Show tate Fights Withdrawal Of f Local lands r pedaling Secretary of the Ickes secret wIth wal of approximately tely 3 acres aCles of lands m in rand and San Juan countIes not Dot the only tIme Utah as been kIssed off by the terror department A S rown chairman of the state and industrial de- de department on sent Governor Her Herert ert B Maw a resolutIon for fOl at the governors governor's at Denver last ek The resolutIOn was adopted by the I 1 Saturday The resolutIon opposing e practice of federal agen agenes is es secretly withdrawing and by executIve order pro ses seg for withdraw Is be vested m in congress ess It o opposed e extension of the resent leasing system as ap lied hed to mineral deposits The leasing system accord to the resolution tends to courage monopolistic con conI I and exploitatIon of the resources of the tes by the federal govern nt It It ual initiative and md IS a dat eat ent to the orderly ed method of economIC de of our OUI mineral re- re by prIvate capItal to the small rude prospectors and mm min who have been m in the past years r the past ast development of mineral resources m in the hon tion Mr Brown ill in a letter lettel to Maw gave the of w by the department interior WhICh resulted m in of the resolution letter reads read ill in part For your personal abon I am enclosing chron- chron lOgical statement showing e attItude of the depart eat ent of the interior towards presented to them on of the state T I receIved m first knowl- knowl ge of thIS order No of the 3 by Secretary Ickes on lily uly 30 although It et had been lied more mare than two months ore Sensing the great rm- rm and ItS serious of ef ts is ofis upon the development our natural resources and andr r industrial it I ImmedIately wIred Abe Murdock asking findt to investIgate and find t the whys and where ores of thIS order He Im- Im got In contact wIth teals cals of the department of interIOr but theIr 1 tion was so evasIve that It nothing The people of this state were amazed when 3 ey learned of thIS order from entry for lung locations nearly 3 a ana acres of f land ill in Grand G lid na San Juan Juanf counties The f and dictatorIal ac d n of the interior depart has caused staten through the state state n lid I Understand tag against mst v arev thIS vu many order pro are The m in Washington mining industry IS II e biggest asset the state of Lb Ur or has and 47 per cent of People are dependent up n It It forell directly or indirectly for err ell livelihood Some SOIne here tIme In the future is 18 go rig to be an ext a ten en enOve vo Ove Oar nr mineral development 0 et mining interests m in 1 re e t Years have been greatly u of and the dIscouraged actIon of f the as ras em of of the lessees as em of the company for sOCIal securIty purposes purpose Ap Apparently Apparently thIS has been rem edged but of If the present order No is allowed to stand and be extended y ou can say cay good bye to mining m in Utah and other othel western states |