The Placer herald., 1870-10-22
A NEW LAND DISTRICT.

Land District in this portion Of the State, and
the thought we have given to the subject
since that time has still more deeply impress
ed us with the absolute necessity Of such
district, both for the interests of the Govern
ment and the welfare, convenience and econ
omy of pre-emption, homestead and mining
claimants and purchasers. The Govern
ment has now determined, and enacted the
necessary laws to carry that determination
into effect, to sell all the Lands in the mining
counties Of the State, and to sell them for
whatever they are most valuable for, whether
that be for mining or agricultural purposes.
This selling of quartz and surface or gravel
mines is adding five or ten times as much
business in the Land Offices as was formerly
required, and calls loudly and inperatively
for the creation Of new Land districts and the
appointment of more Land officers; and es-
pecially is this demand urgent in the noun
tain and mining sections of the State where
the public domain lies almost untouched and
where the laws and regulations of the Land
department are known and understood by
few. As stated in our former article the
new district should be composed of the coun-
ties af Nevada, Placer and Sierra, and that
portion of Ell Dorado lying north and west
of the South Fork of the American river
We name this territory because its lands,
wants, and the questions raised in the dis
position of the same are similar and entirely
distinct from those raised in the purely agri
| cultural districts, and for the further reason
that nearly every man in the District has to
pass through this county in going to the
present Land Office This adds a heavy and
unjust and unjustifable expense in time and
money to every one in this territory who has
business with the United States through her
Land offices. But of this we will speak
presently. In the proposed district there arc
fully $500, 900 acres of land, fully 2,0OO,-
600 of which is yet Government land and
now for sale. Considering the large amount
of this land that will be purchased as quartz
and placer mines in tracts Of from five to ten
acres each, it is a fair estimate to average
the entries and purchases of all classes of
land at about 40 acres. This would give
the officers of the district fully 80, 900 cases
to dispose of, and nearly every foot of this
land, it is safe to say, considering its value
for mining, grazing, agricultural and timber
purposes, must be disposed of under the va
rious acts of Congress within the next ten
years, which would make an average of some
fifteen cases day. 1t is to the interest of
the Government to dispose of this vast body
of land as fast as possible and get the money
for it and have it pass into the hands of those
who will improve and develop it and render
it valuable to the individual, the community,
and the Government. Now let us see what
will be saved to the purchasers by the es-
tablishment of a Land Office at Auburn.
Every purchaser must visit the Land office
twice before his final entry and payment is
completed, and take with him, on each trip,
an average of two witnesses. From any of
the territory named one additional day more
is required to 90 to Sacramento than to Au
burn at cost of So for his time, So for his
fare and 81 80 for his eating and lodging,
which makes SO so to each man, and reach
es the sum of $63 more on each entry made
at Sacramento than it would cost at Auburn.
Or, in other words, it will cost the purchasers
of the land in the proposed district the enor
nous sum of So, $50 900 more to make the
entries and proof in Sacramento than it would
in Auburn This vast sum should not be
forced out of any people BY any Government,
and especially where the Government itself
would be the gamer by the change. Every
line of communication from this district
reaches here at about o'clock A. NJ, and
departs about o'clock, P. NJ, the same day,
thus giving ample time to transact business
in the Land Office and return home in the
evening. In making these estimates and
stating these facts we have only the good of
the citizens of the district and those who are
| to become citizens, and the Government at
heart, knowing full well that the officers
must be Republicans. The Office of Regis
ter and Receiver will be highly remunera-
tive, and there is plenty of good and compe-'
tent material to choose from in the District
This is an urgent and important question to
the people of the district, and the above facts
and such Others as we cannot ennumerae in
the space of this article, should be made
known to the Land department, in the prop
er form, without delay.
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