The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-09
HA|NL|N VALLEY
NOW TO FRONT
Country Ten Miles North OF
Modena Being Rapidly
Located.
WHOLESALE STALKING
OF LANDS CRITICISED
Public LocatOrs, 1t Is Said, Are
Confusing UNIFORMED
Persons.
sneoial 10 The Tribune.

Special 10 The Tribune.
MODENA, Sept S.-Hamhn Nailes'
situated ten miles north of Moaeha, oe
tween the Needle and Stateiine -u3,GH -,.;,
tain ranges. is fast coming it,0 tbe
notice through the strenuoslty OF 't
nublic land Slocators, The Valieg 10
about twenty-five miles long and 1lre TO
twelve miles in width. connecting WIN
rho Wah Wah valley in Beaver county
N the northeast end, and WIN me
Snake valley Of White Pine count,
Nevada. near the northwest end. ne
valley has an altitude OF from ooI9 ~
1000 feet. and contains much eXcelieht
sagebrush land. ,l,,.
Tho average rainfall is considerably
in excess of the more desert-like VAL
levs OF southern Utah, and the mo,stur1
from the winter SHOWS is absorDcu an"
held bv the lands embraced In the val
lev, With the exception OF rev trau
eient mountain runs Of water, cheiS
lii evidence during the season ol lnSit.
ing SHOWS in the late spring tne ~a,e9
contains no streams Of running W.lre..
{, number of good sprr rgs have oeen
discovered in the i;oothIlls, however
Tie fact that the valley usually. IS
covered with considerable snow dur1ng
fbc winter months, and is fed by The
melting snow water until the summers
are fairly ushered in, gives rise 10 inc
belief that the valley VIII prove deal
Tor the raising of wheat Eomparisons
are often made with this valley and the
high lands of the Pangimtch range,
where the best wheat in Utah is raised
Al an elevation Of 200 feet.
Easy Of Access.
The valley is easier Of access by way
Of Modena than via any other point.
A survey Of the valley was complete
about two weeks ago, but when, II at
all! the lands comprising this ,rolIcy,
will he designated under the enlarged
homestead act, is Guesswork'
Public locators have already entered
the valley and stnkai Il for miles. Like
the mining promoter. the public land
locator is of benefit in working up m
te,st in the unsettled portions of the
state; but some of the methods EN-
ployed are said to be questionable. and
ms is often the case In mining when
commission is the incentive of the pro-
moter, so in the land business the loca-
tion fee is too often the only object,
and the credit of cnmmendable pioneer.
Jig is obscured by the shadow OF an
easily gotten dollar.
One locator in Hamlin valley is re-
Iorted 10 have staked an area approx
matclv ten miles square, and has warned
Others off. Stalking section after sec
,ion of land certainly gives no protec-
ton to the land seeker, leads to the
confusion OF the uninformed and has
caused many an intending settler. to
travel on. fearing to infringe on the
assumed rights OF a stake inscription
The object of this wholesale stalking
evidently is TO keep the unInformed Off
while the landseekers who are willing
10 pay the locators' fees are rounded
up.
Plan CensurabIe,
The wholesale stalking Of lands in
the Hamlin valley so far in advance
of An approved survey, is censuraple,
especially since it is being done in areas
corresponding 10 the acreage allowed
under the enlarged homestead act, and
there is no certainty that the lands of
the valley Will ever be designated under
the provisions Of that act.
For the past fen days numerous par
ties from California and Salt Lake City
have been examining portions OF the
valley, and report some humorous dis.
coveries. Certain squatters, who are
moro conversaDt with locating mining
claims. are said to have stakel off
ranches much as they would mineral
claim: 81 hereby claim these 500 acres
of land for this, the Pussy Willow
ranch,' etc.
From the interest shown and the
amount Of travel which has already sci
in, il is believed that all the choice land
will be taken by squatters long before
the land will be open to entry, and that
the stakes will be ignored where they
represent land not actually settled upon
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