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The State Land Commission and other Californians are furious at the Department of the Interior for invalidating California's decision to limit its homestead land sales to a maximum of 320 acres per person; the Department is in the grip of "the greed and influence of these land monopolists." The decision "enables the few land monopolists of this State to be preferred to the bona fide settler, and hold the lands for speculation." The Los Angeles firm of Gould & Blanchard represented claimants struggling against the "insatiate avarice" of the land monopolists; its petition to reverse the Secretary's decision is included here. Cowan 221. Not in Eberstadt, Decker, Soliday, Graff, Rocq, Drury, Weber [Bibliography of L.A.], Sabin.