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Show UNCLE SAM TO GIVE LAND AWAY SAI..T LAKE. Juno 20. Ten 160 acre tracts of the very best of Irrigable Irriga-ble land located along the Sevier river, near tho Gunlson reservoir site in Millard Mil-lard county, will be given nway tomorrow to-morrow morning at the United States land office, under the original homestead home-stead law, for tho price of the govern ment filing fee, ?16 In the securing of tho land there promiBos to be ono of the biggest rushes In tho history of the land office and assurance is glvon fcthat the opening will result In many compUcntod nnd long drawn out contests "be'tweon vnrlous claimants of the tracts of land under the squatter's squat-ter's right phase of the homestead laws Tho land as It stands at present pres-ent Is In close proximltv to Irrigation water and it Is said that each tract Is worth no less than $3,500. The government gov-ernment fee will be the usual ono of 516, which goes to pay the land office employos for tholr work of checking up and attending the registering of entries. Tho land to be given away was formerly for-merly under an Irrigation project which was given up. Tho ditch of another an-other company passes the land, as does also tho Sevier river. When tho government announced that tho land would be thrown open for entry under tho original homestead laws there immediately was a rush of prospective homesteaders. As a result re-sult of this rush there are all the way from three to eight persons on each tract of land and each claims preference prefer-ence right by reason of having got on tho land first and starting actual cultivation cul-tivation first They will all appear at tho land office In the morning with their entry blanks and most of the entries will be simultaneous. In this case tho usual methods of sottllng tho conflicting claims will be used Some of those In conflict will leave the dispute dis-pute to dame fortune bv tossing up coins, while others will call for an auction auc-tion of tbe land by tho land office officials. of-ficials. In this the contestants for tho tracts will make bids for tbo right to fllo application The highest blddor will get tho land and the government will get the monc In still other cases the contests will go to tho register and receiver of tho and office for settlement. settle-ment. This proceeding will entail the taking of testimony and tho judging of the contests on their merit gauged on the tosUmonv of the entrymen In tho entire tract there are l.lO acres of land, which Is said to be worth no less than S10.000. The govornraPnt will give tho titles to the land for a total of ?K0 The persons securing title to the lnnd will be required to reside on It until thov secure patent which will be A months after making entry |