Show COAL LANDS WITHDRAWN FROM ENTRY FOR AWHILE government lovern ment investigating some alleged crooked transactions the action of the secretary 0 the in tenor in withdrawing all unoccupied coal lands of utah from entry for the present largely affects emery county tor for the reason that our vast coal depos its must ever be the magnet to attract transportation companies this way and any nay action deferring their occupation and opening up by transportation companies compact en causes cold chills to pip and down dow the spinal column of all citi cill zene zens rho secretary e order practically includes all the coal land in this county for the reason that the oc on copied land is but a it mere more bagatelle the order does oot not mean that coal mining however shall cease hence there will be no coal famine here or elsewhere in the state this action follows some past invest gation and prec proceeds eeds a more thorough in i vesti gation into the manner by which the utah fuel company haa has acquired title to a vast amount of coal land in carbon and emery counties legal action charging this company and its chief officers with fraud has been filed flied and it would seem that the government intends to send some of its heavyweight attorneys from the depart went mentor of justice out here to take a fall out of the fuel company it possible the members of the former state land board at the head of which was gover guyer rat reber M wells are also indicted al so hora orange seely of jos eph seely seey a an n armost dm at sl 0 tho the T twell awell A f tami a mi iv these local part parties leg at are a charged collusion with the fuel uel company in se curing patents to the Sunn coal mines they having first filed upon same applied for and obtained patent to the lands and then sold same to the pleas ant valley coal r tor for the bomin al sum of 1 per claim the members of at the land board are charged with selling coal land as agrical tural land and titles to such land in huntington and cottonwood arft arri affected by these charges A great many pending entries to huntington cottonwood ferron perron emery and salma salina canyons coal lands are tied up by this in the government will undoubtedly cen con ter its fight on the sunni Sun neide side coal en so tries and should the t uel company lose out there it will receive a eolar solar plexus blow coal mining operations will go on in the meantime and no one appears to be worrying much about what may happen the suits ere are ail all of a it civil character as all criminal action is barred by the statute of limitation robert forester the fuel company a geologist and who acted as agent and as an attorney in tact fact between those who filed upon the land in dispute and the fuel company spent monday morning at the courthouse in is Cast ledale looking over patent records he dian didn t appear to be greatly perturbed notwithstanding 9 Att attorney orue genera general moody makes ot at him a star in the galaxy of high degree deafen danta danto |