The new era., February 21, 1907, Image 1

About The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??

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VOLUME I.
THE RANGE
PROBLEM
One of the Most Im
portant Questions
at Present.
Leasing Season Has About
Outlived its Usefulness
In the West.
Of greater importance than the forest
seserve problem, is the division of the
public land in the west for grazing pur
poses. The commission composed of
Western stockmen who were summoned
to Washington to assist in framing a
measure to systematize the control of
the public grazing land in a manner
that would do the greatest good to the
greatest number, accomplished nothing,
and the matter will probably rest for
another year.
The main reason for the failure of the
parties in Washington to accomplish
any legislation, was the selfishness
which controlled the actions of both’tlio
cattle and sheepmen, although the cat
tlemen had the right on their side, for it
is a well known fact that the uomadic
sheepman, the one who lives in a wagon
is more of a pest to this country than
the 17-year locust is to Kansas.
The cattlemen asked fora leasing sys
tem, and the sheepmen were opposed to
- it. and yet from the standpoint of the
W smaller stockman, and homesteader—
the ones President Roosevelt is especial
ly anxious should be protected—?ither
method advocated at Washington would
probably prove of greater benefit to the
large rather than the small stockman.
If the range is left open the man or
company with thousands of head of
stock, has all the best of it. He may
turn his cattle on the range, and by
sheer force of numbers keep it well eat
en off, the smaller man taking what he
can get; he can, and does take advan
tage of the service intended by the small
stockman to go to the increase of his
own bunch of cattle, and this is one of
the hardships that is most galling to the
small stockman.
However, as it is not the open range
problem that will have tp be dealt with
it will be os well to discuss the merits
or demerits of the leasing system. The
last meeting of the Colorado Cattle and
Horse Growers’ association in Denver
advocated a leasing system, and the
stockmen who were summoned to
Washington were also in favor of a leas
ing system, but it is certain that a dif
ferent system than the one now used
by the state will be the outcome of the
present agitation. And it is equally cer
tain that any system of the division of the
public range based on other than the
allotment of the land to actual settlers—
r the cultivation and productiveness of
the land being taken into consideidera
tion—will work a hardship oh the very
men the government wishes to protect,
the small stockman and the homestead
er. the men who settle up, cultivate and
civilize the western country.
In the North Park the range is becom
ing more crowded each year, and the
main sufferer from this crowding is the
stockman with a comparatively small
bunch of cattle. No great hardship has
resulted ns yet, but under the present
division of the range the inducements
to new settlers to go into The cattle busi
ness are not particularly heavy, in fact
the settling up of the country is looked
upon with considerable disfavor by the
large oattlemeu, as each homestead or
desert claim taken up means a further
curtailmant of the range.
One of the defects of the present leas
ing system is that it allows a man to
lease land iu such away as to get the
benefit from several tunes os many acres
of unleased land as he Ims leased laud,
to the exclusion of others. While this
method is condemned, it is necessary in
order that the stockmen may break even.
The fee of five cents an acre on grazing
land isexhorbitant unless the lease can
be secured in such away as to allow the
lessee the use of an equal or double the
acreage of unleased laud.
What the Park needs is settlers, men
who will cultivate the land and create
new industries, men who will not have
* vast herds of cattle but many small
herds. The Park is going to he u great
dairy country, as well as a producer of
THE NEW ERA
In God We Trust; All Others Cash, or Good Security.
the hardier grains and vegetagles, but
in order to accomplish this the way for
the small cattleman, the homesteader
and farmer must be made as smooth as
possible—it is rough enough at the best.
Mrs. Snair Entertains.
Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Snair entertained
the personnel of the “Spinster’s Conven
tion” last Tuesday evening in a very
pleusant social evening of games. Deli
cious refreshments were served about
ten o’clock.
. The guests were Rev. and Mrs. Trow
bridge and daughter, Beatrice. Mr. and
Mrs. A. G. Maine, Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Crawford,Mrs. Clios. Riggen.Mrs. Media
Williams, Miss Jessie Davis, Miss Maine,
and Messrs. Preston, Henry Fischer,
Homer Hampden, Miller Mosinau and
Rav Riddle.
REACH STEAM
BOAT IN JULY
Moffat Road to be Fin=
ished to that Point
this Summer.
Brings Walden within Forty
five Miles of Denver, North
western & Pacific.
According to the latest reports the
Moffat road will be finished to Steamboat
Springs sometime during the month of
July this coming summer. The grading
work in Gore and Egeria canons is prac
tically completed. During the time
work was being done in Gore canon, the
grading iu the open country has been
pushed and there now remains but a few
gaps to be filled.
