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Show un-llilrri. r H""''" r r s, 1ms been Liken U under I ho lnm'Kt r-:i. act The povoriiiin-iil now is rhi-ckiMX up on I In- hniiir.sicad. unrl t.unii' Interesting In-teresting development are looked r..r Tli.- l.irnl Is described as lol tn s . Township 12 north, ramus )l etui V-west; V-west; township 1! norih. ranR'.-s 11 ;iinl 12 w-si , townships In, 11 mul 1'.' north, riinpo II wst, townships I". 11, ll.' ami II north, mngr 1." west; townships 0, 1", 11, 12 and 11 north, ranee 1 west, townships S. 0 and 12 north, ranee 1" wept; lowniliios S nnd ! north, ranges IS arid lf west, all Salt Lake tin rldian. HUGE TRACT IS WITHDRAWN Springs and Surface Water Cause Withdrawal of 300,000 Acres. i Because springs and surface water have been found on much of the tract, .'ton oho acres of the socalled semi-arid semi-arid land in Box Elder county was hastlely withdrawn from further entry, en-try, Monday, by tho general land office of-fice in Washington, D. C The land office was informed of ; the withdrawal by wire and the withdrawal with-drawal was noted on the books at once. In Junei Hie1, the government made the first designation of enlarged enlarg-ed homestead land under section C, which does not require residence on the ground and grants the liome-bli'iiler liome-bli'iiler 320 acres of land In each homestead The designation was trade on 1he strength of the report of an Inspection of the land by a land office agent who Is uot In the service now. The government recentlv sent out another special agent to Inspect the land, and he found it to have springs and near-surface water and te be within a district where water might be taken at a reasonable cost. Proper Classification. This kind of land does not properly come under the classification of the enlurged homestead aet lan. I, and lor that reason the withdrawal was made The result of the finding of the land office may be Ihe nullifying of some of the entries on the laud It is not said yet whether the homesteads home-steads will be nullified It would be possible to nullify them, it Is said, because the homeste-ndcrs, in filing their entries, certainly must have known the land contained wnf - i therefore, did not come under the classification clas-sification ot enlur.'vd noiiii-.,,i-.i,j land. The land in question Is located locat-ed in Park valley, between Lucin and Grouse creek and abieM the towim of Rosette, Terrace and Kelton. In the entire tract there m ' '" i. of land. Since designation about |