Rocky Ford enterprise., 1900-10-19

actcr and number. who acquired title
/ TO land in the county under the home
stead aud prescription laws. and ut
tempted To make homes by Filling the
soil. After repeated failures ON nc
count OF drouth. this idea WIS practi'
caliy abandoned and many OF the set
tiers In turn abandoned their homes,
not even paying taxes upon the land to
which they had acquired title. 30 rap
III was III. dcpopuiation that In n Few
years after the cgress began. there re-
manned Ia I'll. county population OF
no, exceeding three or four hundred
| families, almost NIL OF whom were en-
gagged TO a rrratcr or less extent In the
live stock Industry. Upon the homes
that these families had acquired. and
/ upon their small personal holdings Tell
| the burden OF taxation for state nnd
county purposes. Around them lay
/ vast amount Of open range. the title to
which was la the government. and
which they could not acquire under any
Of the existing government land laws nj
any price. rs their rights Ind been cx-
haustcd. Year after year they saw
large herds OF cattle ana sheep turned
Into their county upon the open range
TO dcvour the range TO which they
thought they wcrc entitled. These
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their just proportion OF the county bur
,icns. Notwithstanding the fact that
they are getting the benefit OF the
range. to which the pcs!dcnt property
owners feel that they ARE justly cnti.
tied.
In my annual visits to the comfy In
/ the disclinrr. Of my official duties,
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~ Womb De Wen 10 ADVISE the pubic.
nnI Tue governor IN particular. that this
plh " NOT siccpihG. To DC pressed TO sue
eessiu. iegIsiaI'on ihler on, put that the
same mas pecn reported upon adversely
ny the public land committee. and
presume u Is forever acnd.
IL VIII ne observed That this bill, In
STEAD OF being designed to freeze out
.ne g'.iLens Oh tne county. expressly ana
pa'ueuri! Hrotee's hhd gives ueciu.
cu advantage 10 every resident ianu
oWher III the county. section u thereon
provinces rs toliows: section y. That
Ucr! ci'nch OF the uhitcd states living
IN the said Bnca county. and owning
'ai" thereii' shaii nave. ana is by this
nct granted, preference right for the
r.od Oh sixty DAYS from the taking cf-
lcSa Oh 'his ACT, TO purchase nj private
sur; NJ me appraised value thereof,
i u auJacsh, 10 anu adjoining the
n 'naa o" neu =! MN or ner' 10 the
,n VI ahu nor exceeding ten times
.nc,, "u,',ner Oh ncres owned IN Zee by
sa,a ,, nii pur.,inses at prlvate
s'he, us provided ny TINS section, shall
~ IN leeal SUBDIVISIONS OF not less than
LOTT! acres.
oh inc contrary OF provision for n
ash pHyhent bcihG Intended to mill
-, va" uSnsns, thc residents OF the coun-
al, ~ ssea ,., ~ Q, me ni!i provides that
:" .a,n an sii,' wlthih me said SIX
land en;on =, MN tne register or the
anu ONCE thelr written application to
pe,enasc me iand etc.
,, Steuon ~ provides: 1T shall be the
a a,i.. vi s;,'u register, on receiving and
,hn ling ,,s saiu hpphcltlon, to withdraw