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Show THE SUN, PRICE UTAH EVERY PAGE TWO been suggested. tion, ami no im-- It is a knotty FRIDAY, TEIAJ. ques- t are more that fact than the member of the senate committee and the heed of IE Cur public lands, a subject of keen controversy ever sinee the United States tteeaine a nation, are a bone of contention again. So loud lately ha the clamour grown over them that the senate has planned, and will soon un- of the publie lands by the non-us- e producers of beef is one that involves the cost of living in millions of American homes. But the cattle situation is onlv one phase of the investigation. There are the national parks; the dertake, a wide investigation of the homesteading lands, officially known the Publie Domain; the Indian resgovernment's administration of these as the power site reservoirs, great properties. The West, where ervations;mineral lands. The Public most of the publie lands lie, is in- and the tensely interested in the inquiry. The Domain proper comprises 86,604833 hole country i bound to be coneern-- d acres, being in area the greatest of in it, for the policv of withholding federal holdings. The forest reservathe land from private exploitation tions, totaling about a bund rid and r of restricting their use a policy thirty-si- x million acres, rank second. that has ruled so long as to be almost The national parks approximate acres; the power sites and sacred at Washington is to be inspected, and strong efforts will likely reservoirs about seven hun '.red thouThe senate sand, while the other holdings, deludM made to overturn committee on publie lands, the com- ing coal, oil, potash and mineral lands, thousand acres to the mittee that investigated the Elk Hills add forty-tw- o and the Teapot Dome naval reserve total. These last holdings, however, oil transactions, has been charged are also in other states besides the with the duty of looking into this still publie land group, and for that reaaccount in larger problem. Americas biggest son were not taken into landlord is Uncle Sam. lie is in a drawing the map of federal-owue- d claaa by himself when it comes to lands in th eeleven publie lan 1 state holding real estate. The lands that which is printed in conut. n witn hf owns or controls, although he has this article. " bom giving them away for a century, WiU Be Bifid Inquiry. Still constitutes an empire of the first These mineral and oil holdings will it magnitude, and their present value is almost impossible to calculate. The vastness of the conservations of his may be appreciated when it is said that the total is four hundred and thirty-on- e million acres, or about six hundred and seventy-fiv- e thousand square miles. Most of it perhaps 97 per cent is in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona Utah and New Mexico. Comprises Wide Domain. The federal holdings in almost any one of the eleven publie land states are greater in exten than all Now England, with a pair of medium sized outside states added. The cry in the far West is that something useful ought to be done with this enormous and more or less idle territory. For years Uncle Sames western Lwaa have been a source of worry and vexation to the eople dwelling near them. These lands hold resources worth millions in minerals, in timber, in grazing grounds. Aggressive Westerners and Easterners, too have never been able to take an eye off them and the fortunes that they contain. . Efforts to invade the publie lands by ambitious mcu were accountable for the troubles of the late ltich-ar- d A Ballinger when he was secretary of the interior. They were the basis of the famous Mitchell case in Oregon, one of the few on record in which a senator of the United States was convicted of fraud against ni The recent oil scandals, government. as sveiybody knows, grew out of attempts to make private use of publie lands in Wyoming and Ca ifurnii All the way back through American history, even to the opening of tne Ohio for settlement by soldiers of the Revolution, the desire for lands has been the source of irritation between the government and its citizens. And the irritation goes on in our day, aa the senate committee is scon to hear. Many Questions to Answer. A swarm of vital questions will eome up and demand answer when the committee begins its sessions. What, if anything, is wrong with the publie land policy f Is it true, as asserted hr a member of the committee, that the nublie domain is now a no mans land a probity administrated without any broad and settled policv at all to guide the administrators f What, if anything, is wrong with the administration of the liindsf Is the investigation prompted by seekers after sensational political ammunition as national campaign draws near? Who are making the complaints f It is true that more than ninety million acres of the one hundred and thirty six million acres of national forests are treeless T Is the administration of the Indian lands, in many instances, a farce, so far as the Redman is concerned f Is it true, as charged by Senator Ashurxt, a member of the committee, that the timber reserves are managed, to a large extent, by Eastern Mollycoddles,' or, as one of the committee s counsel put it. by Those questions Boston dudes? give a few inklings of the direction that the investigation is Ikely to take; but they do not exhaust Ibe subject before the commttee. There is, for example, the special and desperate plight of the cattlemen. Is it a fact, as told to representatives of the committee, that probably half of all the eattlemen whose herds graze the publie lands are bankrupt ? Cattle Industry In Peril The assertion is made that 90 per cent, of all the eattlemen in one state are down and out, and that in another state 70 per cent of the banks have failed because of the crisis in the cattle business. What part, it any. have the publie land and the forest ji'V.ees played in the