Show DEPARTMENT FAVORS PUBLIC LANDS BILL The interior department yesterday favorably recommended the M Myers ers bill bilI granting acres of public land to Utah according to dispatches from Washington and there is every dedication indi indi- indication indication cation that this bill will go through The land is to be sold by the states to the highest bidders and tho the proceeds will be divided equally between reclamation reclamation reclamation mation good and roads work Estimating this land to be worth 5 an acre it is figured by state officials this will bring OOOO for the two funds Governor Spry expresses re regret regret regret re- re gret that the Smoot bill providing for acres did not go through but butis butis butis is pleased that Utah will get a quarter million at least He thinks there is every very likelihood that the bill will pass |