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Show Two Bidders Successful On Lands Two Salt Lakers were high bidders Wednesday for. land in San Juan and 'Uintah county auctioned by the Bureau of Land Management. Frederick G. Kidston, 4892 Cottonwood Lane, was high bidder for three tracts- 13 miles north of Monticello. He bid ?1,2S0 on each of two 40-acre tracts and ?2,560 for an SO acre tract. There were three other bidders for these lands. All bids were received by mail, according accord-ing to Robert D. Nielson, BLM state director for Utah. For a 160-acre tract 35 miles northeast of Vernal, Robert B. Mee, 2790 East 4135 South, was high bidder bid-der at $6,000. Two mailed bids were received and after af-ter they were announced Mr. Mee entered his bid orally. Mr. Nielson explained ex-plained that an owner of land contiguous to a tract has a preference right to purchase the property by meeting the high bid. |