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Show ltelief for Ferron. WASHINGTON, Feb. It. A favorable re-port re-port was made to the House from tho public pub-lic lands committee upon the bill for the relief re-lief of the inhabitants of the town of Ferron, Fer-ron, Emery county, Utah, and the committee, in making their report and recommending the adoption of tho measure, says: "The committee, upon due investigation, fine that the present townsite of Ferron is immediately immedi-ately contigious to mountainous territory, with no possibility to extend their tow n only by obtaining section IS, contigious to the present townsite. Inasmuch as the lands In question are school lands, no adverse ad-verse title can be urged. The bill contemplates contem-plates that other lands shall he selected by the proper officer in another part of the territory ter-ritory iu lieu thereof for school purposes." |