The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1915-11-19
UTAH MAY RECOVER
MILLIONS OF ACRES
Attorney General Believes That Government
Holds Illegally Enough Coal Land to
Support Schools of State.

Now that the circuit appeals has clearly ruled that
the enabling act granting Utah statehood granted without
walton four school sections in townshpno matter whether
coal lands or noa that necessary for secure clear
title to all the millions of Of valuable in the state com
psed in these sections is to have the matter finally decided nv
the supreme court of the United States
With this accomplishment state officials are certain of
victory there well in the appeas-Uah will have
Tree OF government interference not only all the sections
whose title is in controversy but either get back from
the government all the lands away by the interior depar
mcnt in the last ten the they lands or
FAILING OF this the government make payment for them
This the school land situation at present accord
ing to Attorney General Barnes began the fight for
Utahs rights to this land and the will bring in 1907
when deputy attorney general Barnes he never felt the
situation TO be hopeful.
Determined to Clear the Matter Up
The attorney general determined that the matter shall be
cleared up as possible Hes for the fray The
peas that Of the against the Arthur
Sweet The government threatens to appeal the That
Just what Utah wants To demonstrate the eagerness which
the attorney general awaits an appeal by the government he has
card IN his hand which he asserts he will play the event
of A. T. Miller in which Miller granted coal land Castle
Gate in Carbon county The state protested the usual grounds
that the land land The in the Salt
Lake City land office in the general office the
secretary of the interior Now the being held petition
for rehearing.
get this land matter before the United States court then
shall take the Miller matter or similar directly into the
United States supreme court and in equity proceeding
enon the department of the interior from interfering with
the state of Utah in its school lands"
TO get the highest tribunal TO act in the matter Barnes
plains the magnitudeo the Sweet victory and what will
TO the state If sustained
VIII Support the Public Schools
at that Utah will have in coal lands alone enough land
millions of acres of ito support the schools without
taxation merely using the interest the derived
1T will have clear title TO land that today is worth
three hundred dollars by estimate and of which
will in ten years be worth thousand dollars
ut will either get back all the lands taken by the
government in the past will get consideration and large
one In lieu"
To demonstrate the strength Of Uahs Attorney General
Barnes quotes the syllabus of the court of appeals decision the
Sweet of the most material being follows
THE enabling act of Utah grants the lands valuable for min
erals well all other lands in Sections 2 49, 80 and 36 in each
township not expressly excepted from the grant in Section
thereof.
tain construction has place office The legal presumption is
that the legislative body meant what said and the duty Of
the courts not to amend revoke but TO give effect the enact
ment
where legislative body makes plain grant provision
tended make and it not the province of the courts
do
he grants of land to Utah for school purposes
1872 II Stat H. Chap 1872 resevng mineral lands from sale is
applicable Neither them dsquay the congress
sequenty public lands valuable for minerals for school
absolute grant"
Secretary Lynch Is Highly Elated.
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