Show UNIVERSITY MAY MY MAYnET nET GET SALT LANDS Question of Ownership of Valuable Valuable Valuable able Tracts Hinges on Mai Point GO TO WASHINGTON Frank Pierce and Senator Sutherland Sutherland Sutherland erland Are Striving to Clear Up Title sUs Is County Deposits Depo r l e of 0 r Enhanced by b Transportation Fu Fa dillies Sow Whether wether ether the 1110 University ot of Utah Is by tho the acquisition richer made 13 tj lo i c 1111 In west ef acres of 0 salt deposits Its Utah Uta estimated at in or whether private parties aro tWo to lo placer claims their good aad toma k 13 g this lund land Is la the question In Involved InI on en fl ow I d In a LI a controversy now no being ige at Washington D C Great Gre t western fortunes havo have often otten come tram tim tho fact tact that someone was wast t We aDt t to gt g t from tha tio government pj pert perty thought to be lIeo of little that proved afterwards to be a u soured source of ot immense wealth The Tho bulden ot of the transcontinental railroad rail oad were Wro 18 S Sf of ot f the first so O to prosper and tho the mod cm tm dry dr farmers who ho are Ile asking 15 1 l II tt for tor they bought at ut ara non the latest kest Fortunes are now noY thought to He lie le In county count ind nd iid the ot of who Is II to exploit then their las ha been ben prominent since lne October 1906 15 with wih and friends ds wh were let In on the tho su I vC Jt of er the matched against tho th University ot of Utah und and Its Is friends in 1 1 positions In I Ogden a number of ot men mei at once organized lito t iQ which the meller put III Hu each fo to for capitalization They tiled ou on 01 several s leral notions H tons with wih 20 acres as 1 1 a placer pacer clam ca cIa l for tor each cacti member Eh Clings were recorded lt at tho the county recorders reorders office olce und and the tho trana I action aten was apparently legal legal under the tho thoI I V 1 S placer mining regulations But Hut State Senator Peter Petel Clegg heard Cf 11 the matter mater and lost no time Ume In call calt cal lj Ing tho the attention of ot the state Kind lud board to the the th new salt alt bed i Tho The U IL S in the enabling act thInk I i to do something handsome for tOI tho the ly of or Itah had deeded to it acres of ot land lad and md ni all the th saline sall id In the tho state Tho The question came camo up as zos to t t salt Mit lt was saline land f nr r I I underneath It Itel after tile the surface I had been ben carried away Its ails tOft having como come subsequent subs sub t to the tho doubt of ot the grant left lef room fur for the tho doubt TO INTERIOR DEPARTMENT Te state land lan board thought Its Is title tto was a good go and applied Immediately to the Interior department to havo have the tho salt tract tt surveyed and Ind withdrawn from et tot to t become part pirt of 0 tho the land grant to 10 the University of oC Utah under the tho terms te le as ot of tho the enabling act act WORK UNDER WAY WAYOn On Os behalf of ot the University of Utah Ethic Bute atc Senator Peter CIo Clo j und aud tho th tte load land nd beard began l b ga nl work In 1903 We thLe hl In behalf of ot private ownership i oJ of placer claims wore sero Hied Ind an ala n attempt made mado lado to establish e title Boa oth sides have havo continued their tight light M lit Washington Hon Hen Hn Frank Pierce appointed to a position In III tho th n department and United taLus Status tutor George Sutherland having tak talt in to up p tho th side of ut tho the con while applications tiled Hied bo be b led lort lo t th attorney general represent the tho tort of ar tho the other othor side A bill lIl now Won Congress seeks seck to maka malto the uni tte perfect Tho To history of ot tho thu discovery of an new nw source of ot wealth In dates date Lack haek to the tho building of ot tho the West ern Ir railroad Long before that We Ilc cowboys vy and sheep heep herders had laud across acro the tho level white whito stretcher w of IS t salt deposit but hUll hud not peno rono the surface to thai Ind that It had dr deth PUi t and a u quality almost pure pIe WEALTH IS DISCOVERED eu the tho Western Vestern Pacific surveyor Ired art l west vest they thoy laid out a u toad load t rough thus the heart of ot tho the salt sail deposit developed tho fact that it t 11 from frum four our to lo 10 feet deep und and over ovel an of oC nero acres f tc Senator Clogg thought that this order when hei secured would late io alt all al thu placer claims and would nl h the tub secure As A jooe us tho Ito wrote oto thin that J would bo be wont sent tho Ito recorder I tt To county wo wan WW ordered to 10 nc ate le no mora lucre and ld lie tho VM discontinued lute late In Iii the tho It I of ot When Mr Pierre wont aol u last ht st y yur ur to tu assume his hil duties In ha tata uri ho carried 1 Ill cd with wih him lull full rul bout about the salt alt and ho Wil tl to shape the tho towards It Ho lie wrote t I 10 I Urn oiL hi W y Young foung hero horo ore for tOl hU his hl of ot the DID 1 act net as us Mr Young UI OUs a a Q a member of t the board hOI 11 of oC rents or of liin Ih Armed Annul with Is ho Ito took up tho the matter th i RelY heiy Ul and this I nw w i hard haiti to have havo the tho un I P pO made u ton la lily I y ns HIM J 1 tt The bill bi whirl Sutherland thin the let ii 1 t I o 1 that Hi 1110 t It ro re calm bo ho no ni I th an d of uI 0 tho tile has td 04 ih that Ihl bill be inn do law hasy W The 11 10 11 not ot To t aKl lt f t the tho enabling not act lot does docs n IJ I ty limo th one in Imil 1 tl I mm thlu t al i aides acres of or ta II 1 i Oh to t till saline n tho lOl d t ni the e tit nt o om 0 om It Wil I to tu him m area of ot the tho hue I id rf f r Utah Il h Tho ho local mud land 1111 or that tile acquire n I f f holl IrM I tre an un l tu UMI I whon 1110 tk ani i ia a UIe have ha been aj lt tho This ih I hi i H 1 by lime lunor of or i limit 1 In ln Wa n oleo t lr 1111 bill 11 lii That I it n to time tho Ir f II ut U i to tu d hlll ho 10 selected und lo 10 Hun 11 itt n the le foregoing MO woo oo art und and also Illume hnIs 11 no I Mid ia I n 11 a tale state lt uro aio hereby 0 for tal tho lio Use UBO USI or Of haul If in for t Di r the tile urn Tho I ig K college therein h a n the thu salt ault l lif lel a el by if the tho tHel that thiL the rno trl mc railroad noon loon to bo In lit It M d R 0 directly r through h lie tho liet proVidinG a A t ready rell means of ot ott t Th I all e thu th t tu to u non ton of ot tho thu Bait suH ul on or ona a gin i Is not t fully ful settled Some of at those who discovered 1 It thought that tho thu Ho 80 Ier river could formerly have entered Salt BaIt Luke and that us as tho the river found round a tie channel a lake hake was nl formed tram from rota which n Orcut ireat Still Halt waters passed tit I high water atol mid lund left Ier the tho ponds to dry aIry 11 In the fall tal thus thul layer lael upon layer laor of ot salt being bing formed ant ni tho the yearn elo passed Mr Mt h Clegg Clug says nays sa that tha It Is the result of or the lie long lang con now how low of waters from a IL salt snit springs rising In the tho desert near tho lie western wester border of 0 county and towards Great Salt Sail Lake |