The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-01-14
WOULD RUIN CATTLEMEN OF STATE
RESOLUTIONS AGAINST THE new BILL

quested to use all honorable means
within their power to defeat the pas
sage of this bill; and be it further
Resolved that the fact that Ne
vada is not a timber producing state,
importing as it does all building ma
terial at heavy cost for transporta-
ton, and that it would be a matter
of great additional expense to trans
port timber and lumber to the ranges
for fencing and constructing sheds
and stables, makes it wholly out of
the question for any person, firm or
corporation now engaged in stock
raising in Nevada to meet the re-
quirements of the bill in question;
and be ii further
Resolved, that the provision of the
measure which permits the lands
within the ranges which are TO be
fenced at the expense of the stock
men to be taken up under the home
stead act is not only confiscatory of
the rights which have been acquired
by the stoekmen, but opens the way
to a vicious system of eXtortion of
which the stockmen will be the vic
tins, of designing and INSCRIPTIONS
people who will avail themselves of
the homestead act to take up land
within the fenced ranges for no other
purpose than that of being bought
off by the stockmen; and be it fur
Their
Resolved, that in the absence of
any assurance of the permanently of
tenancy there is no inducement to
the stockmen to fence the ranges, as
the better portion of land which has
been enclosed at enormous expense
may be homesteaded at any time and
thus withdrawn from the ranges;
and be it further
Resolved that the passage and APP
prevail of this bill will lead TO the
eonfiscation of water rights which
have been acquired in the past. and
would also deprive many stoekmen
of the water necessary to the life of
their flocks and herds; and be it fur
Their
Resolved, that it must be apparent
that the livestock growers are just
as vitally concerned in bringing their
stock safely through the winter and
by careful attention and proper feed
ing reducing the losses to the mini
mum, so that any charge, express or
implied, of lack of humanity is not
founded on fact and be it further
Resolved, that we are opposed to
any species of government landlord
ism, such as the bill in question pro-
poses, and decry the attempt to force
upon the people of the west legisla-
ton that is at once paternal, oppres-
sive and confiscatory; and be it fur
Their
Resolved, that the proposed egis-
lation is sweepingly radical, not to
say revolutionary, as it gives the
stockmen no time to meet a change
in conditions for which they are alb
solutely nnprepared. forces upon
them an enormous expense which
they are wholly unable to meet, and
gives them no opportunity whatever
to make disposition of the millions of
dollars invested in their business;
and be it further
Resolved, that the operation of the
measure will depreciate the value OF
land in Nevada fully so
per cent, as much of the agricultural
land is only suited to the growing of
hay for winter feed for stock, and as
the stockmen will have been forced
out of business by the operation of
this bill there will be no demand for
the hay; and be it further
Resolved, that the effect of this
bill will be to enormously increase
the price of meat for human con-
and that the people of the
east will be made to suffer with those
of the west by the operation of its
provisions.
1t behooyes every man engaged in
CATTLE raising, sheep raising and wool
to use all honorable means
to defeat the passage of this bill.
Write at once to Senators New
lands and Nixon and Representative
Bartlett, yoicing your unalterable OPP
position to this confiseatory measure.
Make it your business to circulate the
petitions which will be sent to you
the departmental heads of
the federal government the disastrous
results which will attend the passage
Of this bill. Get to work at once |
The bill is already before congress /
and is said to have the active sup
port of the president.
EDGAR REINHART,
President Elko County Cattle Associa- /
ton.
j. J. HYCTON,
President Eastern Nevada Wool |
Growers Association.
w. T. SMITH.