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...President Coolidge listened attentively to cattlemen who called to urge the extension of co-operative marketing to the cattle industry. Paul E. Martin, president of the Western Stock Marketing Association said that the co-operative plan was "not a radical proposition," as it did not involve federal control of prices. He said that President Coolidge, while not committing himself to Government cattle-aid, appeared "sympathetic." ¶The President informed newspaper correspondents that he saw no need for a special flood session of Congress. The President has issued this information at frequent periods during the past several weeks...
Particularly cattlemen, who have been almost ruined by recent conditions, want permits to graze in the public for perpetuity with fees only large enough to cover the Government's administration expenses. The Forestry Bureau is unwilling to surrender the nation's forest reserves to the tender mercies of the hard pressed cattlemen. The other chief point on which the contest will be waged is why the Government has delayed undertaking irrigation projects authorized by Congress (see CABINET...
...told: 1) that the pine beetle was destroying $15,000,000 of timber annually, while the Government had only five poorly paid entomologists combating the pest; 2) that the Government has failed to make proper provision for leasing its grazing areas to cattlemen who are being ruined by high fees, and uncertain tenure of land; 3) that owners of small tracts of land inclosed in or near Government forest reserves are being squeezed out by large timber interests that lease the Government reserves; 4) that Secretary of the Interior Work was antagonistic to the development of the irrigation projects...
Unbashed by the stir he had caused in Washington, Colonel Mitchell invited other airman stationed with him in Texas to spend the weekend on a wolf hunt south of San Antonio-a region where the wolves have been annoying cattlemen...
...that the rangers want a grazing fee based on an acreage not a per-head basis; and a definite standing before the law. "Governor Pinchot," he declared, "is an idealist who is sometimes practical, and who is given to being a little ruthless." "In my judgment 25% of the cattlemen have been absolutely wiped out by present conditions on the range, and 90% of the others are staggering under a load of debt...