Rails have been ordered and when
weather will permit the work of putting
down the steel will commence and by
the last of July Walden will be within
forty five miles of the railroad.
To anyone who has not lived iu a
town sixty or seventy miles from the
nearest railroad point; who has not en
dured the stage-ride of from fourteen to
sixteen hours continual trwrel, through
weuther ranging from a blizzard to thir
ty degrees below zero; who has not ex
perienced the inconvenienc of waiting
three days for an answer to a letter or
au order from the nearest railroad point,
and then have to return the article or
dered, perhaps, because of a misunder
standing or carelessness; who has not
had to pay, as in the instance of order
ing print paper from Denver, more for
the freight than the original cost of the
article; we say to the person who has not
experienced the above, a distance of
twenty or twenty-five miles would hard
ly make an apprecable difference.
It makes the difference between dis
comfort and downright agony in the
stage ride; it makes the difference of a
day going and coming, either of mail or
passengers, and the difference of hun
dreds of vistors into the Park, the pros
perity and growth of industries that oth
erwise do not exist or are but nominally
successful.
While the prospect of but forty five
miles from the railroad looks attractive,
there are excellent grounds for the be
lief that inside of two years the North
Park country will not only have one but
two brauch roads—one from Granby,
now being built by Rocky Mountain
R. R. Co. to its property ai Grand Lake
and the other from Encampment, Wyo.,
the grading of which has been complet
ed to Saratoga. These roads will con
nect at Walden, and give the Park an
outlet both east and west.
An Excslfent Motto.
A young man askß for a motto to
live up to. All right. I’ll give him thft
best he ever had or heard of —namely:
Finish What You Have on Hand.-*
New York Press.
Bometim#s Inspired by the Girl.
“Most marriages,” says the Cynical
Bachelor, “are prompted by the fear
that some other fellow may get the
girl.”—Philadelphia Record.
Moral: Keep a Cash Account
One of the greatest problems to a
man la what became of the money
he earned six months ago.—Atchison
Globe.
WALDEN, COLORADO, TIfURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1907.
WILL TEST
FEE QUESTION
Case Against Andrew
Norrell Dismis
sed.
State Association will Pre
pare a Friendly Test
Case.
Chief Pinchot of the United States
forest service has refused to permit the
suit against Andrew Norrell. of North
Park, for permitting his cattle to drift
upon a forest reserve, to go to trial, tak
ing the grouud that the case was so
manifestly unfair to Norrell that it
would not provide a fair case. Mr. Pin
chot, however, expresses a willingness
to ha%’e the right of the government
tested in a friendly case and the State
Cattle Growers’ association is preparing
to have a case made.
Recent decisions of federal courts iu
Washington aud Utah have convinced
the forest service that it will be impos
sible to make a criminal case against the
owners of cattle which drift upon a
reserve. This being true, it is very
doubtful if the government has any
right to collect fees from stockmen for
grazing upon reserves. It is proposed
by the State association to have a friend
ly case brought in the near future to
test this point. In the meanwhile cat
tlemen on the western slope are in re
volt againft paying grazing fees when
the government grants no protection.
Gattismen generally insist that before
the government can charge grazing fees
successfully, it must first fence the re
serves.
Chief Pinchot realizes that there will
be more or less trouble until the reserves
are fenced. Cattlemen express a will
ingness to pay un even larger fee if the
money could be applied to building
fences aud it may be that something of
that kind may be the result of the pres
ent agitation. Denver Record Stockman
Many an otherwise truthful man
will lie about the fun he had while
camping out.
Our idea of a fool man Is one who
waits for the bartender to tell him
when he has enough.
Many a man looks upon a marriage
license as a blotter with which he
expects to blot out his past.
It frequently happens that a wom
an who was proud of a man as a
beau Is ashamed of him as her hus
band.
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To die for a woman may be brave,
but the man who leads her to the al
tar and agrees to make a living for
her is the real hero.
When wise thieves fall out they
proceed to plant their graft before
getting themselves investigated by a
legislative committee.
If a woman Is wise she will inform
her dressmaker that she needs her
new dress at least a week before she
actuully does need it.
Some states have a law requiring
women to remove their hats In a the
ater —and there should be one to pre
vent men from stumbling over a row
of women between the acts. —Chicago
News.
Britain’s Great Tic: t g Fleet.
At the present time there ue :?7i
.•essels manned by 90,0J0 fisher:; i
»ngaged In fishing from the ports o
ho United Kingdom.
