The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-05


we are frequently asked if it VIII not
be difficult TO frame and administer such
q law IN manner that viii do Justice
70 all ~ no means Sucn laws exist
IN Australia and Texas with satisfaction
lands. Both jurisdictions found them
selves confronted with the same diff
Guilty we are now in, ard adopted the
only remedy-a wise lease law. IN each
place the stock business is now on q
permanent basis Each stockman knows
now many sheep or cattle ne can carry
without inJuring his lease-hOId. Moth
ing could induce either Texas or Austria
la to abrOgate its lease laws and throw
open their ranges TO the old condition or
OVer-stOcking, consequent destruction.
and continual babe and violation Of
The law will be for az. sheepmen as
we'll as cattlemen- Many Sheepmen favor
II, and are just as anxious FOR ITS pass
age as cattemen- This is especially 50
OF the sheepmen who have fixed hab~
ltatiO1. ranch where they cut hay and
care for sheep IN winter ] am in receipt
OF daily communications from such mel.
who tell me that while they know they
cannot join the American Cattle Grow
erS' association. they favor. such d law
and want to aid in its passage IN every
manner possible. The whole situation
was adequately summed up a few weeks
ago by one Of the most prominent sheep
men III wyoming, who said that ne real
lied that the time had now come that
every one who owned sheep. or cattle on
the public range must have the ability
70 control definite portion of It by
lease
protection by preference right to lease TO
actual residents and owners in county.
this to cut off all possibility of foreign
syndICates coming into a county and
renting the land away from the local
resident stockmen, The bin viii be fully
SafoguaTded against any such staT-rOut-
ing Another equally important feature
Will be the prohibition against leases be
ing put up at auction. Many small stock
men have been justly and naturally
frightened by the suggestion that the
leases WOuld De put up to the highest
bidder, and wealthy corporations thus
secure them all The auction feature
Will be prohibited and a fixed reasonable
rent established The most important
feature that the proposed law VIII con-
tain viii De provision adequately pro-
tecting the small stock owner, and as
surlng ms right to a run prOpoTuonate
share of the ranges in his respective
county. This must be and viii be plain
and emphatic. No bill Will ever pass the
congress of the United States that does
not contain the three principal features
above named in unequivOcal language.
the subject that when a bill is framed
fully protecting the small StOCkmen as
against his larger neishbor, giving the
preference to the actual stOckgrower In
each county, and prohibiting any auction
of leases. and 1t is generally circulated
that all opposition to the measure viii
vanish from the stock counties, except
from the owners of migratory sheep
bands.
1t IS Wisely proposed tnaI the OH
shall require the federal government to
donate to each state the rentals received
in it, to be used for works to promote
irrigation by the storage 0f flood waters
This question is one of supreme import
anCe to every state having arid lands
Careful estimates place the amount to
be thus yearly used at 100000 It viii
he remembered that at the last session
the great river and harbOr bill, carrying
an appropriation of $50, 90, was de
feated by an arid land state senator be-
the east would not consent TO IN
Glide a paltry $500, 600 for promoting iTrI-
cation in the arid states With such a
bill as we propose. the east VIII be re-
lieVed from that burden, ample sums for
this great work will be provided, and
hand in hand will go the preservation
and Improvement of the ranges. with the
storage OF the flood waters for constant
" increasing irrigation"