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Show 'CONFERENCE TO EE HELD SEPT. 10 : It U said by thoso familiar with tue situation that one of the moat l-i-rplexlng problems lu the interior and agricultural departments of ttw gcvornmeul is the proper settlement cf conflicting claims regarding land entries. The disagreements that arlso with officials bocause. of the contentions conten-tions and many technical questions li ought forward by entrymen has caused untold delays, and at time, no doubt, irregular declblons. To find a proper solution It has been determined by Secretary Wilson and Secretary llallinger of the two departments, according to a letter received yesterday by Acting Forester jfranklin W. Reed of the fostry service ser-vice of the Fourth district, to hold a conference of the officers of the-lend the-lend olflces and the agricultural detriment de-triment of the western states at Og-den. Og-den. September 10. This conference will be held In the forest service building, on Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street and Lincoln avenue, and ll Is anticipated that it will bo of greater Importance than any meeting ever held on tho question of claims to lands. Every detail of the disagreements dis-agreements that have heretofore wor-iled wor-iled tho officers of the departments ln question will be gone into, and ft the conference will be considered also the question of eliminations of lands from l.he national forest reserves re-serves that aro purely agricultural. The delegates to the conference will come from the six forest districts dis-tricts of the nation, which embrace the western country to the Canadian line on the north and the Florida forests for-ests on the south. Tho Ogden forest office Is recognized recog-nized by the government officials as the central point of operation in the handling of matters of correlation between be-tween the Interior aud agricultural departments, In the section mentioned. men-tioned. The officers "higher up" who will n'tend the conference are James M. Sheridan, chief of tho field division ef the general land office; R. w. Williams, Wil-liams, Jr., assistant solicitor of the department of agriculture, and D. D. Jlronson, general Inspector of the na lional forest service of Washington. These gentloraen are now making a trip of investigation over the conn-tiy conn-tiy embraced ln the order for the Inspection, In-spection, and they will visit all the headquarters of the forest service bo-fore bo-fore arriving at Ogden for the confer- ; ence. It Is now figured that Septem- her 10 will mark the opening of the j conference, and that the conference will remain In session for two or three days. |