Show THE LAND OFFICE AX IMPORTANT DECISION AS TO DESERT LANDS They Must Be Such as Will Xot Give Adequate Returns Without Irrigation Irri-gation A dumber of Filings In the land office yesterday the register reg-ister and receiver handed down a decision de-cision in the case of Francis A Chit vs Patrick B McKeon involving the desert entry of the south onehalf of section 32 township 25 south range 10 west The contest arose on the corroborated cor-roborated affidavit of the contestant who alleged that the land is not desert being naturally overflowed by the waters wa-ters of Beaver river and producing a crop of good hay at least one ton being be-ing produced every year There were several counter motions and the case finally came on for consideration yesterday yes-terday In their decision the rand r-and receiver hold that the ruling as to what constitutes desert land within the meaning of the law is that it is such land as one year with another for a sere of years will not without irri gation make a fair return to the ordinarily ordi-narily skillful and dndusbrlous husbandman hus-bandman for the seed and toil expended I expend-ed in endeavoring t secure a crop I is held that tine land l question is such even though it is overflowed in the winter and spring and the award l given the contestee Hhena is o file tin the land office a decision of the secretory of the interior inter-ior denying to Charles I Moore a homestead entry on a part of section 23 township 1 north range 1 west near the Hot Sprig on the ground that ithe land h already been patented the patents having been secured by Out vine St Pierre and Antoine Bayerre I with Chippewa scrip tin 1875 The secretary has also decided to give a rdhearing in the case of Jede diah France vs William A Hess in which the contestant received the decision I de-cision The rehearing will be given be cause France has died and his heirs have withdrawn The land involved is I a part of section 24 township 13 north I > range 3 west CONTESTS Richard Slater of Slaterville Weber county filed a contest against the timber tim-ber culture entry of Joseph J Clayton Clay-ton on the south onehalf of the northeast north-east onequarter and north onehalf of the southeast onequarter on the ground of failure to comply with the statutes William W Miller of Plymouth Box Elder county has filed Q contest against the timber culture entry of Ly man H Millar fo pant of section S2 I township 1 north range 4 west on the I same grounds HOMESTEAD FILINGS I Edwin 11 Ford of Kanab Kane county filed yesterday in the land office of-fice a homestead application for the southwest quarter of the northwest I quarter and the west half of the southwest south-west quarter of section 3 and the southeast j south-east quarter of the southeast quarter of section 4 township 44 south range G west George R Hunter of Cedar City Iron I county filed a homestead application for the southeast quarter of the southwest I south-west quarter and lot 4 section 30 and the northeast quarter of the northwest I quarter and lot 1 of section > township town-ship 35 south range 1 west I Alma C Price of Farmington Davis I county has filed a homestead application applica-tion for part of section 27 township 2 I north range 3 west I Andrew Osnson of Cedar City fed a homestead application for the southwest I south-west quarter of section 25 township 35 south range 12 west I William G Pyper of Juab Juab I county fed final proof on his homestead I home-stead application for the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter the east half of the southwest quarter and lot 3 section 19 township 15 south range 1 west I DfiSEUT FILINGS Anna C Rasmussen of Castle Dale Emery county filed a desert application for the north half of the southeast II quarter o section 27 township 18 south range S east I Edward G Snow of the same place filed 2 desert application forthe northeast north-east quarter of the northwest quarter of section 34 township 18 south rangeS range-S east r31jN Deseret N Hickman of Milford Juab county filed 3 desert application for the southeast luartor of UT > northeast quarter quar-ter and the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 7 township town-ship 2fi south range 10 west William DIx of Peoa Summit count filed a desert application for the unsur veyed east half of the northeast quarter and northeast quarter of the southeast quarter and surveyed northwest uuar ter of the southwest quarter of section 20 townshIp 1 south range 5 east Heber C Jensen of Cedar City Iron county filed a desert application for the west half of the norrheaat qu trier the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter and lot 2 section 31 township 31 south range 1 weaL |