Show MONEY COMES TO UNCLE SAM all records for land filings filing sat at the salt lake city land office have been broken during the last few days two das of la last lat t week there were seventy applications for homesteads all but three of which were under the smoot act calling for acres each making malting an aggregate of 1 of homestead homes land eilf filed d upon the fees and commissions for filing on oil this land amounted to a little more than two thousand dollars the coal entries filed during last week aggregated more than four thousand acre chih have been taken up by twentynine twenty nine applicants the government will receive from the sale of this land a total of two hundred thousand do dollars lars which will be paid within the next sixty days there has been a remarkable increase in the number of entries on desert lands and on dry farm lands this increase is largely due to the modifications in the land laws which give especially liberal advantages to settlers the entries on mineral lands land sare are keeping pace pact with the entries in other years and while no great increases ai aio shown the development of the mineral areas of the state is shown to be going steadily ahead |