A Plan for the Development of the 



the land belongs to the United States and can never become the 

 property of the persons using it. On this territory official control 



is supreme, and may be extended to considerable 

 Official lengths, as, for example, to the regulation of busi- 



Control ness and the censorship of architecture. This 



Government control is for the present exercised 

 by the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture; but 

 there is a general expectation that the administration is soon 

 to pass to the National Parks Service of the Department of the 

 Interior. The imminence of this transfer has its own important 

 bearing on the entire study, adding, as it does, an element of 

 uncertainty to the whole situation. 



The most serious exception to the Government ownership of 

 the land in this territory is the tract of about 20 acres included in 



the right of way for railway station grounds of the 

 Railroad Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co., and 

 Holdings use d by them chiefly for railway terminal and hotel 



purposes. Owing to the strategic location of this 

 tract, and to the business advantages enjoyed by the railway com 

 pany, the latter exercises a large control in the physical develop 

 ment of the community as well as in all business and social deve 

 opments. It is only fair to add that the Atchison Railway and it 

 subsidiary organizations have shown a reasonably liberal tendenc 

 in the management of their enterprises and, generally speaking 

 an excellent spirit of cooperation in the plans of the Forest Service 

 In the territory occupied by the village of Grand Canyon ther 

 are several important tracts of land encumbered by unperfecte 



mining claims. For the present these claims cor 

 Mining stitute a troublesome factor in the situation. 1 



Claims * s hoped and expected that some or all of thes 



claims can be extinguished within the next fei 

 months. Under the terms of the present congressional authorit 

 constituting the Grand Canyon National Monument further minin 

 claims can not be intruded into this territory. 



