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quences must both be cleared up at
Must Paw Grazing

! N1u5t ray
Many still owe 1921 and 1922 graz
Ling fees, said Mr.. Pooler These own
'ers have therefore virtually been in
trespass for the last two years. The
government has been very lenient, but
now it is time to clear up. The per-
mittees and the bankers interested in
their preference should get into the
game. They must be settled up. eve
will proceed in the courts where that
procedure can be profitably followed, =
he said, "and in the case of other de-
| linquencies we will revoke permits"
! Speaking of range improvements
being made by the service, Mr.. POOL
er said, there is $4,000 this year most
of which will go into boundary fence
and some into drift fence. Last year
$4,000 was. spent in building 200
miles of boundary fence.
The stock industry will now be on a
better plane in the southwest, the
speaker asserted, than at any time
heretofore.
Fen HiIdreth Speaks
Fen S. Hildreth of Phoenix, secre-
tary OF the National Forest Permit
tees association, the next speaker,
said Mr.. Pooler had covered practical
| " all of the points that he had in
mind. He said Colonel W. E. Gree
ley, chief forester, had gone long
way in surrounding the industry with
regulations that will protect it and
bring it out of the mire. He believes
the grazing fees will be very salts
factory to the users of the forest
ranges.
One thing, said Mr. Hildreth, the
man who comes in now to enter the
stock business and use the forest
range will find it necessary to meet
far higher requirements than those
met by the pioneers. This is as it
should be and means greater protec-
ton for the industry. The govern
ment will play along with present per-
mittees who can't quite keep up to
governmental standards, perhaps, but
no new pernittees can enter unless
able to give ample assurance in that
direction.
"I think you will all be happy under
these new regulations" Mr.. Hildreth
said. Secretary Wallace is fair and
liberal and wants to give US every
thing possible.
Burks' Pleas for Railroads
Paul Burks of Los Angeles, attor-
ney for the A. T. & S. F. r. R., spoke
for about an hour and held the close
attention of the audience. He asked
| the stoclunen to be as patient as pos
sibIe with the transportation COM
panies and to realize that while there
are Embellishments under which the
stockmen are suffering, the railroads
also are having plenty of trouble,
largely because thew have been the
political football, both nationally and
in each of AZ states, for years past.
He reviewed the events leading up
to, during and since the war, as re-
lated to the railroads and politics. At
the end of several months during
which the railroads of the country had
been functioning with an excellence
never before shown, the government
took over the roads. Wages went up.
Railroad properties were allowed to
depreciate. Finally the roads were
handed back to the owners in a sad
state of repair, while the wage and
other burdens had been greatly in
creased.
"You have vexatious rate prob
lems," Mr.. Burks said, "But you are
more interested in the availability of
an adequate supply of properly dis
tributed equipment, even more than
you are in rates And, after all, your
freight expense is a very small per-
centage of your cost Of doing busi-
ness"
A. NJ. Morton, secretary of the Fed
eral intermediate Credit bank, Berke-
ley, Cal, which has taken the place of
the war finance corporation in this
section, was next introduced. He
spoke only few words, saying that
it was time for luncheon and he would
be here all the rest of the day, any
way, and would answer questions.
President Boice appointed the fol-
lowing joint resolutions committee:
For the sheepmen-M. /. Powers Of