Show contest for lund the ownership of the town of lund on tho the main line of the silt salt lake route is at stake today in a contest being held before the register and receiver of the local united states land office the contest is that between jolin john root and E L carter both of whom ire are claiming the town because of settlement under the enlarged homestead act the trouble started feb 3 of this acar 3 car when the district about lund was designated by the united states land office for entry under the smoot enlarged homestead act there was a wild rush for the land and among the en teries filed u ere of root and carter both on the same tract of land taking in the 40 acres known as lund the tou town n of lund consists of a few houses one coal shed ona one chicken coop four wilts a windmill four families and an abend ance of sagebrush in the future it promises to be very much more of a town because of the fact that it is to be made the terminal of the new utah grand cannon canon railroad work on which is under way at present the trouble over the town came about when those who laid it out forgot the small formality of filing the tract on the records of the united states land thia this left the land open for entry it is said and at least two to men discovered this fact both took up residence in the ton n and when the district was designated for entry under the agricultural laws they filed the entries were simultaneous and led to root filing a contest against the entry of carter carter alleges prior rights and so does root at the hearing this morning a step was taken which may deprive both men of the owners ownership bip of the town judge joshua Green greenwood mood put in an appearance and asked that the application of the ty two men omen beset be set aside because of the fact that the people of lund claim property rights there and desire to establish a permanent townsite it is probable th that after the hearing before th the e local reg renter ter and hecei receiver er the case iv will ill be appealed to the commissioner of the general land office in washington D C deseret news |