Show SHEEP CANNOT ON THE RAILWAY LANDS cannot trespass on rail railroad railroad road lands even If the they are not fenced and if the sheep are arc only only being driven driven en from one government section to lo an another other according to a decision rend rond rendered ere ered by Judge John Riner in the fed federal oral eral district court of Wyoming sitting I In Cheyenne that was received Thurs day by tile thc law aw firm of Stewart Stewart of thIs city As the railroad a and d the sections are to each other othor like the rod red anti and black squares or f a checkerboard for Cor miles one side of the thc Union Pacific tracks and also along thu tho tracks for the same snipe distance back baek backof of many other western railroads this shuts thIs strip of land against all sheep and cattle men until the they have leased or bought ground from the railroads Flie fhe decision not only involves land hand now no In Ill of the railroads Jut but also al all land hand that the they have hare leased or sold to others thc railroads In Inmany inmany many cases have agreed to protect the thc no now holders against l Title of C Case The case wa of the Uintah Development cot cor pany against John C Mackay Daniel Mackay and others all wile who arc alleged to have run Iun theIr flocks on the lands of tIle the Development company compan the Develop mont ment company having bought hought the tho land from tile Union Pacific railroad under agreement that tile tho railroad company compan l protect It against sheep and cattle trespassers The case It Is understood will be taken up to tile tho United States circuit court of appeals as It Is d ono of the most important land cases ever decided In the west weaL I scott Icon concerning the tho matter Thursday afternoon Attorney Parley Williams for or the Oregon Short Line railroad said Holda Decision Just It Is a just decision The sheep men have no more right to use the railroad lands for their own private ro lt to the Injury of the railroads then lien they ther have havo to use the land hand of an any farmer We Vo have hae le leased and sold or of ner acres s or of this land to sheep and cattle men and will protect them In its Ils exclusive use The Tho land was grant granted ed to the tho railroad years ago itt In pay par mont meat for constructing the thc railroad across what was thou a desert over with wilh Indians It Is as rightfully tile tho roads as Is the mine or the ranch of ran any individual received from the government re have havo no desire whatever to shut the or any ono one else Ise out of tile the government but the In Iii too many cases take this as an excuse to graze razo over the railroad sections ns and ruin tho range on them for lor years to come The bIle land hand does the road no good and th mOre sheep and cattle along the line lIno the bettor hetter for the rail railroad railroad road We will In all cases make Yen very r reasonable terms with an any ono one wile who really wants to use the land but wo we will ihl not allow some sheep men to ruIn null It when other sheep mon men has hns leased or bought the tho land from us under tinder promise to protect him John C Mackay Mackar one of the defend defendants ants is one or of the county sinners of oC Salt Lake Lako county count |