The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-16
COAL PURCHASES
ROUSE UNCLE SAM
Government Officials Investigate Re-
cent Filings In Salina Canyon.
CONFLICTING STORIES TOLD
NAME OF UTAH FUEL COMPANY
is BROUGHT IN.

NAM 2 Or u All FUEL SOmFRNf
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= Both the special agents Of the ?
= interior department in Utah who ?
= have shown activity in ferreting
, out the coal land frauds i'm Titan
y have been called Off by their SUI =
y periOrs-
, Colonel Percy Sewers has been
y laid off for six months Colonel
y Sewers was commander of Presi- =
y dent McKiuley's regiment i'm the >
> civil war and was given has ap-
pOintment by Mckinley. II Is
y understood that not long ago he
y filed with the interior department p
y evidence against one of the men =
p connected with the Utah Fuel COM =
y pany. He Is known 10 have
y shown interest in the coal land ?
p frauds and TO have been securing
p evidence.
y II. X. Love. the other agent in .
y Utah who has been investigating
= the coal land entries IN Carbon
= county ard in Saline canyon. was p
y yesterday ordered transferred 90 =
y Alaska.
= This removes from the field the y
= only special agents who nave
y shown disposition 20 probe the =
= coal land frauds
= EDERAL authorities are now in
vestigating numerous filings made
on coal lands especially I'm Sewer
county. Utah. on the understanding
that although made by private iudivid-
uaIs they were in reality made in the
interest of the Utah Fuel company.
1 Conditions in Utah, il is stated. are not
/ radically different from the maIodorous
conditions in Oregon There Is great
/ uneastn in this city among those who
1 have been making these dummy nj
/ ings- They dread especially the pub
Hcity threatened by the coming inVes-
I tigatjon.
} Almost without exception the men
who have been making these filings IN
! sist that they acted Independently; that
} there was no collision between them
/ and the Utah Fuel company. that they
| fled on the land as a private enter
! prise. that they paid for il with their
own money, and that If they sold the
( land at all they sold II because they
/ saw a nice profit in the transaction
/ They resent with indignation any hint
1 that they have been acting as stool
! pigeons for the corporation that has
been gODbling Up all the valuable coal
4 land in the state. and they assume an
! air of injured innocence that IS the ell
I max of fine art.
3 Stfat.ee az, K I'D g. seem. most a. .'--=a
men who have gone into this industry
/ are unable TO give description OF the
! land upon which they have filed. Not
/ one Of them thus far found is in A pO-
/ siriOu 10 furnish a deed to the property
/ should il be purchased by any one out
/ side of the Utah Fuel company, while
/ the legal transactions took place in the
( office of Major w H Bird. attorney for
! the company
Sudbury Throws Some Light
( The mode of operation in the COB
. bling up of these lands by the corpora
i ton mentioned - explained by samuel
/ G. sudbury. who was one of party
/ who went down to Salina about the LIST
/ Of March Mr.. Sudbury was reluctant
! TO talk. II was only after the most per
I SiStent urging that he finally consented
/ to tell some portions OF his story He
said he had no direct knowledge that
4 he was acting for the Utah Fuel COM
( pany but that he was satisfied in his
own mind that such was the case He
( said. in part:
to me and asked me if I would like 10
/ make an entry on some coal land He
| said If / would make a filing that the
| Utah Fuel company would pay my eN-
peuses. give me $50 bonus and pay me
| 50 day for the time L spent in making
/ the filing
some DAYS later this friend came to
! me again and introduced me to a Mr.
Foster. Mr.. Foster gave me S25 to he
/ used i'm paving my expenses. Out OF
( this I was told to purchase a ticket 70
| Sanna and return and take a receipt
for the amount This receipt I gave to
Foster.
when I boarded the train for Salina
found four others going on the same
erraud as myself These were Arthur
Moore. George Moore, Howard o. Young
and MarCelIus Snow. When We reached
Salina we went I'D into the canyon in
a rig furnished, / believe. by George
Moore. We camDed at night ten miles
up the canyon The next day We went
twenty miles further and remained
there Till the next day From there we
went to the divide where the coal lands
are located. and looked at the coal
| holes we were expected TO file upon.
Moore Pays the Bills
These holes were about eight feet
, high FIVE feet wide and from twelve TO
: | twenty feet long. After inspecting the
holes we returned to Salt Lake In
: coming back from the canyon the party
| | stopped over night at hotel and
George Moore paid the bill. He was
looked upon as the paymaster for the
: entire party.
a few days after our return TO Sal;
Lake my friend met me again and told
| me / was to go to William H Bird and
| make my coal entry I went with my
| friend 10 Major Birds office. He said
I understand. Mr. Sudbury, thai
I you wish to make a coal entry
80 Yes. sir. / do, I said
Major Bird then produced three doc
uments-an affidavit, a quit-Claim deeC
and mortgage These he asked me q
sign I signed the affidavit OF entry. bu
declined to sign the mortgage until
was assured that I was not laying my
, self liable. Then I signed the mortgag
and agreed to sign the quit-claim dee,
7 at my home in Brighton the followin,
day
When I visited Birds office this frs
time these papers were all drawn u
| without any direction from me. I CAV
s him no description OF the land, and IL
/ instructions as 10 how to draw up tn
. papers After I had signed the AFFIDAVIT
p and mortgage Major Bird told me hi
e charges would be $50. L gave him s.
and he gave me a receipt for the sum
= This $50 had been handed me by m
- / friend
e The next day Mr.. Foster called a