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Show - 07 all productive and is not under cultivation. All of the experts with whom I discussed the matter, including Super- • • . , intendent Kneale, District Farmer Elliott, Irrigation Engi- Substantially ,'crthless. neer Bryant and Howard Means, former Irrigation Engineer, were of the opinion that, in existing conditions, ths land was substantially worthless. Sr- Elliott, who has charge of the sales cf land in that district, thought it possible that he might get an offer of $6.00 or 38.00 an acre for the section, either in part or as a whole, but ha -*n.s not at all certain of that. ^n account of the topography of the land and tha apparent impossibility to do air/thing with it in an agricultural way within a reasonable time, I am convinced that, if possible, it might better b* sold for whatever it may bring. I'.anifsstly, it would be Ltiposaible for Superintendent Kneala to put it under cultivation before the time limit specified in the Utah law - July 1, 1919 - shall have been reached. If it could bo sold for tho benefit of the allottees, the proceeds oould be used in the purchase of other and better lands for thara. Not a 'Oould Oot soul is living on this land and, as it ia now, it would not sup-iupport a Crovi". port a crow- Thenoe, we crossed Lake Fork Hiver and proceeded to what, locally, ia known as tha Hedcnp Flat country. This flat com- |