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Show CALIFORNIANS COME TO UTAH FOR LAND. Much farm land in Beaver, Millard and Iron counties, much of which six months ago was covored with nothing but sagebrush, is now dotted with prosperous homestead cabins, awarding award-ing to E. D. R. Thompson, register of tho local United States land office, Mr. Thompson, in summing up this morning tho accomplishments of Utah during tho last year, Bald that this state had received an unpresented influx in-flux of prosperous settlors from Call--fornia. Tho majority of these have taken up their land under the residence section sec-tion of the' enlarged homestead- act "This means that they are permanent settlers, as this law requires both residence res-idence and cultivation. Nearly all these Californians have money, and those who have gone into the Irrigation Irriga-tion districts of Beaver county, especially, es-pecially, have paid $100 an aero for their land and water. More than 100 Imperial valley farmers have deserted deser-ted tho coast state and have come hero, bringing their knowledge and experience of prastical irrigation. They will make tho desert bloom." Mr. Thompson estimates the number num-ber of homesteaders alone at 300. Most of these have como from Los Angeles, Riverside and other southern south-ern California points. So keen has been tho competition on these entries that many contests ore being filed. California entrymen filed a total of seven contests for Iron county land during December. A total of 1431 entries upon government gov-ernment land in Utah, both mineral and agricultural, waB mado in Utah during tho fiscal yeor ending last June, according to the general land office, a copy of which has been received re-ceived by Register Thompson. Of this amount, 1312 entries were made in the Salt Lake office, tho remaining 119 being filed in tho Vernal office. In acreage the original entries totaled to-taled 172,354.61, while the total acreage acre-age of those upon which final proof was made reached 53,791.32. These figures refer only to those made in the Salt Lake office, the Vernal office total acreage being 11,832.70 acres on originals and 1,120.55 on finals. The report shows that 9166,901.81, including purchase money and fees and commissions, was spent for government gov-ernment land; $160,901.81 of this was spent In the Salt Lako office. The total earnings of tho local office is $142,591.59, with a total expense of but $11,263.94. This is a much better bet-ter showing than was mado by many of the land offices whoae earnings wero less and expenses greater. S, L. Telegram. 'MIM ! |