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OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT 
 
 HEARINGS J^ 
 
 BEFORE THE 
 
 COMMITTEE ON THE PUBLIC LANDS 
 
 HOUSE OF EEPRESENTATIVES 
 
 ON 
 
 H. E. 22002 
 
 CONCERNING THE OREGON AND^CALIFORNIA 
 LAND GRANT 
 
 APRIL 2, AND MAY 2, 6, 8, and 25, 1912 
 
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OEEGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GEANT. 
 
 Committee on the Public Lands, 
 
 House of Eepresentatives, 
 Washington, D. C, Tuesday, April 2, 1912. 
 
 The committee met at 8 o'clock p. m. 
 
 Present: Representatives Graham (acting chairman), Ferris, Tay- 
 lor of Colorado, Estopinal, Raker, Murray, Rubey, Fergusson. 
 
 Present also: Hon. A. W. Lafferty, Member of Congress from 
 Oregon; Hon. B. D. Townsend, Special Assistant Attorney General; 
 Mr. A. C. Dixon. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Mr. Lafferty, if you are ready, we will 
 hear your statement. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I 
 will state briefly the history of the litigation to which this bill relates. 
 On July 25, 1866, Congress passed an act granting each alternate 
 section of land for 20 miles on either side of the road to such a railroad 
 company as might thereafter be designated by the Oregon Legisla- 
 ture to build from Portland south to the California line; and to the 
 California & Oregon Railroad Co., which was already organized and 
 incorporated in tlie State of California, to build up through the Sac- 
 ramento Valley from the Central Pacific to the Oregon line. There 
 was no railroad company organized in Oregon; and this grant of 
 July 25, 1866, contained the usual requirements of all these railroad 
 grants that were made prior to that time. A very lengthy bill it 
 was, but it contained no condition requiring the company to sell the 
 lands to settlers. It did require the company to transport troops and 
 munitions of war without charge for the Government, and required 
 the company to build 20 miles of road within two years after the act 
 was passed; also requiring the company to file its assent within one 
 year after the passage of the act. 
 
 Thereafter, on October 6, 1866, the Oregon Central Railroad Co. 
 was organized at Portland, Oreg., for the purpose of becoming the 
 beneficiary of that portion of the act that referred to Oregon. The 
 act of 1866 required that the railroad company before receiving a 
 grant should be designated by the Oregon Legislature as a proper 
 company to receive the grant. 
 
 Mr. Rakek. What is the name of that company ? 
 
 Mr. "Lafferty. The Oregon Central Railroad Co.; and it was 
 designated that fall, on October 10, 1866, by the Oregon Legislature 
 as the proper company to receive the grant. Joseph Gaston, who is 
 still living in Portland, was president of that company, and he set 
 about to raise money by subscription, and started out to build a 
 road from Portland toward the California line, commencing in the 
 city of Portland but on the west side of the Willamette River. Mat- 
 ters run along for two years, until his two years had expired, and he 
 had not built 20 miles of-road and the grant had lapsed. About that 
 
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4 OREGON AND CAUFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 time a man by the name of Ben Holliday became active in ^f ?f ^^ 
 at Salem, which is the capital of the State and which ^^ ^outn oi 
 Portland 60 miles; and he organized _a railroad company tor me 
 purpose of building this road and getting this grant, and he caiiea 
 L company the Oregon Central Railroad Co., the same as the one 
 which daston organized two years earher m Pft^and. HoUiday 
 went to the legislature and persuaded the legisature to fdopta 
 resolution reciting that it thereby rescmded its action in designat^ 
 Gaston's Oregon^ Central Railroad Co No. 1 and designating Ins 
 Oregon Central Railroad Co. No. 2 as the proper company to receive 
 
 * Tfen^the matter was brought up here in Congress on April 10, 1869 
 HoUiday had come on here to Washmgton. He had not filed his 
 assent to the original grant, which did not contain these provis ons 
 requiring sales to settlers, and he could not possibly have acquired 
 title under the original grant of July 25, 1866. He came here and 
 
 ■^^Mr!^RAKER. Before you pass 'from that I would Hke to ask you a 
 question. Under the grant by the Legislature of Oregon to Caaston, 
 he filed his assent ? . j t i oc 
 
 Mr. Laffekty. Yes; Gaston filed his assent to the act ol July la, 
 1866. 
 
 Mr. Raker. And his time expired ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes. Then this resolution of June 25, 1868, ex- 
 tending the time to December 25, 1869, in which Gaston's company 
 could have completed the first 20 miles of road, was made; but 
 Holliday came here to Washington and maintained a lobby during 
 the winter of 1868-69, and on April 10, 1869, this act was passed. 
 
 Mr. Fergusson. That was before Gaston's company forfeited ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes; Gaston's Oregon Central Railroad No. 1 was 
 still in the field competing for this grant. He did not want this act 
 passed April 10, J869. He still had until December 25, 1869. Under 
 this extension of 1868, under which, if his company had completed 20 
 miles, it would have received the grant free from this provision 
 requiring sales to settlers. Therefore, Gaston did not want this act 
 of April 10, 1869, passed, but Holliday's company had to have some 
 act like this passed at Washington, because his company had not 
 been organized within a year after the passage of the act of July 25, 
 1866. So that will explain the peculiar wording of this act of April 
 10, 1869. I will read (reading) : 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of ATnerica 
 in Congress assembled, That section six of an act entitled "An act granting lands to aid 
 in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Central Pacific Railroad, in 
 California, to Portland, in Oregon," approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and 
 sixty-six, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to allow any railroad company 
 heretofore designated by the Legislature of the State of Oregon, in accordance with the 
 first section of said act, to file its assent to such act in the Department of the Interior 
 within one year from the date of the passage of this act, and such filing of its assent, 
 if done within one year from the passage hereof, shall have the same force and effect to 
 all intents and purposes as if each assent had been filed within one year after the 
 passage of said act: Provided, Tha,t nothing herein shall imi)air any r^hts heretofore 
 acquired by any railroad company under said act, nor shall said act or this amendment 
 be construed to entitle more than one company to a grant of land: And provided fur- 
 ther, That the lands granted by the act aforesaid shall be sold to actual settlers only 
 in quantities not greater than one-quarter section to one purchaser, and for a price not 
 exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per acre. 
 
 Approved, April 10, 1869. 
 
OEEGON AND CAUFOENIA LrANU GRANT. 5 
 
 It has always been my contention that if Joseph Gaston's company, 
 the Oregon Central Eailroad No. 1, had gone ahead and completed 
 the road by December 25, 1869, the time within which he had to com- 
 plete his first 20 mUes, that he would not have been bound by this 
 subsequent act, which would have been ex post facto legislation as to 
 his company, or it probably would have been an open question. But 
 this man HoIUday, of the Oregon Central Railroad No. 2, organized at 
 Salem, had not turned one bit of dirt. He simply organized a com- 
 pany down there at Salem. Therefore, before he was ever known in 
 the transaction officially, or could possibly have been known, the 
 requirement was made and engrafted upon the original act by this 
 amendment that the lands granted to the original act should be sold 
 to settlers. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Before we proceed further I would like to ask if the 
 Gaston company, under its extension to the first act, did not 
 comply 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. With either of the acts — I was just coming to that. 
 
 Mr. Raker. All right; go ahead. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. After this act of April 10, 1869, was passed, then 
 HoUiday went back to Salem and began construction work. He fin- 
 ished 20 miles of road within the period authorized by this exten- 
 sion — the Oregon Central No. 2 — but the other road that was building 
 on the west side, the first road, did not do anything that summer; 
 and then the Oregon Central No. 1, Gaston's company, abandoned its 
 project and withdrew from the field, leaving this Oregon Central No. 2 
 as the only applicant for this grant. So the grant vested in the Oregon 
 Central Railroad Co., organized at Salem, Oreg. They filed their map 
 of definite location, and the grant was made to them. They contin- 
 ued to build their road in sections of 20 miles until they finished it in 
 1887. 
 
 Shortly after this they reorganized their company at Salem, in 1870, 
 and changed the name ; they got into court as to the right to use the 
 name "Oregon Central." Judge Deady had held in a suit brought 
 by one of the stockholders of Gaston's company against Holliday's 
 that the Holliday company had no right to use the name "Oregon 
 Central," as there was already a corporation by that name in the 
 State, but Judge Deady held that a suit to enjoin Holliday's company 
 from using the name would have to be brought by the Oregon Cen- 
 tral No. 1 and not by a stockholder. So they reorganized and called 
 themselves the Oregon & California Railroad Co. 
 
 Mr. Ferguson. That was the Gaston group ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. That was the HoUiday company. 
 
 Mr. Graham. The stockholder brought the suit in his own name ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Some stockholder in Gaston's company or bond- 
 holder. So, you may consider the case from now on as if though 
 there was only one company known, because it is proved in the 
 record and admitted in the record that it was the Holliday company 
 that got the grant. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Is it not conceded in the record that the Gaston people 
 withdrew all their right ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Gaston's company withdrew from the field. The 
 Gaston people came back to Washington on May 4, 1870. This was 
 April, 1869, that this act was passed. Gaston came back and said to 
 the Oregon Senators and others — the Public Lands Committee — " I 
 
6 OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 have been knocked out of that grant for the road to the California 
 line, and I have spent some money starting a road on the west side of 
 the river. Now I have changed my plans, and I will budd a road 
 from Portland to Astoria by way of McMnnville, and I want a new 
 grant." 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Is there any claim of purchase, that the 
 HoUiday company bought or in any way got a transfer of the rights 
 of the Gaston company ? 
 
 Mr. Laffbrty. No, not directly; but I will answer that m just a 
 second. Gaston's company got this act. May 4, 1870, passed, grant- 
 ing to the Oregon Central Railroad Co. No. 1 a land grant to build a 
 road from Portland to Astoria by way of McMinnville; that is the 
 original Oregon Central Railroad Co.; you see, it continued to use 
 that name. Holhday's company reorganized under the name of the 
 Oregon & California Railroad Co. Gaston got the act of May 4, 1870, 
 passed, section 4 of which reads as follows [reading]: 
 
 Sec. 4. And be it further enacted that the said alternate sections of land granted by 
 this act, excepting only such as are necessary for the company to reserve for depots, 
 stations, sidetracks, wood yards, standing ground, and other needful uses in operating 
 the road shall be sold by the company only to actual settlers in quantities not ex- 
 ceeding one hundred and sixty acres, or a quarter section, to any one settler, and at 
 prices not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per acre. 
 
 Then Gaston went home and he started in and built his west-side 
 railroad as far as McMinnville — 47 miles — and he got a small grant 
 thereof 128,000^ acres. 
 
 It is only a drop in the bucket compared with the east-side grant. 
 He went ahead and completed his 47 mUes of road, and then this 
 Oregon & California Co., which was going ahead with the big project, 
 bought the west-side grant and the Oregon Central Railroad Co. made 
 a deed, after they had completed their little 47-mile road, to the 
 Oregon & California Co. conveying the west-side railroad to the 
 Oregon & California Railroad Co., with all of its rights, privileges, 
 and franchises thereto appertaining. This was in 1880. 
 
 In 1880 Gaston's company sold the west side to the Oregon Central 
 Railroad Co., of Salem. Now, the Oregon Central Railroad, of Salem, 
 finished its road in 1887, or the east-side grant to the California line. 
 
 They then filed applications for patents to be issued and the patents 
 that were issued onginally recited "that the President of the United 
 States hereby patents, etc., to the Oregon & California Railroad Co., 
 successor to the Oregon Central Railroad Co., under the act of July 
 25, 1866, as amended by the act of April 10, 1869," certain quantities 
 of land. It was patented in different certification lists, but it was 
 about 1895 that most of these lands were patented to the Oregon & 
 California Railroad for the east side, and the west side about the same. 
 You see, the Oregon & California Railroad Co. received all of the pat- 
 ents to both grants, because it became the successor to the west-side 
 company prior to the issue of any patents. Now, then, the Southern 
 Pacific Co. bought all of the stock in the Oregon & California Railroad 
 Co. and owns all of the stock in the company to-day, so, the South- 
 ern Pacific Co. is the real party defendant in this suit. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Is that a fact ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Ask the Interstate Commerce Commission. 
 
 Mr. Raker. I would like to have the evidence on that, because I 
 doubt the fact, and I would like to have the exact facts on the matter. 
 
OREGON AND OAUFOENIA LAND GRANT. 7 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. They have the record of it; they have to file an 
 annual report every year with the Interstate Commerce Commission. 
 
 Mr. Raker. I know; but there is a misunderstanding. There is 
 not any sale. At least that is my understanding of this. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. No land sale ? 
 
 Mr. Raker. Hold on a moment. No sale? by the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad Co. to the Southern Pacific Co., is there? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. The Southern Pacific Co. is the one I am talking 
 about, and not the Southern Pacific RaUroad Co. There is no sale 
 of the land. I saw the stock records of the Oregon & California Rail- 
 road Co. and the paper stocks are transferred to the Southern Pacific 
 Co., so the Southern Pacific Co. is really the owner of the Oregon & 
 California Railroad, but the Oregon & California Railroad Co. holds 
 now by patent 2,300,000 acres 
 
 Mr. Raker. Mr. Lafferty, I want to get the facts on that clear. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. There is no innocent purchaser as to this 2,300,009 
 acres of land. 
 
 Mr. Raker. I understood from you that the Holliday Co. sold its 
 rights to the Southern Pacific Co. ? . 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Absolutely, no. I did not say that. I said the 
 Southern Pacific Co. owns all of the stock, just like as if you would go 
 and buy so many shares of stock in the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. 
 to-day; it would not change the legal aspect of the Pennsylvania 
 Railroad. 
 
 Mr. Raker. That is not my statement. I want to get clear on it. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. You know how a man can get out of a company by 
 selling his stock ? 
 
 Mr. Raker. Listen, now. I understand that the Holliday Co. 
 sold its stock. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. No; it did not. 
 
 Mr. Raker. That the stock was sold by the Holliday Co. to the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad Co. ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. No, the Southern Pacific Co. — not the Southern 
 Pacific Railroad Co., the same corporation that holds the stock in 
 the Union Pacific Railroad Co. and the Central Pacific RaUroad Co. 
 
 Mr. Raker. The Southern Pacific Railroad Co. had not anything 
 to do with this transaction until 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. The Southern Pacific Co., the holding company for 
 the Harriman Lines. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. That is not the holding company for the Harri- 
 mans, but the holding company for the old Huntington Lines; the 
 "Big 4" — Huntington, Crocker, Stanford, and Hopkins. Then Har- 
 riman bought a controlling interest in the Southern Pacific and 
 merged it with his Union Pacific holdings, and that is what brought 
 on the present merger of the Harriman Lines. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Anyhow, this stock is now held by the Southern 
 Paciiic Co., but the Oregon & California Railroad Co. is the original 
 grantee of the Government. So, there has been absolutely no trans- 
 fer, no innocent purchaser comes in in any sense as to 2,300,000 acres 
 of unsold lands now in the hands of the Oregon & California Railroad 
 Co., but the total lands. patented under the acts aggregate 3,100,000 
 acres. 
 
 The company commenced selling contrary to and ignoring these 
 provisions both as to the east side and the west side. It sold 50,000 
 nr fin. 000 acres sometimes. 
 
8 OBEGON AND CAMPOBNIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 Mr. Tayloe of Colorado. In a body? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. In a body, at whatever price it could get. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. Just one question. I want to get this straight; it is 
 important. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. Certainly it is important. 
 
 Mr. Raker. HoUiday then sold all of his interests under the act of 
 Congress and the rights obtained through the Legislature of Oregon, 
 and that he had acquired thereunder— nghts and franchises and what 
 not — to the Oregon & California Railroad Co. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. No; you have got that wrong; absolutely wrong. 
 The Gaston Co.— that is, the Oregon Central Railroad Co.— made a deed 
 to this west-side grant to the east-side company, the Oregon & Cali- 
 fornia Railroad of Salem. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. I understand, there are two companies. First, the 
 Oregon Central Railroad Co., organized by Gaston 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. At Portland. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. And he failed on his first road between Portland and 
 Cahfomia. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. That is all right. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. That is right, now. HolUday took that up 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. In 1880. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. I do not care when. Holliday took that matter up 
 and, through the acts of the Legislature of Oregon and the acts of 
 Congress, obtained certain rights, privileges, etc., and he then trans- 
 ferred all of his rights under his company, the Oregon & California 
 Land Co. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. You have got this absolutely backward. HoLi- 
 day never transferred anything. The stock of the Oregon & California 
 Railroad Co. from time to time has been bought up by individuals. 
 As to whether HoUiday ever disposed of any share of stock he owned 
 I do not know. There was no deed made from the Oregon & Cali- 
 fornia Railroad Co. to anybody of its franchises. The Oregon & 
 California Railroad Co. is the only person — it is an artificial person — 
 recognized by law as the owner of this land grant to-day. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. Then, to make myself plain, under the Homday actions 
 and transactions the Oregon & California Railroad Co. became 
 entitled to all the rights and privileges — whatever they might be — 
 under those grants between Portland in Oregon and California. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. Yes ; that is right. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. And they never sold those rights to anybody ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. No; the Oregon & Cahfornia Railroad Co. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. Just a second. Under the original Oregon Central 
 Railroad Co. of Portland, under which Gaston manipulated, he 
 obtained the right from Portland to Astoria via McMinnville. Then 
 that company transferred aU of their franchises and rights 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. To the HoUiday Co.? 
 
 Mr. Rakee. To the Oregon & CaUfornia RaUroad Co. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. That is right, and that is where it is vested to-day. 
 
 The Acting Chaieman. But you stated it first that Gaston trans- 
 ferred his rights to the Holliday Co. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. He did. 
 
 The Acting Chaieman. Now, the HoUiday Co. was not the Oregon 
 & California Railroad Co. ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. It was reorganized and took that name. 
 
OSEGON AND CALIFOBNIA I;AND GRANT, 9 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Holliday was not in it ? 
 
 Mr. Laffertt. Yes; Holliday was in it. Holliday was practically 
 the whole company. He reorganized himself and changed his name 
 to the Oregon & California Railroad Co. immediately aftey this grant 
 was made. 
 
 Mr. Raker. The holdings, as stated in my two questions, of the 
 Oregon & California Railroad Co., so far as the company is con- 
 cerned, as a company, are still in that company ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. That is it, exactly. 
 
 Mr. Raker. And yet there has been no transfer made by the com- 
 
 gany of its rights, privileges, and franchises to the Southern Pacific 
 o.? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. No; they are maintaining this Oregon & Cahfornia 
 Railroad Co. as a separate corporation, and it is the original grantee 
 or patentee of the Government. 
 
 Mr. Raker. The Southern Pacific Co. is the lessee now 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Of the track ? 
 
 Mr. Raeer. Now, hold on a minute — of the Oregon & California 
 Railroad Co. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Of the track from the Portland & California line, 
 its lessee. 
 
 Mr. Raker. For a lease of 99 years. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Judge Raker, you do not make this clear 
 there. You are confusing between the Southern Pacific Co. and the 
 Southern Pacific Railroad Co. 
 
 Mr. Raker. I am trying to put it as definite as I can. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. They say it is not a railroad; it is a holding 
 company. 
 
 Mr. Raker. If I may get started again — I want to get tliis plain 
 for my own information. The Oregon & California Railroad Co , 
 under the rights that they obtained through the acts of Congress 
 and through the purchase of the Oregon Central Railroad Co , being 
 then the owner of all of it, whatever the rights might be, have leased 
 their road to the Southern Pacific Co ? 
 
 Mr Lafferty. Well, now, Mr. Townsend can answer that question. 
 [To Mr Townsend:] Is this lease of the track from Portland to Cali- 
 fornia to the Southern Pacific Co. or Southern Pacific Railroad Co. ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. The Southern Pacific Co 
 
 Mr. Raker. And that the Southern Pacific Co is the holding com- 
 pany of the stock of the Oregon & California Railroad Co. ? 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Yes, 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. In other words, it has leased the road to itself, 
 practically. 
 
 Mr. Raker. If that is a fact, we want to know it. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. They admit it in the answer. 
 
 Mr. Raker. I know, but the answer is not the fact. I am not 
 going to permit the record to show h'Cre, when the record of the Inter- 
 state Commerce Commission shows that it is not a fact, and we 
 ought not to proceed to indulge in an error. I think that the record 
 if investigated and presented to the committee will show to the con- 
 trary; that the Southern Pacific Co. has a lease of this company for 
 99 years and is the holding company of the stock. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. Not 99 years, but 40 years. 
 
10 OKEGON AND OAUFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Mr. Laffekty. We have traced title into the Oregon & California 
 Railroad Co., and there the title renaains of the 2,300,000 acres. 
 Now, here is Mr. Dixon present to-night, who is the manager of the 
 Booth-Keliey Lumber Co., purchasers of the largest amount, I beSeve. 
 There were 400,000 acres sold -to large purchasers and about 400,000 
 acres sold to small purchasers. 
 
 The Acting Chaikman. Who is the grantor? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. The Oregon & California Railroad Co. is the grantor 
 and the Booth-Kelley Lumber Co. is the largest grantee, and there 
 are 44 other companies or individual grantees who have been sued, 
 and then there are about 400,000 acres sold to the smaller purchasers. 
 
 Now, then, to give you the history of that litigation briefly: No 
 attempt had been made to enforce the terms of this grant until 1907. 
 In January or February, 1907, the Oregon Legislature passed a 
 memorial asking Congress and the President to do something to 
 break up this land monopoly in western Oregon. It was obstructing 
 the development of the State, and they knew that there were some 
 conditions in the grant, but that most everybody had forgotten what 
 they were and they seemed to be hazy on the subject; but they knew 
 they were entitled to some kind of relief. They sent that memorial 
 down there and it was presented formally. So Mr. Hawley took a 
 copy over to President Roosevelt and he turned the matter over to 
 Attorney General Bonaparte to look the matter up. Attorney Gen- 
 eral Bonaparte designated a young man by the name of Harlan, 
 assistant district attorney for Alaska, who was here in Washington, 
 to look into the matter, and he held the papers something like 60 days 
 and did not do anything; and I came here in June, 1907, on some 
 private cases, and Senator Bourne asked me to go from his room at 
 the Shoreham Hotel to the Department of Justice and talk about 
 this land grant. 
 
 We went in and Mr. Bonaparte said he would be glad to hear, if I 
 would talk briefly. I told hmi if I got too longwinded that he could 
 shut me off; and I presented the matter to him just as I have pre- 
 sented it to the committee, and the Attorney General said, "It seems 
 to me there ought to be a cause of action there for the Government. 
 This grant to the railroad company was in the nature of a contract, 
 and I have just designated a man to go to Oregon — another man — 
 and look into this grant." Senator Bourne asked him who the man 
 was and he replied "B. D. Townsend, assistant district attorney for 
 North Dakota." 
 
 The Attorney General asked me if I would not write out for him the 
 verbal statement I had made and leave the written statement with 
 Iiim, and I made out this report gratis. He offered to pay me for it, 
 but I did not take it. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. You were too modest. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. It would have been against the law. I could not 
 work for the Government and against it at the same time. I had 
 some cases against the Government. 
 
 Mr. Raker. You got all the facts ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. The facts are all in the pamphlet. When I got 
 home in July, 1907, Mr. Townsend was in Portland. I was living at 
 the Portland Hotel, and Mr. Townsend lived at that hotel two years. 
 I wanted Mr. Townsend to go across the street to the Federal building 
 
OEEGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GBANT. 11 
 
 and file an injunction suit restraining the company from ever selling 
 another acre of the land contrary to law. 
 
