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Show STATE LOSES jps Supreme Court of United States Decides for Mon-' Mon-' ' tello Company. SEVERE BLOW TO,. UTAH JUNIVERSITY Saline Tract in Question West of LaKe Worth Mil-. Mil-. lions of Dollars. WASHINGTON, May 89. Tba atnta of Utah today lost its suit against tha Montello Bait company. Involving large areas of sal In lands In that state. The suit referred to in tha above die patch was brought a few years ago in behalf of tba University of Utah by the state. In the enabling net, which made Utah a state, provision was made for the state university and its main tenanea by giving it n grant of land of several hundred thousand acres, "including "in-cluding all saline lands" ia tha-state. Subsequent to the admission of Utah aa a state, and particularly during the construction of tha Western Pacific railroad, aalina deposits were discovered anl to a small extent developed which cover an area immensely greater than the amount of land granted to tha university. uni-versity. ' History of Case.' . Tha salt land was filed ea by-eer-f raj . private parties, and tha Montello Bait company started the development of its claims, when the stste intervened and brought aetioa in e'eurt claiming tha title to tha land. Tba state's con at ruction of the act wat that the grant I was intended to giva to the University of Utah all tha saline deposits in Utah, and that the university, therefore waa owner of thoae sections of publie lands on which such deposits were found. This construction waa upheld in the district court and in the supreme court of the state, whereupon the ease waa taken to Washington, with tha result that today's decision in the United States supreme court is adverse. It is ststed that had the -decision been favorable the University of Utsb would have been one of tha richest educational edu-cational inatitutiooa in the country. Saline Sa-line deposits, many miles in extent either wsy, are fonnd to contain almost chemically pure salt, with n depth varying vary-ing from a few inches to upward of fifty feet. |