| Show sit A ANn N I CONFLICT Western Most t Dill n lI cato and la h l Feared from western Colorado IndU cate cab un an approaching conflict between cattle and sheep on the for a n number of ot years ears through g l the nd nit of ot strIct enforcement of oC the sanitary laws sheep trout from fro III the west have been kept buck back out of ot Colorado without much dir dif difficulty but tIme the present board of ot vet veterinary et urinary sanitary In tn their anxiety to get all nil the thu tees fees fee possible have hae admitted a large number of or sheep to the time western slope countries n It num ber variously estimated at lit from 7 to says th the Denver Record These sheep were brought In It Is la alleged for tor time the purpose of oC feed cod feedIng Ing log but now that th t the tho winter Is over those mho vho ho brought them In are lire making maiming preparations to turn them out on the tho tango range TIme The cattlemen ore are seriously alarmed and ore are determined d to 10 fight The fhe part of ot tho the trouble Is Ie that time Hie cattlemen have hae determined to draw no distinction but to fight all sheep Impartially no 10 matter where they run or who owns own them This line has ro to suited In actual hardship In iii Home instances In Instance stances stance notably that of oC T I 1 D I Chirk Clark who hio has hns been running sheep In son Kon county count for some seine years Mr Ir has ha been heen notified that his sheep cannot RO go on III the time range this year ear and he Is II with situ a committee of cattle cattlemen men 11 to Bee Ie what ran be done It U Is IA re to reported ported that thai In itt order to 10 be ho fair aIr the cat rat cattlemen have offered to o I buy Mr dr Ir sheep shellI with the he I Intention of ot shipping them from fron torn the thit State Slat While the determination of ot cattlemen to keep sheep cheep out of ot thin the State itao by force Is condemned In some sine sections It Is really n mm matter of oC life lite or death to time the cattle Industry of oC we te n Colorado If the time sheep could range raMe with the tho cat cattle cattie I tie tic there thero would be ben no trouble but when the sheep come In the cattle must go 10 The Time cattle cattie were there first rind n d nine out ui of ot every ten In western Cobra Colora Colorado do ibo depend upon the open range to give them support It If the t hI sheep are allowed to come In the tho cattlemen will simply pimply simp have to move out and their work of or past years yearA will IlI go for naught Legally I the Iho sheep have as ns much right on time tho range us liS cattle Morally they the should he iC kept kelt out oUI As AA n a sample of oC how low time the th eastern peo people Ill who imo ho do not understand the time situa situation situation tion look lock at the time matter malter the time following editorial from tram the Chicago Drovers Journal Is ts a fair Illustration Some Sone of ot the best Informed stock stockmen stockmen men of oC the West are of tho the opinion that I the tho strife strite between cattle raisers and will never be satisfactorily settled Fettled as aB long Ion I as there thore Is IB open range lo to be bo the bone bon of ot contention Invariably bly hi bl the or rather the sheep pet get et time the worst vorst of or It Some of ot the cm cia of ot time tho cattle companies have a away awa away way wa of or charging a it 1 look flock of ot sheep driving them over n a 1 pr Ir o or shu h them with has lias happened several times In Colorado Wyoming and Ind during the past year In the face of oC the fact that hint tho the has as al much right to the time dis territory as ns his persecutors There to bo be a 1 law against rust rustling ling which Is in enforced but might 1 is IA still right with some somo of oC tIme the cattlemen There should be sonic some way a of oC giving thelia killers a dose of ot their own medicine |