 Mr. Townsend I found to be a very able lawyer, and a much better 
 lawyer than I am, but that is not saying very much for him. But he 
 stated he wanted to proceed cautiously in the matter, and he went 
 down to Salem to investigate. He went deep into the facts, 'and he 
 has the facts at his fingers' ends. I heard him make his speech before 
 the Federal court at Portland, and I never heard a better argument. 
 He reached the conclusion that there ought to be a forfeiture suit 
 brought. He was more radical than I was. I had been claiming 
 that the grant was made to the railroad company in trust, and that 
 the court ought to compel the company to live up to the trust and sell 
 the land in tracts of 160 acres to settlers. He brought no suit at all, 
 as he wanted to proceed cautiously. There had been some talk in 
 the newspapers about it, and settlers had gone out on this 2,300,000 
 acres, and something like 65 were living on the land. They came 
 to me and wanted me to bring suits for them, and I brought suits in 
 the Federal court at Portland, asking for a decree, setting up that 
 they had settled upon this land under the act of April 10, 1869, on 
 the east side, and on the west side that they were settlers under the 
 act of May 4, 1870. [Indicating on wall map.] Here is, Portland, 
 . and this road is to the -California line, called the eastnside grant. It 
 goes south over 300 mUes. The west side road goes out west from 
 Portland to McMinnville, only 47 miles. And this land is on either 
 side of the track. 
 
 I filed these suits for the 65 settlers in the fall of 1907. The first 
 suit was fUed September 16, 1907, and the railroad filed exceptions 
 to my bill of complaint. I went up and asked the judge to pass on 
 the exceptions and he took them under advisement, and the matter 
 ran along until September, 1908. In the meantime Mr. Townsend 
 came here to Washington in the fall of 1907, and he had made up 
 his mind that, instead of bringing a suit in the nature of specific per- 
 formance or injmiction to prevent them from violating the law further 
 on which settlers would have gone upon the land, he would bring 
 a suit of forfeiture. But he looked up the law and felt he ought to 
 have a resolution passed through Congress authorizing a forfeiture 
 suit to be brought, but he did not want to overlook any remedies that 
 the Government might be entitled to. So' he said he would file a bill 
 of complaint, setting up all facts, waiving no rights or remedies, and 
 putting in an alternative prayer for relief — first, for a decree of for- 
 feiture of the unsold lands to the United States; second, if that 
 decree shoiild be denied by the court for the appointment of receivers 
 to take charge and sell the land to actual settlers, as required by law. 
 Then Mr. Townsend filed a suit September, 1908. The railroad com- 
 pany then demurred to his complaint and demurred to my complaints 
 for those 65 settlers; Jbut we had all angles of the case presented to 
 the court. There were some people who filed applications to pur- 
 chase 160 acres of land who were not settlers on the land, and they 
 were represented by counsel. Every conceivable view was presented 
 to the judge of the Federal court of Portland, and then the cases came 
 on for argument on the 1st day of March, 1909. The argument lasted 
 for 12 days. Mr. Townsend talked three days. You gentlemen are 
 going to get off easier. The railroad company's lawyers talked six days, 
 
12 OREGON AND CAULFOENIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 I talked for three days, and the judge said he woidd take the case 
 under advisement and he gave four months for the attorneys to me 
 briefs, which would have taken them to up the middle of the siimmer 
 of 1909. But the Attorney General's office, represented by Mr. Town- 
 send, went into the case so thoroughly that no brief was forthcommg 
 at the end of the four months. 
 
 I was here on private business again in April, 1910. I was chafing 
 under this delay. I wrote up a joint resolution — T was a private 
 citizen here in 1910— to be introduced in Congress, directing the 
 Attorney General to file his brief on that demurrer, which had been 
 argued in 1909, the 1st of March. Over a year had passed. Four 
 months had expired, and the Attorney General was in default eight 
 months. Senator Chamberlain introduced that resolution in the 
 Senate and Mr. Ferris introduced it in the House April 28, 1910. I 
 went home and the resolution never c<ime up for action, but along in 
 the fall the Attorney General did file his brief. It was a good brief. 
 It was exliaustive and covered the case thoroughly and was the best 
 argument in favor of a forfeiture that could have been made. . The 
 court tlien went through this brief of the Government and the railroad 
 filed its brief. I liad filed my own brief within the time allowed by 
 the court. On the 24th of April, 1911, the court overruled the 
 demurrer of the railroad company to the Government's bill of com- 
 plaint, and held that the complaint filed bj^ the Government stated 
 facts warranting a forfeiture, if those facts werfe true. Th'e court 
 sustained the demurrer to the suits of these 65 settlers on the land, 
 upon the ground that this was a grant to the railroad company of an 
 estate u])on condition, and that for violation of the condition subse- 
 quent, the grantor alone had the right to complain, and that is the 
 law in tlie case of an estate upon condition. But I claim it was a 
 grant of an estate in trust and not an estate upon condition. 
 
 Then, about six months after the big suit was filed to forfeit the 
 2,300,000 acres, early in the spring of 1909 — this suit was filed 1908 — 
 Mr. Townsend, for the Attorney General, filed suits against 45 of the 
 largest purchasers, including the Booth-Kelley Lumber Co., to forfeit 
 their lands also ; and those suits are pending in about the same con- 
 dition, only demurrers have not been jiassed on in those cases. 
 
 Now, then, there have been no suits filed as to the other 400,000 
 acres, and the bill comes up here at llie present time in this form 
 [reading] : 
 
 [H. R. 22002, Sixty-second Congress, second session.] 
 
 A BILL Supplementing the joint resolution of Congress approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 
 eight, entitled "Joint resolution instructing the Attorney General to institute certain suits," and so 
 forth. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
 in Congress assembled, That all claims of forfeiture heretofore or hereafter asserted by 
 the Attorney General on behalf of the United States in or by any and all suits in equity, 
 actions at law, or other judicial proceedings instituted pursuant to the joint resolution 
 of Congress approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled "Joint 
 resolution instructing the Attorney General to institute certain suits," and so forth, be, 
 and the same are hereby, ratified and confirmed and are hereby declared to be of the 
 same force and effect as declarations of forfeiture by the Congress of the United States. 
 
 Second. To provide how the lands shall be disposed "of — tli^e 
 2,300,000 acres — if the forfeiture shall become effective by a decree 
 of the court following it out; and, third, providing for the protection 
 of these purchasers. 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 13 
 
 Mr. EuBEY. Protection for each of the purchasers ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Protection in a measure — that is, in the nature of 
 a compromise for the large purchasers and a statute of Umitations of 
 one year as to those small purchasers who have not been sued. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. How small ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Under a thousand acres. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. More than the statutory maximum ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Everyone who had bought more than a thousand 
 acres was sued. Those who had bought less than a thousand acres 
 were not sued. Some had less than 160 acres and some had only a 
 town lot. This bill provides that no person who has not been sued 
 shall be sued unless the suit shall be instituted within one year from 
 the date of the approval of this act, and it provides further for the 
 compromise of the suits with the 45 large purchasers. 
 
 Now,- then, I will read the bill and the committee will understand 
 it thoroughly. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Does it give the basis 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes [reading]: 
 
 [H. E. 22002, Sixty-second Congress, second session.] 
 
 A BILL Supplementing the joint resolution of Congress approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 
 eight, entitled "Joint resolution instructing the Attorney General to institute certain suits," and so 
 forth. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
 in Congress assembled, That all claims of forfeiture heretofore or hereafter asserted by 
 the Attorney General on behalf of the United States in or by any and all suits in 
 equity, actions at law, or other judicial proceedings instituted pursuant to the joint 
 resolution of Congress approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled 
 "Joint resolution instructing, the Attorney General to institute certain suits," and 
 so forth, be, and the same are hereby, ratified and confirmed and are hereby declared 
 to be of the same force and effect as declarations of forfeiture by the Congress of the 
 United States. 
 
 Sec. 2. That none of the lands reverting to the United States by virtue of any right 
 of forfeiture thereto as aforesaid shall be or become subject to entry under any of the 
 public-land laws of the United States, or to the initiation of any right whatever under 
 any of the public-land laws of the United States, except as hereinafter provided. 
 
 Sec. 3. That none of the lands reverting to the United States as aforesaid shall be 
 or become subject to State selection, railroad indemnity or lieu selection, forest 
 lieu selection, or any other kind of lieu selection or exchange, or to Sioux half-breed 
 scrip, Wyandotte scrip, Porterfield scrip, Valentine scrip, soldiers' additional home- 
 stead entry, or any other kind of scrip, the intention hereof being to prohibit the 
 disposition of any of said lands under any limited or special right of selection, location, 
 or entry, except as provided by section six of this act. 
 
 Sec. 4. That after, but not before, any judgment or decree sustaining any right of 
 forfeiture asserted as aforesaid shall become final, with no right of appeal therefrom, 
 all of the lands so adjudged to have reverted to the United States shall be disposed of 
 under the general public-land laws of the United States, and shall be opened to settle- 
 ment, location, and entry by proclamation of the President under the drawing system, 
 which proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which the lands may be settled 
 upon, located, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof under the public- 
 land laws of the United States; and no persons who shall attempt to initiate any 
 right to enter on said lands prior to the time designated, or otherwise in violation of 
 any of the provisions of said proclamation, shall be qualified to initiate, exercise, or 
 enjoy any rights whatever as to any of said lands under the public-land laws of the 
 United States; the purpose hereof being that all such lands shall be opened to entry 
 at such a time and in such a manner that all persons entitled to make entry thereof 
 shall have equal opportunity therefor: Provided, That the provisions of this section 
 shall not apply to any lands that shall be disposed of under the provisions of section 
 six of liiis act: And provided further. That all lands within the exterior boundaries of 
 any national forest which shall revert to the United States as aforesaid shall become 
 national forest lands, and shall be disposed of only under the public-land laws appli- 
 cable to forest lands. 
 
14 OREGON AND CALIFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Sec. 5. That no suits m equity, actions at law, or other judicial proceedings shall be 
 instituted pursuant to said joint resolution approved April thirtieth, niaeteen hun- 
 dred and eight, that shall involve any lands sold by the Oregon and California Kail- 
 road Company prior to April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, unless the same 
 shall be instituted within one year from the date of the approval of this Act: Provided, 
 That this section shall not be construed to apply to any suits in equity heretofore 
 instituted, nor to any of the parties thereto, nor to any of the lands involved therein, 
 nor to the institution of any further suits in equity, actions at law, or other judicial 
 proceedings relating to any of the lands that are involved in said pending suits. 
 
 Sec. 6. That the Attorney General is hereby authorized to compromise, in the man- 
 ner hereinafter provided, any suit heretofore or hereafter instituted pursuant to the 
 provisions of said joint resolution approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 
 eight, involving lands purchased from the Oregon and California Railroa i Company. 
 In any such suit the Attorney General may, in his discretion, stipulate with the 
 defendant or defendants who purchased said lands, or are the successors or assigns 
 of such purchaser or purchasers, that decree shall be entered adjudging that the lands 
 involved therein have been and are forfeited to the United States; such decree shall 
 recite that the same was entered pursuant to such stipulation. If said purchaser 
 defendant or defendants, or their successors or assigns, shall within six months from 
 the entry of said decree file with the Secretary of the Interior a certified copy of said 
 decree, together with an application to purchase all of the lands adjudged by said 
 decree to have been forfeited to the United States as aforesaid, and shall pay to the 
 Treasurer of the United States the sum' of two dollars and fifty cents per acre for all 
 of the lands so applied for, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause patents to be issued 
 conveying to said purchaser defendant or defendants, and their successors and assigns, 
 all of the right, title, and interest of the United States iu and to all of said lands; and 
 such purchase shall operate as a compromise of any and all claims of the United Stsrtes 
 for waste or trespass upon any of said lands committed by such purchaser detendaats, 
 or their successors, or assigns, respectively: Provided, That the benefits of this section 
 shall not be exercised or enjoyed except in cases where decree shall be entered pur- 
 suant to stipulation entered into as aforesaid : Anid provided further. That the provisions 
 of this section shall not apply to any lands that have not been patented to said Oregon 
 and California Railroad Company: And provided further. That the aforesaid privilege 
 of purchasing said forfeited lands shall not be exercised or enjoyed as to less than all 
 of the lands involved in said suits, respectively; the purpose hereof being to prevent 
 the elimination from any such purchase of any lands from which timber has been 
 removed or upon which any other waste or trespass has been committed. 
 
 Sec. 7. That the provisions of section six of this Act shall not be construed to appply 
 to the suit, involving approximately two million three hundred and sixty thousand 
 acres, now pending in the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon, 
 wherein the United States of America is complainant and the Oregon and California 
 Railroad Company, Southern Pacific Company, Stephen T. Gage, Union Trust Com- 
 pany, and others are defendants, being designated in the records and files of said court 
 as suit numbered thirty- three hundred and forty; nor shall the provisions of said sec- 
 tion six of this Act be construed to apply to any of the lands involved in said last- 
 described suit, nor to create any rights or privileges whatever in favor of any of the 
 defendants therein. 
 
 Sec 8. That nothing in this act contained, nor action taken pursuant to the pro- 
 visions of this act, shall be construed as a condonation of any of the breaches of any of 
 the conditions or provisions annexed to any of the grants designated in said joint 
 resolution approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, nor as a waiver of 
 any of said conditions or provisions, nor as a waiver of any right of forfeiture in favor 
 of the United States on account of any breach or breaches of any of said conditions, 
 nor as a waiver of any cause of action or remedy of the United States on account of 
 any breach or breaches of any of said conditions or provisions, nor as a waiver of any 
 other rights or remedies existing in favor of the United States. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Mr. Lafferty, turn back to line 8, page 5, 
 ^?- fl° r * connection also lines 20, 21, and 22 on the same page, but 
 chiefly line 8 "and such purchase shall operate as a compromise of 
 anv and all clauns of the United States for waste or trespass." What 
 
 15 the fact about cutting of timber on those lands ? 
 
 IVIr. Lafferty. Well, in some instances 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Or other waste ? 
 
 • Mr. Lafferty. Oh, in some instances the timber has been removed 
 practically entirely from a 10 or 15 or a 40 acre tract, and that timber 
 
OBEGOK AND CAUFOENIA LAND GRANT. 15 
 
 in''many instances standing would be worth $25 or 150 or SlOO an 
 acre. I want to make tliat very plain to the committee, that this 
 compromise feature of the. bill with these, purchasers — the 45 large 
 purchasers — is simply for the purpose of eliminating that feature of 
 the litigation; that is the advantage the Government seeks to get 
 by the compromise with the purchasers. There is no defense on 
 the part of the railroad company to the main suit, as it is called, the 
 suit for 2,300,000 acres of unsold lands; but these purchasers, 45 in 
 number, and the others if they should be svxed, there are several thou- 
 sand of those, they would have grounds for interposing equitable 
 defenses, and those defenses are of this nature. 
 
 Here is the Booth-Kelley Lumber Go., for example. When these 
 lands were patented, the first patents were issued by the Government, 
 and they recited that the land was patented under the act of July 25, 
 1866, as amended by the act of April 10, 1869, and that would have 
 been notice to anyone purchasing, but by some hocus-pocus the rail- 
 road company got the balance of the patents issued, or a number 
 issued, reciting that they were issued under the act of July 25, 1866. 
 
 It is a well-known fact that in Oregon, and it is conceded by all 
 hands there, that the abstracts of title were passed upon by the best 
 lawyers of the State and the city of Portland, that these purchasers 
 thought they were getting a gilt-edged title; thought that the railroad 
 company owned the land. They did not know of the "settler" 
 clause. It was here in this little act, as long as your finger, in the 
 musty volume of 16 Statutes at Large. They went back to the 
 patent from the United States to the railroad company, and it had 
 been so long from the time that the grant was made until the patents 
 issued that manypeople had never heard of the terms, and others had 
 forgotten, and it is plain to any common-sense individuals that these 
 45 purchasers, for the most part at least, did not know of the defect in 
 the title, or if they had they would have never bought them and paid 
 $10 or $15 or $20 an acre for them. 
 
 Mr. Kakbk. How much of this land was patented reciting that the 
 patents were issued under the act of 1866 ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. The first nine patents recited the three acts. All 
 other patents referred only to the act of 1866. 
 
 We had just as well eliminate this feature of the argument. If 
 this is to be a compromise with these purchasers upon actual present 
 valuations, this bill does not cover the case in any sense of the word. 
 The holdings of the Booth-Kelley Lumber Co. purchased from this 
 railroad, I would say, are of the value to-day of at least $25 per acre, 
 on the average. If we are going to compromise with them as to what 
 the lands are worth, why $2.50 would not be any consideration 
 scarcely at all. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. If you would compromise with them on 
 the basis of what the lands were worth at the time they got them, 
 what would that be ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Whatever the market value was, probably $10 
 an acre oil an average. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Of course, you very weU remembei that 
 the mistake of the lawyer who examined the abstract can not make 
 an innocent purchaser. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. I am talking here to-night as a friend of the 
 settlers. There is nobody that is more heartily in favor of enforcing 
 
16 OREGON AND CAUFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 this land grant than I am, and if there is anybody who ought to be 
 in favor of penaHzing at least one of these purchasers, who is interested 
 in the Oregonian Publishing Co., that jumped all over me last summer, 
 it ought to be me; but I am in favor of meting out exact justice to 
 everybody ; but as representatives of the Government we have got to 
 look at all sides of this case. The Government stood by for oyer 
 30 years and watched the sales of these lands and did not raise its 
 voice. If it was a private individual it would be estopped. There is 
 no estoppel or statute of limitations against the Government — no 
 laches — but still the Government can not go into court and ask for 
 inequitable decree. The railroad company is not laying down in this 
 case. They are making a strenuous defense to the 2,300,000-acre 
 suit. When the case reaches the Supreme Court, if the Supreme 
 Court realize that when it writes a decree of forfeiture for 2,300,000 
 acres that the effect of its decree will also extend beyond that par- 
 ticular suit and forfeit the lands of 45 large purchasers, and forfeit 
 the lands of thousands of others who purchased the other 400,000 
 acres, and under the circumstances which I am about to relate it 
 would weaken our chances for procuring a decree in the main case. 
 That is the principal reason for passing this bill in its present form. 
 
 Here is another thing. We have an act providing that any person 
 owning any lands in the forest reserves may relinquish them back to 
 the United States and procure other lands outside. Do you know 
 what the Interior Department permitted. It permitted the Booth- 
 Kelley Lumber Co. if they bought lands included in the forest reserve 
 to relinquish them and send an abstract down here to the Interior 
 Department, saying "We relinquish section 23 and 21, in township 16 
 south, range 4 east, Willamette meridian, to the United States for two 
 certain sections out here in eastern Oregon or somewhere else." The 
 Interior Department examined the abstract and accepted the titles 
 in numerous cases from the Oregon & Cahfornia Railroad Co. — the 
 land that had afterwards been put in the forest reserve — took, that 
 land and gave back an absolute fee-simple title to other lands in other 
 parts of the country. In other words, the Interior Department 
 accepted these titles at their face value and gave fee-simple titles ia 
 lieu of them. 
 
 Mr. Raker. How much land is involved in that condition ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. How many acres have you found ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. About 50,000 acres. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. The Interior Department can come back 
 at them and set up total failure of consideration. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Here is another feature of the case that I want to 
 call your attention to. A lawyer looking up that abstract of title, if 
 he had looked at all three acts— the act of 1866, the act of 1868 and of 
 1869, and supposed that it was the Gaston Co. that received the 
 grant, he would have said this act of 1869 does not apply, because the 
 first 20 miles was completed within the period of the extension of 
 June 25, 1868, the original grant having been made July 25, 1866, 
 and contamed no requirement for sales to settlers. 
 
 We want this litigation to go ahead. I will tell you, it means 
 something to forfeit a lot of land after 40 years. It is no child's 
 play, and when you get into court and hear all sides of the case you 
 will know it is no child's play. I beheve it would be to the best inter- 
 ests of the Government to pass a bill here making a legislative decla- 
 
OREGON AND OAIilFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 17 
 
 ration of forfeiture as this bill does in section 1, and to further pro- 
 vide that if these lands shall be forfeited that they shall be disposed 
 of in orderly manner; otherwise there will be a lot of trouble. People 
 will be losing time for 5 or 10 years while the litigation is pending, 
 and there will be a lot of contests and confUcts. The matter should 
 be made clear to the public. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Do I understand that this first provision of this act 
 is an act of forfeiture by Congress? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes. The resolution of 1908, authorizing these 
 suits to be brought, authorized the Attorney General to file a suit 
 asserting any rights or remedies that the Government might have, 
 and -to include- forfeiture. That resolution does not purport to 
 create any new rights or change the legal aspect. The railroad com- 
 pany contends that the Government can not procure title until 
 Congress has declared a forfeiture. As to whether they are right 
 about that or not I do not know, but I do know that if you give your 
 sanction to a legislative declaration of forfeiture that it must be 
 ratified by the court before it becomes effective. 
 
 Mr. Ferris. Have any suits been brought under that resolution ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. That is the resolution of April 30, 1908, and that 
 is what this suit was brought under. 
 
 Mr. Ferris. Has there been any decree entered ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. No decree has been entered. 
 
 Mr. Ferris. It is just pending ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. It is just pending in the district court of Portland, 
 Oreg. 
 
 Mr. Ferris. Are they diligently pursuing their remedies under that 
 resolution ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. That is the question. It is a big case and it has 
 been going alon^ too slow to suit me, and I made a speech on the floor 
 of the House July 15 last, in which I contended that Congress should 
 direct the Attorney General to employ additional counsel, and I have 
 a resolution pending now asking for the appointment of a special com- 
 mittee of the Public Lands Committee to keep tab on this litigation 
 until it is finished. This suit was brought by orders from Congress. 
 Congress should keep watch on the htigation and see that it is prop- 
 erly carried out. Congress is the only party that can act for the 
 Government in the disposition of the public domain. 
 
 Mr. Ferris. What is the trouble out there that they do not have a 
 hearing ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. I have gone into that pretty fully. The court over- 
 ruled the railroad company's demurrer in April, 1911; that was last 
 year. 
 
 Mr. RuBBY. I understood you to say a while ago that that demurrer 
 was pending there in the court for eight or nine months before it was 
 
 finally 
 
 . Mr. Lafferty. Pending from 1908. The demurrer was put in 
 shortly after the suit was filed, two and one-half years ago. 
 
 Mr. RxTBEY. Before the court decided to pass on the question ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. From the time the suit was filed until the demurrer 
 was passed on, and the argument was had in March, 1909, and the 
 decision was rendered in 1911, in August. 
 ' Mr. Ferris. That was the fault of the court itself? 
 
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18 OREGON AND CAUFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Mr. Laffekty. No; the brief of the Attorney General was not filed 
 for nearly 17 months. 
 
 Mr. Tatloe of Colorado. Has the company answered yet? 
 
 Mr. Lapfeety. The demurrer was overruled in April. Then the 
 company came in and asked for 90 days, I think it was, to file its 
 answer to the merits. The matter ran along imtil last faU. I went 
 home from Congress in September, and when I got out there to Port- 
 land I commenced raising Cain about this land-grant suit, as I have 
 been doing for several years, and I went up before the court there one 
 morning, on rule day. Mr. Townsend was not there. He was in 
 Washington; and the district attorney, Mr. McCourt, was attorney 
 for the Government and Mr. Fenton was attorney for the railroad 
 company, and I proceeded to tell the court that I thought the case 
 was dragging along too slow. Anyhow, the matter has been dragging 
 along that way, and the answer was filed last fall. The Government 
 is taking the testimony. The testimony wUl all be in in a few months. 
 
 The Acting Chaieman. Mr. Lafferty, these purchasers paid the 
 $2.50 an acre is as a matter of course to the grantor? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes; but much more than $2.50. 
 
