Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 20, 1925, Page 27

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1925 Ii You Want | Read the Ads All the News | PUBLIC LANDS AGAIN NATIONAL Che Casper Sunday Cribune PAGE Five ve been rumors hat the natior in were in the hands of con the land w and were not being operated fc men, the ir benefit of the public, An inve ing pald tion by the senate commit has more actly what ts needed, and {s cortain | the Indian “there he to the effe those the is ex a Servic JOQUE; INVESTIGATION BEGUN (Continued From Page One) campaign draws near? a iking the complaints? The “Treeless” Arcas Is it true that more than 90,0 000 acres of national forests are ? Is the administration of indian lands, in many instance 0 far of the reserves are manag ent, by “eastern mollycoddles as one of the committee’s counsel put it, by “Boston dudes?” 4 » questions give a few ink- ‘s of the direction t the Inves- tion is Ukely to take; put they not exhaust the subject before committee, There is, for exam- te plight , as told entatives of the committee, that probably half of all the cattle. men whose herds graze the public 1 are bankrup’ assertion Is mado ‘that 90 per attlemen in one state ) and out, and that in anoth. 70 per of the banks failed be f the crisis in eattle business What part, if have the public lands and forest reserves played jn the disaster to the cattle raisers? That question is one of the important ones that members of the committee say must be ans- wered Troubles cattle ator mber Ber: have the of Cattlemen, industry in Arizona, Ashurst, will soon be unless something is teaks on the plate ond the reach of the citizen,” he 5: “while kk on the hoof brings no. profit to the cattlemen.” From that he ar- gues that the problem of the use or the non-use of the public lands by he producers of beef is one that involves the cost of living in the millions of American hémes, Ari- zona’s situation is sald to be com- parable to that of the other states of the public land group. Throughout the west the word is that the cattle- man now gets $15 for a steer that used to bring $60, and at the same time he pays $60 a month <0 a cow- boy who when cattle were high worked for half that wage. The peo- ple of Austin, Tex., unveiled a statue the other day to perpetuate the memory of the cowboy of song and story before he should pass utterly out of sight. And so on. Such are the laments that come from the zion where cow men reigned su- preme. The burden of them all is that th government, with its huge pastures going to waste or, at least, out of reach of the cattleman because of grazing fees, could do something for him if it would. Huge Public Holdings, But the cattle situation is only ope phase of the investigation, There mre the National parks; the home- stead land, officially known as the public domain; the Indian Reserva- tions, the power site reservoirs, and the mineral lands. The public do- main proper comprises 186,604,833 acres, being in area the greatest of federal holdings. The forest reserva- tions, ‘totaling about 156,000,000 acres ranks second. The National parks proximate 8,365,000 acres, the power sites and reservoirs about 700.000, while the other holdings, {n- cluding coal, oil, potash and miner- al lands add 42,000,000 acres to the total. These last holdings, however, are also in other states besides the public land group, and for that rea- son were not taken into account in drawing a map of federal owned lands in the eleven public land states which printed tn connection with The says Se extert done are ited quickly. “ this a 6 Resources Locked Up. investigated it id be 1 area of en public land about 1,000,000 acres, and that of this nd the government itself owns 418,- about 55 per cent of all the within these common- The federal lands pay no nd the state’ has no voice in nagement. Also it should be said that approximately one-third of e) federal lands are in reserve not open to entry for settlement, 1d this one-third is often the most valuable of all the lands. In this one- third are the waterpower sites, the sits, the scenic spots * forests. states most vitally con in the public Iand problem s the complaint, say representa- the senate committee, that it is unjust to lock up so much of their most valuable resources when in other states no such pollcles con- trol. It 1s asserted that in the main there reely populated, gvealths. tixe tives of tates sf 'L. D. BRANSON SERVICE Official Service Station for DELCO—KLAXON—REMY FORD DELCO IGNITION UNITS ZENITH CARBURETORS BATTERY SERVICE Under Management FRED SWORD ' 615 E. Second St. Phone 383 and thelr wealth ig largely in their lands, And yet the state ,overnment withdraws a large \proportion of their mineral lands, their forests and their power sites. It {s argued, again that on some of these forest reserves it takes 200 years to grow a pine tree, and that n acre of such trees will not pro- duce, according to estimates before the committee, more than 5,000 feet of timber, while in Florida the same tree will mature in 20 y 's acre will produce instead of § feet, 1,000,000 feet of timber. A sub-committee of the public land committee recently conducted a ser- ies of hearings in Arizona, and the result of that investigation, which was of a preliminary nature, will seon be made public. The situation in Arizona, said a representative of the committee, is illustrative of the whole problems concerning public land states. “More than 63 per cent of all land in Arizona” the committeeman said, “is owned by the federal govern- ment, 44 per cent of it being re- served and therefore not subject to entry or settlement. Arizona's area is about 72,000,000 acres, and its pop- ulation probably not in excess of 450,000 yet the people have to main- tain the government over all of its vast territory, two-thirds of which they do not control, although in a large part