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Show water for irrigation purposes. More specific or additional information in-formation may be obtained by contacting con-tacting the State Land office, Capitol Capi-tol Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. eal rights may or may not have been reserved to the State. Land acquired by foreclosure may or may not have had the mineral rights reserved to the state when sold. Carey Act lands in the vicinity of Delta, Utah may be purchased for $1.00 per acre with $50 cents for $1.00 per acre with 50 cents time in which to pay the balance. Such land maybe sold in 160 acre tracts with 20 of the land to be actually cultivated and farmed within three years of the date of the contract. Purchaser must furnish furn-ish evidence of water secured from the Boston Land Co., or evidence of permission from the State Engineers' En-gineers' office to use subsurface State Land Board Explains Leases The State of Utah normally acquires ac-quires title to sections numbered fhinnVf und 36 o eacn township town-ship after the sections are surveyed and such survey accepted by the Department of Interior. These sections sec-tions arc commonly called 'School' sections. However, the State has accepted land in lieu of these sections sec-tions when such sections have been within reservations or otherwise unobtainable to the State. Also the state has acquired land other than these 'school' sections by moans of selection of lands under special grants made to various State institutions and by means of foreclosure on farm lands. Therefore the state administrators much land within the state which lies in sections other than those numbered 2, 16, 32, and 36 while at the same time it often has no interest in such numbered sections. Land which comes under the administration ad-ministration of the State Land Board is sometimes sold to private parties or exchanged with the Federal Fed-eral Government for other land with the mineral rights reserved to the state. Therefore, the state may have mineral rights to lands which are owned by private individuals or by the Federal Government. However, How-ever, all lands in which the State of Utah holds an interest are sub- I embracing the same tract of land can be obtained under separate leases by one or more parties. Ror instance, it is possible for the same tract of land to be leased to Mr. A. for grazing, to Mr. B. for oil and gas, to Mr. C. for coal, to Mr. D. for iron, and to Mr. E. for uranium. uran-ium. Each of the lessees must comply com-ply with the conditions pertaining to leases in which no other party is concerned except that they must adjust their damage claims themselves. them-selves. Mineral leases are for a period of ten years or as long thereafter as commercial production may continue. con-tinue. The rental rate is 50 cents per acre per annum with the current curr-ent years rental to be submitted on a pro-rated basis along with the completed application and the application ap-plication fee of $2.00 per lease. . In addition to the rentaLjnineral leases provide for a royalty vof 12y2 of the selling price of the mineral extracted less . certain transportation and other costs as provided for in the lease itself. Grazing leases are subject to rental determined by range appraisal apprai-sal values and are made for a term of not to exceed 12 years. State Land Board administered lands may be purchased for not less than the appraised value. Sales are made by sealed bids or open auction. Since 1919 all mineral rights are automatically reserved to the state on land other than that acquired by foreclosure when the land is sold. Prior to 1919 the min- ject to the same leasing conditions condi-tions unless otherwise specified. Such land open to mineral leasing leas-ing may be leased in tracts of not less than a legal sub-division of 40 acres unless lots are involved which contain lesser areas. Separate Sep-arate leases must be made for noncontiguous non-contiguous tracts, . however such tracts may be applied for on one application blank. Both mineral and grazing rights |