Show department MAY FIX THE PRICES DENVER colo oct I 1 the right of the department of the interior at washington to fix the price of coal lands belonging to the federal goern government ment was aas upheld by a decision of judges vande enter and lewis le is in in kopini n q handed down in the united states district court here today the decision holds that the government is not held by the price of twenty t enty dollars per acre fixed by the law of 1872 the contention of the plain tills that the departmental act of withdrawing lands from enar vas uns in excess of power was nas net sustained these withdrawal were made at the instance of president roosevelt the opi opinion niort was rendered in a suit for injunction against samuel A abbe and john J lambers both of pueblo and respectively register and receiver of the united states land office there to reb restrain train them from charging more than the minimum price for two to hundred and forty acrea acres of coal land the officials demanded from one hundred and fifteen to one hundred and thirty five dollars per acre for it thi land in question adjoins valuable c coal oat lands owned by the colorado fuel and iron company |