Salt Lake Herald | 1909-07-31 | Page 3 | Water Grabbers Foiled

HER AUR GRABBERS FOIlED Government Withdraws Vast Tracts I of Lands Suitable for Power Sites I in Utah and Other States Washington July 30 To frustrate a aplan aplan aplan plan on the part of the combinations to secure control of the water power sites saw of oC the country and to carry out ou th the policy of the administration or the con conservation conservation conservation of the nations natural re resources resources sources approximately acres rf if tend hind for water lOw sites were tem tern temporarily withdrawn in Colorado Colom n Mon Non Montana Monand tana tiit and Utah by Acting Secretary of ofte oftie ofte te tie Interior Pierce today toda The with withdrawals withdrawals consisted ted of or acres of land along the Grand river rIvet In Utah 9 97 7 acres along the Judith river liver in Mon Montana Montana tana tang and 16 35 acres along the th Blue river liver in Colorado