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Show Yst Baden, Ind., Oct. 18 Utter confusion which clouds title to state school lands and threatens seriously to hamper the progress of education by limiting funds available for that purpose, was pointed out by Governor R. Mabey of Utah in an address delivered here today to-day before the fifteenth annual conference of governors upon state and national problems. Indian reservations, national nation-al forest land and eoal and mineral min-eral land withdrawals in Utah, Governor Mabey said, have consumed more than one-third of the original school land grant, leaving the state to choose in its stead territory of practically no value for agri cultural purposes. "What will be left to the school children when the land office is finally through, from which to choose the inheritance intended to guarantee in part their education, will be the alkali al-kali home of the desolate greasewood and the ubiquitous shad scale or the sandy domain of the companionable rattlesnake, rattle-snake, and his ' protege, the prickly pear,. ' Governor Mabey asserted. Referring to the constant encroachments en-croachments on school lands in the western states, he declared it rested with the federal government to make good its original gift for the benefit of .public education. |