Show I 1 THE UTAH UTA H FUEL COMPANY CASES AGAIN UP AT ZION 0 of the t the h e e uni united taking a 01 tt of ol states testimony ano against agat ns rie in 11 e utah case g fu fuel 1 corn company pany was commenced monday d ay iy at t salt lake city before S H R lc master in chancery in this case the la is represented d by fred A maynard assistant t to 0 he united states attorney attorney general and 11 E booth united states di dis brict attorney the defendants interested inte te are being taken care of b by john M zane of chicago and 1 hl al allison of salt lake prof joep h A teft chief coal geologist for f or the united str states tes and who has spent two leasot seasons atta etarl rg and exam examining ning coa coal I 1 lands in in utah was the first and and only bitnes s called it is thought the taking of testimony in this case ease which will not be continuous will last six eix months the coal land cases hex babou ts are more or less there havo been proceedings from time tb tu time nd now the government believes 1 mat hat tho the time has arrived to bring bing the whole matter to a head it has been preparing for the f final hearing for many months there are two quest questions ions involved in the suit the seeks the cancellation pf of entries mac male by men and women alleged to have been hired byrbe defendants fend ants to take up coal lands and then transfer them to the defend ant q the governments allegation is that these persons were paid from fifty to one hundred dollars for their services services it is arted that about five thousand acres taken up in this manner the second question involved in the matter of state selections ions it is alleged a that approximately ten und acres have been entered as grazing land at the instance of the defendants fend ants who knew all the while according to the government that this was coal land having entered under the grazing classi classification Q cation the land was secured at an acre e when the price fixed by the government gov ern for coal lands waa twenty dollars an acre ar re these entries were made by persons who were not aware of the presence of coal deposits and quickly acquired by ohp th defendants it is alleged the government g seeks to cancel the entries unlawfully made by pei bons sons alleged to have been hired by the defendants in the first place and in the second place it t seeks to set aside the conveyance bl b which coal land was acquired under agriculture 11 1 classification |