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Show ARGUMENTS END ON WATER HEARING (Tribune) Argument of a case which will test the right of the state to issue certificates to water which rises and sinks on the public domain, was ended in rederal court Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon when counsel for the government and the defendants defend-ants entered into a. stipulation as to the facts. The case, as a result, was submitted to Federal Judge Tillman D. Johnson and will be decided after the filing of briefs. The suit, brought by the government gov-ernment against Schmutz Bros., of Harmony, a livestock company, involves in-volves ownership of three springs in Iron county. The livestock company com-pany filed on the water with the state engineer and subsequently was issued certificates by the state. The government contends that, inasmuch as the water rises and sinks on unappropriated public domain do-main and has been used by stockmen stock-men for years, the state had no right to issue the certificates. The government further contends that the springs control thousands of acres of range land and that the general public is entitled to the use of the water the same as it is to the land. Schmutz Bros., the records show, filed on the springs in the sum- of appropriation were isSUP, state engineer in i928 ? bntie dential order in April iq,, fcsi-drew fcsi-drew all public water' entry. 'esa |