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Show WAThlt urciKiov m nivi:s II. Till: ATTOHNKY (II.M.ILMj An opinion of tho attorney general' office, which la deemed to be of con nldcrable Importance lo the. utate and lti HChool a)Htcni, waa given laat Hat unlay lo Oeorgo K. Mcfionagle, Mate engineer It la to the effect that when n aprlng rlm-a on n. itato aihool land rettlon and tho water alnka before reaching tho boundary of the aectlon, the water may not be appropriated a public water, O. C. Ualby, aMlntant attorney general, holds In partt ' Wo am of the opinion that the law applicable ap-plicable to Individual land ownera re Mpectlng yprlnga of thla character ahould nppl) with equal fnrco to land owned by the atate of Utah The federal law In our Judgment could not nppl) In audi land for the reaaon that the title haa clearly pamied frem the government unto the atate. Wa think for that reaeon that them could be no dlntlnctun In tho application of the taw between land owned by the rtnle and that of private Individuals and tho Mtnle ahould not ho made to Miiffi r In the depn elation of ItM landM b) allowing n prlvatn npproprlator to file upon it aprliig, the watcra of which (lo not liana br)ond the bounilarltM of the Niib-dlvlnlnn In whkh the Maine Iiiim ItM Muurte |