Show I LAND PRICE TOO HIGH Representatives of Various Counties Will Meet to Enter Protest A meeting t to protest against t the notion ac no- tion of or the th state tate heard board of uC land commissioners com corn ml missioners In raising raining the minimum price of or state lands lantis from fron 1 u tr to o IjO an nn acre will be held In the the theold old halt hall In III the ell city and count county building at 2 o'clock Saturday n April 7 of lI chairman of the Juab hc board ioard rd of or count county corn com missioners missioners- was vas In iii th the tiit cht cH city yesterday for the purpose e of securing t a 3 meeting place for fur the gathering and after a a. a consultation with Ma Mayor r Ezra Thomp son the old Ie legislative hall hail was se cured curd Mr McCune 11 Is 1 fathering the move move- ment mont and amid states that considerable interest In- In erest terest Is heln being manifested m d. d that he ho has lias already received assurances that I the he meeting will be a large anti and en- en one and that all the coun- coun lI ties les s will be represented t d wit with h t the tho hr pos pos- Ible exception of or if Weber an and Salt Salt- Lake County commissioners I n rH from all Utah counties counties and representatives R from Crom all em commercial clubs climbs farmers farmers' ClUbs city governments go ar are in- in lIed to tl att attend the time meeting at which time line a protect against the action of or time he board Jonn will b bo drafted d for Cor presentation presen- presen atlon tation to tile the governor l antI the timi state slate land and hoard board op Mr 11 McCune declared that hint the action or of f the board In r raising l th the price of lands amis has practically resulted In iii stopping stop stop- ping all land purchases s. s and that It Jl Is retarding the time progress o of n tural work olk alit and e In the th state In his count county especially In other l countries he states the thins l are 1 veil even e. n worse and antI In some some- of or them not nota a single application for forthe the purchase of or state lands lantIs has h been n mn made l' l since th the price was Increased ll i by hy the thC board boar All the best lands near water vater waterways r raN ways aN have e n already been tal taken cn len leav lug ing only that which Is not so 10 d desirable This action on Oil the till part of I the land lond board he Iw contends I Is I keeping people OUt of rIf till the different n. n With the experiments In dry farm farm- I lug InS now going on on and with the price of oC land ut at the former fi figure ul Mi Mm- h- h McCune Mc- Mc Cune Curie believes s there would be considerable considerable consid consid- erable rable demand for sand Jam as a greatman great man many would take their chances on a dry farming fanning basis The Increased price hits the poor man while the I extra dollar means nothing to tho the wealthy but it Is the poor man who ho develops land Tf TC they are kept n a-n away I by a n prohibitive e price they they- can not I and auth will not sett settle Ic on the land Mr r McCune believes that such ouch a I strong Ih E-Ih showing ln will be made at the j gathering that the land lanel board will ili re rescind rescind re- re I Its action fiction and low r th the price of land to the Hie old oltI schedule 1 |