JEWS COLONIZE IN SOUTHERN OTAH Finally deciding that Utah was the best adapted of western states for their purpose, the Jewish Colonization society yesterday became the purchasers pur-chasers of a large tract of state land at public auction at Manti. The land was 'sold by W. D Crandall, chairman of the state board of land commissioners, commis-sioners, who offered in all 8,000 acres All of this was taken by the Jewish society with the exception of a atrip of 280 acres. The society will place 500 families on tho land, beginning with 200 of these next spring. Later the Jewish colony will number 1,000 families, if the plans of the Boclety are carried out in their ontlroty. The land sold Is twenty miles northwest north-west of Mantl and Is located on the west branch of the Sevier river. It wns purchased by the society at the appraised price, which runs from 52 50 an acre up. It is considered admirably ad-mirably adapted for agriculture with comparatively little work needed to gTow the first crop. A townsite has already been chosen, cho-sen, but as yet has not received a name. Tho society, which will send tho settlors to the property, will first send out a number of artisans to make ready for tho coming of tho col-onrsts. col-onrsts. Those will erect temporary buildings that each settler may have tho nucleus of a home on arrival. Jt is expected that this is hut tho beginning of extensive colonization operations on the part of Jowlsh societies, so-cieties, and that Utah will receive several more colonics The leaders of the societies claim that, all opinion to the contrary notwithstanding, the Jow8 make excellent farmers when they have tho chance, and that the herding In tho Ghettos of European cities and the larger eastern cities ha3 not boon from choice but from necessity. Certain pursuits wero closed clos-ed to them In countries where persecution perse-cution of tho Jewish people had become be-come a fine art, and- they wero compelled com-pelled to adopt thoonly1 occupations open to them, those of" buying 'and selling. They pointfto the fact that the Jews were amo'rigi.tho earliest of agriculturalists, and that intho few lands where they have "occa able '' to farm they havQ been highly successful. suc-cessful. Tho work of preparing for the colony col-ony to be brought on next spring will bo begunrand tho representatives of the society nowv here will, molce the necessary arrangements 'before returning re-turning east.