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Show U. S. WILL SELL 400,009 ACRES OF INDIAN LAND Kin slice of l ii.uili Kcm'cv ation Will lie Onercd to Public June IS Final arrangements were completed complet-ed .Monday in Salt Lake for ilie public pub-lic sale of nearly 4UU.UU0 acres of i. Milan lnuiaii reservation lanua June IS at Prove. It will be the largest saie held by ihe government iu live yeais and is expected lo attract hundreds hun-dreds of havers lrom all over tile 'ountry. Judge John Mcl'haul, superintendent superinten-dent of opening and stile of Indian land, and Col. George J. Drewry, assistant as-sistant superintendent, were in Sail i.ake i .-jieruav lo confer w ith 11. iianley lltnrichs. chief of held division, divi-sion, United Stales land ollice, relate rela-te to the sale. They left for Provo last night to conduct the sale in conjunction con-junction with Samuel L. Page, revolver re-volver of Vernal district. The land, which includes 1S7S tracts, consists of some good agricultural agricul-tural acreage, but the greater portion is dry farming or grazing land.. Much of it is subject to irrigation by creeks, although none is within a govern-ment govern-ment irrigation project. Most of the laud is in and about Duchesne county. coun-ty. Considerable mineral land is also included in the tracts, but sales are made with the government reserving re-serving the right to oil, nitrate, coal and other minerals in so far as classified. classi-fied. The land will be sold at auction auc-tion and by tracts. Each buyer may take 1)4 0 acres. A wife, son, or daughter may also take an equal amount, or the land may be purchased purchas-ed through an agent with power oi attorney. Such agent may represent any number of purchasers. Hundreds of inquiries from all over Utah and outside the state have been received at the local office of the United States land office in the' Federal building and it is expected that the sale will be one of the largest larg-est held in recent years. The tracts compose one of the few remaining Indian reservations to be sold. An additional sale will be held July 2, when townsites in Duchesne, the county seat of Duchesne county, will be offered to the public. |