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Show ) r - 1 r - " t ' OV' ' II' : V and that committees be elected from the sheep a ad stockmen living in these districts, to-act with the forestry department de-partment in. managing them; that the residents in each district shall have the first rights to the grazing lands of their districts; that all money derived from the renting oat of these grazing lands to sheepmen, stockmen and ' settlers shall go to the -State after the expenses of managing the districts is paid. t . .. y J. . "President Roosevelt turned a trick on the sheepmen that opened our eyes," declared Martin Garn of St. Anthony, Xds, who was one of the sheepmen selected se-lected by President Roosevelt to meet the President, the United States Land Commissioners Com-missioners and Senate Agricultural committee com-mittee at Washington on February 11 to discuss the range question.' "The sheep Interests had representatives representa-tives at that hearing to fight fof them. In ten minutes after the committee met the President he sprang a sensation in disclosing' tho, fact that for several months he has had a big force of secret se-cret agents on the Western sheep and cattle ranges, 'spotting' every illegal fence the big fellows have erected to crowd out the small herders and flock-masters. flock-masters. The President knew Just what sheepmen had broken the laws and Just how they had done it. He made them admit they had erected from 600 to 1000 miles of fences Illegally on different parts of the range. If they hadn't admitted ad-mitted It, there were a half doien secret se-cret agents waiting In a side room 'with a few maps and things to refresh memories," mem-ories," continued Mr. Gam. ''The big sheepmen went to Washington Washing-ton to get through a 'leasing' bill that would allow them to rent vast tracts of the public domain for periods of tea and twenty years. - Then they could have kept up their fences." At the meeting referred to a new range bill giving the Government control con-trol of Western grating lands was drafted. draft-ed. This bill provides that the forestry for-estry department of the National Government Gov-ernment assume control of all public lands; that grazing districts be formed on these lands in the different States |