| Show SWEET LAND CASE LEADS TO FURTHER F III HER ACTION TO SETTLE 6 TITLE QUESTIONS ta interest has again been io in the he sweet land nae by action of the state land board in for urther further legal battle to settle titta to alleged coal deposits the sweet case involves c section of land nei near r hiawatha in speaking of ane proposed action altion the tribune says assuming a position that the de recently rendered by the united states supreme court in the sweet land case does not deprive the state of utah of tha thousands of acres 0 of valuable coal landrt section not known io to 0 e suca on t 1806 1896 the state land board nard is preparing to institute action through the legislature legisa ture for a presentation of facts fact s to congress which if successful f ul w will I 1 11 permanently permanently confirm the states title to these lands as well as confirm the rights of those per i sons who have purchased such land 1 from the state in the past the land board proposes to ask the state legislature at the romina coming ses t sion to take such action as will re to I 1 cult suit in the sending of qualified men to washington to lay before congress all the facts in the present versy for the purpose of haying title definitely fixed so that la in future there may be ro cloud upon the titio of lands disposed of by the state prior to january 4 1806 the suggestions of the state land commissioners contained hi tiie tue re I 1 port to the governor rave tave forced upon all state officials the fat that a need has arisen for the heartiest co operation between all of the publio public land states of ibe the west if definite and assured titles and land rights are io lo be bd obtained recommendations therefore nava hava come out of the attitude of the state land board for the calling of a general conference of the attorneys general of each of the twenty six states in I 1 rested should such a conference be determined on ill the details of the mattery matter ar at issue wilt will be thur hughly threshed out with the pur pose of devising A program of action to brine about the relief required misunderstanding of the f facts lets is in he sweet haid I 1 P d case bai has led many persons including attorneys to be lieve that it applied to all albal wal lands the facts are however that the see section of land involved in this action which h started in the state supreme coart aid was decided adversely to t I 1 the defendant and later taken to the c circuit auit cobit of appeals in st paul w which ich reversed the state courts da de e casion aion and then finally to the united sats slates supreme apsit it which sustained us the utah aate state tribunal lay on each eido side of 0 f a banyon in ahyou canyon the at outcrop showed plainly on both sides and upon which outcrop a tunnel ald been run and Z commercial coal extracted prior to statehood t under the enabling act according tt to students of land lard law utah was g granted ranted for the benefit of its public s bools sections 2 16 10 32 and 36 in a i townships there Ts bo pov islon it 1 the enabling me set expressly tesero ing minerals from ine grant on january 28 1918 however in the case of the united states against sweet the united states supreme court deela decided d that the land grant of the B state tate of utah did not carry arth it lands known to be valuable foi mineral or coal at the time the states right would attach if at al at in other futher words the grant of ot lands to utah stood on the same footing as th ahw respective land grants to other western states se f that the states right to school sec aris depends upon the known character 0 of a ane land when rutih ut th became a state on jan uary 4 1890 as to lands than sur but keyed As regards lands surveyed at a later date the grant etkes effect ns as of the date approved it Is a estimated that there are fully of these school lands tb that at according to geologists and ul mineral expert experts are underbid with large and commercial deposits of valuable coal goal summing up loe lne sweet case in its decision at st paul reversing ye ahe the of the state supreme court the judge of the circuit court of ap peals made the following statement found in th tb federal refuter Re puter in the year 1004 1904 the state of utah contracted to sell section 32 in tooru 15 range 8 last of salt falt like 1 meridian to george T badger badgero who assigned his to angur an hup A sweet in 1900 sweet paid the state foi the land and was demand lug big ted when in 1907 the united states brought brou ful this suit again against hir bira lo 10 quiet the title in itself on the ground nat the section was well known coal land when thu state was admitted into the union and for that reason never red r wed to the state |
