Show STATE MAY SELL HA LANDS Commonwealth Can Offer Them Much Cheaper Than Private Concern Could Though J M r Lauritzen and W J Rust Will have until April 20 to make good their option for tor the purchase of the Hatchtown wn r reservoir It Is now believed that the prop proposition proposition will fall through and that the state board of land commissioners will willI take charge of the land again with the probability of a sale of the tae lands In the tho near future Mr Lauritzen appeared be before before before I fore the land board yesterday but was not able ablo to give glo definite Information re ro regarding regarding garding the option which was granted throe three months ago Mr r Lauritzen and Mr Rust have placed the matter before In Inter ter of the cast east with a view to pur purchasing chasing the land from the th state and then thon to s i the land Tho The belief of the tho board is that thai the option will wih not result in the thel l purchase of the land at this time 1 report was waa received fn m State En Eng gnel g neer Caleb Tanner yesterday by the bond to the effect that the lands could bf hr sold by the state for between 20 and 25 23 per pl acre in case it is handled by the state board ant ap ana not sold as a whole For this reason the board is not overly anxious that a private concern should take up the tho project If It this is done It I t certain that the thc land will not be sold for less than 40 O Oan an acre with the water right while the state can sell it at half the money with the perpetual water right from waters stored in the Hatchtown reservoir For a real farm that will show good results nothing better can an be bo shown In or any other state said W V D Cand laad la id president of oC the tiro o yesterday y The price is extremely low and It would be one of the best possible investments that could be made The Tho land is about the best in the state but in no other part tf cf the state can you get land for 25 per acre arre with the water wa ter right included The board granted an extension until July 15 for R D Young contractor contra tor on onte ont te t e puddle core of the tho Flute Plute reservoir The work was to have been finished by April I 1 but Mr Mt Young was held back through the slow shipment of machinery from the east The puddle coro core will wilt cost 22 00 and its delay is holding the whole dam construction back The Tho Plute Pluto project will v ll II cost In the neighborhood of O The board bOud approved the lands of the Mc In osh Carey land act proposition which will reclaim acres of land in Mil Millard Millard lard county The proposition was before the board some months ago but was re returned returned returned turned lo io 0 the tho applicants for corrections Till The reclamation of the land means an ex expenditure expenditure of ot about Bonds amounting to were pur purchased purchasEd purchased chased from Salina for a new waterworks system s stem |