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Show hi. nmm i SEPT IjJfJ STATE W. L. Walker, High in Councils of Land Office, Needed in Idaho. W. L. Walker, a mineral inspector of the general land office, who has been connected with tho tenth field division for the past year and a half, loaves this afternoon for Boise, Ida., where he will bo connected with tho fourteenth field division, which was recently created cre-ated in Idaho, as a result of tho last congressional appropriation of $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 for protecting the public domain. Tho district of the tenth field division now embraces Utah, and it is this section sec-tion that Mr. Walker has been cmplo3"-ed cmplo3"-ed since October, 1007. Mr. Walker is classed as one of the best men in the mineral division of the general land office, alike 1)3' his superiors supe-riors and his associates. Upon Mr. Walker will fall tho burden 'of proof of tho government's case in ma 113 of the coal hearings now pending before tho land office.' Much valuable coal laud has been selected and entered in Utah within tho past eight or ten years, but. the government has not yoi passed title to tho same, and in ma 113' instances title will not pass completely. Mr. Walker has done a great deal of work in the Carbon county coal fields and also tho less known coal fields of Iron county and southern Utah. Mr. Walker is being sent to a more difficult district than Utah, and it is because of tho extreme confidence of Iho officials at Washington that siuh transfer has been made. Last summer he was engaged in Iho Boiso basin in Idaho investigating the alleged filing of timber and stono entries on mineral lands. M.r. Walker has also done considerable con-siderable work in tho placer lauds along tho Suakc river, hence he ; will not bo an entire stranger in his new field of labor. |