New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-04-29
GOVERNORS WILL
PRESS GRANT OF
LANDS TO STATES
!. E. YOUNG RETURNS
FROM CONFERENCE WITH
GOVERNOR R. D. CAREY
OVER SESSION OF PUBLIC
LANDS

Edward Everett Young, secretary
of the League of Public Land States
returned from Cheyenne, Wyoming
Wednesday evening. where he went
for a conference with Governor Rob
ert d. Carey, who has been president
of the league since Governor LARA
zola resigned last year.
This conference no doubt mark
the real beginning of a persistent
campaign for the session of the re
naming Nvernment lands to the
states tina, will not end until that
object is accomplished,
At this conference of the president
and secretary Of the League the fol
lowing preliminary plans were agreed
to:
That a convention of the govern
ors of the eleven wholly arid states
be called to meet at Salt Lake City
Utah. some time during the first
half of June. The exact date will
be fixed and the call issued in the
near future.
At this conference the Governors
will be prepared TO speak to subjects
or read papers on subjects, assign
ed to them by President Robert d
Carey of the League of Public Land
States. 1t is probable that among the
topics to be so treated will be the
discriminating long and short rail
road haul which is hindering the de-
velopment of the west and the Rocky
Mountain States: the cession of all
the unreserved. unappropriated pub
lie lands. to the Public Land States
without mineral or other reserva
tions; advocating the appointment oi
a Congressional Investigating Com
mittee to ascertain the present annual
cost of administering the public do
main and TO learn the exact deficit
of such administered year; the ap-
a Congressional Investigating Com
mittee, comprised of both branches
of the Congress, to visit the ives,
and personally inspect the public
lands which the western states are
asking the government to cede to the
states.
1t is also expected that permanent
headquarters OF the League of Pub
lie Land States will be voted on and
will be established either in Utah or
New Mexico. Gov Carey of Wy
oming, as the new president OF the
League. agreed to attempt to raise
some money for the Leagues needs
in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and
Arizona. and asked Secretary Young
TO raise New MeXico's quota Of funds
for the same purpose.
President Carey. of the League. is
big western, patriotic American,
who has broad grasp OF the needs
of the west and the country. Said
he, "If our League can show the
west that its interests are common
and identical throughout. we will be
able to form a close and efficient
working organization. There are TO
points of the compass on the chart
of western patriotism II we live 10
be old men and succeed in having
the public lands ceded to the states.
we can truthfully express the SEN
timent uttered by Mr. r. r. Living
ston when. together with James Mon
roe they succeeded in completing the
treaty which resulted in the LouiSi-
ana purchase. We have lived long.
said he, "but this is the noblest work
of our lives"
There are about two hundred and
twenty millions acres Of umrcserved
unappropriated public lands in the
west withheld from the states by
the federal government, and which
cannot be taxed for the benefit Of
the states. At the average price Of
$40 per acre the value OF these lands
would amount to more than 1920
100000.
If this vast property should come
into the possession OF the states il
would tend to the reduction of taxes,
all the way from village up to state
taxation. There were no public lands
in the original thirteen states. II
the West is to be "fEee, equal and
it also must own the
full acreage within its state lines.