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Show UTAH MAY GET AN EXCHANGE Of LANDS Conference of Members of State Land Board and District Forester Sherman and Forest Examiner C L. Smith Held in Ogden Prospective Transfer of Great Importance to Utah. Chairman W D Candland and Secretary Sec-retary Wm J. Lynch of the Utah slate land board, were In th'1 city yesterday in conference with District Forester E A. Sherman and Forest Examiner C L. Smith, regarding the advisability of the state land board entering into a co-operative agreement agree-ment with (he department of agrlcul ture looking to the consolidation of the stale's unsurveyed school lands within national forests. The stale of Utah, upon its admission admis-sion Into the union, was granted section sec-tion 2, 16. 32 and 36 In each township, town-ship, for school and road purposes The 6tale does not secure title to these lands until they are surveyed and the survey accepted by the com missioner of the general land office The Inclusion of such unsurveyed lands within the national forests results re-sults in preventing the state from s. curing title to such sections 2. 16. 32 and 36. so long as the proclamation creating the national forest remains effective The state, however, has a right to use 6ald sections 2. 16, 32 and 36 as base for the purpose of selecting se-lecting unreserved public lands els-where. els-where. The state of Utah already has selected other lands In lieu of the major part of unsurveyed lands within the national forest. However, owing to the fact that this state was given four sections In each township, instead of two sections, as was the caae In most of the states In the union, un-ion, there Is still a considerable acreage acre-age within the national forests which the state has avai'nble for base for which it may make selections el6; whore. During the past year, under a cooperative co-operative agreement entered into by Governor Hnwley of Idnho and the secretary of agriculture, ell thu unsurveyed unsur-veyed school lands in the State ! Idaho within national forests, which had not already been used as base ' have been examined, classified and appraised In place of these scattered scatter-ed holdings, an examination Is being made of a number of solid bodlou of land, which the state will select for final patent and ownership In carrying oui this agreement. In order , that the state may secure tlmberlandn of sufficient desirability, it will be i necessary' ' eliminate a portion of a national forest, which portion the state will select in a solid body. The , field work in Idaho has about been completed, and the negotiations for the final exchange are progressing very satisfactorily A similar arrangement arrange-ment was entered Into a couple of years ago with the state of South Dakota and the state of Soulh Dakota Dako-ta is already in 'full possession of solid blocks of lands selected under this arrangement The work in the state of Idaho during the past year has ben under the direction of forest for-est Examiner C L. Smith, with headquarters head-quarters at Boise. Ida. The suggestion that the state of Utah enter Into such an arrangement was bronched to Governor Spry by District Forester Sherman, at a conference con-ference in Salt Lake Monday This , resulted in the matter being taken 1 up further by the chairman and secre-r secre-r of the state land board vester day, and It will probably be considered consider-ed by the entire land board in session at Salt Lake today While readily admitting many ad vantages to bo gained by such an arrangement, ar-rangement, neither the ptate nor federal fed-eral officers who wore in the confer enci would express any definite optn Ion as to whether such an agreement would or should be eventually consummated |