Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-10-02

says that the State is urging the patent
ing OF the land. This we knew all the
time and that they had sent to Washing
ton at great expense to the State, the
Ex-Attorney General, now Assistant At
torney General, to try and secure the
patents, and were no doubt the ones who
were securing the assistance OF Congress-
man Smith, and now for their reasons.
You might judge it was all in the in
terest Of the poor settler on the tract and
the reasons why the patent would be a
benefit to the settler sound so plausible
to stranger, you might believe him.
The gist of it is that, the issuance OF
patent to the settler would enable him to
borrow money on his lands. Nonsense,
doesn't he know that the land is al
ready encumbered for water right for
Larger per cent of its actual value than
any loan company will loan. Most loan
companies fix their maximum at one
third OF the value, some one half, that
they will loan on land and this is
all encumbered for more than half value.
| told you Taylor was well informed as
to conditions down here. He very viv-
idly depicts the condition OF many brave
settlers on the tract who have spent their
all here waiting for the great state OF
Idaho to do its duty, enforce the Kuhns
to carry out their contract, which they
very tardily and only partially did when
they made their order last fall for Jack
son Lake storage. And so he wants the
patent that they may borrow money to
help carry them over and he knows full
well as you business men IN Chicago
know that not a dollar could be bor-
rowed and for two reasons. One is that
the land is already encountered, and the
other is that because OF the failure o
water in previous years the tract is dis
credited and money couldn't be borrowed
on the land ii it were clear.
"And that it might facilitate a trans
fer he says. And this he knows to-
well is not fact. That for the yer,
reason mentioned last above not foo
OF land can be sold, patent or no patent
that cuts no ice.
But if the state which this man Taylo
now represents in his official capacit
had properly protected the rights OF tn
settlers on these Carey Act projects, tn
tract would not now be so discrediteC
And then he would have you belle,
that the settlers here want the paten
issued We defy him to show that
one twentieth part of our settlers ev'
: requested it and Just as soon as we sha
have time to have them circulated, v
shall send to the Land Department al
, to the Secretary OF the Interior sign,
4 protests on the part of about the 9th
nineteen twentieths of the settlers-w
Il furnish you copy to convince you tn
y what we say is true.
Il "The patenting OF these lands is ;
q advantage to the State" he says, becau
il then makes them taxable. Taxabl
o My heavens, have you fellows back the
h in Chicago been paying your taxes? v
1t have for three years and these raw Ian
r, on this new tract have been assessed
l. high as highly improved lands in old
re- sections of the state. 1t is an outras
tc the tax that has been assessed up
ID these unpatented lands, but they ha
pt been assessed and have been paid. I
5 Supreme Court of our State has held II
ne they are taxable before patent, althou
III great many as good lawyers as
ne judges OF that distinguished tribunal,
not think that good law, but they
he not the ''last guessers.' This reason