 The Acting Chaieman. Various prices ? 
 
 Mr. Laffbety. Various prices. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. You stated that the grantor ignored the 
 law and obtained such prices as it could get. Now, your bUl provides 
 that they shall again pay to the Government the original agreed price 
 of $2.50 an acre. That is part of the compromise provided here on 
 the top of page 5. In a compromise, people usually take cognizance 
 of values. What evidence have you to present to the committee as 
 to the values of the land which is to be compromised away for $2.50 
 an acre? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. As I said before, it would be conceded that these 
 lands are worth $25 an acre. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. What evidence 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. You can not pass this bUl if you are going to pass 
 it on the basis of actual values. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Why do you not make it a cent an acre ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. I say that the suits never should have been filed 
 against any innocent purchasers; that is, one who purchased in good 
 faith and received deeds prior to the passage of this resolution by the 
 Oregon Lesislature in 1907. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Any citizen on the outside, if we report 
 this measure into Congress, would surely ask us on what basis this 
 compromise was made — what was the evidence as to ihe values pro 
 and con. If it is merely a matter of form, why not make it a dollar, 
 a dime, or one cent? 
 
 i^. Laffeety. $2.50 an acre would bring in a million dollars 
 
 Tlie Acting Chaieman. Then $10 would bring in $4,000,000? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. That is undoubtedly true, but $2.50 an acre is 
 some remuneration. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. I am glad you used the word "remunera- 
 tion, because that raises the very point that I desire to make When 
 you speak of remuneration," that involves a consideration of the 
 thmg which passes. 
 
 Mt.Lafferty Now on that point, evidence wiU be submitted 
 here as to what the land is worth now involved in these 45 suits but 
 
OREGON AND CAUFOBNIA lAND GRANT. 19 
 
 we can never pass this bill unless we pass it based merely upon a nom- 
 inal consideration. 
 
 Mr. Rakek. Wby ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Because the lands are worth so much more than 
 $2.50 an acre would not be really a compromise. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. What do you think the House would say 
 to this committee if they reported this bill and you would make that 
 statement oh the floor ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. That is exactly the statement I wiU make on the 
 floor, that these lands are worth at the lowest estimate $25 an acre, 
 and that this is more in the nature of a confirmation of the title of 
 these purchasers, than it is of a compromise on a basis of what the 
 land is worth. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Somebody over there will be apt to say, 
 "How did you arrive at your conclusion? Did you a flip a coin?" 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. I have told these gentlemen all along that the most 
 difficult feature of this bill is section 6, providing for the protection 
 of these inocent purchasers. 
 
 Mr. RuBEY. Explain that. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. It means they pay $2.50 an acre, and the land is 
 theirs with no afterclaps, no suits; that would give them a clean bill 
 of health. 
 
 Mr. Rubey. The point is, then', they have already obtained the 
 timber ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. They have got the timber. 
 
 Mr. Raker. I would hke the privilege of asking Mr. Lafferty a 
 couple of questions. Who are the defendants in the present suit ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Li the big suit ? 
 
 Mr. Raker. Yes. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. The Oregon & Cahfornia Railroad Co., the Southern 
 Pacific Co., Stephen T. Gage, and the Union Trust Co. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. None of the grantees of the company are made parties 
 defendant by the Government in its suit of forfeiture. Is that right ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. In the big suit it is an issue between the Govern- 
 ment and the railroad company. 
 
 Mr. Raker. I understand that the Government commenced an 
 action of forfeiture ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. That is right. 
 
 Mr. Raker. And it made the parties named by you defendants 
 and made no one else defendants m that case? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. That is true; but that was to forfeit the 2,300,000 
 acres of unsold lands. That had no reference to lands that had been 
 sold contrary to law. Afterwards 45 suits were brought against large 
 purchasers. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. But the gentleman present represents the 
 largest ? 
 
 Mr Lafferty. Yes; Mr. Dixon is the manager of the Booth-KeUey 
 Lumber Co. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Then, subsequent to the main suit, there were in the 
 neighborhood of 45 suits commenced by the Government, the United 
 States being plaintiff and each grantee -in the 45 suits being defend- 
 ants — separate, independent suits? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. That is true. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Those 45 suits are still pending ? 
 
20 OBEGON AND CAUFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Mr. Lafpeety. That is true. 
 
 Mr. Raker. On demurrer ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Pending on demurrer. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Most of them have filed answers. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Answer or demurrer. Now, you spoke a moment 
 ago — let us go to the first suit on the 2,300,000 acres. That is an 
 action to forfeit any claim that this company has in the land named ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes; with an alternative prayer that if forfeiture 
 shall be denied by the court it shall appoint receivers and sell the 
 land direct to settlers. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Asks for general relief ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes; any other relief that the Government may be 
 entitled to. 
 
 Mr. Raker. On the forfeiture side it would not be an equitable 
 action, would it ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. It is an action brought under authority of an act 
 of Congress. 
 
 Mr. Raker. An act for forfeiture is not an equitable action ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Not ordinarily — it is an action at law ordinarily. 
 
 Mr. Raker. And the other 45 actions are of the same character? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Exactly so, except different defendants. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Then, the statement that in an equitable action by the 
 Government, the Government asking for equity would not apply to 
 this case on behalf of the Government, would it? You stated a 
 moment ago the Government, if seeking equity, would have to do 
 equity. That statement would not apply to these cases. So far as 
 the G-overnment is concerned, it is relying upon strict legal right of 
 forfeiture ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. No; this is a bill in equity; it is not an action at 
 law. That is one of the defenses the railroad has interposed here, 
 that this is the wrong kind of an action, that it should have been an 
 action at law. 
 
 Mr. Raker. You can answer the question I am putting. We will 
 get to the railroad's side in a moment. I am getting the Govern- 
 ment's side first. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. The Government is asking for an equitable decree. 
 
 Mr. Raker. It is ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Is asking for a decree in equity. It has gone ioto 
 the chancery side of the court. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Equity abhors forfeiture ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. That is true. I have always contended there was 
 no forfeiture in the case, that it is a trust and should be enforced, not 
 revoked. 
 
 Mr. Raker. The Government is standing upon its rights of strict 
 legal forfeiture under the act of Congress. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. It could not ask for an alternative iudg- 
 ment. . "' ^ 
 
 Mr. Raker. I want to get the attitude of the gentleman. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. The court did not agree with me. The court 
 adopted almost verbatim the brief of Mr. Townsend. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Which is 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. That this was a grant of an estate upon condition 
 and that the Government is entitled to forfeiture. ' 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANTi 21 
 
 Mr. Kakeb. It relies upon its strict legal forfeiture under the act 
 of Congress ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes, with the alternative prayer. 
 
 Mr. Eaker. And the Government in neither of the suits is asking 
 for equitable relief. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. If it was entitled to legal forfeiture, there would 
 be no equitable defense. I understand your point; I concede your 
 point. 
 
 Mr. Raker. The Government does not 
 
 Mr. Taylor. I was going to say the records and pleadings will con- 
 trol rather than Mr. Lafferty's construction of it. 
 
 lyir. Raker. But we do not have them here; they have not been 
 submitted! Mr. Lafferty has made the statement that the Govern- 
 ment seeking equity would have to do equity. 
 
 JMr. Lafferty. I did not say that. I said that the Government 
 can not expect the court to enter an inequitable decree, even though 
 laches does not run against the Government, even though the statute 
 of limitations does not run against the Government, and any of these 
 other ordinary defenses, yet when the Government goes into a court 
 of equity and asks the Supreme Court to enter up a decree against 
 a defendant, which that court, in its conscience, sees is inequitable, 
 that court will not enter it. 
 
 Mr. Raker. We take it for granted that the Government stands 
 upon the strict legal forfeiture. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. You will have to let Mr. Townsend enlarge upon 
 that. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Mr. Lafferty, in your judgment, would not 
 the merits of the case ultimately be determined by the facts, whatever 
 they were, and not by the department's construction of the law on 
 the supposed facts; that is, if the Interior Department's a^rney did 
 not go into all the facts, or, going into them all, did not give each one 
 its due weight and reached a wrong conclusion in any suit in equity 
 or any other suit the matter would have to be determined upon the 
 facts that really existed, and if this railroad company — the Oregon 
 & California — did not have a title to give and the present grantees' 
 titles depend upon the title which it pretended to give, then they 
 have not any title, and that would be the ultimate fact and they 
 would have no equity. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. They are here to present their side of the case. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. If they bought land and did not get a good 
 title- 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. I have no interest whatever in any of these cases. 
 There is nothing in it to me except the interests of the citizens of the 
 State. 
 
 Mr. Raker. In the main suit there is no question as to the power 
 of the Attorney General to proceed under the resolution passed here- 
 tofore. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. I do not think there is any question about the power 
 of the Attorney General to proceed, but the railroad company claims 
 if there had been no legislative claim of forfeiture that tlie Attorney 
 General can not claim forfeiture any more than your attorney that 3'-ou 
 might hire by the year could claim forfeiture. The principal, and not 
 the agent, is the only one that can elect to claim forfeiture, and the 
 resolution of April 30, 1908 does not claim forfeiture. 
 
22 OEBGON AN0 CAUaPOENIA LAND GEANT. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. I am conceding that. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. That is why section 1 of this act ought to be passed. 
 It ought all to be passed, but if section 6 is omitted I will not raise 
 objection. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. If you are done we will hear Mr. Townsend. 
 
 Mr. Rakek. I have further questions to ask. 
 
 The Acting CHAmMAN. Within reasonable limits, Judge Raker. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. In the 45 suits pending is there any question as to the 
 powers of the Attorney General, in your view, to proceed to final judg- 
 ment with those suits ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. I think that this section 1 is very desirable. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. If you are ready to enlighten the commit- 
 tee, Mr. Townsend, we will hear you. 
 
 STATEMElfT OF HON. B. D. TOWNSEND, SPECIAL ASSISTANT 
 ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE ITNITED STATES. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I 
 think that I could not reach the point where I could properly 
 enlighten you very much within the limited time that I assume you 
 want to sit this evening. 
 
 The Acting Chaebman. How much time would you like to use ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. I would like to take up the history of this entire 
 transaction, beginning with the history of the Utigation, if the com- 
 mittee will permit. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. Can you proceed 
 
 Mr. Townsend. And cover the actual ground that has been cov- 
 ered by Mr. Lafferty, because I view this subject from a slightly 
 different viewpoint that Mr. Laflferty does. He has presented his 
 views in %ia,t case out there, and he presents them here; and I have 
 no quarrel with him, in so far as he presents his view as a lawyer either 
 in that forum or in this one; but this committee can not understand 
 the position of the Government here unless you hear the case from 
 the viewpoint of the Government. 
 
 The Acting Chairman. I would suggest, Mr. Townsend, that you 
 take it up in such a way that it wiU enable us to understand the 
 Government's attitude clearly, and if you do not get finished you can 
 stick a pin where you quit and begin there later. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. I can do that if you think best. 
 
 Mr. Feegusson. Let me make a suggestion. Possibly Mr.Townsend 
 would rather give it all at once. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. Here is what I have in mind. I have been listen- 
 ing to your questions. I want to cover the questions which I see are 
 in your mmds, and I would hke to outline my replies thereto. 
 
 The Acting Chaieman. We can hear you 40 minutes. Forty 
 minutes ought to get you pretty well started. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. I do not know whether 40 minutes will get me 
 started m this case or not. I have been sleeping with this case so 
 long that perhaps Mr. Lafferty's criticism has some good foimdation 
 after aU. 
 
 At this point the committee informally discussed with Mr. Towff- 
 send the matter of his further statement before the committee. 
 
 Thereupon, at 10.30 o'clock p. m., the committee stood adjourned 
 to meet to-morrow, Wednesday morning, April 3, 1912, at 10 o'clack.i 
 
oregon and caufoenia land qeant. 23 
 
 Committee on the Public Lands, 
 
 House of Repeesentatives, 
 Washington,^ D. 0., Thursday, May 2, 1912. 
 
 The cominittee met at 10.30 a. m., Hon. Joseph T. Robinson (chair- 
 man) presiding. 
 
 The Chairman. The bill for consideration by the committee this 
 morning is H. R. 22002, by Mr. Lafferty, supplementing the joint 
 resolution approved April 30, 1908, entitleici "Joint resolution instruct- 
 ing the Attorney General to institute certain suits," etc. 
 
 The special assistant to the Attorney General representing the 
 Department of Justice and having charge of the litigation instituted 
 under the resolution- approved April 30, 1908, Mr. Townsend, is 
 present and desires to be neard in behalf of the bill ; other gentlemen 
 representing the -interests a£Eected by the legislation also request a 
 hearing. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. I suppose you are ready to proceed ? 
 
 STATEMENT OF MR. BURDETTE D. TOWNSEND, SPECIAI AS- 
 SISTANT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, DEPARTMENT OF 
 JUSTICE. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. Mr. Chairman, the bill under consideration, H. R. 
 22002, relates to certain Htigation instituted in the Federal courts of 
 the district of Oregon, involving two railroad grants situated in Oregon. 
 These suits were instituted pursuant to the joint resolution approved 
 April 30, 1908. The joint resolution which I refer to covers, also, a 
 wagon-road grant, but that is not involved in the proposed legislation 
 now under consideration; this proposed bUl relates only to the two 
 railroad grants. 
 
 Now, I want to present to you the circumstances surrounding those 
 two railroad grants and the issues involved in the present litigation 
 concerning those grants, so that you may be able to understand the 
 purpose of the various provisions of this bill now under considera- 
 tion. In doing so I want to avoid unnecessary details, and will 
 therefore present the subject in a general way, except in so far as you 
 may ask me for details on particular points. 
 
 Each of these two railroad grants contain provisions restricting the 
 manner in which the granted lands might be sold. I may say that 
 the railroad land-grant period commenced in September, 1850, with 
 the Illinois Central grant, and was concluded by the Texas Pacific 
 grant of March 3, 1871. The railroad land-grant period extended, 
 therefore, only 21 years. The earlier grants contained no provisions 
 restricting the manner of selling the granted lands. 
 
 The first big grants were enacted in 1862, commencing with the 
 Pacific Railroad bill, on July 1, 1862, followed by the Northern 
 Pacific of July 2, 1864, and the other large grants. Most of the large 
 railroad grants were made during the administration of President 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Now, the practical effect of those grants did not become observed 
 until about the year 1867 or 1868; I mean the practical effect of the 
 disposition of those granted lands upon the industrial and commercial 
 interests of the communities and States in which the grants were 
 situated. But, beginning about January 1, 1867, protests began to 
 pour into Congress against the enactment of any further grants, 
 
24 OBBGON AND CALIFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 because it was found that the practice was that the beneficiaries of the 
 grants — ^that is, the promoters and officers of these raikoad compa- 
 nies — were organizing development and speculating companies and were 
 selling unto themselves large blocks of the granted lands in advance 
 of construction at very low prices, and then these development com- 
 panies would hold up settlers when they came along to buy the land. 
 In this way the railroad "companies themselves received only a small 
 portion of the intended bounty; at the same time this practice actually 
 obstructed settlement and development. So that during the con- 
 sideration of a bill the purpose of which was to revive the Denver 
 Pacific grant — a part of the Pacific Kailroad grant of 1862, by the 
 way — this entire subject was thrashed out in Congress. Mr. Julian 
 was then chairman of the Public Lands Committee of the House, and 
 under Mr. Julian's leadership a policy was adopted as expressed in a 
 resolution passed both in the House and in the Senate to the effect 
 that Congress should make no further grants to aid in the construc- 
 tion of railroads or other internal improvements, and to revive no 
 grants that had lapsed, except on the express condition that the 
 granted land should be sold to actual settlers only, in quantities not 
 to exceed one-quarter section to any one purchaser, and at a price 
 not to exceed $2.50 per acre. 
 
 After that policy was adopted whenever a bill 
 
 Mr. Volstead. When did you say that resolution was passed? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. In 1868, or early in 1869. 
 
 After that policv was adopted whenever a bUl relating to raUroad- 
 land grants came "before the House for consideration Mr. Julian, the 
 chairman of the Public Lands Committee, was immediately on his 
 feet offering an amendment restricting the manner in which the 
 granted lands might be sold by the beneficiary of the grant. 
 
 There were no grants enacted in the year 1868; that entire year was 
 taken up by a general discussion of the subject. There was a growing 
 sentiment in both Houses of Congress in favor of making no further 
 grants on any terms or conditions. By April 1, 1869, however, Mr. 
 Julian's general policy had been adopted, which was to revive no 
 grants that had lapsed, except where there were some equitable 
 reasons for doing so, but, at the same time, imposing these restrictions 
 that I have described. There were but few new grants after that. 
 
 Now, that explains briefly the origin of the policy of Congress, which 
 found expression in the laws now before you and involved in this 
 litigation. I desire to retrace for a moment and briefly describe to 
 you the history of the two grants involved in this litigation. 
 
 By an act of Congress of July 25, 1866, a grant wasmade to aid in 
 the construction of a railroad extending from the Central Pacific in 
 California northerly through the Shasta and Sacramento Valleys in 
 California, and the Rogue River, Umpqua,.and Willamette Valleys 
 m Oregon, to the city of Portland. The subject had been under 
 consideration ever since the passage of the Pacific Railroad bill on 
 July 1 , 1862 ; m fact, during the consideration of the latter bill one of 
 the ]\Iembers of Congress from California offered an amendment for 
 the making of a grant exactly the same as the one enacted subse- 
 quently, on July 25, 1866, but at that time it was rejected. In the 
 meantime some parties in California projected a survey from the 
 Central Pacific commencing at Marysville, northerly to the Oregon 
 State line and thence on to Portland. And, anticipating that Con- 
 
OREGON AND OAUFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 25 
 
 gress would make a grant to aid in the construction of the proposed 
 railroad, these parties organized a corporation under the laws of the 
 State of California; in fact, the corporation was organized under a 
 special statute, and the Legislature of the State of California ex- 
 pressed its selection of that corporation to build the railroad in 
 California. When the matter came before Congress, the Represen- 
 tatives in Congress, from Oregon and from California joined in the 
 effort to secure the grant. The general plan was that the California 
 company should construct that part of the railroad that was situated 
 in California, and that some Oregon company should construct that 
 part situated in Oregon. California had already selected its corpo- 
 ration, known as the California & Oregon Railroad Co. Some 
 {)arties in Oregon had organized under the general incorporation 
 aw of that State a corporation designed to receive the grant in the 
 State of Oregon, but it was not acceptable to the Representatives 
 in Congress from the State of Oregon, and they would not consent 
 that that corporation be named as the beneficiary of the grant in 
 Oregon, and thus it transpired that the act of July 25, 1866, was 
 a,dopted. in this form: It made a grant to the California & Oregon 
 Railroad Co. to aid in the construction of that part of the railroad 
 situated in California, and the grant in the State of Oregon was 
 made to such corporation organized under the laws of the State of 
 Oregon as should be designated by the legislature of that State. 
 
 This grant further provided that the beneficiaries of the grant should 
 assent in writing to"tne terms of the grant within one year of the date 
 of the passage of the act, which consent was to be filed in the office of 
 the Secretary of the Interior. Now, at that time, under the consti- 
 tution of the State of Oregon the legislature met in the fall of the year, 
 in September following the approval of this act of July 25, 1866. 
 
 The prominent people of Oregon interested in this enterprise, on 
 October 6, 1866, filed m the office of the secretary of state, in accord- 
 ance with the laws of the State of Oregon, articles of incorporation of 
 a r&ilroad company known as the Oregon Central RaUroad Co., the 
 avowed purpose of which, expressed in the articles of incorporation, 
 was to refceive the benefits of this grant and construct the railroad in 
 the State of Oregon. 
 
 At the time that these articles were filed in the office of the secre- 
 tary of state a man by the name of Joseph Gaston, who is still living 
 and a resident of Portland, Oreg., was the chief promoter of the 
 enterprise. He took the articles of incorporation to the office of the 
 secretary of state with eight signatures and asked that they be filed, 
 but requested that he be permitted to withdraw them for the purpose 
 of presenting them to the legislature, which was then in session. 
 This was done, and the secretary of state made a pencil notation on 
 the back of these articles to the effect that they had been filed on that 
 date; Mr. Gaston then withdrew them from the files and took them 
 over to the governor's office and the governor then addressed to the 
 legislature a message recommending that that corporation, then being 
 organized,' be designated as the beneficiary of the grant in the State 
 of Oregon, and the articles of incorporation, together with the gov- 
 ernor's message, were before the committees of the legislature. On 
 Ocober 10, 1866, the legislature unanimously designated that cor- 
 poration as the beneficiary of the grant in the State of Oregon. After 
 that was done Mr. Gaston took the articles of incorporation to Port- 
 
26 OREGON AND CAUFOBNIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 land for the purpose of securing additional incorporators. He 
 wanted to get the prominent, substantial bankers back of the enter- 
 prise— Mr. JReed, Mr. Ainsworth, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Corbett; and 
 the other prominent bankers and financiers of Portland at that time. 
 
 Now, whether it was strictly proper for him to take these articles 
 away in tliis manner after once being filed in the office of the secretary 
 of state to secure additional signatures does not concern us here, and 
 no question in this controversy is based on that circumstance. But 
 while he had these articles at' Portland one of the employees of the 
 ofiice of the secretary of state realized that there was no formal 
 record in the ofiice of the fifing of those articles and he conceived the 
 plan of rushing onto the record articles of incorporation of another 
 corporation bearing the same corporate name, "Oregon Central Rail- 
 road Company," on the theory that if he got his articles recorded in 
 the office first, he could claim that his company was the one designated 
 by the legislature as the beneficiary of the grant. 
 
 The Chaikman. And he used the identical corporate name? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Yes, the Oregon Central Railroad Co. 
 
 Mr. Graham. Pie wanted to steal the name and get the benefit of 
 the grant for his own company. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Well, that led, of course, to a controversy between 
 those two corporations. Mr. Gaston returned his articles of incorpo- 
 ration on November 23, with nine additional signatures that gave 
 assurances of the necessary financial -backing to make the project a 
 success. It was two or three days afterwards that he learned that 
 these other articles had been placed of record on November 17. 
 
 The articles filed on November 17 we^e signed by three incorpo- 
 rators, being one of the employees of the ofiice of the secretary of 
 state and two of his associates at Salem, Oreg. Salem, as you know 
 is the capital of the State. 
 
 Now, the articles of the second company authorized a capital stock 
 of only $750,000, which, of course, was a ridiculously small amount 
 to construct a railroad 400 miles long; but the laws of the State 
 required that one-half of the authorized capital be subscribed before 
 the corporation could organize and elect a board of directors and 
 other officers. 
 
 These two factions continued the controversy until some time in 
 April, when the parties who were endeavoring to take the grant 
 away from the first company organized a new corporation on April 22, 
 1867, again adopting the same corporate name. They abandoned 
 their theory that the company first getting its articles of incorpora- 
 tion on file in the formal records of the office of the secretary of state 
 would secure the benefits of the grant, and took the position that the 
 act of Congress provided that the grant should be made to such corpo- 
 ration organized under the laws of the State of Oregon as the legis- 
 lature should designate. They contended that this meant that 
 the corporation had to be organized at the time of its designation; 
 and they further contended that the companv that was designated 
 on October 10, 1866, was not completely organized at that time, 
 the organization of the company having proceeded no further than the 
 filing of its articles of incorporation. Of course, at this time I may say 
 that it was a ridiculous contention to say that Congress intended to limit 
 the Legislature of the State of Oregon in its designation of the bene- 
 ficiary of this grant to a company already in existence, because 
 
OBEGON AND OAXJFOENIA lAND GRANT. 27 
 
 the only corporation then in existence in the State of Oregon that 
 was authorized by its articles of incorporation to construct the 
 railroad was the one that Congress had atready refused to designate 
 as the beneficiary of the grant. But this second company, organized 
 at Salem on April 22, 1867, took that position, and that was the 
 nature of the controversy that was subsequently carried on between 
 them. 
 
