Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-03 | Page 12 | Grazing Lands of Utah Divided

GRAZING LANDS OF ur UTAH AH DIVIDED Utah's Ufah's public domain suitable for tor grazing has has' been divided Into four districts under provisions of the Taylor Taylor Tay Tay- lor lr grazing act G Governor vernor Henry H H. Blood waS was was- informed Friday The division of such lands Is the result of a series eries of ot conferences held last summer by representatives of the Taylor grazing act a administration and the states state's stock growers The Thc districts are arc 1 All public lands In the northern section of the state The area Is bounded on the east ast as far south as Ui the southern boundary of ot Morgan county and on the west as far south as Wendover All water areas and a portion of ot the Great Salt Lake desert are excluded from the district 2 West of ot the Wasatch range extending extending extending ex ex- tending sou south h of Great Salt lake as asfar asfar asfar far south as the southern boundary of Juab county 3 3 West of at the Wasatch range in Millard Beaver Flute Plute Sevier and Sanpete counties 4 The southwest corner of ot the thc state otate including Iron Washington Kane Wasatch and a portion of the Garfield county The districts districts' were created by proc prow proclamation of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes Information as to the creation of the districts was sent Govenor Govenor Gov Gov- enor Blood by Fred W. W Johnson commissIoner commissioner commissioner com com- missioner of ot the general land office in Washington Originally it had been planned to divide the state slate into two general grazing grozing dist districts one in the east cast and andone andone andone one in the west Purpose of ot the districts is to enable administrators of ot the Taylor grazing act to carry out efficiently their plans to conserve the ranges o of the public domain Under provisions of the act a 3 permit permit permit per per- mit to graze cattle on the public domain domain domain do do- main similar to that issued for the grazing right in the notional national forest districts must be obtained The acreage acreage acreage acre acre- age allotted for grazing under the permits is based on the number of acres owned by the applicant