Show SUT sutherlands HERLANDS BILL IS KILLED IN COMMITTEE attorney W L maginnis as aa counselor of the Alon montello tello salt company a concern that has many local stockholders and which was organized to develop a vast tract of salt land in toselo county received a message from washington that the senate committee on public lands had decided against tl tle e sutherland interpretation bill and withdrawn Ms lits measure on the request of senator sutherland the senate committee on public lands decided to postpone action on the senators bill turning over to the state of utah ulan all the saline lands in that state until after the determination of an ejectment suit brought by the state against locators on these lands land the state base ys claim to all the salt lands within its borders upon tipon the terms of the act admitting utah to statehood the contention is made on tho other hand that thai the grant was intended to bo be limited to acres whether of saline lands or not acting upon the latter theory about 1900 persons have located salt lands in the western part of the state senator Sut sutherland herlands bill contemplates the abandonment of all claims by the government govern mont in the interest of the state but under the agreement reached today action by the congress will wait avalt upon the determination of 0 the question by the utah coarts and existing statutes the bill was kas introduced by sutherland in order that the utah enabling act might read in favor of the university to which institution was given acres of arid land in the state through a section that was not clear as to the disposition to be made of saline lands it wea wag held by the university that it was tho the intention of the government to give to the institution all salino saline lands in utah but the salt bait company maintained that the tract of acres was all that the enabling act meant to set aside ide for the u use of the ahe school the salt beds bede for which tle the fight has been made are crossed by tho the western pacific the presence of salt la in largo large quantities was discovered by laborers on the road some acres were taken up as placer claims and the Alon montello tello salt company formed to develop the salt industry it has been estimated that tho the land la Is worth as the salt Is pure Is near the railroad and can be sacked at small cost |