Show blakely raps congress for delayed land bill hundreds of 0 tann farm homes will be erected throughout the undeveloped sections of the state within a short time should congress pass the pending land bill according to GB blakley register of the salt lake land office scores of 0 soldiers who have been released from the armies are making dally daily inquiries at the salt lake office letters from every section of the country are pouring into the office ot of mr blakely from soldiers who have read in the newspapers ot of the proposed bill many of them li it Is declared have been informed that the law Is already in effect it Is regrettable that our legislative body could not have passed measures which would give these men some protection during the reconstruction period declared the salt lake register many of the other allied nations have already placed in effect agricultural laws for the benefit of their soldiers it does not now seem that our congress will get to the measure this session probably one halt half of the men who went to france were reared on the farm mr bir blakely declared such a national program as Is under way now he said would be a great factor in giving aid to soldiers who have lost their jobs on account of the war although no complete land survey of the nat nations ioas idle tracts has ever been made it Is estimated by mr blakley that approximately acres of tillable soil could be added to the present available land most of the unproductive and uncultivated land of the nation lies in the eastern portion of the united states it was declared by the land register under present conditions the land the lands must be developed by rate enterprise salt lake herald |