Show U S Refuses Lands Salt SaIt Lake Notice CIty City Notice that the proposed relinquishment of or state claims to more than acres of or oil shale lands In the Uintah basin would not be accepted by the United States land office was received at the state land office orrIce from Commissioner Wil Wil- William William I liam Spry The states state's claim to school land grants in that district were con con- contested contested tested by the federal government cm the ground that the lands were known I to be he of ot mineral character This con cun contest contest test threatened the states state's titles to much of or the land laud at a hearing before Registrar Leon P Christensen inVernal InVernal In InVernal Vernal the state land board offered to release its claim on those The matter was taken under advise meiL advise lse meal meriL The state took the tho attitude at that time that the land was not Dot worth the expense of or defending title to It that it had bad no known mineral value alue and was practically worthless otherwise |