Show i iI Its It's tip Up p to the States r I ft HE E compromise romise report of the public lands lands I commission is being prepared for congressional con con- gressional action acHon upon the majority j that the surface rights of federal glands 1 be transferred to the eleven western states tates for their own administration J i President Hoovers Hoover's commission studied the subject l for many months and while members ame from some ea eastern tern states state a as well as lom public land st states tes In the west a con con- of ideas regarding the proposal was apparent ap ap apparent parent paren at the outset In many of the western states there has been een opposition to the proposal fpm from fm the very start In Utah for fot instance the suggestion sug- sug V estion that this thi state accept the surface and not ot the mineral rights was not received with I general approval The use of part of the land Imd without all aU of it does not appear to offer any especial special advantage to this state according to Tsuch such authorities as Senator Smoot Governor Dern Den and others I. I There need be no occasion for alarm larm on the part of th the opponents of the transfer forit for it will be some time before congressional faction action can be taken laken and even if that action is js is favorable to the transfer it will then beto beup be oJ up up to th the individual states state to accept or reject the proposal v It it is ls is- is isa a subject which should be thoroughly f studied died and as thoroughly understood before the the people of Utah or any of the other western west west- ern em ern states agree to the Hoover plan of trans travis A fer fer In these theses states where there is a vast pu ti domain many many issues arc are involved beyond beyond be- be 1 yond yond the bare transfer of oJ any portion of or-l or land nd ot Tights r I What the west will want to know first of of bf all is that no additional burden is to be shunted fr from m federal shoulders to state con- con oi I- I Irol troI rol 9 The whole question is one which should be determined solely by the elev eleven n west western rn states Estates states |