Show CONTROL OF OP LANDS Shall ShaIl Uncle Sam hold vast Ut tracts of ot land In lu the tho west or 01 shall shaIl the state states handle it Only 30 per cent of at the land In Utah is taxable that Is only that amount amoun amount has yet passed in m title from Crom the government However much of this 70 pe per percent percent cent is claimed by the state ot of Utah in land grants for the University and fo for other educational purposes as well weIl as grants such land i inot it ir not taxable and the state stat cannot handle It in such manner that revenue ca can be received until actual private use Is made of ot it Its proposed by Spry and Attorney General Barnes that th the state be given n authority aut rity to sell all the public domain which is saleable no not only that It may mayb bp tax J but that It may be u used ed Our state officIals seem to to toa a agree arm with avith it p.- p. a large and growing number of wideawake wideawake wide wide- awake westerners in tho thu objections to federal rl ral regarding the public domain omain In the West It does doc not suit ault the tho t o w westerner st in r to a admit Dit that th the East when all of ot this land was sold or owned privately that th the West should hould serve as the national playgrounds grounds and land reserve When the tIle East Das had used their Umber timber li in c most manner the nation Jumps onto th the Mountain l States and grabs gribs their timber placing In reserves reserve apparently no not being satisfied that tho the government owned pretty much all of the land as i it 11 was Our coal oil timber and other valuable land is under the o of the government altho the states thus supervised form but an insignificant Insignificant insignificant cant part Jart of t t the Just what Will lv from ro the growing opposition is not now apparent but some good w will gun r We V V b believe believe l v t the e federal control of forests was wa necessary even ven if It all tJ the 3 u uncut eu n was vas as In Jn the West Nevertheless less It I IB is not at all 1111 unlikely t that at a along nt these s l lines 5 n tI will will ll bring state stat control In th tit place of th UJ Jov governments government supervision Ul rv s o anti and that ha 9 put out I pf the evolution evolution evolution evo evo- lution of things a good sound state stat policy Dolley will result B BEcause laus Uncle l Sam got into the forestry business late JB is not tP to say gay that h he should sp not be lie in n it I |