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Show GERMAN iM BUYS in un bash Only Small Portion of Public Land Has So Far Been Offered for, Sale. . . 4 ' . ' . ' Special to The Tribune. 4 VERXAL,, Dec. 5. Baron Von Ilorl. the noted German nobleman, thinks the Uintah busln Is a most wonderful country. coun-try. J Us large purchase of land at the f'rovo sale last month was inoro by accident acci-dent than previous Intention, but whjn hn visited tliu country to look at some of his new posecssloni he was so well pleased that ho lias been aaklns for special spe-cial literature. Tho baron bocaino interested when Fred Leonard, manager of tho Cullen hotel In Halt Lake, began to 8ln: tho pralo of tills vl empire. Leonard wa largely roHponslblo for the vlult of the Salt Lake moneyed men to thin section last summer. sum-mer. Tho baron was making a tour of the world and waa stopping for a few days at tho Cullcn. Leonard told him about tho Provo land Halo and the German gentleman got busy with his cafih. The result was that ho purchased several thousand acres and went on his way to llnlHh hl trip around the world. Tho sale was a big kiicco-B, notwithstanding notwith-standing that only a Hinall portion of the vacant Innd was offered, a lartfc area having been reserved for mineral Inspection. In-spection. Another sale will perhaps be held soon and the remaining land will bo placed upon the market. Tho acreage acre-age offered at that lime probably did not exceed 200,000 acres and about n thirds of It was sold. The prices ranged from 50 cents to ?7.S0 per acre, without water right. Christian Tolboe of Provo. acting as agent for .T. JX. Allan, a big sheepman of Draper, bought several hundred hun-dred acres In section 12. township 2 south, range 10 west, at tho headwaters headwa-ters of Currant creek, near the Fruit-land Fruit-land postofflec, at that price. The land Is Rood for grazing. Tho remaining unsold land will approximate ap-proximate 500,000 acres. |