Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-02-07 | Page 10 | Eastern People, and the Public Domain.

I EASTERN E. X J ANI lUH TAlC nO DOMAIN lOMAI When you ou taU tall to an Eastern man mana a about out the public domain he at once assumes a national interest In the tho subject sub sub- Ho regards reg-ards the public domain as sacred to the actual settler And l he hc is right right right-as as far as aa he lie goe goes But when the Easterner thinks s of public domain he thinks of a broad stretch of ot fertile land walting only tho the hand of cultivation cultivation to male make it productive of food Ho ne thinks of ot a a. soil sufficiently moistened b by nature to insure the sprouting sprouting- of ot grain He lie thinks of land through which streams run where the plow ma may be set where trees may bo be cut where a n garden and anda a well wen are aro only a matter of ot a little labor abor In Utah that is not tho the public domain at all If H we could convince the he Easterner Easterner- that public domain In Utah means great a area area of ot arid land lund on which no which no water ever er has hns been or ever will be be where here no grain can grow by byi customary processes pI where no well can cnn be found where whore no trees have lived in ten thousand years where only starvation would confront tho the settler then settler then ho he would not be he so eager to hold title tine to that at atland land for tho the actual settlor settler lie He would that tho the actual settler could not take tako advantage of or his sec quarter quarter see tion farm he c could uld not mako make a living I on the tho laud 1 if ho had it ft Somo Some time Ume tho the people will understand that tho the nation and the theL L state and every very individual in both will bo be better oft off when the nation gives In s sto S to the Western states slates all the arid arld and non mineral land within their h b border i And in that da day the beginning of making the tho arid land fertile will ha haveS have havo S 3 begun