Show 0 THE LAND GRABBER GRAB BERAND AND THE CLAIM OWNER there is a clash up in box elder county utah between the land grabber and the claim owner the result of which means that the claim owner will be put to a great oeal leal of trouble and expense and the land grabber if there is any justile justice in the land will eventually find lodgment in the state penitentiary the trouble comes up in connection with filing upon state lands by a clique which desires great areas for grazing purposes but who make their application to th the estate stale board with the assertion that the ground in question is agricultural land and more valuable for agricultural purposes than it is for the mineral it contains in some instances the mining review is informed these land grabbers have made application for lands upon which mining vocations locations have been made and for ground upon which thousands of dollars have been expended in mine development upon ground in which large bodies of valuables valuable ore have been blocked out ready for extraction for the market or the mill in making application for purchase from the state the applicants applicant is required to make a sworn statement that aba the land in question is non mineral bearing that it is unoccupied and that no one is in of it 1 possession of the whole or any part and this application is published in som sono newspaper for a specified time in all were these statements truthful instances no trouble would follow but ii if accounts are true the applicant has per P aured himself on more than one fOl as agthe the land desired was occupied was wa diore valuable for the mineral it contained in for agricultural purposes and in one or two cases well developed mines with the publication of 0 the notice the trouble com comes es to the claim owner who unjustly and at considerable trouble and expense must prove that the land in controversy is more inore valuable as mineral bearing gr ground aund than it is for agricultural purposes it makes no difference if he has held the ground by location for ten or thirty years or that he has expended many thousands of dollars in its improvement and development for he must defend his title before the interior department part ment even though he was shipping ore and even though his mine were on a pro ducting and paying basis As a general thing the claim owner is a poor man and his fight to preserve his own is against men of wealth and influence he does not know that application has been made for the land that he claims he has not seen the published notice has had no chance to file a protest and the first thing he knows heis he is notified to vacate by a lot of people who have obtained government title to his ground by misrepresentation and fraud his only recourse then is prosecution for perjury the expenditure of more time and money and the satisfaction gained by landing the land sharks behind the bars after a long drawn out trial that may land himself in the poor house |