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Show I FIGURES CONTAINED IN ANNUAL " I REPORT OF STATE LAND BOARD Nino hundred and eighty-nine applies- tlons for selections of state lands in LTtah wcro mado In 190S, the annual report o .the stato land board sows. Tho applications applica-tions aggregated 294,070 acres. Tho total number of audi applications to dato la 272". aggregating 72S.il3l.3n acres. Of this number 2.185 applications havo been granted, grant-ed, calling for the selection of 022,300.01 acres. Two hundred and thirty-three applications applica-tions to purchase stato lands at private sale, covering I7.S01 acre?, wero made, all or which were granted but ono. There was offered for sale In 190S, 155.1S acres of land, all In Millard county, uf which JH57.20 acres wero sold. Tho total number num-ber of acres so sold wus 150.S75.92. Lands unsold are as follows, approximately: approxi-mately: Unappralscd. 009,3.11 acres: ap-prahied. ap-prahied. but unofforcd for sale, 116.G21; offered for sale, 109,(512. This leaves a total of 76n,S97 acres of unsold hinds in the state. Sixty-eight applications for leases, embracing em-bracing 57,801.03 ivres, woro made In tOOS, I of which thirty-five have been tanned, whllo 221 applications to purchase lands, ! covering sn,G2rt.03 acres, wero made. Tho total of lands selected under the .grants to the several funds in 190S amounted to 13.5G2 acros. Approximately 12,152 acres arc left for selections under these grants. , The loans on farm lands In if0S amounted to S57.S1S.S0. ' Thero were olghty-two application; for loans of this sort, of which tlftj'-3l.v. were considered. The fees for grazing permits amounted to $1311.30. The number of acres aud value that went to stale Institutions under grant selections se-lections to tho several stale Institutions amounted to 9.122 acres, valued at $25.-5SS.IS. $25.-5SS.IS. As to irrigation, tho board is spending an appropriation of $7500 by the last legislature leg-islature in sinking test wells to secure water for domestic purposes In arid districts. dis-tricts. Tho outcome of this and government govern-ment inquiry nlonc this lino will fully sot out the difficulty attending the more extended utilization of this section of the slate, and dotermlno nl?o whether the present area reclaimed io drv farming can be cultivated with loss hardship and expense and the products more completely complete-ly utilised than Is practicable under tho present system. |
