Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-04-12 | Page 24 | State's Claim Good to Big Tract of Land

wn Cllll GOOD ! 10 E I SAG! 6f LAI i Recent Decision of General Land 0lice Turns Over About 500,000 Acres. j A recent decision of the general land 'office of Washington entitles the slate of Utah to claim between oOO.OOO and (100.000 acres of land located In various sections of the stale. A teat case was recently filed In tho hical land office, and the matter was submitted to Washington for a decision. ' Various acts of Congress entitle each state to sections -. 1G. .'!!' and 116 of each township, when there lands arc unincumbered. unin-cumbered. This grant is known as the school land grant. The various forest reserves made In Utah have withdrawn nearly half a million acres uf land from possible selection by the stale. The slate desired to know if It were not possible pos-sible to take land. outside of the forest reserves re-serves in lieu of the land withdrawn 'by the formation of such reserves. Tho au-thorllles au-thorllles at Washington have decided In the affirmative. The test case filed for GtO acres has practically been approved, and hereafter selections may be made throughout the slate on unincumbered land. Tho ruling made by tiie land office also calls attention to the fact thai tho slate, is entitled lo substitute other lands in lieu of mineral lands in case those sections grained it carry mineral values.