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Show PLACER LOCATIONS GIVENjfCEDEIH Supreme Court Establishes a Precedent in Matter of Phosphate Lands. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, March IT. The supremo su-premo court today established a precedent prece-dent expected to be of far-rcachlng Importance Im-portance In determining the manner of locating phosphate lands. In denying a writ of certiorari In the case of the San Francisco Chemical company versus Duffleld and Jeffs, the court recognized as Valid tho placer locations as against lodo locations, although the latter wero duly filed moro than' two years prior. While the decision primarily affects only tho title to the claims In controversy located lo-cated In Wyoming, tho precedent established estab-lished lends to the conclusion that as far as tho courts aro concerned the placer locators of phonphate lands are to be recognized, both lower courts having hav-ing held to the opinion affirmed today. Thousands of claims In Utah, "Wyoming, "Wyo-ming, Idaho, Montana and Colorado have been located under both placer and lode lawn, and a bill to recognize the prior filing, whether placer or lode, failed of enact merit by tho last congress. Appeal for the writ was based on tho assertion that tho courts had no right to classify tho land, that this right was vested solely In tho secretary of tho Interior In-terior and the commissioner of tho general gen-eral land oiTIco and that the deposit was properly locatablc as placer and not as lode, In any event. |