Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-12-07
PROPOSED LAND LAWS.
Some Measures Intended to Aid People Of
tha Arid Raginn.

Clo ATlu h6glOD,
Senator Warren, of Wyoming, will in
troduce a number of important bills af-
fecting ~intermountain interests at once.
The one that he considers the most
important grants 5000 900 acres of land
to each of the arid land states. These
lands are to be rented or sold under
such regulations as may be prescribed
by the several state legislatures, and
the proceeds to be applied to reclama-
tions of arid lands in each state. This
bill is couched in almost the exact a
guage of the amendment to the river
and harbor bill for which Senator War
rem made such a long and stubborn fight
in the senate last spring. Among other
measures to be presented by him are a
bill to repay first payments made upon
desert lands by persons who are unable
to make final entry.
Still another bill to be presented by
Senator Warren provides 100, 900 acres
of land to each senator and representa-
tive in congress to the various western
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schools.
Representative Mondell of Montana
presented a large list of measures.
Among them We're: A bill provid-
tries OF have not perfected titles to
tracts entered as homesteads may avail
themselves of the homestead laws. He
says:
Those who have committed home
steads really have not had the benefit
of the homestead laws. The bill gives
them the right to make homestead en-
tries. Many persons have been able to
perfect title to lands entered under the
homestead laws on account of sickness,
failure of crops or other good reasons
This bill gives all SUCH. who have not
received a valuable consideration for
their former claims, the privilege to
make a second entry"
Another bill introduced reduces the
price to be paid for desert lands and al
lows those who have not perfected form
of entries under the desert land laws
and who have not parted with their
claims for a valuable consideration, to
make a second entry"
This bill provides for the reduction of
the price of lands reclaimed under the
desert land laws from s1.25 to 25 cents
an acre. Admitting, however, that 1t
might have been just to have charged
$1.25 an acre when there were numerous
tracts Of irrigable land lying adjacent
to swift running streams, and therefore
cheaply irrigated, the lands that may
be cheaply irrigated having practically
all been filed upon, every encourage
ment should be given to those who are
willing to undertake the irrigation Of
considerable outlay for their reclama-
ton. Many who have filed upon desert
lands in the past have been unable, by
reason of unforeseen difficulties in
building bitches or securing water sup
ply, to complete title to their lands. All
such who have not disposed of their
claims for a valuable consideration are
allowed to make a second entry by this
bill.
Another bill Is ito apply a portion of
the proceeds Of the public lands to the
endowment and support Of the mining
schools I'M the several states and terri
tories for the purpose of extending SIM
liar aid in the development of the min
ing industries of the nation already
provided for the agricultural and me-
chanical arts"