Show UTAH TRIUMPHANT court has has' upI up- up States supreme HE United I 1 T held hold th the contention of ot Utah that th the Colorado river is navigable most of the wa way through this state and therefore the bed b Of the stream and its tributaries Is under tate instead of federal j Jurisdiction The importance of this decision may be best appreciated when it is known that all heretofore heretofore here here- in question streams oil leases ases along the permit are government to fore granted under go the operations of ol oil com companies invalid In future will be he conducted conduct conduct- along the river beds cd ed under the direction of the state The Green and the Grand now Colorado I rivers fivers and all of the main stream within the state tate excepting a stretch of 32 miles through Cataract canyon are returned to state Juns- Juns diction as a result of the opinion The point turned upon the question of or navigability of the river The government stubbornly r resisted the claim of the state of Utah that the stream for the most Dart cart was navigable and therefore under the jurisdiction juris jurls- jurisdiction abundant evidence evi c diction of the state There is dence that the old Colorado has been tra tta traversed traversed tra- tra Utah versed for hundreds of miles mUes through the feat Powell first proved ever since Major I possible half a century ago The attorneys who represented Utah in prosecuting its claim to authority over the stream stream Mr Philo T. T Farnsworth Jr Mr W. W A. A Hilton HUton and Mr George D. D Parkinson- Parkinson are arc entitled to the th felicitations of the whole state for their capable presentation of the case |