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Show STATE LAND SALE PROVES A. FIZZLE LOOAJf. Utah. April 1. Friday waa the day set by the 8tate Land board for the aale of the six sections of forest reserve lends held by the State and offered for the second time this year1. No one appeared ap-peared who was willing to bid, and the State will now be prepared to offer the itnd at private aale. The alx sections are the ones Sold in January to Moaea of Denver and San ford I of Missouri, over which Gov. Cutler raised such a muddle when he found that the bidders had employed Jesae T. Badger and others to refrain from bidding so they could get the land at the appraised value. The land lies within the forest reserve tit r?afh miintv It waa rtff V4iA at 1A o'clock by Herchel Bullen. a member of the State Land board, with no offers. The reason there was no bidding ia the repeal of the lieu land scrip law, which permitted the exchange of forest reserve lands for scrip, which waa In turn exchangeable ex-changeable for valuable timber or gr&slng lands In other sections of the United States. . |