 Now, the original company — the Gaston company — ^projected its 
 line of road from Portland westerly for a distance of about 20 miles 
 and then southerly to the California hne; that was necessary to avoid 
 natural obstructions in the immediate vicinity of Portland. The 
 Salem company — the second company — ^projected its line of road 
 from what is known as East Portland (although at present within the 
 corporate limits of the city) southerly on the eastern side of the 
 Willamette River. So that to distinguish these two corporations 
 (which bore the same corporate name) the Gaston company became 
 known as the West Side Co. and the other company became known as 
 the East Side Co., that method of distinguishing them having refer- 
 ence to the location of the respective railroads with respect to the 
 Willamette River. 
 
 In May, 1867, the West Side Co. — the company designated by the 
 resolution of the legislature of October 10,. 1866 — ^perfected what it 
 considered to be a legitimate organization. It adopted a resolution 
 in terms assenting to the act of July 25, 1866, and filed a certified copy 
 of that resolution with the Secretary of the Interior within one year, 
 as required by the act of Congress. That time expired on July 25, 
 1867, and the assent was filed about July 1, 1867. 
 
 In the meantime the East Side Co. kept fighting the West Side Co. 
 While not claiming the grant itself, it contended that the West Side 
 Co. was not entitled to the grant; that the legislature had designated 
 a corporation that was not in existence at that time, and therefore 
 that no designation had been made, and therefore that the duty of 
 designating the beneficiary of the grant in the State of Oregon still 
 remained to be performed. 
 
 This controversy was conducted until the fall of 1868, when the 
 people back of the East Side Co. — Ben Holladay, in the meantime, 
 had become interested in the East Side Co. — induced the Legislature 
 of the State of Oregon to adopt, on October 20, 1868, a resolution in 
 terms rescinding the former designation, declaring it to have been 
 void for the reasons I have stated and making a new designation of 
 the East Side Co. 
 
 Now, you see, the East Side Co. could not assent to the terms of the 
 
 frant at that time, because the time within which the assent should 
 ave been filed had expired on July 25, 1867 ; so that when the East 
 Side Co. was designated on October 20, 1868, it still could not acquire 
 the benefits of the grant unless it could induce Congress to extend 
 the time in which to file the assent. So Mr. Holladay and the other 
 representatives of the company came on here to Washington in the 
 fall of 1868 for the purpose of securing, if possible, the necessary 
 legislation from Congress. A bUl was introduced and was under 
 consideration first in the Senate and then in the House. It passed 
 the Senate virtually in the form in which it was introduced, which 
 s im ply provided that any corporation that had theretofore been des- 
 ignated by the Legislature of the State of Oregon as the recipient of 
 
28 OREGON AND CALIFOBNIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 the grant under the act of July 25, 1866, might file its assent at amr 
 time within one year from the date of the passage of the new act. It 
 further provided that nothing contained in that act should be con- 
 strued as determining which of the two rival companies was entitled 
 to the grant. Congress refused to. pass on this controversy but was 
 wilhng to extend the time for filing the assent. When the bill came 
 up for consideration in the House, Mr. Juhan, pursuant to the policy 
 wnich I have described to you, immediately moved the following 
 amendment : 
 
 And provided further, That the lands granted by the act aforesaid shall be sold to 
 actual settlers only in quantities not greater than one-quaxter section to one purchaser 
 and for a price not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per acre. 
 
 Mr. Graham. The date of that, Mr. Townsend ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. That was on AprU 8, 1869. That amendment 
 was accepted and the biU passed the House in that form; the amend- 
 ment was subsequently agreed to by the Senate, and the biU became 
 a law on April 10, 1869. 
 
 Now, the East Side Co. could not have gotten this grant but for 
 this act. They realized that at the time, and they were very anxious 
 to come in under that act, because it was the only means by which 
 they could defeat the West Side Co. The West Side Co. was legally 
 vested with the grant, and if it could have maintained its financial 
 backing it would have defeated all the pretensions of the East Side 
 Co. But the East Side Co., armed with this law (notwithstanding 
 the caution that Congress took to avoid settling the controversy 
 between the two companies), and with the genius of Ben Holladay 
 back of them, succeeded in taking the grant away from the West 
 Side Co. By July, 1869, Ben Holladay had driven all of the finan- 
 cial backing away from the West Side Co. and construction ceased. 
 Then the East Side Co. filed its map of location and became recog- 
 nized by the Interior Department as the beneficiary of the grant. 
 At that time the West Side Co. abandoned aU claim to the grant, 
 and Mr. Gaston came to Washington and made application to Con- 
 gress for a new grant (a much smaller grant) in aid of the construc- 
 tion of the original line of railroad from Portland westerly to Forest 
 Grove and then southerly to McMinnvUle, with a branch line from 
 Forest Grove to Astoria. This grant was extended to the West Side 
 Co. by the act of May 4, 1870, which is the other grant now under 
 consideration. 
 
 Now, just as soon as the act of April 10, 1869, was passed, the East 
 Side Co. immediately adopted a resolution assenting to the terms of the 
 granting act, including the amendment I have referred to, and thus 
 bound itself by all the conditions of the act of April 10, 1869. That 
 resolution was filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior in June, 
 1869. In the spring of 1870, the East Side Co.— the Holladay com- 
 pany—found Itself facing a lot of litigation questioning the validity of 
 Its orgamzation and challenging its right to use the corporate name 
 " Oregon Central Railroad Co. " ; so in March, 1870, the East Side Co. 
 was reorganized under the name of the Oregon & California Raihoad 
 Co. and a document in the form of a conveyance was executed trans- 
 ferring to the new company all the property and franchises of the old 
 company m consideration of the payment of the debts of the old 
 company. That conveyance was executed and filed in the office of the 
 Secretary of the Interior. The question of the right to make this 
 
OREGON AND OAUFORNIA LAND GRANT. 29 
 
 assignment was presented to the Department of Justice and it was 
 determined that the general franchise was assignable and the assign- 
 ment was recognized, and the Oregon & California Railroad Co. has 
 since been recognized as the successor of the original grantee. It has 
 constructed aU the railroad, except the first 20 miles. All patents 
 have been issued to the California & Oregon Co. No patents were 
 issued to the Oregon Central Railroad Co. 
 
 In the meantime the West Side Co. had not proceeded very far 
 before it became heavily involved in debt. In July, 1870, two or three 
 months after the West Side Co. had secured its new grant by the act 
 of May 4, 1870, the HoUaday company bought all the capital stock 
 of the West Side Co. and the two were thereafter operated as a single 
 enterprise, although the ownership of the railroads was not finally 
 combmed until 1880. 
 
 Now, I have given you this outline of the manner in which these 
 grants vested, because on that history turn certain questions I want 
 j'^ou to consider in connection with this legislation. Ihe railroad 
 company has ignored the restrictions imposed on the disposition of 
 these lands. For a long time there was no substantial demand for 
 the land, except by settlers or other persons of limited means and 
 who could, therefore, buy them only in limited quantities. During 
 that part of the history of this grant the Government was offering its 
 lands at $2.50 an acre, and the railroad company could not obtain 
 more. So, during the early history of the grant, with the excep- 
 tion of two or three conveyances, made in settlement of the 
 debts of the old company, all of the early sales of these lands were 
 substantially within the restrictions imposed by law. Ihis was 
 really because of the condition of the market, however, rather than 
 because of any desire on the part of the railroad company to" keep 
 within the terms of the law. Ihey now admit that they have always 
 sold these lands in as large quantities as they could and for as large 
 a price as they could obtain, claiming that this provision of the law 
 was not binding upon them. We contend, of course, to the contrary. 
 
 This practice of disposing of the lands continued until 1890, when 
 a sudden market for the land for timber purposes developed, and the 
 demand for the lands in large quantities, and at a rapidly increasing 
 price, sprang up. About 1892 or 1893 the railroad company began 
 disposing of these lands in large quantities — 1,500, 10,000, and even 
 45,000 acres in a single sale. Finally, in April, 1901, the Harriman 
 interests secured control — this Oregon & California Railroad Co. is 
 one of the subsidiary companies of the Southern Pacific. After a 
 reorganization of the different departments of the company, includ- 
 ing the land department, on January 1, 1903, a new policy was 
 adopted, which was that none of these lands should be sold upon any 
 terms to anybody, and that policy has since been adhered to. Com- 
 mencing at a poiut about the center of Oregon and thence to the 
 southern boundary fine of the State the railroad company maintains 
 to-day a Hteral checkerboard against any further industrial develop- 
 ment. They own nearly one-haK of all the land within 30 or 40 
 miles of the railroad. 
 
 The result was that the Legislature of the State of Oregon, in 
 February, 1907, addressed to Congress and to the executive officers of 
 the Federal Government a memorial protesting against these viola- 
 tions of the spirit as well as of the letter of the provisions of these rail- 
 
30 OREGON AND OAUFOKNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 road grants, and asking that appropriate action be taken to enforce 
 the rights of the United States by way of forfeiture or otherwise. 
 
 The matter was brought to the attention of the Attorney General 
 and an investigation of the entire subject was had covering every 
 transaction affecting any of these granted lands, and we brought back 
 to Washington m the fall of 1907 every conveyance, every document, 
 or paper of any kind ever executed and placed of record affecting any 
 of these land grants, and we found the following general facts: 
 
 I will start, first, by saying that the West Side Co. involved only 
 approximately 128 acres of land, and we majr dismiss the history of 
 that grant from consideration, because this litigation reaUy hinges on 
 the East Side grant. The latter grant involved 3,200,000 acres of 
 land. Now, treating the two grants combined, of the granted lands 
 approximately 820,000 acres were sold prior to the withdrawal of 
 the lands from sale on January 1, 1903. Of those 820,000 acres 
 296,000 acres were sold to 4,930 purchasers in quantities not exceed- 
 ing one-quarter section to a single person; 524,000 acres were sold to 
 376 purchasers in quantities exceeding one-quarter section to one per- 
 son; of the 524,000 acres that were sold in excessive quantities ap- 
 proximately 400,000 acres were in quantities exceeding 1,000 acres 
 to a single purchaser. 
 
 We came to the conclusion that these restrictions on the sale of 
 these granted lands constituted a condition subsequent annexed to 
 the grant, for violation of which terms the Government could reenter 
 and claim forfeiture for breach of conditions. We further came to 
 the conclusion that inasmuch as the Constitution commits to the 
 exclusive jurisdiction of Congress the disposition of the public domaia, 
 that vests in Congress exclusively the proprietary rights of the United 
 States, and no agency of the United States can exercise any of the 
 
 Proprietary rights of the United States unless authorized to do so by 
 ongress. 
 
 Now, the manner in which the grantor may reenter for breach of 
 conditions is a delicate question, as you will find. I took the position 
 that only Congress could determine whether a forfeiture should be 
 claimed for breach of these conditions or should be waived, and that 
 no executive department could claim a forfeiture on the part of the 
 United States, because if they had authority to claim forfeiture they 
 also would have the authority to waive a forfeiture. I say that no 
 executive department can do that so long as Congress is vested ex- 
 clusively with the proprietary rights of the United States in the 
 pubhc domain. 
 
 Mr. Kakee. Do I understand you to mean that a condition subse- 
 quent is not self-executing and that the grantor may reenter without 
 any proceedings whatever ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. That is the ordinary, common-law method by 
 which a grantor may reenter and take possession, if he can do that 
 without committing a breach of the peace; but the law is simply this: 
 If there is a breach of a condition subsequent the grantor must elect 
 to claim or waive the breach. Until he does so, the grantee still re- 
 tams the title. If the grantor manifests his intention to claim the 
 breach that operates ipso facto to reinvest the grantor as of his orig- 
 inal estate. Now, the most usual method of manifesting that inten- 
 tion was by reentry. 
 
OEEGON AND CAUFOBNIA LAND GEANT. 31 
 
 Mr. Rakee. And the fact of reentry returns the title to the grantor 
 without any ftirther proceedings on his part ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Yes. Of course, subsequent proceedings may be 
 instituted to make his new title a matter of record, but in such case 
 his title does not revert because of the judicial proceedings. The 
 decree in such a case does not create, but merely sustains the reverter 
 of title. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. If he can not reenter without committing a breach of 
 the peace, then he can commence an action in ejectment ? 
 
 Mj. TowJsrsEND. Yes; and the commencement of an action of eject- 
 ment has been held by the courts as being in itself a sufficient mani- 
 festation of intention to claim the breach. 
 
 Now, the Supreme Court has settled the matter of the form in 
 which the United States may reenter for a breach of a condition 
 subsequent. The United States can not take physical possession of 
 theJand, and the Supreme Court of the United States has held that 
 it must manifest its.mtention to claim the breach either by declara- 
 tion of Congress or by judicial proceedings authorized by law. You 
 will find that quahfication in all the decisions on the subject. We 
 came here and asked for authority to institute a suit asserting for- 
 feiture, on behalf of the United States, on. the theory that if we 
 instituted suit without that authority it would fail. Judge Wolver- 
 ton has held that the Department of Justice was correct in its inter- 
 pretation of the rights of the Government and as to the manner in 
 which they should be asserted and enforced. 
 
 Now, on April 30, 1908, after very full hearings before this com- 
 mittee extending over a period of 60 days, a resolution was favorably 
 reported and finally passed by the House and was approved by the 
 President. That resolution authorized the Attorney General to 
 institute the prodeedings that he deemed adequate and appropriate 
 to enforce the rights of -the United States under these land grants; 
 and directed and authorized him to claim a forfeiture for breach of 
 conditions in those legal proceedings, and also directed the court to 
 entertain the claim and adjudicate the rights of the United States. 
 Now, some question may arise in your mind as to whether equity will 
 entertain a suit to enforce a forfeiture; but I prefer not to take up 
 •any time discussing that now, as I find my time has shpped by more 
 rapidly then I thought. I will simply say this that; if you wiU exam- 
 ine the case of Farnsworth v. Minnesota, in 92 United States, you will 
 find that the general rule in equity against enforcing a forfeiture 
 apphes only to transactions between individuals resting upon con- 
 tracts into for the purpose of profit; but when forfeiture is asserted 
 on behalf of the public the rule is the reverse and courts of equity will 
 lend their jurisdiction to enforce a forfeiture on behalf of the pubKc. 
 And you will find also that the history of the subject shows that Con- 
 gress has frequently directed proceedings in equity to enforce for- 
 feitures and the courts have always entertained them, and suits of 
 this character have always been entertained in the Supreme Court, 
 resulting in judgments of forfeiture in favor of the United States. 
 
 Now, at the time that this resolution of April 30, 1908, was under 
 consideration a number of these purchasers came to Washington to 
 ask Congress to confirm their titles. Bear in mind that the railroad 
 company still holds approximately 2,400,000 acres of land, and that 
 was the main purpose of any proceedings to be instituted — to claim 
 
32 OBEGON AND OAUFOBNIA LA.NI> GKANT. 
 
 a forfeiture of those 2,400,000 acres for breach of conditions. There 
 had been approximately 400,000 acres sold in quite large quantities. 
 We had extended hearings on that question, too, and it was one of 
 the matters considered at that time as to whether Congress should 
 confirm the titles of all these purchasers. I was not opposed to con- 
 firming the titles of these purchasers of land from this railroad com-r 
 pany, and I have never advocated any step that would in any way 
 interfere with or check the commercial development of western Ore- 
 gon. I have always said that the only legitimate function or purpose 
 of this litigation was to promote the industrial welfare of that State, 
 and that such litigation should not be instituted or prosecuted in any 
 way that would check the industrial development of the State. But 
 I did object to the confirmation of those titles at that time for the 
 reason that if Congress directed us to claim a forfeiture for breach of 
 conditions, and in the same breath condoned all of the breaches, that 
 would not leave us anything to stand on. At that time Congress 
 adopted my view and refused to confirm any of the titles. I confess 
 that I had no objection to the confirmation of those titles, but I did 
 not want that done while we were prosecuting the suit against the 
 raiboad company, involving 2,400,000 acres of land. 
 
 The Chairman. You were in favor of confirming the titles of every- 
 body but the railroad company or other corporations; you did not 
 intend to apply to those cases the same rules you had for the railroad 
 company? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. I can not say that my intention was quite as 
 broad as you have stated it, Mr. Chairman, although I really believed 
 it was best at that time to institute but one suit and that was to be 
 against the railroad company. 
 
 The Chairman. What do you say now, if your position was correct, 
 as to confirming these titles ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Just let me make one more suggestion and I wiU 
 get to that point a little later. During the hearings before this com- 
 mittee in 1908, I said that if any method could be devised whereby 
 the purchasers could secure relief that would not carry with it by 
 necessary implication an intention to condone these breaches, I 
 would not object to it. What I mean to say is that I was opposed 
 to confirmation at that time, because I feared it would destroy all. 
 right to a forfeiture. 
 
 Now, we instituted this main suit against the railroad company, 
 involving the 2,400,000 acres, and subsequently the question arose 
 as to whether or not wo should enter other suits against the pur- 
 chasers. I objected on the ground that those suits would cause more 
 public harm than good, as there were several small towns in western 
 Oregon that had been built up on the strength of those titles; mill s 
 had been installed and a large part of the industrial life of western 
 Oregon was founded on those titles, and I made up mv mind that 
 any good that might result from destroying those titles would not 
 offset the injuiy that would be done to a large number of innocent 
 people. 
 
 Mr. Raker. If you are successful in your main suit as to the land 
 still held by the company it would not affect primarily or directly thes 
 land that they had transferred to others ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. It woTild not. 
 
OREGON AND OAUFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 33 
 
 Mr. Rakek. Then, after you have disposed of that suit it will have 
 to be determined by the department as to whether or not you should 
 proceed against these who had purchased lands from the railroad com- 
 pany; is that right? 
 
 Mx. TowNSEND. Yes, sir; except that we took up that question 
 before the first suit was instituted. 
 
 Mr. Eaker. Is it not a fact that this bill seeks condonation as to all 
 the land that the railroad company has sold ? Is not that the pur- 
 pose, and will not the courts be compelled to construe this act, if 
 adopted, to be a condonation as to all the lands sold by the company? 
 I am seeking information. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. I think not. 
 
 Mr. Eaker. Then, further: Is there not involved in this case the 
 vital question that the Oregon & California Railroad Co. has given a 
 deed of trust to all its lines, and that, under the law, is a transfer? 
 And won't the courts be compelled to say that these poeple have con- 
 donation under the deed of trust, and therefore the question of for- 
 feiture is entirely limiting ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. I thirik not. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Has not the Supreme Court of the United States held 
 that a deed of trust is a transfer under these very grants, and thus 
 defeat the Government in whatever manner it may proceed ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. They have held that a mortgage is a disposing of 
 lands within the terms of the Union Pacific grant, but they have not 
 had a question similar to this before them. 
 
 Mr. Ferris. When was this petition filed that is now pending? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. On September 4, 1908. 
 
 Mr. Ferris. The issues have been joined ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. Yes, sir; the issues have been joined and some of 
 the testimony has been taken. 
 
 Mr. Speer. Does not the former resolution give you sufficient 
 authority for bringing suit against the railroad, or is this necessary to 
 sustain that suit ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. If the chairman will permit me to make a sugges- 
 tion, I would like to say that there are about five features of this pro- 
 posed bill about which I wish to make a statement, and I would prefer 
 to take up each provision and will be glad to answer any questions you 
 may have to ask as we consider it. 
 
 Mr. Graham. It seems to me, Mr. Chairman, that Mr. Townsend's 
 presentation of this matter has been so clear and his reasoning so 
 cogent that interruptions are likely to confuse instead of enlighten, 
 and I beUeve he should be allowed to proceed without interruption. 
 
 The Chairman. I would like to have Mr. Townsend make his state- 
 ment just as he wishes to make it. I will have to remind him, how- 
 ever, that our time is getting short. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. I think, Mr. Chairman, that in the remaining 18 
 minutes I can cover most of the questions involved. 
 
 The Chairman. Then you may proceed without interruption. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. As I have said, I objected to the institution of suits 
 against the purchasers of land from the railroad company; but the 
 Attorney General overruled me, and they were instituted in January, 
 1909, about five months after the mam suit was instituted. The 
 issues in the main suit were complicated by interventions and cross 
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34 OREGON AND CA1.IFOBNIA LAND GEANT. 
 
 comDlaints and we were delayed somewhat in submitting the demur- 
 Snterposed by the raUroa^ company. I may have been responsi- 
 ble for some of the delay, as we have both proceeded in thas htigation 
 very cautiously, both resizing the importance and effect of any mis 
 takis that might be made. The demurrers were argued, and Judge 
 Wolverton held that the Government had correctly interpreted its 
 remedies and had correctly proceeded to enforce them. The court 
 held that on the facts stated in the bill the restrictions constituted a 
 condition subsequent and that the Government was entitled to for- 
 feiture of the 2,400,000 acres. Our suit specifically described the land 
 involved in the claim of forfeiture, and we described only the land 
 still held by the railroad company and made no reference to land sold. 
 
 The question arises as to the disposition of those suits against the 
 purchasers. The proceedings in those suits have been held in abey- 
 ance until the main suit has been disposed of. Last July the attor- 
 neys for the purchasers made the following proposition: That they 
 would consent that judgment of forfeiture be entered m each case 
 restoring to the United States title to these lands, if the purchasers 
 were given a preferential right to repurchase them at $2.50 per acre. 
 
 The Chairman. We are compelled to adjourn now. When would 
 you like to resume, Mr. Townsend ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. Whenever it is convenient for the committee. 
 
 Thereupon, at 11.55 o'clock a. m., the committee a,djourned to 
 meet for the purpose of concluding the hearing on this biU at 10 
 o'clock a. m. Tuesday, May 7, 1912. 
 
 Committee on the Public Lands, 
 
 House of Representatives, 
 
 Monday, May 6, 1912. 
 The committee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m., Hon. Joseph T. Robinson 
 (chairman) presiding. -r, t^ m 
 
 There were present before the committee, B. D. Townsend, repre- 
 senting the Department of Justice, and Mr. A. C. Dixon, representing 
 purchasers with whom compromise is proposed by H. R. 22002. 
 
 The Chairman. We will proceed with the hearing on H. R. 22002, 
 supplementing the joint resolution of Congress approved April 30, 
 1908, entitled "Joint resolution instructing the Attorney General to 
 institute certain suits," etc., by Mr. Lafferty. Mr. Townsend will 
 be further heard this morning. 
 
 STATEMENT OF MR. B. D. TOWNSEND, REPRESENTING THE 
 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. Mr. Chairman, when this proposition was made by 
 the purchasers against whom suits had been instituted, for the com-^ 
 promising of those suits, I presented the subject first to the Attorney 
 General to secure his permission that the proposition might be enter- 
 tained by us to the extent of submitting it to Congress ; and we came 
 to the conclusion that, having due regard for the functions of Congress 
 in the transaction as well as the functions of the Department oi the 
 Interior and the Department of Justice, the orderly way would be to 
 have a bill introduced in Congress covering the general subject and 
 
OBEGON AN]f> OALIFOENIA LAND GRANT. 35 
 
 haye it referred 'to the proper committee with the suggestion that the 
 bill be referred by the committee to the Department of the Interior 
 for its recommendations upon questions of public-land policy, and to 
 the Department of Justice for its recommendations upon questions of 
 law, and particularly as affecting the main suit against the railroad 
 company; and that general plan has been carried out. Now, at the 
 same time it occurred to me that if there was to be any new legislation 
 relating to the subject of this litigation, there were a few other points 
 that should be covered in addition to the proposed compromise with 
 the purchasers. With that general explanation I will now take up 
 and discuss the several features of the present bill, explaining briefly 
 the pin-pose and in my judgment the effect of each of them. 
 
