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Article: ATV dispute steams Box Elder landowners.
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- The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Article date:
- February 13, 2005
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Byline: Kristen Moulton
Feb. 13--BRIGHAM CITY -- Abiathar R.C. Smith was just 18 when he emigrated from Worcestershire, England, in 1870, to live with an uncle in Kaysville.
By the time he died in 1909, "the sheep king of Utah" had amassed 212,000 acres of forest and meadowland in the northern Utah backcountry where Cache, Box Elder and Weber counties meet.
Nearly a century later, descendants who own a remnant of Smith's empire, along with several longtime ranchers, are at the center of a dispute that pits private property rights against access to public lands in Box Elder County.
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