Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit September 20, 1971, 24885_1 (Leslie F. Bleamaster and Norma v. Bleamaster v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior)

MERRILL, Circuit Judge;

Appellants brought suit to overturn a decision of the Secretary of the Interior declining to classify certain public lands near Palm Springs, in the Coachella Valley in Riverside County, California, as suitable for entry under the Enlarged Homestead Act of February 19, 1909, 35 Stat. 639, as amended, 43 U.S.C. § 218 (1964).