And we can take homesteads along the creeks and deserts back on the bench, and--say, do you know how much land we can corral, the bunch of us?
Four thousand acres and if we take our claims right, that's going to mean that we get a dead immortal cinch on all the bench land that's worth locating, around here, and we'll have the creeks, and also we'll have the breaks corralled for our own stock.
"I've gone over the plat--I brought a copy to show you fellows what we can do.

And by taking up our claims right, we keep a deadline from the Bear Paws to the Flying U.Now the Old Man owns Denson's ranch, all south uh here is fairly safe--unless they come in between his south line and the breaks; and there ain't room for more than two or three claims there.

Maybe we can get some of the boys to grab what there is, and string ourselves out north uh here too.
"That's the only way on earth we can save what little feed there is left.

This way, we get the land ourselves and hold it, so there don't any outside stock come in on us.

If Florence Grace Hallman and her bunch lands any settlers here, they'll be between us and Dry Lake; and they're dead welcome to squat on them dry pinnacles--so long as we keep their stock from crossing our claims to get into the breaks.