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Show UNDER CONTROL OF STATE. I Question of Developing Water Power to be Left to States Interested. ' Washington. Scnntor Carter, after a conference with soveral western governors, who woro in Washington attending tho governors' conference, has prepared a bill authorizing tho is-Bunnco is-Bunnco of patents to states for public lands chlofly valuablo for the development develop-ment of water powor. In effect, tho Carter measuro would turn over to tho states tho whole question of devoloplng tho water powor. It. would remove tho entire problem of regulating tho uso of landB and streams chiefly valuable for tho development of power from tho control con-trol of tho federal government. |