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Show Real Estate Formerly Held by Ogden Man Figures in J - Record Sale i I One of, the largest real estate deals Jon record has just been completed at 1 1 i Idaho Falls betweon cficials of tho 'f Utah-Idaho Sugar company and J. W'.'A Hays, of the Osgood Land & Livestock, f companyk involving S.4 GO acres of land j; near Shelley, all of which has been , reclaimed from the desert and which, ' with irrigation Installed, will be one ' f of the most valuable reclamation pro-It jects. of Idaho. , ! Thc.J.. W. Hays tract, which is a , r portion of the project and includes I 1929 acres, is three miles west of I f Shelley. This tract was taken up by 1 1 J. W. Hayes, recognized as the most 1 successful dry-farm wheat producer!? in the state, who operates extensive j 1 land interests. r The Osgood Land & Livestock com-j pany tract of Cc.-I0 acres just -vest of s f Idaho Falls Is the other tract in the I Ideal. This land was first taken upi I by the Idaho Falls Development com- L j pany, which corporation operated asj ja dry farm. It was later purchased' by Dr. F. C. Osgood of Ogden and as-sociates, as-sociates, from whom it was taken over j by tho present company. J. L. Milner.l Oscar Johanneson, A. T. Shane, W. L. 1 p Shattuck, V..IC Tuggle, E. II. Hollls-' ter, George iBrunt and a number ot others are interested in the project. I It. is estimated that the purcha-je price of the latter tract totalled about Jt 3750,000. Tho company has done a. k great deal of development work,, ob-' talned valuable water rights and has' installed the necessary big pumps and l built the Irrigation canals and ditcher, ! j so that the land can bo put in crop this spring. j Whllo no announcement has been ' made by tho sugar company officials, ' i it is understood that tho company is; j negotiating for other lands In the dis-. J trict, which will bring the total up to I ! 10,000 acres. , ! 00 ! |