Bisbee daily review., 1913-10-11
PAVING THE WAY
 FUR LAND ENTRY
Dr. James Douglas Will Re view Before Mining Con- gress Problem Created by Roosevelt's Order

I C@N C N(aNACA
 l PHILADELPHIA, October S.--Mem- bers of the American Mining Con
 gress who have for years been fight
 ing the general policy of the Federal Government in tying up enormous
 areas of land in the West and Alaska
 and allowing it to remain in disuse,
 declare that that policy of inaction which has generally discouraged the
 West and driven thousands of farm,
 CTS and business men to Canada. is about to end.
 i Word has reached the Philadelphia offices of the Mining Congress to the
 effect that the United States Court Of ! Appeals at Denver, Colorado has
 asked the United States Supreme ' Court of Appeals at Denver, Cobra | do has asked the United States Su- preme Court for a ruling on the ques- tion of the right of a President Of , the United States to withdraw public
 lands from entry and in this the mem | hers of the Congress see the first i'm | portant step in an early solution of
 the big problem, The case in Denver | involves the ownership of about s0 | 900 acres of oil lands in Wyoming. | but the outcome it is believed, will
 have important bearing on litigation | in many states, involving in princi- { pie thousands of acres of land val ued at hundreds of millions of dollars. { The Mining Congress, which will i hold it's annual convention in Phila-
 delphia October 20 to 25. in connec-
 ton with the First National Mining
 Exposition October IT 10 25, had pre-. pared for it's usual discussion of the | public lands question before the news i was received from Denver. The pro I gram, however will be carried out l and Dr. James Douglas. of New York,
 recognized us the Dean of the mining i engineering profession of the United i States will review the entire prob | lem.
 The beneficient land policy founded ! by Lincoln was reversed in the year | 1906 by the executive withdrawal or der of President Roosevelt" said ] James F. CaIlbreath, Secretary of the American Mining congress today. 'sThe injustice to individual locators
 applied not only to Alaska but to ali ! the public coal oil and phosphate
 lands and water power sites Of the west. The result of these restricted l policies has effected every western | industry even resulting in decrease
 in the production of gold, which is more immune from this influence than any other industry.
 During the five year period ending ! in 1911 three hundred and fifty-five | thousand citizens of the United States ' emigrated to Canada-mostly farm i CTS, carrying with them property val. i ued Tn excess of S300,000,000, and ] this emigrat ton has continued at an i increasing rate. It seems evident
 that more liberal treatment should ! immediately be accorded to the pic neers who are developing or wish to develop our western resources. The i liberal land policy of the government up to the year 1904 was proved by ex. ] perience to be the best possible sys-
 tem for the development of virgin ter. 1 ritory.
 The policy, which in the early days ] of our country's history passed title ! to the lands of Ohio, Illinois, Califor- | nia, and other great areas to perma- nent settlers directly resulted in the
 magnificent development of the west l This policy is to pass into private
 ownership, at the earliest possi ble i moment, every acre of the public do- main. under such restrictions as
 would protect the rishts of other American citizens who might desire a | part of tine public heritage. The pug pose was to create a home-loving cit ! izenship, patriotic and prosperous. which in time of national peril would arise to the defense, not of boarding | houses, but of homes"