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Show STOCKTON LANDS TO BE LISTED FOR SALE It was decided yesterday that when the sale of SOOo acres of arid, grazing and agricultural land now owned by the state is started in Tooele county, Saturday next, 640 acres not far from Stockton will not be included in the lands offered for eale. The decision was reached after a conference of Tooele citizens, headed by Walter J. Barrette, an attorney of Salt Lake, with Governor Simon Bamberger. The section in question, a state school land section, has been under lease to-Peter to-Peter C egg. His lease does not expire until December next, but he expressed a willingness to withdraw from the lease when the state land board suggested the offering of the land for Bale at public auction. However, Stockton residents said that water rises on the land which might be of use in the future to the citizens of Stockton for a municipal supply, and ; they asked that the land be not offered 1 for sale at present. I The sale will be held at the Tooele I county courthouse, beginning at 10 a. m. 1 Saturday, and will be conducted by Richard Rich-ard Jones, land commissioner. O. D. EMason of the land board's forces will be ! clerk of the sale. j The state land board will hold its regular regu-lar meeting July 8. j |