Measurements.
Every man wan’z to measure him
self by what he Is going to do, but
the world insists on measuring him b>
what he has done.
Make Tons of Cheese Annually.
In Cheshire, England, and the nd
Joining counties, more than 25,000
tons of Cheshire cheese are made an
nually.
Development of the Orange.
Scientists say that the orange war
formerly a berry, aDd that It h&s beer,
developing for over 7.000 years. I
GOOD AND HUMOROUS EXCUSE.
\
.'Debtor Really Deserved Grant of Ex
tension of Time.
} A prominent business house In Bal
timore placed a bill iu the hands of a
Collector, who, in response to a re
quest for settlement, received the fol
lowing In reply :
“My Dear Sir: Absence from the
felty prevented my writing In answer
lo yours of recent date.
; “It will be utterly impossible for me
to settle the claim you mention at
present, for the very simple but good
reason—l haven’t got it.
“I lost every penny 1 had In the
world, and considerable I had in the
future, In a theatrical venture lart
September. Up to the present time I
have not recovered from the shock.
“I think If you lay this fact before
your clients they will not advlae you
to proceed harshly against me. From
their past experience with my modes
of procedure in days gone by I do not
think they can recall any suspicious
mannerisms which could lead them to
suppose I am a debt dodger.
“I hare simply been initiated into
the Lodge of Sorrow, Hard Luck Chap
ter, Fool Division No. 69.
“My picture, hanging crape-laden on
the walls of the Hall of Fame, bears
the legend, ’Sucker No. 33876493.’
**My motto Is briefly: T would If 1
could; but I haven’t, so I can't.’
Tortune may smile, however; up to
the present writing it has given me the
laugh. I have hopes.
“Directly I am In a position aveu r*
motaly suggesting opulence. I assure
you your balance will receive my verj
prompt attention ” —Montreal Herald.
DOG SAVED LITTLE MISTRESS
Example of Reasoning on Part ol
Household Pet.
The Intelligence and faithfulness o!
a dog probably saved the life of Ber
tha Lackmer, ten years old, by iti
Strange actions before the child’!
mother, says the Chicago Chronicle.
The child had gone in the fleldi
around her home to gather blackber
ries, accompanied by her pet dog
Ntro, and had wandered several
klniU from h<WlB. Bke JIM .about «t
cross the street at Harvard and Sco
ville aver ues, when she stepped Into
the opening of a catch basin which
had been completely covered with
weeds.
The rains had filled the bottom with
water to the depth of a foot, and this
probably saved her from severe inju
ries. Nero whined around the edge
of the basin and barked frantically,
but the child had strayed so far away
from any houses that neither the dog's
bark nor the child’s screams were
heard.
At last the dog started on a run for
home, and reaching there, ran up to
the child's mother, who was on the
back porch, and barking at her,
turned around and ran In the direction
•f the accident. When Mrs. Lackmer
did not follow it returned and repeated
its actions a number of times.
Finally the actions of the dog
caused the mother to fear that some
thing was the matter with her daugtv
ter, and she followed it to the basin,
where little Bertha was crying from
the cold.
Great Man’s Affection for Wife.
Affliction is a costly school, but It
graduates the grandest characters,
just as the University of Hard Knocks
graduates the best scholars. At a
close of a lecture engagement near
Boston, Wendell Phillips found he had
missed the last train. We Insisted on
taking a carriage Into thw city. It was
a sleety, raw and cold night and he
had twelve miles of rough riding be
fore him. The committee entreated
him not to return. But in his lover
like devotion to hls wife, he replied:
‘‘But at the other end of the ride 1
shall find Anne Phillips."—Dr. Madi
son C. Peters.
Henry Bergh’s Name Honored.
In 1866 the late Henry Bergh found
ed the American Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals, an*d on
Its incorporation he became Its first
president. He made himself the butt
of much ridicule by hls persistency
«n discovering and bringing to punish
ment those who offended against Its
humane purpose, more especially as
concerned horses; but when he died.
In 1848, a chain of similar societies
had been established throughout the
Union and in foreign countries, and
he was held in honor throughout the ,
world.—New York Sun.
Value of Electrical Maasage.
A wealthy Londoner, who is per
haps one of the busiest men alive, de
clares that he has no time for taking
ordinary exercise sufficient to keep
him in proper health and condition.
He has, however, discovered a sub
stitute. Every morning he is driven
to the house of n well known electrical
specialist, and there receives half an
hour of electrical massage. This, ha
declares, is worth two hours of any
other form of exercise, and hls appear*
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