| Show utan UTAH LAIM liand lland DISPUTE PUBLIC indignation in utah county is exceedingly strong against the jumpers who are attempting to wrest a large track of valuable land bordering utah lake f from rom the kona iona rde gide settlers and claimants at the time the government survey was made oil on the land adjacent to that body ot wat erthe edge of tile the lake lahe was much higher hugher than now but the government line was maccas made as close to it as practicable As tile the lake receded a strip of valuable laud land gradually widened and was ta taken on up aud and used by people whose properties te for which they had obtained titles adjoin it up to the surveyed line it is this stretch of land which has been settled upon bythe by the people that the land laud ia jumpers bumpers are ire lre at attempting to seize and oil on which they have unsuccessfully endeavored to erect buildings in order to give color to their claims we are informed that the principal parties at the headon head of this land jumping movement are a man named pitts proprietor of a low resort on the state road near this city known as pitts gardens and tom vincent of provo the bona fide settlers of the land la in dispute will fight light the issue to the end and we have no doubt of their final victory the clear right being on their side they illey liley have taken steps in the proper qi quarter arter arten to have the land surveyed b by t the he government and tose to secure t titles g es t to 0 it t up to the anderline me of the lake not only have the settlers upon the land used improved and fenced it but they have been at considerable expense and trouble in taking steps to keep the lake down so as to make the land available the question of increasing or diminishing the tiie volume of water being one which has been in lively di dispute ute between utah county and salt stake lake county for several years the land has thus actually been produced by them so far as its eligibility is concerned its remaining covered with water indefinitely being by their action prevented tile the genus land jumper is in bad odor in every community ile he is looked upon as little if any better than a highwayman and no respectable portion of the people can afford to tolerate him in a case such as that in which the utah county settlers are arc interested he a appears pears in his most obnoxious phase lecause because of the absence of a glimmer of legitimate excuse for his attempted seizure of property to which others have so clearly a superior claim there is but little if any room for doubt that the bona fide settlers will be the victors in the utah lake land dispute that this will be the outcome of the contest esthe wish of every lover of fairplay |
