Show URGES STUDY OF RANGE SITUATION questions affecting the public domain M in particularly the unreserved lands were outlined for study by president hoover recently to hla his commission on conserva conservation t anand and administration of the public dorrall the held its first meeting with the president dent at the white house and he told it of the general scope of the problems into which he desired it to inquire the questions presented to the commission by the president were similar to those which h he e outlined in a public statement some t time line ago these had to do with over grazing water conservation the reclamation service and similar projects the commission was told that it Is tree free to consider also conservation ol 01 oil and coal and other problems that arise in connection with the domain chairman garfield of the commission said subcommittees would ba be appointed apted poin ted to make the preliminary inquiries adding information had already been collected by government departments and that the task of the commission will be to assimilate this information and reach conclusions he indicated he expected a decision to be arrived at probably before midwinter in a round table discussion concerning the governments iao million acres sere 9 charles J of montrose colo suggested that each of the commission members from the eleven states concerned hold bold a public hearing in his la own state on the public lands problem the west Is already in turmoil be he said aid in our r state cattlemen and sheep men today are clashing more than they have in thirty years yeam he said mad the situation seemed to him to demand different grazing regula eions he also urged the necessity ot of clarification of the question of subsoil policy he cald mid that a large portion of Coloro ados 63 66 million acres of public domain was oil shale and d coal reserves the people of colorado are asking constantly whether the purpose of i this commission la is merely to concern surface rights or whether some program can be worked out whereby the land can be administered by the states i to develop subsoil resources returning royalties to the goye nent |