Show NEW LIMI legislation NEEDED i the north noraj W at anil and numerous other western journals jour nale demand r 2 t i prompt new legislation 10 n ie respecting the disposition of government lands in tho the great grazing districts the norih west vest hopes that Con congress ress will before long become sufficiently intelligent in i n regard to the public land system and the conditions of life and business in the far west to see that some legislation is urgently needed concern ling ng the ownership or occupancy of land in the great central grazing grazil ig zone where agriculture is not feasible and where the only value of soil is its capacity of furnishing pasturage to stock the existing exist ing land laws adopted when illinois was the remote west have little applicability to montana or wyoming only very limited areas of the territories can ever be occur pied jundef und erthe the home homestead bead and preemption acts for the reason thai that not one acre in a hundred is good for kr farming and those acts nets contemplate te settlement by y farmers only the stockman is not considered at all he can do nothing with the ti acres cies which is all that he can get title to under the statutes now in force abr i ce thai T amount of land would not p pasture re e enough n ough cattle to support a family a single month it takes about thirty acrea acres to feed a steer the year round what would the stockman do with iab fen en br or a dozen animals ai at his only resource to make a living he ile cannot farm firm because the rainfall is not sufficient to radise crops he must have morey cattle or more heap abeel and to subsist on 0 n them he be must use land that belongs to the government new now if the government gives farming land in prairie regions to the settler who will homestead it hana banding over I 1 patent to acres sell and selling more for to per pern acre cre rby hould should it not make some equally just and j liberal provision for the settler ta in regions where the land is worth nothing except for grazing a and nd not more than 25 to 50 cents an acre for that use the settler betl er asks no more mora land ad than enough to support his family as comfortably and with as much labor as will a quarter quarter in the agricultural regions he is willing to buy thia this land but the government will not sell it the government by virtue of ita stupid land system makes t the stockman jd a sort cf of bedouin for it t r refuses 1 to give him hi m in the owners ownership bip of ofard a L fi l aed abo abode 4 whet e lie can make a liang living W for his fl family I 1 ane e cattar catt leing ling with his vast ardi doewat doea dot complain of tho the present system for he takes pos session of as rauch much land aa as he need turn his stock upon it and employs his ii cowboys to look after it the stockman who las only ily a few hundred head cannot put his little 6 band an A Oe of cattle cattie out on the public range for in a few months they would be scattered far and wide among the herdd herds of many different dif owners ho ile cannot afford to hire men to go to all the different roundups and identify hie his animals what we want is the right either by purchase or rental e from the government to fence land enough for all his needs so that hia cattle can be kept at home what is greatly needed for the prosperity of the entire grazing belt is an expansion of the present homestead and pre pro preemption emption eruption laws so as to adapt them to regions essentially unfit for farming the now legislation might provide that in such regions a homestead should consist 2650 acres with w 1 ith the right of pre preemption emption and purchasing aa as much more this would give permanence to the stock industry and would make it to the interest of the herdsmen to preserve the grass on the great n natural p pas as tares |