10 Western Live-stock Management 
Beside the Forest Reserves, some small areas are re- 
served as Indian Reservations, power sites, and the like. 
Grazing on Indian Lands is under control of the Indian 
agents, while the power sites are subject to no grazing 
regulations. 
Deeded lands. 
A considerable part of the grazing lands belongs to 
private owners. Some of this land is owned by stock- 
men and some by timber companies, road companies, 
and other large interests. The grazing lands belonging 
to stockmen are mostly under fence. The lands belong- 
ing to the big commercial corporations have in most cases 
been held for other purposes than grazing, and until re- 
cently have been grazed by anyone who wished to do so. 
Within the last few years many of these lands have been 
leased or sold to stockmen and are being fenced. By 
far the largest area of deeded range is in Texas, where there 
are no Forest Reserves and no government land. When 
Texas joined the Union, she retained the ownership of 
all her unoccupied lands, and has since sold or leased 
them to stockmen. 
Unappropriated lands. 
The unappropriated lands are those which have not 
been reserved by the national government for forest or 
other purposes and which have not yet been considered 
of sufficient value to be worth homesteading. Anyone 
may use these unappropriated lands for grazing or for 
any other purpose, but cannot legally prevent anyone 
else from using them by fencing or in any other way 
except by the ownership of all the available water. If 
