Show SALT BEDS BELONG TO TOI I UNIVERSITY By a 1 decision of the supreme court of Utah ban handed banded ed down today it is ruled that all the saline lands in the tho state aro are 31 the proper property of tho the state and are areto areto to be he devoted to the support and maintenance main main- of the state university Tho decision means several million milon dollars dolar to the educational institution It I will wi however cr be he bou bought ht by b- the tho Mon MOD I tol tollo tello Salt company appellant in the present case CSC before tho the supreme court I of the United States The opinion han handed ed down today is written by Justice D. D N. N and anc in ini in it i Justices ces McCarthy and Frick concur The case came to tho state su supreme court from the court of Judge T. T D. D Lewis in the third judicial district The Tho suit was originally brought by bv tho the thoI state against the thc or Montello Salt company compan I which is composed ed large largely of Ogden capitalists after they had bad bal started the tle I development of somo some of tho the immense saline deposits to the west est of Great Salt Sal lake I The case hinges on the tho interpretative interpretation of a cause in the enabling act by hy which Utah became a state That clause clauso says s 's that a certain specified amount of I I all saline land landin public land including al in the state is to bo ho sold for the benefit bene Deno lit fit ft of the thc state un university As s a matter mater I of fact it was found when tho the survey surey work v.-ork for the Western Pacific was tt-as started that saline lands exist in tho the I state west of tho the lake Jakc about sixty mie miles square and far in Q excess in in area of all 1 the tho acreage granted by the tho enabling enabling en ev- abling act lt for tho state university In I some places it is ia related beds of al- al mc mst st pure puro Turo salt sal extend to a depth of ot fort forty feet On Oi this land the Montello Salt SaI company's com corn pany's stockholders stockholder took up UT claims clims and the these o claims tho state is fighting W. W D. D filter Riter represented tho university university fit sity in the tho action before the supreme court while W W. I L. L Maginnis of Ogden now defending Thomas Vanco Tanco in the tho I no murder trial represents the salt saI com corn pan pany He stated this afternoon that the case would undoubtedly bo be appealed |