Show GODDING IS AFTER NEW NE UND LAND LAWS AS Asks operation Co-operation of Other State Executives in General General General Gen Gen- eral Letter TO CUT DOWN EXPENSES Gon Go Culler ill Iti to lu Consider Malic I With lIh Land Hoard a anti and use lie Pj Present Pres Izes ent Lexi Igl l gl lill l' l An 11 ai effort to lo simplify the tile regulations tinder which the lIil theland lie land grants from time the government u arc alC LC hIlled is being math made by Y Governor 1101 K It flooding of iii f luau Idaho Governor OU John bun C. C Cutler Culler Is In lii of if a letter from Governor en- en I Illing ii Ids his Is Ci operation co-operation I In mu having ha i mug summit legislation it paw ed by hy congress I that tin sin state to ilia may not br be fO under sUb a an all ii ex expense x cx- pense I III in nn oil and lI selling slat ste lands G 01 Cutler let will lal nice lake tin th matter up Ii wilh lilt lie state Iol land I vi thin h. h 11 next l week and nIHl later t the hit senators semi sen n lOIS and ammil I tilt the ii representatives l In enu coil- gie re IC s will vIii be hj asked to lo cut cul down this his unnecessary 1111 expense The loiter hotter received from Gu GO Gooding follows I I am aum willing you iu and several I governors of Western states which were wel veI granted public lands for rill time the support sup sup- port o of common in schools a and amid ot other ii cc in ill Iii it i-it solutions I Lii t In ill till the hi hope i of or enlisting I ug eo co In iii au an all effort to have ha modified modi fled fied t the lilt hi I regulation iii U under which ichi these grants at nt present are tilled filled There has haM been a n trend Iward to toward I ward the adoption of lIf Involved ol and elaborate rules rul regulating lin the selection of or public lands lunds b by the time states stales Under the tho new regulations promulgated on Jan Jami I 10 0 1 OG ft It I Is necessary to III file a 0 selection list for every ery ICO I 1 GO 60 acres of or moth land selected he The lands In lii an any ono One list must bo lie contiguous Il It Is necessary sa sary 1 wherever ever there are HIl mining tubing claims within six nix in miles ilos of the lie land selected that thal a notice of lit it selection be l' l posted on every atho a lo tract of time the land this tuIs making malin It practically Impossible lf to lo I make selection for fm the state stale during the lie winter n months mouths I Hl Regulations I ioui Extended The rue re regulations of or Jan 1 10 10 0 1 1116 to tn I I eli i te solely olI to tu coni common muon school Indemnity lands have l bet been ex extended ex- ex tended h 1 by the lie rulings s of th time the commissioner commis of or Ih the general g land office so as us asto usI to III I be he applicable to the lie selections fur for the original ilant antl this hubs apparently apparent apparent- I ly without any ammy authority of law Jaw aw The Thc most Involved n and cumbersome system o if of affidavits upon selection are arc ro- ro No Xo amendment of any ll JI lit t can be bl accepted to Il collect clerical i and anel till time the Mice without the thC states Plates losing los hiss ing IlIg the priority obtained by time the original Ii inal filings The ihie local land cs c's are not empowered to tn I accept the lie tates Mates Si so I that thal errors curs In assigned as as- sJ signed ne' ne bases liscs tIme the selection for rOI Indemnity indemnity nit lands nHI may be e corrected by ii Li l en I. I a and mu ii new II filings Li is Is moreover I an aim attempt l Lu o 0 make these new regulations lat Ions retroactive n applying i lb them to lists t liI d l before folo thole ulu- ulu linus lons were n adopted and amid n making the state slate go 0 back over ocr il its n election lists and amid CO comply 11 I with wilh these those 1 new Ie regula ula- ula ions lons ni To 1 J Kill I Tape All il 1 in ill all It i ha has come COIC to such a amiss pass miss paso that lint it Il Is very difficult Indeed for forthe time the state slate to lu mal make selections that will wi meet the hue approval al of tint time tl in lit Washington Va ton 1 I am am ln our 01 1 i t CS 1 In n congress to lo I exert lI 1 every esery effort lU 11 having having- these o l' l regulations regulations regu regu- u- u lations modified so as al to do tic O ilVa awa away with the lie unnecessary red tape which hampers ham ham- pers the lie state stale In i Ii- Ii selections I am al your YOU co CO to the thu lie end that luit there lucre may be le concerted effort crul on omi he the part parl o of tho ho cHIn land laud grant tales states toward gelling thus Iho lw rules rule Uli Hh to the lie selection of if these grunts grants s We v 1 shall nd M-nd lo to Washington ahill within with with- in ill n I tho Ime next lets few weeks els J. j I J. J L. L Marvin Si 1 I I. I vho has hW chal charge e of fr if the lie lw selection of ff if time stales stale's lands lands' und and 1 I s-hould s appreciate It t very en much luch if ir you would woul through your YUi senators nall and lellI representatives s In iii c congress H assist slI him hin in II his effort rolt lo II is a of or rules cults ind If I I should I be iii very 1 glud hll If each ch tale s-tale tlc ought ht send c 1 a mu representative to lo u the lw land lant department lucre lo 0 o operate eo In time same sanie effort efort I K ery n lY I Western eln land stale statu Is lot alike alI Iii In- II- II In Ibis his movement IW Under ll Hit Hit- I new the hi cost of or state lalo lands i is ina practically trebled tm by reason I of lf lie amount t of field hll ull work voil required |