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Show STATE MAY EXCHANGE LAND WITH THE U. S. FOREST SERVICE To inspect available material at the forest service office with the view of i effecting an exchange of lanJ as (agreed upon by the state and federal government, President R. E. Pavis land Secretary Arthur Kuhn of th j state land board, were at the forest , service building this morning, conferring confer-ring with forestry officials. ! The agreement which has been ar-. ar-. ranged between the state and the federal fed-eral government will cover an exchange ex-change of state holdings within the na-, na-, tlonal forests for other government i land. j 1 It was stated at the forestry service thlr. morning that in perfecting these exchanges the federal government does not wish to exchange forest land for agricultural land, but is willing to xchange agricultural types of-land because be-cause by such exchanges both types of land are put to their highest use. It ia not desired to make exchanges whereby mineral lands would come in- j to government ownership.. although It! is hoped at some future time to se-, cure a legislation whereby the government gov-ernment can secure surface rignts to mineral bearing land. In that event! the l::nd surface can be put to its highest high-est use, without interfering in any way with the development of the mineral , resources underground. Many home-1 steads were taken up in earlier vears under the somewhat loose legislation i which permitted .the taking of extensive exten-sive and valuablo timber bodies as homesteads. .Many of these timber homesteads will probably revert to tho ' government through exchanges. The government is glad to secure title1 through exchanges to grass land, ! brush land or similar areas within the forests, where such lands now alien-, ated. hamper effective administration and protection nf thn fn form an important part of the forest watersheds. |