Show T nAl HAIR GETS KOETS BUSY WITH DRY JORY FARM 99 BILL DILL op HINGTON march IS 18 sena oot ot has been notified by land stoner denne tt that he has 14 fed ted George flair chief of the field eld division to take steps inary nary to e early designation million aci act cs es of land for entry the new enlarged homestead is instructed to confer imely with the engineer ng ineer in in fe of tho the strawberry valley iron n project and with the utah land and boat d and to operate cooperate co ham in determining general in in different counties in utah attry try under the act ivin ing selected the general areas investigations of them will be S and descriptions of the lands ct tion iong and ranges eted to the general land office ormal designation by the secre of f the interior ds to be subject to enlarged tead entry must be non tim bard non mineral and not susceptible of irrigation at reasonable cost not have sufficient water for bomea tic purposes ees and cre re lands of such fertility as will reasonably justify cultivation of agricultural crops while two million acres are named in the act as subject to entry in utah but hilf half this area will be selected at this time WILL DESIGNATE LAND UNDER DRY FARM JAW LAW george E hair announces that as soon as he receives instructions from washington he will immediately get in touch wilh with the chief engineer pf t the strawberry valley project a at d in conjunction with the state land board will designate one million acres of land for entry under lander the dry farm law this law which has recently come into operation provides that th the a farmers of the arid and regions can take tak up three hundred and twenty acres of land without being compelled to live on the land it is provided in the law however that they must cultivate one eighth of the area the first year and one fourth the second year at the end of fiad years when title to the land is given they must be found cultivating one half of tho the arel the coat cost of this tract at the end of five years will be in the neighborhood of 35 chief hair hir states that the million acres which it is proposed to designate for entry would be taken in az a many counties as possible so as to distribute the among the farmers of the state |