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-fir 
forest. 
Total. 
In the grant area: 
Acres 
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 
100 
Per cent of to- 
tal 
In the State: 
72,838,400 
100 
Per cent of to- 
tal 
IN NEW MEXICO. 
In the grant area: 
Acres 
Per cent of to- 
tal 
In the State: 
Acres 
Per cent of to- 
tal 
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 
100 
78,401,920 
100 
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 
Estimates 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 u 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 
