Show i SCOW ARTS BACKS i SEC Washington Aug nO Limo timo i the administration of Secre Secret I t tarr lary Ballinger have havo any power sites he been en flied on In Montana says Act Acting Ing Assistant Commissioner of the general land and office in a state slate meat ment today todar The statement was issued as a denial of the story that In the Bozeman Mont land and district one Jer Jeremiah emiah Collins on Tune Tunc 11 flied on I acres of land for fOI sites r In th the interest of a large power com coin compan pan pany The rhe assistant commissioner I I l sa says t that neither Collins nor the Col I Ins has land company has made an ally such filing at or 01 elsewhere I 1 The Tho only water power site on the watersheds of the tue Missouri river not I under the control of the govern government meat ment under Secretary or orders orders ders of suspension are sites which I have been In private ownershIp for several years reMS says and two additional sites which are arc improved and to run iun the street cart and lighting of Hoena and and the mines In Butte Bulle Those tW are arc In the p of the I liena a Po Power r and Light company campau and the Capital Improvement ono having a dam of 85 feet high and andI I he other feet feel high across the tho river 1101 Their Theil rights are mere meic as distinguished Irom vested easements und ani per permits liliEs mits were vere jointly o by the IC de department of the tho Interior and the for forest est service In Iii the years carfi 1907 and the approval of the Helena Pow Power er und and Light company conwan being upon 1011 from the actiOn n of the general land office on applications for permits to erect the darn dam damAs As to on June Junc 11 or of President HanH Ramsey er of the Riverside laud and stock company for one hun bun hundred drel dred and and hundredths acres acre il iI was rejected hy by hythe bythe the local land office and rejection lii In this his office I |