Arizona republican., 1913-07-17
LAND LEASES ID
 BE IN SHORTLY
Land Commission Sends Long Letter to Boards of Supervisors Asking for Prompt Cooperation in Matter of Permits

pliCatlOnS for permits 10 lease, rent
 and hold school, university, and pub
 lie land within the state, as pro
 vided by the recent enactments of the
 last Iegislatuere. Che time, however,
 between the getting out of the ap-
 plications for the permits and the
 mailing them to the various settlers
 upon the lands so specified, is short.
 Under the provisions of the law these applications for permits must be filed on or before August l, 1913. How ever, in view of the late date which the commission succeeded in getting all the necessary forms from the printer it is not considered likely that the land commission, which has sole control of the land situation in the state, will be very arbitrary in forcing any who have perchance not up to that time succeeded in getting their business in such shape as to permit them to make the application for the permits.
 In view of the shortness of the time between this date and the first of August long letter was yester- day sent out to every board of Su- pervisors in the state explaining the matter Because of the interest that is had in this state land question, and because of the thousands of renters that there are in the state on these state lands, the letter is printed in full The land commission, possession full list of ever yland lessee within the state, has. in order to expedite
 matters. mailed to every one of them copies of the applications for permits. These were sent out yesterday. | Board of Supervisors,
 Gentlemen:
 By the Act of the first state 1eGis- 1 lature approved May r, 1913, the law | relating to tine occupancy of school and l university lands was somewhat amend 1 ed and in it's amended form the au- 1 thOrizatiOn of the state land cOmmi5- 1 sion to grant permits for the occupancy of such lands, held under lease at the date of Arizona's admission to state 1 hood, was perpetuated. Inasmuch as the commission, as heretofore, is to
 work in conjunction with the boards of 1 supervisors Chat is, in the matter of fixing rentals), and must, in any event, 1 rely very largely upon the cooperation
 of the boards in the carrying out of the 1 law. we desire to acquaint you, if you are not already familiar, with the pro- 1 visions of the act under which, during 1 the next two years, such lands as were i held under territorial leases will con 1 tinue to be occupied
 1 The essential changes in the law are: CD The method of arriving at the | sentaI to be charged
 CD The requirement that applica- tiOns for permits must be made by Au- gust 1, 1913, under penalty of the school or university land occupants so fail ing being subject to action for trcss pass and forcible detainer.
 In the matter Of the rental to be 1 charged Subdivisions and c, section 1 D, you will observe that the same is 1 to be fixed, as heretofore, by the | boards of supervisors being subject to review and change however by the ! state land commission: and subject to | the conditions that the rental so fixed l shall not be less than one per cent of 1 the assessed valuation of the land per | year, and the assessed valuation shall
 not be less than $3 per acre for grazing 1 land, or S25 per acre for agricultural l land In other words. the rental to be 1 fixed, cannot be less than three cents per acre per year for grazing land, or twenty-five cents for agricultural land. It is the earnest desire of the com mission that it's views with regard to the rentals to be fixed on school and university lands in the various counties may be in complete harmony with the views of the boards in order that there may be no occasion for the commfs- sion to change the rentals fixed in ac- cordance with law, by the boards: and In view of the plain terms of the law | it is believed that there will be no oc- casiOn for misunderstanding or lack of harmony.
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 law, not less than $1920 per year can be charged for grazing sections. It is l the belief of the commission that inas- much as almost all of the counties of the state are now charging the mini mum of $20 per year for grazing sec tions, this amount-only eighty cents ] above the amount which is required by 1 law-should be fixed as the minimum 1 to be charged for grazing lands. This | rate should apply, in the opinion of the commission, on all grazing lands from | the poorest up to average. on which ! there is no water. For similar sections that is. poor to average grazing-on | which there is water, the rate should l be, according to the importance of the | water on the section, $25 to $40, and for | particularly fine sections, having both ! water and extra good grazing or wild | hay land, or other exceptionally ad-
 vantageOus features, a charge should 1 be made strictly in accordance with the l value of the section-always keeping in
 | mind, of course, that the land must
 l be assessed at it's full cash value what 1 ever that may be, and that the rental
 | cannot be less than one per cent of
 such valuation Tn the interest. there
 l fore both of justice. and of equity | among the various sections of the state,
 1 the commission requests that you ob-
 serve the schedule with relation to
 grazing lands, as closely as may be.
 1 Should there be exceptional instances
 1 which, in your judgment, render it nec-
 essary to depart therefrom. you will
 | kindly state the facts to the commits