The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-11-25
Infamous Deal Now On|

the smoke the battle cleared than the Brady land board IS up to its
neck another andaous preceding t now carrying out the
$4,000 timber land Iaa
and thus to set at naht the contract M that COMPANY With the
the time the timber sold the company According
that the Potac company had which
move the timber This limit of time will expire in 1929 having
twelve years in which But the company
timber in that time without greatly increasing plants and perhaps
in the territory affected This latter would certainly
it not for the fact that the lumber trust would otherwise cuta the
output.
1t has been the settled policy Of all previous administrations in
Idaho to limit the sale Of state lands rs sections year pre-
scred in the state constitution and to sell only the timber on tim
bed lands the land itself reveng after twenty years the
But Judge Fremont Wood decided that the constitutional limit of
quantity referred only to the original school lands
segregated by the national government and consisting sections
and SO each township With this loophoe work through
Poth company and the Brady land board got busy with the result
that the company already feeling itself the Of the $4,000
question The for speeis that administration
is coming into power and session of the legislature IS shortly to
that will doubtless pass law that will the technical
point discovered by lodge Wood and firmly establish the precedent
sacred by former administrations in safeguarding the sale of
the lands.
plain every citizen there will
pany for who would purchase lands upon which lumber company
has lease for twelve years which the timber
The Potatch company can therefore be the only bidder and Mr.
umson the manager considers the and regards
Of SUNDAY last and which we reprint The Statesman as faith
full ally OF the Brady board the along
and makes the startling admission that the deal had been settled
prior the election but held pending that unpeaantne
Here is the Statesman's article in full
visited Boise Saturday in connection with matters coming before the
land board concerning the sale Of $4,000 Of timber land
in Iata County proceeds which are to go
The land board closed the months ago. but the
has been held up pending final settlement
Ben Bush the agent appraised the land
age $40 the allowed by the law but portions OF
the land appraised high $15 places
company answer to resistance Offered against the sale
little of could ever be used for agricultural purposes
Nor READY Cur.
"1he Potlatcl Lumber company bought eight
ago under the usual contract giving 20 years which the tim
Der should But the company
cut all OF this timber within the next IL willing pay
nominal price for the land order to be able hold for the
timber until it ready to cut the timber.
The will receive the very lowest $4,000 for this land
and the school fund will profit thereby is probable that the
will get lot more than that sum- on account OF the fact that Of
appraised $40 $5 per said
lots OF this land just mountainous could never be susceptible to c
tivaion and its intrinsic value not $40
THE board has turned the matter the charge OF Land
Commissioner George Day.
1t is unnecessary 10 state that while the deal may have been made
Statesman still the land board proceeding
with the letter of the law the land has been appraised and
will be advertised and sold in of forty the highest bid
der but the that there be competitive bidding
der the circumstances would be in position compete
with company holding the lease thus tying up the land with no
period of twelve years From another it stated that the
company will allow the land Immediately the
but this would only be minor detail of but little Importance
1t will be noticed that the Statesman that much OF the
and and comparatively worthless This statement
from the Potatch company but The Citizen weeks
nce published article from north Idaho exchange which claims
great deal Of the land similar to that aah county which after
he timber S off brings fifty dollars
There objections the sale that of grave Importance
decidedly against public policy for corporation or ndd
that Of landlord and tenant the most Objectionable
which land may be places the prosperity of large section
ates the existing contract between the company and the state
regards the time limit in which the timber be removed and in
ong this the settled policy Of the state overhrown and the whole
transaction shady and opposed to public policy by reason OF the tact
hat the Poatch company such favored bidder that openly
nd brazeny claims the land practically already purchased
Surely there way Of preventing this infamous deal from
eng consumated
The Citizen will shortly marguerite subscription campaign