Arizona republican., 1914-04-16
LAND
 OFFICE SPLIT
Board of Trade Points Out Some Reasons Why Leg islators and Others Have Deceived Tn em civ c s About Incomes

The Phoenix board of trade will add its protest 10 that Of the land office officials at the proposed divi- sion of the United States land office between Phoenix and Tucson. This was settled at a meeting of the board of directors last evening, when the secretary received instructions to write to Hon. Carl Hayden, putting him straight on some of the matters that have been confused heretofore.
 Particularly the subject of yearly receipts is confusing one. The house committee in Washington in looking over matters asked the in terior department for figures. and in return got the receipts of the Ari- zona office for the fiscal year ending last June Now these figures are enormous compared with those Of last year, for with the playing out of government land due to the filing Of scrip, the dividends have been cut nearly fifty per cent.
 This was all duly, if not exactly clearly set forth in letters from Reg
 ster Weedin 10 Carl Hayden Hay den wrote back yesterday en- closing q copy of the interior de- partment's figures and gently chiding Mr. Weedn for not having got his (Carl's) drift.
 Weedin offered to snow again. and wired back. telling the congressman to check some more and watch his f la thing more to the point.
 Tucson wants q land office, and has instituted remarkable fight for one. The decision rests on the de- termination of yearly receipts, which must be so big before more than one maximum office can be maintained. Tucson is several hundred miles from the center of the public land district of the south. The business of the office in that region is now being handled suitably by United States Commissioners at Wilcox and other tplaces. \ recent report Of the regis ter showed that out of 126 cases of final proof hearings. but fifteen had io be conducted in the Phoenix office. Main Road Matters The board Of trades able commit tee on the through line railroad re- ported got another batch of work and was set to it again.
 The proposition now stands that the Tucson. Phoenix and Tidewater people need assistance in lining mp their right of way across private property. Having abandoned the
 Madison street line. they are con | fronted with still further difficulties
 lt is to aid them past the ruts tha, I Of Trade and the Merchants and ] Manufacturers association are get 1 ting together again.
 It is to raise about s26,000 to be 1 devoted to the purchase of privately owned property along the proposed | right of way that the committee now | plans. The Board of Trade commit
 Dr. John Dennett. H. B. Wilkinson II. P. De Mund, Dave Goldberg. Things Endorsed 1 The board endorsed the move tc
 bring Woodmen of the World 1 sanitarium here. the Shaffroth sani- tarium bill. the Associated Charities the tax meet in Tucson. It vii name delegates to the charities board l and the tax meet
 M. and M. Protest
 To Hor. Carl Hayden,
 House of Representatives,
 Washington, D. C.
 l The Merchants and Manufacturers association of Phoenix hereby make: protest against the division of tn,
 land district and the establishment O l another office.
 The annual report of the Phoeni,
 land office for the fiscal year ending
 June 30th. will show that there i
 not sufficient business in the stat, l -