Show 1 t r B BLAND lAND LA lAW ASSURED Development of Idle Acres in Utah Looms Und Under r Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary Lanes Lane's Soldier Bill By Associated Press Prell WASHINGTON v ASHINGTON Feb g v favorable report on the bill to appropriate to make reclaimed public lands available for settlement by discharged discharged dis- dis charged soldIers and sailors was Wal ordered ordered or- or dered today by the senate publio lands land committee after Secretary Lane had appealed for a action on the ground that thAi was a great reconstruction meas ure A similar bill has been reported to the house By means ot of thIs measure which provides for fot loans to men who wIth the armed forces durIng the war S Secretary Lane said jobs could be as- as as' as urea ll w within thin yo I days r. r With the tb proposed F committee was told at least farms in forty states could be made ready for permanent occupancy by the themen themen men who helped clear them MILLIONS FOR UTAH The bill to approprIate for the reclamation of arid and swamp swamplands swamplands lands as homes and farms for returning returning return return- ing soldiers sailors and war workers wIll make possIble the reclamation of acres of 0 land In the Colorado rIver basin acres of which lie wIthin Utah The land in the Colorado rIver basIn to be reclaimed lies in Ar Art Art- zona New Mexico 1 Colorado Wyoming Nevada Utah and California Practically all of the states slates interested interested inter inter- ested In the Colorado rIver basin project project have passed laws provIding for forstate forstate state cooperation with the federal government government gov- gov in the reclamation of these theBe lands and have created soldier settlement settlement settle settle- ment boards to assist soldiers and sailors sail sall- ors and war workers to homestead farms The bill introduced in the Utah legislature by the joint agricultural commission creating a soldier settlement settlement settle settle- ment board provides for the appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment by the governor ot of a soldier settlement set set- commissIoner at a salary not notto notto to exceed per year for a year fIve term and the president of the State AgrIcultural college and the state engIneer engineer en- en as members ot of the board The plan ot of the government is to gIve the soldier and sailor employment upon the project during the course ot of construction and then when the waterlogged land shall have been draIned dItches and dams constructed constructed con con- to allow him to homestead on one of the farms he has helped to cre- cre ate The government and state will loan hIm money to construct farm buIldings buy implements and stock and he will be allowed forty years in which to pay these loans The loans will carry a a. small rate rat of Interest |