The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-03
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tions by the difficulty in the success
full opening of new mines under legisla-
tion as it exists today. Competition has
been checked. The consumer is hay-
ing to pay, therefore, a greater price
than it would be reasonable to expect
he would have to pay If it were posi-
BILE to open new mines under legis-
lation which would encourage the de-
velopment of this resource.
Legislation, however, which would
not retain in the United States the
right OF supervision over the market
ing of the product, would be a mis-
take" he continues, ITO throw this
resource open so that the coal depos-
its would ultimately pass into the
hands of the monopolies and trusts
would be to render the condition worse
than they are at present. Congress,
therefore, should carefully guard the
enactment Of legislation, and see to it
that the requisite control is retained
in the United States, so that a COM
bination for the purposes of unjustly
through government supervision
The abolition of the positions of
register and receiver in the local land
offices and the creation or one posi-
tion in lieu of the two is recommends
ed. This course. he says. would re-
suit in considerable saving as we'll as
better administration. Under the pres
ent system both officers are RESPONSE
BILE for the work of the office.
The substitution of la bonded clerk
for the register and receiver is urged,
his proposed salary and the salary
now paid to receivers, would amount
in a saving to the government Of about
s150,000, according to the report.
The only reference i'm the report to
the Ballinger- Pinchot Investigation is
contained in the paragraph declaring
that the amount of work performed
during the past fiscal year was great
er than during the preceding one.
The total cash receipts from the
sales of public lands. including fees
and commissions on both original and
final entries for the fiscal year 1910,
were 3s.371,637, the report says. Mis-
cellaneous receipts were as follows:
From sales of Indian lands. $2,O37,551
ST70.5Se; depredations on public lands,
copies of records and Plats, s284,14S,
making the aggregate total Of cash
receipts of this bureau during the fis-
cal year 1910, S11,463,922 a decrease of
$752,491 from the fiscal year 1909.
The aggregate expenditures and es-
timated liabilities of the public land
service, including expenses Of diNtrict
land offices, were s3,1T9, 3G3, leaving
net surplus of $8,2s4.560.
The total area OF public and Indian
land originally entered during the fls-
cal year 1910 Is according to the report
26,391,269 acres, an increase Of 6.49S-
765 acres. as compared with the area
entered during the year 1909 This
large increase is due to the great num-
Der of entries made IN the northwest,
principally in the state Of Montana,
where, at one Office. Great Falls, there
was approximately as much land en-
namely, 1904, SOC acres, as there was
in the whole state Of Montana during
the fiscal year 1909.
The area patented during the fiscal
year, the report says. Is I0,aS3.I50
acres. q decrease OF 1s2s,e61 acres. as
compared with the fiscal year 1909.
The number VI patents issued during
the FISCAL year 1910, however, exceed.
ed that Of 1909 By 2.163. or this area,
7.404,B98 acres were patented under the
homestead law.
Urging a change in the place of
taking proofs from before the regis
ter and receiver or United States COM