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Show 't MUCH UNSURVEVED lAND H K Iittrrtlng ltcMrt Coiiiom from I, ('. H J Tlioitvoit or Salt liko City. V jn 1 According to the report or I. C. H ' j S Thoreaon, eurvujor general fur the H tate of Utah, for the fluent year end B Ing June 30, tlft. there were 31,111, ' '. i 0.00 ncre of unxurveyed land In the ' j j (tate. Of ur-c)ed land there were B ,. 1 33,411, 3TE acrea, making u total of M ' 54,380,370 acre of land In Dull. Sur- M h M vuy not finally approved by the ur H f veyor general imil uivepted by the B , i commlarloner of the United Hlntc ! j lnd orflce are Included In the aero oge of unurveyed land. In the report It 1 pointed out that 77.5 per cent of tho total area of the H f4 tato wa jntaxed. In ltll. Thl ap f ",' peura In the form of a quotation from B rfe'd- (ho report of H. T. Ualiiva, state com H (Ml mlcalonor of Immigration, labor and H ", itatlktlcs, Tho argument I advanced H ' that'a policy ihotild be adopted by tho V , government th-t wuuid re.ult in m ,, ; placing tho tMiblto land In private B c . ownership and aubject them to taxa H The report -hov that during the H )''ar aoven elnglo nnd four double aur- i voylng partlea have been employed In H . , i the work of rurveylng tho public H C land. At the cor.i of the flical year ' there wero pending In thl dlalrlct H (' tweiity-sU uncompleted group, em- H M bruulng two hundred and thlrty-rlx ' i tl townnhlpa. of theae. eight group. B V embraulng eighty-three townrhlp. H V j were ponding ueeeptantii by tho com- ' '( mlaaloncr. A teady Increnne In the H . ii work or tho mlncrul department of - M the office I rhown In the report. A H " greater activity In tho survey or mln- B !' rjj bit,' clnlm la aaflgned for the Increase. HB .1 fur tho following reiuoiu: B- tjf Klrat Ilixnure the miner baa or B E , Into received mora favorable treat- t V 1i m"t h' official of the government, Hr," '?f from fleldmcn to tho aeoretary or the B, j ,b Interior, lelutlva to securing patent B, ' '"t 'Qf ntlneral laid. HB ", J Becond Hecaumj or the advance In jH' ' , ' tho price of mineral. H , .' Tno report allows that depoalt for ieurveya for mining claim amounted to 18590,60 In the fiscal. year ending In 1918, as compared to 12944 In 1914 nd 88(83.10 In 1913. -H : iB. B MIHk 8xlr'' K9H9I |