Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-09-23 | Page 1 | Vacant Public Land

I VACANT PUBLIC LAND THERE IS PLENTY LEFT FOR THOSE WHO DESIRE IT V Utah Has Nearly Fortyfour Million Acres that Can be Taken UpMost oi it is Arid Ard TRIBUNE BUREAU tel Fourteenth street i t Washington D C Sept 22 1900 The annual report of Land Commissioner Commis-sioner Hermann which will probably be made public Inn few days will show that thcjc is still plenty of vacant public pub-lic land which can be taken up by settlers set-tlers under the homestead laws I shows that the total area of tho land sunface of the United States la i 2270 557ilO acres of which 020308008 acres are still unappropriated This Is over onethird of the total area of the United States V Of this vast area of vacant land there are 13501607 acres In Utah J39D6103 In Idaho 18777143 In Wyoming and 61 326710 in Nevada It Is true that a large proportion of this land Is arid V and not subject to cultivation without I n h h irrigation out witn me present met ods of Irrigation It Is expected that largo tracts will soon be taken up by settlers who will son convert them into tillable lands on which paying crops can be raised NEW POSTOFFICE A post mce has been established at Silver King Shoshone county Ida I with Paul J Edmiston as postmaster PENSION GRANTED William C Payne of Pocatello Ida a Spanish war veteran has been granted grant-ed a pension of S per month V POSTMASTER CHOSEN Frank L Williams has been appointed appoint-ed postmaster at Fallen Store Canyon county Jda vice Joslah Cane resigned re-signed