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Show COAL HEARINGS OF 11 VASTJMPORTAHCE H Government Will Attempt to in- B H validate Entries on Lands 0 Claimed as Mineral Wm STATE DEEPLY INTERESTED H H IN FINAL DETERMINATION i 'Immense Areas Under Enabling Hi H j Act GrauMVill Be Affected H Two hearings of tremendous impor- W ! tanco will begin ln the federal bull'dlrig J H ijH hi this city Thursday. In ono of these. Kl ip H cares tho Mare l3 deeply interested, for ! Mil if the principle involved Iff whether or not 'ISi ff! the bu:c has the right to all or the land ijB ifff granted by iho government bv tin on- v U H abllng act. without regard to whether It ft M is mineral in character or not. i 68 jit The cases to bo heard will b thoe of 1 fi ' the United States ueahist Arthur Sweet IfM'!! IH V",? l,,u 1 n,tt'(1 States .-.gainst Truth A. fif-IlT jH Mllner, administratrix of the estate ot 'Hi flit Mauley R. -Mllner ct al. Testimony will f fffjlllt 'lH 00 taken before John W. Christy, stand- id U 'H Ing "master In chancer-.-. l IH It is expected that a large number' of ftM H tH witnesses will be examined. Protexsor 'Sill' Joseph A. Taft. a noted geologist at- fHIlt' tached to tho geological survey, will lv ' K I U, among these. Proteesor Tail will be I P i iH remembered as the experi who save tcf- I I ' ,H timony In behalf of the government dur- , '( IH Ing the hearing rf the te.stlmonv i iba jl' H 1 tali Fuel cases. Professor Taft ban : : J 'H just completed personal examination ' of the land Involved in the Sweet and ;5 tM Mllner cases In Carbon countv. ilo was jdi r accompanied by a number of other ex- ft' U Perl. Major La nioreaux will as.Mst Judge . t Fred A. Maynard. tho special age.r.t who j, jH represents the government and who con- ufi.' 'H ducted the Utah Fuel hearings, and t h "worked up the case" against, that com- '.ftj pany. Major Lamoreuux has traveled Hi ' extensively since he left Utah after the iH conclusion. of the Utah Fuel hearings. He 2.- ; was In the Tafl party on the trip to Car- nMjl Ml bo n county. H Jit lH State Is Intcrvenor. pj 11 Last winter th legislature approprl- t iH atcd SS000 to defend its title to the lauds fi'W 1 11 Involved in the Sweet cae. Tho state uj 1 appears in the ca? In the character of 'j If intervenor. Attorney General Albert R. ''!' 'H Barnes occupies a peculiar position in :vj '. if 'H connection with this case. Prior 10 his wl 11 election as attorney general. Mr. Barnes U i'l was counsel for SweeL. Now ho repre- 1 IH sentr. tho state as wen. Th'" state ha itjj':, .H also employed the law nrm of Dickson. HH Ellis, Ellis & Sehulder. . P ( I'nder Mie enabling act the stats, was !" H gnmted by tho Government four sec- iV l!4 11 Hons In every towaishlp for school pui'- ''1,1 poms. Then sections are No. 2. ..Hi. 1 hiJ ' I'H T.2 and S6. Sweet entered a large . tract Oii.i1 iH of land In Carbon county, under th5 1 11 nrssumption that it was agricultural land. : K ' UH The government contend? that the grant made to -the state by the government ! ?; , ' did not Include land . thai -.fa mineral ii . iH In char.3ter and pe.ekK to recover thp. . g. in f land entered by Sweet which, the govern- iij . fH ment contends is coal land mineral in ' 'i (f character. The p'I'lon of the state In i ; j that the grant paxe the stat- four se- ' M i i jH Hons in avary township ln spit of tho 1 jl1 IB fa-t that It was known before, statehood j m n thnt tho land i-as mineral In character. ; m J ,11 Tho Mllner Cafe. A ' In the Mllner case the sa.m principle m, is Involved which entered Into tho Uh ; H irH Ftiel company ease. The government st- ,Jt tucks the legality of curries made by j f ; . fM Mllner during his lifetime, which tho & ' ? BB government hold? to be coal lands. ':X i 1 The Swe'it case will be Orst taken up. "'I 'J fl The hearing of this case, however, will j .-': be postponed after the lesilniony of Pro- n(J fti 'B fessor Taft has been taken. In order to ! 1 ii m t give Mr. Tafl an opportunity to testify I H ln the Mllner cape without belnc under t& 4 the necessity of remaining in Salt Lake '',' during the entire time tho othor wit- uVui tlH ncsses occupy In giving their evidence. ri . H These henrlngs pi-omlse to be. extreme- li'i'' " 1 lv Intcrertlng. in spito of the fact thnt Y.l, much of the testimony must necessarily ;Ji ( IH be "tin-," relating as It docs to a discus- !Lj!f ' H slon of ecological formations and th-. fic'lil , ' IH llh-e. Thoast Importance which attache Mrl'-I-! H to the Sweet case will render thai mat- j ,y!fp H ter of particular interest lo the public. ; L H '1H for the. public Is the one thai will bnlit " ii , H or loso as the final determination may be. ''ft 'Kl l( H |