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Ko/. XL VI. Yerington, Nevada, Saturday, July 16, 1904. No. 29.
LYON COUNTY TIMES.
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Halted Mtateu ttoveriiBent
President.Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of State. ...John Hay
Secretary of Treasury.John W. Shaw
Secretary of War . .Klihu Root
secretary of Navy.. . . William Moody
Postmaster General .. .. Henry C. Payne
Secretary of Interior . Ethan A. Hitchcock
Attorney General.P. C. Knox
Secretary of Agriculture .James Wilson
Secretary of Commerce .... Geo. B. Cortelyou
Mtate of Nevada
railed States (.William M Stewart
Senators \.F. G. Newlauds
Congressman. .CD. VanDuxer
Governor .John Sparks
Lieutenant Governor .Lemuel Allen
(.C. H. Belknap
Judges of Supreme Court <.A. L. Pitzgcrald
(.G. F. Talbot
State Treasurer.D. M. Ryan
Secretary of State. W. G. Douglass
State Controller... S. P. Davis
Attorney General. — ,J. G. Sweeney
Surveyor General. .E. D. Kelley
State Printer. . Andrew Maute
Supt. Public Instruction.Orvis Ring
.M. A. Murphy
.Peter Breen
District Judges .B F. Curler
.G. S. Brown
t.M S. Bonnifield
Lyon Count)
Judge of the District Court.M. A Murphy
State Senator. J. B. Gallagher
i. H. H. Whitacre
Assemblymen j.1 j. Winn
Sheriff and Assessor..D. P Randall
Clerk and Treasurer.D. W. Melarkey
Auditor and Recorder. .P. W. Downey
District Attorney . . . John I.othrop
Public Administrator.C. C. Braun
f (unex team) W. R. Penrose
Commissioners - (long term).C. C. Turner
((short terra).Byron Gates
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THE RAILROADS AND LAND LAWS
Repeal of Bad Laws Should be Made if
Railroads do Favor Such Action.
The opponents in Congress of
any legislation to repeal the land
laws have largely refused to meet
the question upon its merits and
have exhausted their oratory in
charging the great railroads of the
West with being behind the
movement tor the purpose ot in
creasing the value of their own
lands. It is a fact that the great
transcontinental lines have sup
ported the campaign to repeal the
Timber and Stone Act, the com
mutation clause of the Homestead
Act and the Desert Land Act,
which it is well known are con
stantly being used to acquire
great bodies of land without resi
dence and settlement. James J.
Hill, the president of the Great
Northern, which owns no land,
has actively favored the irrigation
and land repeal policy for several
years, and in a speech January
14, before the Minnesota Agricul
tural Society, he specifically urged
that these three laws should be
repealed.
It is not difficult to see why Mr.
Hill and all the great roads run
ning lines through the desert
States, whether they own land or
not, should favor the repeal of
these laws, especially the Desert
Land Law and the commutation
clause of the Homestead Law,
which operate almost solely to
build up great cattle and sheep
estates and tend to retard home
making and put off settlement in
definitely What the Great
Northern and the Northern Pa
cific and the Burlington and the
Union Pacific and all the roads
desire above all things is settle
ment and population along their
lines. They want 160-acre farms,
not great cattle ranges with
twenty miles between shacks, for
the farms will bring them traffic
beyond the ranges ten to one.
Men from the Northwest say that
what has built up the Great
Northern to its present highly
prosperous condition has been the
rapid advance in settlement and
cultivation of the territory through
which the road runs. James J.
Hill, the great railroad man and
financier that he is, it is said
would rather than anything else
go and sit down with some old
farmer along his line and discuss
for an hour the best methods for
him and his neighbors to improve
their stock and breed it up and
improve their methods of cultiva
tion and introduce new and better
crops and get bigger yields per
acre.
The direction of attention to
the gain which will come to the
railroads through the supposed ad
vance of their lands if the federal
land laws are repealed is a clever
shift which has been put forward
as a reason why these laws should
not be repealed, and saves the
land grabbers the necessity of
meeting the issue squarely. Con
sidered carefully it is demagogy,
based upon the assumption that
because the railroads are urging
any legislation some people will
turn against that legislation, what
ever it may be.
