The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-14
WILL P|NCHOT Be
REMOVED BY TAFT
President Expected to Forci-
bly, Sustain Secretary
BaIIinger.
NO GRABBING CLAIM MADE
LAND OFFICE MAKES THE STATE
MENT THAT ONLY WATER POW.
Err SOUGHT IN MONTANA WERE
WATER HOLES.
NO GRABBING CLAIM MADE

1 alt luCeHOS 10 sustain secretary OF
the Interior Ballinger in his conservar
tion policy. This statement is made
upon the strength of information
which reaches Washington from Bev-
erly. 1t is semi-officially stated here
that the president and Secretary Bal
linger are in complete accord in desir-
ing to carry out the Roosevelt conser-
walton plans.
Secretary Ballinger in refusing to
go beyond the law may in degree en-
danger the full realization of all the
plans, but in placing the responsibility
upon congress for any failure that
may come he does not separate him.
self from the President Mr.. Pinchot
and his friends assert that already the
government has lost control of some
Fof the most valuable water powers.
The general land office replies that q
search of the record does not sustain
this contention.
Pinchot Removal Predicted.
In administration circles it Is stated
that Mr.. Pinchot has gone so far that
1t will be necessary for the president
to choose between him and Secretary
Ballinger, and that, while the choice
may be postponed until after the pres
ident's western trip, 1t will result in
the retention Of Secretary Ballinger.
Much interest was manifested here
today by interior department officials
in reports from Denver that a hearing
in Seattle next month will disclose
proof of gigantic frauds in connection
0rys%I
clined to discuss the nature Of the evt
dence. but it is learned that upward
of 700 entries ON coal lands in Alas
ka, involving about $4,000 acres of
coal land containing valuable veins,
have been suspended during the last
three years. Estimating that these
entries of 16O acres to be worth at
least 5000 an acre on a basis of cent
q ton, these coal lands would be worth
$40, 100000.
"At no time during the administra-
ton of Secretary Ballinger have any
power sites been filed upon in Mon
tana,' says Acting Assistant Commits
sioner Schwartz of the general land
office, In statement today in denial
of charge that in the Bozeman, Mon
tana, land district one jeremiah Col
Inns on June IL filed on 1865 acres
Of land valuable for power sites and
in the interest of large power compan-
les.
Wanted Water Hold.
THE only filing at Bozeman on
June H. says Mr.. Schwartz, was
made by President Ramsey of the Riv-
erside Land and Live Stock company,
and was an application to amend an
original selection made in 1898, aggre-
eating a total area of 1858 acres.
The newspaper correspondent by
emitting the decimal mark converted
this into 15,S6s acres. This 15s acres
covers two small springs in an arid
country, and is intended by the live
stock company to acquire a place to
water sheep. This application was re-
jected by the local land office, and re-
lection sustained in this office for the
dauble reason that it was within rail-
road limits and stands withdrawn for
reclamation purposes.
The only water power sites on the
water sheds of the Missouri river not
HOW uuucI tue COQtTOI Oh the govern
ment are those which have been In
private ownership for several years.
and two additional sites which run the
street cars and lighting OF Helena and
Butte, and the mines In Butte. the
Helena Power and Light and Capital
Improvement companies. Their rights
however. are revokable permits and
were approved jointly by the depart,
ment of the interior and the forest ser
vice In the years 1907 and 1908"
What is said to be the largest acre
age withdrawn for temporary water
power sites in the history OF the inter-
ior department was made today when
Acting Secretary Wilson withdrew ST.
$50 acres along the Colorado River. in
Utah. The land IN question was With
drawn to prevent monopolfes" and
with view to procure legislation |
from congress to preserve it to the
government |