. northern Utah, who are at present grazing in the winter season in Nevada Grazing District No, 1. We have about 75 or 80 thousand sheep. I want to illustrate to1 you gentlemen just what this priority question i3 doing to us. Most, if not all1 of these men have a priority grazing right on the public domain of some 30 or 40 years, some of them Iosb, tut, sono seven or eight or nine or ten years ago, ye wore overcrowded down in District 2 of Utah, and there was more roon and noro grass over in Nevada. We moved over and commenced to graze. Some of us have an eight or nine-year record of grazing i
. northern Utah, who are at present grazing in the winter season in Nevada Grazing District No, 1. We have about 75 or 80 thousand sheep. I want to illustrate to1 you gentlemen just what this priority question i3 doing to us. Most, if not all1 of these men have a priority grazing right on the public domain of some 30 or 40 years, some of them Iosb, tut, sono seven or eight or nine or ten years ago, ye wore overcrowded down in District 2 of Utah, and there was more roon and noro grass over in Nevada. We moved over and commenced to graze. Some of us have an eight or nine-year record of grazing in Nevada, and say 32 in Utah. Now, the Taylor Grazing Act comes along and finds us grazing in Nevada. They pass a priority rule of ten years. Utah Districts Vand 2 have a different period of years â two and three, I understand. Now,, we have "been away lon£ enough from Utah that they don't want us. We have "been away eight or nine years. I can point to three men'in this audience who happen to come under the nine-^year rule. They have been away from Utah nine years; consequently, Utah don11 v,ant them, Nevada says: "We passed a ten-year rule â wo don!t want you; you don't "belong ; . ' These men have investments in commensurate property, very heavy investments. I would say that that particular district â southern .Idaho and northern Utah â *- have heavier investments in commensurate property than any other section of this immediate west, I think we are men without a country. In my particular case, I own my own range. I don't run on the forest reserve. I have investments, pri- vate holdings, range lands and it is a very heavy investment. Part of It I have only owned seven years, the rest of it ten yoars, hut, on that part of my prop- erty that I have controlled only seven, years, I have "been denied a permit in Nevada. These other gontlemon, in the same groupt that have nine yoars, were denied ontiroly for all their holdings. It looks to
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