Show U CI A MINERS nS Imil 1111 Held Helel Mineral Cant Cont He lie faken ors or Stalo Metallurgist Lewis D. D Aubury a has receIved news of ot a ao o mineraL mineral lights which la is rot ro-r great importance to minora In California nia an and l Nevada have hav been bo n lighting bUng against I homestead so scrip rip and oth othi l land entries In a a. letter to Aubury Au Au- bury bui tho the commissioner of the tho general land laud office Fred Frederick Donnot Dennet at Aul Au- Au l burys bury's request tells of hi hU decision in Idaho whore where it was decided d that lands once Ine held to bo be mineral minerai In character cannot be taken up for an any other purpose pur pur- pose nose provided of course that tho land and w was s obtained by honest and anti legal methods Commissioner Dennet ba says bays s 's Aubury's attention is called caned to a c. I. I decision of tho the Z laud land ud department In lu a n Calif case pertinent parts of the tho decision boIng be- be Ing as follows I Tho rho duty duly of ot determining the character character char char- acter of tho the land rests upon tho the land department of which the secretary of the interior lor is the tho head a a. decision therefore of or tho the secretary that a tract tractor of or land le Is principally 1 valuable a for tOl Its mineral deposits while undisturbed is binding upon all officers of ot tho the land department anc and prevents disposition of the land In any ay other way than as pre prescribed pre pre- pre pre-I scribed by the law specifIcally authorizing authorizing author author- izing tho the salo of ot mineral lands I |