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Show UINTAH FARMERS ARE MORE HOPEFUL NOW The presence of a number of surveying parties in the Uintah Basin country has given tho settlers hope of seeing n railroad in operation In thnt section soon, says Thomas Redmond, lnspec-1 tor in the bureau of animal In- dustry, who hns just returned to Snlt Lake City from an Inspection In-spection trip In that district. While the surveying parties, have created much Interest and' speculation, says Redmond, the fnrmcrs are not neglecting their present opportunities, but nre developing their holdings under existing conditions. About six thousnnd acres of Indian land in tho Bnsin will be thrown open to ontry June 1st, next year. Tho price will range from twelve to fifteen dollars an acre. It will bo disposed of in tracts of from forty to a hundred hun-dred nnd twenty acros. |