Show COLTON SEEKS MONEY FOR HOSPITAL that utah may establish a hospital for the care of disabled miners congressman colton has introduced a bill proposing to grant to the state fifty thousand acres of public land to aid fa the project says a washington dispatch of a few days ago at the time this state was admitted to the union congress contemplated such a hospital should be established tor in the enabling act it incorporated a grant of fifty thousand acres with the provision that the state should sell the land and apply the interest on the funds realized to its construction the state sold its first fifty thousand acres and since the sale interest on the funds has amounted to but as the state cannode spend any of the principal fund it still finds itself far short of the amount necessary to erect and equip such an institution hence the apropo al to grant colton has been advised that there are one hundred and forty miners in utah in need of treatment |