 Section 1 provides that all of the claims of forfeiture asserted by the 
 Attorney General on behalf of the United States pursuant to the 
 resolution of April 30," 1908, are hereby ratified and confirmed and 
 are hereby declared to be of the same force and effect as declarations 
 of forfeiture by the Congress of the United States. Now the purpose 
 of that is this: The Department of Justice has instituted one suit 
 against the railroad company involving 2,400,000 acres of land still 
 claimed by it, lands that were not sold, m that suit the principal 
 contention asserted on behalf of the United States is a forfeiture of all 
 these lands for breach of the conditions annexed to the grant, restrain- 
 ing the manner in which the granted lands should be sold. In addition 
 to that land suit we have instituted 45 suits against those who have 
 purchased these lands in large quantities. Each of those suits in- 
 volve 1,000 acres or more, and the aggregate quantity involved is 
 approximately 390,000 acres. 
 
 Now in the main suit against the railroad company it has been con- 
 stantly urged that the attorneys for the Government have not cor- 
 rectly followed out the instructions and authority conferred by the 
 resolution of April 30, 1908. I contend that we have; that we have 
 followed it hterally; that we have instituted the litigation exactly as 
 you wanted it instituted, as we were directed by that resolution, 
 feut as I explained before, the assertion of a right of forefeiture is a 
 delicate matter. There must be no equivocation about it ; there must 
 be no doubt whatever of the authority of the governmental officer 
 who assumes to assert it on behalf of the Government against those 
 challenging the authority of tlie Department of Justice to assert this 
 right of forfeiture. 
 
 Now we come to you as your attorneys, in a sense, and there is no 
 reason why you, as the client, should not ratify the action of your 
 attorneys and set at rest this pretended contention on behalf of the 
 railroad company. So far as I am personally concerned I am per- 
 fectly willing to stand upon my own judgment that the contention 
 urged by the railroad company is without merit, but when the sub- 
 ject comes to you, I think it quite fitting and proper, in view of all 
 the defenses urged by the railroad company, to leave no doubt of 
 the authority of the Attorney General to proceed in the pending liti- 
 gation. 
 
 Now note the effect of the contention made by the railroad com- 
 pany. They contend that in this pending htigation the only thing 
 that we can do is to determine the right of the Government to a for- 
 feiture, and that when that is established in the pending htigation, 
 Congress must then make a declaration of forfeiture, and we must 
 
36 OREGON AND CALIPOBNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 then again invoke the jurisdiction of the courts to enforce that decla- 
 ration of forfeiture. That is all nonsense. We should be permitted 
 to go forward with this litigation and have all rights determined , 
 and enforced as the result of this suit. Now that is all I have to 
 say as to section 1. I do not urge it; I think it is desirable, and I 
 know that there is no objection to it. 
 
 Now, the next feature of the bill is covered by sections 2, 3, and 4. 
 The substance of those sections is this: It is provided that none of 
 the lands that revert to the United States by virtue of any claim of 
 forfeiture asserted on behalf of the United States in these suits shall 
 become subject to. the initiation of any right under the public-land 
 laws of the United States until after the judgment shall have become 
 final and all rights of appeal have been exhausted, and the land shall 
 be opened to settlement and entry by proclaination of the President, 
 Now, that is the law now. Lands reverting to the United States do 
 not become subject to the initiation of any public-land rights until 
 they are restored to the tract books and opened to entry by some form 
 of executive action or by some form of legislative enactment. But 
 these lands involved in the main suit against the railroad company, 
 2,400,000 acres of land, are worth approximately $75,000,000. There 
 are many claims of 160 acres worth from $5,000 to $15,000 each, 
 and some of them I have heard estimated even higher than that. 
 
 Now there is a great activity among so-called "locators" who are 
 exploiting these lands. I do not mean by that the honest locator; I 
 do not mean the man who goes out and points out the boundaries of 
 desirable public lands in good faith, lands that are subject to entry, 
 to the man who comes along and is seeking that kind of special in- 
 formation, but I mean the other class of locators who go around and 
 create a desire on the part of people to make entry on lands that they 
 have no right to enter, and then charge an exorbitant amount for 
 the location fee. And during the pendency of this litigation, we have 
 been hampered by the activity of the latter class of locators who have 
 induced persons all over the United States to apply to the railroad 
 company to purchase these lands in quantities not exceeding 160 
 acres, tendering $2.50 per acre, upon the theory that this provision of 
 the grant restricting the disposition of the granted lands is not a con- 
 dition subsequent, but that it creates a method by which the indi- 
 vidual citizen may compel sales by the railroad company; and that 
 application to purchase, accompanied by tender in the manner I 
 have described, creates an equitable interest in the land applied for 
 in the favor of the applicant, which may be enforced by a court of 
 equity. Now that sounds very plausible, and with that plausible 
 theory advertised to the world some six or eight thousand people have 
 been induced to apply to purchase these lands and have paid from 
 $25 to $300 as a location fee. Now, Mr. Chairman, it is desirable to 
 stop that. We have attempted to stop the practice, and I believe 
 it has now run its limit. There is virtually no more of it. But the 
 moment that we get a decree of forfeiture of this 2,400,000 acres, the 
 moment that we secure a judgment that declares that that land has 
 reverted to the public domain we will go through the same experience 
 again, and I think with even more graft than there was before. 
 
 Now it is true that the President might issue a proclamation under 
 the terms of the Dick bill withdrawing all those lands from entry until 
 judgment shall become final, but it may seriously be questioned if the 
 
OREGON AND CAUPOBNIA LAND GRANT. 37 
 
 Dick bill is broad enough in its terms to assure the withdrawal upon 
 that ground, and I therefore recommend the enactment of these three 
 sections that shall put beyond all possibility of doubt the question 
 of the right of anyone to initiate a public-land right as to any of these 
 lands until a certain time to be hereafter fixed, giving all people an 
 equal opportunity to participate in the benefits of the victory that the 
 Government may win here, and at the same time enact a positive 
 legislative declaration upon the subject that will leave no man who 
 engages in any graft upon the subject any ground upon which he may 
 say he has been deceived and that he thought he had a lawful right to 
 induce people to attempt to initiate any right under the public land 
 laws. Now in that connection I think I should add that under the 
 law relating to conditions subsequent it is the assertion of the right of 
 forfeiture that operates to reinvest the grantor with title as of his 
 original estate. So that if the claim of forfeiture that has been 
 asserted here is well founded, title has already reinvested in the United 
 States. I do not presume in advance what the decision of the court 
 wiU be, but basing my judgment upon the decision already rendered 
 upon the demurrer and the views expressed by Justice Wolverton as 
 to the doctrines of law that control the rights of the Government and 
 the raihoad company in this case, I believe that a judgment will be 
 entered in the near future declaring that these lands have been for- 
 feited to the United States, and unless there is something to restrain 
 this activity on the part of the land locator that I have described there 
 is bound to arise a situation that will be regretted by all, that no one 
 can control, and that I think should be stopped at the beginning. 
 
 Now as to section 5. In considering the proposed compromise 
 with the large purchasers the question suggested itself to my mind 
 that something should be done to protect the small purchasers who 
 have not been sued at aU and "whom we do not intend to sue. The 
 resolution of April 30, 1008, directs, without limitation or qualifica- 
 tion, the institution of aU suits deemed adequate and proper to 
 assert and enforce the rights of the Government. Now it is com- 
 mitted to the discretion of the Attorney General, as I understand it, 
 what suits shall be considered proper and adequate, and exercising 
 that discretion the Attorney General concluded that suits could not 
 be instituted in every case where the lands were sold in quantities 
 exceeding 160 acres, or for a price exceeding 12.50 per acre, or to a 
 person who was not an actual settler at the time of purchase. To 
 have done so would have necessitated no less than four or five thou- 
 sand suits against no less than twenty to twenty-five thousand 
 parties. That would have been wholly impracticable. It was neces- 
 sary to draw some arbitrary line to keep this legislation within the 
 bounds of practicability, and so, without intending to discriminate, 
 we fuiaUy came to the conclusion that we must draw the line at a 
 thousand acres, and that rule was observed. Even then there were 
 a few instances where no suits should be instituted. For instance, the 
 city of Portland has purchased something like 3,500 acres on Mount 
 Hood to conserve the city water supply. Now, it was quite apparent 
 to all of us that that land, having been taken for public use, for public 
 benefit, no question should be raised as to it; that is, as against the 
 city of Portland. Then there were several instances where coloniza- 
 tion companies had purchased a thousand or fifteen hundred acres of 
 land and had distributed the lands in small holdings from 40 to 160 
 
38 OREGON AND CAIiIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 acres among colonists, and the actual purpose of these limitations 
 had been accomplished. . 
 
 Now we concluded that it would not be fan- nor right, nor was there 
 any pubUc reason why the title of those small holders should be 
 attacked, although it had proceeded through a larger purchaser. 
 Then there was a purchase by a brotherhood of friars not far from the 
 city of Portland, some sixteen or seventeen hundred acres, and they 
 had established some sort of a mission there — I do not know what the 
 technical name of the institution is, but the lands are being devoted to 
 benevolent and charitable uses, and of course we did not mclude that 
 in our suits. There were seven or eight instances of the kind that I 
 have described. If we had drawn the line, say, at 750 acres, it would 
 have made SD many cases in which the titles were so complicated that 
 the working out of the details would have obstructed our work in 
 the main case. The main object of all this litigation, you must bear 
 in mind, is the main suit against the railroad company involving this 
 2,400,000 acres. That is the ultimate — I should say the primary- 
 object of this litigation. 
 
 Mr Rakek. In that connection — I have another appointment this 
 morning, and there is just one other matter I would Hke to ask 
 about now. 
 
 The Chairman. Very well. 
 
 Mr. Raker. In view of the statement that you have just made, 
 Mr. Townsend, suppose that a bill was passed reading as follows: 
 
 That all suits in equity, actions at law, or other judicial proceedings instituted, and 
 all claims of forfeiture heretofore or hereafter asserted by the Attorney General on 
 behalf of the United States in or by any and all suits in equity, actions at law, or other 
 judicial proceedings instituted pursuant to the joint resolution of Congress approved 
 April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled "Joint resolution instructing the 
 Attorney General to institute certain suite," and so forth, be, and thesame are hereby, 
 approved, ratified, and confirmed, and full and plenary power and authority be, and is 
 hereby, given to the Attorney General on behalf of the United States in and by any 
 suit in equity, actions at law, or other judicial proceedings to fully carry out and 
 enforce the provisions of the joint resolution of Congress approved April thirtieth, 
 nineteen hundred and eight, entitled "Joint resolution instructing the Attorney 
 General to institute certain suits." (36 U. S. Stat. L., p. — .) 
 
 Suppose that were adopted. Would that not carry out the very 
 thing that would relate to the forfeiture of this land grant now held 
 by the railroad company? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. I would have to read that a little more carefully. 
 [Reads paper.] 
 
 Mr. Raker. "Wouldn't it be, if that does it, wouldn't it be the 
 better policy to proceed vsdth this suit now pending with full, ample, 
 and plenary power directed by Congress confirming what has been 
 done rather than to comphcate any other suit that might be brought 
 or anybody else that might be involved who bought from the railroad 
 company? Wouldn't that be better as a question of public policy, 
 after the question of declaring the forfeiture? That is what I am 
 ttjing to do, and if this does that, wouldn't that be the better policy 
 to pursue ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. In answer to that please let me examine this care- 
 fully, and I will answer your question fully. This comes to me in a 
 new form, and I would rather look it over. 
 
 The Chairman. This is a matter which is important, and it would 
 be fair to Mr. Townsend that the suggestion be submitted to him and 
 
OREGON AND OAUFOKNIA liAND GRANT. 39 
 
 that he be given ample opportunity to investigate the amendment 
 which you suggest, and therefore I think that any discussion of the 
 amendment should probably be delayed until Mr. Townsend has had 
 sufficient opportunity to investigate and examine it. He will then be 
 given an opportunity to express his opinion. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Yes. Now, if you should answer in the affirmative, 
 or by any additional amendments to the one presented, to give the 
 power to the Department of Justice, if your answer is in the affirma- 
 tive, would it not be the better policy that a separate, distinct, and 
 independent resolution or bill be introduced to control the matter, if 
 possible, so that pending this litigation and until it has been deter- 
 mined Congress may by proper law prevent any further entering, dis- 
 position, or disposing of that land, so that it would obviate the ques- 
 tion of new parties going in there and locators bunkoing people from 
 the East and other places to go in there and file upon this land, thereby 
 absolutely prohibitmg and preventing any complication and further 
 suits, and the suit pending against the 2,400,000 acres, as well as those 
 you have named, and against the purchasers of land should be left 
 standing until this main forfeiture suit is determined, and when that 
 is determined you would be in a position, under the legislation enacted, " 
 to adjust it with them without any suit whatever ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. I will answer Judge Raker's question later. Now, 
 referring to the subject of these purchaser suits, I have explained to 
 you that we have instituted 45 suits against the purchasers, pursuant 
 to the policy that was adopted. But the resolution of April 30, 1908, 
 is a cloud upon the title of all the lands sold in quantities in excess 
 of 160 acres, or for a price in excess of $2.50 per acre, or to a person 
 who was not an actual settler at the time of purchase, although pur- 
 chasing a very small quantity of land. Then again, there is no 
 method by which it can be made a matter of record that any of the 
 land was sold to an actual settler. Now what is the result ? Why, 
 Mr. Chairman, the men who purchased those lands in small quan- 
 tities, even though shghtly in excess of 160 acres, and their successors 
 in title, find themselves with a cloud upon the title that virtually 
 precludes them from selling their land or raising money upon it, and 
 for the most part they are men of modest means and wholly without 
 the means to protect themselves against that situation. Now we do 
 not intend to sue them. They never will be sued, and I make that 
 statement, not only as the declaration of the policy of the department 
 at the present time, but as a prediction that the same policy will 
 necessarily be pursued by anyone who has anything to do with that 
 litigation. The title to a large number of homes in western Oregon 
 is in that very situation. The title is clouded by this doubt that I 
 refer to, and I say that something should be done for the relief of 
 those persons. No public good is accomplished by clouding the title 
 that you never intend to attack. It is accomplishing no good, it is 
 injuring the small holders, and it is injuring those who are compara- 
 tively helpless. 
 
 Now, I do not want you to do anything that can be construed as a 
 condonation of any breaches of these conditions. But the way in 
 which you can accomphsh the end sought is by establishing a time 
 limit within which suits may be instituted, because the fixing of a 
 limitation of time for the institution of a suit is in no sense a waiver 
 of the cause of action; it is in no sense a condonation of the wrong 
 
40 OREGON AND CAUFOKNIA LAN» ©BANT. 
 
 upon which the cause of action rests. For instance, fixing the limi- 
 tation of time within which the United States may institute suits to 
 cancel patents issued through fraud is not a condonation of the fraud. 
 It is simply a suspension of the remedy upon grounds of general 
 pubhc policy, and it never can be construed as a condonation of the 
 original wrong. 
 
 Mr. Volstead. Isn't there this situation: That they might go on 
 and remove that hmitation later on by act of Congress ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. The Supreme Court, in United States v. Chandler 
 and Dunbar, reported in 209 United States, held that a hmitation of 
 time for the institution of suits affecting title to realty goes not only 
 to the remedy but to the right, and upon the expiration of the time 
 it acts virtually as a statute declaring that so many years of adverse 
 possession creates a prescriptive title, and while I would not bind 
 myself to answer your question, because it may be involved in litiga- 
 tion now pending, and I should prefer to examine the matter more 
 thoroughly before answering, still my individual opinion is that when 
 Congress fixes a limitation for the institution of suits attacking the 
 title to realty, when that limitation has expired, a right has arisen 
 'that can not be taken away by subsequent legislation. But that is 
 only my individual opinion. 
 
 Mr. VOLSTEAD. You mean that the opinion you speak of would 
 apply unless there was a removal, an attempt to remove the limita- 
 tion by subsequent act of Congress ? 
 
 Mr. ToWNSEND. It must be done within the statute of limitations. 
 The act of March 3, 1891, section 8, limits the time in which the 
 United States may institute suits to cancel title. Justice Holmes has 
 held in a recent case that even though the patent was void, in that it 
 was issued without authority for lands that had been withdrawn from 
 the jurisdiction of the Interior Department, it was held that after the 
 six years had expired the patent became a valid title that was not 
 subject to attack on any grounds, and the necessary effect of Justice 
 Holmes's decision is that the United States could not attack it here 
 by any subsequent legislation. That necessarily follows. 
 
 Mr. Volstead. Then it seems to me it would necessarily follow that 
 a statute of limitations of this kind would in effect waive the breach 
 that you are relying upon for the purpose of setting aside these titles. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. I can not stop to discuss it now, but it seems to me 
 so plain that no discussion is necessary. If I, a private grantor, 
 should tell my attorney to institute certain suits, but on account of 
 commercial and industrial interests of the community in which I Uve 
 I did not want him to institute these certain other suits, or should 
 limit the time within which he should institute any suits, nobody 
 could say that I intended to waive any of my rights or that I intended 
 to condone any invasion of my rights. Isn't that true ? Now, the 
 United States has the same rights as any private grantor. 
 
 Mr. Volstead. Yes; but pardon me, that would not stop you if 
 you changed your mind later on. You might say to your attorney, 
 "Go on and bring your suits." 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. So you could here. You say now to your attorney, 
 "You can not institute any suits after a year from to-day." You 
 may change your mind inside of a year. 
 
 Mr. Volstead. Yes, but what I was suggesting was that you might 
 make a waiver by this limitation. 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. LAND GRANT. 41 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. I can not see that the fixing of a period of limita- 
 tion is in any sense analogous to the waiver of a right, the condona- 
 tion of the invasion of a right. It can not be possible, because the 
 question of waiver and condonation is a question of intent. If the 
 United States can not here do that which public interest requires, 
 and refrain from instituting suits after a year from to-day without 
 waiving all the right it has — why, it is riaiculous. You might just 
 as well say that a business man could not bring suit against one 
 debtor without bringing it against all of them. Now dearly the 
 United States is not put in the ridiculous position that it will have to 
 institute all of the suits that it can' institute, or waive its right to 
 maintain a particular suit. Now that same question has been asked 
 me before, 'By what theory do you pretend that the United States 
 may institute only a few suits "that they could institute on these 
 grounds and not mstitute all of them?" And I said, "Upon the 
 same theory that any business man may institute what suits he pleases 
 and not institute others." 
 
 Mr. Volstead. It seems to me, under this provision, if you con- 
 done any of the breaches of this contract — I presume one or a dozen 
 of them will be just as good as a thousand — if you condone any num- 
 ber of them you lose your right of forfeiture as to the balance. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. I do not want to see any condonation of any 
 breaches, and the fixing of the time within which suits may be insti- 
 tuted is not a condonation. This simply means that they could not 
 bring any suit which was instituted after the year had expired. 
 This does not condone the wrong; it waives no rights. It simply 
 means that the expiration of the period of limitation has suspended 
 the remedy. 
 
 Mr. Volstead. I am willing to accept that, but I would hesitate 
 a great deal if I were going to bring suit against these parties and 
 intended to fight that suit, because it seems to me that the United 
 States might subsequently conclude to declare a forfeiture. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. I can not put your two contentions together. 
 You say on the one hand that it might be a condonation of the 
 breach and on the other hand that the United States might take it 
 back and declare a forfeiture. I say that the fixing of a period of 
 limitation is not a condonation, and when that period of limitation 
 expires, under the decision of Justice Holmes in the Chandler-Dunbar 
 case, it creates a right as well as a bar to a remedy. Then clearly 
 Congress can not by subsequent legislation take it away, and that is 
 the decision of Justice Holmes. Now, you have my views upon that 
 subject. I say that in my judgment the limitation of time in which 
 further suits may be instituted can not be considered as a condonation 
 and can not affect the other cases that we desire to prosecute, and, 
 on the other hand, it will accomplish public good. It will relieve the 
 titles of those small holders, home owners out there, from the cloud 
 that exists at present, and therefore I recommend the enactment of 
 section 5, which accomplishes that end. At the same time you will 
 observe that section 5 is guarded bj"- the following proviso : 
 
 Provided, That this section shall not be construed to apply to any suits in equity 
 heretofore instituted nor to any of the parties thereto, nor to any of the lands involved 
 therein, nor to the institution of any further suits in equity, actions at law, or other 
 judicial proceedings relating to any of the lands that are involved in said pending 
 suits. 
 
42 OREGON AND OAUlfOENIA LAND 6BANT. 
 
 That is upon the theory that if any of the pending suits should 
 for any technical reason be dismissed we could reinstitute those suits. 
 Then there is this further proviso in section 8, which says: 
 
 That nothing in this act contained, nor action taken pursuant to the provisions of 
 this act, shall be construed as a condonation of any of the breaches of any of the con- 
 ditions or provisions annexed to any of the grants designated in said joint resolution 
 approved April 30, 1908, nor as a waiver of any of said conditions or provisions, nor 
 as a waiver of any right of forfeiture in favor of the United States on account of any 
 breach or breaches of any of said conditions, nor as a waiver of any cause of action 
 or remedy of United States on account of any breach or breaches of any of said con- 
 ditions or provisions, nor as a waiver of any other rights or remedies existing in favor 
 of United States. 
 
 That is to preclude the possibility of any implication of an intention 
 to condone or waive any conditions or breaches thereof. Upon that 
 subject I want to say this. Suppose that this were a private grantor. 
 Suppose an individual owning a large quantity of land should grant 
 in alternate sections half of the land in consideration of the construc- 
 tion of transportation lines or other internal improvement, and he 
 annexed to the grant restrictions upon the sale of the granted lands 
 exactly as those in the case under consideration. Suppose that that 
 condition should be violated. Will it be contended for a moment that 
 the private grantor could not say, "I will pursue my remedies against 
 my immediate grantee as to all of the lands that he now holds, but 
 upon grounds of morality, upon grounds of general public policy, I 
 shall not pursue those who have been defrauded by my grantee, as 
 well as myself; I will not pursue John Jones, who was charged $5 an 
 acre for this land, when he should only have paid f 2.50 an acre, and 
 I shall not pursue this other man upon the same grounds." Do you 
 mean to tell me that that man could not in one breath say, "I will 
 pursue my remedies against my original grantee, but I will not pursue 
 my remedies agamst the other man," without giving rise to the con- 
 tention that he was condoning breaches of the contract? It seems 
 to me absolutely plain that the original grantor could enforce aU of 
 his rights against this grantee without instituting any other suits, 
 and could declare that to be his intention at the time he instituted his 
 suits. 
 
 Now, why is this question under consideration here at this time? 
 Because the railroad company has, from the time you passed that 
 legislation, April 30, 1908, believed and hoped that the practical eflFect 
 of this litigation would be so far reaching, injure so many innocent 
 people, and so disturb industrial conditions in western Oregon that the 
 litigation would finally become so unpopular that we could not carry 
 it on. 
 
 That has been their object from the beginning, and in every way 
 possible I have prevented that. There have been many times in 
 the past three or four years when I have been called upon to step 
 in and prevent some form of pubUc injury resulting from file pending 
 litigation. And it is for that general reason that I recommend a 
 hmitation upon the institution of suits where we in fact do not intend 
 to uistitute as a protection for those small purchasers that we did 
 not intend to sue and without giving rise to any imphcation of an 
 intention to waive the breaches as between the United States and the 
 railroad company. 
 
