, 1908-01-29
WRITES CONCERNING
LETTER OF MANAGER OF
MILLBRooK PRINTED A
DAY OR TWO AGO.
Discusses Bullets in CantIes of Saddles
and Shows and Thunder bolts-Is
Opposed to MondelI Bill and Be.
Iieves Sheep Men Are Not Paying
Their Proportion of County and
State Taxes at Present.
Garret, Wyo., Jan. u. 1908

Ny Dear Colonel Bell hope you
will take my articles good naturally
Read them carefully, and be sure that
you understand them. The article to
which you reply you misunderstood en-
tirely. | could see great injustice to
the smaller ranchmen in Mr.. Mondelrs
isolated land bill, and l realized my
inability to clearly state my objections
to it. So, well knowing your ability
1 fell upon the plan of %prodding you
and inducing you to manufacture ar
guments in favor of the leasing of the
public range. You swallowed the bait
hook and all. Your article is a most
excellent argument in favor of gov,
eminent control of the public range,
and | heartily endorse it and offer it to
the public. Here is the argument:
Range and Bullets.
while l was discharging my du,
ties he was quarreling with his neigh.
bors and extracting bullets from the
cantle of his saddle"
Correct, Colonel, l did that very
thing. We were at that time both
sheep men. We had the range over
stocked. We could not agree on d di-
vision-a little bit of the hog proba,
bly, in both of us-and he got the range
by givinu mo tho h,,1Iatv Darcnno1 on
counters are as naturally the part of
the nomadic sheep business as fees
are a part of the dog. The conditions
existing between me and my neigh
bors still exist.
Great Conflict Prevented.
The gentlemen composing the sub,
committee who manufactured section
Z of the platform of the Albany Coun,
ty Wool Growers association, so late
as last summer, had just as enthusias,
tic time settling range issues as my
friend and l had three. years ago. A
great big sheep corporation put their
wagons inside the enclosure of a great
big individual sheep owner, and the
latter hitched horses to the wagons
n hauled them out, and with a Win.
chester mounted guard, and but fol-
the back-down of the former, the whole
north end of this county would have
sme!t like a slaughter house.
Some Damage Suits.
But let US go back to my experience
with bullets. After my friend cleaned
me out he at once quartered his sheep
on the private land of a neighb0r,
Suit was brought for damages, and he
got cleaned out and left the country.
Another member of your sub-commit,
tea corporation-camped 10000
sheep last October and November on
the private land of d widow woman
with a house full of dependent chill
dren. When they left-early in De
cember last-the land was as bare OF
vegetation as the top of your head,
Over at the court house you will find
how the matter is to be settled-a dam
age suit.
The CoIoneI's Experience.
Best way, Colonel. But if l were in
the lady's shoes, 1 would have taken
e club and begun on the Mexicans and
dogs and pounded hell out of the out
fit all the way up to the president and
| would have been as "damned-a-fool'
as you were when you got into that
controversy with God over a snow
storm and shot at Him and when He
STOPPED snow and threw a thunder
bolt at you, you made an appointment
to preach. What a remarkable versa.
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