Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-21

"SEc. /. Ben ordained By the General As
senbly of the State of Dessert, That the exclu-
sive control of the timber in the kanyons on the
east side of the range OF mountains west OF
Joadan, in Great Salt Lake County is hereby
granted to George A. Smith, who IL hereby au-
thorized to control the timber in said kanyons,
to work roads into theH, and to direct oAen,
aeAere and By ,chom timber may be taken out
therefrom
SEC. 3. No person shall be allowed 10 cut
timber in any place in these kanyons' without
permission iron, the proprietor, who is hereby
authorized "
Lest these special grants should not cover
all the valuable timber lands. ! will extract
another law, which places all timber " un-
der the control of the County Court lsee Ter
ritorial Laws, page 1911
SIS SIC. 3 The County Court has the control
of all timba; water privilege. or any water
course Or creek to grant mill sites, and exer-
else such powers as in their Judgment shall best
preserve the timber, and subseWe the interest
of the settlements in the distribution OF water
for irrigation or other purposes. All grants or
rights held under Legislative authority, shall
not be interferred with"
To strip and waste the timber on land is to
destroy its value; especially in Utah, where
timber is not plentiful. Even contingent
propretors have the right by law to prevent
such waste. But here are "proprietors set
up by Utah against the world, when Utah is
as much without title as was Satan when be
made some rather extrayegant profers to our
Savior. Besides, spoliation Of timber is an
ofense against our own public laws for which
the trespassers are liable to prosecution
While we are prompt enough to suppress
these dcpredations in Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota, why should they not hunt up
the offenders in Utah, and report them for
such action as the public interest requires?
BY the adroit course pursued by the Nor
mon people of Utah, it does not appear, as late
as the Both of Juue, 1855, that any of the pub.
lie lands of the United States located in Utah
have been disposed of. There are l20,270,-
100 acres of land in Utah. The amount
given to schools and the University is $751;.
707 acres. The amount of what is termed
vacant public lands is l3,5S9,0l3 acres; SO
that it does not appear, although 22O,377
acres have been surveyed, that single acre
has been sold in Utah. or that the United
States has derived one dollar of income there.
from. Under this sharp practice of Utah.
the public lands of that Territory are, and
will forever remain, utterly worthless for all
purposes of revenue to the Government Of
the United States.
President Young is reputed to be a good
inancier and it is quite evident that he is
wide awake to the temporal interests of the
prophet. 1t is the policy Of the Mormons to
teach their followers to value property only
as it advances the interests of their church
and its prophet, apostles high-priests, and
elders The prophet Joseph had revelation
that he must work. He then had another
that the faithful must build him house. All
this, and much more, was implicitly obeyed
But the prophet Brigham does not trust him
self altogether to the fulflment of any such
seemingly precarious prophetic revelations
New Corners must surrender at once tenth
of all they possess; and he cannot be cheat.
ed, neither, he says, in old spawned horses
and they must actually 1.-THE themselves or g
to hell at last. Tithing is the sharp point o
their sermons, and the burden of their songs
From The Nevs of April IS, 1856, ex
tract verse, sung at meeting of the thirty
seventh quorum, containing more truth, per
hans, than poetry