Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 72 | Land Board Doubles Sales in Past Year

lUND BOARD DOUBLES - SsLESjTPAST VEAH Remarkable Record Made by Department; Total Received Re-ceived Is $1,502,385.90. The state land department sold twice as much land in 1917 than was old by the. department in the four previous years from 191.) to and including 1916. Tbis in the remarkable record shown by the records of the department. During Dur-ing tho four latter years, there were sold o;j,2!?J acres as against 94,- j 229. So acres in 1917, The total amount received from the land disposed of in : 1 1 7 was l,o0':l.fi0, while for the : land sold from IP 1.1 to and including! 1916 a total of s.SrtJijS.G was taken in. The averagfe price for all this laud was $lo per acre. This rpcord was made under T. A. Snioot, for the past year state land eounnisHomT. lie has the distinction, of selling more land in one year by r.9.100 acres than was sold by his department de-partment in four previous years, and bv t a king in for the state more by. $0 US, 217. 27 in the year that he has been in office than passed through his department during the four previous years. ' Twenty -two Land Sales. A total of twenty-two land sales were held at which school, industrial school, .science school, normal school, university, univer-sity, penitentiary, agricultural college, charitable institution, insane asylum and public building lauds were disposed of. There were 47.700.90 acres of school land., ;j.-1S3.27 acres of industrial indus-trial school, 40 acres of school of science, sci-ence, 1911.1 acres of normal school, 1909.11 acres of university, 6100 acres of penitentiary, 2-l.SJ.7Ci acres of agricultural agri-cultural college, 13,850.31 acres of charitable char-itable institution, .113.98 acres of insane in-sane asylum and ojS.HI acres of public building land sold during the year. The toi;;il principal paid en these lauds iras : $293,9Pfi.ri3, or 10 per cent down. The total interest was $24,953 and the fees amounted to 2102 f-0. The constitutional limitation to lands that could be sold placed the amount for the year at 64.000 acres and of this amount 65,154.17 was disposed of. Detail of Sales. The place of sales and amount of acreage disposed of at each follow: Canyon county, February 15, 249S.97; Ada countv, April 9. 13 4-(5.13; Minidoka, May 24 (ilclburn townsite), 1491.45; Cassia, Jilav 23, Go 4.1 (5 ; Twi n Kallsj Mav 25, 6093.98; Kootenai, June 26, 127S.6S; Benewah. June IS, 900; Bonner, Bon-ner, June 20, 322: Latah, June 2, 1610.07; Idaho, June 2-:", 1424.61; Clearwater, Clear-water, Jmie 2S, 1040; Teton, August 2, S269.71; Fremont, August 4, 9039.74; .Jefferson, August, 25, 3550.30; Bingham, October 1, 2703.30; Bonneville, August 25, 7603.30; Ban:iock, October 2, 5S33.60; Vallev, October 25, 6943.S9; Adams, October 25, 1825.90; Ada, September Sep-tember 10, 50; Madison. November 24, 13,540; Gem district, 9600. The Madison Madi-son couniv sale was one of the largest in the history of the state, a total of $300,000 having been realized from it. The following table shows the number num-ber of acres of state land subject to sale and applications pending: Land Subject Applica- Countr. Sale. cations. Shoshone 54.510 1.000 Boundarv 27,640 13020 Nez Perce 13,180 52 Lewis 3,400. 320 Washington. 48,560 4,846 Gem ..' 15,520 1,040 Pavette 13,720 O-svrhee 201,420 3,0S0 Elmore 101,740 600 Camas 58,620 Blaine 40,900 1,41)0 Gooding 20,160 .1,920 Lincoln 41,440 3.760 Butte 37,440- 480 Custer 36,920 S80 Lemhi 30,'43U 2rt6SJ) Power 41,000 9,410 Oneida 23.740 5,069 Franklin 3,929 160 Bear Lake 1900 4,120 The following represents timber lands sold on land;' Shoshone county, 7360 acres; Boundary county, 1920 acres. The total cash receipts of the state land department for the year from January Jan-uary 1, 1917, to December 1, 1!17 amounted to $66,26j.74. A total of 222 deeds were issued covering 15,377.60 acres. The total number of farm loan mortgages in force amount to $2,9-18,-518, an increase of $700,000 over 1916. The department averaged three loans a day running in amount from $300 up to $5000. These loans are made on a basis of one-third of the appraised valuation. The interest rate is 6 per cent and the maximuni amount that can be borrowed bor-rowed by any individual $5000. The total cash receipts for leases during the eleven months amounted to $1.41, (506. 02. Grazing land is leased at 10 cents per acre and agricultural land for 50 cents per acre. All leases are made subject, to the sale, of the land.