The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-17

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demands intimate acquaintance with the
wants and requirements of the extreme
vest
CALL FOR MILLS.
MIR. Bartch, of Utah. said there was a
! gentleman IRON the coast who represented
aiarge corporation, and called upon MIR.
MINIS, OF California, 10 address the house.
MT Mills said that he was not there as a
! representative OF any corporation, but as
one OF the California delegation. True, the
great railways were interested more than
any others of our country. The filling up
OF this arid region meant more to the great
transportation lines. In considering the
question OF reclamation, he did so from the
standpoint of citizen, and as such. would
endeaFor to arrive at q Just conclusion
when all the evidence and argument was
In. He would take the liberty of asserting
that no one would feel deeper interest in
the question than the people OF his section
and no aggregation of men would do more
TO favor just measures than the transpor-
tation lines.
TRlMMERs OFFER.
Whereas, there are within the arid
regions 100000 DOC acres of public lands
which still remain the property of The
/ United States. and
Whereas, as far as the genius Of human
J foresight can determine, SOC 900, 000 acres
cannot be irrigated from any known or
visible water supply, and
! Whereas, These lands are in .se fornthe
| purpose OF stock grazing, but without any
definite legal tenure
Whereas, The absence of any definite
legal tenure entirely discourages individual
effort in the direction of ascertaining the
, suoterranean possibilities of said 100000
acres and in other ways retards the im :
| proyement of these lands, and
! whereas, the appropriations from time
TO time made by the general good for the
exploration for water are entirely made
quate to comprehensive investigation.
Resolved, That with the object in view
to establish and encourage vast system
OF exploration by private enterprise for
underground waters.
This meeting recommends Congress to
enact such legislation as shall give a
| definite tenure of these grazing lands on
long term leases in blocks not to exceed
5,Oe0 acres. And that a special feature of
such leases shall be an Improvement
clause obligating the tenant to search for
water under the ground and construct
tanks to save rainfall for stock water.
MR.. IRISH, OF CALIFORNIA.
Gentlemen OF the Committee:
| We are within a short time now of the
hour set by the fixed rule of the conven-
! lieving that the discussions of the day
have covered, and well covered, the entire
| range OF topics suggested for debate, |
desire to offer and for few moments dis
cuss, resolution which | believe will en-
body and express the sentiments which
have been listened to to-day by the mem
bers of this congress:
Resolved, That this convention is
/ in Tavor of granting in trust to
! nj oF
irrigation all lands now part of the public
domain within such states and terri
| tories, excepting mineral lands, for
the purpose of developing irrigation
to render lands now arid, fertile and
capable of supporting a population. Re-
solved that said grant of land should be
made by the United States so conditioned
that the states receiving the benefit shall
use the funds received from the sale of
such lands to invest in irrigation securities
| or the construction of irrigation works.
| Resolved that the trust so creaued shall be
| so conditioned to secure the ownership of
land to actual cultivators IL small holdings
not exceeding $50 acres, secured against
extortation in the use OF water rights.
Gentlemen, believing as L have listened
! carefully to-day and with pleasure every
moment to the discussion and to the ex-
preston OF opinion that these resolutions
when briefly explained embody the senti-
ment of the convention, it is my purpose TO
move that this committee at the close of
my remarks, rise and report these resolu-
tons to the convention as the sense of the
committee. Then they come before the
convention itself for its action. Now, we
have heard to-day all of the
DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF LANDS
yet part of the public domain within
these states and territories, discussed
We are dealing, gentlemen, in its essence,
not with new question. We are dealing
with question IN this convention as old
as the appearance of the Anglo-Saxon
race in the earliest American colony. We
are dealing with question of increase by
immigration of the population Of section
OF our country. Every nation that has a
civilization and a government that par
takes of its sentiment is to-day either in
one form or the other, dealing with pre-
cisely the same question that has called us
together, the question of population. Those
| that are overcrowded are Offering boun ties
to their people to migrate-to go to some
storage land, and those to whom the re-
ception OF these strange people is not
tasteful, are taking measures by legisla-
ton and by executive action to restrict
the coming of these strangers that are
| sent from abroad. In one form or other
every civilized people on earth is
dealing in its craftsmanship and its legis
lation with this same question of popula-
! ton, which is the essence of the issue that
1 has called us together. Now the resolu-
tons that have read embody the dealing
with the forest lands, with the grazing
lands and with the arid lands. Within the
scope of that first resolution there is room
for a policy agreeable TO the people con-
cerned, touching the final disposition and
devotion to human use of each of these
varieties of land. How best can we pur-
susde the Congress Of this republic to
GIVE Is THE OPPORTUNITY
for this separate and useful dealing with
these three varieties of land that make IN
the public domain within the states and
territories that we represent Shall we
ask IT as donation outright Shall we
! ask it as giftl Shall we ask between the
United States and these states and terri
tories the relation of doner aud donee with
out condition. In my own Judgment to pre-.
fer that request
WOULD BE UNwIsE,
because l do not believe that that the con
gress of the United States can ever be so
moved upon as to grant it. Then shall we
AJAX 1t as al alternatives. Shall we ask the
creation between the nation and those
! states and territories OF the relation of
truster and trusted For my own part land
| have given some study and what judg-
ment have TO consideration of our re-
lations to the federal government IS they
may affect this question: | believe that the
relation Of truster and trustee is that which
we should seek, under such conditions as
shall protect the rights of the individual
citizen. For l beg to say to you now, men
you are Aulericans-tnat unless now, at
the very beginning, and in the continuance
OF the forcing Of this issue upon public at
| tention, and in its final conclusion, at each
step and process of the work that we have
in hand, we havein view all the time the