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THE MORNING OEEGONIA27, MONDAY, MARCH 20, "1905. H UPPER HAND Beef Trust Holds Up the Railroads. NO AVENUE OF ESCAPE Combine Catches Them Both Going and Coming. 80ADS SUBMIT TO EXTORTION Charles Edward Russell Alleges Trust Rots Roads and Gouges Money From Them in Many Ways They Cannot Retaliate. How the railroads of the country we. "held up" by the Beef Trust Is told by Char lea Edward Russell, In the April Everybody's Magazine, from which the following- extracts are taken: Ton think it strange that the rail road companies should submit to the bullying: and browbeating of the beef trust; you think the story of the big pistol and the terror it Inspires Is im probable or exaggerated. And yet I have not begun to tell the real extent of the awe and dutiful submission wherewith these great corporations have come to regard tho trust. .The railroads of America not only endure the extortion of mileage for hauling trust cars, but the trust robs them and gouges money from them in many -ways, and they know full well they are robbed and dare not stop tho robbery. To begin with, and to make the sub ject clear to the layman, I must ex plain that under the present system of railroad freight charges, commodi ties are classified, and different rates, by the hundred pounds are applied to the different classes. Thus the pub lished charge for carrying dressed beef from Chicago to New York is 45 cents a hundred pounds by all railroads be tween the two cities; the established rate for packing-house products (that ip, salted and preserved meats, lard, and so on) is 30 cents a hundred pounds; the established rate for dairy products (butter, eggs, cheese) is 65 to 76 cents a hundred pounds. Now these rates are for full carloads. On anything less than full carlo'ads the rate is 20 per cent higher. Good. But it is evident that if any shipper can succeed in shipping dairy products as dressed beef or as packing house products, he will effect a great saving in his freight charges. National Vice of Underfilling. To guard against such a fraud, con stituting -what I had almost called the national vice of "underbilling." the railroad, companies have men detailed to watch the loading of cars, or to examine them after they are loaded, and to see that the contents tally with the billing. That is, they do in the case of ordinary shippers. In the case of cars shipped by tho trust the inspection is merely farcical. The rail roads know It Is farcical; they design edly make it farcical, and there have been times when 19 In every 20 cars shipped out by the trust went without any kind of Inspection arid the twen tieth "was Inspected by a blind man. The result is that the trust can send out Its cars "underbilled" and thus get a lower rate than any other shipper can get. That is to say, it can get still another form of rebate. All this was succinctly laid before the Interstate Commerce Commlsion at its hearing In Chicago, October 10-12, 1904. Mr. F. O. Becker, who has charge of the Inspection work for the inter ested railroads, admitted that it was perfectly easy for the trust to under bill its cars if the inspector were not present, and the inspector usually was not present: It was out of the question for him to see more than a small pro portion of the cars shipped from the trust houses. Beef Trust's Ready Axe. Of course, lax inspection is a fraud, and the railroads know it is a fraud, but they submit to it. Why? Woll, in any railroad organization the head of any department that enforced a too rigorous inspection of trust cars would quickly find himself without a job. The trust would simply complain of him to his president or general manager, and accompany the complaint with a hint of diverting cars from that road, and off -would go the offender's bead. In the trust household the useful axe hangs hard by the ready plstoL More than one promising career has -been cut short when overzeal has run against these necessary Implements of trust husbandry. The trust compels the railroads to expedite its cars so that the average dally run of a trust car is 10S miles, while the average dally run of an ordi nary car is only 5 miles. It also com pels tho railroads to repair its cars, a curious, but very profitable extortion. In many cases it compels the railroads to refuse to furnish other than trust cars; in all cases it compels them to act without charge as the trust's col lector and agent, and to blacklist and persecute shippers that earn the trust's ill wllL Tho Tallroads have not submitted gracefully to these impositions. Men of independent spirit among railroad executives have not ceased to protest, to complain, to propose