Arizona citizen., 1874-08-29
PUBLIC SURVEYS IN ARIZONA.

O6puLy surveyor U. D. pOSLGF VIII COU- tinue line from the surveys in Verde valley to the valley of the Little Colorado, and there execute work so as to best ac- commodate actual settlers. He will also probably survey a township or two be- tween Prescott and Verde upon which people live who are desirous of secur ing government titles.
 Deputy surveyor Theo. F. White will | execute some work about Cienega Station and to the south of it. This work is ex- pected to cover Davidson's Springs at the entrance to Crittenden Canyon and also reach southward ever the ranches of the Sanford Brothers. A line will be carried from the surveys in San Pedro valley to Pueblo Viejo valley above old Camp Goodwin, and work be done there to ac- commodate the settlers.
 To enable the settlers to secure timber land,. there should each year be some of it surveyed adjacent to or nearest the settle ments and immediately offered for sale. III Alo uAAudA ACpOA AOi 4OdO, IAO SuA fOJOI General of this Territory said:
 There is large area of timber in the aggregate in this district, and but trifing part of it is surveyed and available for pre-emption or purchase, hence it is being cut off by settlers and lumbermen, to a manifest loss to the governments; and it is but just to say that at least all parties who to any considerable extent thus strip this class of land of its chief value, with out title from or compensation to the United States, would greatly prefer to le- gally acquire title to it, in advance of oc- cupation for any purpose.
 Settlers must and will have timber, and sound public policy, whether viewed in the light of economy to the government or placing it within the power of settlers to properly acquire what necessity de- mands for them, seems to require that the lines of public surveys be extended over the timber tracts at the earliest practicable time.
 In his report for 1873, this paragraph appears;
 l renew my former recommendation regarding the survey and sale of timber lands, and that not less than $l0,000 ought to be annually expended iH sur veying that class of land. The best in- terestS of government and permanent welfare Of the Territory could be promot- ed by the earliest possible survey and sale of all timber lands. The principles underlying the homestead and pre-emp- ton laws are not practically applicable to the mountain timber lands, and none other of considerable value exist in Ari- zona. The timber of value, and which ;c ho; . CG men who would cheerfully buy the land if they had the privilege, lies in rocky and precipitous mountains, totally unfit for permanent homes for settlers, and never will or can be so occupied by them. In addition to timber they may prove valua ble for mining, but never for agriculture; hence my unreserved recommendation is for early survey and sale to any and all who care to purchase.
 His annual report for 1874 has this reference to the same subject:
 The timber lands ot the great interior of the United States are comparatively limited, and are yearly becoming of more importance. That they should be so disposed of as to best promote the public interest, none will deny and what eyer is most advantageous to the generali ty ofprivate interests, can but tend to this end. In my reports for 1873 and 1875, I urged an appropriation of at least SIC, 1000, annually, for the survey of timber lands to be at once placed in open market, and gave what I regarded unanswerable req sons therefor.
 Every man who cuts timber on or takes it from pubic land, commits legal of fence against the United States, and very many have been prosecuted and subject ed to much trouble and expense for such action. Ia California, Oregon and Wash ington Territory, much timber land is capable of being settled upon and homes made of by citizens, and much of it is not. In Idaho, Utah, Arizona and other Terri tories, very little timber land can be oc- cupied by permanent settlers.
 The settler cannot make home with out timber, and government has provided no way by which he can lawfully get it. In California, about Los Angeles, set tiers are now being prosecuted for taking timber from public land which is not surveyed or if done, not available for pur chase except by settlers actually on the timber laRdr-which land, save in small tracts, H [eallX uninhabitable except