Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-18 | Page 3 | Record Price Paid for State Lands

oo- iRECOKD PRICE PAID FOR STATE LANDS . SALT LAKE July is -At an .notion .no-tion sale held at the cOUQty court hoiis. at Provo yesterday the Utah Lake Irrfaratlon company paid $2".o per acre for one and one-half acres of slate lands exclusive of the water rlt;ht, the highest price ccr paid for such land. Thi- same concern paid ?36 an acre for a 40-acre tract under its canal and north of San-toga San-toga I A total of 6497.23 acres In IsolQl id tracts, was offered at auction at 'he j sale which was conducted at the I countv courthouse by Mr. Eliason. j Mrs Edna Steffenson of the land office of-fice force acted as clerk of the sak ITh. lands sold totaled 3728.32 acres in area lo.ivlntf 2768 91 acres which I ma now be disposed of under the law at orlvate sale by the commissioner commis-sioner liilin T. Oldiosd llenr ,f i . k son of I'n.vo purchased B aei tlon of grazing land west of Col-ton Col-ton dear Dry valley, at 16 an acre. iud J-.liri Aagard of Fountain reen paid a almllar price for land in the same vicinity. ",eorge E Collard boUKht n large section. 1160 acres, in a drv part of Goshen valley at $3..',0 an acre. Morrill Evans paid $.1.50 for a 820-aers traci on the mountain west of Lo"hi. the land formine a mn i t a dry tldge there. f. Q; Wa.lloy anl i i. Wadley of i-ieasant Grove paid ?3 60 an acre eac h for tracts of 16 1 1 and 320 acre.s. respectively. Abneri Chlpmsga paid $2. Co, the appraised price, for 245 ai res of low lands near I tab lake ;, nd Clarence Kershaw purchased pur-chased five acres at the same nH The Ktate land office has ennr,.i of one tract or ten acres in Salt Lake City, which If offered at auction would probably bring a higher figure than the price paid by the irrlg!-tlon irrlg!-tlon company vesterdav: hut the tirb e j per acre paid yesterday Is the actual record so far.