Show UA JL tic S lanb AND BA BOARD b 11 A R D C CALLED A alei i DOWN let fi 11 i ore department of the interior butts into selection rn avy 4 po of coal lands and withdraws many 6 hi thousands of acres K 1 hl under from G 0 V rl 1 va tra lock acting commissioner of the de do A apartment part yent ment of the tile interior the staten n board hiss been served with no tace b the federal land odice officials JS at salt stilt lako that 00 96 fieres tic ree of t government goern go eminent ment lauds of 0 e which fi in carbon and emery coun s ties nad which have bien selected by 4 tho tile state lund board aa as agricultural i lands lauds are loal lands mid and not abject 1 to approval Mp and that the selections villroe cancelled cuu celled it no appeal Is taken 01 within sixty dayd tho the instructions P pa aro ro to the effect that tho the land laud bourd must bo be noti notified fled that tho lands specified tire coal landia and are alth in to townships withdraws from rom cutry entry f flung lo cattoi or selection and are tire wl not subject to approval c the land in quest question lon nna vas nil ali select ed by the tile elate state bourd board the i air grant ais laud and find contract have been entered into between the applicant und and tho tor for tho the purchase pur chaee ot of the land from tho the bbate providing however the state Is I 1 able to w cure it title itom tho tile goat rovern ij I 1 meat went lu in tho the event of tire th of fatt t the state a title tho tile contract with taul applicant Is void and the 0 stat returns to the tile applicant the do boelt toelt which han 1 boon paid OD on the land o 0 thi rho secretary ot of tile atla tie land a board john do oray gray dizeo stated gaft luat last saturday that whilo ho tie had not W received a notice of the withdrawal of 5 t tho the lande lauds ho lie was wa of 0 the that SJ if it tho docco waa direct tram from the tie do of tho the interior that it would aj be ini and the tho state board I 1 would could probably taice tee no steps to con lou teet test tho tile dixon stated ichi further that it haa ima lx beau on tho the custom in the past for the tile state to go to po ro es ex W pease nose to withdrawals but it the app applicant lican desired to contest tho the a nse he lie hus hits bum ken allowed to use nae the slates states name though bearing the entire expense ex pease of tho tile contest tho the withdrawal of these luu lau Js jo quakes it difference lathe la the amount 1 aid to the government of approximately n toly under the various land grante tho state paya tho the but two dollars for every acres eras alt of 1 agricultural lands for lands leads mhd Koern inot t receives jn n average dollars nn an acre 01 th 1 rato rate being teu ton dollars an acre where the land I 1 N located A more than twenty miles from a railroad and twenty dollars an acre where it la is located leas less than twenty miles from a railroad so that instead of getting this title lund land for practically for agricultural lond land the tile abato in orde order to secure tho the lunda lands as in I 1 acrum or coal lands would havo have to put up ft a little over As elated stated above all of this land was selected by the state ii under the reservoir grant thero there aro are ten en other grants under tinder which the lias been ja selecting lands those these ire are the agricultural college deaf dumb asylum insane alura institute for tho the plind billera BIl nera 1 build logs reform school school of mines normal school and unit sat university grants it has ha beed the tile custom of the kapf lau board to keep the bolec eions under each of tha the dute ont granta grants about equal or tia as naci nearly ay iy eo so as possible tt Is s therefore expected that the department of tho the interior will soon be notifying tho the state board of the tha withdrawal of a large amount of lands under eacle of tho grouts rr ente so that the nt ot rece W la Is but a beginning |