Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1909 — FUEL COMPANY SURRENDERS [ARTICLE]

FUEL COMPANY SURRENDERS

Agrees to Pay $73,000, Forfeit $14,480 and Return Lands. Washington, July 27. Promising new prosecutions If further investigations show that other coal lands have been Illegally acquired, Attorney General Wickersham has discontinued the equity suits recently instituted against the Utah Fuel company to annul title to 800 acres of coal lands In Utah, valued at $40,000. The discontinuance Is made In view of the company’s agreement to pay the government $73,000, reconvey the 800 acres to the United States and forfeit $14,400 paid to the goverpment when the patents w'ere issued on the land. The fuel company Is a subsidiary corporation of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad.