Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-01-28
WIPE SLATE CLEAN
IN REXBURC SALES
State Land Board Minutes
Show Action Taken in Mat
ter Of Madison County Lands
Called Unfortunate Stu
alton.


sweep Of the Rexburg land sale. the
proceedings of that body as set out in
the minutes show. 1t is cancelled and
annYlled as an unfortunate situation"
and the work of disposlng OF the lands
is To be gone all over again. The min
utes of the board follow
Boise, Jan. 2i,-Ihc state board OF
land commissioners of the state Of
Idaho met this day in regular session
a committee composed Of Lloyd Ad-
ANS. Jack Tout, r. j. Cumstock, +. ID.
Turner, Mr., Oldham and Mr.. Web
ster appeared before the board in re-
lation to the leasing OF state land iii
Madison county. With the exception
OF Mr. Tout, all of the committee were
in favor Of eancelling amy leases which
had been approved on lands situated IN
Madison county which the state at
tempted to sell at land sale held
July 10, 1915. After i fun discussion
of the matter, the following resolution
was presented by Attorney General
Black:
Whereas, there exists at this time 4
very unfortunate situation with refer
ence to the lands which were recently
attempted to be sold or leased By the
former land board in Madison county
Idaho, said lands being hereinafter
particularly described, and this board
not being able to see its way clear to
straighten out the difficulty amy other
way than by revolving all proceedings,
both with reference to all applications
and leases with reference to said lands
Therefore, be it resolved, that all
nrOEppH inn. wit Y9f
praisement of the following lands ode
scription Of lands) bc ana the same
are hereby revoked, annnlled and set
aside and that all proceedings had
with reference to the leasing on the
Herein described lands be hereby set
aside and revoked and all applications
for leases be denied, and each person
having an application for lease on file
in this department be At once notified
by the register and no leases will be
granted upon said lands, and that all
applications therefor are denied.
Roll call on the above resolution
stood as follows: Governor, yes; at
torney general, Yes; secretary of state,
Ives; superintendent Of public instruc-
ton, yes; Mr. Auditor, yes.
II WAS moved. by Attorney General
Black seconded. voted upon and ear
ried unanimously. that all persons ap-
pearing IN the department to have re-
ceived land commissioners certificates
OF sale for any of the lands described
in the foregoing resolution, or others
appearing of record as having been in
| tefcsted in any manner in said lands
! in any way, be also notified by the
register of this action of the board.
It was moved by Attorney General
BLACK seconded, voted upon ana car
ried unanimously, that the board pro-
coed at once to select and designate at
least two competent appraisers to I'M
lmediately proceed to Madison county.
Idaho, and appraise all of the lands in
said l2,000 acres herein described. to-
gether with the improvements thereon,
and to furnish this board with report
thereof at tho earliest possible date,
and that il any of such lands are COW
cred with snow 50 that they cannot
be properly appraised, that report
thereof shall be made in detail with
the other report.
The salmon River Canal company
submitted estimate OF expenditures for
the year 1919 for the approval Of the
board. Whereupon, it was moved by
superintendent OF Public Instruction
Miss Reddeld, seconded. voted upon.
and carried, that the maintenance
charges for the year 1919 for the SAL
mon River Canal company be aayer-
Used for Two consecutive weeks In the
newspapers, and that the date of Feb.
II. 1919, be set as date for hearing
OF any protestants.
Report of State Engineer Wtlkie in
relation To the construction work On
the Twin Falls salmon River project
was read To the board. Wheretpon il
WAS moved by Attorney General Black,
seconded, voted upon and carried, that
the matter be laid over until such
! time as 4 new report up 10 date can
be secured from the state engineer,
G. w. Rice appeared before the
board IN reference 10 securing water
contract for state school lands pur-
chased by him from the state. Where
upon, it was moved by Attorney GEN
eral Black, second. voted upon and
unanimously carried that the register
notify the Twin Falls Land & Water
company and the Twin Falls Canal
company. both being companies oper-
ating near Twin Falls, Idaho, that the
land board has heretofore ordered that
the Twin Falls Canal company enter
into a contract with c. w Rice per-
tanning to the following described
lands in accordance with the require
ments OF the attorney generals opin-
len, copy of which has heretofore been
sent to said companies, AMI that unless
said companies comply With said for
mer action of the land board. this
board will BE- duly bound to follow the
former action of the board by taking
legal proceedings to compel the same.