Show MINERAL OR I Dispute Over Classification of lands in Northern Pacific Grant in I Idaho and Montana i Helena April 13 In compliance compliance i ance with the request of the Montana Mining association through Its rep representatives representatives representatives sent to Washington to in interview Interview interview President Roosevelt Secretary I Garfield and others the interior de tie department has begun an investigation Into the mineral minerai and class classification classIfication classification of or lands included in Northern Pacific land grants in iii Montana and I Idaho Id ho hoLand Land Commissioner Denett Chief of Field Service Schwartz to the I task and for two weeks he has ha Seen I mapping out plans for a thorough thor lUgh In Investigation Investigation investigation into each and ry com coin complaint plaint Today Toda It was announced that field work would be placed in charge of or ii L ij L Sharp of ot Helena The Northern Pacific has also filed flied some ome protests and these too will he lue Investigated The railroad alleges that thata a strip of land ten miles wide and md miles long near he 1119 I north northfork northfork northfork fork of the Clearwater in Idaho lias been classified as mineral when in fact it Is not mineralized The same alle allegation allegation gation is made in r to large tracts in the Bitter Root and Cascade ranges in Montana Ion ana anaIr S Mr Ir Schwartz said that many com corn complaints plaints had been filed flied wherein it had been alleged that the railroad had se secured secured secured cured much valuable timber and min ulin mineral mineral eral era lands under improper classification tion a |