The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-28
And $3323.29 More.

In addition to the $4,000 received
through the legislature the state land
board has received $332329 from other
sources. That has served TO buoy up
the fund and gives promise of keep
ng it alive for a few weeks yet.
All in ALL it has been a hard sea-
son on funds set aside for the state
land board. The legislature year
ago gave the land department $1,000
for travelling expenses. But the mon
~ melted away, leaving a deficiency
in red behind. The department has
spent $S910.65. That makes the fund
nearly $4,000 shy.
In the land department it is said
that an unusually large number of
fires in the timber last summer made
It necessary that more than the ordin-
Try number of fire fighters be hired
But it is known that Governor Alex
lnder wanted small appropriations
for the timber fire protection He did
not want the legislature to appropri-
General Walters and other members
of the land board opposed a reduction
over the appropriation of 1915, when
$4,000 was set aside for the protection
of the states timber. 1t was finally
agreed that $4,000 would be sufficient
to meet all expenses.
Thin Picking in 1918.
1t is said at the land department
that the money used in fighting fires
has been spent by the timber protec-
ton. associations of which the state
is member There are five associa-
tions-the Potlatch, the Pend d'Oreile
the Occur d'Alene, the Clearwater
and. the association south of the Sal
mon river The associations made out
the bills and the state paid it's share
after the states beard of examiners
had passed upon the claims.
The state will continue to hold it's
membership in the fire protective as
sOciatiOns, but the assessments are
certain to pile up when dry weather
comes, and they will have to be met
when the legislature convenes in 1919.
If the l. W. w. are active in the
northern woods the coming summer
deficiency of $4,000 or more might
easily result, since more than $4,000
was spent last summer.
The depletion of the fund out of
which travelling expenses are paid in
the land department may make it i'm
possible for the state. to hold land
sales this season, except in very few
localities.
More land was sold last year than
in any other previous season. That
made it necessary for the land board
to send appraisers into the majority
of the counties of the state-and work
has been found for extra men.
If the land sales are held the indica-
lions are that deficiency warrants
must of a necessity be issued.
"FIying Squadron" Junkets.
The members of the land board, too,
ShlppcO dDOuL oNtl lllt oldtC III Il ilNC-
ly manner last summer-and bills pill
ed up rapidly. Failure of the fund to
hold out over a period Of two years
brings back an echo of the jaunts TAX
en- by the Flying Squadron when
the attorney general, the governor, the
state auditor and the secretary of
state were out hobhobbing with old
friends and making new acquaint-
ances. For several weeks they travel
ed rather extensively up and down the
Snake river valley, going into new
counties where the governor had occa-
sion to appoint county officials.
The legislature in 1915 set aside
$1,000 for the state land board Out OF
the appropriation was paid all ex-
penses incurred in 1915 and 1916.
The last Legislature gave the land
board a like appropriation. 1t was ex-
pected to last over a period of two
years.. but already the $1,000 has been
spent. The total spent from this fund
in 10 n,opthc is S2Q1O65