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Show WEST FEELS THE WITHDRAWALS. A prominent business man of Ogden, who has had a broad ex-perience, ex-perience, on reading of the withdrawals of Utah coal lands, said he thought the government is making a mistake in tying up western resources so completely as to destroy the spirit of expansion which in the past has been one of the fascinating charms of western opportunities. op-portunities. Western men have had large dreams and have accomplished great things because their opportunities, in their limitlessness, have stimulated and given play to the imagination. Now the possibilities are being circumscribed and hedged in by government red-tape and discouraging demands. "How would you conserve our resources?" asked the newspaper man. "Why do as private concerns that hold large interests ar4 doing. Over in Wyoming, the Union Pacific is allowing coal to be extracted from its lands on a royalty of ten cents a ton. If the government were to grant such privileges then the coal would be conserved and at the same time the country would experience none of the hampering restrictions of these complete withdrawals." The Standard has been a consistent supporter of the government govern-ment conservation policy, but we are forced to admit that some such modification of the present policy, as suggested by the local business man, might cure those defects which have provoked the greatest opposition op-position in those sections of the west where conservation is viewed as an encroachment, a retarding measure and a usurpation. |