remedies. Of course, if all the railroads were to unite in a firm stand against the ban dit, he would be put to flight, but the fact is that so far it has been utterly Impossible to secure any such union. I can give the history of all attempts to get united effort in this matter by reciting one; the rest are as like it as two peas. For this I must go back a little. In addition to the swindle of "mixed car loads." another device by which the trust is able to gouge the railroads is afforded by means of the "minimum load limit." This Is a rule of the rail roads, by which not less than a certain weight (20,000 pounds in the case of dressed beef and like products) can be accepted as constituting a carload lot: ir less, the shipment must be charged for at the less-than-carload rate, which is 20 per cent higher. Now, It is to the interest of -the railroads to keep the minimum loading limit as high as possible, but-the present low minimum. 20,000, -was fixed by the packers and the railroads have oeen unable to raise it Their Impotence In this respect was a sore grievance to many presidents and managers; the Idea of having the limit fixed by shippers was an intol erable humiliation, and about two years ago a quiet agitation was begun, by one. ot thc-more Independent .presi dents to secure joint action. He found ! everywhere the most cordial -welcome for Ills Idea. Unite to resist this out- I rageous imposition? Splendid idea! So he arranged to call a meeting. Timorous Railroad Presidents. So on December 12, 1903, 16 presidents or managers of the greatest railroads in America, eminent citizens all of them, captains of industry, kings of finance, some multimillionaires, sneaked into New York and gathered one by one in a back room upstairs in the Metropolitan Club. Some, I am informed, did not dare to reg ister at a hotel. You would have thought they were a band of burglars preparing to crack a bank, instead of some of the foremost citizens of the country met to defend their property from a gang of freebooters. The meeting was spirited and harmonious. To give heart to tho timid it was agreed that nothing about It except the result should be made public. After a free exchange of opinion in which the enormities of the trust were very elo quently portrayed, a resolution was unan imously adopted that after 3) days from date on all the railroads represented at the meeting, the minimum load should bo 24,000 pounds. This resolution, you -understand, was solemnly agreed to by the representative of every railroad, and the meeting ad journed with the best of feeling. So the minimum load was increased, you think, the trust was hammered, the indepen dence of the free-born American citizen once more vindicated, and so on? Not exactly. The matter was never heard of. again; nothing "was done, nothing came of all that indignant eloquence. The mini mum load was not raised in 30 days nor at any other time, but within 4S hours the trust people knew all about the meet ing, who' had been there, and what each man had said. I do not know now I could better illustrate the terror Inspired by the Big Pistol than to recall the fact that It -was a meeting of gentlemen and that they had agreed to secrecy. Why are the railroads so easily fright ened by these banditti? you say, and why do they not combine to protect them selves? They can combine easily enough when it comes to raising freight rates. That is Just the point In this matter they can not so combine that they will trust one another. In every attempted combi nation one or two railroads are always weaker than the rest and at a natural dis advantage in getting business. These roads are like hungry Indians on the trail; they are out for freight on any terms they can get. No agreement has ever been formulated that will bind such roads. Rebates are so easily arranged, they have a thousand such plausible dis guises, they are so difficult to detect that no road feels any security against a pi ratical competitor. Again, between Chi cago and the East are two Canadian lines. These are not under the operation of the interstate commerce law nor of Federal authority; there is no way to regulate' or control them. The constant threat of the trust is that it will divert its shipments to these Canadian lines, and the American roads, having learned to their bitter sor row what that diversion may mean, have no desire to get In the way of It. Trust's Enormous Shipments. You must remember that the freight traffic controlled by tho trust Is really tremendous; the trust is the largest ship per In the world. From Chicago the an nual shipments of dressed beef are about 1.500,000,000 pounds, of lard 375,000,000 pounds, of barreled