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Show HOMES FOR HOMELESS. Agricultural Areas in Forest Reserve May be Restored to Public Domain. Salt Lake City. A special to the Herald from Washington says: It is the expectation of western senators and congressmen that areas of agricultural agri-cultural lands now embraced within forest reserves will ultimately be restored re-stored to the public domain. This expectation ex-pectation grows out of the fact that Secretary Wilson has ordered the forest for-est service to maKe an examination and classification of me various west esn reserves, setting forth by maps and by description those areas, now reserved, which are purely or largely agricultural lands, as distinguished from purely timber lands. i This order was made at the suggestion sug-gestion of Senator Heyburn of Idaho who urged Secretary Wilson to elimi nate from the reserves of Idaho all lands not chiefly valuable for theii timber. The secretary was not pos sessed of sufficient data to enable hirr at this time to eliminate agricultural lands in Idaho or other states, but iD informing the senator that he had called for a classification of lands in all reserves, he stated: "It seems tc me a fair proposition that lands which would make good homes foi our people and have no timber upon them, should be returned to the pub 11c domain." |