Show 1 SA jo wo arr testify in coal land cali cass co IS A against g ainest utah fuei fue i co GO VF AT SUNNYSIDE MINES the november term of the states district court began at salt lake city last monday with judge Ala marshall ishall on the bench the calendar for the term is a long on one e many involved actions being ip included eluded in tho the list of cases to be heard at the foot of the calendar arc are the case cases wherein the united state 4 j ta complainant among them 1 I 1 1 ngtye cases against the minor offenders indicted by tho the last grand ju jury for complicity in various ways wa with the coal land and fraud charged to the utah fuel corn company puny zhe cross a examination of professor faff taff the government expert geo geologist logis before master alaster in chancery lewa was lait thursday eo so far aa the utah fuel company is conca concerned m ed he we wn n the tile stand uni r 1 j testifying as to the cht character L ra eter of the lands taken up b by athi tha pleasant e ant valley coal campp company my F friday ri ay even evening fig professor tatt taff left fp c sunnyside Sunny ide side to ma mako ke an examina jan ton of coal con company pank properties at that camp beginning last monday the in the alleged coal land frauds began to put ut nesses on the stand to establish its case against the utah fuel company and k others alt all carbon county knew that the lands acquired by the utah fuel company were not valuable for agricultural or brazing lands although the collany com lany VanY through t rough dummies hied filed on the lands and called them such auch jn in subs twice this was the testimony of two carbon county men alast adf monday when the civil suit brought brough t by the government ament against the fuel fue I 1 company for the return of thenn the lan d dawns resumed JW J W warf a lawyer prospector farmer and quasi colonist anda and J al whitmore of price testified in behalf of the govern government ment the land in question tion comprises the sunnyside Sunny side nines and adjacent territory the utah fuel company re dummies to file an on ake land end ant later transfer it to the company theland the land was filed u upon pa w agricultural and grazing I 1 lands an ds but was later z ir worked for the ca coal a that lies in abundance beneath the surface the government af after ter against the f fuel ul fl ord ard others entered a ch if uit to regain posse possession of the aids and to compoli compel the company to pay for the benefits it has domed J W warf stated emphatically iq that not 10 per cent of the lands ac quiren by the fuel company as agricultural and grazing lands cou could 1 aari be used as suan grazina itis is the governments contention that the coal lands are not ala able for grazing or agricultural purposes and warf certainly upheld that content contention ionin in hh his testimony he lie bald that yince 16 the people of carbon county had never regarded the lands acquired by th the Q fuel company u anything but coal Jr arda jd da i and it v ams as common knowledge about tho the county ahat tho the territory was rio so i broken eilben and so rocky that it could be utilized for neither cattle nor not crops under a severe crossfire from john al zane and ed M allison warf war baid that ho he believed bell eved that there was MIMI a tit vein of coal und underlying erbing all the tern territory tory in question allison ellei elicited ted the information from the witness that he is a lawyer at price warf said he had practiced law since he vaa as IS 18 yea yeara j old had bad taught school for twenty one years I 1 and haa maintained an office at price for eleven years he ile has ti t ight school in west virginia kentucky and utah he is 51 eara eans old he also that he be is a prospector and far farmer nier had spent two year cars in the henry mountains and raad had in his younger aya in west virginia coalmines he has bee been a student of geology for thirty years ho ile could not remember the we names of the looks books on oil geology logy ho he had dmd and anti ber tho tha rames of ho the author authors of law boobs in W ui ai library he said ha w very poor at names he was asked if he had hail talked with government representatives as to A hat he lie was to testify to and he kud id he lie had met two government agent 9 at Sunny n ide alde ho ile volunteered to rea a I 1 the conversation 0 but allison 1 n t I 1 want ant to hear it whitmore Whit moro taid said ho waa in whit 20 it 11 i more canyon in 1878 with his brother george C whitmore andi and that the canyon had borne that name since then canan a ffield that in the vicinity of the he bunny side mines the country is very rough and that with the exception of a small draw at tho the bottom of whitmore canyan there is no land that could be ir used eil for graz ing purposes the rest c CC it is valueless luel elesa em for graing I 1 he said the tho government is trying to prove that anyone who filed a claim on oli the coal lands must have knob khoan n from a cu cursory ras inspection that it w was valueless for grazing or ag agricultural dickal tural purples although when tho the filings were made the te land was culled called grazing and as 49 ri cultural land later of course it was A as transferred to the fuel company which had stood the cost of filing and anti patenting and na became valuable only as coal landa tho the entire day tuesday was taken u up p with the direct t and cross exam examination 1 of henr v wade a resident of prise hia his testimony was to tho the effect fec that all the land taken up by the company or its dummies was coal land and not grazing land as had been represented at the entry he uld thai lie had practiced coal mining it in england from tho the time ho he was 0 only n y 12 11 I 1 years old and that for twenty one scars cars he lie has dune nothing elin el in eastern utah said that he zd d examined and prospected nearly al a t the land under consideration and v was perfectly familiar with the geological condition the witness vas was a good one for the prosecution c and maintained his statements in spite of the searching se archin cross 0 s 3 s exanN examination nation of attorney zane lva wade d e will be retained on the stand st and for ome days to come |