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Show UNCLE SAM IN BIG LAND SALE U. S. WILL SELL 400,000 ACRES INDIAN LAND Big Slice of Uintah Reservation Will Be Offered to Public June 18th. Final arrangements are completed for the public sale of nearly 400,-000 400,-000 acres of Uintah Indian reservation reserva-tion lands June 18 at Provo. It will be the largest sale held by the government gov-ernment in five years and is expected to attract hundreds of buyers from all over the country. Judge John McPhaul, superintendent superintend-ent of opening and sale of Indian land, and Col. George J. Dewey, assistant as-sistant superintendent, were in Salt Lake yesterday to confer with H. Stanley Hinrichs, chief of field division. divi-sion. United States land office, relative rela-tive to the sale. They left for Provo last night to conduct the sale In conjunction con-junction with Samuel Page, receiver of Vernal district. The land, which Includes 1678 tracts, consists of some good agricultural agricul-tural acreage, but the greater portion por-tion is dry farming or grazing land. Much of it is subject to irrigation by creeks, although none Is within a government irrigation project. Most of the land is in and about Duchesne county. Considerable mineral land is also included in the tracts, but sales are made with the government reserving re-serving right to oil, nitrate, coal and bther minerals in so far as classified. The land will be sold at auction and by tracts. Each buyer may take 640 acres. A wife, son, or daughter may also take an equal amount, or 'the land may be purchased through an agent with power of attorney. Such agent may represent any number num-ber of purchasers. Hundreds of inquiries from all over ov-er Utah and outside the state have been received at the local office of the United States land office in the Federal Fed-eral building and it is expected that the sale will be one of the largest held in recent years. The tracts compose com-pose one of the few remaining Indian Indi-an reservations to be sold. An additional addi-tional sale will be held July 2, when townsites in Duchesne, the county seat of Duchesne county, will be offered of-fered to the public. A |