Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-24

| paieu only Dy Y. i. HOOD Co., Lowell, Mass.
board Of horticulture has expanded and
| grown until today 1t costs four times as
much TO handle as under the Steuncn
| Dcrg administration. The department
OF the state board OF health has been
brought into existence Six thousand dol
lars was appropriated for the statue OF
the late ex-senator Shoup In Statuarv
hall In Washington, d. G.. The ofii,-
| or code commissioner was created by
| the last Legislature. to codify the laws
and an appropriation was made to
cover the expenses of this work and the
printing Of the codes Of $4,000. The
| duties OF state examiner have been add
cd to those of state insurance commits
sioner, doubling the expense OF con
ducting that office.
| THE State Historical society has
| been created, and an appropriation of
$500 was made at the ninth session of
the legislature to pay the expense OF
! years just closing. The commission
| appointed by me. selected as the his
torian and custodian of the society rel
les. Hon. John Haley, one Of the DEM
ocratlc warehouses; OF Idaho. This APP
pointment was With my hearty APP
provai. l felt that Nh. HALEY was
| especially fitted for this work. He is
one of Idnho's rugged pioneers, one of
| the men to blaze the trail for civili-
| zauon In Idaho, and made 1t possible
for those coming in later years to live
in peace, prosperity and happiness.
WORK. MUST CONTINUE.
IF Idaho is to keep pace with the
marvellous development taking place
| In the Pacific northwest, we must not
| begin by Gripping our state institu-
tons. We have only made a beginning
In the upbuilding of our educationa.
| institutions.
idaho must not overlook paying spe-
cial attention to the old soldiers who
at the time of trial offered their lives
that the nation might be preserved. l
hope Mr.. Alexander will not practise
his economy on the Soldiers Home.
During my administration we have
erected a hospital and employed Il
trained nurse to care for them. l do
not believe the people Of Idaho be-
grudge the little appropriated to make
these old soldiers comfortable in their
declining years.
EARNINGS INCREASED.
1--WE have increased the treasurer
salary from $1,000 TO $4,000 year, but
at the same time we passed a state
depository law and that law has
earned, since it ws enacted, for the
people, $4,000. We have also passed
a county depository law that has earned
much in every county in the state for
the, people.
l,.c record of every department of
state now shows tnat there is pr;lctlc-
ally four times as much business tranE-
acted through these institutions as
there was eight years ago. 1t Is ridic-
ulous to compare conditions In Idaho
with those. of eight years ago. Thank
God, we are growing and will continue
Tl,Y,, nor will
self self ''0 : - ''''D
~ wish to call your attention to the
state land department. Possibly Nh
Alexander, if elected, will find an on
portnnity to economize in administering
the affairs of the land department, hut
il he does, the state will pay the pen
atty of his niggardly policy.
FORESTS WITHOUT TREES.
I'm the gift OF lands tosthe state BY
the general government there was one
exception made, and that was in regard
TO lands given for the building of the
state capitol. Congress provided that
all the money derived from the sale of
this grant of s., 900 acres might be used
for the erection OF a capitol building.
When the legislature passed an act for
the building of a capitol at Boise II
became the duty of the state land board
hasten the construction of the new
building. Expert timber men were
sent out to estimate the timber on
lands selected in this grant and com
petent men were put at work inVeSti.s
eating and appraising the agricultural!
lands. The report of these employees
shows frightful condition. 1t was found
that more than 1900 acres Of the 81,
900 acres selected We're absolutely
worthless. Some of lands selected
and called timber land, did not have
a pine tree big enough for a saWlos
on a whole section. Either the land
or the timber on the land. to the
amount of 1850 acres, has been sold
out of this grant for the capitol build
ing.
"There is not another acre Of this
grant that can be sold for the mini
mum price OF $40 provided by the con-
stitution Contracts have been let for
all the available money received from
the proceeds of these sales, and The
splendid capitol building now in course
of construction, will have to stop at the
third story, and either stand there as
monument to false economy or GRIM
inal carelessness. or the people must
continue work by direct tax. This
condition is not only true OF the lands
selected for the capitol building, but
| runs through the whole list of the
grants selected.
IT have called into existence SINCE i
have been governor. the fire assocla-
ton of North Idaho. The state can
now boast OF the best organization for
the protection of its timberof any
state In the Union.
| s. governor of Idaho and chairman
of the state land board l have. given
that institution my best thought and
effort to build it UP and make it what
1t should be- Every department OF this
institution has been leorganized.
CITIZENS BENEFITED.
at must be admitted by al fair mind
ed citizens that the best agricultural
lands in Idaho had long since passed
into the hands of the citizens of tie
state. The receipts of the land office
speak volumes for the management oil
that department Prior to January
/. 1905. during the first "a years OF
statehood the total cash receipts of the
land department We're s1,40i, l52. The
receipts during the three years and
eight months of my administration, TO
SEPT. !, 1906, were s3,440,525. The total
earnings of the land department prior
to January / ! 1905, during II years were
| s477,636. The earnings during my nd-
ministration during three years and
eight months to September l, 1906, We're
| 1925, 4lb.
"Ip the protection of our timber from
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