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Show TO APPRAISE LANDS, Idaho May Exchango Sections 16 and 36 for New Tracts. Special to Tho Tribune. SALMON CITY, Ida.. May 26. C Tj. Smith of Boise, who has been detailed b3 the national forest service to take charge of tho selection of school lands In lieu of sections 16 and 36, has been in Salmon durimr the past week making arrangements for the appraisal of all grazing and timber lands In those sections sec-tions included in tho Salmon forest reserve. re-serve. In the state of. Idaho there aro 550,000 acres In sections 16 and SC. and of this amount 72,000 acres are In the local reserve. re-serve. The revenue derived from sale of timber, grazing and leasing privileges on these lands belongs to tho school fund tnder the present law. The returns, however, have been comparatively com-paratively sma.ll, and the government will allow the state to choose any Idaho land equal In worth to the appraisement of sections 10 and -36. |