Scope and Contents From the File: Official and personal correspondence of Governor Richards. Topics include railroad interests, public lands, water issues, petitions for pardons, Spanish American War veterans issues, livestock, game and fish, Carey Act, state hospitals and health concerns, appointments, fugitives, federal and state legislation, expositions and conferences, invitations, miscellaneous requests, and routine administrative matters. Personal correspondence covers the Governor's banking and sheep interests,...

Scope and Contents From the File: Official and personal correspondence of Governor Richards. Topics include railroad interests, public lands, water issues, petitions for pardons, Spanish American War veterans issues, livestock, game and fish, Carey Act, state hospitals and health concerns, appointments, fugitives, federal and state legislation, expositions and conferences, invitations, miscellaneous requests, and routine administrative matters. Personal correspondence covers the Governor's banking and sheep interests,...

Scope and Contents Incoming correspondence from governors and other representatives of western state governments. Issues discussed concern the disposition of public arid lands, including leasing and cession to the states and territories. A conference of western governors was organized to discuss these issues, called the Arid Lands Western Governors Conference. ...

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Copies of legislation and related reports dealing with leasing public grazing lands, and with aiding western states in the reclamation and colonization of arid lands from the Arid Lands Western Governors Conference.