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Show Ii Scrubs Mast Go. i 5 We believe the public domain gener- ; , ally should be reserved for actual settle- ment, but there is a vast area that might profitably be leased to ranchmen for a I ', "hort term of years, at the end of which ' ! time much of the land would probably I ' be susceptible of development for purely agricultural purposes, and in the mean : time the Government would derive 6ome ; . revenue, and the trouble now existing I ; ; tween the rangemen and the "grangers" I I i; would be avoided. To secure such change in the present ' aw as to make leasing possible, able as well as earnest men must be enlisted, , and even then it is exceedingly doubtful J ' if Eastern Congressmen can be made to I see the desirability of a change. -i As matters now stand four-fifths of the I : rangemen pay no tribute whatever to , ; ' f' either State or General Government and are trespassers upon the public domain, ! while the other fifth are securing vast i areas of public land in order to make : I 'i " ranching m the future successful. The time is coming when even this latter class A of ranchmen will find it more profitable . ii; to 'ease or sell their lands for other pur- 1 . poses, and the result in any case must Ayr be a decline in the ranching business of r the United States, which, if the past be I; 4aken as a criterion, is certainly not further than twenty years hence. The only really sensible thing for I rangemen to do is to use a better class of ; k stock sires and when thev are driven from the range they can gather their stock into : fimaller pastures and raise beef as the . s farmers of the Western States are doing I y now. Verily the "scrub must go." ( t , Live Stock Indicator. . j |