g4 STATE LAND LAWS 



SEC. 69 INSPECTION APPRAISEMENT. 



Cited : 27 Wash. 608 ; 37 Wash. 125-129. 



The applicant for appraisement and sale of state lands must inform himself 

 and disclose the true condition thereof with respect to improvements, whether of 

 the kind contemplated by the statute or not : State ex rel. Shores v. Ross, 47 

 Wash. 210. 



Mandamus will not lie to compel the board to appraise and sell state lands, 

 their action being wholly discretionary : State ex rel. Bussell v. Bridges, 30 

 Wash. 268 ; McNaught etc. Co. v. Atlantic etc. Co., 36 Wash. 669 ; Powers v. 

 Webster, 47 Wash. 99. 



This section must be construed in connection with sec. 71, post, and timber 

 on state lands must be separately sold when it exceeds one million feet to the 

 quarter section : State ex rel. Heuston v. Callvert, 37 Wash. 124. 



SEC. 69. INSPECTION AND APPRAISEMENT. 



When, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Public Lands, or 

 the Board of State Land Commissioners, a sufficient number of 

 applications have been received for the appraisement and sale 

 of lands in any county or locality, the Commissioner of Public 

 Lands shall cause such lands so applied for to be inspected and 

 classified by one or more state land inspectors, or by one or 

 more members of the Board of State Land Commissioners, as to 

 its , character, topography, agricultural aud grazing qualities, 

 timber, coal, mineral, stone or rock quarries of commercial value, 

 its distance from any city or town, railroad, river, irrigation 

 canal, ditch or other waterway, and full report thereof to be 

 made to the Commissioner of Public Lands, together with the 

 inspector's judgment as to its present and prospective 

 value, which said report, together with all other in- 

 formation affecting the same, shall thereupon be con- 

 sidered by the Board of State Land Commissioners and a price 

 per acre fixed for each lot, block, subdivision or tract proposed 

 to be sold in one parcel, which shall not be less than ten dollars 

 per acre for lands granted for educational purposes and no 

 more than one hundred and sixty acres of any school or granted 

 lands of the state shall be offered for sale in one parcel, and 

 in no case shall any state or public lands, or timber or other 

 materials thereon be sold unless within ninety days prior to the 

 date fixed for the sale the same shall have been appraised by the 

 Board of State Land Commissioners : Provided, That whenever 

 application is made to purchase less than a section, the said Com- 



