Show RECLAMATION ARID LAND Utahs Proportion of Money for This Purpose at End of Present Fiscal Year Will Be 8236380 TRIUNE SPECIAL Washington May 31The Commissioner I of the General Land office estimate that by tho end o tho present fiscal year Juno I S 1003 Utahs proportion of the mono on hand for the reclamation of arid lands will amount to 23C3S63S which means that S9 6 will have been added to her proportion this year All money received from tho sale of public pub-lic lands except f per cent reserved for educational and other purposes and C sum sufficient to pay tho commissions oC receivers and registers of land offices In sixteen Western States and Territories is placed In thin national Irrigation fund That fund Bhowd n total of J7730238 nt the end of tho last fiscal year distributed among the States and Territories n tel Iowa Arizona 31773 California 60327 CQlorado y 6280D 5 Idaho 50741i 5BS Kansas 19130 Montana 77237 0 73 Nebraska T 233194 Nevada 2341 Nov Mexico 147237 North Dakota 1227400 Oklahoma lOOS73r Oregon 91056 South Dakota 3760 762 Utah i H6S2 i Washington TC40S3 Wyoming 3S57G Tho total for IWlwas S3I44S21 and for lW3 J45S5610 The returns on the sale or sae public lands for tho first threequarters of the present year Indltiato that tho r cclpts will bo about equal to the two preceding pre-ceding year so that by tho first of next July tho Irrigation fund In tho Treasury Teaur OCOOOO Department will amount to about J15 I win b soon that most of the other Status havo sold more land than Utah and therefore their proportion Is greater But this will mae little difference In the matter of expenditures In Utah or othcr States because the law provides that mono necessary for tho carrying out ot feasible schemes may bo advanced from the general fund for a period of ten years At tho end of each ten years tho proper lon used In each Stato and Territory Is to be equalized according to tho amount derived from the nalo of land In each This will bn n temporary advantage to Utah and the States and Territories hav lag sold but little public land In proportion propor-tion to more fertile and lean arid Sates but It would see mthat ultimately the advantage ad-vantage will be with the States sclllnc 8eln tho moat lad I however sufficient water can bo found and stored in Utah Uta to irrigate the vast tracts of public lam now deemed utterly worthless that Stato proportions might bring her sales up to mammoth |