According to the rancher, harran derrick, how is the railroad cheating him?

The railroad was cheating them by taking the land that they cultivated away from them. They leased the and many years before from the railroad with the option of purchasing it at one point and they managed to cultivate the land and make it great for produce. The railroad decided to take the land away from them using exploits of the system and he would be left without his farm which was in the family for a long time.