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Show SJUM LANDS IN STATE J UTAH .Attorney General Barnes is in receipt re-ceipt of a transcript of the record' from the clerk of the supreme court j of the United States In the case on appeal of tho Montello Salt company. I plaintiff in error, and the State of Utah. This case, which Involves all the saline lands along the Western Pacific in this state and virtually to the Nevada line, was decided In the district court and state supreme court here in favor of the State of Utah. The suit was originally brought by tho State of Utah agalust the Moiuello Salt company, the state claiming that the lands in question belonged to the state university and Agricultural college col-lege for educational purposes, this under un-der the state enabling act. The Mon-tello Mon-tello company, which represents some 1,500 original owners of saline claims, avers that the state has no right to tho saline lands that salt lands cannot can-not go to the state. |