Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-07-17
ARIZONA STOCKMENS' MEETING
 HELD AT FLAGSTAFF LAST WEEK

| grazing feeS rom oUU to 0UU per cent Then We have a state tax commission ever keen to raise livestock assess ments, and a state land board, keen to cancel state land leases. The great trouble with stockmen is that they are too willing to let George do it. George did do it, sometimes with a branding iron and sometimes with a political whip lash. It is up to the stockmen themselves to act, and act with deci- sion, for it is easier to stop mad bull by knocking him on the head than grabbing him by the tail.
 T. F. Holden, president of the Tus- ayan Cattle Growers association, sec onded the views of MT. Crabb and spoke in favor of vital effort to pre- sent the needs of the livestock indus try to the government.
 Then followed the report of Presi- dent Hugh E. Campbell, of the Ari- zona Wool Growers association, which was read by Judge Fred w. Perkins, secretary of the association:
 Touching on the recent arrests of sheep men and their herds in Yava- pal and Maricopa counties, the report stated that there are four cases pend- ing in Maricopa county and several in Yavapai, the outcome of alleged viola tions of the law which provides that sheep shall be kept moving at three miles an hour across cattle ranges and shall not be herded within one mile of bona fide ranch.
 There appears, said the report, to be a determined effort on the part of few cattlemen to exclude sheep from range that has been used by sheep men continuously during winter months for the past 20 years. It is impossible to move lambing band three miles day and it is impractic- able to keep any band moving three miles day all the time.
 Recently, several sheep men have been arrested fot trespassing on cat tie range whlie on lawfully estab- lished driveway. The driveway is un- fenced. Cattle men use it and grazc their cattle there the year round. There is no practical way of excluding them and it is unfair for them to an- noy sheepmen passing over the drive ways"
 "Stockmen have spent more than $1 100000 in permanent water, mak- ing it possible for from 60 to 70 per cent more sheep and cattle to graze on them than before. Notwithstand- ing the users of the forests were giv- en Swear permits at a fixed price, congress sought to increase the rate. Remonstrances were sent from all parts of the range country and for a time the advanced rate is frustrated.
 Formerly many stockmen were fa- vorable to the federal government control, but now many favor state control of public lands"
 The report recommended that the association urge the forest depart ment to allow the sheep to go on un- cut timber lands at the usual time, in order to prevent a crowded condition in the foothills and on the trails when returning to summer range.
 "While in Chicago" the report said, "your president visited Swift's pack ing plant. He there received inform ation that the British government had shipped into this country from New Zealand 250,000 frozen lambs aud ex- poets to ship 750,00O more between now and September.
 "As to the amount of wool in this country, figures show that there is no national surplus of wool and no neces- sity for any slump in prices other than brought about by artificial means.
 "The falling off in prices for cattle, sheep, lambs and wool and the diff culty in getting advances on wool make it apparent that there must be reduction in expenses in running cattle and sheep. The price of camp supplies and wages to herders and cowboys must come down. The period of readjustment appears near at hand, and it seems a wise course for live stock men to reduce all expenses to the minimum.
 'This is the time for all livestock men to work in unity. We are con- fronted with the probably importation of millions of pounds of frozen beef, frozen mutton and freet woo, from countries where wages and running expenses do not exceed one third of the coct of raising the same kino of product in the United States"
 Low prices, no demand, high taxes, high wages, high expenses; these were the conditions combating the livestock industry of Arizona as brought out by F. J. Hagenbarth, of Salt Lake City, president of the Ma tional Wool Growers association, who said America and Americans seemed to be too much concerned in working out future for Armenia, Poland and Turkey and other oppressed peoples