Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-01-15
Urges That All Projects Now Under Way be
Completed and Recommends That
Bonds be Issued.

phosphate contained therein. This
may be best accomplished by separ-
ating the right to mine from the
title to the surface giving the ne
cessary use of so much of the
latter as may be required for the
extraction of the deposits The
surface might be disposed of as
agricultural land under the general
agricultural statute, while the coal
or other mineral would be disposed
of by lease on a royalty basis, with
provisions requiring certain
amount of development each year;
and in order to prevent the use
and cession of such lands with
others of similar character seems to
constitute a monopoly forbidden by
| law, the lease should contain suit-
able provision subjecting to for
| feiture the interests of persons par
ticipating in such monopoly. Sucn
law should apply to Alaska as well
as to the United States.
| 1t is exceedingly difficult to frame
a statute to retain government con-
troll over a property to be develop
ed by private capital in snch a
manner as to secure the govern
mental purpose and at the same
time not to frighten away invest
ment of the necessary capital.
Hence it may be necessary by laws
that are really only experimental,
to determine from their practical
operation what is the best method
of securing the result aimed at.
| The extent of the value of phos
phate is hardly realized and with
the need that there will be for it
as the years roll on and, the neces-
sity for fertilizing shall become
more acute, this will be a product
which will probably attract the
greed of monopolists.
With respect to the public land
which lies along the streams Of
fering opportunity to convert water
power into transmissable electricity
another important phase of the
power question is presented. There
are valuable power sites through
: all public land states. Opinion is
held that the transfer of sovereign
ty from federal government to ter.
ritorial governments as they be
dbme states, included water power
in rivers except that owned by
riparian proprietors. do not thinl
it necessary to go into a discus
! sion of this somewhat mooted ques
g tion Of law. It seems to me suf
5 ficient to say that the man wht
II owns and controls the land alor!
: the stream from which the powe
S is to be converted and transmitted
$ owns land which is indispensable
G to the conversion and use of tha
g power cannot conceive how
e the power in streams flowing
s through public lands can be mad
available at all except by usin
vt the land itself as the site for tn
l. construction of the plant by whic
g the power is generated and con
l. verted and securing right of wa
l. thereover for transmission lines
1t Under these conditions, if the gov
L ernment owns the adjacent land
te indeed, if the government is tn
le riparian owner-it may control tn
ID use of water power by impOsin
G. proper conditions on the dispos
to tion of land necessary in the cref
S tion and utilization Of water powe
a. Development in electrical appl
le ances for the conversion of wate
~ power into electricity to be tran
mitted long distances has progress
Is ed so far that it is no longe
e. problematical, but it is a certai
s. inference that in the future powt
al of water flowing in the streams
be . large extent will take the plaC
Sc OF natural fuels.
*. In the disposition of the doma
OF already granted, many water pow
al sites have come under. absoiu
h' ov nership and may drift into ol
DIS ownership, so that all the wat
'hi power under private ownersh
~ shall be monopoly. If, howeve
iic the water power sites now own'
by the government-and there a
of enough of them-shall be dispos
at
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