Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-16 | Page 2 | Coal Company's Answer

C COAL AL COMP ANYS ANSWER Claimed the Right to Cut Out Gov Go ra ment meat Timber The defendant in thI th case caRe of the U States vs VB the Pleasant Valley alley Coal c pany parry filed fUld its answer to plaintiffs mm cIl plaint yesterday in the federal court Th case was begun on No Nov 16 Ii 1900 lOO and anti the complaint alleges all that d defendants have dt t various times cut timber Umber from irom rd government gove nt lands in Carbon county count for A Ause use in Its coal cos t mines This timber Umber was valued at N H for which amount plaintiff demands Judgment against de defendant defendant defendant In Its answer defendant claims that it entered red into a contract with the tite commissioner comm s of or the general land tice IRS 18 whereby de defendant I on the e t Kh of or October fondant fen purchased the right to 10 cut dead ad and aspen pen timber from the said landa laii U pine pUle at the t rat rate of ef 50 60 cents per 1000 feet Act Aut A Ain Acting ing in on on this contract co t defendant fe tal cut c t IMS feet was of ordered to cease as the tend lanA office authority to sell such timber had no that date defendant alleges allege that From Front the tends lands It has not cut any timber from of the con COR contract contract and sets up that by b virtue tract with the commissioner of the get gen general eral era land Jand office It bad had a right to cut and ad timber to be used as u prop props in UI its remove to mines It is iB unlawful lor tor any person cut an aspen or 01 pine tree on I government lands lande