The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-02
GREAT CROWDS
At TWIN FALLS
LAND DRAWING
0. c. PaulSOn of Greeley, Colo,
Held the First Number
to Come Out.
NO UTAH PEOPLE AMONG
THE FORTUNATE ONES
NAMES OF THE FIRST FIFTY
SCENES AND INCIDENTS OF
AN EXCITING DAY.

cessfu! land opening in the history of the
northwest was begun here today. There
was a large attendance and more than
10000 acres of land had been applied for
with only S0,000 to supply the demand. The
drawing vas conducted without a hitch
and the crowd was at all times orderly.
1t was a very conservative crowd and d
business air pervaded the assemblage. The
enthusiasm of the picnic variety was not
ably absent. When the drawing was
closed at O'Clock tonight for the day $40
of the 4O20 numbers in the box had been
drawn out and Sl5 filings had been made
ON about 5000 acres of land.
First Fifty Who Filed.
The following is a list of the first fifty
who filed: o. G. Paulson, Greeley. Colo,
Milo Thomas, Twin Falls; Jacob @. Par
ret. Fresno. Cal; John A. BrOWnell. AL
gona, Ia; Charles II. Hempieman, Cozad
Neb.: Elmer Ingraham Seattle: William
II. Wylie. Denver; Wilbur G. Thompson
Hooper. Neb.: G. A. TOlen, Bellingham;
William f. Prescott, Nampa; Joseph e
Ferguson. Victor, Colo; Nicholas j. Al
mont, Neb.; Annie WHEEL, Philadelphia;
John F. Cheldelin. VERONA, ore: Minnie
J. Coate, A.sona. Ia; Lloyd Sigler. Twin
Falls: Albert L. Nakey Sunnyside, Wash. :;
Anders Anderson. Chicago; Henry Bec-
tram. Rutledge, Mo; Oxen G.. Sherman.
Boise; Edward @. Stables. Twin Falls:
W. Il. Greenhow, Twin Falls; Miss Mort
eta Thomas, Colorado Springs; Julia Mel
son. Milwaukee; Charles T. Burt, Seattle;
{. J. DOmrose, Rock Creek, Ida; James
+. Denham. Centralia. Mo; AnniS Jones'
Middleton. Ida: Fred j. May. COncOnully.
Wash; J. A. Hungate, Pullman; NJ
Linge. Anaconda: Robert Q. Cassidy,
Bull. Ida; William Sheldon. Omaha; Is.
G. Pelot, Boise; Laura B. Clark. Cleve-
land. o; Raymond Jones. Middleton. Ida;
Martha NJ. Knight, Boise; John d. Sc
cor Palisade. Colo; L b. Compton,
Nampa; Zina y. Cleveland. Julesburg,
Colo; William Hutton, Ankeny. Ia; John
J. Vanansiei. Mckune. Kan; William
Graham Twin Falls; James o: Hiett ST.
Joseph. Fred GrieVe Twin Falls; George
W. SimcOX, Longmont, Colo.
Intense Excitement.
The barrel containing the cubes num-
bered TO correspond with the registrations
was given its initial Whirl by Secretary OF
state Landsdon at 10 O'Clock. TWO thous-
and pairs or eyes were glued on that par
rel. For many in the crowd II housed
their hopes of future homes and fat bank
accounts The opening was attended by
a continuation of the downpour OF rain
that had rendered conditions in Twin
Falls far from agreeable for the past
tWenty-four hours and the discontinue
was increased - a brisk and searching
wind But the crowd that faced the OIL
cials at the outset of the greatest land
opening I'm the history of the northwest
was unmindful of the elements. II the
chill blast of the Arctic or whitening and
suffocatiOn simeon of Arabia had swept
over them the enchantment of dame
chance would not have been dlspeiled. IN
q solid mass they stood IN the square
before the barrel, unmindtUl or wind ana
rain and beating the mud into batter
beneath their feet until il was necessary
10 haul i'm straw TO save the space from
becoming an unsighJly pond and the land
seekers from being rooted therein.
Hope in Each Breast
The crowd was not warmed by an en-
thusiasm evidenced by outward demon
STATIONS. but there was something burn
ing in each breast, SomeIhlhg ina LlaI 90 90
up as cube after cube was lifted out OF
the barrel. but that was restrained from
belching forth into delrlous exhibitions
bv the cool and business-like procedure
Of the officials VINO handed out LIst
here and then there something Tor MOTH
ing and really that is what II all meant.
The drawing proceeded without cere-
mOny General 5. II. Hays made few
explanatory remarks on pehaII oI me
company, and Registrar Church. on De
half of the state land board, under
whose supervision the drawing was con-
dtfcted. the board being represented also
by Secretary or state Landsooh anu
Miss Chamberlain. school superintendent.
Drawing of the First Number.
I,andsdon gave a barrel a whirl and
a small boy dNed IN and nshed OUT
the first number II was 81, held by
mr. = B. Weaver of Galva, Kan. at
fornev for o. c. Paulson of Greeley,
colo The doctor filed on 100 acres just
above the highline canal and a little
over four miles from Twin Falls, his
selection being I'm section s. tOwnSite H.
range Il. Coincidentally, he drew the
last number of the box at the jerome
oDenfng last fall. Milo Thomas of Twin
rails drew III second cube, and he Sc
io+ad forty ,,,res The drawing pro-
ceeded slowly at first. but within an hour
the delays incident to the start had been
reduced 10 a minimum. From the draw
ing booth the lucky ones proceeded to
the filing booth in line. There a large
force OF clerks operating under a per-
feet system devised by Robert McCol-
Ium handled the business as fast as it
was presented
The crowd remained impressive out
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