Show SCHOOL LANDS Bill MADE r ADE LAW Jubilant When Long Fight Comes To 10 Close Jan WASHINGTON Jan 26 The 26 Th bill quieting the title of western states to their school lands wes WalS signed late Tuesday by b- President nt Coolidge At the tho White louse House offIce were Senator Smoot Rep Representatives es Colton and ond Leather Leather- Leatherwood wood Leather wood and W Hal Farr deputy attorn attorney e general all of Utah and Senator Jones of New v e Mexico The president presented the tho pel pelt to Mr Ir Farr Senator King KinK ef cf Utah who opposed certain pro pro- provisions provisIons provisions visions of the bill was not there Representative Colton who more than anyone any one man has ha waged the tight fight for tor this legisla legisla- legislation then tion told the tho president he reo re- regarded re regarded i this bill as the mot most mo t Im- Im Important important Im Important measure for tor the benefit of the west that has hIlS passed p coil coil- con COli congress gress In a decade Senator Smoot said the bill wi wiil convey to the states lands which have ho been estimated roughly u as asworth asworth worth and there wa was wa-sno wa no estimating what the states Blates will derive from royalties on oil coil cOli and other minerals which may maybe maybe be developed hereafter und r state leases |