Show I QUESTION OF f lr I m HT Something to Be Considered by locators of Oil Oi Lauds Laud Along Shores of Great Gr at Salt Sal Lake LEGAL LECAL ADVICE ADVIE IS OBTAINED To ho Utah Cases Quoted An Under Understanding Unde Understanding standing of Subject May I y Avoid Trouble In iii Future conies comes from along the tho shores of ot Won the Orent Salt Snit Lake Lako that scores of ot oil 01 land locations have hav been J n and tire arc helm being made mado mor along IlolA the tha th Inke Ike front font from thU city to Point on the tho north upon Iron now laid hI hi bare re by bytho b bythe the tho of oC tho time waters nten of oC the tIme luke lake ThIs Thin Thil uric has hn canned the thc raising of oC the tho question of oC rights ts and It I U Is 11 well soll 01 that lint matters of or this Oils Ills kind b be understood under by hy persons Interested In the tho Ihl formation of ot new com Cotil COl In iii the Investment In on oil panics or II al said a n one ono of oC the first to enter Inter the time field this lilt forenoon I belIeve bellove that If it this riparian right question M no 0 well w sv l ll as the thu ownership of oC lands landH Inn s Is 15 II understood by b tho the gen general generl eral It will vill savo trouble In hI this the 11 future erl and wi no end of ot costly co litigation For n 11 ny own onn I received legal advice on the tM subject from Frank l K Il Gregg OreA a 1 we wel welt known Denver antI If It I will wi benefit anyone else elso I 1 am nm willing that It should go tro Into print I Tue 10 letter leUr front from the Denver attorney following contains tho the united The Tho supreme of oC the Staten State has settled beyond controversy certain cartain cuta In relating to lo this mat moat matter ter mind and I 1 find on that my lY to you 01 was correct namely L lint when a n state Is In 11 into thu Union Un 1011 the state slate no ito I admitted becomes the proprietor of oC the beds ds of oC the navi And lakes within the tho lie state late anil and tho thu United Staten line has no 10 further ant title tithe In such The rie power fl or control of oC tho the United States after aCer the admission of ot such state has to do 10 only v Hit Ih matters maters of oC commerce and tin ion It N Ii I also yell II settled that lint tile the rl ri I owner or the owner of ot the tho lands pnrA bordering on such sueh lakes takes title only to tho the margin mortn of ft the tho water and nd becomes b comel tho the owner m of oC tho the accretions anti also by the of ot tho the water wlter It Is also aleo well ehi nettled that the tha I lakes lak not nit owner on streams and nt ni takes tAS 1419 to the of the of oC the lake but as to lakes lake some comae of the ca cases elsea c only carry 11 Ills hits hil title to the tho th extent of DC a legal 1011 of ot the land The court of oC the united States Slates has several times 8 decided that on Ott thel It ii I will l follow Collow the rules laid down by the state where hero tho Ito question arises arisen In the cane of oC Pointer vs 8 8 Utah jO 32 31 Poe Judge Miner 09 says There Thore Is no 10 tide water vatI In this territory mul therefore no tie water which by the tho technical of the thc term terra navigable at common law hait would come within It The rue general meaning of oC tho the common I law Is III applicable to Inland lakes cOlmon which aM not nt of ot such size Ilze and Importance na as to bo be classed clas with wih the great roat navigable lakes of vC the country until and Ild wo we do not ot consider that lint we should from Crom rota the rule In this case Me The Tho fact nel that Utah lake hike Is navigated or does docs not change tho ho rule In Inthis tins this use case You OhI will vIll notice nOle that Judge Miner In inthe tho the above wil quotation InS In each ench In Instance instance stance In lii this core cafe nad of or course tho only question before the court In 1 that lint calm caco queston was whether or not the 10 entitled to tho the owner on Utah lake was waR selections elections to his land by reason of ot the tho waters of oC the th lake receding or whether ito ho was entitled to ownership of oC the theland land hand ID 1 tho the waters edge anti and Ind he ho decided ed iii 0 It In n conformity with nearly nil all ni tho the decisions I that whether tho the water lw ho 1 navigable or not the tho riparian owner Is la entitled to the and anal reliction In II the lie case Ille of ot et ct nl at II va vs S 10 ISO 37 lae Ia 20 0 Chief bief C Justice Merritt speaks of Utah thInk mIce lake as ns n a lake bice then ic to to tho the case of ot us e 1 Jor Jordan Jordan dan dnn HO ItO 10 t 1 11 B 5 he ho hI says lays In tho the cine of oC va vs S Jordan tim tha doctrine Is In clearly announced by the tho supreme court of oC tho the United States te whose devia MI Ion Is absolutely conclusive upon tha this count that lint whether tho ho body Imly bOI of oC water Is in II or nut not tho the practical r ru ra suit stilt Is tho the saute same the only being hell that In 11 the tho case cal of oC waters the he owner guner takes the fee tel to the centre centro of ot th the lake or strom while In the tue case of oC navigable waters tho thio ownership In fee Ceo extends only to Iho lit waters edge llo but In either caw enso IlI nil oh ni ti the tho accretions anti and l belong loni to him himas as ll an Incident of ot his riparian owner ship You YOI will wi notice that Judge JI o Miner In Hiving giving his I indulges H In general Kenerl from frol which It might aught ho bo rout con contended on tended that that list decision lon fixes tho the att attus us I of oC both bolh Utah Inko IMko Stilt Hull HullT all T Lake k I us not lot III being heln o lk lakes n A utah ami therefore fo that the title of or thu lii riparian owner extend extell under anther the tho water vater an ni n obtains at et common law with wih noi itoh nul navi anil lakes hut but hit It I Is I 1 n a t I loable too to that I hI l he hl In Iii II etch each oh In II plan stence that the announcement of or the Ibo doctrine he lie h title time Ill Is b in connee wih tie ea copt cop being ton 01 on namely that of or accretions and reliction noton I have hare taken li It I for far granted that the location made mill out ut In tn th lake laho e not nut IR In iii II conformity to cay any state Ulan III law hew tail bitt t only In lit the United Ianth oUe 01 In u u l milliner on tn ti the theory then that t tat the UI bed bl of ot the lake lai wu Hill i l a p Pr pr prof n of the th United mat public domain lotIn |