Show TO mm OF UTH decision As to lands in carbon county rendered through a concurrent decision rendered last saturday by the register and receiver of the united states land office in salt lake city the state of utah is richer by about seventy five thousand dollars aej unless the government government appeals to the commissioner lioner of the general land office at washington the states right of selection to about a thousand of valuable lands in carbon county is established in 1904 the state made selections of government lands in barbon county for land for a deaf and dumb institution sti ution for reservation purposes and an insane asylum although as early as 1878 the surveyor burve general filed a plat of the lands in controversy designating them as mineral lands the state made the selections upon the basis that the lands so selected were and were grazing or agricultural lands again in 1907 the lands chosen by the state in carbon county were classified as coal lands by the united states geological survey and valued at fifty dollars an acre april 19 1909 the government sought to ct et aside the selections made by the state and commenced suit against the state the case hab u been pending for a year before the register and receiver re ceier of the salt lake city land office during which time a number of witnesses and experts aa to the character of the land have been examined it is presumed that the finding in favor of the state th that at the tile land selected is is and non coal lands vv N as made largely upon the opinion of joseph A taft taff a geologist connected with A ith the department the finding of the register and receiver was to the effect that while the lands selected in carbon county by the state were N ere in a coal region coal did not exist to such an all extent that it could be mined at a profit and that the land had more value for grazing and agricultural pur posea since the state made its se lection the land has increased in I 1 value alue about 25 per cant |