pork about 175,000 bar rels, of other pork products about 600,000, 000 pounds. Kansas City packs nearly 1.000,000 hogs a year. South Omaha a lit tle less, St. Louis 500,000, St Joseph about the same, Sioux City half as much, StL Paul a little more than Sioux City. And this Is only a part of the story. Consider the enormous shipments of dairy prod ucts East and Westi 57,000,000 pounds -of cheese, 337,000,000 pounds of butter. more than 1,000,000 cases of eggs- from Chicago In 3903, a great part controlled by the trust; consider also the va3t ship ments of dressed poultry, country prod uce, fruit of many kinds, -the great trade in fertilizers- and offal, tho canned goods and soap that are shipped out by the trust and the salt and other supplies that are shipped In, and It Is no wonder that any railroad president should be ter rified at the prospect of losing his share of this huge traffic Evil Fruito of System. Some of the fruits of this system, come to the surface from time to time lnways calculated greatly to shock the good souls that repose pleasantly in a belief in the general morality of business. Before the Interstate Commerce Commission last October were examined many witnesses supposed to know about the system of paying rebates to shippers. They were clerks, officers of some of the car lines and men subordlnately connected with railroads, for instance. When they were questioned about rebates said to be paid by their respective lines, they all denied knowledge of any such matter. . . . . But when the general manager, the gen eral auditor and other general officers of a great railroad system, men of the highest standing and repute, are willing, as I shall show hereafter, to go upon the witness-stand and ewcar to statement af ter statement absolutely untrue, and proved to be untrue from their own rec ords, what kind of moral tone shall we expect of subordinates who hold their po sitions from day to day and with fear and trembling? .The fact is that no one can give close heed to this subject without getting a distinct impression of general depravity. The trust robs the railroads, the railroads In Innumerable thievish ways gouge the shippers, the shippers pass over to the public the crushing burden of the illegal tribute, tho laws are violated a thousand times overj' day by every railroad, until to mention law is to cause the initiated to laugh, the traffic of the country Is rot ten with forbidden rebates and scandal ous discriminations, railroad executives risk the penitentiary to pile up their traf fic figures, and behind all Is the bandit of commerce, taking tolL RAGING FOR HARBIN Sherman Statue at French Salon. PARIS. March 19. Augustus Rpdin. the sculptor, has written to Ambassador Porter, saying that the colossal eques trian statue of General Sherman will be the central feature of the coming national salon. The statue is from Carl Rohlsmith's cast from which the original, now on tho south front qf the Treasury building at Washington, was made. Mr. Rohlsmlth is here superin tending the exhibit The salon author ities have decided to accept the statue, although the entries are already 2000 in excess of the limit Banquet to Minister Meyer. ROME. March 19. Seventy members of the aristocracy and court representatives of the Vatican gave a farewell dinner to night to American Ambassador Meyer. Among- those present were Princes Rus polU Trlggiano and Paterno. and ex-For-elga Minister Count Cappelll. The Duke of Ztmoneta proposed a toast to Mr. Meyer, declaring that his departure is a loss to the society of Rome. Mr. Meyer returned his thanks, and said that he should always preserve the kindest remembrances of his sojourn In Rome. Private View of Water Color Club. LONDON. March 19. The' private view of the New York Water Color Club this afternoon was well attended, representatives of the fashionable world, critics and British artists being present and these declared the show to be an admirable one. The exhibition will remain open until April 8. Linievitch May Save the Rem nant of His Army. . RAILROAD IS. STILL OPEN Report That the Japanese' Are North of the Russian Main Body Is Not Given Any Credence In London. LONDON", March 30. The military ex perts of the British Empire, despite their pro-Japan eaa leanings, admit that there Is still a chance that General Unlevitcb will succeed In extricating his army from its present perilous position. They base their opinion on tho reports that have como from the front by both Japanese and Russian soldiers, to tho effect that the Japanese were so badly pressed at the battle of Mukden that for 24 hours the fate of the Japanese army hung in the .balance. In fact but for the fact that General