The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-10-27

been apportioned Together with
fifth organization comprising numer-
Gus small owners, they were asking
for a renewal of the lease The state
board withheld from the original acre
age leased, not only the 5000 acres
applied for as agricultural lands, but
they withheld a total of 20, 600 acres
for that purpose. which in view of
the fact that strenuous effort made
to secure applications fo' that pur-
pose had only resulted IN bringing
out requests for 5000 acres, was
deemed abundant to care for all ap-
plications for that purpose during the
/ term of the lease or during the three
/ years before the leased grazing lands
might be sold.
Why Leases Were Refused.
Some of the applications for ag
ricultural lands we're made for lands
in center of the great tract. These
were refused for the reason that ac-
ceptance of leases upon a few hund-
red acres i'm the center OF the tract
would make it impossible 70 lease the
balance of the land for grazing pur-
poses. Should one person. for ex-
ample, lease section 16 i'm township
and then apply the two mile limit
law, he would practical'J prohibit
sheep grazing in most of the entire
township. In this way tive or six
\
prive the state of the revenue of 100,-
900 acres, if their selections had been
made for that purpose.
Applicants for these lands for ag
ricultural purposes were required to
take lands adjacent to pat .nted land,
ON the outer edges of ,he states
holdings, or in compact bodies, so as
not to make worthless for grazing
purposes the balance OF the land.
Some few who wanted lands towards
the center of the entire body, were
doubtless disappointed, but aside from
this not a soul in Fremont county
jured one cent by this lease, while
on the contrary, one of the greatest
industries of that county has been
enabled to live and the county and
state has been made the richer there
by and the school fund has been Civ
, Ell more than twice the revenue from
this one transaction than il received
i'm total from the lease of state lands
a few years ago.
Every interest has been safe
guarded An arrangement was made
: whereby all small sheep owners were
to be admitted to the lands upon
q equal terms with the original lesseesi
h resident settlers, owning Il few head
l of horses, sheep or cattle, were to
= have their stock to graze free upon
: the land and am arrangement was
/ made whereby the lands can be sold
1 q. rapidly as the constitution Will
q Deim6 G. sales being MADE
S2ling as Rapidly ao PossibTs. I
The state is limited to the sale o.
4 % sections each year in the entire
s state Fremont county's share would
: = De dDOul LOW dCIcS PEI ed. .AS
! matter of fact. we have permitted
: that county to sell more than its just
proportion because there has been q
great demand there and rrices have
. We're Sc. q in that county Last veal
it was 1000 acres and year before
1000 acres. The land has risen from
$40 and $1l an acre the first veal
to $12 and $l5 the next and so oI
UP until mis- year it brought as high
$26 an acre As an Investment alone
: il has been worth thousands Of dol
lars to the state to hold the land,
: but in addition 10 that a splendit
revenue has been derNe1 ana the
: progress OF the state has not beer
retarded because the land has been
sold as rapidly as the constitution
will permit
IF ! had lit to do Owe again.
would do just as | have done anC
would recommend 10 the state lane
board to do just as it has done. As
. the years go by, ! would lease or sci
for agricultural purposes the land
around the outside of this great trac
leasing the balance to the sheepmel
until such time as the .gricultura
interests could supplant the grains
industry and then the sheepmen wil
have to retire. Amy other syeten
would at once run the sheepmen ou
of business, would depriy' the STATE
of revenue, and would not substitute
r, the agricultural or any other indus
T. try in place of it,
# THAT is what those who criticize
II what we have done would do if the.
f. should be enabled to carry into ef
e feet the policies they talk about witt
It out knowing the business they tall
n about well enough to know just wha