Show INDIAN J LEASING VS So OUT STOCK Editor Free Press Dear Sir Your valuable publication has ever ever shown a disposition to favor the bottom dog hence I write with some hope that my article will not go at once to th the waa waste e basket Touching the subject at the head of our article I write wilto from the view viewpoint viewpoint viewpoint point of an Indian India leaser I lance once saw this sign In a business house My friend did come and I did trust himI him I I lost my friend and lost his cus cus- tom ITo To lose m my friend it grieved me sore And I resolved to trust no more Wo Ye think so highly hight of our friends that we do not want to lose a one of them so come friends and let us reason renson together I I have an Indian lease o 80 acres Just ou out of Myton There Is Just one mile of ot outside fence with well well set posts posts and three wires During the summer of oC 1918 my neighbors stock took took for for their own use use use-a a strip of meadow along the edge or fence 80 rods rods long Ions and 4 rods wide vid This is sq rods or 2 acres Computing the amount of ot hay that these the e two acres would have made according to yield of the farm where no no stock fed fed and and we have six tons Now the the best trained animals will not confine themselves to a narrow strip along the fence so it will be conservative conservative conservative conser conser- to say that In the field at large another six tons were destroyed Add to this four hours each week during hay season for repairing fencing and we get about twelve days 12 tons hay 12 per ton 12 days work 3 per day 36 This gives a total of clear loss to the man who pays the rent Nor is this all During the entire year fences are wrecked hay stacks are broken Into and the stock within with with- in the enclosure are turned out Now let us begin the season of at 1919 19 differently I do not ot ask unfair unfair- ly 1 I simply suggest that you ou take takeI care the stock for tor I am going to look I after the interests on the Spear Hub Huber Hubbard bard ranch I I. I R. R TUTTLE Lessee tt tt t-tt |