Show r r 1 TO UNIVERSITY Of utAH BY BY A COURT DECISION Saline Lands to State forS f for r rI Supreme Tribunal of Utah S University's Benefit BEnefi but Slit SIt Company Will wm Take I I th th tha Case Higher Holding that all the saline lands lauds of Utah are arc the tile of Df the state tc for th the benefit of the University of Utah the Supreme Su Su- preme preBle courtS court handed handed down down lown Fri Friday ay one of the most important decisions in recent v years ars written Justice D. D Newton l This opinion ws S by it n lIT hu 1 J iT W. W I v. v M. M ti 1 McCarty add nirl Justice T J. J V VU Sw S.w. UI Lii v IL j n. n in affirming the judgment of E. E Frick Friek The decision came Judge T. T D. D Lewis in the tile Third Thir district court in the suit of the state of Utah a against the 1 Salt company of Ogden W. W Yo Y D. D a regent of or the University Uni Uni- i- i who v argued the case ease will take talo the matt matter l' l before the Supreme court of the this Union If the salt company Intends to take lako the case higher V. IV IVL I L. L Mag Map of or Ogden attorney forthe for forthe I the Salt company compan said Friday Fri Fri- Friday day tay evening ening that the the company would certainly take tako the matter before tio to Supreme court of or United the States From Prom prospects made 1 by the Montello Salt company uy and others on the thc desert the field of saline s. land lant Is 15 known to tobe be at least 60 O miles square or covering square quare miles milca The salt deposits are not nor found on tho the surface b m or a sand ranging from a few ew Inches inches to to about I Ia a foot Coot are fo found deposits of or almost pure salt deposits range in depth from three reel feet to 0 H 1 or or 20 feet It has been heen estimated by experts ex ex- ex- ex that there are at least 7 tons of salt buried burle there thero In Tooele county deposits which have lain there for Cor ages unknown until It was WIlS found through prospectors from Crom Ogden who found the deposits pooled their holdings and formed the tho capitalization capitali Montello Salt Sail company at a C of or Attorney General M SI A A. took the first steps In tho the matter maller an and procured an un Injunction against the company compan from Crom torn Jud Judge e T. T D. D Lewis restraining lt it from mining any of or the salt for or shipment The decision If tr sustained means that this treasure hidden In the thc gr ground und by nature probably caused by retrogression retrogression-of lon ot of the waters of or the tho tho Great Greot Salt lake lako hundreds of years ago will bring in the neighborhood of oS to tho University of ot Utah How lIow much more more than that cannot bo bl known until tho field has been worked for Cor decades The Tho saline laud land Is claimed by the state of ot Utah Ulah through section 8 S of s the act which admitted 1 Utah to the Union n of at states The portion thC 1 u on Oil n t Eight i I MILLIONS TO UNIVERSITY BY COURT DECISION f 4 Ci Continued front run IM I'M HO One I of the section over ovel which tho fight is made 1 is t s follows That in iii il addition to the tho tO above e I ii- ii Out OUI aero e Here of land hind to bo be selected and loc located I as 1 I provided 1 hI cd In the tite foregoing oln C oh of this net act and amid Including all al tin tile lands in said paid state t arc 31 I to 0 uld suite state for the lie theu u o of or said l a ri ami acres cres s for the u u- u uc us-c c of or nn nit agricultural college therein Counsel for 01 the tho Montello company admitted that there were acl acres of oC saline lan lands s in Tooele count county which the they claimed but that at the time orthe of or the time approval of or tho the enabling act the time time character of this lan land wa was waa not known kown o oln owing ln to the covering covering of san sand and rind that their thol real ral character was not known until November 1906 and ant ant that the tho state elate received grants grants' to the time full ful amount of o acres granted under the time enabling act and anti that the saUna saline lands in III question queston not Intended In In- In tended ed as a part of tho the grant Claim Saline SaIne Lands Thc They claimed that tut the saline lands lunds belonged to tho the company through locations made by Its grantors a asaline as saline lands under the placer laws ortho of or tho time United States The light of tae Montello Salt Sal company compan was that congress intended that the tho state should have 1 acres of ln land forthe for forthe forthe the University of or Utah which was to Include e certain cerain saline sUne lands the tho extent ex ex- tent of which whelm were not known at that time Par Particular cular stress was placed place upon tIme the wor word and In t the section of or the enabling act where tho the state Is given acres of land an and including gIvon all ul the saline lne lands of ot the state The attorneys for 10 the company hol hold that the wor word and is meaningless and should be stricken out out Justice holds that the time word and n d Js 1 s i n i ot or U io to ino thU 1 I There here are about persons persons n 1 affected aft af- af 1 t by br the tIme opinion opinion- most of themI them I from froni Ogden who ho originally located upon tho the lan land and amid then formed the I I Montello company compan Time The lan land inI in question lies s le near ner the time state hue lino between between between be be- I tween Utah and Nevada a |