| Show BIG LAND SALE few things have happened in box elder county since the planting ot of the first commercial orchard that can equal in it importance to the general public the opening ot of the great crocker estate ranches and the event la is ol of peculiar importance in northern utah because those now in control of this immense tract realize the benefit it would be to them to have the lands ta taken ken up chiefly by residents ot of adjacent sections northern utah indeed is the only section in which the opening next month has or wll wal be extensively advert vert sed the officers of tile the promontory cur low lew land co which will urill handle this immense in in enec tract are not men whose sole aim is to get a laige amount ot of land off their hands and a large amount ot of other persons money into their pockets they prefer to offer the laud land lor for sale to a public which knows just exactly what the land is and which will know how bon to work tile the land to the best advantage they do no not t want anyone to buy land there and d after attempting to operate it for a year or two in accordance with some unior unworkable kible theory to say that he purchased the property under misrepresentation as the victim of gloss exah exaggeration aeration they know that the sort ot of men who will do themselves and the company the most good ire are the men dien who will make a success of operating the land they know too that the men who have made a success of fruit farming in northern utah will be the first to appreciate the importance of the public sale ot laud land under irrigation which is exactly similar to that around Tre tremonton monton and they know that they the have just such land in the blue springs valley about 3 acres or of it adjacent to the townsite ol of howell of which the plat was approved by the county commissioners ot or box elder county last month this irrigated land is on oil the western side of L I 1 township 12 north range 4 5 5 west S salt alt lake meridian or about 7 miles north of the station of nelmar kelmar on the old line of the southern pacific and about 13 miles due west nest of 0 garland further Fur the officials of 0 the pro montory curlew land cc are aare that the men who will be most eager to buy dry farming land tracts in the estate of that coni company pany are the men who are making a success with dry farming methods throughout the various ious similar sections ot of northern utah and tile the stock raisers raiser of north ein utah will nill be the men most keenly interested in securing some of the fine ranges between the great salt lake and the utah idaho line lor for their own A with these ranges will go the rights to the various springs and other water privileges throughout that territory the possession of which by the promontory and the curlew ranch companies have kept flocks and herds of competitors oft off these ranges in the past and has proved a hindrance to the lull full development of a large portion of box elder county stockholders in the company also being almost residents of northern utah are well aware that in selling the property once held by the two crocker ranch companies they ire are making available for development a large territory of public land from which the public has been until the present shut off since the lands were comparatively c inaccessible and tile tho ranch companies owned the water lights not that the crocker interests were held to blame in this for they acro willing to sell the land just as soon as the public demand became so great that the holdings could be sold in bulk it was not however until congressman joseph howell took up ill the negotiations tiati ons last july that a sale of the ranches was perfected the various dealings since then at aie e matters or 0 recent history and the lands are now iu in the hands of the pi promontory cur lew land company of which the following are directors david eccles of osden ogden president congressman howell vice president Il erschel bullen bulion jr of logan secretary 11 II E r hatch president of thatcher bros banking co of logan treasurer seth selli A langton formerly logan manager of the consolidated wagon machine ilai hino co general manager and it S browning of 0 ogden and oleen na N stohl president pies ident of box elder stake these these men and their friends own a majority of the stock in the company A portion of it which was listed in cache and box elder counties was subscribed 01 el in twelve hours since that time the work of appraising pi of the acres of land bield by the company lias has gone ahead steadily and some of the lands have been sold the remainder about acres wilt ill be subject to sale to tile the highest bidder at logan april 14 15 1 and IG next the list of the lands and the appraised value of each acre may be had on application to the company at logan no bid will be accepted tor for less than the appraised appraise d value and a certified check for cash forone for one olle tenth the purchase price must accompany each bid to be returned to the bidder in the event that some other person has entered a higher tender for the same land the fact that the bids will be opened on oil three successive days will enable persons unsuccessful the first day to secure a second or a third choice of land the following days bids will be 0 eved in ili public the townsite lots in will be sold with fth water rights for irrigating purposes the water will be pumped irom from the blue springs creek into a large cistern at one end of the main street and thence piped through the town culinary nary water will be obtained irom from Ifill hillside side springs townsite lots and irrigated lands which will bo be sold in 20 acro acre parcels will be listed subject to the conditions that purchasers of dry lands in the tract arc to be given the preference this rule is made to assure those who nho conclude to developed dev elope the tract of 0 comfortable homes and plenty of hay and farm produce dry lands range from oro 50 cents to 1350 an acre in appraised value irrigated lands from 35 to 65 6 an acre and to ton toan n lots from 75 to each |