Oku, despite the fact that his last re serves were engaged, detached a division to tho aid of Nogi's veterans, Kuropatkln might have secured a complete victory. Had the Russian Commander possessed sufficient Initiative, he would havo drawn his last reserves into the battle, and must surely have checked the desperate Jap anese advance. It Is believed here that the Japanese and Russians are now engaged in a race for Harbin, and that neither has any de cided advantage. In fact there is reason to believe that the Japanese reports to the effect that a Japanese army had suc ceeded In getting to tho northwestward of the retreating Russians Is not true, and that at the most all that has been done Is to send a scouting party in so far as the railroad without any supports or sup plies, and absolutely unable to hold their lines Intact against any large force of Russians. The reason for this belief Is that nu merous press dispatches, filed at the sta tions Immediately north of Mukden, were delivered In St Petersburg on Sunday. While they covered merely the accounts of the fighting from March 6 to 18, and contained practically nothing that was new, the mere fact that they have reached tho Russian capital would indicate that the Manchurian railway lines of retreat arc still open. The failure of the Russian Commander-in-Chief to attempt to hold tho per manent defenses at Kaiyuan is a surprise here, as It was thought the Russians would make a stand there. However, un less they are heading for the Sungarl River, and do not intend to stop until it Is reached, it Is believed that word will soon be received that they are holding the station at Kuanchengtse, where there are extensive storehouses, and where tho depleted supplies of the army can be added to. The Japanese western forces are ap parently only Just keeping pace with the Russians, and have not yet succeeded In passing them. In fact should It be the intention of General Linievitch to retreat to the positions north of the Sungarl River, he Is now In a position to not only do so, but to withdraw most of his army with him. That the Japanese will try to take Har bin is sure, but tire result of the Russian resistance must remain probable until such time as it is learned Just how large a quantity of supplies General Kuro patkln lost SCENES OF BLOOD AND DEATH Dr. Harper Is Improving. NEW YORK, March 19. Dr. William R. Harper, president ot Chicago Uni versity passed an easy .day today at the hotel where he is stopping. His physician -says . ho showed, decided im Belated Dispatches Tell of Horrors of Retreat From Mukden. ST. PETERSBURG, March 30.-0:30 A. M.) A sheaf of belated Associated Press dispatches filed at Mukden, Tie Pass and Kaiyuan, reached St- Petersburg last eve ning, having been discovered among other papers committed to the censor at the front, where they had lain from a week to 12 days. Writing under date of March 8, the cor respondent mentions that General Kuro patkln'a confident declaration of satis faction -with the situation had steadied and encouraged the army after eight days of battle, until the wounded, exceeding In number those of the battle of Llao Yang, were crowding the station and the Rus sian settlement and In the settlement cemetery chaplains were conducting fu neral ceremonies. A few quotations from the correspondent's notebook indicate the gruesomeness of the scene. "Everywhere, were pale faces of corpses sleeping among .dead horses, slaughtered animals and abandoned quarters of beef. Bloody bandages which had fallen off strew the road. The bursting shrapnel was every where. The wagon trains ahead have stopped and two soldiers are -quarreling about horse feed. -Dead and wound ed arc passing on the shoulders of sol diers or In carts or Chinese vehicles. "Here one Russian and one Japanese wounded, side by side, feed each other; there He seven Japanese wounded, to whom the big Russians are attentive. In the sunshine gravedlggers are at work on all the roadways. Japanese officers who had been taken prisoners are seen in the streets. Everywhere are evidences that the two armies have come closer than ever before." In the concluding portion of a dispatch from Tie Pass, the first part ot which was published March 31, the correspond ent states that according to Information. the Japanese strength in Mukden was SO battalions less than that of the Russians. The Japanese were also inferior in guns at many places. The number of men at the beginning of the battle was 709.000, manning the greatest field works ever constructed. Not only in duration and number of troops and guns engaged did the battle exceed all former contests, but also in expenditure of ammunition. Describing the