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Show GOVERNORS ADDRESSES Haines of Idaho and Carey of Wyoming Talk on Conservation Policies and Schemes Closing Session of Conference at Salt Lake Salt Lake City. Juno 7 The closing sessions today of the conference of western governors were devoted mainly main-ly to drafting an address to the public outlining what changes were considered consid-ered advisable In government control In natural resources in order to obtain ob-tain the highest efficiency Carey's Address. The desire of a nation to Increase Its population and the desire of a stato to enhance its richness and mak.-fertile mak.-fertile soil out of millions of acres of barren lands were the forces which influenced Governor Joseph M Carey of Wyoming, to lather the congressional congres-sional bill known popularly as tho ' Carey Act " In discussing the act itself, before the conference) of western governors todav, Governor Carey said: "It simply means the granting of lands that are arid such lands as will not produce crops without artificial arti-ficial Irrigation to certain states having hav-ing within their borders large bodies of unappropriated public lands, on condition that the states eai6e the lands to be reclaimed and settled by actual settlers in tracts not exceeding ex-ceeding 160 acres to each individual "There are in course of redemption in all the btatea, probably 6,000,000 acres under the act. We have every faith that the unfavorable conditions tthich heretofore have b-en encountered encoun-tered will be removed In the future and that the friction which has arisen between th state authorities and the authorities of the United States will be found not to exist in the future I believe that fully 20,000.000 acres can be redeemed In the and land suites under the act. I regrel that save in my own state 1 could not find satisfactory information to give In detail de-tail what has been accomplished." The speaker urged his conferees to use every influence possible to have their states take fully advantage of the Carey act. He said: "The people of the United States should leave nothing undone to hur-J hur-J ry the time when lands shall be available avail-able for settlers and newcomers. Some of the states which have taken advantage ad-vantage of the Carey act have greatly great-ly Increased their prosperity and the individual welfare of their inhabitants." inhabi-tants." Haines' Address. "How Idaho Views Federal Control of Our Unappropriated Forest Areas, was the subject of an address by Governor John M Haines of Idaho be fore the Conference of Western lo ernors here today. Governor Haines expressed the general approval of the National Conservation policy and thought that, however much the might oppose it, it was too firmly es tablished for its most violent critics to advocate its abandonment and a return to former cordltions "In the matter of the attitude which the government should maintain with reference to the disposition of agriculture agri-culture land in forest reserves." said Governor Haines, "I nish here and now to advocate n complet-- !.:.:) of policy either b department regulations regu-lations or congressional enactment. 1 desire to see all agriculture land in forest reserves, with the exception perhaps, of certain areas on Which the Btand of timber is particularly heavy, thrown open to the homestead era on exactly the same terms as agricultural agri-cultural land not included within such reserves. I desire to see the homesteader home-steader constituted the Judge in tho first instance whether the land he desires de-sires to enter Is agricultural or not. subject, of cour&e. to protest on the part of the forest officials if they do not believe the land susceptible to use for agricultural purposes I would have such contests decided, not by the forest officials themselves, but by the officers of the land department or by specially constituted land court. "If the land is determined to be agricultural, entry should be allowed and patent granted, just as though the land were not within a forest reserve. re-serve. The final allowance of the right of entry or the erantlnsr of patent pat-ent should serve as an automatic release re-lease of such land from the reserve 1n which it is included. Such a policy would promote the settlement and de-elopment de-elopment of the west, it would not interfere in any manner with forest conservation on any land to -which it should bo applied, and l hope to see the senators and representatives in congress from the western states tik; up the fight for this change and never relax their efforts until it has been secured nf |
