By Launce Rake
<lrake@lasvegassun.com>
LAS VEGAS SUN
October 15, 2001
Lincoln County commissioners were bitterly disappointed by a lack of bids for nearly all of the 6,500 acres of
county land up for auction Friday, but they promised that the process isn't over -- and the land will eventually
sell.
Commissioner Paul Donohue and Commission Chairman Dan Frehner waited in vain as a federal auctioneer tried to provoke
a bid for the Bureau of Land Management property. The sale was held Friday in the Mesquite City Hall.
While developers attended the auction, they mostly attended to see who would bid -- not to put in their own.
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