Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-03-16 | Page 2 | Smoot Introduces Department Bills

SMOOT INTRODUCES DEPARTMENT BILLS Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, March IS. At the request re-quest of the Interior department. Senator Smoot, chairman of the public lands committee, com-mittee, today Introduced a bill amending the Carey desert land act so that the ten-year period In which the stale shall cause the lands to be irrigated shall run from the date of the approval by the Interior department of the application for segregation. If construction works for Irrigating the land are not begun within thrift years after the approval of the segregation, the lands may be restored to the public domain, and if tho whole or part oi the segregated lands are not Irrigated within ten years after the approval ap-proval of tho scBrexatlon the secretary of the Interior may restore the land not Irrigated to the public domain. Senator 8moot also Introduced a departmental bill providing for surface agricultural entries on Alaska coal lands.