Show GOVE GOVERNMENT ERROR OPENS CHANCE FOR fOa UJ AU lAND GRABBERS Withdrawal Withdraw I From Homestead Homestead Homestead Home- Home stead Entry in Box Elder Reveals Story Owing to tho the fact fac it Is said that a government special land land agent failed to interpret interpret- tho the enlarged homestead act properly the tho government has learned that thata a large amount of valuable land with water ator was being given away In Box Elder count county in III acre acro acro tracts not riot subject to residence requirements Realizing the tho mistake in a recent recent Inspection in inspection inspection In- In another special agent r reported porte the matter to tho the government with the result that a a. hasty withdrawal of the tite theland theland land was ordered by the general land office yest yesterday pending a classification of tho the land Among tho the results reRuns of the finding ma may maybe maybo bo be the nullification of enlarged homestead entries in the district on tho ground that the persons who took up tho the land upon which there were either springs or surface surface surface sur sur- face water certainly knew that such land did not hot properly come under tho the enlarged homestead act Th The land was designated in June 1909 and was the first to be bo designated under the tho enlarged ed homestead act In the designation designation designation nation were about a acres ros There Thera was ws no water found on tho tholand land at tho the time of the original inal surveys according to tho the report of the former land agent who made the inspection of the ground and who has since left the tho service Ills name has not been made public Some time ago Special A Agent ent W. W L J. Miller made a trip to tho the district and went over the land and very carefully J Ie found many springs and in some places artesian wells and surface water within twelve and fifteen feet feel of the surface This clearly ho he held took the tho land from tho the enlarged homestead class and steps stops wore taken to bring about a general withdrawal of the entire district Tho The land office Is now checking up on the tho tract and finds that about acres of the land has been homesteaded Upon mu much h of this it Is said there is water vatel The land withdrawn Is described as follows Township I 12 north ranges rl 11 ii and 12 west township 13 north ranges 11 and 12 west townships 12 and t 13 north range 13 west townships 10 10 11 and 12 north range 14 west townships 10 11 12 and 14 north range 15 Ii west townships 9 10 11 ii 11 12 2 and 14 north range 16 west townships town town- ships ship's 8 S. S 9 and 12 north range 17 west townships 8 S and anel 9 north ranges 18 IS and 1 19 west all Salt Lake meridian The tract stretches from Kelton on the old line of the Central Pacific north of the tho Great Salt lake to Umbria Junction and Carney Garney near the Utah Nevada line and from the railroad north as far as the the Uta Utah Idaho h- h Idaho boundary Much tuch land In this territory has been exploited by bJ lan land companies which took oyer oer the old holdings of the tho Crocker es es- es tate Congressman Joseph Howell engineered engineered engi engi- the deal by which the Crocker estate lands were bought and companies In which he lie is said to be Interested have been selling lands In the vicinity at prices ranging up to lG or more an acre for fot dry farm lands and as high as 30 or 10 iO iOan an acre for lands and water yater I |