Show HITCH ON IDAHO LANDS Segregation of Arid Acres Not Approved SEC HITCHCOCK SUSTAINED I No More Contracts With State While Idaht Law Stands Objectionable Law Provides That Unsettled Un-settled Lands Shall Revert to Improvement Im-provement Companies Washington Dec 23 Aalsslant I Attor neyGeneral Campbell of tho Interior department de-partment has rendered an opinion to Secretary Sec-retary Hitchcock sustaining tho latter In refusing to approve the segregation of between be-tween four and five hundred thousand lvo acres of arid lands In Idaho which It was proposed to reclaim The Commissioner of the General Land office had held that in view of an act of the Idaho Legislature of March 18 1001 no further contracts between the State and the United States could be entered Into BO long as thn State law was In force This law provides that when a company com-pany Improves a tract of land by the building build-ing of extensive Irrigation canals and within two years hud not found the necessary neces-sary settlers for each ICO acres of land tho land should be deeded to tho coTupanlQS making the Improvements This was Bal to bo contrary to the Federal laws Under the decision entered tho natter will again come before the Interior department at the expiration of the twoyear clause for set tlonont of the lands |