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state, almost all in the form of timber rights ; and several other large 

 lumber companies had small amounts/ 



THE CASH SALE LAW 



Comparatively little information is available regarding the number 

 of holdings based upon the old cash sale law, but there is some evidence 

 to show that large owners used this law a great deal. In the longleaf 

 pine district of Louisiana, nearly a million acres were traced back to 

 the cash sale law, and nearly all of it was in the hands of large holders. 

 The Long-Bell Lumber Company had 203,000 acres; the Lutcher- 

 Moore interests, 120,000; the Central Coal and Coke Company, 

 76,000 acres ; the Industrial Lumber Company, 58,000 acres ; the 

 Chicago Lumber and Coal Company interests, 54,000 acres; Lud- 

 dington. Wells and Van Schaick, 54,000 acres; the Calcasieu Pine 

 Company and Southland Lumber Company, 46,000 acres ; and a dozen 

 other large companies had amounts ranging from 50,000 acres down. 

 The Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company obtained over 200,000 acres of 

 its land in Michigan through the cash sale act. It is reasonable to 

 assume that a study extending throughout the timbered regions of the 

 public land states would reveal a large number of cases where lands 

 were alienated in great blocks under this law, and are now owned by 

 large timber owners.* 



LIEU SELECTIONS AND LARGE HOLDINGS 



The Forest Lieu Act of 1897 has been treated at some length in a 

 previous chapter, but it is interesting to note here that several large 

 holdings are at least partly traceable to this act. Thus, 35,000 acres 

 of the holding of William Wente et al. in Oregon, and 37,000 acres 

 of the Thomas B. Walker holding in California, were taken up with 

 Atlantic and Pacific lieu scrip; 14,000 acres of C. A. Smith's prop- 

 erty were taken up in the same way, as were also some 50,000 acres 

 belonging to smaller holders. In western Oregon, 175,000 acres of 

 the Weyerhaeuser lands and 70,000 acres of the lands belonging to 

 other large holders were originally Northern Pacific lieu selections. 

 Altogether, 219,000 acres of the Weyerhaeuser holdings go back to 



7 Cross Reference, p. 47. 



8 Cross Reference, p. 49. 



