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Show IDAHO WILL BE GIVEN THREE MILLION ACRES Special to Tho Tribune. uJ101 hl- JaM- 35. This state will be allowed to use its appropriation of three millions of Carey act land, regardless regard-less of the order that has b.;ou Issued the commissioner of the general land office refusing to rccognlzo applications tor segregations of Carey act land over and above that amount and of which there are at present applications on file for a half-million acres. That somebody blundered In tho Issuance of this sweeping sweep-ing order Is evident from thc fact that Regirftor Church of tho state land office this afternoon received a telegram recalling re-calling the order and granting to this state its full appropriation of threo million mil-lion acres. There was general surprise and consternation con-sternation exhibited by Carey act project proj-ect promote!!, officials and others interested inter-ested In tho reclamation of arid land lu this stato when tho order of thc commissioner com-missioner was received, and the financiers finan-ciers of projects which are to be irrigated irri-gated Immediately took steps to withdraw with-draw their support from tho projects, not caring to Invest thousands of dollars In Iho land and havo tho government lion vn applications for sogrcga- Senalors lleyhurn and Borah wcro hurriedly hur-riedly conferred with by wire and thc solons took the matter up with thc commissioner com-missioner It was known by congressional congres-sional delegates from Idaho thai If tho order was allowed to stand tho Irrigated section of thc Gem stato would be delivered deliv-ered a staggering blow, that would result re-sult In the retarding of Its development. There aro now ponding in tho general land ofllco applications for 2,272 2ii arn5;Tno department has lists for l.SOO.000 acres, segregated or pending. This leaves somo 472.000 acres listed. Ihc Idaho stnte land office has applications applica-tions for 93.000 acres more. It is predicted pre-dicted that not only will tho appropriation appropria-tion of three million be segregated within with-in tho next ycr. but Inside of leu years three million more will bo needed |