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Show LAND SALE COMPLETED. Twenty-Six Hundred Acres Disposed of in Tivc-Mlle Limit - Lands. rt' rocalello, Ida, July 19 The sale of the Fort llnll reservation linds within five mllen of Pr-calello ended this evening even-ing A total of 3" 000 rtcies was offered tod iy, nnd only 410 acres of It was sold One forty -ncie tnct was sold foi Sll 60 per aero. Thir others sold at J10 per acre. Since tht beginning of tho sale, In round figures, CO 000 aires were offered of-fered for enlivand 2600 were sold at prices rnnglng'fyom J10 to J37 per acre. The totnl amount realized from the sale Is about Ji5,ti00 The sale In finally closed now, and no lands within five miles of Pocntello can either be entered or purchased until Congress pnsses nn net providing some way for Its disposal. Assistant Commissioner Richards, w ho conducted the Sale, and his clerical stnff wilt spend tomorrow nt Pebble as tho guests of tho Recreation club The lands thnt hnvo been offered In the sale and passed without receiving a bid cannot now bo entered, becnuso tho Inw requires that they be sold nt public pub-lic auction nnd nt 110 an ncre Commissioner Com-missioner Richards tndny stated that there was no land In tho United States more effectually reserved from public use than the unsold lands In the five-mile five-mile limit In his opinion fuither legislation leg-islation will be necessary before tbe lands can be reopened On his return to WnshlnKton ho will recommend a measuro tn the Interior department, which will have for Its cardinal prlncl-pie prlncl-pie a minimum prlro of $2 50 per acre for the choicest of tho lands, and H 2i for the grazing Mr. Richards will urge that tho attention of Congress ho directed to the necessity for such legislation early In the next session The failure to sell tho nrld lands In the five-mile limit will retard the launching launch-ing of some extensive Irrigation enterprises enter-prises that would have reclaimed the land Capital declines tn Invest until tho lands nre Owned Individually und the homenpeker don t feel Justified In paying HO pvr aero for land that has no water. |