Show UTAH TO FIGHT FURl FOR ACRES OF I COAl lAND Title of School Sections to toGo toGo toGo Go to Congress Is Proposal I Recommendation to the state stat legislature legislature legislature legis legis- lature to send qualified men to ington to lay before congress facts that will confirm permanently Utah's title to about acres acres acres' of valuable coal land lanel in school sections so that in the future there may be no rIO cloud upon titles of land dl disposed posed of by the state prior to January 4 1896 is Iii made in inthe th the report of the state board of land commissioners to the governor and legislature This action is a protest to tho the decision rendered recently by th the United States supreme court Inthe in inthe inthe the Sweet land case which d deprived the state of the coal lands in school sections not known to be such January 4 1896 Recommendations have come out of the attitude of the state land board for the calling of a general conference of general of the twenty-six twenty I states interested Should this conference conference conference confer confer- ence be determined upon all the de details details details de- de tails of the matters at issue will be threshed out and plans devised to bring about the action required requited George T T. Badger obtained the land lana and assigned It to Arthur Arthul A A. A Sweet Sweet paid the state for tor 01 the land and asked a deed for it from the state The united States government go then stepped j In In declaring that the state had no I I title In the land By fly the Judgment of the tle supreme court Sweet and th the state of ot Utah are found round to have no title in I the land the decision being that the i iI property belongs to the United States StateR i The rhe supreme court decided that the 1 I land grant of the state of f Utah did not carr carry with it lands known to be I valuable for minerals or coal at the time of or the states state's entrance to state state- I hood ConseQuently the nr if r th tho h state to scho school l sections depends up upon the known character of or the land when Utah was admitted to statehood January January January Janu Janu- ary 4 4 1896 as us to lands surveyed With regard to lands surveyed at a later date the grant takes Effect rs lS s to the date approved Fully acres acrs of ot those theo scho school schooT lands are with large com com- mc mercial deposits of coal according to geologists None of ot these acres has been een disposed of by the state or orthe orthe orthe I the government and the state holds hold th the tho position that none of ot these res was known to contain workable nd nd valuable coal deposits when the States State's rights attached thereto and that the coal believed to be contained therein belongs to the state Estimates by competent authorities hold that these acres of land contain to tons of or coal and the governor at attorney attorney at- at torney orney general and state board of land commissioners have h determined to use every legitimate effort to conserve and save these deposits to the taxpayers and public schools |