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Show WYOMING LEGALIZES THREE-WIRE FENCE Special to The Tribune. ; CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Feb. 22. Wyoming ranchmen and farmers, who have been worrdied during the past few weeks by the bugaboo of a four-wire legal fence, provision pro-vision for which was contained in house bill No. 115, may cease watching quotations quota-tions on barbed wire and wondering just how hard the high cost of war material might strike them. House bill No. IIS, in the form in which it finally was enacted and as signed by the governor, provides, like the old law which It amends, that-three-wire fences shall he leernl fences, but reduces the distance apart at which posts of a legal fence may be set from eighty to t hirty-three fet. Tho new law also provides that the posts of a pole fence which shall be a legal fence shall not be set farther apart than sixteen feet. The old law permitted such posts to be set twenty-two feet apart. The new law also legalizes the use of cement fence posts, such posts not having hav-ing been invented at the time the oid law was enacted. One of the most determined contests of the recent session of the legislature centered cen-tered about house bill No. lis. The lower house promptly eliminated the four-wire provision of the bill, amending It to specify three wires after the objection had been ma.de that the bill, if enacted In the form In which it was introduced, would make it necessary for every ranchman ranch-man and farmer in the state who had built his fences to conform to the old statute to string another strand of wire on all such fences. If he desired the protection pro-tection to which a legal fence would entitle en-title him. This additional wire, it was pointed out, would cost the owners of the then legal fences an enormous gum, be- cause of the high price of barbed wire resulting re-sulting from its extensive use on European Eu-ropean battlefields. The senate, when tiie bill was sent up. however, promtply restored the four-wire provision. The house refused to concur in the senate amendment and the senate refused to recede re-cede from the amendment, there resulting result-ing a-situation which suggested that the 1 bill wouid die with the conclusion of the legislative session. A few hours before the session ended, however, the senate receded from Its amendment and the bill, specifying three-wire fences, went to the governor. |