The Coconino sun., 1924-07-11

cooperate as they do elsewhere in fur
nishing the labor for building the
fences. Mr.. Pooler said wire can be
/ furnished to fence the east boundary
1 of this forest south of the railroad TO
4 joined in with the Sitgreaves drift
fence and he believes it would be a
wise move for the sheepmet to get
busy and put the wire up.
A matter that is troubling the dist
rict forest office a great deal is the
I delinquency in range fees. Though
not more than ten of the sheepmen OF
the state are delinquent for 1923
range fees, nearly a hundred cattle
men are. He said every effort will
be made to collect before the 10-year
permit system goes into effect next
spring, not only for 1923 but also for
1924 fees.
The forestry office will ask for.
court Injunction in many cases and
take every necessary step to enforce
payment. Mr.. Pooler said he hoped
soon to get all range fees paid in ad-
vance. The time of the forestry peo-
pie is too much taken up with other
matters, he said, and too valuable, to
permit so much of it to be devoted to
collection of delinquent grazing fees.
Association Is Incorporated
President Johns broke the news that
the state association is incorporated.
There had been talk for years of in
cooperating, and a committee had just
been appointed to take it up further,
when it was discovered that away
back in July, 1899, T. E. Pollock,
Hugh E. Campbell and E. S. Gosney
of Flagstaff and others from other
parts of the state incorporated the as
sociation. Not being a profit-making
organization, no taxes were Levied on
it, so there are no delinquencieS
charged against it In that respect.
In discussion of Mr. Hagenbath's 81
recommendations, 7. ]. Hudspeth of
SeIigman said he favors cooperative
marketing of wool but is against its
shipment to California, believing it,
should be warehoused in Boston and
competent man placed in charge or
its sale.
George M. Bealey of Phoenix told
how wool is comparatively warehoused
and marketed in Texas, the growers
getting good prices
I Election Of Officers
Election of officers at Wednesday
mornings session resulted in the unan-
imous reelection of all of last years
officers, whose splendid work met
with the approval of the membership.
The officers are:
A. A. Johns, Prescott, president.
C. E. Burton, Ashfork, first vice
president.
E. H. Duffield, Williams, second
vice president.
H. B. Embach, Flagstaff, secretary
treasurer.
The state advisory board reelected,
is: John Hennessy, Flagstaff; Mrs.
C. E, Howard, Phoenix; Colin Camp
bell, Ashfork; James Scott, Plnedale;
E. A. Sawyer, Winslow.
The executive committee: Colin
Campbell, Ashfork; Lou Charlebois,
John Hennessy, D. w. Campbell, Flag
staff; E. A. Sawyer, Winslow.
Legislative committee: A. A. Johns,
H. B. Embach, G. E. Burton, James
Scott, T. j. Hudspeth, E. A. Sawyer,
John Hennessy, D. M. Francis and
VIM Morgan.
Advisory boards: Coconino national
forest-John Hennessy, George E.
Campbell, Dan w. Campbell, Harlow
Yaeger, R. T. Brown, Flagstaff. Tu-
sayan national forest-C. E. Burton,
Colin Campbell, Ashfork; Lou Charles
bois, Nathan Bankhead, Flagstaff;
Mrs. G. E. Howard, Phoenix; Prescott
national forest-D. w. Campbell, A. j.
LeBarron, John Hennessy, Flagstaff;
w. w. Perkins, Winslow; Colin Camp
bell, Ashfork; Sitgreaves national for
est-E. A. Sawyer, Winslow; Fred
Purcell, G.. H. Wilbur, Heber; James
Scott, Pinedale; Apache national for
est-M. A. Candelaria, A. B. Candle
laria, B. d. Ortega, Concho; Gran
vile Fain, Prescott; Louis Cleron,
Holbrook.
The rest of the forenon was taken
up with reports.
Annual Banquet
The annual banquet was in the form
of luncheon at the Woman's club
house, members of the club furnishing
the delightful repast to the 125 gentle
men and ladies present. The program
was music, instrumental and voccs-,
Mrs. Bud Waters orchestra furnishing
lot of lively jazz, interspersed with
solos and duets by members of the
orchestra and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Young. There were two solos also by
Mrs. T. j. Hudspeth of Seligman. En-
cores were frequent and well-deserved.
President Johns paid glowing tri-
butte to Flagstaff's hospitality. "You
are keeping up the prestige you have
| had for many years." he said. You've
surpassed all previous records, and we
can go back to our several homes and
say of this beautiful, marvellous Flag
staff, Not the half has ever been
told"
In the afternoon business was again
resumed at the courthouse.
u. S. Senator Ralph HI. Cameron
spoke. He announced his willingness
| to do everything possible to be Of as
sistance to the stockmen. He said
he believed the forest. service should
run on a maintenance basis and not
to make profit; that he believes the
grazing fees are too high and should
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