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Show i WITHDRAWN OIL LAND MAY BE THROWN OPEN Senator Smoot secured a favorabl. j report from the committe on public ! lands on his bills providing for agricul-; agricul-; ture entries on lands withdrawn as oil lands last Wednesday. Many large tracts of good agricultural land have been withdrawn from entry because they are considered valuable by j the goverment for oil. Several large ; culti vation projects were started for the j circulation of these lands, but when the : lands were classified as oil lands and withdrawn from entry, work on the projects stopped. Senator Smoot hopes to secure the : passage of the bill anj it is ; understood under-stood that as soon as it is enacted into law work on the irrigation projects will be reeumed. |