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Show PLANS TO PROTECT j CITY WATER SYSTEM; j Special to The Tribune, 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 2$. Senator I nioot Hied in the senate favorable reports re-ports from the public lands committee on bin bill to protect the Salt Iake City j water ?stem by authorizing the issuance ' of a patent to the Gray Trust company for 40 acres of government land in Utah j in lieu of an equal acreage owned by the j company in the Wasatch national forest. ; These lands are lo revert to the government govern-ment and be used to augment the ialt 1 Lako water supply system. He also filed a favorable report upon his bill for t he consolida tton of privately ownd lands in reservations and their ( withdrawal, the consolidation to be ef- J fected by exchange for government lands. Sena tor Smoot offered an amendment to the Indian appropriation hill, to ap- I propriate $12,0?0 to pay Uintah and Du- ' i liesne counties for the education of the j children of white lessees of Indian lands, j |