Weekly journal-miner., 1922-01-11


 business, it is an industrial infant, ac- cording to. Henry G. Boiee, president of the Arizona Cattle Growers as- sociation, in an important address to a gathering of Yavapai cattle associa- ton members and local businessmen at the chamber of commerce last night.
 Here are some of the things the cattle business needs to the point of bleeding for them:
 A system of cost accounting.
 A knowledge of demand so that there will be no more blind produc- ton.
 A chance with other industries in the competition for decent freight rates.
 Lower interest rates on borrowed money.
 Intelligent part in the construction of governmental budgets for the sake of lower taxes.
 More flexible rules covering rela- tions with the public domain, SO that grass might be bought more cheaply.
 Constitutional Change
 Asserting that the Arizona consti- tuition was a document thrice as wordy as the federal and probably many times as unwieldy, that it ach- ingly needed revision, he declared as a member of the board of directors of the Arizona industrial conference that shortly that organization will announce for a constitutional conven- ton.
 Relative to the matter of the con- stitution, MT. Boice was later sec onded by Former State Senator A. A. Johns, a student of economics whose conclusions are not altogether clouded by politics, that President Taft had stood within 800 feet of the court house and had predicted that Arizona would one day wish it had built a sensible, brief, flexible con stitution.
 And President Taft told us right" said MT Johns.
 C. B. Laird. the most important real,er at the afternoon session of the association, which was more or less in the nature of chat among themselves for the members, devoted himself entirely to the relations of the cattle men with the forest service, which he deplored as too rigid in its rules.
 Harry s. Knight, president of the Yavapai association, spoke number of times as he called upon various members and others for discussion of various topics. He had firm faith that in four or five years the troubles that are now making life miserable for the COW producers would be lift ed or lighter. He had heard old timers in the eighties tell about quit ting the game as unproductive, but who have remained in it and have until this awful slump" made them selves prosperous and solid citizens.
 President Boice promised that the state association would change its own constitution sotas to become an capable of doing some thing. In Globe late next month, he said, the association would meet and begin some important work for the benefit of the cattlemen all over the state. He wanted the Yavapai pro- ducers to get in with the state as- sociation as they had in the past and make things hum.
 An important part of the presi- dents address dealt with freight rates. These, he said, were not paid by the ultimate consumer at all. Things the cowmen produce are sold [. o. b. the middle western market points, while things they buy are f. 3. b. their own sidings. He cited carload of salt that came to him from Hutchinson, Kans., cost $500 and had I freight charge of $632 on it. That, he said, might appear to be the sort of a yarn that would have to be