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1 ment as cattle-buying competitors. They became a powerful corporation." Buy, buy and never let go. 'That was their shibboleth. "I don't care where you get the money to py for the land I select," said Miller to 'Lux, who handled the financial erpi of the combination. "But you've got to get it." ' And get it theylways did some how. Their holdings grew. Increas ing herds demanded more pasturage. The cojptes found their runs im peded with barbed-wire fences. Water rights were shrewdly annexed, add ing enormously to the value of ad jacent lands. They" appropriated thousands of miners' nches., Later when other settlers awoke to the ne cessity of water, none or little was left. Mile after, mile of great gov ernment claims and swampy lands were acquired. Neighbors jeered at the two "fools, gone 'loco' over worthless land." Miller and Lux kept their mouths closed and smiled. It's a $50,000,000 smile for the sur vivor today, Lux having died some years ago. If Miller got the greater part of his principality for a songfdue largely to ' the government's free land and water policy of that day, he sweated heroic- ' ally over its development. He saw 50 years ahead. And he worked for This' picture is typical of the day that is fast passing. Henry Miller morethan any other cattleman is responsible for the demise of the pictur esque in the stock-raising industry. This is an "Outlaw," a horse that has been spoiled by incorrect handling as a colt, and it is against such methods, that Henry Miller has set the ban on his ranches. . A