Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-11-13 | Page 5 | Nevada Ridding Herself of the Basque Sheepmen

NEVADA HERSELF OF THE BASQUE i iE E B H Clarke assistant chief or of the tho operation department of the forest J service of dIstrict No 3 returned last from a trip ot of 1 of six weeks of oC the Humboldt No Nc ada national forest He Is Pleased I with condItions In the Humboldt see sec section I tion and states that the ranges were never nover better than now The people there said sald Mr Clarke are more than pleased with the r ro suits obtained b by virtue ot of the tho work rork or of ortho tho thio forest service In preserving the tho I timber of the forest protection to the watersheds and caring for thc tho grass grasson s son on the grazing lands The cattle and sheep are lookIng fine A ranchman neal neau Elko EIko shipped head of steers I Ito to Omaha from the range that iveigh ed l 1269 GI poun pounds s each when the were unloaded In the Omaha yards ards This means that the they were nearly 1400 steers when the they left eft the ran range o The Basques herders have all left ett the country countr and sought quarters In other fields which affords the ranch ranchmen ranchmen men there thero considerable satisfaction The Basques problem was rather a vexatious one In eada for a long longtime longtime time and at Limos timos It threatened ser serI serious ious trOuble I