Show NEAR A MILLION AGES Union Pacific Sells Big Blocks of Its Land SOLD FOR GRAZING PURPOSES Report for Last Year Shows Heavy Transactions Utah Leading with 297000 AcresRio Grande Westerns West-erns Interesting Route Through Iron County DescribedUnion I Pacific Donates Land to Wyoming I University Trainmen Leave Federation I I Fed-eration Railroad Notes iI i I I TRIBUNE SPECIAL Cheyenne Wyo Jan 5 Nearly nine times as much land was sold during the H last year hy the Union Pacific land department i de-partment a during the year 1SOS according ac-cording to Special Agent Wantland of Denver The figures with the last few 1 days In December estimated show a I total of 006000 acres divided among I the State In this manner Utah 297000 1 t Wyoming 2S5000 Colorado 107000 Nebraska Ne-braska 100000 and lan m 67000 This total landholdings r was about oneeighth of the holdings of the Union Pacific at thu i beginning of 1SOO During 1S9S the total aalfH were 10GOOO acres I The sales were made principally for grazing purposes The grazing situation I iras changed very materially in Wyoming I Wyo-ming Colorado western Nebraska and Utah during the past two years and L now owners of cattle sheep and horses arc compelled to secure title to a range i in order to not only provide a sure fed It T Ingplaco for their herds but to avoid 1 the troubles Incident to a division of the open range In Wyoming especially and in has this condition prevailed Utah the situation has been little better bet-ter Range fights were of frequent occurrence I oc-currence and the results were often very disastrous to both sides Chief r among cr theMe wore the conflicts between I cattle will fchefp and cattleowners As catLe wl not graze where sheep have been It i will readily be understood that there I 1 tx wan always a cause for disputes The j t N most rancorous of the fighters on cither c eido have now burled 1 the hatchet and have celebrated peace Jubilees by the I purchase of large tracts of land from Id the Union Pacific and leased other landu Ct tho States kV from States II I IAS I |