Show STATE LAND PROBLEMS an applicant who wants a reservoir site PUZZLED THE commissioners question will be bevelled Betel led to the at torney general wide difference of opinion as is to the val value us of state lands in somo some counties utah county the first to send in it a bill for mileage and fees of 0 jurors and witnesses aness es public school matters the governors new secretary the state hoard board ot of land blonera ands son new almost every day in tile the charged conditions condl llona thit that th it I 1 la a CO come me about since the organization of the state cite land department yesterday d ay iy a mam inan called nt at the Secre of lice and asked it the state would give hirn him s lacco or land he would build AL a rose noir upon it air asir walton said lio lie had bad not hoard heard of 0 any amr such mu being al allowed loved tho the liand land board and was quite sure the menis members liers were not put in onice office for or the purpose se ot of giving away linua lands after tile the visitor left however commissioner beese who was present tit at the lie interview looked up the act by r aich the title Is granted lands tor for reservoir purposes tito the grant was round found but directions as aa to its use were not Nef neither flier were they found lit in tho the state law the nian who inho wanted a 0 reservoir bile probably that the land u was as riven given tor for the purposes of having baying reservoirs built therefore the flits state can sell tile tho lands and build n tilt att tho the proceeds and if lite hie state slate can tin d that why N by can it not give cle a man the land and let hink him build the atter after a little reflection on oil this line the came to the like conclusion that the man who wanted reservoir lantis lands was not as a crazy na as he at first appeared and the proposition was tiled filed away A w tilt ot others liers to awall the attention of 0 the attorney vencial cammi lioner s n little memorandums memorandum book in ili which he notes things in pertaining erta ining to tile tho work of oc tho the board among the antiles lie he hil has hi l tho the opinions of 0 men froin several counties count lea with reference to tho the values at which state slate lands should br be appraised tho lit in tho the estimates Is astonishing A man front rich county thought mountain lands should be appraised at 50 cents per acre while a daal s county citizen said eald tho the mountains of hla his county acie wet a easily u orth 4 to 5 per acre two Sin Sa pete nisete men guessed all the way from CO 60 cents to fi 4 per acre for mountain lind and placed the value of farming ground at al bioni to 12 per acre the davis county man placed 11 1 or sa 5 per acre as about tile light laguio lor for farming lands these estimates were made ly by men inen well iscia posted ted on oil affairs in thir their respective counties find the divergence ance views shows that tile tho work of 0 appraising the lands landa mut be pet formed by the most con competent pe met men and with tile the greatest care car the board nill ihl hold another meeting it at 11 this morning |