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Show SURVEY OF PUBLIC j D0MA1NJJNDER WAY; Federal Lands Commission Will Yisit This Section ef Utah on Tour. (Telegram) A survey that may result in a settlement of a long standing dispute dis-pute over the ownership of the public domain was started in Salt Lake Wednesday when six members mem-bers of President Hoover's public lands commission left for a tour of seven of the eleven western sralt". While a seudv of the lands con- I cerned in these states is not t pected to solve the problem en- i tirely, a report of the findings ! of the commission will be submitted sub-mitted to the president with recommendations rec-ommendations as to the disposition disposi-tion and control of the public lands. The group, composed of William Peterson of Logan, director of ex- j tension at the Utah state agricul- j tural college; Perry W. Jenkins i of Big Piney, Wyo., former Gov-ernor Gov-ernor James P. Goodrich of In- I diana; I. H. Nash of Idaho; Ru-. ; dolph Kuchler of Arizona, and J. M. Brandjord of Montana, arriv- ed 'in Cedar City last night on the first leg of the tour. In Utah they will be made acquainted ac-quainted with the public lands question near Bryre canyon, Zion, and near the Nevada border. It ie aiso proposed to inspect the various vari-ous irrigation and reclamation projects in this .state. |