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Show 1 oo X REPORT FAVORABLY ON LAND EXCHANGE! WASHINGTON, May 2. The senate sen-ate public lands committee has reported re-ported favorably on the house bill In-; troduced by Representative Addison T Smith permitting the state or Idaho to exchange Us school sections within forest reserves for an equal value of unreserved public timber laTbe bill which has already passed tho house, stipulates that th- lands to bo taken by the state In exchange, I . 1 1 hall he from tracts from townsnlps 39 and 40 north, range 3 east, and townships 36, 37. 3S and 39 north, range E east, and 38 north 6 east, which area was once embraced in fraudulent timber entries and re- I verted to the government after trial in the courts. Tho area Is surrounded surround-ed by large timber holdings of lumber lum-ber companies and. through the 9X i-hange, It is thought the state can readily sell this land, or the limber at a good profit The commute.- also reported Senator Sena-tor Borah's bill granting th- city of Boise the use of a part of the Boise barracks military reservation rorj park purposes --oo |