The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-26
LAND AGENTS HAVE
NEW HEADQUARTERS
Utah and Southern Idaho Now
Made Into a Special
District.
OFFICE IN CHARGE OF
CAPT. GEORGE E. HARE
Offices in Brooks B&lding Will
Be Occupied by Force
Tuesday.

Salt Lake City now is the headquar-
ters for the special agents Of the Unit
ed States land office for the division
composed Of Utah and Southern Idaho
Capt George F.. Hare of South Dakota,
formerly a special agent for the gen
er3l land office, is The assistant chief IN
charge of the new division.
Utah, until recently, was in the divl-
sion with Colorado. with headquarters
mt Denver. The order from tho head
of the land Office department at Wash
ington City establishing the new dlVl-
sion and designating Captain Hare as
tho chief. was issued In May to be
come effective AT once but did not do
so completely on account of various
d"lays.
Captain Hare s headquarters will he
in the Brooks building at Third South
and State streets, in rooms sos and 3ll.
These rooms have been secured and
fitted up for this division of the United
States land Office aud Captain Hare
and his special agents will occupy the
new headquarters Tuesday,
Work Facilitated.
Captain Hare, under the new order
Of things, has under his charge six spe-
cial agents. as follows: P. s. Sewers,
Charles F Read. w, s, Wade, y. n.
Nixon. II. II. Brighton and S. D. Park
er. Heretofore only two special agents
have been assigned to the land office
work in Utah under the direction of
division headquarters at Denver
The new order increasing the force
of the land Office here greatly facill-
tates the work and insures promptness
and added efficiency IN land matters In
this divjsiou. Captain Hare says that
two more men, one a mineralogist and
II IL H. ,ll Lad 10
the force Of this division soon. aug
menting the working possibilities of the
Utah division If the land office.
Until today the special land agents
have been handicapped in their work
somewhat by their cramped headquar-
tiers. The contest room in the Federal
building has been in use as an Office,
hut owing TO other demands for that
room the agents Frequently have had
to delay their work for time. The
opening of headquarters in the new of
fees in tie Brooks building removes
some Of the unfavorable conditions
against which the agents heretofore
have laborcd.
other Divisions Changed.
On account of the physical character
istics OF several of the Western divi-
sions Of the United States lard office,
several changes recently have been
made Southern Idaho. which now
forms part Of the new division, for
merIv was IN division with Eastern
Washington, with headquarters at Spo-
kane. Because of the topography of TIE
country it was necessary for, land
agents to pass through a. part of three
States in making trips to Southern
Idaho To avoid this several of the
Western divisions were redistricted,
throwing Southern Idaho and Utah into
one division, of which all parts are
more easily accessible from headquar-
ters here.
The appointment of Captain Hare,
who had charge Of a company OF sol
diers in the Spanish American war, is in
the line of a promotion. He has been
in the land office work for eight or ten
years. two of which have been spent
in Utah. Recently he has been In Col
orado and near the Northwest coast in
land office work Said he Monday aft
ernoon, in speaking of the change:
"Much Of the red tape that former
" hindered and delayed the work of
the land Office here. has been removed.
The establishing of the new division
means the removing of many of the re-
strictions. The work will be hastened
and facilitated to a high degree, 1t
will be possible TO get much quicker
action and better service for the peo-
pie on matters of interest TO them un-
der the new regime.