Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-10-10

establishment when the one who
had never been in the State Land
Office unfolded the peculiar meth
DDS in force at the Carson Y. >.
Land office. There have been
seven lard districts in Nevada
and not one, except the Carson Of
flee, have received or thought OF
receiving more than their legal
fees. The assertion by the Editor
that a balance of S1742 40 in selec-
ton fees alone remains unac-
counted for, is an absurdity. and
the averages made would have
been more amusing had they
been brought te weeks, hours and
minutes, There is not a do lar
unaccounted for, only it is not
placed where it could never be
/ seen again.
The law requires the State Land
Register to take prompt meas
ures at the United States Land Of
flee, to select for the State, etc"
! The idea is intended to be con-
veyed that the State Land Office,
! upon the receipt of nonmineral
affidavit, should immediately
/ seize the document, rush to
Messrs. Gallup and Clarke, and
throw down the fees, whether 1t
be for 40 acres or a number OF 40
acres anything so long as the L.
S. gathers them in and the selec-
ton is completed. How much
land would the State get on
on-mineral affidavit? How
much could an applicant get in
the State Land Office with an ath-
davit alone? Nothing in either
ease. In the L. S. Land office,
list made in quadruplieate and
signed by the State selecting
agent, must be presented and filed
before the selection is complete.
Ever since the State Land Office
has been in existence these lists
have been made monthly, the last
day Of the month or the first day
of the succeeding month, and
thus far in the history of this Of
flee, it was never contemplated
that a quadruplicate list should
be made dozen times a day if
occasion sometimes required as is
intimated in the paragraph re
| ferred to.
The extreme solicitude express
! es for the States applicants is Of
very recent date, since the consol-
idation of the land offices in fact,
and may be answered by their
own words, to-wit: These Off
, GERS, meaning the Register and
Receiver Of the L. S. Land Office,
have from time TO time complain
ed that the state selections were
not being made as the law re-
quired, and that they in conse-
quence We're not getting all of the
fees to which they We're entitled. 3"
Why on earth do they certify on
their receipts that the State has
paid the legal fees thereon, if they
, do not get all to which they are
entitled? Further than that, they
are so interested in the States ap-
plicants as to cloud the entire Sc
lections offered on the lists Of
June and July of this year, one
for 4049 acres, the other for 1852
acres, by subje citing he same to
preferred rights, when there are
but 1900 &C ;es on the former and
919 acres on the latter that pre-
ferred rights can reach.
| Quoting again from the edito-
rial: about May 25th, 1891, the
Surveyor General through his
deputy, in order to est ;blish annie
able relations between the two
land offices, proposed to compro-
mise the matter by dividing these
surplus fees with them, this offer
was not accepted" Any Unpreju-
diced person can see readily the
reason of this offer. The land
districts had been consolidated
and should all fees be collected be
paid to the Carson office, the fund
would soon dwindle and nothing
be left to return to applicants who
would get neither land nor
money. 1t is humiliating to con-
fess that the State is entirely at
the mercy OF the whims aud Ca
prices of the Federal officials in
the L. S. Land Office, and whose
rulings of today may be changed
Tomorrow No they did not ac-
cept the compromise and would
take the who'e or nothing.
As before stated, tie quadruple