Show CACHE COUNTY LAND CASES statement of the ground on which tho the burr survey Is attacked editor Til bune permit me to g etva I 1 re some facts as to the subject lepor reported led in the tribune this marring in an article entitled important land question quention it is not to he be token for granted that priority of any survey would deprive settlers on school lands from obtaining them at special preference prices for the law of provides for a specific survey including tax and subdividing of mid lands the law ROCS goes still further in favor of the adjustment of this right concluding is as follows and the card board may hear and consider other testimony this other oilier testimony Is in addition to the records and plats plate of sur survey vc ys a designated as prima facie evidence d ence and was that we put 1 in be before fare the board yesterday we CAL attacked ached the B burr rr su survey arvey only as it affects the lands in question which were settled upon front from to tho the evidence introduced cc d we ie think proved conclusively that neither during said period nor since hi nee have any traces of said eald survey been discovered red upon or adjacent to t thee he lands land and that tho the records and plats of the alleged survey of IKS were not within the then territory of utah and accessible to tho the settlers that it if the surveys hod had been made irai at all all knowledge kno uledge of their existence was lout lost or suspended during the period in question and that tile the plats were during part of the time at denver tho the question I 1 Is s shall these pioneers of f cache sanpete and other counties b be e permitted to purchase their original lots it at a reduced rate as was use evidently the intent if not the plain language air of 0 the law it was distinctly stated in the last legislature that under the law as aa fraad fra md d the state land board had full power to recognize and grant these claims and that Is all tie e asked the board to do in the hearing or of yesterday very respectfully I 1 C for the claimants salt lake december IS 15 1897 |