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C«at«iiM Official
Vol XLII-No 48
FARMER BEN'S
COLUMN
acres of Alaska coal lands at a royalty
•f 50 cents a ton for all coal mined. It
is figgered that this will bring Uncle
Sam about $20,000 an acre on the land
insted of the measly ten dollars which
the Ballinger policy opened for the
grabbers. Now it looks to Farmer Ben
like all the remainin' public lands and
powers aDd such should be kept for
ever intact and all leased on royalty
and use. Let Uncle Sam have the ad-*
vantage of every bit of profit and then
«v«rybody has a equal slice. If 1 had
tool to sell it for $10 a acre when
could make $10,000 a acre from royal
ties on the coal taken out of it. And
Pinchot stood for Uncle Sam and the
public.
The folly of lettin' down in the Roo
sevelt policies of' savin' oar public
lands so as to keop 'em away from the
Canninghams and Guggenheims and
the other mone ved schemers to grab up
at $10 an acre is seen in the recent offer you when it comes to his proper share
•f a Seattle millionaire to lease 5,000 of what he raises he ain't gettln' any
My, but I do like to look at the
square chuncks of horses that are get
tin' so common round here. Ialwus
liked a good horse. I brung a good
t^amjwhen 1 came into this countryand
alwus had good ones on the old farm.
