Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-19 | Page 7 | Delta Patents to be Issued at Once

DELTA PATENTS TO BE ISSJJEOAT HE State Engineer Says Misunderstanding Misun-derstanding of Officials Is Cleared Away. No delay is expected now in the issuance issu-ance by the federal government of pat- 1 ents to the state for 30.00U acres of the : Delta Land & Water company's I'nrey j act project in Millard comity, declared ; State Engineer W. D, Beers upon liia ! return yesterdav from Washington. With W. D. Candland, president of the state land board, and attorneys rep- resenting both the Delta Land k Watt r company and the settlers on the project, Mr. Beers appeared before interior do- 1 partment officials at the eaiptal to inquire in-quire why the patents were being held ! up. ' ' The government, ' ' said Mr. Beers, "had misapprehensions about a number of details of the project, which, 1 am glad to say, no had no difficulty in straightening out with the interior department. de-partment. In fact, the department complimented com-plimented the state upon the way it has regulated this project. Charles W. Wells, the government 's Carey a.-t engineer, engi-neer, agreed with me that the company had supplied sufficient water 011 the project. We were given to understand that patent to 33,000 acres of the project would be granted at once. The state can then turn the patents over to the settlers. ' ' The Delta project comprises approximately approx-imately 4X.U00 acres, of which 4O00 have been patented. Mr. Beers. Mr. Candland and Frank Evans, attorney for the Delta seltlers. arc now bark from the Washington con-I'ereiii'C. con-I'ereiii'C. Frederick St eigiueyer, ultorney for the, lclta company, stopped in Chicago Chi-cago and is not bark as yet.