Arizona republican., 1909-04-16
4 PROTEST
 BY PARKER Against Operations of the ChuckaWa||a Company ALSO AGAINST CAREY AC1 And the Plans of Private Individuals to Undertake a Work So Stupendous That Only the Government Can Carry it Out.
ALSO AGAINST CAREY ACT
(By Tom ShultZ.)

! l. pondence of The Republican-Last i Sunday morning among the excursion i ists from Bouse was F. l.. Vandergrift, : travelling correspondent and managing 1 editor of The Earth" He was ac- companied by A. F. Taylor assistant freight and passenger agent of the s. F. r. X P. railroad.
 MT. Vandergrift spent the evening in securing data pertaining to this sec
 ton and met many of the principal business men of Parker. He spoke with considerable fervor in opposition to the Carey act, declaring that said act threw / down the bars. thereby permitting the opportunity for the wholesale theft of land. For the benefit of those who have not read the Carey law, its text Is hereby given:
 That to aid the public land states in the reclamation of the desert lands therein. and the settlement. cultivation and sale thereof in small tracts to act ual settlers, the secretary of the in terior. with the approval of the presi-
 
 powered. upon proper application of the state to contract and agree, from time to time with each of the states in which there may be situated lands as defined by the act entitled An act to provide for the sale of desert land in certain states and territories, approved March 3, 1887, and the act amendatory thereof. approved March 3. 1897, bind ' and patent to the state free of cost for survey or price such desert lands, not exceeding 1000 900 acres in each state. as the state may cause to be ir- rigated. reclaimed, occupied, and not less than 20 acres of each 16O acre tract cultivated by actual settlers. within ten years after the passage of this act, as thoroughly as is required of citizens who may enter under the said desert land law.
 Before the application of any state is allowed or any contract or agree ment of any of the land from the pub lie domain is ordered by the secretary of the interior, the state shall file a map of the said land proposed to be irrigated and shall exhibit a plan show ing the mode of contemplated irriga- ton. and which plan shall be sufficient to thoroughly irrigate and reclaim said land and prepare it to raise ordinary agricultural crops and shall also show the source of the water to be used for the irrigation and reclamation. and the secretary of the interior may make nee essary regulations for the reservation of the lands applied for by the states to date from the date of filing of the map and plan of irrigation. but such reservation shall be of no force what ever if such map and plan of irriga- ton shall not be approved. That any state, contracting under this section is hereby authorized to make all neces- sary contracts to cause the said lands to be reclaimed, and to induce their settlement and cultivation in accord ance with and subject to the provisions of this section; but the state shall not be authorized to lease any of the said lands or to use or dispose of the same in any way whatever. except to secure their reclamation, cultivation and set tlement.
 "'As fast as any state may furnish satisfactory proof according to such rules and regulations as may be pre- SCTlDeu DN lHt SttItldiN bl Aiit iiiAt- rior. that any of said lands are lrrl- gated, reclaimed and occupied by actual settlers, patent shall be issued to the state or assigns for said lands so re- claimed and settled. Provided, that said states shall not sell or dispose of more than 160 acres of said lands to any one person. and any surplus of money derived by any state from the sale of said lands in excess of the cost of their reclamation. shaii be held as a trust fund for and be applied to the reclamation of other desert lands in said state That to enable the secre- tary of the interior to examine any of the lands that may be selected under the provisions of this section. there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appro- priated, $1,OOO.'"
 The act was amended and approved February IS, 1909. as follows:
 <"Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assem- bled. that all the provisions of Sec. f. of the act of congress approved Aug ust IS, 1894, being chapter 301 to sup plement the Revised Statutes of the United States, entitled An Act making appropriations for sundry civil eX penses of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, and for oth CT purposes, and the amendments