“while the ranchers paid a yearly allotment which was to be use to pay the BLM wages and to help with repairs and improvements of the ranches.”
She certainly had that in the right order. Here in NJ we have to collect tolls just to pay toll collectors; it certainly isn’t being spent on maintenance.
I spent a year in New Jersey split between Ft Monmouth and Ft Dix. Toll collector is probably the leading job in the state, isn’t it?
I started to get nervous they’d put a toll booth on my front door.