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Show IMPORTANT LAND CASES. Who First of rive Caw. whloh Involve th. Till to SSOO Acre of Land. The register and receiver of the United Uni-ted States land office heard the first chapter of a very important case this morning. It is that of the United States to. T. J. Almy, T. E. Jeremy, jr., and Levi Reed, known as Jeremy & Company Compa-ny vs. Alfred Thompson claimant. This is the first of five cases which ia all will involve the title to perhaps 2300 acres of land situated on the east shore of Great Salt Lake. These lands are sought to be entered under the desert land act, and it is claimed by Jeremy & Company, the protestants in this case, which firm now occupy the lands for the purpose of manufacturing salt, that they are not desert lands in the meaning of the law, but ... are really saline lands. The government govern-ment has ways and means of disposing of saline lands, but they apply only to states and not to territories; therefore there is no way to acquire titlo to these lands until Utah becomes a state. The honorable commissioner pf the land office has therefore ordered a hearing hear-ing to determine the character of the land. The cases will probably oonsume six weeks' time. An adjournment is on until 10 o'clock Monday morning. Messrs. Bird & Lowe and William Bradley, of the 'firm of Bennett & Bradley, Brad-ley, appear for Jeremy & Company, the protestants. The claimant is represented rep-resented by Parks & Thompson and Stevens & Shroeder. |