| Show PIU PRESTON STOX UTTER NUTTER N AND OTHERS FIGHT OVER WOODSIDE LAND LANDA A recent Issue of ot the Salt Lake Tribune says that Gould B B. B Blakely register of the United States land office is sitting in Judgment on what promises to be one of the bitterest land contests In the Intermountain country Title to a one hundred and sixty acre homestead near Woodside in Emery c county Utah Is la being sought by different Interests claiming prior right but aside from the mere meT title to the land Is involved d the right of ot Preston Nutter a large cattle owner to pass his herds over ova the land which is on a direct line J between between be be- tween his winter and summer ranges While the land has been unclaimed ed for many years Improvements had been constructed thereon a av at considerable expense according to testimony adduced at the hearing bearing The contested land Is claimed by bT John Darroll protestant and also by Arthur R. R Johnson who claim to have filed petitions for tor permission permission permission per per- mission to homestead the land last February However Darroll claim claims to have been physically on the land landIn In January 1916 while Johnson makes claim to occupancy ten months later A peculiar point In the contest Is that the land was not open to settlement when the two men filed It appearing that the state of Utah had a prior right At the time of at the filing flUng of the case it did not seem to be O out out t of the ordina ordinary but developments disclosed that large Interests were concerned l land and that the claim would be bitterly contested The land appears to be necessary for tor right of at way purposes for which it has been used for tor yean To fence It In would damage the district connected by the valley In fa which the quarter section lies Testimony also 8 that Utah Fuel company has at times controlled controlled con COD trolled the water supply of at this section see sec eo- eo tion and quit claim deeds have passed pass pam ed od between Nutter and the fuel com oora- pany rany The Tho land Is located near property property prop prop- ert erty owned by Utah Fuel company which Is s said to have acquired water rights to the place some years ago |
