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Show JEST GA8E 01 LIO WILIOPEN TODAY Right of State to Hold Ground on Which Is Found Some Mineral at Stake. TRACT IS NOT LARGE Title to Property Cannot Be Changed Until Point at Issue Is Settled. The hearing on the claim of V. F. Olson of Price for a mineral location on forty acres of land in Spring Canyon, Utah, which will open today before Keg-istor Keg-istor E. D. R. Thompson aud Receiver M. Jl. Kaighn of the United States land office will involve the question of the selection of government lands by the state. The case will be a test of the right of the state to hold lands on which there is found mineral in small quantities. Some time ago the state board of land commissioners arranged to sell this forty acres of land in Spring cauyon to Jesse Knight. Taking it tor granted that the sale would be consummated, Mr. Knight used the location for a headquarters head-quarters plant for the Spring Canyon Coal company. In tho meantime, however, notice of the tiling on mineral land on this property prop-erty was given by Mr. Olson. This reflected re-flected on the title to the laud and the state was unable to give a clear deed to the property. According to the members mem-bers of the state land board, the property prop-erty is n on mineral and therefore belongs be-longs to the classification of the state lands. A piece of coal land juts iuto the forty acres, but not in any commercial com-mercial quantity. Marcus E. Jones and James E. Tal-mage, Tal-mage, two of the ablest geologists in the state, will testify for tne state and they are expected "to pronounce the land nonmineral. Th state will be represented rep-resented at the hearing today by W. D. Candland, president of tlte state land board, and bv Assistant Attornev General Gen-eral G. A. iverson. The law firm of Weber & Olson will represent the claimants claim-ants to the land- |