 Mr. Pickett I gathered a moment ago that you did not consider 
 this so-called hmitation clause as a bmding limitation or bar to 
 
OREGON AND CAUFORNIA LAND GRANT. 43 
 
 action if the Government should bring this suit after the one-year 
 limitation. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. That is what Mr. Volstead said. I said that under 
 the decision rendered by Justice Holmes in the Chandler-Dunbar 
 case it was a bar to the subsequent institution of suits. 
 
 Mr. Pickett. That was my opinion of it. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. My position is that in so far as any implication of 
 intention to waive any rights is concerned it is not different from the 
 purpose expressed by an individual grantor. I do not mean so far 
 as its binding eflFect is concerned, but so far as it conveys an impHca- 
 tion to waive a breach of the conditions. It makes no difference 
 whether the grantor be an individual person or the United States, 
 as in this case. He may say, " I will enforce all my remedies against 
 my individual grantee, and I will not enforce them against you gentle- 
 men over there, although I do not by that mean that as between 
 nayself and my immediate grantee I condone those violations of con- 
 ditions which I annexed to my grant, but for practical reasons I can 
 not bring suits against you, and in expressing my intention not to 
 bring suits against you I do not intend to condone any breaches by 
 my grantee or to waive the transactions which constituted the breaches 
 of the conditions I annexed to my grant." 
 
 Mr. Pickett. In brief, that the Government would exercise the 
 same prerogatives that the individual would ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Yes, sir; and there would be no implication of 
 intention on my part to waive any of my rights. 
 
 Mr. Raker. May I ask one question? Mr. Townsend, have you 
 found any authorities of the Supreme Court — of the highest courts — 
 of any suits wherein a grantor has granted a tract of land upon an 
 expressed condition subsequent that the grantee shall do a certain 
 thing, for instance, put up a certain building for school purposes or 
 charitable ^purposes or something of that kind, and the grantee has 
 deeded away a part of that land and the grantor commences action 
 against the grantee to have that grant set aside, and expressly waives 
 all claim of right of forfeiture as against the grantees of the grantee ? 
 Would that suit declare the forfeiture under the subsequent express 
 condition ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. Yes; I have it better than that. I have a situa- 
 tion of that kind in regard to railroad grants, where all the railroad 
 companies were in default in the construction of their railroads. I 
 am safe in saying that in not a single instance was the railroad con- 
 structed within the time required by the granting act. The time 
 within which the railroad should be constructed was in each instance 
 made a condition subsequent, for the breach of which a right of for- 
 feiture arose in favor of the United States. Now, under some of the 
 grants it said the lands to be forfeited should be the lands not dis- 
 posed of by the railroad company at the time of the breach ; in others, 
 the lands that were not patented to the railroad company at the 
 time of the breach; in other cases the lands opposite the uncon- 
 structed portion of the railroad should be covered by forfeiture. 
 Now, from 1880 to 1890 there were a great many bills pending in 
 Congress for the enforcement of that right of forfeiture. 
 
 Most of those bills related to individual grants^ but there were three 
 or four general laws that related to all grants. They finally ended 
 in the enactment of a law, September 25, 1890, which provided that 
 
44 OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND (SBANT. 
 
 in all cases where the railroads had not been completed and put into 
 operation at the time the act was passed, the lands opposite the 
 unconstructed portion should be declared to be forfeited. Now, 
 that general forfeiture act of 1890 was not consistent with the con- 
 ditions subsequent in all of the grants by any means. It waived the 
 right of forfeiture down to that time, and there was not a grant that 
 did not require the completion of the railroad prior to 1880, and this 
 act was not passed until 1890. Moreover, it provided for the for- 
 feiture only of the lands opposite the unconstructed portion of the 
 railroad, wliereas the grants provided for forfeiture of all lands that 
 were not patented in some cases and that were not sold by the rail- 
 road company in other cases. The Supreme Court sustained that 
 law in the case of United States v. Tennessee & Coosa Railroad (176 
 U. S.). The Supreme Court expressly held there that the United 
 States had not enforced its right of forfeiture as it could have enforced 
 it, but that Congress could do that; it could claim forfeiture for less 
 than the entire amount that the United States was entitled to claim, 
 and nobody could complain of that. And in that case they con- 
 firmed the title to the land opposite the constructed portion of the 
 railroad and declared the balance subject to forfeiture, although 
 under the terms of the grant the greater amount of the land shoum 
 have been forfeited. 
 
 Now, Mr. Chairman, I want to come to the next provision of this 
 bill, giving authority to compromise the purchaser suits, which 
 appears in section 6. These other questions, in my opinion, are 
 collateral. If it were not for bringing to your attention the proposed 
 compromise with the purchasers, I doubt if I should recommend any 
 independent legislation upon these subjects; but since the subject is 
 coming before you on the proposed compromise with the purchasers, 
 I have recommended the enactment of these other provisions. Now, 
 let me state to you the reason which, in my judgment, shotild control 
 in determining whether the Attorney General shall be authorized to 
 compromise the purchaser suits. In the first place, I will say that 
 the Attorney General has general authority to compromise all suits 
 instituted by him or under his direction. But here is a suit that was 
 instituted by your special direction, so that due respect for Congress 
 demands, in my judgment, that we should hesitate to compromise any 
 of these suits without taking you into our confidence — without sub- 
 mitting the niatter to Congress — and in the second place, no compro- 
 mise is practicable that does not involve in effect a conveyance of 
 land; and surely no executive department has authority to do that 
 without express legislative authority — I mean congressional author- 
 ity—because the Constitution gives to Congress exclusive jurisdiction 
 to dispose of the public lands. Now, for those two reasons we come 
 to you. The first of these is because you directed this suit to be 
 mstituted, and you are entitled to know and approve of any com- 
 promises of any of these suits. The second reason, because I think 
 the Attorney General has no authority to make this compromise 
 without specific authorization from you. 
 
 Now let me present to you briefly the reasons that I think should be 
 considered m determining whether this authority should be granted 
 to the Attorney General. 
 
 Mr. Pickett. In order that I should clearly understand it, as I 
 gather section 6 it simply means in substance that the Attorney Gen- 
 
OBEGOOSr AND OALIFOENIA LAND GEANT. 45 
 
 eral can enter into a stipulation with any present owner of this land, 
 and if a decree in favor of the Government shall be entered, this per- 
 son shall have the preference right to buy it. That is the substance 
 of this section, is it not ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Yes. 
 
 Mr. Pickett. Really the Attorney General is not doing much com- 
 promising, is he ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Yes. 
 
 Mr. Pickett. You are giving them the privilege really of taking 
 the decree and then entering the land. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. No, no; this does not create a statutory right in 
 favor of the parties who hold the land. It creates an authority in the 
 Attorney General to stipulate. These parties can not claim this as 
 a matter of absolute right. I want to make that clear that we do not 
 want to create any absolute right in favor of the purchasers of these 
 lands, and I will thank you for any suggestions that will make that 
 clear. 
 
 The Chairman. Please state the substance of the proposed com- 
 promise; the purpose of it. 
 
 Mr. ToWNSEND. The proposed compromise was submitted last 
 summer, and it comes as a specific proposition. I am not in favor of 
 compromising as to the 2,400,000 acres at all. That is expressly ex- 
 cluded. But these purchasers propose as follows : "We will stipulate 
 to have a decree of forfeiture entered in aU cases, if we will have six 
 months in which to repurchase the land from the Government at 
 $2.50 an acre." Now, you see, that is not a condonation of the 
 condition of the grant to the railroad company. On the contrary, it is 
 an enforcement of the right of forfeiture. Clearly the United States 
 can say as to any and all of this land that after the right of forfeiture 
 has been enforced the land shaU be disposed of in a certain manner, 
 and that does not constitute any waiver of the right of forfeiture, 
 nor is it even inconsistent with the exercising of the right of for- 
 feiture. 
 
 The Chairman. What is the value of this land ? If the Government 
 permits the purchasers to purchase at a nominal value, what would be 
 the practical effect ? If there was no waiver, what would be the value 
 of the forfeiture? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. In nmy judgment, the practical eflfect would be 
 just the same as if those lands were restored to the pubhc domain and 
 sold to purchasers at $2.50 an acre, as other public lands have been. 
 
 Mr. Pickett. But these suits are against parties who have gotten 
 more than 1,000 acres. If one person had acquired 2,000 acres, is it 
 your idea to give the Attorney General the right to compromise 
 with him, to enter into a stipulation providing for a decree and to 
 give him the 2,000 acres at $2.50 an acre? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Yes; that is exactly it. And I want to give you 
 the reasons now, the grounds upon which this is proposed. I will 
 present to you first the legal contentions, then I will present to you the 
 grounds of public policy that I think should be taken into consideration 
 here. These people contend that they acquired these lands in good 
 faith, for full value, in absolute ignorance of these restrictions upon 
 the sale of the granted lands; that they knew of no restraint upon the 
 manner in which the railroad company might sell these lands; and 
 that thev paid full value. Now, that has been thoroughly investi- 
 
46 OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 gated as to most all these instances, and while I do not here intend 
 to bind the Government by any admission — I am not authorized to do 
 that— but for your information I will say to you that I am satisfied 
 that is generally true. I am satisfied that not one of those purchasers 
 knew at the time of the purchase that he was securing a questionable 
 title, and I will tell you why. Until this controversy arose the title 
 to these lands in Oregon had never been questioned in a single in- 
 stance. You can go back as many years as you want to and you 
 can not find a single instance where a title was rejected. In the 
 second place, you will find that these purchasers paid more for the . 
 odd-numbered sections from the railroad company than they paid 
 for the intervening even-numbered sections that they bought from 
 various other purchaers. The railroad company got the top market 
 price for this land. Now, it stands to reason that no man would go in 
 there and pay the top market price for land if he thought it was con- 
 veyed by a defective title. In most instances these same people could 
 have gone a little farther to one side or the other and purchased the 
 same quantity of land at the same or less price — the same character of 
 land and just as valuable as that they got from the railroad company — 
 and these lands were all acquired in such a manner that there is no 
 doubt as to their faith in the validity of the titles. 
 
 The circumstances all show, in my judgment, that these men did 
 not know that they were buying a title that was in any way defective. 
 There was absolutely nothing in the abstract of title to indicate that 
 there was any restraint upon the power of the railroad company to 
 convey, and this old provision in the grant was completely lost sight 
 of and was really a dead letter so far as its actual, practical worlong 
 force was concerned. Now, these purchasers say that not only did 
 they buy in perfect good faith and in absolute ignorance of this restraint, 
 but they say that that ignorance was induced by the conduct of the 
 United States itself in this: First, that the United States has stood 
 by for 40 years and allowed this thing to go on without raising its 
 voice in protest; second, that the United States passed an act in 
 1897 authorizing the exchange of lands within forest reserves for other 
 public lands outside of the boundaries of forest reserves and that 
 under this law the United States has accepted these railroad lands as 
 high as 10,000 acres in a single conveyance and the Interior Depart- 
 ment has accepted the railroad title as a valid title in exchange for 
 other lands. Those abstracts of title have been submitted to the 
 Government, and the Government officials themselves had forgotten 
 this restraint upon the power of alienation. In fact, I have interviewed 
 all the attorneys in the Interior Department that passed these titles, 
 some 10 or 15 of them, and they all frankly admit that they did not 
 know at the time that there was any restraint in the title upon the 
 power of ahenation. 
 
 Mr. Volstead. That would not affect the Government, anyway. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. No; but it goes to the question of good faith of 
 other persons who did the same thing. I am showing not only the 
 legal but the moral grounds upon which these purchasers ask for 
 consideration. In the third place, these purchasers say that the act 
 of Aprd 10, 1869, which creates these restrictions upon the sale of 
 granted lands, provided among other terms of the act that if the grant 
 had vested in the West Side Co. at a prior time the West Side Co. 
 should not be affected by anything in the new act, but if the grant 
 
OBEGON AND CAUFOKNIA LAND GRANT. 47 
 
 vested in the East Side Co. pursuant to the provisions o£ the act of 
 April 10, 1869, why, then, the grant did vest subject to these restric- 
 tions. Now, most all of the patents recite only the act of July 25, 
 1866, and make no reference to the act of April 10, 1869, contaming 
 the restrictions. So the attorneys for these purchasers say that both 
 of these two railroad companies were called the Oregon Central 
 Eailroad Co., and there is no way that anyone could tell whether the 
 grant vested in the West Side Co. free from any restraint upon the 
 power of alienation, or in the East Side Co. subject to this restraint 
 upon the power of alienation, except as the Department of the 
 Interior indicated by the form of patent, and when the Department 
 of the Interior issued this patent under the act of July 25, 1866, that 
 was in effect a judicial determination by the Interior Department 
 that the grant invested in the prior company, the first company, was 
 not subject to the act of April 10, 1869, and that the Interior Depart- 
 ment had jurisdiction to determine whether the grant vested in the 
 East Side Co. or the West Side Co. 
 
 Now, I have stated in a general way the legal defenses alleged by 
 and on behalf of these purchasers Of course, I can not feel that I 
 have done justice to their argument, because I have not elaborated 
 upon it, and I take the opposite view. I say that we can overcome 
 those legal arguments I think we can defeat those legal and equitable 
 defenses, but there are certain conditions that should be considered 
 here upon grounds of public policy; and I say that if these suits are to 
 be compromised they should be compromised not so much as a recog- 
 nition of the sufficiency of the defenses that they allege as upon 
 grounds of public policy The industrial life of western Oregon is 
 largely built upon the faith of these titles. Capital has been invested, 
 a large amount of money has been expended by the people there, little 
 towns have sprung up, and the industrial life of that part of Oregon 
 is very intimately associated with these titles. 
 
 The Chairman. Now, Mr. Townsend, have you with you a list of 
 these 45 suits that it is proposed to compromise? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. I have. 
 
 The Chairman. Can you submit that hst ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend I can. 
 
 The Chairman. I suppose that during the investigations the depart- 
 ment has found it necessary to make a record as to the title of all of 
 these lands, and the matter has been thoroughly gone over ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. Yes, sir; as thoroughly as we could 
 
 The Chairman. Have you a list of the other lands that are not 
 affected by the 45 suits ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. Yes. 
 
 The Chairman. Can you submit that to the committee to be placed 
 in the record ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. It will be several hundred pages. 
 
 The Chairman. I understand that in all probability it will be 
 voluminous. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. There are some five or six thousand sales, you 
 know. 
 
 The Chairman. Is that available in the Department of Justice ? 
 
 Mr. Townsend. No. I have kept a continuing abstract of 
 3,200,000 acres of this grant from the time of the first conveyance 
 
48 OREGON AND CALIFOBNIA LAND 'GRANT. 
 
 down to date. I have an abstractor who goes from county to county 
 all the time keeping that abstract up to date._ 
 
 The Chaieman. Now, as to the 45 suits, please state the general 
 character and features involved in those suits. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. So far as I know, nearly all of those purchasers 
 are operators; mill operators either there or elsewhere. There may 
 be some of those holdings that are purely speculative, but I do not 
 know them if there are. I could go through the list and tell the his- 
 tory of most all of these purchases. 
 
 The Chairman. Can you do that, and will you submit that before 
 the hearings are concluded ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. I will, with the assistance of some of the gentle- 
 men from Oregon here. The Congressmen and others can assist me 
 in that. 
 
 The Chairman. I think this bill might mention the question of 
 good faith. It may be that the committee would take a different 
 view of it, but I suggest that for your consideration. I think, also, 
 you ought to show, if you can do so, the area on that 2,400,000 acres 
 where operations have already actually begun and were begun prior 
 to the passage of the resolution under which the suits were instituted. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. There are no operations, as I understand it, on the 
 2,400,000 acres on which the Government has instituted suits against 
 the railroads. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. No ; there are none at all. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. There are 2,400,000 acres outside of the 250,000 
 acres involved in these suits. 
 
 The Chairman. When I say 2,400,000 acres I refer to the suits 
 against the railroad company where the proposition of compromise 
 is involved here. In order to obviate any difficulty that may arise 
 by reason of technical claims made by persons conducting operations 
 in that area, which you think is about 400,000 acres, on what pro-, 
 portion of that area were operations already begun at the time of the 
 passage of this legislation? It seems to me that one who operated 
 after the resolution was passed, with knowledge of the fact that suits 
 would be begun, would be in a different attitude from those who had 
 begun operations prior to that time. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. Let me make one general statement there. To 
 install a modern lumber mill, such as are being operated in Oregon, 
 requires a guaranty of enough stumpage to keep the mill going for a 
 considerable length of time, and that would probably be from twenty- 
 five to one hundred thousand acres of timberland. "You will not find 
 any of those big mills being installed without assurance of that much 
 stumpage. Wlien a number of these people bought lands other than 
 from the railroad companies, from other sources, and installed their 
 mills, they would buy railroad lands adjoining, and in some cases 
 they have not reached the railroad lands yet. You will find that 
 there are many instances of that kind where the operators have not 
 commenced to operate on the railroad lands. I thought in the begin- 
 ning that there were more speculators among them than there are, 
 but I find many of them operating in the immediate vicinity on other 
 lands that I did not know about in my early information of the subject. 
 Now there are two or three instances where I think that the parties 
 had nothing else in mind than an investment in timberland when they 
 
OREGON AND CAUPOBNIA LAND GBANT. ' 4; 9 
 
 purchased. But they could have invested the same amount of money 
 m an equal quantity of land, of an equal value, the title to which was 
 not in doubt. 
 
 The Chaieman. What sort of a conveyance did they take from the 
 railroad company ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Most of the railroad companies in the western 
 States up to 20 years ago were giving a bargain and sale form of con- 
 veyance without warranty, but in 1892 they switched that to a pl^in 
 quitclaim form of conveyance, and you will find tha,t to be quite the 
 universal conveyance used by all railroad companies in the Wesc, 
 whether they have restrictions of this kind or not, and that was 
 largely- because of the possibility of suit by the Government to cancel 
 patents. 
 
 The Chairman. Do these 45 purchasers have a cause of action 
 against the railroad companies on warranties ? 
 
 i^r. TowNSEND. I thmk not, but I have not looked into that 
 thor6ughly. 
 
 The Chairman. It may concern Congress on the question to deter- 
 mine whether they have the right to relief under tnis bill. If it is 
 admitted by all that the railroad company acted in bad faith and 
 that these people acted in good faith, they have a remedy against 
 the railroad, and it seems to me that they ought to exhaust that 
 first before asking relief from Congress. That is a matter for investi- 
 gation. 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. I have examined that subject considerably, Mr. 
 Chairman, and I hesitate about expressing an opinion on that, but 
 my judgment is that they have no remedy. Anyway, if they have 
 a remedy it is not a complete one. These purchasers did not pur- 
 chase diiect from the railroad company in all instances. In very 
 many instances they purchased from others who had purchased from 
 the railroad company, but the railroad company sold upon contracts 
 calling for payments in installments, usually 10 installments. Now, 
 suppose A purchases several hundred acres from the railroad com- 
 pany at $6 an acre. He pays three or four annual installments. 
 Then there is a sudden increase in the value of the land, and it goes 
 up to probably $25 an acre. B lives in Michigan, and decides to go 
 West and invest in timberland. We will say B wants 20,000 acres 
 of timberland whose title is not in dispute. He goes to A, who has 
 his contract from the railroad bought at |6 or 17 a,n acre, and the 
 lands are now worth |30 an acre. B buys the land from A and goes 
 on and carries out the tei^ms of the contract, and when they ai^e 
 finally fulfilled the railroad coijiveys the title to them. Now, what 
 would b& thjeir remedy against the railroad ? Even if they ha,d any 
 remedy it would be only aboU|t $5 or $6 an acre, which would be 
 .inadeq,vate. 
 
 Mr. Beall, Wl^en this man spld out to these ]^|ichigan people, 
 what kind of a 4eed \70uld they get? 
 
 Mr. TpwN^END. He would just assign the contract. They would 
 get no deed at all. 
 
 Mr. Kaker. Have you the printed record of the complaint, the 
 argument ? 
 
 Mr.' T'o.wNSEND. Yes . 
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50 OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Mr. Eakee. Have you your brief printed in that case ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Yes. 
 
 Mr. Kakek. And the defense of the railroad company? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Yes. 
 
 Mr. Kaker. Mr. Chairman, is there any method by which we could 
 have that record left with us, a copy of the brief of the United States 
 and the brief of the railroads ? 
 
 The Chairman. Certainly, it can be left with the committee. If 
 you have it available we would be glad to have you leave it with the 
 committee. 
 
 Mr. Townsend. Here is the brief. There are about 800 pages of 
 it. I want to offer this one general suggestion: There is the ques- 
 tion of whether more pubhc good will result from litigation of tliese 
 suits against purchasers than would result from the compromise, 
 leaving industrial conditions where they are. Then there is another 
 question: Have you considered whether, in view of the fact that these 
 purchasers have defenses far superior to any that the railroad com- 
 pany can allege— I will not admit on this record that the defenses 
 alleged by the purchasers will prevail, but you must all admit that 
 they are far superior to any that can be alleged by the railroad com- 
 pany — and this question should be considered whether the considera- 
 tion of those superior defenses by the Supreme Court at the same 
 time as the defenses of the railroad company may affect the chances 
 of the Government in the main suit against the railroad company, 
 and whether, as a practical question, we would not be in a better 
 position when we get into the Supreme Court, if the Supreme Court 
 could see and we could point out that the decree could not affect 
 anybody but the railroad company and would have no collateral 
 effect that might be taken into consideration by the Supreme Court? 
 Now as a practical question addressed to a practical lawyer, what 
 would you say as to that feature ? Now I want to say tins, that I 
 was opposed to the institution of any suits against the purchaser 
 three years ago, and I have been against it all the way through. I 
 thought the public interest would be better subserved by not brings 
 ing the suits against them, and it was only after I had taken a stand 
 against it for a period of four or five months that I was forced to 
 institute these suits by Attorney General Bonaparte. 
 
 When Attorney General Wickergham came in he agreed with me, 
 but it was too late then, for the suits had been started before Mr. 
 Bonaparte's term expired. I am telling you frankly that that has 
 always been my view. Now, if you want those suits prosecuted we 
 will go ahead and prosecute them, and in my judgment we can obtain 
 a final decree in every case, if you want it done. I think that there 
 may be no legal obstacle to it, but I doubt if it is morally right to do 
 it. I doubt if the United States should exact the pound oi flesh in' 
 those suits. That is my own judgment, and I know the circum- 
 stances of those cases, because I have been representing the Govern- 
 ment there, and have been through the record for the last three years, 
 with little else to do. 
 
 Now, gentlemen, I can not ask you for another hearing. I can not 
 be sure that I can remain here myself, and I will observe your re- 
 quest to extend in the record anything else that may occur to me. I 
 have got to get home, and I want to thank you for the kind attention 
 
OREGON AJSTD CALIFORNIA LAND GRANI. 51 
 
 you have given me. I can not hope to appear before you again 
 before I must return. 
 
 Mr. Beall. What is the total involved in these 45 cases ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. Approximately 390,000 acres, and the $2.50 an 
 acre is in a sense a nominal compromise. I should say that those 
 lands would average $25 an acre. I should say that the $2.50 an 
 acre compromise would not be much more than one-tenth of the value, 
 the market value now, because those lands would average from $20 
 to $25 an acre. The aggregate value of the lands held by the railroad 
 companv, I should say, is about $75,000,000. That may be high, 
 but I tfiink it is correct. 
 
 Mr. Beall. What is the largest amount involved in any one suit ? 
 
 Mr. TowNSEND. I think the largest is 68,000 acres. 
 
