The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-09-07
STOCK GROWER
ENCOURAGED BY
THE GOVERNMENT
Vernon Metcalf, Secretary of Ne.
vada Land and Livestock As
ISOLATION Returns from
Denver Very Optimistic

Vernon Metcalf, secretary of the
Nevada Land and Livestock Associa-
tion has returned from a ten-day
trip to Denver, Ogden and Salt
Lake, the purpose of the trip being
to attend the mid-year meeting of
the American National livestock AS
ISOLATION, meetings of the executive
committee of the National Growers
Association and the national ram
sale at Salt Lake City as Nevada's
representative.
The outstanding feature of the
Denver meeting of the cattIemen of
the western state was the address
of Eugene Meyer Jr., director of
the United states War Finance Cor
poration, under the activities of
which body some $50, 100000 of
government funds have been loaned
the live stock producers of the west
with which to tide them over the
REIMBURSEMENT period, and a con-
siderable sum of which money has
been placed among the stock grow
ers of Nevada through the Northern
Nevada Loan Association. The key
note of Mr.. Myers address, Mr..
Metcalf said, was that the present
government machinery for assisting
the farmers and stockmen was
founded merely for an emergency
and that with the movement for a
method of permanent financing the
agricultural and livestock industry
on some similar basis, it behooves
the stockmen to see that their needs
are properly presented before final
decision is made by congress as to
the details of the plan. As a re-
suit of his suggestion, committee
of stockgrowers was selected at
Denver by the president of the
American National Livestock As
ISOLATION, to proceed to Washington,
d. c., this fall to confer with Mr..
Meyer and other government Of
ficials. Nevada was honored in hav-
ing Jerry Sheehan of Winemucca,
who attended the meeting with Sec
rotary Metcalf, placed at the head
of this committee.
As a result Of Mr.. Meyers speech
and subsequent discussion by the
stockmen, the feeling generally pre-
vailed, Secretary Metcalf said, that
satisfactory and adequate plan of
government financing on a perma-
nent basis would be designed to
fit, in practical way, the needs
of the livestock producers.
The tariff question also received
considerable attention by the cattle
men at their Denver meeting, a
resolution being adopted deploring
the placing of hides on the free list
and urging their return to the duti-
able list; also favoring the move
ment designed to remove the tariff
question from politics.
The railroad strike situation was
the cause for strong resolution
pointing out that the rights of the
public were generally being ignored
in connection with efforts to get the
railroads and their employees into
agreement, and urging that either
the railroad labor board be upheld
or abolished. One suggestion made
in this connection was to the effect
that the interstate commerce COM
mission be authorized to determine
what railroad labor wages should be
along with its authority to de-
termine railroad rates.
In connection with the meetings
Of officials Of the National Wool
growers" Association at Salt Lake
Mr.. Metcalf said that the most i'm.
portant action taken to set aside
several thousand dollars for publicity
as to the actual situation the WOO
growing industry of the country is
facing in connection with the need
for a tariff and to meet the propa-
ganda with which the county is be.
ing flooded by the National Retail
Clothiers' Association and Other
organization protesting against q
duty on wool on the basis of the
claim that such duty will NEAR
an immense increase in the cost
of clothing manufactured from wool
Discussions already INDUCED il
between the wool growers and some
officials of the National Retail
Clothers' Association, Mr.. Metcal1
said, have apparently convinced tn,
latter that their attack is no.
founded on fact, at least to the ex
tent Of an invitation from tn.
clothing men for speakers from tn.