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Show TAFT'S CONSERVATION POLICY President Indicates His Attitude by Withdrawal of Land and Appoint-' ment of Reclamation Board. Beverly, Mass. President Taft has taken the first step in his own conservation con-servation policy by signing orders of withdrawal covering S.495.731 acres of power sites, phosphate and petroleum lands. The president also appointed five engineer officers of the army who will constitute a board to pass on the reclamation re-clamation projects to be completed under un-der the recent appropriation of $20,000,000. It is hinted that there are other important im-portant announcements to come with regard to the conservation policy of the administration. The president has summoned Secretary Ballinger for a conference Tuesday. The withdrawal orders signed by the president are the first spe-ciiicallv spe-ciiicallv authorized by the new law. Mr. Roosevelt as president, inaugurated inaugu-rated the policy of withdrawing public pub-lic lands under the general theory of the right of the executive to do anything any-thing in the interest of the public domain not prohibtied by law. President Presi-dent Taft also signed orders of withdrawal with-drawal covering public lands and lands in national forests in Alaska in which workable coal is known to occur, oc-cur, thus ratifying and continuing in full effect the withdrawal made by former President Rosevelt on November Novem-ber 12, 1906. |