, 1908-01-16
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A THREATENING DANGER.

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a policy that is advocated by every
small ranchman in the vicinity of the
Medicine Bow national forest. Time
mi again the small owners in the vi.
cinity of that forest have said that it
wa their only salvation, that If 1t We're
not for the protection given them by
the government in that locality they
would be run out of the country by
hose who have great power in point
of numbers.
What builds up cities?
Does a big outfit with its sheep on a
thousand hills that do not belong 10
1t and which is purchasing its supplies
by the wholesale in the east or running
a store for its own benefit and com
peting with the local murchant build
up a town? Is one big outfit better for
the general prosperity than a hundred
families?
II AhS " 49, 49,
thrown open to the stockmen promiscn,
ously what would be the result? Who
Would there be an equal show as there
is 1t present for all the owners in the
locality? Would he small mans rights
be guarded as they are under the rule
OF the government?
Let the people of this city know the
truth. Let them look this matter
squarely in the face. During the past
quarter of n century they have seen
the big ranches along the Laramie
river grow rather Than the smaller
ranches increase in number. They
have seen the Caldwell ranch, the King
ranch, the Lindsey ranch, the Fred
Collins ranch, the Leroy place, the
Hammond ranch and a number of 9th,
ers fade away. They have seen fifteen
miles of the river front pass into the
hands of a single concern and now that
fifteen miles of valley land goes 20
what is virtually a foreign corporation,
with a store of its own-a corporation
that dominates perhaps one-fourth OF
the lands of nothern Albany county.
And what is the condition up in the
northern portion of the county as to
aggression?
The swan Land and Cattle company
is insidiously pushing its lines in from
the east, swallowing up all in their
pathway, the Platte Valley company IS
pushing down from the north in the
vicinity of Laramie peak n the Tol'
tee company is capturing all that 1t
can get in the north central portion.
Gradually the little men are giving
way. The feed in the vicinity of Sheep
creek and Little Medicine used TO be
splendid, but the big concerns are push
ing in, constantly, i~nsistently, till the
lLSh up hSAS ~ p0ScAuAhS NA'NNN'
aged and say that they must eyentu'
ally give up. These companies are not
like the neighbor whom one can meet
and reason with. They are controlled
by capital that has no other aim than
dividends. The foreman or manager
is charged to get dividends at any
cost. If the little man proves stub
porn and believes he should have q
portion OF the range he is met with
cold rebuff. To fight often appears his
only recourse. That is why there have
been range troubles. That is why we
often read of thousands of sheep being
slain in a ruthless and barbarous man
ner.
Il IS getting nearer nome.
In a communication in the Cheyenne
Tribune of Jan. 10 the following sen
tence appears:
IF, as Governor Brooks says, that
AHO ma man VIM bAlhSS WV SAN
eggs to market every Saturday, is a
better man for the state than the
ranchman who m to town once a
year with a pocket full OF money why
do a few sheepmen who want to pro.
tect the settler and get more people
in the state run their sheep so close
to the farmers living under the Pioneer
canal, between the Big and Little Lar
annie rivers, that these people can only
Craze such stock as they can keep on
their decided land? Why do not these
liberal-hearted men allow these farm
ers to use a little of the public domain
around them?
why did the Laramie Board Of
Trade pass resolutions opposed to leas,
ing If they think so much of the farm
ers under the Pioneer canal, and want
their eggs so badly?"
What does this mean? By all sense
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