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Show LAND BOARD SS ASKING FOR REFORMS reation of t bureau or some other body with power to censor all literature litera-ture and advertising purporting to advise ad-vise the prospective settler upon the farm lands of the state, to the end that there shall be no false represen tailons. or fraudulent land sales. Is recommended to the legislature lr. it, state land board in its biennial report filed with Governor William Spry yea-terda yea-terda . It Is suggested also that the same authority have power to Issue licenses to sell land to trustworthy persons only and upon the filing of a substantial bond to insure customers against fraud. The board says the national assem bly of state land representatives, held last .May in Chicago, was the author of the idea, which was embodied in resolutions passed at the aaBembly II Is understood that bills on the same subject will be considered by the leg-Islatures leg-Islatures of many western states this year It Is urged that influence be exerted exert-ed at Washington to guard against loss of school land grants to the state under the enabling acl which are liable lia-ble to total loss, says the report, through private coal land entries Wh o Utah was admitted to the union certain sections were granted to the state by tho federal government as school lands, but no provision wan made that the state should apply for patents to the land Consequently the general land office has allowed mineral min-eral entries on tin land and In some instances the entryinen have actually received patents from the government to land that belongs to the stale. Titles Uncertain Furthermore, big withdrawals of coal land have swept away some nf the school sections entirely, the state being unable to dlsjose of the land because of the uncertainty of title arlsiiiK out of the conflict with the mineral laws The board requests that Bleps be taken at Washington to! preserve for the state the right to apply ap-ply for patent to these lands and the right to have a final determination iiciile as to whether or not the lands I contain coal. , Concerning the purchase of bonds by the land board the report says that certain rules have been adopted governing the support of private Irrigation Irri-gation projects by the board Among I other things the board will not bid In opt ii market for bonds; the stalf on I gineer must giv? a report concerning the feasibility of projects seeking to I dispose of their bonds to the stat" I no hondH will be purchased where, tlx ! issue represents more than B0 pr cent of the total valuation of the pro Ject; no more than $r,0.00ft shall b.-invested b.-invested In bonds of any one district, and the state engineer, at the diacre tlon of the land board, shall have su pervlsion over the construction of pro jects of which the board buys bonds Thus does the board hedge Its investments invest-ments from any possibility of loss, says the report State Projects Details of the various irrigation projects undertaken by the state ire given In the report. The Hatchtown state project has cost the state $1 s. 000 to date, and Is now practically completed Nearly fi.ooo acres of the land redeemed by this project has been sold to settlers at prices ranging from $30 to $35 an acre. The Piute reservoir project dam is :ilniost completed and already holdn empounded water amounting to 26,000 acre foet. This project will be extended ex-tended In Its present capacity during the coming year Nearly half a million dollars has been expended by the hoard on tho Sevier valley canal, which has been extended as far as Centerfield, San pete county The board has plans ' xtend the cnnal two miles farther this year, thus bringing thousands ot acres under the irrigation system it embraces The board has adopted a rule limit ing purchasers in the Hatchtown project pro-ject to 1G0 acres ami SO acres In the I'iute project Bonds Purchased Bonds hae been purchased during the past year In three projects that have been favorably passed on by tin-board tin-board the Green River irrigation dis tricl from which the st;ite purchased r.o MM worth of bonds: the Cache 'jtlle Irrigation district, from which $40,000 worth were purchased, and (he New Hope irrigation district. Which sold 119,000 worth to the slat The board has received so many applli illons for loans under the farm loan law as amended by the 1909 legislature leg-islature that the office force can net cope with them and the loan fund can not begin to accommodate them Since the law w;is passed the board tai received more applications for farm loans than were received In the entire history of statehood The board has now invested $3,414,-999 $3,414,-999 -i-t of Btate money in municipal school and irrigation bonds and In farm loans l or the most part these pay 6 per cent Interest. The legislature is asked to appropriate appropri-ate 1200 for driving experimental wells at points to be designated by the board Purine the past two years the board has driven wells In varloup counties, and though a flow has not been found in r;l! cues, water has been diseoverr-d that can be pumped to the surface and distributed over tHe surrounding lands oo |