Show WANT WAR TA TO PROTECT PROTE CT TITLE HILL TO 10 SCHOOL utah will leave no tone stone unturned to induce the ho cd ed state states senate to enact the smoot lill WI 40 designed aed to clarify the state tat titu ta lands granted for tho the aid of state schools till this was wa an bounced monday after a be tween gov charles it R mabey maher attorney general harvey it 11 cluff anil and john T state land commissioner it wa was decided that mr duff cluff would go aa washington this week to confer with the utah congressional delegation and other official to promote early en ell ailment of the bill vill the attorney ron gen cral considers eone idere tho the most thing before the tate state today to be the tion df the lands granted under tte 1140 en ell ibling act for the of tsi t schools the department of the interior by insisting on the principle of geological deduction force forces the tate state to prove eon con clu Jual elly cly that all state school land see ec eions pro not known to be mineral in a character at the time survey was corn com pitted mr ur cluff aid said chis virtu ally is impossible and will in the end tend to deprive thie this elate state of all lands which possibly might prove at some fu ture date to bo be valuable for mineral a do poi t kuung Is swooping under the laws granting four see eions namely 2 16 33 32 ano 36 of every township to tha the state acht schools title to land lana known to bo be of ini mineral character at the time of survey ia Is reserved reer ved to the government the department of the in horlor mr lit cluff said has rul ruled ad that tha land lands which may mar be adjudged minera mineral by geological inference come under this provi provision slon benator nater iteen smoot tn in fie te last session of congress eon grese whit wm wits known ae as acusta bill provid providing inq that where a grant ot of lands la in placa 1 has ban heretofore been made or moy here after bo be made to any state in aid of 0 public schools eb oolf the bovet lor 0 of any luck sta stately teay cause to bo be listed with the secret of or the interior any see ec t oils on or arts of ot designated in ti tie a grant gr nt and jid it ahall be the cluty of the stoin eer olary tp llie tle interior to issue patent to 11 tho tate late 1 in further assurance of title of all 11 II tracts thus listed not ex changed for noer landa lands of toe the united state states and aund found to be of a character granted and free from valid adverse blaim t thu tho when the th krisht of the attach provided that noth ing herein contained ahall shall be to 10 con aa as to postpone the eliho of at tach ment of af the grant of uch such lande lands under the law Vi existent latent at the time the states law attached th thereto oreto if it has attached nor to deprive any court of it may now have to deter auy u controversy which may arise touching tho the of the state or any of its assignees 3 to any such land isail section S 2 of the act would provide that where lauds lands so granted have been purchased Pd ia in good faith train from any state and are found by courts to have been af a known mineral character at the time the title would have otherwise at the ahall have a right to a confirmatory upon payment of 1 25 per acre in ease the or r of the land leadres le alres patent without th the a remer reservation of mineral rights ho he may purchase them at the appraised value one halt of money moneys so received ahall shall be paid to tho state wherein the landa lands are located and the balance shall be usel for the reclamation fund 4 the bill was passed in the tie senate last april 02 but with the adjournment of congress ong rejas was allowed to lie die |