Arizona republican., 1912-09-28
Committed From School Land Settlers Meets With State Commission and Talks Over Present Diff ficulty
PERFECTLY FRANK
 CORDIALLY FRIENDLY
1t Afternoon Talk in Which Commission Assures Com mittee of Desire to Assist; Will Offer Modified Alp plicatiOn Today

plication Today
 At a cordially frank and perfectly friendly meeting held between the committee appointed some time since by the school land lessees association and the state land commission, yester day afternoon at the state house in the office of the land commission, the sup posed grievances of the school land lessees with the present policy of the land c.omrission were gone over and quietly and reasonably discussed. From the time the two committees got together until the time of the adjourn ment of the session, some two and half hours it was plainly seen that both sides were at the meeting in spirit of fairness and with no other disposition than to arrive at perfect Chairman Mulford Winsor of the land commission together with com missioner W A Moody, represented that side while the committee of the lessees was composed of John R. Brad shaw. Henry Mitchell. Messrs Lissen- by of Mesa, Young and Dwight B.
 
 ter of two hours.
 The committee took up in detail the objections to the present form of the | application for permit to stay on the 1 school lands of the state and stated | the objections the farmer and settlers | had to that document The statements were listened to by the commissioner after which Chairman Winsor again ! went over them in detail and after stating that the commission had abso- 1 ute1v no intention whatever to subject l the settlers and farmers to any hard l ships. He therefore proposed that | the commission submit at meeting ! ot be held this morning in the water 1 users building of a modified form or ] application which would mitigate the l unpleasant portions of the present | form.
 This was agreed to and the meet l ing this morning will take place about 10 o'clock with delegate rom each | school section present to confer with 1 the committee and the commission Assistant Attorney General Carpet 1 fer was present at the meeting yester- dav and lent his legal knowledge and dinlomatic ability to assist in straight | enfng out the misunderstanding. OW- inc to the fact that Judge Carpenter l ie 2 state officer it was impossible for him to accept a retainer to represent anv one at varinnce with the state, but as soon as he returned and was con 1 suited about the matter he imm edlate- | ly consented to be present at the meet ing and do all in his power to arrive
 a+ a clear understanding of the law,
 and +o remove the difficulties that were
 in the minds of the farmers and sett-
 lers in the valley.
 When the whole thing had been
 thoroughlv discussed it was found that
 neither of the two sides were very far 1 apart on the construction that IS to De
 placed upon the law, and that only a
 very slight difference existed as to the
 opinion as to how the law should De
 administered, and it Is thouht that | with the submission this morning oi
 the modified form of application even
 the slight difference will be dlsslpated and that all will settle down to work out the final solution of the state lano | problem with the best interests or the | entire state at heart, and with no dls- | nosition on the part of either side to
 do anything that will cause the other
 side to feel badly about the situation
 At the present time the school lands in Maricopa county as in other DOT | lions of the state are in exactly the
 same status as they were prior to the ) coming of statehood. The settlers are
 mon thet land. and are remaining
 there many of them by permission ob- |
 permission obtained before from the
 county boards of supervisors. mere arc etiu others who have noI yet sign ed the applications but signed apph- II cations are continually being recelNe' l at the land commission office Whlch II
 the minds of those interested seems } to indicate that all the settlers ah' farmers will have their application oI file before the lapse of many moons. t Tn the meantime the commission Il going ahead in other portions of tn
 state and appraising the value of tn l inonroveuents on school lands, no ? having yet made any appralsals In tn Salt River valley, all of which the, e are commanded to do in the languag f of the statutes passed at the receh l legislature.
 ! However the outcome of the meetin 0 yesterday was that all agreed to Worl more heartily for a bigger, better ATT
 zona. to do all that could be done elth n CT as individuals or officials to increas | the influx of population to the state : to make the farming communities bet n ter, and the communities wealthier be
 1 cause of their efforts