Show GILSONITE LAND SOLD tai AN ACRE FOR LAND CON BIG old mineral lands are in demand by the knowing ones only theaven numbered red sections disposed of 01 the bids which were opened at the land office last saturday present some interesting features fea turea any company or citizen had the right to bid on any legal subdivision of land in in the mineral belt of the former uncompahgre indian reserva reservation but a separate bid must bo be made for each 40 acre tract though tiny any person was allowed to bid on any number of tracts the gilsonite lands ale reserved when the reservation was wag thrown open to settlement and this sale included only the even numbered sections there were seventy five forty acre tracts bid for and bids handed in in the following follow ing list the prices named are for each acre of some forty acre tract of land for instance the bids of robert W walsh for two forty acre tracts which bids will doubtless bo be accepted mean that he will pay 2000 or each of these tracts or for both and the tract upon apoll which ira atkinson bid per acre will cost him the minimum price was 6 per acre acra according to the best information we are able to obtain there were four companies in the field tho american asphalt association represented by robert W walsh the gilson aspdal tum company represented by james L brusstar joseph W royer ernest searing ira atkinson edgar 11 boles and J lee allen alien rock 11 pope was represented by maynard bixby following is a list of the bids received at the land office and the prices named t robert W walsh submitted bids for three tracts at 80 per acre and two at 60 50 each per acre patrick R quinlan twenty five bids one at 5 one at 6 six at 7 60 four atla two at 15 one at 20 two at 25 three at 30 one at 50 one at 75 one at and two at per acre james L brusstar eleven bids one at 3 one at 21 21 one at 26 one at 81 one at 36 86 three at 51 and three tit lit 61 joseph W royer twelve bids two at 5 3 four at 6 one at 8 five at 11 ernest searing thirteen bids nine at 6 three at 11 one at 21 ira ira atkinson eleven bids one at 21 one at 36 one at 41 three at 61 6 1 one at 91 three at 1 16 onee onet edgar H boles fourteen bids eleven at 6 one at 8 two at 11 dollars J lee allen alien eleven bids five at 6 two at 16 one at 21 tw two 0 at 26 and one at 30 dollars dollare maynard bixby twelve bids four at 5 10 four at 5 40 two at 5 80 two no at names of bidders and number of 40 acre tracts upon which each bidder had bad highest bid robert W walsh 2 patrick it R quinlan 9 0 ira atkinson 9 joseph W royer 10 james jamea L brusstar 11 ernest searing 13 edgar H boles 13 J lee allen alien 11 maynard bixby 40 it will be observed that the supposed BUp posed representatives of the GlIs onite company bid one dollar dolar above common prices for Ins instance tunce instead of twenty they bid twenty one dollars the result was that on one of the forties viz the se ar of the se ar of see sec 16 tp 9 a r 24 e which contains part of the fm famous ous bonanza vein walsh bid 80 per acre quinlan and atkinson Atkin Bon supposed to be one of the gilsonite Gilso companas comp anys crowd bid winning by a margin of one dollar an acre on another claim in the mame bame quinlan bid ten and atkinson Atkin Bon ninety one or eighty five dollars more than was necessary to win still another part of the same section cost atkinson dollars per acre while quinlan his hia only competitor bid seventy five these bids have bean forwarded to the liono honorable rable commissioner of the general land and office and as soon as is he be accepts the bids the sales will be completed all of the land purchased is in sections 4 6 8 16 22 28 32 84 34 36 86 24 and 80 township 0 9 south range 24 east |