Show reservation land sold by order of the state land board lee young acting as agent auctioned off four thousand nine hundred sixty andla hundredths acres of school land saturday at 2 pm at the court house it was located on the indian reservation in southeastern utah the title to the land had ead been under a cloud for seventeen years through the enabling act in 1896 when utah became a state she was given four sections 2 16 32 36 out of each township for school purposes those sections now were surveyed in 1900 and 1916 now are on the indian reservation at that time utah received title to the same march alarca 1 1933 the navajo reservation er was enlarged reaching into hast utah and the school sections were included three times the state land board has made application to the department of the interior to exchange the school land on the reservation for other land at no time was the offer accepted As a result the board decided to sell the to this the tribal council of the navajos cavajos objected and jut just before the sale posted notice signed by sam ahkeah ca cahim hinnan nan ot of the council to that effect onlookers expecting to see fireworks when the sale began were only two bidders were in the field navajo J maurice mccabe for the tribal council and fred cline an i out of state stockman two thousand four hundred and forty two hundredths acres went to the navajo tribal council at 5 per acre mccabe himself bought in the two thousand five hundred sixty acre tract when he found out no more than tour four sections could be sold to one bidder according to utah statutes he paid an acre As a result of the sale utah has the money received for the use of the schools and the navajos cavajos are now the rightful owners of the land |