Show 15 OO ACRES UTAH r PROGRAM RAM FEDERAL 01 SURVEYORS Ten Crews to to Enter Fi Field ld as s Soon a as Weather Conditions Conditions Con Con- Permit State Is 6 Years Behind on Work i i I I I I I I I j WITH two iwo s surveying crews vv transferred from Nevada I into t southern e 1 Ut Utah next week a and d I i eIght mo more e vs cre to be e a added dc as 1 I soon soon as weather conditions will II p permit the survey survey division of f the pu public pub pub- lie lic land office is about to inaugurate the 1920 season of survey of ot public lands lands According to io preliminary estimate estimate estimate es- es of ot the work possible e the I close of the year it is hoped that the metes and b bounds ot of acres acres' pf of land may be fixed o or 01 more than twice I as much work as as' as was wes accomplished last y year ar NEVADA ACRES S. S At the same sain same time there them will wiIl be seven eight th-eight working in Nevada with the hope of surveying at least half halt a million acres in that state this season season Should additional i survey Ivey funds be se secured se e. e cured from congress of which there Is Is slight hope additional l crews drews will be he placed d in th the field Such is the Information given out tr from m the offices s' s of ot Surveyor General I ICi I. I C. C Ci CJ and Assistant Sup Supervisor o of Fled Field Surveys Surveys' G. G D D. D D. Kirkpatrick HAMPERED LAST YEAR Work ork in lii ill the th field last year was w s sh h hampered by weather conditions such sucha sucha a a as excessive heat arid and drouth routh and arid the total tal of ot acreage cove covered ed by by survey y hues scarcely exceeded acres s sI b because cau of the many fr fractional townshIPs townships town- town shIPs pI that were were surveyed an and lands that were ed I This year vear there are fifty tifty townships practically Jn jn n a a g group O p l in iii l Millard rd am and ancl Beaver e c counties and some in in Wash I ington county chiefly of f state lands that dm can be gone one over over rapidly The Thew w work t next week will start in Washington Washing Washing- ton county in the vicinity of ot StGeorge St St. Georg George Another feature according to Mr Kirkpatrick which will will p permit more work this year vear is the fact that s some me of the surveys in Utah and Nevada Ne Ne- vada will lie along alone along the boundaries boundaries' of Arizona and California and patt part of ot of the funds will come come- from the allotments allotments allotments' allot allot- I ments ments' to o those states 4 ACRES WANTED Applications Application for for surveys tot total l a res a according cording to th the th records records records rec rec- of ot the surveyor general fh These s lands are b being hed he'd back troth from settlement settle ment until they are surveyed but owing ow owing ing t to the fact that Utah is allowed only surVey survey funds each year yar ye r I I the work worl is held up and under ordinary nary hary course it will take six Ix years to toI I catch up with present applications i I Mr l ha has been heen using ev every ry effort to secure additional funds for survey a and d has the ot Utah's representatives in congress cong who are aie in hopes hope's of or securing securing- additional allotments allot allot- ments ments Since the the effort to close of oN of flees of surveyor generals g in the West has lias apparently been finally defeated in inhouse inthe inthe the house bouse the fight for sur survey sury y funds will n now now now- w be resumed With all H the crews in the field by July there will be be- nearly men en engaged engaged en- en I in survey wor work woric In this state Surveying Surveying- engineers will soon be re reI returning returning re- re turning turning- from Washington ton where some of them have been putting putting- in the winter winter win win- ter tel in platting platting- the notes hotes taken on the surveys of or last year vear r I |