Show NONE BELIEVED IT GRAZING LAND LANU tf v. Yet Men Secured Sunnyside I r Coal Mines on Such Pretexts t i COMPANY FOOTED BILLS I Time Old Residents of Carbon v 1 County Testify in Land Fraud Cases 5 I t AH AU Carbon county nun t know w that tho ho lands I acquired b by the tho Utah tah Fuel company in In n I that part of or the were sere not valuable y f for or a agricultural or grazing lands al although nl- nl through h dummies though h the company m tiled filed d on the lands Jand and called them such Ruch In suh substance tance this was the tho testimony Hi- Hi I of or two Carbon county men In th the tho federal red red- oral cal court yesterday lt wh when n tho the civil cl suit brought ht b by th the government Jo against C the fuel company UI for th the r return of ot the tho lands land I was resumed J J. J W V. Warf Wart n n. lawyer r. r prospector farmer armer and of Price r and J J. M. M cashier k I- I of the bank hanic at nt Price t testified In behalf 1 j of th the government o The Tha land Jand in question comprises th the F.- F. Sunnyside mines s and adjacent territory ru S In which it Is said thorn ro ar are large larse e deI deposits de de- de- de I 1 posits of oC coal conI The lt h Fuel compan com com- i pan d dummies to file on the thc tholand land lant and aDd I later transfer it to the tho com corn pany The land was flied filed upon as agricultural agri agri- cultural cultura and grazing la lands d hut was Wt later ater r worked for tor th the con coal coni that lies Hes In abundance beneath tho surface The government pov- pov after bringing Indictments ts against the fuel com company pan and anil others other I entered a civil JI suit to tn regain possession of or the lands landa an and to compel th the compan company to PO per for or the benefits Il It has derived ed Not Ten Ton Pet Per Cent nl A J r f W W. v. v Warf Warr was Wt inc tho nr first t witness 01 UL tile the afternoon when tho was resumed re 10 t umed and he lie tate emphatically that not 10 per cent of or tho the lands landH acquired b byth by bytho th tho fuel company compan as ns s and grazing rr lands could oud he used a as such uch It Itla Lq la the o cont contention that thet the t r coal lands ore not valuable for J or 01 agricultural purposes and Mr 1 Y rf t certainly upheld that contention In n testimony 1 Ho said ald th that t since JS tho the of S r Ii Carbon county had never ne regarded the tue 4 rl lands acquired by hy the fuel company compan as anything hut but coal lands and It was wn C common knowledge go about the coun county t that the territory r was so o broken and RO so rocky I II S I that It could be he utilized for tor neither r cattle cattie cat cat- j. j tie tle nor crops crop Und Under r a s severe erl fire cross from John 1 M. M Zane of Chicago and Ed Eel M. M U Allison 4 jr jl of Salt Lake J Mr Ir War Warf said Eald that he 1 believed He that there wa was a a. larger cr veinI eini vein ein I i i of ot co coal underlying a all of the territory in J cr mul Other Tiling p Mr 11 Allison Ulison elicited the tile Information from the witness that he I is a n. lawyer at ot Trice Mr r. r Warf said fM he had bad practiced law since he was IS years cars old had tau taught ht school for Cor 21 1 1 years and has main maln- maintained lathed on nn or office at Price for 11 Ii years cars lie He ha has taught school in West st Virginia Kentucky and nod Utah II He Ire Is 51 years yean ar old Ho tIe also testified that he is a prospector prospector pros pros- end And farmer fanner had sp spent nt t two to o years ears earsIn In the Henry mountains and md had In his younger ouner days day In West est Virginia op opened ned coal oal mines lIe He saId RaId he has been a student student stu stu- stu dent of 01 for SO 31 years He lie could v 1 not remember tho names of the thc books book on oniL iL g geology he had read and didn't oven even rey re- re cun y- y yam am at Qt law looks loks s In hi his library lie said he was very vory poor POOl nt at recalling nam names He tie 88 was a asked ked if It he ht- had talked d with government representatives e as to what ho he was Will to tn testify to to and ho Ito said he had met two government go a agents at Sun- Sun He lie volunteered to repeat the I conversation but Mr 11 Allison on didn't want wantA A Mr to hear ItI it it I Country I Very crr Hou Kough h. h Mr tIr sad sabi ho he was in in 1873 1815 with his brother Glor George e C. C Whitmore and that tho canyon had borne nome that name since then Ho tIp said that thal In In Inthe the vicinity of the Sunnyside mines In Carbon county the country is very rough and that with the the exception of or a n small draw at the tho h bottom of Whit Whit- nOR mote canyon on there thero IK Is no land Jand that could be he u l for tor grazing purposes The Tho TH re rest t of ot it is valueless for tor gras gruz- mr int he hl said The Thc government Jo Is trying to provo prove that anyone arone who flied filed a 1 claim on the coal lands land must have hR known from a I cursory jur tur or ory Inspection llon that it was valueless I I- I for grazing or agricultural purposes al although al- al tho 1 though h when the tho fIlings were made mac tholand tho r t land was called grazing and a tural tura land Later of ot cou course o. o it was tr transferred to the Utah Fuel company which had Stood tood th the cost ost of filing and patenting and became valuable only as asI I coal Mal lands |