| Show UTAH ur AH APPEALS Oil LAND AND CASE State May Lose Areas I Under Which Oil Shale Lies SALT LAKE July 28 The 28 The question of whether or not oil shale shalo can be held to hive have e been kno known n mIneraI land at the time the th states state's title to such lands as ar a school would could have hate attached un- un unless unless un unless less the they were sere kno known knon n to ha have e such mineral minerai content Is ll one on which the tate state of ot has ha taken on appeal to the th commissioner of the United States Slates land lanel office at ton The tendency of Interior depart deput- department department I ment and federal court has lleen been to hold that unless the mineral content of ot lands Is Iq known n to exist elst In such auch quantities as to be commercially valuable It ll Is not mineral land within the th means mean of the aCts arts resen reserving Ing mineral lands land to the United States Slates When hen the land Is without known n mineral minerai content four sections of ot each to township ut the time o of filing o of the plat ot of the federal sun survey e automatically go goto goto soto to the tir stale stat tate Recently the receiver er of ot the th Ye- Ye nil Ve nal land office decided a a claim of the Watson Oil compan company adversely to the th protest of ot the state of Utah Ut Friday r the tale state al appealed from that decision to the commissioner ner r for tor- former mer foi-mer mer Go Governor ern or William Spry A favorable fa decision to the state staton on such an l u would clear Lytle to an Immense t amou of land In eastern Utah now claimed by the state slate or by successors successor In Interest of the th state tato On the th other hand If It Is la held that the oil un- un under un der Ing thousands thousand of acres In that section and known n as a s a matter of geology to be present there are to tobe tobe tobe be classed at a kno known knon n mineral lands there Is an Immense area of the th rich basin lands landl on which the school land grant rant of ot the federal Co government eminent will trill be b held lel 1 Ineffective tive 00 |
