Show V 0 Buyers of Blue Bench land offer return Of property if wafer is made available Purchasers of land during the December 1957 sale have signed an agreement that they will be willing to return all farm iland back to the county when have been insured that water will be put on the At a special meeting of the of County Commissioners held in the courthouse at Duchesne on March H. Van Orven Mark W. and S. Jack Bleazard met and submitted their The four purchasers of the land on north of Duchesne has brought forth much controversy met at the invitation of the A Hot Issue For the past several weeks the isale of the land to the above named men incited protests from citizens in the Duchesne area in which they insisted the commissioners had sold the land without properly advertising the The Utah State attorney general's office was brought into the area to The March meeting was of protests that had reached heated proportions over sale of the Several delegations met with the commission urging them to rescind the 5 Given Ten Years The four Duchesne county farmers and stockmen who purchased the land told the Commissioners they had agreed among that if and when they had become convinced water was available for the tillable land they had purchased on December they would gladly return the land to the providing this was done within a ten year Moon made the official motion was seconded by Van Tassell that the follow- ing agreement be signed by them and presented to the The other two Mark and Jack voted in favor of the The Utah March 1958 the purchasers of the land on under contract of sale dated December agree to sell back to the county of Duchesne any ground that is put under cultivation antT irrigated We agree that this agreement shall be binding upon the and administrators of each of Signed Van Mark W Bleazard S. Jack Bleazard Orven J. Moon |