Title |
History of public land law development |
Creator |
Gates, Paul Wallace, 1901-; United States; Public Land Law Review Commission |
Subject |
Public lands; History -- Sources |
Spatial Coverage |
United States |
OCR Text |
Show This volume, setting forth the history of public land law development, is presented to the interested public as a foundation stone for the entire study program of the Public Land Law Review Commission. (Originally published: Washington, D.C. : by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1968) |
Publisher |
Washington, D.C. : Wm. W. Gaunt & Sons |
Contributors |
Swenson, Robert W. |
Date |
1987 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
application/pdf |
Digitization Specifications |
Pages were scanned at 400 ppi on Fujitsu fi-5650C sheetfed scanner as 8-bit grayscale or 24-bit RGB uncompressed TIFF images. For ContentDM access the images were resampled to 750 pixels wide and 120 dpi and saved as JPEG (level 8) in PhotoShop CS with Unsharp Mask of 100/.3. Foldout pages larger than 11" x 14" were captured using a BetterLight Super 8K-2 digital camera back on a 4x5 view camera (100mm Schneider APO lens). Oversize images were resampled to 1500 pixels wide. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) by ABBYY FineReader 7.0 with manual review. |
Resource Identifier |
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cgi-bin/docviewer.exe?CISOROOT=/wwdl-doc&CISOPTR=5226 |
Language |
eng |
Relation |
Western Waters Digital Library |
Rights Management |
Digital Image Copyright 2005, University of Utah. All Rights Reserved. |
Contributing Institution |
Georgetown University Law Library 111 G Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 |
Source Physical Dimensions |
xv, 828 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. |
Scanning Technician |
Backstage Library Works - 1180 S. 800 E. Orem, UT 84097. |
Call Number |
KF5605 .G3 1987r |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6jh3khj |
Setname |
wwdl_documents |
ID |
1135921 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jh3khj |
Title |
page 609 |
OCR Text |
Show ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC GRAZING LANDS 609 Western Rangelands fas. Bureau of Land Management acquired in private ownership, 44,357 acres belonging to the Northern Pacific Railroad, and 6,400 acres of state land. An Act of March 29, 1928, authorized the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements for a management program with the State of Montana and private owners within eight townships between the two creeks. All United States land within the district was to be withdrawn from entry except for minerals and was to be leased for not over 10 years to stockmen owning adjacent lands under rules the Secretary of the Interior was to prescribe. In the discussions leading to the adoption of the Act of 1928 Fiorello La-Guardia asked why it would not be better to pass a general law to provide for control of all the remaining public rangelands. Bills for this purpose and others to cede the lands to the states had been introduced fairly regularly in the twenties but differences of opinion had delayed action. Representative Scott Leavitt who had the Mizpah-Pumpkin Creek bill in charge in the House replied that the measure should be considered as an experiment which if successful might be developed on a much larger scale. He was also told by Charles E. Winter of Wyoming that he would fight to the finish any general law.4 There was no real opposition to the proposal and it went through without a hitch, though one 4 Cong. Record, 70th Cong., 1st sess., Jan. 26, 1928, pp. 2088-89. |
Format |
application/pdf |
Resource Identifier |
320919-UUM-HPL-c21_page 609.jpg |
Source |
Original book: History of public land law development / written for the Public Land Law Review Commission by Paul W. Gates, with a chapter by Robert W. Swenson |
Setname |
wwdl_documents |
ID |
1135701 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jh3khj/1135701 |