Thank you for the article "Barbed ire: Flap over land turns ranch life prickly," (March 3), which airs a dispute involving 100-year-old property rights. The question seems to be whether old (1886) government survey lines between two ranches near Creede are still valid, even though current technology finds some errors. If boundaries have been accepted well over 100 years, I do not see that it makes sense to re-survey all the back yards, property lines and ranches in Mineral County to see if they are indeed different. Besides going against past law, this could cause unnecessary dislocations and ill will.
We have enjoyed staying at Soward Ranch over many years and find this a great imposition on the Lamb family, whose forebears homesteaded the land. I'm sure that if Herbert B. Story Jr. has paid taxes on a few acres needlessly, he could be reimbursed.