retreat the dispatch pic tures debris strewn along the road, the marching soldiers Increasing their loads by spearing bread, vegetables or fruit on their bayonets, at the same time discard ing heavy boots, Chinese garments, knap sacks and blankets. The correspondent then continues: "After the Initial excitement at Tava. where a few wagoners plunged without reason over Impassable gulches, the en tire body arrived at the steep banks of the Pu River, where heavy artillery has tened down upon the Ice. which slowly gave way, and tremendous exertion was required in getting the guns ont and up the bank. "The passage of a division through the retreating column on the way to the southwest to strengthen the right flank gave confidence of short duration, for Japanese cavalry overtook us at Santa titse. The road and fields are a solid mass of transports, and the dust is so formidable that it Is Impossible to see a hundred yards. Japanese grenades gave the Initial Im pression of shrapnel, and. with tine fire. set the Jammed mass Into confusion. Day break disclosed the plain covered with riderless horses, horseless vehicles, frag ments of harness, and heaps of stores and furniture. Night found the army" bravely bivouacking on bare plains swept by a cold, searching wind, with not a single dugout to shelter them, but pre paring a new position." Under date of March 33 the correspond ent says: "The Russian army cast of the point where the Japanese pierced the line, at Fn Pass was entirely unaffected by con fusion during March 10. Fully two bat (alios of ratted troops escs2e3noxik hyjjsoast. rail and were found at Gunshu Pass. 153 miles northward. The Japanese In battle employed phenomenal Innovations un known to. European military practice, showing that they, are not mere copyists. "One Japanese detachment had the Rus sians beaten near the northern tombs and could have entered Mukden twqdays ear lier, but retreated, simultaneously oppos ing Russian regiments." DEAD MARK PATH OF FLIGHT Russians ' in Retreat Make No At tempt at Burial. GENERAL KURORTS HEADQUAR TERS IN THE FIELD. March IS (via' Fu- san). General Kurokl'a army continues to lead the Japanese forces, which "have now been engaged for nine days In a hard pursuit In which they have covered distance of more than 9a miles, with frequent fighting. The weather In the mountains is very cold, with frequent hard storms. The brigade In advance occupied Tie Pass Wednesday night, after a brief en gagement . The Russian retreat became more' disor ganized dally after the storm. During the first day the Russians burled their dead, but slnco then they have left the dead wherever they fell. Tuesday tho Rus sians mads an attempt at resistance In entrenchments north of the Hun River, but abandoned them after they had been shelled for two hours. General Kurokl's army captured the colors of the Fifth Regiment of rifles. The colors were presented to the regi ment by the Emperor In 1S53. Most of the captured organizations succeeded in burning their standards before surrnder lng. A few prisoners are secured daily. It Is reported that during General Eu ro patkin's resistance at Tower Hill in the first day's fighting he was slightly wound ed by an 31-lncb shell, which fell near him. The Chinese officials received the Jap anese Generals with soldiers, banners, banzals in almost all of the larger towns entered. MOVE TO ORGANIZE FAKOMAN HAS BEEN TAKEN Linievitch -Is Expected to Make De cisive Stand Soon. SPECIAL. CABLE. WITH GENERAL OKU'S ARMY. March 38, via Fusan. The Japanese troops have occupied Fakoman, to the northwest of TIellng. The fighting during the last two days has been of a most severe character, but the Japanese forces have bad but little trouble In carrying the Rus sian positions so soon as the order was given. Reports received from the signal corps state that the Russians are apparently demoralized, and are trying to rally to the northward. Their retreat has been checked by the. reports from the advance guard that the Japanese are In a strong strategic position, where they can check the retreat and the belief Is general here that General Linievitch will try to make a stand soon -.in the hope of gaining some slight advantage that can be used by him as a pretext to retire from the supreme command of the Russian armies. BIG NEWS IS EXPECTED SOON Oyama is Closing In on the Retreat ing Russians. SPECIAL) CABLE. TOKIO, March 20. Despite the op timistic advices that have been received from Russian sources during the last few days to the effect that the Russian army in Northern Manchuria will succeed In escaping from the forces of Oyama, It can be stated upon exceptional-authority that the Japanese forces operating against the Russians have succeeded In carrying all points decided as necessary by the Commander-in-Chief, and within a week, at the utmost, news of a momentous character will be reported from the front A dispatch from Marshal Oyama re ceived early this morning states that the Japanese troops have occupied Kaiyuan, after a stubborn resistance, in which both skies lost heavily. 