, 1889-06-26

I hIlC vi ltud anu ha1 OACClCd anu hdll-
tanned by the fence plan. explained above.
a system OF united fences, which makes
three enclosures of odd and even num-
bered sections. The aggregate length of
the artificial fence which composes the
system is very nearly eighty miles, the
real length far exceeds that number OF
miles by tying up at different points to
lakes, and thus employing intermediate
shore lines as fence links. The enclos
ures contain 81 LAO acres and thus locks
up 5000 acres of government sections
with AZ, 400 acres of defendants sections,
and all into three private ranges, which
have no divisions but the invisible geo.
metric section lines.
" The Warren Live Stock company is a
corporation. and its articles were filed in
Laramie county, in this territory on the
LIST day of November 1888. Francis Z.
Warren was its protector, and from the
first has been, and now is. its chief owner
and president. 1t was incorporated for
land acquisition, live stock culture and
sale. its operation in live stock is i'm
mense. A statement published on the
18th of March last by the governor or
gan is that it owns 1900 head of Here
ford cattle, over 1000 horses and mules,
over 2.400 Angora goats and over 10000.
sheep.
1t has for years had wooden posts and
barbed-wire enclosing fences within the
Union Pacific railroad belt In Laramie
county. One of them is on the southerly
line of the belt, the interior area of which
is credibly stated to extend e~asterly and
westerly at least twenty-four miles and
northerly and southerly at least twelve
miles. Arrange the area circle wise and
it has a diameter of eighteen and a peri
meter of fifty four miles-an area of more
than twice as large as that of Manhattan
island. 1t has on the north half of the
belt-that is between the railroad and
north belt line, a fence enclosure OF equal
extent. The same publication contains
the following passages:
The company now own and control
2S5. 900 acres of the finest land in Wyo-
ming. They have 81 5000 acres that they
own in fee simple, 1900 OF school and
university land in this territory and Colo
RADIO, $4,000 of range rights, and about
$1,000 OF government lands, making n
vast tract of over a quarter of a million
in all. This vast tract lies north and south
of the Union Pacific railroad. The part
lying south is over twenty-five miles long
and eleven wide. A substantial four-wire
and top pole fence e~ncloses the entire
body of land. Thirty-eight ranches and
sheep stations have been established, in
GLIDING those on Bear, Horse and Pole
creeks.
in order to give the reader some idea
of the extent of the land owned and con-
trolled by this company, it may be
stated that one reaches the tract at the
outer limits of the city OF Cheyenne, and
a drive OF several days duration will not
take you off that tract, provided you
| visit all the ranches"
1t is easy to see how much of agggres-
sion upon the government lands is intend
ed to be vanished over by this subservient
statement and how much that aggression
swells the figures of this s~tupenduous
monopoly. The Pittsburg Post spoke thus:
President Cleveland in 1856 removed
Francis Il. Warren, Wyoming cattle
king, from the ~governorship of that terri
tory because he was an offender against
the law prohibiting the fencing in OF
the public lands. President Harrison has
just reappointed Warren. He is one of
the cattle millionaires who were heavy
contributors to Quay's campaign chest.
We presume he will take his reappoint-
as authority to fence in all creation"
The Salt Lake Tribune r%eioined thus:
As to the land bugaboo, the company
Of which Governor Warren was a mem
Der, owning the alternate sections and all
the water. aud not able to get any title to
the government land-which by the way
would be useless to anyone who had no
watering places for stock-included some
- H. LII .utL.~ a.. F.~..
under the belief that an adjustment was
about to be made whereby they could
lease the lands. There was no wrong to
the government inflicted or attempted, no
individual suffered any wrong by the act
of the company, and no one made any
complaint except certain persons who
wanted to use the land without paying
for it. But it was a matter that just
reached up TO the intellect OF ex Commits
sioner Sparks. He made a great cutlery
and we know the rest.
Whereupon the governors organ, in its
issue of the 10th of April last, further
reioined thus:
THE Tribune is correct in regard to
Governor Warren's company having
fenced in railroad land. which necessarily
included some government sections; but
this was not made a cause for his removal.
Governor Warren, IN his report to the
secretary of the interior, took occasion to
expose the fallacy Of Commissioner
Sparks land policy, and his removal was
Immediately demanded. As he is an I'M
finching Republican, he was surprised
hat the change was not made before, and
no one has ever heard him complain OF
President Cleveland's action in the pre-
misses.
These mammoth Enclosures are man.
moth evils. They are calamities to num-
erous ranchmen situated outside of them
They subsidize large surrounding tracts to
the company. Its appetite for territory is
absolutely Unsuitable. Its appetite for ter.
ritory is stronger han is the craving of
the daughters of the horse leech and their
incessant cry is Give, give" No con-
s%trictlve monster ever glided on more FUR
lively and more swiftly, swallowing as it
went. No whale ever cleaved the seas
with a wake so broad. No sha-k ever
darted through them with a v~oracitY so
consuming. The chief and head and