Show congressman DON B COLTON TALKS ON PUBLIC DOMAN congressman meets with chamber board at banquet the lion hon DULL B colton congressman from the first utah district was the chief speaker at the meeting staged sept in the superior cafe banquet hall by the price chamber of commerce following the dinner congressman colton discussed the public domain and its relationship to the flood and conservation problem mr colton stated that public domain of which there is million acres in the united states was under no government supervision at all until it was homestead ed in which event it became under the jurisdiction of the interior department ile he traced the development of the forest service under the wing of president fRi eodore roosevelt and gifford pinchot and stated that was no more bitter bitte opponents of the move than the stockowner owner he traced the manner in which the opposition iva to this line was broken down and advocated the placing of oe the public domain under the supervision of some department to ye icci A summary of via the ligat he h wag waged ged in congress to furce tho the adoption of a departmental supervision for this land was made by mr colton who stated that senatorial apathy had succeeded in blocking the move to date dale A proposal by mr colton that the united states make of utah an experiment state to test state supervision was also described and he be stated that the interior secretary had indicted that he would be in favor ot of such a move I 1 was stressed by mr colto i as be ling ing responsible for many floda and a great waste of natural ra sources the chamber was urged to take steps to create a favorable binti ment meat toward the problem and to try and assist in ironing out the difficulties present for the board of directors were chairman william wililam littlejohn vice chairman A E gibson directors cary samey orson P madsen J perry egan E E pierce secretary A SI 31 rice and claude L mccracken mccrac ken |