Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-17

F0ll0Wlng IS an account or the cat- tlemens' and sheepmens' meeting held at Flagstaff last week. The address e and action of the meeting will be of interest to Mohave County stock men:
 The first joint convention of the sheepmen and cattlemen of Arizona was called to order at 10 o'clock, We'd nesday, July 2, at the Orpheum, by Hugh E. Campbell, president of the Arizona Wool Growers association. The meeting was opened with pray CT by Rev. O.. S. Baum.
 Mrs. Lou Charlebois then favored the audience with two song selections which were we'll received, and she was followed by M. J. Riordan, wko deliv- cred the address of welcome.
 ''This is Abraham's bosom, which is to say Gods own country" said the speaker, land we welcome you to it's generous breast. True we have some cactus and loco weed in place. some petrifications and some hardened old fossils like myself, and they do say there are still few stills lurking in our canyons; yet on the whole, as the old lady said; it has been kind to the Irish and certain it is that this beausi- ful country of ours has been as a nursing mother to the cattle men and the sheep men and to all who think things, do things and have things here"
 Mir. Riordan went on to say that those who sit down to counsel on how to increase production are performing distinctly patriotic service, and add ed: God knows the stockmen did their share in the trenches of France jas they did on the ranges of the west. Credit for glorious victory has been variously assigned from Foch to our own Black Jack Pershing, but those would have been helpless but for the guns, meat and wool furnished by the stockmen of the west. In the words of Buck Fanshaw, ''The stockmen seen their duty and done it. No scan- dal has attached to their name or oc- cupation. Shipbuilders, bankers and even emaculate politicians, many of them have been tarred, and some not feathered, but the name of the stock man remains untarnished. He is not . profiteer, but producer, an exem- plification of the highest type of pat notism in the war and now in the period of reconstruction"
 Hon. John Norton, of Tucson, in making the first response to the ad- dress of welcome, declared that the joint convention was the greatest step ever taken by the sheep and cattle in- terests to get together, forget their little differences and work for the common good.
 Harry Gray, of Bellemont, who re- spended on behalf of the cattlemen, said if there was any dirty linen to wash this was the time to wash it, rather than going into. the courts for the benefit of legal advisors.
 Mrs. F. o. Allen then favored the gathering with two vocal selections, which brought forth generous ap- plause. + '. Y.
 Chas. Mullen, president of the Ari- zona Cattle Growers association, de- ivered an address in which he declar- ed that though both sheep and cattle men had long been mired in the rut of dissension they were now beginning to realize that their interest were identical. What both wanted, he said, was grass, and more grass, and this could be secured by control of the lands.
 Speaking of the necessity of the sheepmen in crossing the cattle rang es on their way south to winter feed ing grounds, MT. Mullen suggested the appointment of joint committee to go over the cattle and sheep ranges and devise some system to eliminate interference.
 Mullen then sketched the financial difficulties which beset the cattle and sheep interests, counseled co-opera- ton with the packers instead of at tack, and suggested as a means of combating present discriminatory freight rates and proposed increases that these matters be taken up with the Arizona Corporation Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion.
 Touching on the state land depart ment investigation the speaker said:
 'The state land department is ac- eused of grating. State officials who are so free to criticise It ought to come to us for suggestions, for it Is certain that questions of public land policy could be worked out joint ly and to the satisfaction of all."
 MT. Mullen was followed by E. H. Crabb, president of the Northern Ari- zona Cattle Growers association, who spoke in part as follows:
 q am glad to see ladies presert for we are confronted with a series Uf conditions which requires the united