The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-17
STATE WILL SELL
ITS OWN LANDS
Proposal of Trust Companies
to ColOnize Piute Project
Turned Down.
ALSO THE PROPOSITION
TO COMPLETE SCHEME
Board of Land Commissioners
Decide to Garry on Work
by the State.

The state board of land commission
ers, after being in session two days
adjourned Friday evening until Janu
ary 5. The following business was
transacted
The communication from the state
engineer in which he set forth the cost
10 date of the Piute project, S304,96S,
estimated necessary to complete $241 :
los, making 4 total of S546, l36.
The applications of the Colonla!
Realty & Trust company as we'll as the
National Bond & Trust company to com
plete the canal if necessary for the sea
son OF 1912. wero finally rejected as
well as the offer to become for con
sideration the selling agency for the
1000 acres of land under the Piute
project about to he opened for sale and
state will proceed TO sell for itself
The state engineer was ordered to
proceed upon the existing lines to the
completion of the Piute project-and
that regardless of the fact that the ac-
count is largely overdrawn and the
necessary funds will have to be pro-
vided in some way or other not at pres
ent known or determined upon.
There was considerable pressure be-
n'Eu StUImlSSlOutT NdnuldHQ urging
him to offer for sale at public auction
certain unstated lands in Sanpete coun-
ty which he will appraise and the date
OF sale VIII also be named by him,
Policy Determined.
The policy of the state land board
in relation to state lands within the
boundaries of national forest reserves
was at last determined. Upon the re"
quest to purchase such lands IN the
Dixie forest by Stephen Bunker, which
was denied and further, 'sthat it be
the policy of this board that no lands
within forest reserves be sold,' was
carried unanimously.
In routine matters President Seymour
B. Young was granted a renewal Of
his past due mortgage, and the new
mortgage given for $l400, an increase
of some s400 above the original loan.
The board ordered the purchase OF
three warrants Of Logan amounting to
$4,000, bearing 6 per cent interest pay
able in one, two and three years.
Would Select Lieu Lands.
W D. Foster asked permission to Sc
lect certain lands in lieu of those hith
erto applied for upon the ground that
the United States land department had
declared that the land was coal land,
His attorney stated that in order to OBJ
tain title they were required TO either
waive any subsurface rights or proceed
to contest the same before the depart
ment, proceeding so exceedingly ex
pensive as TO be not worth while. and
therefore his request, which was
granted.
The salary Of experimenting Engi-
neer Joseph Jensen Of the Piute project
was raised to 5000 per month contrary
TO the wishes of the board, apparently,
but was allowed by the state board of
examiners.
The request of the Wasatch Irriga.
tion company for the purchase by the
board of ten of its notes for $525 each,
payable in yearly installments from De.
cember 81. 1914, to December 81, 1923,
met with little enthusiasm and the
board apparently took no action. The
secretary appealed for more help in his
Office and was granted an additional
clerk for his office at an unstatcd sal.
ary.
The Deseret Livestock company,
whose bid for six sections OF land at
$3.50 per acre had been refused and
reoffered to them at So per acre. asked
further time to consider the same.
The regular meeting due January 4,
1911, was postponed to January to
accommodate Commissioner Steele.