they build the roads and maintain the courts, the schools and the other public institutions.” In Arizona the people complain that the government has not even left them the scenery; also that much of the land over which they are permitted to exercise control is a desert where even “a jack rabbit cannot live, unless he carries a hay- ersack.” The proportion of cattle- men of Arizona who have gone to the wall is estimated from 75 to 90 per cent. Senator Ashurst says the federal government has contributed in no small degree to bringing about a sit- uation which “has few parallels for bureaucracy, even in Russia under the czars.” The senato radds that he in no wise designs to impune the honesty or the sincerity of Dr, Gree- ley the chief of the forest reserve. “You can't give a man, absolute power and not expect him to de- velop into a tyrant. It would be the same way if I had such power, only I would probably be @ lot worse, than those I am now criticizing,” he says. “Conditions that apply to Art zona," said one of the counsel for the committee “apply in other public land states to a greater or less ex- tent. Take Nevada. That state, large in area and small in population, pro- vides a government for nearly 71,- 000,000 acres of land, an area more than twice that of New York state. Remember that while the govern- ment owns and controls these public lands, the state police and to a very large extent maintain them. And 72 per cent ef all Nevada is public do- main or forest reservation. Can you wonder that the complaint is made? That the government has been most liberal with the states with the great- est resources and most selfish with those of the least resources” ‘The committee has announced that it would make inquiry into the mat- ter of controversies between cattle- men and homesteaders. The public land domain, or “no man’s land” as some call St, is large part arid. It is not, as a rule, subject for home- steading purposes, yet the charge is made that it is held largely for such purposes. The best homestead- Ing land was long ago taken up, and about all that is left, according to the complaints before the committee, is arid or half arid, and suitable only for grazing purpones. In the reserves the government charges fees for grazing, but on th public Iand the rule {s “open to and closed to none,” This has been the rule say western senators, for generations and is not to be credited against the present heads of the gov- ernment departments concerned. It is a thing that existed before they were born. ASK HIM YOURSELF It makes us feel good to be able to look a used car cus- tomer in the face and ask unblushingly, “How’s your We know what he Car?” the p. ‘egistered at umber Feuds and Bloodshed. Tho lack of control over this vast domain, it is charged by some, has probably led to more bloodshed in the west than any other one cause. The feuds have been between sheep- men and cattlemen, and between the sheep and cattle raisers and home- steaders. Most of the users of the land have for years clamored for a law that will give a man a chance to have some sort of guarantee of title when on the land. To date, how- ever, congress has not taken such ac- tion, This is another problem the committee will try to find a way to settle once and for all time. All sorts of solutions, varying from leasing to cession of the lands to the states, have been suggested. It is a knotty question, and no men are more alive to that fact than the 1 certain of the parks the railroads tionately increase traffic by such as highy and controversie ers adjacent to or within the park members of the senate committee and the heads of the two great de- | partments most concerned. Although this is the twentieth century, there are complaints await- ing investigation in which home- steaders say that they are constant- ly harassed by the stockmen, that they are subject to physical violence and that as the stockmen are in the majority justice is denied by the au- thorities of their particular localities. A typical case before the commit- tee Is a complaint from a woman homesteader in Utah. She said that a sheepman had driven his flock up- on the 640 acres she had settled on She protested and the sheepman, she says, fired on her, and she fired back. She was arrested and arraign- ed on the charge of intent to mur- der, The sheepherders were not mo- lested. Incidentally the protest is made that grazing fees for the use of the forest reserves haye increased in some instances as much as 300 per cent since the beginning of the World War, or in other words, that they are ten times what they were a dozen years ago, and that still an- other fee increase is in prospect. One more complaint is that the foresters in charge have almost absolute pow- er and that there ts virtually no ap- peal from their decisions. There are thirty national parks and monuments, and most of them in the eleven public land states. Up to the present congress Was left ques- tions of policy in the administration of Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, Grand Canyon and other wrold-famed playgrounds to the secretary of the interior, who, as is contemplated tn the law, has largely delegated his funetions to the director of parks, in this instance, Stephen T. Mather of Connecticut. Charges and com- plaints lodged with the committee against the national park adminis- tration include the allegation that unduly high fees are ask of those who travel by automobile to them; that prices for gasoline, canip sup- plies and other necessities are exces- sive, that In many of them the camp facilities are such as to discourage visits by tourists who, because of limited means, cannot afford to pat- ronizé the park hotels, and that in CARS WASHED MOTORS CLEANED The Auto Laundry With Alemite Service Station is going to say—because we know the car was RIGHT. 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