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Show RAVEN COMPANY HOST PA! FOHJTS CLAIMS Secretary of the Interior Af-1 firms Decision of Land Commission. Sp-rlal to Tho Tribune. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. The long-expected decision of the Secretary of the Interior In the Raven Mining company case came today, and It affirmed tho decision de-cision of the Commissioner of the General Gen-eral Land office requiring the mining company com-pany to pay for the lands allotted to It by preferential right In the Uintah reserve. re-serve. Appealed From Decision. Th. company located sixty mining claims In the res.-rvallon before jt was opened to tho public, exercising the option on 100 claims offered br the Government The Commissioner held that the company could not have patent until it paid JLj an acre for he elaims. and It was from this ib i Islon the Raven company appealed unsuccessfully |