disaster to the entile raisers? That question is one of the important ones that members of the committee say must be answered. The cattle industry in Arizona, says Senator Ashnrst, will soon be exterminated unles something is done, and done Steaks on the plate are quickly. almost beyond the reach of the common eitizen, he says, while steak on the hoof brings no profit to the cattleman. From that he argnes that the problem of the use or the figure prominently, nevertheless, in the investigation, espec'Oly, according to report, the great Salt Creek holdings of the Midwest Refining company in Wyoming. Senator Walsh, a member of the committee, has announced that he will insist on a rigid inquiiy, the purpose of which will be, he explains, to find out how the established a complete domination of the Salt Creex oil veils. The area of the eleven pnblie land states is about seven hundred and fifty-on- e million acres, and that of this land the government itself owns four hnndred and eighteen milli.i acres, or about 55 per cent of all the territory within those commonwealths. The federal lands pav no taxes, and the states have no voice in their management. Also it should be said that d of these fedapproximately eral lands are in reserve and not open d to entry or settlement, and this is often the most valuable of all the land. In this third area the water power sites, the oil and corI deposits, the scenic snots and the tree forests. From the states most vitally ronrerned in the publie land problem comes the complaint, say representatives of the senate committee, that it is unjust to lock up so much of their most valuable resources when in other states no such nolicies control. It is asserted that in the main these states are sparsely populated, that their wealth is largely in their hands, and yet the government withdraws a large portion of their mineral lands, their forests and their power sites. It if argued, again, that on some of these forest reserves it takes two hundred years to grow a pine tree, and that an acre of such trees will not produce, according to estimates before the committee, more than five thousand feet of timber, while in Florida the same tree will mature in twenty years, and an acre will produre instead of five thousand feet, a million feet of timber. There is another side to the reserve problem, and that side is the government a. The government has to an extent recognized the problem, the publie land states are confronted with, and has provided by law that a part of any revenue derived from the publie reserves shall be jmid to the state. Whether this compensation is enough is one of the questions the committee will seek to answer. A Typical State. A subcommittee of the public lands committee recently conducted a series of hearings in Arizona, and the result of that investigation, which was of a preliminary nature, will soon lie made publie. The situation in Arizona, said a representative of the committee, is illustrative of the whole problem confronting the publie land states. Here the people eomplain that the government has not even left them the scenery; also that much of t' land over which they are permitted to exerrise control is a desert where even "a jaekrabbit rannot live unless be carries a haversack. The proportion of the cattlemen of Arizona who have gone to the wall is estimated at from 75 to 90 per cent. Senator Asb-ursays the federal government has contributed in no small degree toward bringing about a situation which has few parallels for bureaucracy, even in Russia under the czars. The senator adds that he in nowise designs to impugn the honesty or the sincerety of Dr. Greeley, the chief of the forMid-We- ike two dejiartmeiits xuui conmneu. Interior Department Ready. Secretary Work of the departtner.: of the interior says of the coui.ng inI am giad that the senate quiry: committee is taking up these matters. I have been investigating the different bureaus in the interior department for two years, hare changd some practices and approved many others. I am nut through yet. The sen i'.e committee should be of great assistance to me, particularly in getting legislation much needed for the administration of this department. Nothing more would the see etaiy say. lie has heard various charges which, it is said, hate been lodged before the committee, some of them involving the administration of some of the most important of the bureaus under his jurisdiction, and he will answer when the time comes, say his friends. Senator Walsh of Montana, the prosecutor of the Teapot Dome and the Elk Hills naval oil investigations, will not be present at the outset of the hearings, but is expected to join the committee soon thereafter. He will undoubtedly have a leading part in the investigation of the oil and mineral land phases of the inquiry. Senator Robert N. Stanfield, who succeeded to the chairmanship on the death of Senator Ladd of North Dakota, will preside at all of the hearings. The senators, beside those who will have part in the investigation, are Kendrick of Wyoming, Pittman and Oddie of Nevada, Smoot of Utah, Jones of New Mexico, Ashurst and Cameron of Arizona, Norbeck of South Dakota, Dale of Verjicnt, and Dill of Washington. the Comet folks must have their neighborhood Most of them would no more think of stores going down town to fight their way through the crowds in search of a roast for dinner than they would of walking to the factory to get a pair of shoes. CP17EN O st one-thir- Kansas claims the first radio commencement in history. The Kansas Agricultural College sent invitations this year to one thousand eight hnndred aggies of the air students enrolled in courses conducted by radio, to attend this notable event in One thing weather cases, the service is more alert and friendly . that may be said for the it never takps a vacation. The same thing is true of this neighborhood. 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