the State De- partment, was POS, ,000, 900 pounds. The War Department has 114,000,000 pounds on hand, to be disposed of after this years shearings are mar keted.
 Besides the trail in the Tonto Ma tional Forest, which was discussed at length between the sheepmen and the Forest Reserve men at one of the sub sidiary meetings, another question that came up for animated discussion was the present refusal of the Forest Reserve to allow any but blanket grazing allotments in the Verde divi- sion of the Prescott National Forest The growers insisted that the only right and just method was to grant individual allotments. It was not brought out very clearly just why these individual allotments have not been granted in the past. Whether they will be in the future is not known yet, as the matter is still under ad- visement.
 Regarding the trail "squeezing" in Tonto National Forest, Mir. Redington later told representative of The Sun that the matter would be carefully looked into. The inference is that the conditions will be remedied.
 Mir. Redington expressed himself as highly pleased with the result of the meeting. He said that as far as the trail tolls are concerned, life is too short to let it make hard feelings" Among those present at the meet ing. not named in the foregoing, were: D. M. Francis, Eugene Campbell. W. H. Campbell, D. W. Campbell, O. l.. Hart, Geo. Campbell, T. E. McCul- tough, Mike Ohaco, Pete Espil, John Zalaha, Fletcher Bly,, M. I. Powers, Jas. McRae. all of Flagstaff; H. Hen derson, Bellemont; c. E. Howard, of Phoenix. There were about forty in