Show DISCOVERY OF OIL will ENRICH STATE TREASURY discovery of oil in the vicinity of moab and bright prospects of its discovery elsewhere now that bili ties of pennsylvania sands are known has led to renewed interest in the right of the state schools to revenue from these deposits if they happen to be found on state school lands says the salt lake tribune this again calls on to the fact that a large portion of the state is not surveyed if oil is discovered in these regions before the survey is made and accepted or even if geological inference should in dicato that oil is there before the survey is made the state schools will have a difficult time in convincing the de apartment part ment of the interior that they have any right to the lands since the supreme court of the united states has held that the school land grant did not include mineralized lands hence the importance of getting the public lands of the state sur keyed before further discoveries ot valuable minerals are made it is recalled that the legislature of 1921 made a grant of to the federal government for the survey of utah lands this was because an old federal law had been resurrected under which the federal government agreed to return to any state moneys advanced by the state tor the survey of public lands within its borders the was spent in 1921 and 1922 and none of it has been returned by the federal government the 1923 legislature desiring that the surveys be continued granted another on the same terms the money has all been spent and none of it has been returned the wording of the utah law makes the fund a revolving fund but so far it has failed to revolve following conferences of various state officials it was decided yesterday that governor dern will take immediate action to learn what steps are necessary to have this money refunded to the state where it will again be placed at the disposal of the federal government under like arms if this is done it is believed that the entire state will be surveyed into townships and sections at a much more rapid rate than was the case prior to 1921 but it is hardly probable that the state will continue to pay the entire cost of surveys for the sike of only four sections in each township of rather problematical value in fact until and unless the federal government returns the or part of it there are no state funds appropriated for such purposes |