Show PRICE OF STATE LA LANDS NOS minimum increased to per acre 1 I 1 REASON FOR THE ACTION tho the expense of selecting and entering the lands taken into consideration by tho the santo board and th the 0 conclusion reached benched that the minimum mum of was wag too low advantages of purchases hasea from tho the state believed to be sufficient to justify tile the increase I 1 I 1 at 0 a file meeting eting of the state land board a rule aas aidon adopted ted unanimously fily that no land shrill shall hereafter be selected by the hoard board on application from intending purchasers unless there ji jg every reason to believe the land will bring an acre heretofore tile the Illin minimum linum price has bag been and it pv era cral illo usand acres notably in fit utah county have been selected and appraised at that price factor lane bi ought up tile the matter and made the motion which 1 was a ultimately III abely adopted lie ile said ile he t ll 11 0 u g t 1 L t the 1 le b board 0 tr t I 1 coughl u to establish voa cahl oca a minimum n il 1 m ti v n of 1 n 1 G 60 0 1 sections are aie mode in code of lands on which no filings clings have been made he had Insi insisted steil tin on such a in minimum in imura in selections lie he had agreed to make for people in washington and other southern counties and lie he belied illeen it would be a rood good general rule for the boat blaid d to adopt lam lawyer yer alvans hall had appeared before the board for a number of people in utah county end and had secured the selection of several thousand acres which had been at appraised at lind and would mould probably have to be set bold by tho the board tit at that PICC pi ice it was not fair to the people of 0 other counties to make one price to them and another to utah county tho the land could not be had from the government tor for less than tl 1 BO 60 counting th the a fees and other costs and the state should realize at least that much secretary walton said he was mas opposed to tle the prop proposed omed increase it vt would OU id debriae the state ot of selections tiong that would otherwise be offered and the result would be bad tho the people had the government price of fixed in their as the right ligure and would not take into consideration the com costs to of government filing STATE OFFERS ADVANTAGES fisher harris hairls said eald he was satisfied sati sned tile the increase in tile the minimum price would benent benefit the stale very materially the settler bottler who gets his title from rom the state has several advantages over the purchaser from the government tho the state purchaser does docs not exhaust his government right he gets better belter terms than the government offers and lie he gets the the fund created by the sale of state ends I 1 sir air hammond woo also in favor of 0 increasing tho the minimum price the land board he said Is a trustee for the people of the state and Is under obligation to realize ell all tire the money possible from the sale of landi the ultimate result of such a policy would woul 1 I be to reduce taxation lit in the tate and the people aport would got get the benent of it 11 after this discussion the motion v was as put and can led unanimously 9 mr air IV a alton I 1 eap exp explaining sin I 1 log that lie he aas a en evidently alone and did not want to be lonesome in the voting the adoption of tho the rule cannot affect the law governing the sale of lands land selected by the briard board where such ancil land has riot not been entered before the selection all such selections mill still ti have to be sold at but the minimum pi lit ire fee at the sale becomes valid will ivill bo be instead 0 of f 31 tle 25 as am heretofore the hoard board understands understand 3 that the sales rates will mill nearly all bo be mild made e it at the minimum value since it Is though unlikely that much of the land selected ejected mill be tile the subject or of competitive peti tive bidding th the e board discussed tit at some motile length the ady liability of amplo ing an attorney it in washington to look after contests and other legal but business Aness connect ell d no with ill the selection of lands lando by the fhate tate it waa mas finally decided to refer the matter to tile the executive committee recommending the award of ft L contract for cases to the st sl louls 1 auls art ait metal company at lla its price of ail als for or the HIP full onice office equipment according to to specifications flea tion 4 submitted the recommendation men dation was adopted F M olson blann and it G matthews atto A appointed appraisers for foi carbon county 1 |