Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-02-08 | Page 5 | Aggressive Sheep Owners Section

aggressive SHEEP OWNERS will keep manees from idaho and utah Sheep men many sheep owner of ogdon and weber county whose sheep have been grazing in wyoming are becoming exercised over the growing aggressiveness of the sheep owners of wyoming aco thatcher a relative and one of the flock masters of beckstead Beckst cad broa wag at the hotel last evening ha bayas the sweetwater county range company haa leased from the union pacific a strip of land lying on the line from tipton to a point three miles west of point of rocks and containing about acrea of desert range the extend back from the line for twenty miles on each side As the leading company gets the use of the government land lying bo tween the alternating sections of tho railroad land about acres is tied up by the the company is formed of the large sheep outputs of sweetwater county which have banded together to protect themselves from the encroachment croach ment of utah idaho and other wyoming sheep men during 1001 applications to graze outside sheep in sweetwater county were received by the county clerk from men representing bead and as tho number is general ly a third larger than represented fully sheep desired to come into the county the homo sheep men were warned by athla they would in tamo be driven from tho range so thia year leased the land in self defense about head 0 sheep will bo ranged on tho leased and government land