20 MILES BEYOND TIE PASS Japa .ese Are in Keen Pursuit of the Russians. TOKIO; March 39. Headquarters of the Japanese army In the field, reporting un der today's date, says: "Our detachment continuing Its ad vance north, pursued the enemy to Kai yuan (some 20 miles north of Tie Pass). Kaiyuan was evacuated by the enemy on Saturday, after he had set fire to the railroad station." ' Russians Badly Disorganized. WITH THE JAPANESE L,EFT ARMY (2 P. M.), via Fusan, March 39. (Delayed In .transmission.) The Russian army con tinues Its northern retreat the Japanese following. They have occupied Fakoman, to the northwest of Tie Pass. Yesterday evening the Russian cavalry camped three miles south of Kaiyuan. Large Russian columns are retreating toward this place from the southwest The natives report that they are not stopping there, where the hills make a defense possible. If the retreat is forced it will probably be continued to Harbin. The Russians are reported as being badly disorganized. Defenses Taken Without a Struggle. GENERAL KUROKI'S HEADQUAR TERS, in the field, via Fusan (undated). The gain of the strongest natural posi tion on the entire railway, whereon much money and labor was expended In de fenses under General Kuropatkln's direc tion, without a battle, was hardly ex pected. The greatly elated army shows how thoroughly beaten are the Russians. All Indications point to a continuance of the retreat of the latter to Harbin. Before leaving the town the Russians fired railway buildings and those supplies which they were unable to transport Report of Post for Kuropatkln. SPECIAL CABLE. ST. PETERSBURG. March 20. The re port Is current here this morning and ap parently Is credited In high official quar ters that General Kuropatkln. smarting under his removal as Commander-in-Chief, has asked for and obtained com mand of the first army. It Is believed here that he hopes to regain some of his lost laurels by defeating the Japanese on flank of the Russian army. Although the report Is generally cred ited. It cannot he confirmed officially. Concentration of the Russians. ST. PETERSBURG. March 39. Com mander-in-Chief Linievitch, in a telegram dated aunaay, says: "On March 17 Japanese batteries bom barded our divisions in the valleys of Tavanpun and Yanpu. The enemy ap peared near Kaotaltse (on the railroad about ,22 miles north of Tie Pass), and their cavalry had occupied Fakoman. Our. armies continue their concentration.' Kuropatkln Off for Home. ST. PETERSBURG. March- 20. (2:20 A. M.) A report In circulation last night that General Kuropatkln Is remaining In Manchuria and that he wlU'assume a sub ordinate coram Jid cannot be confirmed. and private dispatches from Gunshu Pass, connrzmng tne earner o racial report state that General Kuropatkln's train left on Saturday for St. Petersburg. Crook County Cattlemen Send Out Circulars. LESSON TAUGHT AT DENVER Destroyer Lost In Storm. LONDON. March 19. The Dally Tele cranh's Yokohama corresoondent says that during & storm a Japanese torpedo- boat destroyer was lost off the Ihdo-Chlna A. L. WIgle Finds That the State Federation Alone Will Be Able to. Make impression at the . National Meeting. Plans set on foot by the executive committee of the Crook County Cattle men's Association, at a special meeting held last Saturday, will result before many months In a state organization of all the county cattle associations and representative cattle owners' in Oregon, says the Prineville Journal of the 16th Inst The word has gone from the local association that such a move has been started, circular letters are being ad dressed to all the cattle organizations In the state and lnsldo of a few weeks a date will be set for a meeting of various representatives from the differ ent parts of the state for the purpose of perfecting a permanent organization. That meeting' will be held in this city either late In the coming Summer or early in the Fall. In the meantime the following letter has been addressed to all the cattle as sociations in the state and such men Interested In the betterment of stock conditions as it Is believed will lend their assistance In bringing the pros pective organization to a successful be ginning: , PrlnevUIe. Or.. March 14. 