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Show BIG CATTLE HERDS Days of Cowboys and Barons on Prairies Are Numbered. ettlere Fait Driving Them Away and Prediction la Made That Ten Veara Will Bee the End of Immtnte Orovea In Weitern Country. Lincoln, N"b. "Ten yeara from Bow III .. thn practical catluctlnn of lh" Ida cnttlu hiTila from the mnKne of tlm wraL The ahi-np h.TiliTa will Hn K"r a f.'W yi.nra loiiKcr, but evi'iilually lll. y alao muat o." Thla la the we-dlillon we-dlillon of Hornn Munck. who rai. thounnnda of abii.p on the rank"! ol Hotilh linkoia und Muiitnna. who le vlalllitK In N.'bnike. where be formnr ly lived. Thu cnttlu umn. whoae hfida lint vt'ry Iihik bko rimmed nl will over ninm thiin hull uf wnaiern Nubrnika, havu bi-fn driven acroaa tho bortnr to miiku riMiin fur thu aiitnll niock rnlenr tin, I llin f.iniiiT. In turn Ibcy yil liiiv.. liulti'il In cnatcrn Hoilth lla kotii, WyoiuliiK and Montana, hut year by your Hi. y huvu 1.,-i-n driven farthnr went mid in, rib, und It la only a Hon of n ahort tliii". In tin. oplulm of tln h.'iil. ra Hi.-iiiM Ii.'h, h. u tb. lr ; dotiilnuHi.il will "inl WyoiuliiK will protuibly ht tho attiniiltiii around iotimr t hn ii nny uf h.-r alntcr ulia, I Ih i'iiiihi. thn toioKiiiihy there l mure niiiiintl for Ki'iitluK nml tin proilta liuiter, but H" amy v.111 In. llin lied. duo of the thltiKa that worka nitalnat the cnttlu nii-n, evi'ii In Wyoming, fa tile fre.Uelli-y of fellda bclwecll tb.HU and the alieep lueii, CntH.. nii-n. an a rule, It la itHHcrti'd, linve been the ax-Ki-ei4Moi-a In Hi. -hi. i.uthreukN mid a.ive lorlelied aytiipiiHiy lineiia uf flock-iiiuatera flock-iiiuatera liiive In'ii kllleil In the rliiHliea lietuei'ti Hiu niipoBlna forcna mid thntixiiiida uf ahcep wuulonly elmiKhteri'd. Thn cuttle men hare ttulr defeiulera In Hioh.. ahn nny they uere thu llrat on the aroiuul mnl tbe aheep men urn Interlopera Sheep, It In itHHorted. will live mid thrive abure catlle would aturve. mnl there ran be no pence where the two attempt to live 111 Hie anuie comiuillilty StiK'k-iiun StiK'k-iiun from the ratiK." country, who apeml pint of Hie winter imittth. In NeliniHkii cltlea and towtu, any the recent trial ami cniulrtloti uf the five entile men rhuriscd wllh the kllllnK of three nlieep biTilera. the Kl iuKliter of tin. aheep "nil burnliiK of the camp, pn.bnl.ly miirka the I.. kIiiiiIiii of the end of iheae feuila of yoara' atnndtn. The five cnttlu men wcro aentenced to lone; terma In the penltentlnry follow-Ink follow-Ink an eiclilna trial at thn town nf Hnaln, anil the bat Ilea which have put a blemish nn thn Hla; Horn country are reanrded na a tliliia of the pnal. The trial nt Hnaln alao rnrved to how that the ahuep men are not wholly wlihniit blnme, and lla effwt baa been to hnaten the duy when tho atork Mining Inilualry muat piny a aerond part, with Ita gradual extlno-tlun extlno-tlun aa a natural eequence. Mr. Munck any a It la the natural rapid net tie in en t of tho country which Ii driving the big alnckinen out of biialneaa. Alrenil), he anya, the cattle Kinwcra nre going by the arore, and It will be but a abort time until the sheep rnlaera will be compelled to follow. fol-low. The cnttlu men have been forced hy the nnwmd mnrrh of nctunl act-Here act-Here to nlvn up poaaeaalon of the fertile fer-tile vallcya. nn.l have only thn up-Inn. up-Inn. la to gnu., nn. Thla bna compelled them to buy linmeinin iiuenlltlea of hny frnm the rnuchinen ut a price they declare III be prohibitive tn feed during the winter inoiitlia Many, Mr Munck anya, complain they hav. made no money ir I nf thu buxlticmi In the Inat hnlf dor..-u yenra, even In the face ol higher prlcea for beef "It tukea three or four yenra to grow a aleer, and wb"n f.'cd la Lunula and aliliineiit to tuurket nt hlc,h ex-IH-nae la luudo Ihe coat kllla the prollt. I ll la different with al p, nnd they I would be piotltnliln for a long time on ith) range ir Ihe rnlaera wero not furred off by Hiu homeatendera Thn ranchmen were once content to lake up clnlma In the vnlleyn, but now they have taken fnrnia on the hllla and htKh tnhle Innda, and even In the inountnliia. Kheep men urn mill mtik lug money, becntiae they have not been rompellej lo buy feed for their herda A aheep will ent nnythlng (hat grnwa, and will thrlvo on funig which would starve a nicer." Mr. Mtitinck aaltl that In WyoiuliiK nnd Mnnlnnn, when a billiard struck thn country. It waa alwuya ponalblii to get tho stock down to a creek bottom or sheltered timber land, and aa soon na they were out of the driving wind they wero nil right. "There are two sources of revenue from the aheep," he continued, "(he wool and mutton. After they have been kept two or three yenra for the Hence H., y limy be fnttened and sent to luark' t. At the present tlmo I have a comparatively small herd, 3,0011, but I havn hud as ninny aa IS.-nun IS.-nun grilling " "In a few yeara I figure there will he little open loiimry for aheep In Monliinn, nml South Unkoln. and I will go out of the biialneaa. Many oih era will follow or precede me. There have 1 ii great npportuiililea for young m.-n tn mnki. money out on Ho Kheep mnl cattle rnugea In the pant, but ibey luunt imive farther went or nouth or go nut of bunlnena. The duy of Ihe cnitln baron nnd hla plcturemiue jcowboya mid the flocktniiater mid hla I herdiTu la noon to puna." |