State ex rel. Morris v. Savidge

Petitioner alleges that he has made application, paid the fees fixed by law, and is entitled to a prospecting lease covering a certain eighty-acre tract of land belonging to the state, and that the respondent refuses to issue to him such lease without inserting therein a provision or reservation to the effect that “the state of Washington reserves . . . *672the right to sell or otherwise dispose of any and all timber and other valuable materials except the minerals which the lessee is hereby authorized to remove, with such rights and privileges for the production, use and removal thereof as may…