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Show t'UV-vqnt'ATlON OK l'l III.IC L.VNUH, j 1 The evils of our public land system j with reference to a uniform government t price for land without regard to itsj quality, and the restriction id' entries i , to UK) acres, have long been apparent to ths people of the country west of the Koeky Mountains, and we are glad to notice that the Mtbj.'et of ilu.-silyin j lands subject to entry, both with re- i spect lo price and quantity, is receiv ing some attention from tl.e Pacific coast press. The absurdity of demand- ! ing a spocilic price fur lands without regard to quality, is apparent, and this eu.-toiu in connection with that limiting eulrics to aquaiter section operates lo restiict the sale and occupation of vast quantities of government land in all re-gioos re-gioos subject to drouth. There are immonse areas of public lauds that arc only tit for grazing purposes, which the government never can sell except at a nominal price and in large quaa-, titics. The pasturage upon these lands where they cannot bo irrigated, is too ! scanty to sustain even herds of sheep larjre enough to make wool growing a special business, unless the lands can be held in large quantities. Under the present system of limiting entries to lt'0 acres, such can uot be sold at all, and pasturage is common; but if the price of them was luude nominal and they could be entered in extensive tracts, a large part of them might be disposed of. The advantages of such a change are that it would stimulate the business of stock-srowiug and encourage en-courage settlement and improvement. Although under the present system the use of these lands is free, it operates oper-ates to prevent improvement, because men will not settle upou and impife lands to which they have no title, and they cannot atlord to buy this class of lands in the quantity required for grazing, graz-ing, at the prices asked for them; and v so they lead a sort of icut lite, here to day and gone to-morrow. Much has been said about the great necessity of planting trees upon ihe?o drouthy wastes, but little wiil be done in that direct iou until stock-grower;- can IoluI-ijc IoluI-ijc theuioelvcs by acquiring title to the lands over which their herds rauge. A elaiticaiion of lands upon iimo such p!au a that indicated would, we ; think, certainly eikvnrage the settle-' uieut and improvement of vat tracts that are now ou'y dreary wastc. |