 The chairman requested me to furnish a list of the purchasers 
 against whom suits are now pending. In each of these suits there are 
 several parties, including predecessors in interest and mortgagees. In 
 the following list, I have given, in each instance, the present holder 
 of the legal title (subject, of course, to the Government's claim of 
 forfeiture). These constitute the real party in interest in each case. 
 It will be observed that in foxir instances there are two or three suits 
 against the same party in interest. 
 
 NAMES OF THE PUKCHA8EES AGAINST WHOM SUITS ARE PENDING. 
 
 William M. Ladd. 
 
 Albert R. Downs and Edward R. Downs. 
 George K. Wentworth and Justin Wentworth (3 suits). 
 John M. Keith. 
 Ashland Manufacturing Co. 
 Jackson A. Graves. 
 Elk Creek Lumber Co. 
 Hammond Lumber Co. 
 Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. (3 suits). 
 L. A. Lewis. 
 Olean Land Co. 
 Louis Gerlinger. 
 
 Charles K. Spaulding Logging Co. 
 J. L. Washburn (3 suits) . 
 Jacob Rahm. 
 
 Charles A. Smith (2 suits). 
 Charles H. Chick. 
 Willis H. Gilbert. 
 Big Bend Milling Co. 
 Curtis Lumber Co. 
 Pokegama Sugar Pine Lumber Co. 
 Edwin Fowler. 
 
 Clifford Coggins; L. Y. Coggins, Mary E. Coggins, and Leon Coggins. 
 " Albert C. Hopkins. 
 T. D. Collins and Everell S. Collins. 
 D. N. Snyder. 
 
 Andrew B. Hammond and Charles J. Winton (Winton Timber Co., successor). 
 Waldo A. Avery, E. Richardson Co., and heirs of Charles H. Green. 
 Bray & Choate Land Co. 
 Peter Nelson and Hartley McGuire. 
 Gilbert Gilberfeon. 
 Gardiner Mill. Co. 
 Starr Mill & Plume Co. 
 John A. Black. 
 Charles R. Ray. 
 Pacific Timber Co. 
 Drew Timber Co. 
 Southern Pacific Co. 
 
52 OREGON AND CAUFOBNIA lAND GRANT. 
 
 Judge Raker submitted to me a proposed substitute for the pend- 
 ing bifl. He asked me to express my opinion wbether the proposed 
 substitute was not better than the bill now under consideration. I 
 have examined the proposed substitute and find that it consists 
 simply of a ratification of the action heretofore taken by the Attorney 
 General in instituting suits pursuant to the joint resolution of Apil{ 
 30, 1908. Judge Raker proposes that the suits against the pur- 
 chasers shall not be compromised until the main siiit against the 
 railroad company is disj)osed of. With all respect for Judge Raker's 
 views, I can not concur in this suggestion. In my judgment, if there 
 is any sound public reason why the purchaser suits should be com- 
 promised, there is no public reason for delaying the compromise until 
 after final disposition of the main suit against the railroad company. 
 The United States should exercise judgment and discretion in the 
 instituting of suits and in the compromising of suits, the same as a 
 private litigant. If there is apy sound reason why the United States 
 should compromise any pending suit, the time of effecting the com- 
 
 fromise should not be postponed until some other suit is disposed of. 
 can not see any reason ^y the compromise of the purchaser suits 
 should be delayed until final disposition of the main suit ag9,inst the 
 railroad company, any more than that the compromise of all suits 
 by the United States shall be suspended until this main suit against 
 the railroad company is disposed of. The compromising of the pur- 
 chaser suits will m no way affect any right of the railroad company 
 to impose upon the United States the obligation not to compromise 
 any of its suits against one party until finsS judgment is rendered in 
 in another suit against anotner party would be to place the United 
 States in a position where it would be obliged to continue litigation 
 that should be compromised. This would be an injustice not only to 
 the United States but to those against whom thfs suits are pendij;ig 
 which should be compromised. I can not concede the justice of any 
 such contention. 
 
 At the conclusion of my oral statement, the chairman suggested 
 that I extend into the record any additional statement that I desire 
 to make. In response to this suggestion I desire to submit the 
 following statement which I extended into the record of the hearings 
 before the Public Lands Committee of the Senate, in response to a 
 similar suggestion : 
 
 I will supplement the foregoing by directing attention, without dis- 
 cussion, to the questions that I thiiik should be considered in deter- 
 mining whether the Attorney General should be authorized to com- 
 promise the purchaser suits, as proposed by the bill now under 
 consideration. In my judgment. Congress, should consider the subject 
 from the following viewpoint : 
 
 First. The defenses urged on behalf of the purchasers and the 
 grounds they urge for equitable consideration. 
 
 Second. Even if the Government has technipal grounds for the relief 
 asked for as against the purchasers, are there any reasons why the 
 Government should not exact the fuU measure of the remedy of for- 
 feiture as against the purchasers ? 
 
 Third. Is there substantial danger that the prosecution of thei pur- 
 chaser suits may jeopardize the interests of the Governjtnent in the 
 main suit against the railroad company, involving 2,400,000 acres. 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA lAND GRANT. 53 
 
 bearing in mind that the suit against the railroad company is of par- 
 amount copsideration ? 
 
 Fourth. The Government should not institute suits simply because 
 there is a technical ground for the suit if the institution or prosecution 
 of the suit will cause more public injury than public good. The Gov- 
 ernment should be actuated by different and higher motives. The 
 primary purpose of the Utigation involving the land grants now under 
 consideration is to conserve the industrial and commercial interests of 
 the State of Oregon, and particularly to relieve the State from the 
 blighting effects of the land monopoly that has been created and is 
 now being maintained by the railroad company with reference to the 
 2,400,000 acres that are involved in the main suit. In view of these 
 general considerations and bearing in mind that a substantial part of 
 the industrial life of Oregon has been buUt up on the faith of the title 
 to the lands involved in the suits against the purchasers, will the pub- 
 lic interests be best conserved by compromising the purchaser suits, 
 or by prosecuting them to final judgment ? WQl the enforcement of 
 the Government's right of forfeiture, with the resultant uncertainty 
 of these titles until the cases are finally disposed of by the Supreme 
 Court, with the probable suspension of the operation of some of the 
 miUs of western Oregon, to the injury of a large number of persons 
 who are in no way responsible for the present situation, be productive 
 of more pubhc injury than public good? 
 
 In my judgment the Attorney General should be authorized to 
 compromise these suits as proposed. In view of the fact that the 
 suits may not be compromised, I do not feel at liberty to discuss 
 without reserve the ground upon which I base this recommendation. 
 And in this connection I desire to say that in presenting the conten- 
 tions that are urged on behalf of the purchasers I do not concede 
 their legal sufficiency. I am making no admission to be used against 
 the Government in the future prosecution of those cases, if they are 
 not compromised. In sonie of my remarks I may have stated the 
 contentions urged on behalf of the purchasers as though they were 
 my own views. But I do not want to be misunderstood. 
 
 I have been asked why the compromise should be made at the 
 arbitrary price of $2.50 per acre; and it has been suggested that 
 instead of naming an inflexible price that question should be left to 
 the discretion of the Attorney General. This suggestion proceeds 
 upon the theory that the circumstances of the purchaser suits may 
 vary, demanding that the price at which the lands may be repur- 
 chased, shall be higher in some cases than others in compromising the 
 suits. 1 do not care to make any argument upon that question; but 
 Avith reference to this suggestion I desire to say : 
 
 This suggestion may be sound as an abstract or theoretical propo- 
 sition. But the circumstances of these purchaser suits have been 
 investigated and there is no difference between the cases that will 
 justify any discrimination in compromising them. None of the cases 
 should be compromised, in my judgment, unless the lands were pur- 
 chased in good faith, without knowledge of the restrictions upon the 
 sale of the granted lands. As to parties coming within that class no 
 discrimination should be made, and as to parties who do not come 
 within that class no compromise should be made. In other words, 
 any difference of circumstance between these cases that should be 
 considered at all do not go to the question of the amount at which 
 
54 OHEGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 the cases should be compromised, but to the question whether the 
 cases should be compromised at all. Any circumstance that could be 
 adyanced as a reason for exacting a larger amount from any of these 
 purchasers would necessarily be a conclusive reason why the case 
 should not be compromised at all. 
 
 With reference to the price of $2.50 per apre, at which it is proposed 
 to compronodse these purchaser suits, I desire to say: It has quite fre- 
 quently happened that the Government may have sufficient grounds 
 in equity to recover title to public lands that have been granted; but 
 where the holders of the title are entitled to consideration on broad 
 grounds of justice which would not be available as a defense— in other 
 words, where the enforcement of the fuU measure of the Government's 
 remedies would involve a harshness that would not comport with the 
 relation that exists between the Government and its citizens — in such 
 cases it has become quite common to compromise for the minimum or 
 •double minimum price at which the lands are disposed of under the 
 pubUc-land laws. Two dollars and fifty cents per acre is the statutory 
 price for lands within the boundaries of railroad land grants. It was 
 for this reason that the purchasers, proposed to compromise on that 
 basis. If these purchaser suits are to be compromised at all, it wiU be 
 upon grounds that do not relate to the actual value of the lands. This 
 being true, it necessarily follows that the price at which the suits shall 
 be compromised can not be computed by any mathematical process 
 any more than the price for which lands are disposed of under the 
 homestead laws, the coal-land law, the mineral-land law, or any other 
 of the public-land laws. Any recommendation that I may hereafter 
 make concerning the compromising of these cases, if the authority to 
 compromise them is granted, will not be based upon a consideration of 
 the value of the lands, but upon grounds of pubHc policy, as I have 
 explained. 
 
 In this view of the subject $2.50 per acre is not illogical. In any 
 event, the subject is presented to us in the form of a specific propo- 
 sition by the purchasers, and the real question is whether that propo- 
 sition shall be accepted. 
 
 In presenting my views upon this subject I have followed my own 
 individual line of thought. I have discussed the subject generally 
 with the Attorney General, and believe that in a general way he is 
 in accord with my views. However, I have not discussed the subject 
 in detail, and therefore my statement should be accepted as my 
 individual recommendation. A copy of my statement will be fur- 
 nished to the Attorney General, and n he desires to qualify any of the 
 views that I have expressed he will so advise your committee. 
 
 I do not wish to appear as urging my views upon this committee. 
 I simply want you to have the benefit of my views as to the best 
 method of conserving the public interests with reference to this liti- 
 gation. The cordial attention that you have given me assures me 
 that you welcome the views of one who has been familiar with the 
 history of this litigation since its inception. I will conclude by 
 saying that if you will consult the views of those familiar with the 
 industrial and commercial interests of the State of Oregon, including 
 the Representatives and Senators from that State, I think you will 
 find them to be unanimously of the same opinion as myself. 
 
 The Chairman. We will now adjourn until 10 o'clock to-morrow 
 morning. 
 
oregon and oaufoknia land geant. 55 
 
 Committee on the Public Lands, 
 
 House of Representatives, 
 
 Wednesday, May 8, 1912. 
 The committee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m., Hon. Joseph T. Eobin- 
 son (chairman) presiding. 
 
 There were present before the committee Hon. A. W. Lafferty, a 
 Representative ia Congress from the second district of Oregon, and 
 Mr. A. C. Dixon. 
 
 The Chairman. Gentlemen of the committee, the hearing to-day 
 is on H. R. 22002, by Mr. Lafferty. Mr. Dixon desires to be heard, 
 and we will now hear him. 
 
 STATEMENT OF ME. A. C. DIXON. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am representing 
 primarily the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., the largest purchaser from 
 the O. & C. Railroad Co. of the grant lands under discussion. I am 
 also authorized to speak in this connection 'for practically all of the 
 45 large purchasers who are parties in these suits. I feel that after 
 what Mr. Townsend has said I can add very little of iaterest, and my 
 chief purpose in taking your time now is to touch upon a few points 
 which I think bear especially on the rights of these, purchasers, and 
 also to be subject to any questions you may want to ask concerning 
 some of the points brought up the other day, and upon which I may 
 be able to enlighten you. 
 
 Now as to our views relative to our situation and to the compromise, 
 we feel that the Government can afford to be very considerate of us 
 for a number of reasons. First, going back to the purpose of Congress 
 in granting these lands, it was primarily that the road be built, and, 
 secondarily, that the country be developed as a result of this grant 
 of land. We take the position that we have aided in the development 
 of that section of the country to the fullest extent, and that in no 
 other way could the lands have been used for development except in 
 the way we have used them. 
 
 The reason for that is this: The land is heavily timbered, much of 
 it on steep hillsides, and in most instances the soil is rocky and not 
 susceptible of cultivation. Now, no actual settler could have taken 
 160 acres of these lands, nor 1,600 acres, nor any other number of 
 acres, and made a living for himself and family. It would have been 
 practically impossible, and is to-day, with the better means of trans- 
 portation and other facilities that they have now. We have taken 
 these lands and solidified them by buying the even-numbered sections 
 and have built mills, made large investments, built towns, and fur- 
 nished employment to hundreds and thousands of people. Now, just 
 to spend a moment on that point* In our own instance the largest 
 town that we have, the to^vn of Wendling, is devoted entirely to mill- 
 ing. There are about 800 people there, with 300 men working in the 
 mflls and timber. They have an electric-light system, water system, 
 and all the conveniences that a little town of that kind might have. 
 The wages we pay are good — excellent, I should say — from the point 
 of view of people here. Twelve dollars a week is the minimum for 
 millmen and $17.50 is the average for employees in the woods. The 
 more provident among these men mostly have their own homes or own 
 farms elsewhere that they cultivate during a part of the year, and in 
 
5,6 OREGON AND CALIFOENIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 every case they are better situated than the average or than almost 
 any of the homesteaders in that section. I mention this town first, 
 but there are dozens more there in a similar situation. In addition 
 to these, there are a number of logging camps aiid thills where there 
 are many men employed and where there are no towns, and these 
 people naturally gravitate to the larger towns, such as Eugene, where 
 1 live. This is" a town of 10,000 people now, and 10 years ago there 
 were only 3,500 people there. The pay roll of the mills nearby is 
 about $2,000,000 a year, and the developinent of the milling industry 
 is almost the sole reason for the grot\rth of the town. 
 
 Mr. Townsend mentioned the other day the good faith with which 
 these lands were purchased, and in this connection I wish to speak 
 simply of our own case. We started out 16 years ago, without any 
 capital of consequence, and upon the suggestion of Mr. Collis P. 
 Huntington, of the Southern Pacific Co., we leased a small sawmill 
 in the Willamette Valley with the idea of trying to find out if fir 
 lumber, the only timber growing on these lands, could be shipped 
 outside of the State at a profit. Up to that time there had been no 
 market for,^ and no attempt to ship, fir-lumber out of tliB State of 
 Oregon. Mr. Huntingtgn made us some special rates and we leased 
 a mm for a year and started to develop the fir-lumber market. At the 
 end of a year Mr. Huntington stated to us that the rates were fairly 
 satisfactory to him, and he would continue them in force. We found 
 that we had made a fair profit, and accordingly we bought the mill 
 which we had under lease. When we bought the mill we had to buy 
 something to run it on, and so we bought tmiber near at hand, half of 
 it from the railroad and the other half from settlers or whoever hap- 
 pened to have it. That was the beginning of our business. A year 
 or two later the business still continued to show a profit and we pur- 
 chased another mill and also another body of timber, and for a period 
 of eight or ten years we bought these different bodies of timber at the 
 going prices at which anyone could have purchased them if they had 
 cared to. Now I do not think I need to dwell long on this point, 
 because Mr. Townsend has said that in all of his investigations he has 
 found no evidences of any fraud, and I know the circumstances in all 
 of these cases, and it is hardly possible to think that there could have 
 been anything of that kind. The lands were open for purchase and 
 sale, and you or I or anybody else could have bought all of them if we 
 had had the money to do so. 
 
 Now in buying these lands we followed the business-hke custom 
 that we still follow, and I think that all of you would in like circum- 
 stances follow. We submitted each abstract to our attorneys, and in 
 no single instance that I know of did they (question the Oregon and 
 California railroads' deeds or raise any question whatever as to their 
 title. As Mr. Townsend has told you, there was no question in the 
 minds of anyone as to the validity of these titles, and, using his ex- 
 pression, the titles were current in Oregon for years and years, and 
 not only in Oregon but with the United States Government, because 
 our company in several instances, and other companies, traded prop- 
 erty with the Government, traded these lands back to them for other 
 lands. We do not claim that we have a right to consider because 
 the Government took the lands that the titles were good, but they 
 made no question of it. I am simply telling you this to show you 
 that they were just as ready to take tnem as anyone else. 
 
0BE60N AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 5*? 
 
 Now as to the suits themselves. There are 45 of these, coverinff 
 approximately 400,000 acres of land. The other 400,000 acres which 
 have been sold arie in the hands of four or five thousand people. We 
 do not want these small holders sued. Certainly not. But we are 
 unable to see the difference between the titles that we have and the 
 titles that they have. In other words, we do not see why 400,000 
 ^cres in the hands of 45 individuals and corporations, probably two 
 or three hundred people altogether, stands in any different relation 
 to the Government as to ownership than the 400,000 acres in the hands 
 bf four or five thousand people. 
 
 Now, in the case of the Drew Timber Co., one of these parties: 
 They bought 5,320 acres, and they have 11 bona fide stockholders, 
 less than 500 acres to each stockholder. I fail to see the justice in 
 attempting to take these lands away from these people when, if the 
 11 people had only known the circumstances, they could have gone 
 out and bought 9'99 acres apiece and their titles would not have been 
 <3[uestioned. Our company owns 74,000 acres, and there are approxi- 
 mately 45 of us — ^some of the stockholders are estates — and there are 
 more people interested in our company than there are thousands of 
 acres iijvolved. Now, the question was asked the other day as to 
 the remedy we have against the railroad company. Our attorneys, 
 tod all the attorneys that have given the matter any attention, so far 
 as I know, have said that we could not recover. Now, whether the 
 railroad cotnpany knew this Umitation or not I am not prepared to 
 say, but they did not give us warranty deeds, and even if we could get 
 back from thena several years hence the amount that we paid for 
 these lands we might about as well lose the whole thing. What we 
 could fecover would amount to but very little, as compared to the 
 actual loss sustained, and I will illustrate one particular case. The 
 last purchase made by us was 19,000 acres bought at $17.50 per acre. 
 We bought the land from people who had bought it from the railroad 
 company for |10 an acre, oh time, with eight payments still to be 
 made, and we assumed the contract and have made seven of the other 
 eight annual payinents still to be -made. Now, when we got that 
 19,000 acres we planned another large milling enterprise. We bought 
 this in 1905, and we immediately went to work and bought 19,000 to 
 20,000 acres intermingled with this 19,000 acres. The only way that 
 laild can be opeirated successfully for lumbering purposes is to have 
 it all in a solid body. YoU can't have a checkerboard tract, and 
 you can't build a railroad and cut logs on other people's land. Now, 
 it does hot need any explanation to show you where we would be if 
 we only got our money back. In the first place we can not get more 
 than $10 an acre, and in the second place we can not get- that until 
 oiir title is proven perfect, and that will evidently be some time 
 hence, and, as stated, our attorneys advise we could not recover then. 
 
 Now, as to our operations. In our particular case one of our mills 
 burned down during the pendency of this suit. Our largest mill 
 burned iii July last year, tnrowing out of employment perhaps 275 
 or 300 men. We still have the mill site, and we are anxious to rebuild; 
 we are almost tempted to rebuild anyway, but we do not feel that it 
 is a safe business proposition to put that money into a mill when we 
 do not Imow for sure that we are going to have anything to operate 
 the mill on, if the Government is successful in this suit and takes the 
 land. Two other concerns have lost their mills by fire and are in the 
 
58 OEEGON AND CALIEOBNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 same situation. In addition to that, if we rebuild now and go on 
 with developments we will have to borrow money, and we can't bond 
 our lands or raise money on our property on account of this suit. 
 
 Four years ago I happened to be m Washington on other business 
 when tlus resolution came up, and seeing, as I thought, that it was 
 dangerous to us, I sent for some of our people, and you are fairly 
 familiar with the eflPorts that ^j^ere made to have our titles quieted at 
 that time. At that time the Attorney General and Mr. Townsend, 
 and as far as I know the majority of the Pubhc Lands Committee, 
 were in favor of and were anxious to have our titles quieted. It seems 
 to me now, and I am sure I thought then, that there should be no 
 trouble at all to get title to these lands and get entirely out of the diffi- 
 culty if it were not for the one legal point that was made, which was 
 that to quiet our titles then would nave injured the Government's 
 case against the railroad. The files of the committee and the files of 
 the department will show the investigations that were instituted at 
 that time. They went into the matter very fuUy, and there were 
 several volumes of testimony pubhshed. It seems -to me that it goes 
 without question that unless circumstances are different Congress 
 should be of the same opinion yet, and now that the way is open grant 
 us the relief that we are asking. 
 
 As to the compromise itself, we think there is no question about 
 our good faith in the purchase of these lands. We thmk that there 
 is no question about the original purpose of the Government having 
 been literally carried out in a much better way than it could have 
 been under actual settlement. In this regard Secretary Fisher, ia 
 talking to me the other day, said that if the lands were of the charT 
 acter I said they were the Government made a tremendous mistake 
 in 1866 in granting to the railroad company lands of a character not 
 susceptible to settlement and then aslang the raiboad to sell them 
 only to actual settlers. Now, they did do that, and you must know 
 without seeing photographs of the timber that these lands are timber-r 
 lands or we would not have them, because we are in the timber busi- 
 ness only. Now, if the Government did make this mistake 40 years 
 ago we ask you here that we be relieved from the ill effects of it. We 
 do not want to pay the penalty for the mistakes of the Government. 
 We have cut over about 15,000 acres of land. We have done the larger 
 part of the work necessary to make that land valuable for cultivation, 
 and nobody wants to buy these lands now as homesteads at any price. 
 Eighty-five or ninety per cent of them are useful only for reforestation, 
 and we have not started to reforest them because we do not know to 
 whom they belong. We have spent the necessary money to clear 
 them of timber, and if the intention was that actual settlers should 
 make homes on these lands, how much less useful for this purpose 
 would they be if the timber was still standing? 
 
 Now, for the reasons I have stated, we do not feel that we ought 
 to Jiave to pay anything to get these titles in good shape, but we 
 have been sued for something over three years and have not yet 
 had a chance to appear in court. We foresee that it will be at least 
 five years longer before the suit can be determined. In the mean- 
 time, on the very lands in question we are paying something more 
 than $20,000 a year in taxes, and we are paymg several thousand 
 dollars a year for fire protection. We hav'e a force of organized 
 rangers for that purpose, and we are also paying interest on our 
 bonded indebtedness on these lands. Now, notwithstanding the 
 
OEEGON AND CALIFOiBNIA LAND GRANT. 59 
 
 fact that we do not feel that we ought to p&j anything, and that 
 Mr. Wickersham and Mr. Townsend, down in" the bottom of their 
 hearts, feel that we ought not to, except as a legal proposition — 
 notwithstanding these things, we have made a proposition to pay 
 the sum mentioned in the bill as a matter of expediency, so tliat 
 we may know now where we are at. We had better lose these 
 lands now than to go along for a number of years and let them lie 
 idle and finally get them, because the damage to us in the meantime 
 would be irreparable financially and so far as the ages of some 
 of us are concerned. We can not get our youth back, or our efforts. 
 Three or four of the largest holders of lands have died since this 
 legislation was passed four years ago. We are trying to bring about 
 a settlement which will leave the rest of us alive when the title is 
 finally determined. 
 