As a matter of fact, how will
the repeal of the Insert Land
Act, for instance, e.^'ance the
value of the several million acres
of land owned by the various
railroads? That land is held
mostly at $1.25 per acre and the
railroads are glad to get that for
it, especially if they can get some
body to settle upon it. The de
lenders of the Desert Land Law
claim that in order to get title
from the government it requires
an expenditure of at least $4.25
per acre—a cash outlay of $1 per
acre per year for three years and
$1.25 additional payment to the
government. If there is any
railroad land desired for agricul
ture where land is being taken
up under the Desert Land Law,
would it not to-day be purchased
preferably at $1.25 from the rail
roads than at $4.25 per acre?
Much the same may be said of
the commutation clause of the
Homestead Law, which requires
a residence of fourteen months
and a payment of $1.25 per acre.
If there is any railroad land which
is competing with homestead land
that is being commuted, would it
not be purchased outright from
the railroads to-day at $1.25 per
acre rather than from the govern
ment at the same price when the
government also requires fourteen
months’ residence?
And always the real settler has
the privilege of going upon 160
acres of government land any
where and homesteading it and
living upon it and getting it for
absolutely nothing—free for his
residence upon it.
But even granting the claims of
Senator Hansbrough, of North
Dakota, where the commutation
clause has been freely utilized to
enable cattlemen to increase their
land holdings, and of Senator
Clark, of Wyoming, and Senator
Warren, of Wyoming, where the
Desert Land Act has resulted in
the acquirement of immense
landed estates into single owner
ship for the purpose of cattle and
sheep ranging, and of Senator
Dubois, of Idaho, where the com
mutation clause has been found
most useful to big timber syndi
cates in stealing great tracts of j
government forest land, and
various others—granting their
claim, for the sake of argument,
that the railroads will benefit their
property by the repeal of these
land-stealing laws, is that any
sufficient reason, as Congressman
Reeder, of Kansas, said in a
speech the other day, why they
should not be repealed? Is that a
reason worthy of statesmen why
the best of the remaining public
lands—lands which can later be
irrigated and made to support
families upon twenty and forty
acre tracts—should be practically
stolen from the government
through a set of land laws so loose
and so open to evasion that millions
of acres are going through them
every year without settlement
and without home building—laws
so miserably constructed and cap
able of abuse that since national
irrigation became a fixed policy
the public land disposals have in
creased annually by leaps and
bounds—increased from 8,453,
896.92 acres in 1898 to 9,182,413.16
in 1899, to 13,453,887.96 in 1900,
to 15,562,796.30 in 1901, to 19,488,
535.30 in 1602, to 22,824,299 acres
in 1903, and at the present rate of
increase will be fully 25,000,000
acres in 1904?
The railroads are openly in favor
of the repeal of these laws.
They are showing but common
sense and business wisdom in
urging such legislation and doing
everything they can to promote it,
for they desire to see their lines
built up and their freight traffic
increased by the shipment of
varied agricultural products, and
this can only be accomplished by
settlement and population and
farming and growing agricultural
diversification rather than live
stock ranging for the next fifty
years.
HU Note Grew.
A good joke is told on a gentle
man in a neighboring town who
had for some time been troubled
with pimples on his nose and con
cluded that it was time todo some
thing for it So he looked around
in the pantry and found a bottle
of liniment which he applied
twice a day to bis nose for several
days. In the meantime his nose
got no better, but instead began
to assume gigantic proportions.
At last he consulted his wife about
it and asked her advice. She
asked him what he had been doing
for it and be said he had been
using that liniment in the pantry.
‘‘What liniment,” she asked and
he got the bottle and showed her.
‘‘Well, of all the fools, you do
beat all,” screamed his wife.
“That ain’t liniment; that is a
bottle of bust developer that
Mary sent to St Louis for.”—
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