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Show Blow Aimed At Land Surveys Washington. Representative Cram-ton Cram-ton of Michigan is anxious that congress con-gress pass a bill before adjournment repealing the status under which ! states may advance money to pay the cost of public laud surveys. This step if taken, might materially slow down surveys in Utah and possibly in other states where the government has been particularly backward in surveying its own lands. Mr. Cramton has written a. letter to the public lands committee, of which he is not a member, urging the committee to repeal the survey bill. Unless this law is repealed, it is feared he may delay appropriations for public land surveys next session. Representative Colton of Utah, when interrogated, said he was not going to support legislation repealing the survey law. Utah, he said, had advanced ad-vanced $100,000 to the federal government govern-ment to pay the cost of surveying public pub-lic lands within its borders because Lhe government itself was so slow getting get-ting around to it, and $90,000 of that amount has been refunded to the state, and the remaining $10,000 soon will be paid. But unless some such means as this is open, and the state can loan its funds to expediato surveys, sur-veys, Mr. Colton fears it will be many years before surveys of government lands in Utah are completed. |
