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its co-operation with the plans of the government in making rules for grazing such portions of forest reserves as can be grazed not only without injury, but as experience was proving while this body was in session, and voting from its limited funds, contribution in aid of sufferers by the death and destruction caused west of the Cascade range, mainly by brush fires of home builders. It sends its condolence and sympathy to these sufferers, condemns the manufacture of and sale of shoddy cloth for that of sound wool, and speaks for a railroad rate of twenty-five miles per hour from Oregon shipping points to the great markets of Chicago, Omaha, and Kansas City.[1] Can the cattle interest show any such spirit?
- ↑ This body had at this meeting 119 members in good standing, owners of 325,000 sheep, not quite one tenth of the sheep of the state, but ably representing its entire interests in its particular field. The interest, however, from the writer's point of view is in a transition state away from the range system and towards a settled permanency on all lands in Eastern Oregon not reachable by irrigation.
