Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-04-18 | Page 10 | State Land Problem Will be Tested in Courts

STATE LAND Will BE TESTED TESTO IN COURTS COURT 1 C Controversy on tr overy B Between e t Go and iid 1 r Utah Will WillBe WillBe i Be Threshed Out j It Tl I Is probable that tha t tho the controversy tha that thal has lias existed between cen the general land ol or ot fico and amid th the slate state Involving title t to a lc cd mineral land held by by- bytho tho state a u school land and claimed claimer by tho the genor genera l land land and office as mineral land will be bc set Fet tied definitely as the result of ot a test cai case cwi which t is to be tried by the register as and received Te of the general land Jaud office e at Coal Coalville April 28 8 The Tho case lu is the nr first t tor of or its Us kind In that no mineral mineraI application Im lisa has been made malic on tho the land land in question Tho state claims title to tho the land b by virtue of tho the enabling act but the government government govern ment meat claims that the land has been known know s since 1879 to be he mineral mineraI bearing i The Tho state transferred the land involved Involve a about bout acres 1 lying ln near Summit Sum Sura mit mil county count to J J. J II ir Boyer as school Un lana March S 8 1910 for a a. consideration o of about aboul an acre giving Jt Boyer Doyel a certificate of or pale alc Mineral 1 Inspectors have recently macan mac maj an inspection of ot tho the land and reported report that the they had found that it contains 4 in an foot eight eln vein of coal coals that it Is 13 Worth wort approximately 12 to an acre at and that Its character as coal land Jand had been bee known for man many years eats Tho Timo general land office has d decided to I Imako to tomake make mako this thiS' a test case casc In the event II the state loses time thc government will take ov the land and amid other lands will b be ceded the state In lieu The monc money paid to b Boyer will be refunded b by the state 01