Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-29
STATE LAND OFFICE.
WHAT sURvEYoR-GEEERAL REICH
ERTs REPORT SHOWS.
Satisfactory Operation of the New School
Land Law-Heavy Receipts of
Office Fees.

State Surveyor-General Reichert's bien-
NAL report has been published It shows
that during the last two fiscal years &c.,.
sos was collected in fees and paid into the
State Treasury. Referring to delinquent
interest on State lands, the report states
that suits in foreclosure, instituted because
of the non. payment Of the annual interest
due on State lands. are extremely expensive
legal proceedings, and long experience has
demonstrated that such suits invariably
result in loss rather than benefit to the
interest of the State. If the lands are of
value, the delinquent interest is always
paid, even though it often amounts 10 as
much as the principal. On tie other
hand, when the lands revert to the State
they are found TO be of no value whatever
and the State suffers the loss of the expense
of the suit in foreclosure.
General Reichert recommends tbat some
action be taken by the next Legislature
amending the present law relative 10 This
matter and making different provision for
the payment of the costs in foreclosure
cults, as the present lGw is unsatisfactory
to the State departments having to do with
the matter and TO parties in interest who
do the Work, without knowing whether or
not their bills will ever be paid This is
an important matter, he says, and should
receive careful attention from the Legis.
lature.
NATIONAL PARKS IN CALIFORNIA.
By recent Acts of Congress IS SQUARE
miles, or nearly $4,000 acres of land in
Tulare county were Withdrawn from sell
Element, occupancy, or sale under the laws
OF the United States and dedicated and set
apart as public park or pleasure ground
for the benefit and enjoyment of the peo-
pie.
Also, tract of land comprising ~ town.
ships, covering an area Of about SEQ
square miles, being approximately $50 900
acres, situated in Tuolumne, Mariposa and
Mono counties, was set apart IS a public
park to be called The Yosemite National
Park"
Some action should be taken by the Leg
islature relative to the State lands EN-.
braced in these reservations.
Owing to the complicated condition of
the 5O0,0O0-acre grant, General Reichert
found ii necessary to so to Washington, d.
O., and lay the matter of the States claim
before the Department of the Interior, in
order to secure an adjustment between the
State and the United States. He succeeded
IN securing the listing to the S;s!e of
56l2 73 100 acres CT land In said grant,
thus enabling many parties to obtain pat
ents from the State for their lands, which.
in some cases, had been paid for in full
years ago, but for which patents could not
issue, as the land had not been certified to
the State.
The expense Of the trip, paid by the
State (s420 50) was fully COMPENSATED to
the State by the settlement of these claims.
The adjustment practically closes the
grant, there being only few claims which
have not as yet reached final determine.
ton.
STATE SCHOOL LANDS.
Reference is made to the Act of March
20, 1889, which provides that: ANY mum.
Der OF filings on any section of land is here.
by permitted and allowed under the pro-
visions of this Act. Should the first fling
be abandoned by the applicant, the next
filing on such section in order, shall have
the same right as if it had been the first
filing" On this subject the Surveyor. Cen
eral says:
In my opinion it has resulted in much
good to the State. No person who desires
to enter school lands for their own nse and
benefit objects to making the required de-
POSit vi p-O, W ulCu Cdu 6llSlxd De &O-
piled as part payment on the land, and the
result of the law has been to deter specu-
lstors from tying up large number of
sections for the small sum OF $40 per year.
simply holding same for speculation, and
thus prevent legitimate purchasers, and in
many cases actual settlers, from entering
the lands without first purchasing the
abandonment of such speculator and in
many cases agents hsve compelled home
seekers to pay them large bonus for an
invalid claim rather than be put to the
annoyance and expense of a suit at law.
In word, consider it "a good law and its
practical workings beneficial TO the State
and bona fide purchasers of school lands"
STATE BOUNDARY LINE.
Considerable space is given to the Act of
the Legislature requiring resurvey of the
Nevada boundary line and the reports of
the engineers who did the work. The
total expense of making this survey and
all work connected Herewith was 81 $40 80,
for all of which vouchers have been filed
and all claims maid