The Lumber Industry: Standing timber

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913
 

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Página 245 - Interior that any twenty continuous miles of either of said roads are completed, then another like quantity of land hereby granted may be sold; and so from time to time until said roads are completed; and if said roads are not completed within ten years, no further sales shall be made, and the land unsold shall revert to the United States.
Página 266 - ... that he does not apply to purchase the same on speculation, but in good faith to appropriate it to his own exclusive use and benefit; and that he has not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract, in any way or manner, with any person or persons whatsoever, by which the title which he...
Página 283 - SABINE ST. BERNARD ST. CHARLES ST. HELENA ST. JAMES ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST ST. LANDRY ST. MARTIN ST. MARY ST. TAMMANY...
Página 263 - An act for the sale of timber lands in the States of California, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington Territory...
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Página 261 - It has been my personal experience to examine solid townships in northern Wisconsin, in which practically all the even-numbered sections had been acquired under the homestead law, quite generally commutation. The timber had been cut off after patent, and yet not a single voter or inhabitant could be found in the township. The Government got $400 a quarter section for lands frequently worth from $10,000 to $20,000. More recently actual farmers have purchased these stump lands from the mill companies.
Página 231 - And all such lands, so granted by this section, which shall not be sold or disposed of by said company within three years after the entire road shall have been completed, shall be subject to settlement and pre-emption, like other lands, at a price not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to be paid to said company.
Página 15 - The remaining supply of standing timber in continental United States (excluding Alaska) is now about 2,800,000,000,000 board feet of which 2,200,000,000,000 board feet is privately owned. . . . Three holdings (The Southern Pacific Company, The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, and the Northern Pacific Railway Company) include no less than 11 per cent of the privately owned timber of the entire country.
Página 2 - Act, as amended, declare unlawful every combination, conspiracy, trust, agreement or contract intended to operate in restraint of trade in, or free competition in respect of, or intended to increase the market price of any article when one of the parties is engaged in importing the same, and give the courts power to prevent and restrain those who violate the Act.
Página 266 - ... not, directly or indirectly, made any agreement or contract in any way or manner with any person or persons whatsoever, by which the title which he might acquire from the Government of the United States should inure in whole or in part to the benefit of any person except himself...

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