Show RECORD IGNORED ORED BY LAND LAr D OFFICE Patent Approved in i Face of Surveyor Generals Report IS WATCHED WEALTHY SYNDICATES ARE AL ALLOWED ALLOWED ALLOWED LOWED THEIR OWN WAY FURTHER F i URTHER investigation Ine of the ways way F In which valuable coal col lands land in i Carbon and Kinery counties have by b agents agent of oth the Pleas Pleasant PI Pleasant ant Valley Coal and Its it sac suc successor cessor the Utah Fuel company die dis discloses di closes a peculiar line lne of procedure procure adopted by the commissioner of or the land lund office by which the corporations have profited In reference to this phase phae of the mat matter matter ter tc a man mun who has had some seine expert experience ence day v with wih the land office said Sid yeater yeter If I a humble undertakes undertaken to homestead homested a a tract of sage se brush and aud alkali his Ids every move is i watched with rare itiC l tre and special agents are sent tt to be In Investigate investigate his claims and to verify his hl affidavits But the bi big corporations Step sep m in and take up coal lands su us gruz graz Jd lag ing lands landi and unless some private citizen protests the entry at his Ids own expense the government gives give him a tent The records of or the land office show sow that the statement is Ia I correct coret as a far fara farI faras a as the latter iKirt of oC it IB is 8 concerned There are many 11 cases e where the coil cd lands have Ia ve been be n patented as grazing lands through thlu h a selection by the state at the request of interested portions persons Government Surveys Ignored The Tie interior department pays pS a sur surveyor surveyor surveyor general to attend to the survey Jag ing InS of public lands and to report as to their character but the lan land office olce ia Is i seldom Idom guided guie by these thee reports fur further ther thor than t to order a publication of the list ls of o o tender selected select by b an a individual for grazing or agricultural A purposes when hen that tbt lend land Ind has ha beert beer declared min mineral minei eral ei era land l landOne On On One of the conspicuous eases cases e of o this thi nature is that of o the selection seto by John Jon Forrester Forret father rater of oC Robert Robt Forrester of the tle Utah Uth Ct Fuel company of a tract of o land at Castle Gate within a short distance of and adjoining the Castle CastleGate Caste CastleGate Gate mines This selection which was taken up as grazing land a comprises la lob 10 acres are and an is i the t North S K E Kand H Hand and the S W Vi S s E Vi of section 1 and a the N X W V fc N X E 14 sec so 12 town township ship si 13 south sut range r ge 9 cast Bast Et Of this land the plat showed the following follin rt re report port lt from Cram te the surveyor umeo generals of eC C Crice rice flee t gras The new surveyed ed portions of or this township consist of broken bleke mountains containing several g ams of pC f good oc hg lignite li flute nite coal oal eily bl accessible fad fond close to market markeL The Th whole h le is returned ret as coal land lanit lant Signed A A D P FERRO FERRON or United it d Spates State Department f nt Survey Sn o i iDee Dec Dee 23 lS le tea FOJ arg es t of this g 1 W wa to the local land office and an the tract tr w tobe good OL lend ld a notee of his hi selection was wa ordered published in iii a newspaper ne at Price in Carbon county cont This notice merely gave a de description description of the land by b section seton and township such a notice as can n be seen lilly any an day da in newspapers new which are pub published published in tow towns ns near unoccupied lands landsa a notice which is read and understood by b not more than one one of oC every eer thousand thousand and readers reader It I stated that a hearing hering would be had from protestants at the theland theland theland land office in Salt Lake on Monday July Jui 14 1 1902 19 Xo No one 0 appeared at the hearing hering to challenge the te sworn sorn state statement statement ment meat of Forrester that land the con contained tamed taine no known deposits of coal col and notwithstanding the report of the th sur surveyor surveyor ve 0 generals g office that it i contained contin several seams of good od lignite coal col easily fly ily i accessible and close to market selection was forwarded forar e te to Washington Yashin ton under the the rules which govern goern procedure in the land office without protest If he secures sure a potent patent Forrester will wil pay pa 40 for a tract of or grazing grazi land that as cold land would woul have haY cost ct him The case is still pending although he be is in possession Cases Not Investigated There Thee are many man large tracts which have been entered in the same way wa in which th the existence of coal ol could cold easily be proven and the difference in inthe inthe Inthe the price of grazing land and cost coal t land flay imy many times over ever the cost of an investigation In the Forrester case ease the entire entre expense of or an investigation investigation gation ton of the character of the te land by byan byan byan an agent of the land office would not have exceeded and the govern government over ment mont would have been ahead aed almost O Persons Per ms thoroughly familiar with wih th the Forrester land declare decare that the veins vens of coal coul o are so prominent that the Uh tyro in the business would not no not hesitate to to pronounce it coal eoal land lan It Itis I Itis is situated within a stones throw trW of the trucks tracks tru k of the Rk Rio Ri Grande Western railway and is almost completely sur surrounded surrounded surrounded rounded by bv lands which which have ba ve been purchased purchase as coal col lands Utah uel Men Stand Pat PatA PatA A representative of The Herald Herld called on General Generl Manager lanager H G Williams and Robert Forrester Forrestel of oC the Utah Fuel company yesterday and asked each ech of them if he wished to mike make ke any an state statement mont ment on the story In Sundays paper concerning cone ning the connection with the coal eoal land grabs in Carbon county count No sir I have nothing to say sy said Mr lr Williams Had Ha t I I been consulted before the story stor t was printed I 1 might have said id something Th The reply of Mr Forrester was couched in the same language but he hent added d dI nt I r knew kew The Herald was working on the story sto three or four days d s before it was printed printe In reply reply to another query he said Some of oC the statements are ae false and misleading but I do not care ere at this time to make Inake any an statement con concerning cernin them Position of State Land Board Concerning Conce ning the selection of public lie lands lauds by the state for sale to individuals ci cite vale Byron B ron Groo G OO s of the state te teus of o land commissioners said s The state land board has lisa nothing notIng us to do with wih the character of these thc lands is The selection is sent to the th local loc land nd office which has a complete description on onto of all al unoccupied public lands as to ton ton tore whether they the are mineral or n It I is my m understanding that un na unless n less protest is made the selections are re reIts accepted when the required affidavits Its have been made The commissioner of ofir the general land office has ruled ir irve the case of f coal col lands coal must have ve veon been shown to exist on each subdivision on onus 40 acres aeres I 1 do not U l believe there thee has us usen been bee much of this Interpretation en of o tie te the law maw |