Show Contests Will WillBe Be e Allowed I The Thc officers of the land office at Vernal Utah have been instructed instructed instructed in in- that all lands on on the former formel Uinta Indian Reservation Reservation Reserva Reserva- tion which are embraced within within with with- in an unperfected homestead entry on August u 28 1910 will not be sold that where a preference erenee ri right ht of entry is running on August 28 1910 the successful successful successful success success- ful contestant will be he allowed to exercise his preference right of c entry after that date and within the preference right period and that the thc rules of practice relating to contests and aud other regulations aP applicable applicable applicable I cable to e entries tries under the homestead homestead homestead home home- stead laws will continue in ill force as m to tb t homestead entries made on the Reservation prior to August 28 1910 until all such lands lauds have been patented In commenting on the foregoing foregoing foregoing fore fore- going instructions Register Charles De Noisy in a letter to t the Record states as follows follo rs It is our opinion that these instructions give to persons who conte contest t a homestead entry on the former Uinta Indian Reservation R and secure e its can cap a preference e right to tomake tomake tomake make homestead en entry try of the theland theland theland land contested even though the contest be instituted after August 28 1910 Owing to th the great amount of interest already beill being taken taker in iti the approaching sale last weeks week's edition of the Record J containing the letter ol of instructions instructions dons of the sale was quickly exhausted and it was impossible impossible impossible sible to fill th the unusually large demand for extra copies The letter is herewith re prod produced produced pro pro- d It is directed that all of the thc unreserved non mineral lands within the former 1 Uinta pinta Reser- Reser n in the state of Utah opened op ened to settlement and entry un under erthe the proclamation n of July uly 14 1900 1000 which remain ed on ou August 28 1910 1010 and lo to which no valid existing rigl rights ts ha have c attached un under ler the public land laud laws be offered for sale at public auction under the supervision su supervision super su su- per sion of James Jaines V. W. Whitten superintendent of opening and sale salt of oJ Indian lands at the city of Pr Provo vo Utah o on n November er r 1 1910 and thereafter in i legal subdivisions i m mating a t tin i n one hun red hundred relAnd md rid sixty a acres c r res e s' s each as near hear as ns may clay be he except except except ex ex- in cases where th the owners owner or purchasers ers of lands adjacent to offered tracts shall request the offering of such adjacent tracts in smaller legal visions No No person shall be ue permitted permit permit- ted teci to purchase purchase more e than six hundred and forty acres in his own ri right ht or at a less price than 50 cents per acre and the purchaser of each tract must pay the entire purchase price thereof to the receiver of the Vernal United States land office office office of of- fice then temporarily at Provo before 4 30 0 o'clock clock p p. p rm m. m the second day after the sale thereof there there- of and if he fails to so make such payment he will forfeit t aUri all aU allright allright ri right ht to the tract so purchased and the tract will be a again ain of of- feted feed on the lay day dit ft r h he l i makes default in such iiii r. r nt and rind au any person so d defaulting 1 will not he be permitted to bid for or purchase other tracts at this sale I The liThe superintendent of the sale will be he authorized to prescribe pre pre- I scribe such rules for the proper conducting of the sale not in ire conflict h herewith as th the thi exi exi- exigencies gel may require and he may at any allY time suspend or in indefinitely indefinitely in- in definitely postpone the sale or adjourn it to such time or place as he be may deem advisable nd and may reject any and ancI all which in h his is opinion are less than the actual cash value alue of the land offered All AU persons are warned under under under un un- der penalty of the law against into agreement entering any all agreement combination or conspiracy which will prevent pre an any of said mid lands lauds from front selling advantageously advantageously advantage advantage- or which will result in any anyone one person becoming the he purchaser of more than six hundred and forty acres at said sale and all persons so offending offending offending offend offend- ing will be prosecuted crimin- crimin alv for so doing doing- |