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Show Bryce Cayon Deal Will Draw Travel The following extract from the Salt Lake Tribune, announcing that negotiations have been completed for the sale of certain tracts of land at 4iv l!ryce canyon, will prove of great in terest to the residents through Sanpete, San-pete, Sevier, Piute and Garfield counties. coun-ties. With, the building of the hotel by the railroad company at the rim cf the new National Monument, Bryce Canyon, will mean a greater travel through this section. Regarding Regard-ing the closing of the deal the Tribune Tri-bune says: With negotiations between the Union Un-ion Pacific railroad and the state land office for the purchase of twenty-one acres and lease of the remainder remain-der of a section of school land on the rim of Bryce canyon virtually completed com-pleted yesterday, it became known that the railroad plans to spend about $300,000 in constructing the proposed hotel at the canyon and in obtaining the necesary water supply. Plans for the hotel are now being prepared. Although no definite announcement an-nouncement has been made regarding regard-ing the type of construction, it is said that the building will include all the modern conveniences. The state, through Land Commissioner Commis-sioner John T. Oldioyd, yesterady agreed to sell the railroad forty acres of land at the canyon with the reservation res-ervation that the company deed back to the state he L-shaped strip along the rim containing about Tiineteen acres. The proposal was accepted, the railroad company agreeing to pay $25 an acre for the land purchased, and to lease the remainder of the section at 50 cents an acre. The lease is for twenty-five years, and will contain a provision which will give the company preference right of renewal provided terms laid down by the land commissioner are complied with. The public is to have access to the section, the railroad retaining the right to make certain police regulations. regula-tions. Geoi'ge H. Smith, as the attorney representing the Utah Parks com- pany, subsidiary of the Union Pacific, Paci-fic, is drafting the contract, which will be submitted to Commissioner Oldroyd for ratification within the near future. Mr. Smith and James T. Hammond Jr., of counsel for the parks company com-pany yesterday met with Mr. Oldroyd Old-royd in reference to the terms of the agreement. "So far as the purchase price of the land sold and the price to be named in the lease are concerned," said the commissioner following the conference, "and so far as the preference pref-erence right to the railroad people " to renew the leae are concerned, we are agreed. The railroad is also willing will-ing to permit the public to use any surplus water it may have at its dis- posal, and will develop what water it can. We are working now on minor details, and I am given to understand that the railroad people are going ahead with their plans for a hotel, on the assumption that within a few days they will have the full legal title to the site." |