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


 that the allies could not possibly us' the beef which they had pleaded that this country produce. To secure thi' beef surplus the whole machinery o1 the food administration had been put into action.
 "No," said the monocled one, "we can't possibly use your beef now. We can secure it much more cheaply from the Argentine and we have plenty of ships now to carry it in, but we would like to have plenty of pork and fats and smoked meats"
 Cattlemen thus lost from $30 to 60 a head on stock which they had been fattening, in an attempt to follow a presidential order.
 My personal attitude on the mat ern," said the speaker, twas no beef, no pork, but that program did not suc- ceed because the stock interests were not represented by a forceful organi- zation."
 The speaker then cited as a sequel to the food administration affair the manner in which British and South American interests are now employed in making this country dumping grounds for surplus meat stocks.
 U. s. Senator Smith
 U. s. Senator Marcus Aurelius Smith declared that if the feder- al reserve board should continue it's policy of refusing advances on cattle for market and if the govern ment continued it's policy of allowing the sale of imported meats, he would earnestly favor any sort of a duty on imports of that kind in order to af- ford ample protection to the livestock interests of Arizona.
 Senator Smith said:
 Every dollar that the U. s. treas- ury can put it's hands on is taken from your pockets to meet the pressing de- mands of war expense which now to- tals forty billions of dollars, and this money was wrung from the people of the United States for the purpose of preserving the civilization of the world
 The speaker attacked those who are seeking to place an added burden on the stock interests securing greater revenues for the government from the government lands on the theory that the national forests belonged as much to Maine and Florida as they do to Arizona, whereas the United States supreme court in one of it's most im- portant decisions ruled that public do- main lands are reserved for the ulti- mate settler. In Smiths opinion any surplus revenues should go into the treasury of Arizona and not that of the nation. .F
 Smith defended the reserve board by stating the the original purpose of recalling loans was legitimate and proper in that it was directed against the speculator and hoarder, but said it should not have been extended to the original producer.
 The senator declared that it was going to be an uphill fight to secure any national legislation of benefit to western stock interests and painted pathetic picture of himself trying to get action in a congress made up largely of unsympathizing customers.
 Frank c. w. Pooler, district forest CT from Albuquerque, said that some portions of the national forests of the southwest were carrying more stock than was good for the forests or for the ranges and that reductions affect ing both sheep and cattle would have to be made.
 For the purpose of bettering the growth of young trees, he said, it had become necessary to remove sheep en- tirely from a limited block of sections in the Tusayan and Coconino forest reserves. This he estimated at 23 sections for each reserve. Americans will be given preference over alien stockmen in closing up this territory for grazing ground, he said.
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 Governor Thos. E. Campbell spoke at the invitation of Chas. P. Mullen, president of the cattlemen's associa tion. He said:
 "Last January I told the cattlemen that the land department had never defined a definite policy, entrusting the administration wholly to the com missioner, and that if the administra- tion of the department was good he was entitled to the credit. I also stat ed that any criticism of the depart ment was like wise his due for the reason that the board had nothing to do with the policies of the office. Since then considerable interest has been aroused in the question of administering the state lands! have no desire to discuss the recent land department investigation, for that has nothing to do with matters at hand, except to say that this matter is proof that we in the land department have been recreant to our trust by not de- fininp policies. The result is that the