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Show 175 remalnlng public lands of the United States for entry-by any citizen, who may have them or a nominal sum if he is willing to live upon them for a while; but they remain vacant and If private citizens will not accept spurned. them as a gift from the National Goverrunent, by what process of reasoning are they worth anything If the I'ational Government can to the states? not sell them, how can the states sell the!!l? If the I\ational Government can not lease them, how can the States squeeze any revenue of them? The are ouen ot I have no elabor2te statistics to nresent but in my o oa.na cn it must be obvious to e"reryone f2L1il iar with conditions in the more arid sections of the we s t as typified by Ut2.l1 that in its present de-cleted state the surf2.ce 0:: the remaining V2.cant , , an unappropriated public domain, excluding the not be made to uroduce enough revenue to pay the cost of adinistration. The states already own, in their school-land grants, millions of acres of this se kind of land, which they can neither sell or lease, and which is yield ing no income. Why should they want more of this precious heritage of desert?36 na t Lona L forests, can . Dern's belief that proposition premise that ever addressing Portland, a paying primarily, though not entirely. neither the mineral rights nor the was forests--the could based cession could not be only items be the gained as of value part about the of the he had national public lands-In cession package. recent :,restern Governors' Conference at assured his audiencel In my oninion the national forests are remain national forests and we haven't going a to China chance ever to get them turned over to the I think our public land auestion so far states. as the cession of domaIn to the states man's thepublic 3earings, pp. 30-)1. on the |
