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Show Secretary of the Interior Lane has just Issued his monthly announcement of classifications of public Innds mndc during August During this month nbout thrco hundred thousand acres have been tempornrily withdrawn from entry for the purpose of classification ns to the value of the land for coal, nnd nftcr such classification will bo restored. About forty-six thousand acres of this land is In Montana nnd two hundred nnd fifty-seven thousand ncrcs in New Mexico. During Dur-ing the month nbout a hundred nnd thirty thousand thous-and ncrcs were restored from coal withdrawals in Utah, twenty-two thousand ncrcs In Oregon nnd thirteen thousand In New Mexico. Thirty-five Thirty-five thousand ncrcs of oil lands in Wyoming were withdrawn, nnd fifty-five hundred ncrcs in various vari-ous Western States nnd in Alaska wcro placed in water power reserves. Twelve hundred acres In Idnho were eliminated from wnter power reserves. |