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Nearly 12,000 acres of Easterday family farmland in Benton County will likely sell for more than its $210 million asking price, according to court documents and sources with knowledge of the deal.
Two big players are vying for the sweeping property near the Columbia River: Farmland Reserve’s AgriNorthwest, which is backed by the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Seattle-based Bill and Melinda Gates’ Cottonwood Ag Management.
The highest bidder will be confirmed at a bankruptcy auction held next week.
The deal is subject to the federal court’s sale hearing on July 14.
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The Right Fork South Fork Ogden River cuts through sediment below the high water mark of Causey Reservoir on September 20, 2014. Photo: Dave Cawley, KSL Podcasts
A man with a distinctive stammer phoned police 34 years ago and claimed to have found a body in the mountains near Causey, a reservoir on the South Fork of the Ogden River.
“I didn’t touch the body or anything because I didn’t want to get fingerprints on it, OK,” the man told a dispatcher, “but I noticed there was a purse there.”
The man refused to identify himself or provide more specific information about where police might find the body, saying only that it was 2 to 3 miles back from the reservoir. The man hung up when a Weber County dispatcher told him she needed to put him in touch with an investigator.