Show I BOARD TO PROBE DELTA PROJECT Will IVill Hear Grievances of 0 Settlers Settlers Set Set- tiers Against Land and I Water Fater Company A call for tor a special meeting of or the tate state board of or land commissioners to tobe tobe tobe be held September 20 o was held yesterday ester yester da day At t that meeting the tho board ex expects ex- ex I peeLs to tot sot ct a a. date for Cor its visit to the project of ot the Delta Land company Tho The board will visit th the project ct at atthe tho the suggestion of Cia Clay Tallman commissioner commissioner com com- missioner of oC the United States tates general land office to Investigate complaints of ot some twenty settlers settlors on tho northern part of oC tho project a aa as to of ot their lands The fhe settlers claim that th the lands lans they I were le led to take up arc s so o highly Impregnated impregnated Im Im- im- im with alkali as to bo be They laid their case casc before I Commissioner Tallman who sU suggested that the state board of or land commissioners commissioners commis commis- investigate ate and report their findings before attempting to gain for tho state stute patent to the lands landa under the project Tho The company compan declares that it stands read ready to give Ivo tho settlers other lands in In lieu of ot those tho they claim are arc worthless worth worth- less Tho The settlers how however vc demand compensation for tor their improvements and a 0 deadlock has bc been n reached which it will bo be for the tho state board and the tho i United States general land office to to break with some sort of or a compromise j proposition I |