The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-12-25
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circumstances to go to the extreme
southern range in order to protect
themselves against heavy losses, and
who is it that can say they have not
as much right down there as McGill.
the White Pine sheepman. who is
creating all this sentiment around
Ely?
When the Elko County sheep start
ed south there was no kick from the
White Pine stockmen. However,
just as soon as it was learned that
the sheep would be taken further
south than usual. they commenced
to object, and are attempting to lead
the uniformed into the belief that
they are going to be ruined by the
rabies scattered all over that county
by Elko County's sheep. A man
with a glass eye could see into the
whole matter and not half try. Me-
Gill and the remainder of the White
Pine stockmen whom he can influence
began to fear that they were no
longer to have free access to all the
Winter range in southern White Pine
and northern Nye Counties. as they
have in the past, and they proceeded
to create a sentiment against the
movement to take u sheep south.
Without taking the trouble to in
vestigate the destination of the sheep
from this county, they have made
every attempt to stop these sheep
and force them back onto a range
where they could not live. And they
have done all this merely because
they wanted their old haunts all to
themselves, as they have had in the
past. They have had that southern
country so long that they imagine
they have a life lease on it and fear
the encroachment of others on the
territory that belongs as much to
Elko County sheepmen as it does to
White Pine sheepmen. Hence all the
hubub at Ely; hence the special meet
ing of the Board of County Commits
sioneIs. who live there and who like
to play into the hands of their home
folks; hence the appointment of
Bailey as sheep Inspector, who can
have no authority to interfere with
the driving of sheep south or in any
other direction, as long as the sheep
are not infringing on the right of
others.
If these are not facts, why did
these disgruntled White Pineites
wire to Assessor Weathers of Elko
County to ascertain if certain sheep
men here owned land in proportion
to the number of sheep being driven
south, thinking that they might have
a chance to harass them to pay the
15-cent tax? If these are not facts.
why did they threaten the f1ock-mas-
ter of the O'Neil sheep and tell him
he must go no further and that he
must drive his sheep back to Elko?
Who gave them the right to make
laws of their own in the effort to hold
a range to which they have no more
right than the Elko sheepmen?
But, after all, they need not worry.
Elko County's sheepmen have never
intended going onto the usual range
used by White Piners during the
| Winter. 1t is a big country down
there, where there is no stock of any
description, and the sheepmen from
| this county, who are driving south,
especially the O'Neil Brothers, the
Nevada Land & Cattle Company, E.
&c. Murphy, Joe Baillee and others,
have all along intended going into
Sand valley and Little Cherry Creek
sections to Winter And these sec
tons have not been ranged by McGill
and the others whom he has induced
to join him in the "scare." Chaun-
cey Griswold will drive to his usual
Winter range in Lincoln County,
near Phoebe.
The sheepmen to the south are
crying before they are hurt. The
fear of losing that to which they have
no title has so frightened them that