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Show FEDERAL RULINO OPENS UP BIO TRACT OF COAL LANDS AIniiiI two hundred nnd eight.v acres of valuable coal lands to tho (lumil-son (lumil-son Valley on it branch of the Denver Den-ver and Itio fl ramie will be mined in the near future ns n result of a decision deci-sion handed down by Commissioner Clay Tallmau of the general land office of-fice at Washington, I). C, this week. Tho decision is in Ihe case of O. 11. nerglund nnd one I.udvig I.mhlgwm ngntiiHt (leorge V. Livingston nnd Oeorge W. Ivory in which Commissioner Commis-sioner Tnlluuiu upholds the decision rendered bv Itogistcr (lould II. Mink- cloy of tho .Salt I.ake City land office in rejecting the former's protest of the purchase of these coal lauds by tho latter. The lands located as they are within a short diiitame from a railroad tin a tributary of Saliun Creek are regarded as extremely valuable valu-able nnd have been in dispute lor several .umrs wst Situ u 1010 largo quantities of coal has lit on miiitd from Hit) extensive tloxwits by the farmers of the (luunisou Vallov, After several attempts had heu inn tie to secure se-cure its piircliiiMi I rum the government govern-ment the contestants in the ease filed a detlarator.v statement in September, Septem-ber, staling thev had been in possesion posse-sion coutinuoiul,v sime August, 1017. On November 3, 1017, Livingston ami Ivor.v, tho contw.tei.ts, filed u do-laralory do-laralory statement alleging they had besn in iMMtsussiuu sinte Uetoher U0, 1017 Sime that time they had ex-ponded ex-ponded funds and labor in the development de-velopment of the ilaim and later applied ap-plied ior its puitliase, J, lithium and Kergluud then tiled a protest claiming prior oaeiou. lleglster lilakeley, after several da.vs hearing in which it was tl with tl that the protest of Ludvigftou and Ilerglund claiming prior )iommiou hud been made without with-out grounds, handed down it decision upholding tho eontestee right of purchase. pur-chase. It is thought in view of the viiluo of the laud the ease will be appealed by Ilorglund nnd Ludvigson to tho secretary of Iho iulenor. The location of the laud is Lot 4 eastern half of tho southwest half and tho southeast qunrtor of See. 7, Twp. 22 South, Hnugo (I Knst, |