The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-10
LAND DRAWING TO
OPEN FINE TRACT
Chance to Get Irrigated Farm
Cheap Will Be Given
Thousands.
HOLD LOTTERY TOMORROW
EASY PAYMENT PLAN ADDS TO
THE NUMEROUS INDUCEMENTS.

Another momentOus event in progress
in Utah will begin tomorrow with the
commencing of drawing for the lands
of the Sewer River Land & Water
company at Lynndyl, the new townsite
on the main line of the san Pedro, Los
Angeles & Salt Lake railroad, llS miles
south of Salt Lake. An irrigated tract
will be thrown open to settlement. The
event is one that has attracted a great
deal of attention. not only throughout
the state, but even in Idaho and adj
Joining states.
The tract embraced in the land open
ing comprises fertile bench land coun-
try in central Utah, and the project of
the Sewer company is one of the larg-
est Of its nature ever attempted in the
state. By means of this land opening
an opportunity will be afforded hun
dreds of people to get farm home in
an irrigated country, where only a
small initial outlay is required.
The lands of the Sewer company are
situated in the famous Sewer River
valley. The lands are mainly bench
lands, we'll drained, and entirely free
from conditions which in the future
might render them less valuable.
Each person will be entitled to buy
from twenty to 100 acres, the payments
covering a period of twelve years. A
deed viii be given after five payments
have been made, the water contract
continuing as a first lien upon the land
until paid in full. Interest at the rate
of 6 per cent per annum Will be charged
on deferred payments, and the purchas-
er may make as many payments in
advance as he may desire, or may pay
up in full.
Drawing Tomorrow.
The drawing, which viii begin at 3
O'clock tomorrow morning. will be con-
Quoted In the same manner as are other
drawings under the Carey act. The
registration has been going on for
weeks, and all is now in readiness for
the distribution of the land. The first
number drawn tomorrow morning will
give the holder the choice of the best
of the land, and the others in CORE
spending manner. 1t is expected there
will be a large number of prospective
land owners when the drawing begins.
Special train service will be provided
over the Salt Lake Route, and not
few people will leave tonight, so as TO
be on hand bright and early tomorrow
morning.
The project of the Sewer company
has the Endorsement of the Salt Lake
Commercial club, as the result of the
recent visit there of the special club
committee, which included Governor
Spry and other prominent Utahns. The
committee submitted a favorable re
port Of the venture to the board of gov
errors, which at a subsequent meeting
placed the stamp of its approval on the
scheme and declared it a most meritO-
riOus one.
Lynndyl, the new townsite, located in
the heart of the irrigated district to be
thrown open to settlement tomorrow,
is beginning to take on the hum of in
dustry It already has a population of
over 200 and within the next few
months this is expected TO be material
ly increased. Large quantities of build
ing material are daily arriving, and ev-
licences of prosperity are witnessed on
all sides.