Show ALL AIL SALINE LAND FOR UNIVERSITY Such Is Motive of Suit of State A Against Montello Salt Company SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE I Highest T Tribunal in Nation to Decide Meaning of Disputed Disputed Disputed Dis Dis- Dis- Dis Clause That acres of ot land to be bo so- so anti and located as pro l provided c and In In- In clu eluding all an saline lands in m such state arc are hereby granted to said state fo for forthe em the use of or said cr university lt What dOs does the above c mean It I Is from section S 8 of ot the Enabling act th tim till measure passed b by congress In ISOby ISO by virtue of whIch Utah was Jed em-ed to become a state Did congress Intend to give Ive the university all th the thu saline allne lands o of the state or IUd did It not 1 And even If It It did Intend to did 1 It do it Those rhose orri oro ori some of or tho the questions question which tho the Supreme Court of oC the United States Slates In all probability will have hl to decide as a result of ot the suit filed In behalf of or the state b by Attorney Gen Gen- oral cral M. M A. A against the time Montello Mon Men cUb tello Salt Palt company The first fIrt gun un In the tho battle that t will wll probably ho he finished at Washington ton P D DC C was fired at nt tho the Toot lo count county court house recently when Attorney General Breeden secured a n temporary restraining order before Judge Lewis of or the Third District court preventing the salt company from rom continuing It Its development work on the properties 1 It claims claim on tho time west eat side of or Great Grent Salt Sal lake Inke for tor the present The next gun of or the tho battle will bo hp heard November 11 iI possibly for Cor convenience sake li In Snit Salt Lake Instead of or at nt Tooele The temporary restraining order Is returnable returnable return return- able ahle then and the time com company pan Is la expected to demur to the complaint Will Iii Go ron in i Higher Court It Is stated that no matter what th time the decision Is In the tiie district and anel supreme courts of Utah the tho matter will bo he taken tak tak- en cn to the Supreme Court of or the time United States Slates For Utah it Involves the tue possession possession pos pea session of oC immense beds of salt fo for forthe or orthe the university For the salt compani it Involves the time possession of or acres acre of ot land whore where the beds of or sodium chlorIde chlor chlor- l Ide e var vary from three feet to 41 40 feet reet li In him thickness Time The company was all nil read ready to start t operations nn and expected to reap an nn immense harvest from th the property when the state In Intervened ter The company's compans contention is Is o of course that the acres granted grantee to the university should include th the saline lands filed on by the state In behalf of or that Institution In opposition opposition tion to this Attorney General Breeden points out that even construing th the clause in n the Enabling net act in tn its strictest strictest strict strict- est st sense there are arc much more than 11 acres of saline lands alone alono In Utah and therefore it would be ira- ira m- m possible to Include them all in that tha Ho Bt th that tt It y was s. s clearl l' l rIY the In l n rOI or Is s to give to to the state university all the tho saline lands In Inthe Inthe inthe the tate state In addition to the tho acres Much Suit Salt In U Utah lh The salt be beds s of or Utah are said to be several hundreds of thousand acres In extent At tho the place where the thelon Montello Mon Men tello Salt company has filed flied Its Us claims there are said to be acres with the tho salt varying in thickness from rom three to forty orty feet and so pure that tha about all that will be needed is to dig it out and ship it to tho the consumer The beds are aro valuable an anu anI Major wishes to claim them all for tor forthe forthe the state university It Is quite probable probable probable able that the matter will be taken talen befOre before before be be- fore tho Supreme court as na speedily as ns possible It Is stated that the on only question at Issue is the construction of or orthe the law that both state and the company company com corn pany arc are agreed as to the facts acts ant and that bolh both state and company are arc anxious to have the matter settled as soon as possible The Time lo Salt company compan Is composed largely of Ogden Ogden Ogden Og- Og den capitalists |