Show of land at yankee according to information contained in a letter received tuesday by roy benson president of the parowan carowan gun and rod club from state fish and game commissioner newell B cook the state board of examiners had given mr cooks department permission to purchase acres of land surrounding the yankee reservoir the purchase price is sot set at 00 and the money will be available just as soon as those who are handling the deal here can furnish the state with an abstract of title and a warranty deed to the land involved and mr cooks letter advised mr benson to have this done as soon as possible therefore attorney H C parcells has been engaged to draw up the abstract and is busy on it at this time it will probably be ready to be taken to mr cook when mr benson and others go in to salt lake city to attend the state convention of sportsmens Sports mens clubs next weekend january 19 and 20 just what prece procedure dure will have to be followed to get this land into the he hands of the forest service or whether it can be done at all known at this time mr cook informed local people some time ago that it was impossible for the state to buy land to give to the forest department but felt that it might be possible to trade the land to it for some marginal forest land for big game grazing use this has been done izi in the past in various sections and may be done in this case also |