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Show STEPHENS uKJT STATE LAND Hy decision of the state land board last Friday the seventeen HK fl thousand acres of state, land in Millard county for which numerous I gB applicants have applied will bo sold to Frank IJ. Stephens, holding Bf B tiio assigned application of the E. D. Hashimoto company, n Jnp- 'HrB aneso corporation. Tho Hashimoto application wns ono of the first ! BSL-I received, but because of tho issue created as to whether the fltnte H B could sell Innd to aliens the sale of the land wns held up for several pB mm months nnd many other applicants asked for tho land. kv J Tho attorney general ruled that inasmuch as Hashimoto had !Bjf mm incorporated untler the laws of Utah, tho corporation became, in Sb lH effect, a citizen of the state and was entitled to purchase land from B ppj the stnte. Members of the land IxiArd took issue with tho attor- B pB ncy general and, had the application been pressed, would havo JE BvB voted against the sale to the big Japanese compnny. Tho latter & EBB assigned its application to Frank II. Stephens, however, nnd nftcr I B J much controversy a majority of tho lantl bonrd voted to recognize I B PB the assigned application, nnd then only after' Stephens had given j m his word that lie would not transfer the land to any alien or any E - JB corporation composed of aliens. j I B fl At the recent meeting it wns decided that Stephens' bid wns M rBB more advantageous than thnt of the other applicants nnd the land M SmhJ will bo sold to him nt seven dollars an ncre. .r BB |