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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 j cost of public land surveys. This step if taken, might materially slow down I surveys in Utah and possibly in other j states where the government has been j particularly backward in surveying its own lands. Mr. Cramton has written j a letter to the public lands committee, ; of which he is not a member, urging i the committee to repeal the survey bill. Unless this law is repealed, it ': is feared he may delay appropriations j for public land surveys next session. Representative Colton of Utah, when j interrogated, said he was not going j to support legislation repealing the : survey law. Utah, he said, had ad-! ad-! vanced $100,000 to the federal' govern-! govern-! ment to pay the cost of surveying pub j lie lands within its borders because j the government itself was so slow get-ting get-ting around to it, and $90,000 o that i amount has been refunded to the j state, and the remaining $10,000 soon j 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. |