Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-05-03 | Page 8 | Speculation in Land Frowned On

SPECULATION IN INLAND INLAND I LAND FROWNED ON PORTLAND D Ore Ma May ra 3 3 Backers of the tho Columbia Basin Ir- Ir Irrigation ir irrigation project et e want mat nt no iso specula 51 speculation tion Hon in lands under It to raise ralo 11 ices and perhaps discourage set set- tl et-tl tIers t rs The Tho directors of ot the Colum Coluni- ColumbIa Columbia bia Basin Irrigation league I ea e meet meet- meet lug Ing here trained framed aS a ice S les the tho league meet meet-I to do doall doall all In It its po power er to prevent euch and urging that no lands under th the thi project be b bought bough I or suld until they have haie been clas clas- classified and their value fl fixed td A committee e was named to take all LII possible steps ste-'s to carry out there the re resolution The action followed folio ed reiding re ofa ot of otI ofa I a report asserting that ral leal estate e dealers de already had busied 1 them them- themselves Ieh eel selves PS Cs In regard to certain ce lands hands and stating was mas feared sonic somo settlers might be Induced to lur- lur pur chase lind whose bu Ing they hater laler pur-j pur I