Show ACRES UINTAH LAND SURVEYED IN 1922 Acres in State Approved and Will Ill be Open to Entry Within a Reasonable Time Says the tho Surveyor General During the fiscal year closed June 30 there were acres of ot land surveyed in Utah of which have already been approved and are or will be subject to entry within a reasonable time according to tho the annual annual an au- nual report of Surveyor General E. E D. D Sores n forwarded to Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Commis Commis- William Spry of the tho general land office Tho The acreage surveyed during that period is according to lo the Iho report the largest in the tho history of or the office and greatly exceeds that surveyed any other state stale Th The total area of Utah Is acres of or which h have ve been surveyed This leaves a large acreage and not subject subject sub sub- to entry the tho report states The financial statement shows the total expenditures t td have havo b- b been ben en while a balance was left lefton lefton lefton on hand June 30 of Mr reports that the cost of work for Cor the last year has been greatly reduced owing to lo the able assistance from an efficient office force j I Ye Year YeI I Busy One The year has been a a. busy one not nol only in regard to surveying agricultural agricultural tural lural and grazing lands but in the th mining division the tho report states 64 surveys covering mining mining mining min min- ing locations having been surveyed for patent It has been customary Mr Sor Sor- enson said for the government to lo tomake tomake make an approprIation of or about 50 60 each year for tho the survey of p public pub public pub pub- blie b- b lic lie lands within the state of Utah Ulah for a number of oC ye years rs which amount has been sufficient for Cor the surveying of or about aboul acres It was evIdent evident evI- evI dent that at this rate rale it 11 would bo hr many years before leore It would be bo p possible possible pos pos- s- s sible for th the public lands hands to lo to Into Inlo private ownership and carry their just proportion in the development development devel devel- of the Ibo state stat through taxation In view of this the legislature of 1921 created a revolving fund o of to lo be used in connection Uon with the appropriation made by congress that the lands lands- within the stale might be surveyed at an earlier date anda and acid a like amount was appropriated jin in 1923 The money so appropriated will be refunded to the state when whim the surveys upon which It has been expended are completed ted and approved ed by hr the department of the inte inte- 1101 Land is Listed The lands surveyed during t the e year nearly a million acres in number number number num num- ber are divided Into inlo counties as its follows Beaver Deaver Carbon 2882 Boxelder 2210 Emery Garfield Grand Juab Kane 68 Rich Tooele 2280 Uintah Washington 51 Wayne Vayne G. G At present there thero are abo about tt seventy seventy- five men wIth the field forces In surveying public lands Mr Soren Soren- Soren- Soren son said said- and it t is expected th that l labout about the same acreage will be bo covered covered covered cov cov- ered in the coming fiscal year to lo be principally within Beaver Deaver Millard dad and nd Boxelder Carbon Emery Daggett Dag- Dag gett gell Uintah Grand and Garfield counties |