Show KEEP UTAH SHEEP MEN Off WILL NOT BE ALLOWED ON COLORADO BESLKVATION Superintendent May Says They Will Not be Allowed to Graze Their Herds There Special to The Herald Denver Colo June Colorado cattlemen are somewhat excited over the report that some of the Utah sheep men who are grazing in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of the Uintah reservation are preparing pre-paring for a raid into Colorado with their herds A meeting will be held in Salt Lake City tomorrow to protest against the order of the government putting the sheep off the reservation Superintendent May of the forest reserves re-serves of Colorado and Utah on whose recommendation the order was made says that he has four rangers guarding guard-ing the reservation and that he will not consent to any recommendation Ve put the sheepmen off the reser vation last summer said Mr May I and they had plenty of warning of what to expect this year I is simply a question of saving the reservation or keeping the sheep out I the government govern-ment gives into the sheep then If mayas may-as well give up the reservation for it will soon be useless The department regards this reservation reser-vation i as one of the most important jn the west It el is the water source tr numerous nu-merous small streams and rivers more particularly the Weber GreeT and Du chesne I the reservation Is given up for the benefit of a few sheepmen the thousands of farmers and citizens will suffer eventually from a lack of water The government has determined goerment deterined upon Its policy In this matter and intends to stand by I We have given the sheep men plenty of warning Where will they go There is plenty of country et They can use the deserts des-erts doing as they do in Australia dig wells for water I am aware that it will work a hardship upon a few sheep men but the interests of the general public must be locked I after and they are bet subserved by keeping the sheep off Superintendent a is firmly of the belief that the protest of sheepmen will not b heeded by the government but that the order will stand ole w1 stand tT i > |