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Show Gooding Asks Action on Park Land Bill Washington Senator Gooding requested re-quested Chairman StaufieUl of thj public pub-lic lands committee to call his committee com-mittee together in the near future to consider a bill eliminating the Belcher river region from tile Yellowstone National Na-tional park, so that storage leservoirs may bo built on this tributary of the Snake river, to impound water for use in southern Idaho. Senators ataufiel.4. Kendrick, Gooding and Norbei k of the public lands committee viotled the Bechler river country last summer lo determine whether or not the southwest south-west corner of the Yellowstone was more valuable for irrigation storage than its scenery, and whether reservoirs reser-voirs could be built without impairing any important scenic attractions, and these senators are understood to favor Senator Gooding's proposal to eliminate elimin-ate from the park suMieient land to take care of the desiretl reservoirs. |