Show DRAWING UNDER GAREY LAND ACT Usual Exciting Scenes at Sho Shoshone Shoshone Shoshone shone Idaho and Large Present Special to The Herald Hema Shoshone Ida June 8 At the he close of the fi day a of O the t W ich land lind drawing una r the th tH approximately Ui ares acres had been taKen ta e rep representing representing representing resenting a valuation on a basis Of f 50 5 an acre for water rights of more than three quarters of a million mUtton dollars The revised figures may run the total to acres or a million dollars worth but ut an exact statement will not be available until the drawing is com corn completed completed It may end tonight and It may maye maybe maybe be e continued tomorrow There There are stilt still many people here who will likely make filings but these can be presented di directly directly to the state Jand land board if the of office office fice flee here shall be closed An unusual number of tracts were taken due to the rocky character of a consid considerable considerable considerable erable portion of the land The desira desirable desirable ble bie land is rated high by land experts but there are lava spots pots practically worthless but even In those sections there here are scattered forties of ot rich land and they are being eagerly sought A more cheerful bunch of enterers never faced the land barrier than lined up In front of Register Church of ot the state land board when he tapped lapped off o of r the Dietrich event It was letter bettor than a million dollar purse that had lad been hung up and every starter had iad a chance at the money After the preliminaries and the disposition of ot a number of inquiries by the register that floated up to him from the I crowd the barrel churn in which the numbers on wooden cuts had been I placed was turned over over to Secretary of ot State who churned It ener energetically energetically accompanied by cheers from the spectators and punctuated by II sharp sallies connecting the scene poUt politically politically and expressing satisfaction that It was not a ballot box or a political p barrel that was being juggled about The secretary of state accepted the Jibes smilingly and churned ill the harder The first fifty numbers were drawn from the barrel by Mrs Clara Wise of Coldwater Mich who then gave gae way to a small boy boT Idaho was not numer numerously num r represented in the first fifty names Washington and Iowa having 1 the better of the start |