Salt Lake Times | 1962-04-20 | Page 3 | Scouts Purchase Bear Lake Land

Scouts Purchase Bear Lake Land Purchase by the Great Salt Lake Council, Boy Scouts of America of 289 acres on the east shore of Bear Lake, Thursday had been approved by the U. S. Bureau of Land Management. According to R. D. Nielson, BLM state director for Utah, the land was classified for disposal under the Recreation and Public purposes act. Non-profit organizations are entitled to purchase land at 50 per cent of the land's appraised valuation. The Great Salt Lake Council therefore will pay $12,-000 $12,-000 for the 289 acres on Bear The Council, in its application to BLM, indicated that several buildings and various recreation facilities would be constructed on the property to be used by several thousand Boy Scouts annually an-nually from throughout the nation as well as from this immediate im-mediate area. Reason is nothing but the analysis of belief Franz Schubert.