1 DOS. Dear Sir: At a meeting- held In this city by the executive committee of ths Crook County Cattlemen a A&aoclatlon, steps were taken towards the per fecting ot a. state organization which shall em body all the local cattle- associations and rep resentative cattle-growers, not members oi any such organization. In the State or Oresoa. But we think that this larger organization should be composed eo far aa practicable of county orzanlzatloos. In co-antics where cattle asso ciations do not exist, we urce that they be formed at once In order to brine this jrreater body to a speedy and successful culmination. This more has been Inaugurated because It la felt that only through the power wielded by a state organization along the lines advanced by the executive committee of the Crook County Cattlemen's Association will it be possfble in the future to exert any considerable and ap preciable Influence either In legislative halls or In the National Livestock Association. The need of ouch an organization, through which the needs of Oregon, cattle Interests could be voiced, was moat strongly felt at the anneal convention of the latter body, held In Denver the first of the present year. It Is the Intention of the Crook County Cat tlemen's) Association, therefore, to form Into" a solid unit all the cattle Interests In this state, but the preliminary steps which havs already been taken must first be broached to the cattle-owners generally for the purpose of se curing unbiased and advantageous opinions. If the- anwers sent to this association In response to these letters prove to be favorable, then arrangements will be made for a meeting of the representatives from the different sections of the state to be held In Prineville during the Summer or Fall, at which time a -permanent organization will be effected. V'n should like to have you talk this matter freely before all cattlegrowers In your vicinity and then write us as soon as possible the con ensud of opinion evalllng, Whether adverse or otherwise, and any suggestions which may come to mind. It la proposed to carry this matter through to an early success, with toe end In view of gaining for Oregon cattlemen and tbelr Interests a position of power pro portionate to the magnitude of the Industry In which they are engaged, and the vast wealth which they repreienu Both these should be more fully recognized In the future than they have been In the past. An Immediate' reply will be of resultant benefit, not alone to you. but to that vast brotherhood of cattle-owners which in Itself forms one of the state s greatest .and most sustaining industries. ii. D. DUNHAM. President. A. L. WIGLE, Secretary. The foregoing letter, which clearly defines the position taken in the matter by the local association, is the cmbodl ment of the Ideas given the executive committee last Saturday by A. L. "Wigle, It will be remembered that the latter was elected a delegate to the Denver convention of the National Livestock Association, and upon his return here he Immediately advised that .the Crook County cattlemen Join hands In taking the first steps tiward organizing state association through which some power could be wielded and some'rec ognition of rights be obtained. Mr. "Wigle drew some very forcible conclusions at the Denver convention. where he saw the systematic working order of the representatives from such states that had well organized cattle organizations. In the face of the in fluence and power which they exercised at that time It was next to impossible for delegates from local associations such as he represented to make any headway. Measures of vital import ance to the whole stock region of Bast ern Oregon were quietly laid on the shelf and other matters of more than passing benefit were pigeonholed to the grave. In consequence, Mr. Wigle saw the need of an organization in this state which, if thoroughly organized, would be capable of exerting as much power as those in the states of Texas, Colo rado and other districts where the cat tie industry is among the first, and the Ideas which he advanced to the Crook County Cattlemen's Association a few- weeks ago andto the executive com mlttee last week are embraced in the above-quoted letter. 1 It is believed by the local cattlemen that the move which has been made will be of great benefit to every cattle owner In the state and the latter are as a result much elated over the pros pects In view. It Is not probable that the meeting to be held In this city for the purpose of permanently organizing a state as sociation will be on the schedule before early Fall. In other words, the date will be fixed for such a time as will not Interfere with the harvest season or the Fall round-ups. 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