Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-11
BOARD IS URGED
NOT TO NULL|FY
Tw0.M|LE LIMIT
Resolutions Passed by Lin
coin Horse & Cattle Rails
ers' Association Sent to
State Land Board.

Modification Of the two-mile limit law
through rules and regulations, II
passed by the state land board, would
be the death blow to the horse and cat
tie industry. This Is the representa-
ton made to the state board Of land
commissioners in a petition containing
resolutions passed by the Lincoln
Horse & Cattle Raisers' association.
The board Is asked to refuse to make
a ruin gthat will affect the two-nnile
limit law.
The petition and resolution as pre-
scented to the board and signed by the
members of the association follows:
ITO the Honorable State Land Board
of Idaho:
1.-THE undersigned members Of the
Lincoln Horse and Cattle Raisers' as
ISOLATION, understanding that the hon.
orable land board contemplates making
certain rulings that will partly nullify
the two-mile limit law and in large
measure destroy the protection afford
ca by the said law to raisers of horses
and cattle in the state Of Idaho, do re-
specially urge the honorable members
to hear and conside. the following re-
presentations
One. That horses and cattle will not
Craze over the same land with sheep,
and that unless the two classes of ami
mails be kept upon separate and clearly
defined sections of the range, the horse
and cattle industry must inevitably be
destroyed:
Two. That hundreds of our citizens
throughout the state, who, in good
faith and relying upon the protection
of the two-mile limit law duly passed
-Il L. II.
decisions of the supreme court, have
invested their capital and labor in the
horse and cattle business, will be I'M
Justly deprived of their range rights
and subjected to great hardship and
financial loss;
Three. That many small farmers in
all parts of the state, owing to the
scarcity of mark cts for general farm
produce, depend upon the few cattle
which they can raise for money to
make payments upon their land and
to provide for the current necessities
of life;
Four. That, under the two-mile
limit law, such small farmers are en-
titled to Craze their horses and cattle
upon the public Lind falling within
the two mile limit, and that this right,
being open to all alike, is indivisible;
Five. That, under the proposed rul-
ing. I; small group of farmers may
lease to sheep growers not only their
own grazing rights, but also the indi-
visible rights Of all other persons to
the same land,
six. That according to universal
testimony, it is impossible to confine
grazing sheep WI hin fixed boundaries
and that they constantly stray over
boundary lines;
Seven. That if sheep are allowed
to Craze on areas within the two mile
limit, there must accordingly be a
great amount of trespassing by such
ep upon adjoining cattle reserva-
tions, a condition which can be met
only BY an absolute surrender of all
horse and cattle grazing lights, or else
unlimited litigation.
In consideration of these premises,
and in behalf of the horse and cattle
raise of Lincoln county and of the
entire state of Idaho, we do respect
fully ard humbly petition the honor
able board to refuse any such ruling.