Weekly journal-miner., 1915-03-03

7 commission or the intending pur l chaser or lessee may appeal. 7 In appraising school or universit. ? lands the appraisers shall take int
 account list of the improvements ol 5 the land of a permanent characte l and which are the result of labor O capital expended in its reclamation
 or development and the appropria ' ton of water for it, (which enhanced
 the value of the land beyond wha , said land would be worth had it beer permitted to remain in its origina
 state"
 The bill fixes the value or some oi
 the improvements for which lessees ot
 school lands are to be reimbursed by
 succeeding lessees or purchasers. Up
 on lands leased for grazing purposes
 fencing at cost not exceeding $15O
 a mile and necessary corrals at a
 cost not exceeding $200. Upon lands
 leased for agricultural purposes, fenc-
 es at a cost not exceeding $50 mile
 for exterior boundaries and for inside cross fences. Barns, dwellings and all other buildings at total cost of not more than $500; wells and irrigat- ing systems at cost of---------- and | fAr ,f1 f0 tho land S,Irl1 l = leveling, blowing, orchards and other trees, not exceeding $10 an acre. The minimum prices for which any land shall be sold are those fixed by the enabling act.- No land shall be sold for less than s an acre and no state land or leased school or univer- sity land susceptible of irrigation from an established irrigation project shall be sold for less than $25 an acre and no land shall be sold for less than the appraised value.
 In the afternoon the senate took up the Garvin bill in the committee of the whole and an almost continuous iangle ensucd. Numerous attempts were made to amend it but all of them failed, not because majority favored the bill but, evidently because majority believed that it was waste of time to try to agree upon anything definite at that stage.
 Chairman Riggs made several inef- fectual efforts to have Senate Bill 127 included in the consideration but ob jcction was made because the bill had not been printed and less than half a dozen members had seen it or had heard anything of its provisions. Fin ally the whole subject went over.
 The morning in both houses began with land matters. A communication had been received from several Nor mon settlers atoSt. Joseph ;n Navajo county who claimed that their patents had been held up at the instance of the land commission notwithstand- ing the commission in its report had expressed sympathy with the settlers for the hardships they had undergone since settlement in 1876. But said the communication. the actual attitude Of the commission was shown n its rep rcsentations to the interior depart mcnt resulting in the holding up of patents The communication asks the legislature to direct the commis- sion to withdraw its objections to the issuing of patents.
 Bad For Board of Control.
 The senate bill for the creation of board of public welfare consisting of the governor, the state auditor and Inc member of the corporation com. having the longest term to serve, was passed by the senate in the afternoon by a vote of Is to 2 debate. The matter had been threshed out in the com mittec of the whole. The bill abolish -S lIC DOdlu u UT COlllOl anu lCllCNCS the governor of deciding voice in The activities of the new board. The vote was: Aycs-Campbcll, Chase, Crabb, Drachman, Garvin, Goldwater, Karns, Kinney, Lovin, Martin, Mac Milan, Riggs, Stapley, Webb the prcsident-15.
 Nays-Coltcr, Munds, ?.
 Abscnt-Bacon, Claridge
 PHOENIX, Feb. 25.-Thc senate marched up the hill this morning on the Kinney-Claypool bill and in the afternoon marched right down again In the initial session of the day the