Show UI UTAh AU LAND OffiCE RECEIPTS LEAD AD LISI I IN 1910 Number lumber of Entries on Public Public Pub Pub- lic le Lands Also Shows Big Increase That gov government land In Utah Is at- at trading much attention is shown in tho the annual report of ot the tho commissioner r of th tho general land office at Washington a copy cop copo o of f which was vas received at th the I local al land office this thle morning moring The amount of ot mone money t i eC In iii for fees and commissions during the he t fiscal cal year ear ending Juno June 30 was greater for tor the lie Unit salt Lake than for or KI office oco an any other office In the thc United States and the nUm number r of entries made on public lands land tas I well up tt ar tho the top of ot th the tho list This his disproves the common theory beau of oC the hammer brigade that are avoiding Utah and and settling in oth other r parts of the tho West st st. During DurIn tho the year ear the commissioners commissioner's com corn missioners missioner's report shows a R total of 1392 acres o of land W was disposed of oC There Ther Thel were 2221 1 entries on homesteads and 38 76 wa was taken taen In for or the sale of oC lands land including agricultural and coal lands ands The Tho fees and commissions of the lie theoffice office amounted to making a I total otal of as l the tho receipts of ot tho the office I Besides Besides this which pertains only to tho the I Salt Sal Lake Lae land dl district there W was a 8 large larg amount of business transacted by the Vernal Ver Ver- nal lal office for or tho the Vernal Voral dl district comprisIng hog Ing ng the Uintah Indian reservation and surrounding territory There were 10 entries made mado at that hilt office totaling totaling- 35 acre acres was aN taken In as fc te fees s sand sand and commissions and for land sales making total receipts of oC Th The business of o the Salt Lake office lisa has remarkably in the lost last few years rears ear The 1910 uno business far Cat surpassed that of o 1909 90 and that of 1909 was a much greater rater than than that of or 1908 Tho The rel reason on of I the th big increase this year car It is 18 said la Is tho the enlarged homestead act Under section I 6 of OC this art act act which applies apples only onh to Utah Uth tho the homesteader is allowed acres ares ol of ground an and Is not nol required to establish a ahome ahome home lomo on the tho ground gund This has been bon popular popular popular pop pop- ular with wih people seeking land lad on easy terms term and wl tho the within next two yearn yeara arl man many o of Utah's semi arid districts will wll wi probably be fields field of waving grain This will wi be bo bru brought h about abut it I is said by the scientific farming methods which are arc be beIn being be- be In trig ing generally adopted b by farmers |