Show STATE LAND BOA O OIS IS CRITICISED Raise in Minimum Price of Land Works Hardship in Out Outlying OutlyIng Outlying lying Counties Countes VIEWS OF JUAB JAB COUNTY BOARD Mo lot t Sold for ro tie SIVI S nn Ar n 21 Now Nu O I lit for Juab Co 0 Utah March W XU 11 1906 Editor Deseret D News 01 to the tho article which op ap In lii your hestia of or March S 8 un under tier der r tile the Tho rho Irlo of ot Laud Land Juab County Coulty Commissioners lnor do tb not nut approve Il rOe of ot tho tile action taken will wi ou 01 permit jonah us tie lB to tn it explain to thin the through tho Jun columns of ot your our pa paper 1 per juer just where we toe le on nn this ton We Se appreciate the evident In Iii Intent tent teut of the tho state board boar of com COIn COI II In ill the Ihu minimum on Oil state 11 te lands from fromi 1180 fl 1 0 to 10 JM S W II per acre and agree with theta them that bitt from the Ohio tilde 1110 of ot the tho question ue frol which they hwy have III undoubted viewed the matter maler I e that of ot through Ohio tho Halo salo of ot cuto lands the Hie various funds Into which the thle proceeds from same al I 0 would no go their action would seem Heel to tn bo lie for or orthe 10 Ih the hO best Interest of ot tho the state but there thoro Is III another ci side to tn the tho thi e which they seem Hem to have hwo overlooked and 1111 which in to us ua who Ire art lre located In Ill tie tho counties puts biats the tho In n nn tint entirely different It II I Is h this thiis There Is hi In tl Ohio tho ct COunties i a vast st acreage of ot land of ot such HUch sucha a n nature that thol title to same cannot c bo be nude under any ni Oh of ot the tho entries s provided I ty the lack of ot water inter muk H It Impossible for tor or p ople tl Iii o live hive 11 on oui Oi same lle and acquire tto title un tIer lor tho hue homestead law amid alli U of ot this of ur water no 10 title tithe can van be made under the desert art act oct So Ho that hint I If f this thus land larul Is I ever to I count come cOle Into hue the of the Iw people It must como through ii Khane the tho state Ln Un tier ler tho tim old minimum price of ut an alt 1 ler lere a 1 part of or this land was wius WI taken but tho the advance of ot pi PrIce Ice hai practIcally stopped all ni The Iho he land Is except fur for graz lull Inn UK and for that purpose c Is Iii 11 not nut worth the hi present minimum price pice If It I tho the is 18 maintained HH as I now the tho hu result will wi ba be bt that only the tho most mo t valuable land lanil 1111 will wi be sold Rold such sueh ns as 01 U Is 11 located In the most populous counties and frequently such ns as 16 could be ho en entered CI tired tec under tinder the grants Ila 1 tl till ind the tho less leA valuable ble laud land situated In Iii Inthe II the outlying counties will wi continue as not lS now hops nol to ho bo Jublle domain tho the growth Drouth of t these theRo counties will wi thus bo ho curtailed curtle neither the state nor moor county coulty will wi ewer ever receive recelo any nn revenue front from frol same ale which otherwise t b be done clone In lii 11 the shape of ot taxes upon the thin land lanti and ha which would bo 10 placed on ott al them It If the lands were owned by the tho people Again the been os In the tho there thero have hivo been boon wisdom therein hut but butto hutto hutto to sell sol halt half hal of ot the prams executing regular mails lands mottle to the state by II the thu government at per fer acre and otter after aler tho the hues best belI land 1011 have hae br brell n se so selected s sleeted to raise rl o the tM in Ru to 10 S W p r nero aero on nn tho the lands of o It pourer poorer wo wu I do not reel foci Is a it 1 Rood goo I policy loIC Under the tile old 01 iule of ut the land board the most mus populous louR alit coun counties ties have got ot most of ot it their land Inlo the of ot the tue tl the new lew rule th counties that are lre handicapped by liy luck hutch ot of If capital and population In I n h to their thel r area 11 must mU t of 01 necessity see ea their develop development de lof ment retarded for tor or tho want of ut if cheap to offer orter to tl Investors tos anti settlers setlers as its lS nn titi 11 Inducement to Rot get It them to Im the tile uste places of ot if this thin state It I Is 18 not n a question ns LIP lS to what other sell sol their for tor but tin not nf to t what Is I tho the best bal policy to build up U Many of ot the states been handicapped by hy y not nol hav having hn ing their lands In the Ohio hands of ot tax The Tho hIstory hl tory of lt Nevadas pro r gress would have hav ba 0 been heen very different If I upon gaining statehood Mho sho had tak take taken taken en tho the wise course Utah did IUd to ho get her herland ide land emits urn ntH Into thu the hands of ot tho the pee peo people r o Very Yer er respectfully re GUI m 1011 of ot County Commissioners Commis electors Ioner Juab County |