Salt Lake Tribune | 1896-06-14 | Page 3 | Idaho Canal Contest

IDAHO CANAL CONTEST STATES application FOR FOB LAND REJECTED time tima limited for taking up tilt the contest expired on friday plans for the new battleships R on TRIBUNE BUREAU 1 pot post building pennsylvania ave av I 1 r washington D C june 13 1896 I 1 secretary smith lias has rejected the application p of the state of idaho for the segregation of lands in that state embraced in what eliat la is known know n as list no I 1 for the benefit of the american falls canal company it will be recalled that the state made this application and upon its being filed the peoples canal company protested a galna against A its approval on oil the ground that they had already constructed a canal along a portion apportion of 0 the route ot of tile the proposed pio posed american foils fails canal kompany and that tho the land had previously been segregated for Us its hen edt on abill API 11 I 1 slat alit ile secretary gave tile state twenty days in which to initiate a contest against the idaho canal company for tita hind and on may alth the time uns nas extend e d ten tell cays on oil tile the of the government that stops steps were being taken to io compromise the matter the time 1 in n which the contest might be will initiated a led expired yesterday and the secre secretary tit ry not having been noti notified fled that such action c had been taken he directed ilia that t the states application for a a segregation be rejected A post postoffice office nce has now be been on established at glynn glenn shoshone county ida with edwin IV W blake as postmaster A D farnsworth was wa today a appointed P postmaster at green river emery county utah vice thomas thomaa farrer removed