Hearings Before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, on S. 5054: An Act to Provide for the Disposal of Timber Upon Public Lands Chiefly Valuable for Timber, and for Other Purposes |
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acres acres of land amended amount application believe benefit bill Black Mesa BURNETT California CHAIRMAN Colorado Commissioner committee Congress considerable desert-land act disposed fact favor FORDNEY forest reserves fraud FRENCH gentlemen Government grants HOGG homestead act homestead law Idaho interest Interior irrigation fund JONES Kansas land laws Land Office land-grant lieu rights LIND located lumber MARTIN matter MAXWELL ment mill MONDELL NEEDHAM nonmineral Oregon Pacific pass into private patented person preemption law present private ownership proposition public domain public lands purchase purposes quarter section question railroad companies reason REEDER repeal the timber sale of timber scrip Secretary sell settlers sold speculative statement stone act stone land stone law taken timber and stone tion to-day transcontinental railroads valuable for timber valuable timber land VOLSTEAD WALKER Washington Washington Territory West WILLIAMSON worth
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Page 92 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest, within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States...
Page 80 - ... he has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons whatsoever, by which the title which he might acquire from the government of the United States should inure, in whole or in part, to the benefit of any person except himself...
Page 79 - That wherever, prior to the passage of this act, upon the lands heretofore designated as mineral lands, which have been excluded from survey and sale, there have been homesteads made by citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens, which homesteads have been made, improved, and used for agricultural...
Page 79 - All patents granted, or pre-emption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may have been acquired under or recognized by the preceding section.
Page 80 - Office, designating by legal subdivisions the particular tract of land he desires to purchase, setting forth that the same is unfit for cultivation, and valuable chiefly for its timber or stone; that it is uninhabited ; contains no mining or other improvements, except for ditch or canal purposes, where any such do exist, save such as were made by or belong to the applicant...
Page 79 - ... the same on speculation, but in good faith to appropriate it to his own exclusive use and benefit, and that he has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or...
Page 81 - ... to take such affidavits, proofs, and oaths, be made before any United States commissioner or commissioner of the court exercising federal jurisdiction in the Territory or before the judge or clerk of any court of record in the county, parish, or land district in which the lands are situated...
Page 63 - SALE OF TIMBER. We recommend the enactment of a law under which it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Interior to sell to the highest bidder, at public outcry or otherwise, under such rules and regulations and subject to such conditions and restrictions and in such quantities as he may prescribe, the right to cut and remove, within such period of time as he may fix, any timber from any unappropriated, nonmineral, surveyed public lands, after first having had such timber duly appraised, and...
Page 79 - An Act Granting the Right of Way to Ditch and Canal Owners over the Public Lands, and for Other Purposes
Page 80 - ... has made no other application under this act; that he does not apply to purchase the same on speculation, but in good faith to appropriate it to his own exclusive use and benefit; and that he has not, directly or indirectly, made any...