Stewart v. Penny

THOMPSON, District Judge.

The inadequacy of our public land laws to afford reasonably workable methods, under present conditions, for the ■acquisition of public lands by private citizens is a matter of growing national concern. It is of particular concern to the State of Nevada inasmuch as approximately eighty-five per cent of the ■area of this State (the seventh largest) is still in the public domain. Much of it has a valuable potential for private use. Yet the archaic federal land laws, ■enacted in an era of an agrarian economy, are ill-suited to an orderly disposition of the lands into…