The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-26
AN ORIGINAL PURSUIT.
How Tooele Valley Has All Been Entered
Work Prosecuted by Senior & Rand.

Notwithstanding the fact that so much of
Tooele valley is now practically barren,
there is scarcely a foot of it left that has
not been entered upon by one or another Of
the methods which the land laws provide.
Within the next two years vast changes
may be expected. A look at the maps on
file in the land Office will reveal that vast
tracts have been entered by parties here
and elsewhere, who, under some of the
several laws, mainly desert, will shortly
be compelled to get water upon the barren
area or relinquish their claims-a thing
| very unlikely TO happen. This does not in
clude the Iowa colony which is to settle in
this valley, but has been brought about by
a novel and systematic labor on the part of
two or three persons.
Messrs. Senior g. Rand, realizing the cost
and difficulty to individuals ascertaining
what lands were not located upon and of
having them surveyed and staked out,
| themselves had the work done and kept a
map of all the sections-those vacant
together with those taken up. Whenever
a person desired to make a location, the
firm was in position to tell him just what
lands were vacant, show them to him, point
out the lines, and all he had to do was to
enter upon the lands. If he took it the
| firm charged him nominal sum for its
! services, if he did not it cost him nothing.
This is how large part of the Tooele val
ley land has been located upon.
The same practice and work has enabled
the firm to locate hundreds of persons
lands in this valley. They have kept track
of the surveys and entries of that vast and
valuable tract of land in this valley west of
the Jordan river, and to-day scarcely foot
of it remains open to entry. The first salt
claims on the lake were entered by Mr.. E.
w. Senior, and they are now owned by
Jeremy & Co.
During trip to New York some time ago
Mr.. Senior located a great many eastern
parties on lands in this and Tooele valley
one Brooklyn lady, Mrs. Parrish, making
the trip here and back for the purpose
of locating on 640 acres of desert land.
Even now the firm has control Of the sink
ing of a great many artesian wells in this
valley for parties whom they located on
lands by the methods detailed above. This
work is now being prosecuted, and will be
extended until the law has been fully com
piled with.
The Iowa colony, when those controlling
it have tested to their satisfaction the coal
mines in which they are interested. will
move the boring machinery into TOoele
valley and begin the sinking of artesian
wells there. The belief that these wells can
he Rad in any part of this valley is
strengthened greatly by the success the
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water there-whiCh now has some six of
these wells flowing in a distance of less
than two rods and they are of compar-
atively trifing depth. So on many of the
entries made through Senior & Rand,
they have orders to sink artesian wells
and will begin to work in the near future
As Mr.. Senior says: SIT is highly improb-
able that any Of these parties, all of them
well to do, would go to the trouble and ex-
pense incurred in examining and entering
these lands and then forfeit their
right to them. And as many of
the locators are persons of wealth
and non-residents of Utah, il means
they will bring sums of money
into Toeele and this valley, spend it and
enhance all the values of the whole area
We think we have done a good work and
are helping Utah as well as the best of
them"
Among recent letters received by the
firm was one asking if the waters of Rush |
Lake could be utilized and run out or the |
lands north of it. The writer is a person
who represents vast amount of money
and who said money was no object. This
is evidence that the minds Of interested
parties are not neglectful Of their interests
in Utah.
Messrs. Senior & Rand are still working
in the same direction and locating persons
DESTROYS to enter land in Utah in any part
of the territory.