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Show PUBLIC LANDS OF UTM SOUGHT New Congressional Enactment Add to Growth of Resource Development Entry or application for public lands tu Utah during the past year iei i new record for the development and Utilisation of the vast arid traci-the traci-the slate far In excess of pre Ions years- Figure compiled at the general gen-eral land office at Washington and orroborated by the local land office -how that nmre (hah six times the acreage boa been entered or applied for dating tfi paid fiscal year ending July l. 110, r.a nompared to ybara' pr - ioiiv. Applications f.led . nd gnina'd djr-int: djr-int: Qie L920 fiscal yeaT embraced I. .'..:;, scrcs while those for the some period in lOori amounted to only j 2 . . .t .t ." uci-cH. fei even thlii comparison com-parison show iiig(H'ich a decided Increase In-crease does nut do Juailce to the d - velopmenl in 1BI0, Although flgun are not available at present It Is estimated esti-mated by local land officials thai fully 1.1100,000 arn s have been applied fo since Julj 1. L910, under Ihe pro-! pro-! v isions of the 1 1 and Gas leasing bill. I Were the calendar years of l'J'O and, 1911 compared it s estimated that the ' former would oclfp e the entries made i during 1010 ten fold. And . t despite the apparent poor Snowing which v. ia made In 1319 that year was regarded as slightly .better then the average according to I mster i -.oiil.l I: llluke-, ly of the uK j land office. . In View of the ra I thai these applications ap-plications and entries show that the! lands have ellher been glen out or' will be In the near future these f'.g- ureai Indicate In a most pronounced i manner what Is being done n taking! up ami developing the public lands in this stale. Under the provision! of all hotne- idlng laws, mineral entries or permits per-mits to prospect, development work must b" begun by the applicant With- in a reasonable time. This offers to( I'lahns double avsurance that the! lands will no longer remain Idl vv ist, i adding mile wealth tu the community) I lil-f n.lll l II. l. to the state's valuable developed mln-! eral or agricultural lands. possibi! n it n n i i rn Although ihe entries made under. the various homestead act: in 1920 amount to a goodly flgun probably In excess of the total acreage taken Out in 1319, jet It Is In the mineral development devel-opment that I'tah featured the past year and probably will for several years to come- Local land officials estimate that for acreage in the San Rafael swell, Ihe Circle Cliffs and other geological oil structures nmre than l.noo.OOO acres ha i been entered en-tered or applied for. This does nn include the many applications for lands, potash lands and other mlm which have been filed. Moat of the land which has been entered during the past year has noi like previous vears been for Ihl choicest acreages available but on the other ha mi has been to;- those v.ir arid had lands which were hlthertd thought Viiueit-s I ndir Hp j-o-v'islon of the coal, oil, phosphate, potash and sodium lesisi ig bills these land., may .now become the most al uable within the stnte. Even th arid a'.rctches of tlie ;- . American Desert west of Great Silt lake have received some recognition.:; Efrohably 160.000 acres of the land in ihe desert have been entered and. r e -rails to prospei t for polasli. This Irnd is located on ti brunch of thej' Western Pacific railroad and for ihe j i most part op ihat road's territory ; near tfie talc's western borders The great Increase reportefl for II-0. land officials attribute to the oom which has charatcterlzed the initiation of the oil and gas loasll g bill, Vet it Is not altogether to thej jne bill as the acreage taken on . lock raising and agricultural pur-1 !oscs has greatly exceeded that en I ered for several years past Th.re i ;id to be relatively l i r -leslrable agricultural land left opi i i inder the 160-acre hovicstead in Utah md consequejttly the people have.) urned more to the (20 or enlarged fiomestead for. settlement. Coder thla let many acres of good farm lands iave been taken out- The 4 40 acre stock raising home- stead law passed in recent years Is rapidly coming Into lis own. Since Hi passage of tin ti ll creating the 640-acra homestead there have been almost no Und designations. Now, howeve:-. sine the work of cauMll Clir tiOn ol Lh landd which fall under this : ' l--hig done, it Is probable that with ice exception of mineral pro-' ppneting ,s rralts more acreage will be taken out under this act than under i anv other. RECORDS SlinVI GROWTH I n ihe nasi . .eral years rub's ' i as judgud by the entry of public pub-lic lands has beep steady. This fact ' leada authorities i vi.w the general I tttuatlon in this stnte with consid-j erable optimism, aa they believe the' tteadj growth has Insured the .-tatu cadi nnv teptporarj boom which might prove detrimental in a short while Certain It is that Utah has ex! perieneed a growth daring the pawl .ear In the development of her untied laniis that liar, lic.-n wilhout precedent n i he entire u est. Bmery, San Juan. Tooele, Washing-' Ion, and l.'lnta counties show ihe bitf-;esi bitf-;esi gains. Hie acrcajfc surveyed during thej last calendar vear amounts to about I 100,001) yiiri-s. according to . D. i . : (ClrlrpatricU. asalstant supervisor' of nirveys for IJtah and Nevada. |