Eureka Reporter | 1918-04-05 | Page 2 | Map Shows Land under Enlarged Homestead Act

map shows land under 1 enlarged homestead act copies have been received by the reporter from senator reed smoot of a map of the state of utah I 1 by the department of interior 1 ih map is designed to show land besig bated by the secretary under the pro visions of the enlarged homestead act and this land is shown in color land coming under sections 1 to 5 of the act which includes three hun dred and twenty acre homesteads where residence on the land itself is required Is colored red on the map while those areas coming under sec see alon 6 where actual residence on the land itself Is not requisite are shown in blue the red predominates in the southwestern part of the state through juab millard bemer and iron counties while the blue Is smal ler in area but rather more scatter catter ed A large part of boxelder Box Dox elder coun ty where the odd numbered sect section ioni were included in the old central pa cefic land grant to a checkered with blue indicating that the government owned even numbered sections which are included under section 6 these i maps may be had by request to sena tor smoot