Show RESTORED TO ENTRY I Washington April 21 Secretary Baum Bailin Bailinger ger of the interior department issued a statement nt today showing that during the past pt pRA two weeks he lie has restored to pub lie lic entry and settlement etUe en acres of land which had bad been withdrawn from set settlement settlement during the closing months of the administration of his bis predecessor Some lands so 80 restored were withdrawn In coo con connection with government irrigation en enterprises enterprises but the bulk of them were withdrawn under the conserva conservation tion ties of water resources re on recommends recommendation tion of the conservation con commission of which Gifford Pinchot was president The restoration of lands withdrawn for con eon conservation of water resources are enu enumerated enumerated enumerated by Secretary Ballinger Bahlinger as fol follows follows follows lows Pour Four our hundred and thousand acres in connection with Owyhee river Iter Oregon acres in connection with Missouri ouri river Montana TOOS acres in connection with Flathead river Montana DOO O acres in connection with Colorado river Utah In connection with reclamation service projects the following restorations of lands have been made Seventy thousand acres in connection with Grand valley project Utah Hoo acres in connection with pro project project Montana The fact that these immense l withdrew withdraw withdrawals ale als of public land were made for conser conservation ration of oC water resources occasions con considerable considerable i surprise for until the publics publication tion of their restoration to entry it was WIlli not publicly or generally known that they had bad been withdrawn no notice of with withdrawal withdrawal ith draws I having been given Iven to the press preg bj by b officers of the inferior department pre preceding preCeding ceding the Ballinger administration |