Show Blow Aimed At Land Surveys Washington Representative Representative Cramton Cramton Cramton Cram- Cram ton of Michigan 1 is anxious that congress congress congress con con- gress pass a bill before beCore adjournment repealing the status under which states ma may advance money to pay the cost of public land surveys This step if taken might materially slow down surveys sun in Utah and possibly in other states where the government has been particularly backward in surveying its own own lands Mr Cramton has written a letter to the public lands committee of which he is not a member urging the tho committee to repeal the survey bill Unless this law is repealed it itIs itis itis Is feared he may delay appropriations for public land surveys next session Representative Colton of Utah when w en interrogated said he lie was not going to support legi legislation lation repealing the survey law Utah he said had advanced advanced advanced ad ad- to the federal government govern ment to pay the cost of surveying public pub lic lie lands within its borders because the government itself was so slow v getting getting getting get get- ting around to it and of that amount has been refunded to the state and the remaining soon will be paid But unless some such mch means as this is open and the state can loan its funds to surveys surveys sur sur- veys ors Mr Colton fears it will be many years before surveys of government lands in Utah are completed |