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Show 01E MILLION ACRES FOR IHIESJI UTAH Effect of Enlarged Homestead Law Will Be to Open Many New Tracts. Special to The Trlbuoo. WASHINGTON, March 17. A million mil-lion acres of land in Utah will be thrown open to entry soon, under tho "dry farm," or enlargod homestead law. Tho act will open to ultimate settlement set-tlement two million acres, but for the present tho secretary of tho interior lias docidod to tako steps to dosiguate only a million acres at this time. Fred Dennett, commissioner of tho general laud office, today notified George E. Hair, chieX of -the Utah field division, to tako slops for the early designation of the land to bo opened for entry. He was instructed to confer with tho chief ongineor of tho Strawberry Valley Irrigation Ir-rigation project' and the Utnh state' land commissioner. Only non-tiiuberod. non-mineral non-mineral land, susceptible to irrigation at reasonable cost, and fortilo for agricultural ag-ricultural purposes, will bo included in the, designation. |