PASSING OF THE FEDERAL PASTURE 



ers confining their stock to no locality, and 

 not scrupling to ignore "range rights" 

 wherever feed can be found. Sheep feed- 

 ers are more commonly in this class. In 

 1902 a county in Oregon was invaded by 

 250,000 migratory sheep. Sheep men at- 

 tempting such a raid from Utah into Colo- 

 rado in March, 1900, found the way barred. 

 Fifty miles of the state line was patrolled 

 by mounted stockmen, armed with Win- 

 chesters and ready to kill. According to 

 press statements, the authors of the resolu- 

 tion just quoted enforced their bill of rights 

 by the death of two sheep herders with their 

 flocks, numbering perhaps 2,000 head. In 

 another unpleasantness of the kind 5,000 or 

 6,000 sheep were driven over a precipice 

 and piled up at the bottom, and three of 

 their attendants placed on the mortuary list. 

 In Wyoming, early in 1902, four men and 

 some 2,000 sheep were killed. 



Many of the most valuable grasses are 

 annuals. Drastic feeding on them year 

 after year leaves too little seed for renewal ; 

 finally, in places, none at all. Some of the 



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