The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-06-11
STANDARDIzINC
HOMESEKINC

gestion for a national board, recently
made, could be improved in Utah, at
least, by the establishment of state
board to which those persons who are
seeking homes could carry their in.
ouiries their investigations, their COM
plants.
Anyone seeking land in Utah may |
now 70 to the state land board and
receive the information that there are
certain lands available for selection
under the state acts. This land var
RES in value. Ask the officials of the
land board what kind of land it is
and the information is not forthcom-
ing. About all that an inquirer can
learn is that the land is good, bad or
indifferent, and that certain sections
or parts of sections are available.
After some difficulty and the ex'
penditure of time, the inquirer goes to
the government land office and learns
the quality of the soil on government
land surrounding the state sections.
This is not enlightening, by any
means, but it is little nearer the
point. The prospective homeseeker
must then go to the land in question
and look it over. 1t may be just what
he wants 1t may not. At any rate,
II il is state land, and he likes 1t. ne
returns to the city, goes back to the
land board and makes known his In.
tention of buying and settling upon
the land. Then a member of the board
appraises the land at so much per
acre. If the investor likes it he will
buy. II the price does not suit him,
he may count his time lost and looF
again over the stock held by me
state.
All of this entails a loss OF time,
and expense that detracts from the
savings of the homeseeker. II he
comes from a distance under the i'm
preston that he can find good farm
among Utah's empty acres he may
find the stop-over privilege on his
ticket expired before he has made his
selection, and will necessarily have
to move on or return home. ne
There is only one other way in
which homeseeker may get land in
Utah, except through private purchase
from some individual, and that is
through an irrigation or land CON-
pany. The homeseeker may be i'm
pressed by the embossed literature
and colored pictures of an irrigation
company. But he must take the word
of the company. There is no recourse
to impartial, unbiased judgment. Utah
has not been free from fake land
schemes Neither has any other state
in the west. Promoters have brought
people here to settle upon lands where
no crop could be raised, where few
men could stand upright upon the
land without slipping and sliding
down hill among the rocks, the sage
brush and the shad scale.
Fortunately, however, this state Il
now practically free from such harm
full ventures, and what big projects
there are now selling within the st
are without doubt commendable IL
every respect. But the experience
some people have had with fake lah'
schemes has created a suspicion ina
Is unfair to legitimate propositions
Other states where fake projects haV'
been placed upon the market nav
nermitted prospective investors to DC
come bilked by the seductive offer
and propositions of promoters who's
fly.by.night deals have left perma
nent injury. And the harm is felt l..
the legitimate dealers in Legitimacy
lands.
Recently California compan,
ulaced its real estate upon the loca
market for sale. Many buyers wer
attracted by the cheap price OF lan'
and many fell for the game. Through
motion picture houses and by othe
devices many lots were disposed OF
1t is solemn fact that this lana !
worth less than ten dollars an acre
and yet 1t was sold at many time
that amount. The agents of the cor
Germ were permitted to ply their ne
farious trade here unmolested.
A state board of investigation, prof.
erly administered, would not permi
such fakery.
Thousands of people are comm
through Utah in the next few year
who will be interested in farm lands
They won't have time to go out owe
the state and inspect various section