TENURE AND USE OF ARID GRAZING LANDS. 



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Table 2. — Estimated area and percentage distribution of each forage type within the 

 limits of the Atlantic & Pacific Railway grant and within the two States. 



IN ARIZONA. 



Forage type. 



No. 1. 



Desert 



shrubs and 



annuals. 



No. 2. 

 Semidesert 

 grass land. 



No. 3. 



Short-grass 



land. 



No. 4. 



Woodland. 



No. 5. 

 Yellow- 

 pine 

 forest. 



No. 6. 



Spruce-flr 



forest. 



Total. 



In the grant area: 



2,081,687 



9.1 



17,408,378 



23.9 



9,048,223 



39.4 



23,963,834 



32.9 



2,790,835 

 12.2 



9,031,961 

 12.4 



6,559,718 

 28.6 



15,878,771 

 21.8 



2,421,320 



10.5 



5,972,749 



8.2 



51,011 



0.2 



582,707 



0.8 



22, 952, 794 



Per cent of to- 

 tal 



100 



In the State: 



72, 838, 400 



Per cent of to- 

 tal 



100 







IN NEW MEXICO. 



In the grant area: 





901, 555 



9.4 



17,483,628 



22.3 



3,912,584 



40.7 



30,655,151 



39.1 



2,765,676 



28.7 



15,209,972 



19.4 



1,865,180 



19.4 



12,152,298 



15.5 



183,260 



1.8 



2,900,871 



3.7 



9, 628, 255 



Per cent of to- 

 tal 





100 



In the State: 





78,401,920 

 100 



Per cent of to- 

 tal 











IN THE WHOLE AREA. 



In the grant area: 



Acres 



Per cent of to- 

 tal 



In the two States: 



Acres 



Per cent of to- 

 tal 



2,081,687 



9,949,755 



6,703,419 



9,325,394 



4,286,500 



234,271 



6.4 



30.5 



20.6 



28.6 



13.2 



0.7 



17,408,378 



41,447,462 



39,687,112 



31,088,743 



18,125,047 



3,483,578 



11.5 



27.4 



26.2 



20.6 



12.0 



2.3 



32,581,049 



100 



151,240,320 



100 



Estimatea as to the total area of land in New Mexico which may be dry farmed 

 have run as high as fifteen millions of acres, but experience has shown that this is 

 considerably exaggerated, since much of the land which was assumed to be proved 

 dry farming land has since been abandoned on account of the drouths. No complete 

 estimate for Arizona is available, the tentative figures by Clothier and McOmie rang- 

 ing from one-half to one million acres for the State. 



Estimates as to the amount of irrigable land in each State are given in footnote 

 2, on page 8. The irrigable areas for these two States and for the land grant area 

 are included (without being indicated) in the figures given above because it is not 

 possible to work out the details of their distribution with the information now available. 



THE LAND TENURE. 



The discussion of but one of the social and economic factors which 

 affect the grazing industry is here proposed; i. e., our Government 

 land policy [11]. 



There are two ways in which the tenure of the land must be con- 

 sidered, and they are here referred to as the "legal status" of the 

 land and its "use control." Although ordinarily legal tenure gives 

 use control, subject to the sovereign powers of the State and Federal 

 Governments, the nature of the occupancy of some of these arid 



