The executive director of the department of administration of the state of Kansas is hereby authorized to sell in the manner hereinafter provided, all or a portion of the tract hereinafter described, the salt deposits, or any rights or interests therein necessary for the removal of salt therefrom under such tract of land owned by the state of Kansas, the legal description of which tract is as follows: That portion of the northeast quarter, the southeast quarter, and the southwest quarter and the east one-half of the northwest quarter of section 19, township 23, range 5 west of the 6th P.M. lying west of Lorraine street and south of G street adjacent to the city of Hutchinson, Reno county, containing five hundred sixty (560) acres, more or less.