| Show the land withdrawal the recent instructions issued from the general land office department yf the interior to the registrars and receivers of the united states land offices throughout the united states directing them to withdraw all lands to be hone fitted by of the national reservoir system is and to an extent uncertain and withal of complications that must to a great degree retard settlement on tha government domain what object the department may have in view in the withdrawal of these lands from the operation of the preemption pre emption homestead and timber culture acts is difficult to understand unless it be that the next congress will pass a law increasing the price or value of the lands to euch an extent as will practically pay the expenses of the reservoir at all events the instructions from the department are not such as to inspire the settlers with any great degree of admiration mi ration for the methods used by the government in the reclamation of the public domain we are informed 1 that the registrar of the land office at salt lake city while obedient to instructions has no precedent on which to predicate his action for withdrawal nor can we have until by the governments authorized surveyors an official plat of the lands coming under the immediate or remote supply of these reservoirs is furnished him As matters now look the instructions are likely to be withdrawn or materially modified ogden standard |
