Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-12-24
Bill for Exchange OF
Petrifieti Forest Lands

DetIilfttt IOftNt .
CONGRESSMAN Bartholdt Of Missouri
has introduced q bill III the nouse
nrovidine for the exchange OF lands
ownd By individuals or corporations
iftat in the petrified forest reserve
in Arizona for other lands, II text
of the measure iollows'
..rhat all lands owned BY any in
dividual or corporation WITHIN the
limits of the petrified forest reserve
in ARIZONA. as such limits are de-
scribed in the proclamation OF the
president OF December 8, 1906, set
ting apart the same az a
may be relinuuished 70 The United
| states upon the following condltlohs'
+That upon the execution ana ~.
ing with the secretary OF the interior
department by the owner of n land
! embraced within these limits Of q
proper Iced conveying TO the United
| states the lands owned by such m
| diVidliaI or corporation within the
! petrifled forest reserve is authorized
ia select an equal quantity OF any
| surveyed non-mineral public land anu
~ witch no adverse right or claim
shall have attached or have been
initiated at the time al the making OF
such selection.
..That upon the filing in the local
I land Office OF Any ldIh NA'R'Nf
list of the lands situate in such iahd
district selected by said individuai or
corporation under authority o. TINS
ar and tho payment OF the Zee pre-
scrihed bN law in analogous cases,
and the approval BY the secretary ~
the interior of such list. the s~eeretArF
of the interior shall cause 10 pc eA.,,,
euted in due form of law ana shaii
deliver TO said individual or corpora
tion n patent OF the United states
conveying TO said indiNidual or cor
noratiou the lands so seiecteu- -
case any tract of land 80 selecteu
shall at the time OF ~selecuoh .e w
surveved. the list filed by SAID lnui,
vidual or corporation at the local land
office shall describe such tract II
such manner as to designate the same
with q reasonable degree OF certainty
and within the period OF three nlohtn'
after the land included IN shlu tin'1
shall have been surveyed anu "
MAJ thereof filed In the said loca
land office q new selection list shai
be filed by said individual or cprp2'
ration describing such tract acc'iiu,,
ing to such survey, and IN case SUI
tract as originally selected anu oe'
ssrihed in The list filed in the loca
land office shall not precisely cot'
Corn, with the lines Of the olIlcia
survey the said individual or corpora
lion shall be permitted 70 deserlp'
snch tract anew Sc as to secure suFi
conformity"
senator Penrose Of Pe%nnsylvanif
has offered an amendment IN IN
senate which proposes to amend IN
indian appropriation bill when pro
vides for the construction OF W.
bridges i'm New Mexico.
His amendment asks Tor Soo,Vp'
for The construction Of two brldesi
across the Rio Grande, one NJ or heh
the indian pueblo of lsleta' ana IN
other at or near the indian puepio .
san Felipe.
The postoffice at silver CltN' \. N
win have a new site after teptuhl
Isl. The postoffice department IA
ordered that tho office be moNeu :
! mo east side Of Billiard street 20
tween Yankie and Market streets.
Grande postotfice. Union eonil.l
\ NJ. will be discontinued on JAM
airy "a. After that date m"'' TO he
Moines.