Show I TAFT SHOWS HIS POliCY Conservation Methods of the President Indicated by With Withdrawal Withdrawal Withdrawal of Land and Appoint Appointment ment of Reclamation Board 1 MASS JASS July I X President B Tuft took the first t step trvIn In hi hl own onn conservation policy by h signing orders order of withdrawal ln s S I n acres of power site unit petroleum lends The Tile President RIo also appointed ol five fhe engineer officers of tIe army who 10 will Till constitute n board to lo Pass jm on the re rc project to o be completed complete un va under der rier the lire recent of or o 0 It is la hinted that there are other Im Important Important important I announcements to come with h regard to the tHI conservation policy of ot if the administration The President lr has ifa summoned Secretary Ballinger for tor a conference Tuesday Tu The withdrawal orders order signed by the President today are the first specifically ly 1 authorised by the new law Mr Ir Roosevelt as president pre Inaugurated the policy polley of or withdrawing withdrawing public lands under the general theory of ot the right of oC the tile executive to do anything S In the interest of or the public domain not prohibited b by y law President Ire Taft TaCt ha hat acted in the Ute same way President Taft TaCt also sinned signed orders of o f withdrawal today covering public lands landt and lands in national forests tore ta In I Alaska ka in which workable coal i t It ItI known I non to occur thus th ratifying and an a continuing In full effect the withdrawal with withdrawal made by former President I Roosevelt on November 12 n 1906 Water Voter Totter Power Sites Site The water power ur t withdrawn withdraw n by b President Taft c 01 i 1 a total of o f 1 acres The lands withdrawn total acres and tho the theother other lands land acres The Tho areas Involved In the power powe r sites altos withdrawn are ore as follows Ari Art Arizona Arizona zona zone 1070 acres California acres acro Colorado Color do acres Idaho acres Montana 1 acres Nevada 14 gores acres New ria Mexico 14 H nG acres Oregon on acres WashIngton Wash Washington ington acres Utah acres Wyoming acres The phosphate land acreage with withdrawals withdrawals withdrawals are arc ar Florid Idaho 1014 4 1 t Petroleum larl tat i arra arr age t I s d the following 0 Continued on OD rage Page TAFT M SHOWS POLICY Continued from Page One On 4 California Colorado 87 8 41 Louisiana New Mexico exloO Oregon Ore Utah Wyoming 2161 2151 The rite board cf of engineers appointed by bJ byth bythe th the President today to examine and anti yet re ye report port t upon reclamation projects which i It is Is proposed OMd to complete or extend with funds provided by b the act net author the Issuance of twenty million dol dollars dolIan dollar lars Ian In Ice certificate of or Indebtedness Is I Ib headed by b Col John Riddle who was wac until recently the engineer en cora com of th he District of Columbia and a who I Is now DOW on duty dut at San Fran Frans Francisco cisco eI eo The other ther four f members member of the I board bard 1 oer are Col William Will Wi lImn C Lang mt tad and MaJ aJ William W Hart Earl Charles CharlesW Chari W Ruts sad and Harry Burgess Burp all of the engineer gt corps corp of the army arm Col Lang flit I M the commandant of the he engineers engins school ached Mol at Washington President nt IK is I Arbiter In the tu expenditure of ot the tb UM the tta President Pre 1 Is Ie made mad th tb the final nt arbiter II n lie must t approve each project before any ef of C the Ut money CAR can be expended The ne Thenet act net provide presides pr that no part of ot this tills appropriation ap appropriation titian shall be expended upon any are existing project until It shall ahall have I been 1 examined and aRel reported upon by bya b I Ia a board of engineer officers office of ot the I Iann army ann designated by It the President of the United States and ADd until It shall ball be approved by b the President as feasible fea sad and practical and worthy worth of oC additional expenditure nor shall sOOIl any portion of this appropriation be expended on un any new project pro cL Gen GeD William I r Marshall who on OR yesterday wa was as appointed consulting on en engineer of the tile reclamation service has bees been requested by the he President to lend such b aid to the board of ot engineers as Is S compatible with his new now duties President Taft TaCt attended services at Grace Episcopal opal church In Salem to today today today day where the fortieth anniversary of the pastorate of or the tho Rev J T P Franks Franke was wall celebrate celebrated Mrs Taft Miss Helen Taft and t accompanied I tip tte President The presidential ya M ht arrived at Beverly today ij 1 will wm remain throughout the sum Bum I mer |