Show SALE OF COAL MEASURE Was Originally Selected by State ns a Pasture for Long Horns The sale of eighty acres of coalbear ing land In section 31 township 11 south of range II east which Is located near Sunny lde Carbon county a lId over which theie was a conflict In the Land olllcc is said to have just been negotiated nego-tiated by Arthur A Sweet to representatives repre-sentatives of the big coal company the vendor according to the story drawing draw-ing down 10000 Mr Sweet took up the area In question as a coal entry It appears that the same land was some lime ago selected by the State at tilC request of a local engineer na grazing graz-ing land Mr Sweet in the meanliine protested the States selection and when attempting to go upon the ground was driven off hy an armed guard Later the Stale voluntarily relinquished its claims to the ground and its selection was cancelled Sweet immediately I purchased pur-chased the territory from the Government Govern-ment to which he paid S iC6G or 520 an acre and on the transaction which has just been closed drew down a margin of 8100 |