The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-10

PromOntOry-CurIeW Project to
Furnish Many Home Seek
erS With Opportunity.

The three days at the end OF this week
viii be notable in the history of north
ern Utah and southern Idaho, because
at that time close to 100000 acres of land
est bidder. The holdings of the PrOmOn-
tOry-CurieW Land company are separated
only by imaginary lines from some of the
richest and most productive farming,
orchard and grazing lands in Utah and
southern Idaho-a region famous for its
orchard products and thrifty farmers, as
we'll as for its large live stock interests.
1t is not necessary now to recount why
these lands have not been developed at
a pace equal to those adjoining. 1t is
sufficient to say that these lands are
placed on the market TO be sold outright
subject TO no demonstrating restrictions
as TO size. residence. amount Of improve
ment work, and the various other condi-
lions demanded by the federal or state
governments in the disposition of land.
The title to these lands now lies with the
land company, and Will be transferred for
cash or on terms.
The only restrictions, If they can be
called such, that are placed on the size
of the parcels in which these lands will
be distributed is that purchasers of dry
land farms or grazing lands Will have the
preference in the purchase of the twenty
acre lots into which the irrigated section
in the Blue Springs valley, adjacent TO
the tOwnste of Howell, is divided, and
also in the purchase Of town lots in
Howell.
Good Residence Lots.
This means that the purchasers of dry
farms will be assured of fodder and the
other products that are more or less pc
cuiar 10 irrigated lands in Utah. and also
of a good residence lot for a home, with
culinary and irrigation water provided.
as well as the other cOnveniences Of
town life. The soil in the irrigated sec
ton is exactly similar TO that around
Tremonton. a district already well known
for its orchard products.
The lands are to be sold to the highest
bidder by sealed contract, subject only
TO the restrictions that no bid will be
accepted for less than the low appraised
values set by the cOmpany's appraisers,
which may be had on application to the
PrOmontory-Culew Land companys Of
flee, IN the Thatcher Brothers Bank
building at Logan; and that One-twen-
tieth of the amount involved must accom-
Dany.the bid. in certified check or cash.
of peculiar interest at this time is the
announcement that comes from the head
quarters of the Oregon Short Line at Salt
Lake City to the effect that the pre-
lirninarv survey for the Utah-Idaho rail-
road has been completed. and that the
final survey is expected to be finished
in two or three weeks. This proposed
line will run from Saline, on the Ogden
Tueiti cutoff TO Burley, Ida. a total dis
rance of about $50 miles, of which at
least the first third will be through the
region to be opened up by the Promon-
torv-Curlew Land eompany's sale.
W n Bancroft vice president and gen.
eraI manager of the Oregon Short. Line,
is president of the new railroad company.
and other officers Of the Hartman line
are directors The proposed road is de-
elared by these TO be contemplated both
for its value as a link in the Hartman
system of railways, and because 1t will
develop a large and rich territory.
The opening of this land is of espe-
eial interest to the residents OF northern
Utah and southern Idaho, for several
reasons. 1t will develop territory there
that has long remained practically dor
mant. but which is full of rich resources.
as the development of adjacent lands has
t,rovad: and residents of the surrounding
country are especially desired as bidders
On the lands, because they know best the
most profitable methods of developing
those lands and just what the lands
themselves are capable Of producing.