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Show AREIGRABBING AJOOTHOLD The steadily Increasing demand for homesteads has resulted in making the hind office at Salt Lake tho biggest big-gest In tho service. Tho enlarged homestead net, or tho Smoot act, us It Is norc commonly known, has bci-.n responsible for n great deal of the growth of business transacted In tho lnnd office. It was about Juno 1, l'JOU thnt lauds were classified so that thoy could be assigned nnd since that tlmo tho number ot tilings. Under this act, qualified cntrymnu Is entitled to 320 ncrcs of land, which cannot bo Irrigated Irri-gated or whero rainfall Is not sufficient' suffi-cient' to grow native grosses. There are millions ot ncrcs ot such land in this statu nnd nlrcady about 550.000 acres havo been filed an. Under this act, more than 1,000.000 ncrcs were assigned. Moro than 1.S00 entries havo been made on this kind ot land to date. Filing is at tho rnto of about 100 per month. Under tho Smoot net, Boxelder, Tooele. Too-ele. Juab and Millard counties wero the first to prosper. But In this last year attention hns been turned to other countries with tho result that great areas havo been entered in Heaver and Iron nnd other southern Utah counties. Even with these tracts taken, thcro 'is moro than 1,000,000 acres still nvollablo from tho land first assigned and when thnt has been taken, other sections will bo designated desig-nated as open for entry, for the government gov-ernment ngents nro constantly Investigating Investi-gating public land which will bo opened open-ed under tho enlarged homestead act. Thero nro still millions of acres of land In Utah which are not taken up nnd which will bo thrown open to the public when the proper time comes. Goodwin's Weekly. |