Show MORE ABOUT COAL LANDS some things be being ing said about recent cases lands at the head of salina canyon are mixed in controversy some figures in the case A couple of weeks tince thi re was grat gral rejoicing over the victory which hiell the government goern ment had in the prosecution of the alleged coal land frauds and the pi merit of ly 1 y th the utah I 1 ruel uel company to the gov govern rn merit ment now NON cornes comes the silt salt lile tribune with a for lorg article tracing out the entile matter ind placing an entire entirely ay different light on the iff air the tribune Iri bune alezeb that instead of i a the government that it ws was I 1 complete N bictory for the fuel corr piny ind quotes the following on the else here is what nhat the government guern goern ment through th lh united states attorn attorney ev fo utah and the assistants issi aIsi stants sent from W ivington got out of nf the aoi oil land imd suits the figures tell the story of who won the bif vif victory tory paid caminer 8 fild atty maynird ligou paid special aft atti burch 15 paid trav traveling ling ext ex anse J paid agents 6 boio oo 00 paid i 2000 pud other expenses 59 9 OUO 10 L ind gin given en I oal coal LOIo PanN sa total ow OUO WHAT FULL COMPANY fine 8 oua paid the government lan kanj I 1 returned lo 10 ei 1400 total iota 11 14 bil in lavor laior of coil ro co 4 some of nf the lind land in question wis vas located in S ailini 1111 1 canyon or more proper 3 speaking avei the di aln I 1 c at the atad of salina canyon a dit bittance tance of about 32 miles from salmi salin I 1 tile the tribune I 1 T ies es as ad one of the reasons lor for stopping shopping the construction of the railroad rail roid up salina canon the aon blowing ol owing ing leeral Se eral bears 10 0 o when the silim branch of ti tie e rio kio gr arnie if ce western was as being built wren afen a dib tance of a little murt tint thit fifteen miles from silina construction sud danli stolpen sto ped various reasons were vere alln gim n but the tact fact remixed acm lined tint thit the building ot of the roid road was vas stopped stooped at that time the lanb and th the regulations goi eining laining coil coal lands were that no coal linds lands within N athir fifteen miles of a railroad rill roid could be aiom the government under cintr for less than pir lore acre if the linds lands were nere fifteen miles or n moie joi e dis di tint lion i aird rI rd the price ah ab sla per cre here nacre cre 1140 lores of coal lir lap ar salina salim that was is taken up it ll if L the price paid being bein fl qc ie ani tnie lind I 1 leeama ecail il liged of the ut rutih LIN rue ilic 0 oi pani lann and this land now alnert r ert lick back to the goern government ment dundei tilt thi tirma of the compromise it ib for coll coal said baid to hac blen bien bi en taken from this land thit 19 was paid b the fuel orr ivany As to the quantity tv of commercial i oal coal taken front from this pro erty experts differ when the suits in question and winch which ha hac c just been di dismissed dismiss pd by the government litre inere begun exi ei tarts erti of uncle sim started in to sho show that all I 1 ind in utah from soldier summit to the utah colorado colondo lin in id I 1 d front from vernal to tn the san it uhel ahel were coal lands land in th ih I 1 this in no olad 1 cd a vast vasi ahei of ORIKU agi tur lur LI il ind grazing land thee c cj c crab et e uni com belled to abandon their poi position tion origin illi thre there were tv o f fictions after the prop actie linds castle gatt gallic md ind sunn ide ind if demor demori memori is not it fault i PreL present nt united states state olfina ollic I 1 il s v ith one of those fictions mu if I 1 litter itt erness vial a in inifE sted uon th put of both hideg and enalin vis las nhat might be cal id d i ri adline tilt alt 1 if it N or nr v hat is now the LOMP in t one side the other fiction the other bide it is 14 with this thib litter fiction f that the federal il cited is said to have alln bt i n interested intereSt Ld B the way nay no action to accor these lindi land has been tal en by the government pov eminent Re feinne feiring to the settimi nt above thit that th it the paid b the 1 acl aci compi to the is for coal it alln from the I 1 md ind or 0 lr the divide from salina c incon must be some in tins this in mitter itter the ruel corn piny nn nian have acquarid 14 1410 10 alres of land in th thit it eniti ant and may hae ri that hit back to the but ethcie must lc lik irrol ia as to toti taking kinK coal from that land at the rate of a dollar i a ton which v litch is about the lost cost of mining minine co coil if that bould mean tons of coal no now wacie in the horld orld nv wis I 1 this coal put at the place where the coal veins are the head of S alma candon can on it would re pack animals mal to take the coil away the veins there is no means if tr for such a vast quantity of co coil 11 and the fuel company neer pretended to works the veins of coal in that vicin 2 it it lies in 1 place pl ice that WAS meant for future us use to the fuel company and no such amount of coal as alleged was ever mined by the fuel company in the veins at th head of salina bilina cannon what is the answer answers |