Show X our land the public domain main by J JP P MAY since president hoover proposed propose that the nation give back back to the eleven public land states the vast areas of non patented land public domain the subject has hag been on the front page ot of your daily newspaper many mamy times and in magazines and other literature we are getting a nice resume of the subject ct from several angles within the year perhaps tae ae writer discussed the subject in these columns showing why the land aas as withheld by the federal government at the he outset and why the reasons lor for withholding it have all been disposed of 0 by our progress and therefore why the land should not be longer held by uncle sam hoover has started the discussion and the possible solution of the matter by proposing that the nation turn over to the states all tiie land not dot in orest forest reserves and in ludan or military rese reservations ovations and not held as coal land or as ath mothr gr hydro carbon reserves etc ard ar d just give the states the surface rights that means that the dear states elates would get a vast east area of desert land and desolate mesas usel used only as grazing land opinion seems seema to be developing three camps or divisions viz first those aiho he dont want any of the land given to the states second those who want it turned over but with less reservations and third those who want the nation to give to the public land states all the land lana not mot patented I 1 am frankly in the third division and for reasons 3 which seem beem sufficient this cry that the states could tot not handle the timber the forests forest A la all bosh the claim that only the nation should control our coal lands Is bunk because there Is more coal than we can use ini in many centuries cea carbon county coal mines may be closed down tor for a hundred undred 11 years and better coal more cheaply alias mimed l would take the place of odthe the carbon county area by using the Fruit froitland fruitland land coal or the Ea Esc calante alantO E I 1 |