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Show PROTESTS OF STATE ARE NOT ALLOWED Salt Lake, Nov. 14 Decisions which disallow the protests of the state of Utah against three Important mineral claims were made by the register and receiver of the local United States land office yesterday. All of the protests were against the claims of Peter R. Bradley et al The firrU one involves mineral application applica-tion No 09415 for the Mohawk and othrr lodes. The second one in olves application No. 09414 for tho Piocho lode The third Involves ap plication No 09411 for tho Winnemucca Winne-mucca and Flat Head lodes In each protest, the state charges that the lodes referred to were located lo-cated on a 6chool section, the tltlf to which ik vested In the state of Utah absolutelv and without reserve. It Is also charged that at the time of tho final approval of tho public survey, the lands were not and are not now known to bo mineral lands or valuable for the mineral contained therein. The evidence which led the register and receiver to dismiss the protests of the state was presented by a witness wit-ness whose narno is given as Rlchter In the decision It Is stated that Rich-ter Rich-ter Is known to be a man of expcrl ence in mining ann mineraiug) auu that he has had considerable technical techni-cal knowledge on tho subject In his testimony it appears that he went to I h s claims for the purpose of prospecting pros-pecting for a supposed coal eln In 1KR9 that hp found a vein to be there; that he located two claims In the locality himself, but that he made no public announcement that the eln was a valuable vein of phos phate for the reason that he wished to profit himself by an exploitation of the lands. Tho testimony of the staff as presented pre-sented b Attorney General A R Ramos was as follows: Ry the enabling en-abling act under which the state of Utah camo into the union, It was granted the iitir- to and became vested vest-ed with tho tltlf to the sections under un-der protost, without reservation regardless re-gardless of whether any of the lands were known to be valuable, for the minerals which they are said to contain con-tain Thr attorney peneral also argiipd from thp testimony of William Rex and Alfred If. Bowker, who were the first witnpsses called in the case. Rex and F.ov. ker testified that although they knew the mineral character of rho lode or lodes which traversed the land In riuestion they did not know iIip e. a i i value of mineral contained con-tained therein. The register and receiver ordered that thp application of the protesteo for patent be allowed subject to further fur-ther compliance with the law |