Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-09-29 | Page 16 | Big Addition to Farming Domain

BIG MM 10 MUG OOliH Oasis Laud and Irrigation Company Com-pany Throws Open a Large Tract. SELECTION MADE BY THREE HUNDRED PEOPLE Within Ten Days 5000 Acres Will Have Been Taken Up. A big section of tho Pahvant valley was added to Utah's domain j-esterday when tho 43,000-acre tract in the Oasis Land & Irrigation compa- project was thrown open to outiy. Owing to a misunderstanding as to tho method of making allotments, no formal drawing took place, and the various var-ious landscekcrs made their own selections. se-lections. Somo 300 persons were on tho ground, a number going down from Salt Lake, and tho surrounding territory contributing others. In the party that went down from Salt Lake were somo St. Louis capitalists, and two or thrco from other eastern cities. President Chambers stated last night that so far as ho could tell botwoou 2000 and o000 acres of land had been taken, and the inquiries and correspondence corre-spondence had justitied him iu stating that within ten days 5000 acres would be under contract. Ho said that the company expected to immediately organize or-ganize a selling force that would call tho attention of the Middlo "West farmers, farm-ers, where tho demand for morej land has caused many to turn io the Southwest South-west and to Wyoming. Tdaho and Utah, to this p-opositiou. lie said that the company expected to dispose of the whole tract within tho j-car. Most of tho landseekers went down the night before, and had gono over the land, so that they were ready with their selections and filings by 2 o'clock. Most of the land sold was the $70-an-acro tracts near Burtncr. Ono of tho interesting oxhibifs was a showing, on a big platform, of the farm and garden products raised within a mile or two of Oasis, which deman-strated deman-strated convincingly tho fertility of Millard county soil.