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INTERVIEW: Romero Page 11 whatever we bought. We would take out oats and grain for the feeding, and of course they would send the bills to John Wilkes. There were more than 3 thousand sheep in each herd, never less; one shepherd with 3 thousand sheep and two or three good dogs, good shepherd dogs. Then one would go out on the grazing areas, the campero had to come out, go out with his shepherd because the sheep which extended them­selves in the grazing areas occupied a lot of territory. These were something like 3 thousand sheep, but these areas were wide open at that time, now everything is divided. In Wyoming, the sheep owners have their own homestead, their own areas, but then everything was wide open. At that time one could take their sheep anyway he wanted to, to Sweetwater, or Green River, it was wide open, no one held them back, there were no fences, nothing, the greatest difficulty we had was with the cow men, but this was not in the area of the sheep herders. The area of the Union Pacific shall we say, to the north and at times to the south, these consisted of thousands and thousands of acres and miles of area. As I understand it, the Union Pacific had owned about 50 miles to the side of the rail, but the sheep herders, or the sheep owners had this area rented from the Union Pacific for grazing, and they were able to move the sheep along this orca. There