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Show EXTENSIVE LAND PATENTS HELD UP Washington, Dec 2S. By the joint action of the war, interior and agricultural ag-ricultural departments, extensive land patents of the International Power and Manufacturing of the statG of Washington were held up because of the belief of Secretary Fisher as expressed ex-pressed In a statement ihat the company com-pany was tr3'Ing to "free itself from all control by the government by securing se-curing patents to lands under the guise of mining claims or b- railroad scrip filings in combination with a special patent license." |