Show COAL lANDS IN WYOMING ARE RESTORED TO PUBLIC DOMAIN I I i I I Washington July Tul 21 ment was made today that thal the tho department depart ment of the tho Interior hn has just classified a as coal land anti restored to the pub public lie lic domain certain lands In the Evanston land district Wyoming fixing the tho price for disposal of the tracts there thore In some cases lR as high as per acre This land contins con tins one or of the finest coal veins In Inthe inthe the wet west rho Iho track was Included In the lands landa Involved In what was tas known as the tho Horse Thief canyon can on case caBO Investigation some ago aso by special agents of the department ills that thaI the tho title tp lp much of the tho I II Imo mo coal In J in iba pa parr t tI of V bad 1111 1 u J Crom rout I the government through a system or of alleged fraudulent operations and suit was instituted against the paten patentees lees to recover the lands Finally the ants recovered lire tho lands to the gO gov paying about for Cor co coal 1 extracted ext This is IN a striking instance of r suits obtained through made mado by Iho ho special force of oC ofin In the tho statement nt today and th the pol policy icy of disposing of tho ho public In ti containing coal at prices based ninon their Intrinsic alue for coal Under fornier of dis disposing posing pOling of cool coal lands lands were subject tp sell ut HO and O per acre on Page FIve fie COAL LANDS IN WYOMING RESTORED I Continued from Page pase One or total price for the township If sold at the maximum price Al the tho now fixed tile the lands In iii this township are arc worth Sl or oran oran an Increase of over above aboyo the former prIce During Juno June last coal lands which had been boen withdrawn were vere antI to entry the loal lion or of which amounted to lo At Al the tho old Prices these lands were worth Increase of approximately over oyer the old pric Since about sixty per cent of these lands are subject to disposal h by the government at al the tho prices fixed the revenue derIved will be beabout about aboul In of what it il would have hac been under the former policy |