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Show j CAREFUL' IN VSTf EAT f ON' 1 0FLAH0CLASS1FICATI0N Profesf of Montana Mine Owners' Own-ers' Association Stirs Interior Department to Action. i II ISLEXA, Mont., April 13. In compliance com-pliance with the request of the Montana Mon-tana Mining association..' through ils representatives sent lo Washington to interviow President Roosevelt, Secretary Secre-tary Garfield and othorsthe intorior department has begun an investigation into the mineral and non-mineral cbis-sification cbis-sification of lands included in Northern North-ern Pacific land -grants in Montana and Idaho. Land Commissioner Denctt assigned as-signed Chief of Field Service Schwartz to the task, mid for two weeks he has been mapping out plans ror a thorough investigation into each and every complaint. com-plaint. Today it was announced that field work would be placed in charge of L. L. Sharp of Helena. The North-orn North-orn Pacific, has also filed some protests, and these, too, will be investigated. The railroad alleges that, a strip of land I en miles wide and I went v four miles long near the North fork of ihc Clearwater in Idaho has been classified as mineral, whon in fact it is not mineralized. min-eralized. The same allegation is mado in reference to largo tracts in the Bitter Bit-ter Root and Cascade ranges in Montana. Mon-tana. Mr. Schwartz said that ninny complaints had been filed wherein h had been alleged that the railroad had secured much valuable timber and min. oral land, under improper classification. |