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land which might be selected.** Representative Jones and Senator 

 Heyburn also favored such a limitation ; and in 1904, Heybilrn intro- 

 duced a joint resolution directing the stay of all proceedings pending 

 upon selections of even numbered sections by railroad companies/® 

 No legislation resulted from any of these proposals. 



In the fifty-eighth Congress, Mondell continued his efforts, and 

 finally, in 1905, secured a law repealing the Forest Lieu Act.^° It had 

 served as the means wherejby individuals and corporations exchanged 

 about 3,000,000 acres of land, much of it waste and cut-over land 

 within the forest reserves, for valuable government land outside. 



LIEU SELECTION IN THE SAN FRANCISCO MOUNTAINS 

 FOREST RESERVE 



Meantime, in the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve, in 

 Arizona, the checkerboard style of reservation was found to involve 

 very serious difficulties of administration, for the owners of the alter- 

 nate sections constantly trespassed upon the government sections, 

 either willfully or because the boundaries were not well marked. The 

 protection of these scattered patches of government land was very 

 difficult and expensive ; and Secretary Hitchcock, following the advice 

 of the forest supervisor and the forest superintendent, entered into 

 contracts for the exchange of some of the government sections else- 

 where, for private sections in the reserve, in order to consolidate the 

 government holdings. 



48 H. R. 9507; 57 Cong, 1 sess.: H. R, 2900; 58 Cong. 1 sess. The introduction 

 of such a bill by Binger Hermann at this time seems a little strange, and its exact 

 significance is difficult to ascertain. Oregon had been for some time the scene of 

 notorious frauds under various public lands laws, including the Forest Lieu Act, 

 and, for alleged complicity in these frauds, Hermann had, in February, 1903, been 

 removed from the office of Commissioner of the Land Office by President Roose- 

 velt. Hermann went back to Oregon, and, within six months of his dismissal, was 

 elected to Congress. Whether in introducing this bill, he was sincerely interested 

 in improving the Forest Lieu Act, or whether he was merely playing to the gallery, 

 is a somewhat delicate question. {Reports, Sec. of Int., 1903, 12; 1904, 4; 1905, 27. 

 See also Compilation of Public Timber Laws, 1903, 48, 49.) 



49 S. Res. 30; 58 Cong. 2 sess. 



50 H. R. 14622, H. Report 2233; 58 Cong. 2 sess.: S. Report 3332; 58 Cong. 

 3 sess.: Cong. Bee, Apr. 25, 1904, 5586; Mar. 4, 1905, 4034-4037. For later attempts 

 to secure lieu selection privileges, see H. R. 10584; 61 Cong. 1 sess.: H. R. 16339; 

 61 Cong. 2 sess.: S. 10791; 61 Cong. 3 sess.: S. 245, H. R. 2875, H. R. 4699, H. R. 

 11378; 62 Cong. 1 sess.: S. 5068, S. 5875, H. R. 16827, H. R. 17248, H. R. 19344, 

 H. R. 21361, H. R, 21366, H. R. 25738; 6Q Cong. 2 sess. 