 Our course if this bill is not passed will not be one of our own 
 choosing, but will be literally forced upon us. In that case we will 
 be compelled to intervene in the railroad suits and add our equities 
 to whatever equities the railroad people may have, and make the 
 hardest kind of a fight we can to get our lands and also to help the 
 railroad company out of their difficulties. Now, Mr. Townsend 
 gave you a partial history of this resolution. There was never any 
 trouble in Oregon, never a word said or any complaint about the 
 lands that were sold. The whole difficulty arose when Mr. Harriman 
 withdrew the lands from the market. The people and the com- 
 mercial clubs and various organizations in Oregon started the agita- 
 tion and sent a memorial to the legislature asking that the lands be 
 sold and opened to settlement. During all this time, the four years 
 since this resolution was introduced in Congress, we have carefully 
 refrained from allying ourselves with anybody, because from the 
 statements of the Department of Justice, the 'President, and every 
 one else we felt the time would come when our skirts could be cleared 
 without injuring the railroad suit, and the Government would see 
 the justice of our case and our titles would be quieted. We are 
 urging that upon you to-day. I am not like Mr. Townsend. He 
 would like to see section 6 passed, but he will not urge it, but I do 
 earnestly urge upon you that this compromise be arranged. I do 
 not make this as a threat, but as a statement of fact. If relief is not 
 afforded we will have to tie up with other litigants in a way that 
 may result in defeating the primary purpose of the Government as to 
 the recovery of the railroad lands. If the suit is won against these 
 purchasers it will tear down industries in which millions of dollars 
 are invested. Our company at the time this resolution was intro- 
 duced had over a million dollars invested, in improvements; 1275,000 
 in railroads and equipment, and something over $700,000 in saw- 
 mills. There are a number of others that have the same or larger 
 investments. If this suit is won, their property will be worthless; 
 the property in the mill towns will be worthless, the homes that 
 these men own will be worthless, and there will be several thousand 
 employees out of ppsitions. That will be the condition if the Govern- 
 ment takes this land and puts it into forest reserve or into the public 
 domain. 
 
 Now, I think, with what Mr. Townsend has said, I have about 
 covered the situation, and I do not feel like imposing on you any 
 longer. 
 
60 OREGON ANT> OALIFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 The Chairman. Mr. Dixon, you stated that those whom you rep- 
 resent, the parties in the 45 suits, do not wish to see the small pur- 
 chasers sued, but as a matter of law their equities are absolutely the 
 same as yours, which seems to be true. You have also said that 
 unless this legislation or some similar legislation is passed, those 
 whom you represent will be compelled to intervene in the railroad 
 suit and help to win that suit if possible for the railroads. What is 
 the attitude of the purchasers whom you represent — what will be 
 their attitude in the event that this legislation should be passed ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Well, Mr. Chairman, we are not interested at all in 
 the other side, and our attitude would- be one of neutrality. 
 
 The Chairman. Actual neutrality or nominal neutrality? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. So far as my company is concerned it would be actual. 
 So far as I know I think it would be absolutely actual with all the 
 defendants. I do not think any of the defendants are meddlers or 
 anything of that sort. 
 
 The Chairman. I did not mean that at all, but you can readily 
 understand from the statement of Mr. Townsend and from your 
 statement that this is a matter that widely affects the feeling and 
 interest of the general public there, and you yourseH have volun- 
 teered the statement that if the legislation is not passed you will 
 help to win the suit for the railroads, and that you are in fact in sym- 
 pathy with those who are in the suit. Now, I think the committee 
 is entitled to know, without any feeling toward anyonle, since you 
 have volunteered that statement, what your attitude will be if the 
 legislation is passed. We are entitled to know that, since you have 
 voluntereed tne suggestion that in the event the legislation is not 
 passed you will join in with the railroads to help them win this suit. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. If the legislation is passed, our first move will be to 
 ask for a stipulation and then pay for the lands gotten under the rail- 
 road deed. After that is done we will observe, so far as our company 
 is concerned, absolute neutrality. Our desire has been to see these 
 lands opened up. We are embarrassed by the railroad holding up 
 2,400,000 acres, and the whole State has been kept from its proper 
 development thereby. And I may say to you further in this connec- 
 tion, I was in a number of meetings where the resolutions were 
 brought out and sent to the legislature, where we were considering 
 this whole proposition, and the only desire of everyone present was 
 that these lands be sold. None of these people had a clear idea as to 
 the rights of forfeiture. Our idea simply was to force the railroad 
 company to sell these lands. We are in that attitude to-day. We 
 want them sold. 
 
 The Chairman. You have stated that the lands you have are not 
 fit for actual settlement. Is the general character of these lands the 
 same? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Well, as I stated, the fact that we purchased the lands 
 for lumbering purposes is pretty good evidence that that land is not 
 fit for actual settlers. As to the railroad grant itself, I have been over 
 it pretty well a number of times and out into the timber, and I 
 think the actual percentage — anything that I might say would be a 
 guess, but 20 per cent would be a pretty close guess — I think there 
 might be 20 per cent of these lands that can be cultivated. This whole 
 subject was crystallized on account of the refusal of the railroM com- 
 pany to sell some agricultural lands in Josephine County to a vineyard- 
 
OREGON AND CAUFOBiTIA LAND GRANT. 61 
 
 ist. He had a vineyard down there, and I think it was 80 acres along- 
 side of his vineyard, belonging to the railroad company, that he wanted 
 to buy. They refused to set a price on it, and that is where the 
 whole trouble started. 
 
 The Chaieman. What is the general description of the lands which 
 your chent holds ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. They are all timbered lands; aU covered with fir timber. 
 They are rather hilly, usually along a little canyon with a creek 
 running down the center. We have five timbered bodies, each one 
 along a creek or river. We Mke to have them that way on account 
 of the facilities for operation. The timber is cut and hauled down to 
 the creek; then we build dams and float it out to the river or railroad 
 it out. 
 
 The Chairman. You heard Mr. Townsend's statement as to the 
 value of the railroad lands, did you not I 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Yes. 
 
 The Chairman. What do you say as to the value of those lands ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. He said he was certain that they were worth $25 an 
 acre, and that some of them were worth as high as $30 an acre. I 
 have been buying thosie even-numbered sections for our company for 
 some time back, and the highest price that I have ever paid is $22 an 
 acre, and that was within the last three years. It is only within three 
 years that I have purchased any for the company. I have purchased 
 several thousand acres in that time. 
 
 The Chairman. Are those lands rising in value ? 
 
 Mr: Dixon. I think so, yes. There is no question about the 
 increase in value. They have increased since we purchased them, 
 although our own lands sltb not worth as much as we paid for them 
 on account of the cloud on the title. 
 
 The Chaikman. Wliat area of the lands purchased from the rail- 
 road company or their grantees by your people have been cut off? 
 Do you know, approximately ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Well, in our case we heive cut about 15,000 acres, and 
 half of that is from the lands in question. 
 
 The Chaieman. Has there been any cutting recently done ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. We have been cutting them steadily at a uniform rate 
 since 1898. 
 
 The Chairman. What area of lands that have been cut off have 
 been sold, approximately ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Practically none. 
 
 The Chairman. What area of them, if any, has been cultivated? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Practically none. They are not susceptible of culti- 
 vation. Our idea has been to reforest them, and we have left the 
 small timber standing for that purpose. 
 
 The Chairman. When was the first knowledge received in that 
 country, actual knowledge, that there was any question as to a defect 
 in these titles ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. In 1906. 
 
 The Chairman. And that was occasioned by a complaint made by 
 some one who you say was a vineyardist who wanted to use the land 
 for a vineyard and the railroad would not sell it to him ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. The first I heard of it was in Josephine County, near 
 Grants Pass, just outside of the city! There had been a great deal of 
 rritation over the State, hut it had never gotten any further than 
 
62 OREGON AND CALIFOENIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 the murmuring of a general spirit of discontent. There was a good 
 deal of cursing and damning the railroad company for not disposing 
 of the lands, and about that time there was called a shippers' meeting 
 to discuss freight rates and matters of that kind down at Medford, in 
 Jackson Counter, just south of Josephine County. At that meeting a 
 resolution was introduced to be presented to the legislature. These 
 people came to discuss freight rates, but some of them brought this 
 resolution in and introduced it, and it was passed. This was done in 
 three or four towns over the State, and finally they got a Mr. Mullit, 
 a banker from Ashland, to introduce the memorial in the legislature, 
 
 The Chairman. Well, now, why would you and your clients want to 
 intervene in this railroad suit? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. For this reason: Our idea in wanting to compromise 
 is to get out of litigation, and if we can not do this the only way we 
 can hurry matters, advance them, is to get in the railroad suit. The 
 object 01 the Government's attorney is to keep us behind the rail- 
 road company and not let us come to trial before the railroad com- 
 pany does, because they fear our equities will allow us to win out and 
 thus aid the railroad company. Our only purpose would be to 
 crowd ourselves up and be in the first trial as a matter of expediency 
 and to hasten the final decision. 
 
 The Chairman. You feel that you have superior equities to any 
 that the railroads may assert? ^\ouldn't you be rather strengthen- 
 ing the railroad case than strengthening your own case by inter- 
 vening ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. I do not feel that we would be strengthening our case 
 at all and I do not think that our attorneys feel that the court would 
 do an injustice to us simply because we were alhed with the railroad 
 company. We would get our rights and the railroad company would 
 get theirs, but Mr. Townsend seems to be afraid that intervention 
 on our part might prejudice his case. 
 
 The Chairman. In other words, the influence, the actual influ- 
 ence, which the clients whom you represent might reflect for the 
 benefit of the railroad company? That was clearly the intimation 
 that Mr. Townsend made, and I think the committee may very well 
 consider that without reflecting on anybody. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. We don't think it would be anything of the sort. 
 The main idea in allying ourselves with the railroad company is to 
 get into court at the same time they do. If we do not get this com- 
 promise, the first thing I will do when I get home wiU be to discharge 
 our employees and close down our mills, because there is a great 
 question in the minds of our attorneys as to whether or not we will 
 be asked by the Government to pay double or treble dam^es for 
 trespass on their property. 
 
 The Chairman. You mean that they might demand an accounting 
 for the lumber taken ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. It just depends on the situation here in Washington, 
 the Attorney General, the temper of Congress, or something of that 
 kind. Our attorneys have advised us that they thought it was not 
 a good business proposition and they recommended against continuing 
 our operations. 
 
 The Chairman. As a matter of law you would probably, be held 
 accountable for the timber cut if you lost the land. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. We do not want to take any risk anyway. 
 
OEEGON AND CAUFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 63 
 
 Mr. Raker. In speaking of intervention, is it not a fact that some 
 of the owners claiming from 500 to 1,500 acres, who received their 
 lands from the railroad company as part of this grant, as well as 
 the company which you represent and the 45 others, sought to 
 intervene in this railroad suit, and the court held that they could not 
 intervene ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. No, I think not; Mr. Laflferty went over that quite 
 clearly in his presentation. The intervention that occurred, as I 
 understand it, was the intervention of people who had settled on 
 these railroad lands, made actual settlements on 160 acres, with the 
 supposition that if this suit was determined in favor of the Govern- 
 ment they would be first on the ground and would get 160 acres at 
 $2.50 an acre, and they intervened to estabUsh their rights. If I 
 understand correctly their intervention was of no avaU. 
 
 Mr. Raker. No one up to date has sought to intervene who owns 
 land obtained from the railroad company. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Not so far as I know; and I think I am correct in that. 
 The taking of evidence in the railroad suit is to close the 1st of July, 
 and I presume the trial will come soon after that. If we are going to 
 intervene we will have to do it very soon. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Of course the amount involved in this suit and its 
 character is one that could be — you have stated that you are not an 
 attorney ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. No, sir. 
 
 Mr. Raker. You do not know anything about the proceedings 1 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Only in a general way. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Very well, I will change that question. Do you in- 
 tend to convey to the committee the idea that if your people would 
 intervene in this suit, that with their influence they would be in a 
 position to influence the decision of the court now trying the case ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. I would not want to insult the court, Judge Raker, by 
 inferring anything of that kind. 
 
 Mr. Raker. I know; I am only taking the statement made. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. The statement was that our superior equities, accord- 
 ing to Mr. Townsend's statement, might work against the main suit. 
 We have no influence with the court, so far as I know. I do not know 
 the court in Oregon, and I do not think there is any member of the 
 company that would think of such a thing. 
 
 The Chairman. Mr. Townsend did clearty state that one of the 
 reasons which influenced the Government and the Department of 
 Justice in eliminating the purchasers of areas under 1,000 acres was 
 to prevent having to encounter the influence which would manifestly 
 and naturally be exerted by so great a clientage. 
 
 Mr. Taylor of Colorado. By reason of their equities. 
 
 The Chairman. Yes. I do not think that Mr. Dixon mentioned 
 anything of the character that Mr. Raker suggested. 
 
 Mr'. Dixon. I certainly did not intend anything of that sort. 
 
 The Chairman. I drew the inference from the suggestions made 
 by Mr. Townsend that the same thing might result by reason of the 
 superior claims of the parties in these 45 suits. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Now, Mr. Dixon, if you feel that your equities and 
 the equities of the 44 other parties that have been sued are of such 
 a character that by presenting them to the court in conjunction with 
 the railroad company's case — do you state to the committee that 
 
64 OBEGOBT AND CALIFORNIA I/AND GRANT. 
 
 you belieye that by co;nibining your equities you would have a^uffi- 
 cient standing in court io ha,ve the court decide in fayor of the com- 
 pany, and, of course, eventually your people and the other 45 by 
 virtue of that superior equity combined ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. I think I have stated to the comniittiee that that was 
 Mr. Townsend's idea that it might be the final result. 
 
 Mr. Ra^r. Is that your opinion ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. I have no opinion on that point. 
 
 Mr. Eakee. Have you discnssed it with your associates and coun- 
 sels and others interested in tha,t matter ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. No; the first suggestion thftt came to us was from the 
 Department of Justice. 
 
 Mr. Rakek. What is that I 
 
 Mr. Dixon. I say. Judge Raker, that the first suggestion of this 
 particular point came to us from the Attorney General, as going to 
 show one of the reasons why he was in favor of a copapromise, 
 
 The Chairman. Do you know how many corporations own the 
 land that you appear for ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. IJow many of the 45 are corporations ? 
 
 The Chairman. Yes. 
 
 Mr. PixoN. Almost all of them. 
 
 The Chairman. Po you know whether any of the stoclshold^^ in 
 these corporations are also stockholders in the railroad company ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. That is not my understanding, unless some of them may 
 own a little Southern Pacifi.c or Union Pacific stock, just as any in- 
 dividual might. I do not think there is ajiy connection in any way. 
 
 The Chairman. Is there any considerable number of the stock- 
 holders in the purchasing corporations who are also stockholders in 
 the railroad company that solct to the corporations ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. No. 
 
 Mr. Tatxor of Colorado. You don't think th,ere is any reason why 
 your company should meddle in the Gjoyernment'^ litigatioji. when 
 you get out of it yourself and have your own title quieted ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. On the contrary there is every reason why we shoyld 
 not interfere at all. It would not be any of our business in any way. 
 We certainly could not help either side if we were o^t of the case.. 
 We do not claim to have any influence with the courts in Oregon or 
 any other place, and there is every reason why we should desire tha,t 
 the railroads should sell their lands. 
 
 Mr. Tatlok of Colorado. Your object in intervening is so that you 
 can get a decision one way or the other during this lifetime, and close 
 it up as soon as possible ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Yes. 
 
 Mr. Taylor of Colorado. You desire to expedite the ma,tter rather 
 than to wa,it the ultimate determination of the Government litigal^on 
 and then htigate it afterwards yourself ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Yes. The Department of Justice has stated to us 
 that they will use every means in their power to keep us behind the 
 railroad company. That is the main suit and that is their intention. 
 The proposal has been ma,de by Mr. Fisher, Secretary of the Interior, 
 and I think he wiU suggest it to this committee, eitb,er in writing or in 
 person, and that is, that thi3 bill as pi^oposed is ^J1 right, but th^t 
 the amount stated in the bill shonld be left discretionary vidtJa, his. 4W 
 partment, or the Department of Justice, or some one else, jfow, aftis? 
 
OEEGON AND OAMFOilNIA LAND GRANT. 65 
 
 I stated the conditions to him, his statement to me was that it was 
 probable, or possible at least, that some of these parties would not 
 have to pay anything, by reason of having developed the property, 
 and others, perhaps, should pay more. Then he asked my judg- 
 ment of what the value of the land was. 
 
 The Chairman. I think the committee would like to hear from Mr. 
 Fisher on that subject first. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. I want to answer him now, because I will not have an 
 opportunity afterwards. We disagree with him on that proposition. 
 We take the position that these values should not be left discretionary 
 with anyone, and that there should be no consideration of the present 
 value of the land, for the reason that whatever development and what- 
 ever values these lands have now we have made and created and we 
 do not want to have to pay for it the second time. These lands have 
 their values because we have built railroads over them, because we 
 have bought the even-numbered sections and gotten them together 
 in one body and have developed them, and we do not think it is a fair 
 thing to have to pay for the values which we have helped to create. 
 We do not want to leave it to the discretion of the Department of 
 the Interior, or whoever else may be designated, and, as I stated to 
 Mr. Fisher, we would prefer to deal with the delay of the law, that 
 we know something about, to dealing with his department or any other 
 department that would not say now what it was ready to do. We 
 think it is a matter of present knowledge and within the province of 
 Congress. We think our equities are strong enough to say that we 
 should be relieved now. 
 
 Mr. Raker. There is one more question I would like to ask Mr. 
 Dixon. Your idea in intervening would be to expedite the suits ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Our suits; yes. 
 
 Mr. Raker, ^'ou have consulted with your counsel and they have 
 advised you that an intervention in the main railroad suit would tend 
 to expedite the trial of that suit and bring it to an earlier hearing? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Which suit ? 
 
 Mr. Raker. The main suit commenced by the Government against 
 the railroad company. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. No; they say that it will expedite our suit, not the 
 railroad suit. I assume that that will be fixed by the court and tried 
 when the court is ready. The Department of Justice has stated that 
 they would, if possible, keep us behind the railroad company, and our 
 idea in intervening is that we will get on all fours with the railroad 
 company in point of time. We will be in court when they are, in 
 place of being an indefinite time behind them. That is the only 
 purpose of intervention. 
 
 The Chairman. I believe Mr. Lafferty wants to be heard on this 
 matter. 
 
 Mr. MoNDELL. I would like to make this suggestion: It occurs to 
 me that it might be helpful to the committee if Mr. Dixon would file 
 on behalf of his company a statement of their principal improvements. 
 That is a matter that we might want to go into, particularly the 
 number of miles of railroad constructed, the number of miles of wagon 
 road constructed, and. the approximate cost of them. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. I have sent to me every month our monthly trial bal- 
 ances, and I could furnish them very readily. 
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66 OEEGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 Ml. Taylor of Colorado. No, we want the number of miles of rail- 
 road that you have built to penetrate your woodlands, and the num- 
 ber of miles of wagon road, and the cost of those roads. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. I can give you that to-day or any time — the number 
 of miles of railroads and wagon roads and the number of mill sites. 
 
 The Chairman. Will you attach that to your remarks ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Yes. 
 
 Mr. Taylor of Colorado. It is your opinion, in regard to this last 
 question that has Just been raised, that the present values of the lands 
 depend upon the improvements that have been made, and it is your 
 opinion that the people you represent are entitled to that value rather 
 than the Government of the United States ? 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Yes, sir. 
 
 The following is a' statement of the railroads, wagon roads, etc. 
 constructed by the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. upon its lands in Oregon: 
 
 The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. has constructed and has in operation between 7 and 
 8 miles of logging railroad and has partly constructed 4 J miles more. The cost of 
 the railroad in operation and that which is almost completed has been $341,000, this 
 cost including equipment. The committee will be able to judge from this state- 
 ment that the country through which this road is built is anything but level agri- 
 cultural country. The fact is, the road was very difficult to build on account of rock 
 and the steep hillsides which were encountered. 
 
 The grant Jands for which we have been sued, approximating 74,000 acres, cost us 
 f572,0(W. Our four sawmill plants cost $693,000. Logging property, such as donkey 
 engines and rigging of all kinds, cost us $117,000. Dams and improvements in the 
 rivers, not included in any of the above, cost $32,000. We have paid, all told, since 
 beginning operation, in taxes, $223,000. We have paid out for fire patrol on our own 
 lands $9,000. I might say in this connection we have organized and have charge of 
 a patrol covering the timber lands belonging to about 70 different corporations and 
 individuals — mostly individuals — all of whom contribute pro rata to the expense, 
 and the total of the money we have paid out for fire patrol is several tiines the amount 
 paid on our own land. 
 
 As to wagon roads, we have approximately 10 miles. The small amount of mileage 
 is accounted for by the fact that wagon roads are only built into the edge of the tim- 
 ber, the roads from the edge of the timber in being what are called "chutes" or pole 
 roads, upon which logs are hauled. Of these, we have built for a number of years 
 past an average of 4 or 5 miles per year, at a cost of twenty to thirty thousand dollars 
 per year; but these roads are worthless as soon as the logs are out, and are not to be 
 considered as permanent improvements. 
 
 In addition to the actual expenditures made as above, our estimate of the cost of 
 finishing the line already graded and under construction is $46,000. This is for the 
 balance of the steel, the building of bridges and culverts, and the laying of sidetracks 
 on grade already constructed. 
 
 In addition to all this we have made permanent surveys and are ready to begin 
 work on an additional piece of road approximately 12 miles in lengtii, which will cost, 
 according to our engineers' estimates, $203,000. All of this work will have to be done 
 to provide for the next five years' logging and is a very small proportion indeed of 
 (he total which will be required to work out all of our holdings. 
 
 Figures given above are only for the improvements and operations of the Booth- 
 Kelly Lumber Co. ; a number of the other defendants in these cases have railroads and 
 improvements approximating if not equaling those of my company. 
 
 Our mills alone have furnished the entire pay roll and support for the towns of 
 Saginaw, population about 300; Wendling, population about 800; Coburg, population 
 about 700; and has been the principal pay roll in Springfield, population about 1,800. 
 The mills of the other defendants are likewise situated in regard to the towns of 
 Leona, Cottage Grove, Mill City, Falls City, Dallas, Salem, and a number of other 
 smaller towns, 
 
 A number of improvements contemplated by my own company and other com- 
 panies interested have been held up on account of this litigation, and if the suits are 
 compromised the development will go ahead again to a remarkable extent. 
 
 Respectfully submitted. 
 
 A. C. Dixon. 
 
OEEGON -AND CAUPOBNIA LAND QEANT. 67 
 
 STATEMENT OF HON. A. W. lAFFEETY, A REPRESENTATIVE IN 
 CONGRESS FROM THE SECOND DISTRICT OF OREGON. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I 
 suppose I know about as much about this railroad land grant as any 
 man in the United States. 
 
 The Chairman. You are the man we want to hear. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. I went to Oregon in the spring of 1905 from 
 Missouri, where I had practiced law and had been prosecuting attor- 
 ney. I went to Oregon as a special agent of the General Land Office. 
 During the year 1905 I went all over the State. I went to Eugene and 
 had business dealings with the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., of which 
 Mr. Dixon, who lias just addressed you, is now manager. At that 
 time George Kelly was manager of the company. I went up to this 
 town of Wendling, which Mr. Dixon has stated is tlieir principal 
 logging town. I know all about the character of the land; what 
 they have logged off and what they have not. During the year 1 905 
 I heard some talk about this railroad land grant, and during 1906 I 
 heard more talk. I got down the old musty volumes of the Statutes 
 at Large, the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth volumes, there in 
 the United States land office at Portland in the fall of 1906, and read 
 the law upon which these lands were granted to the railroad company. 
 That is .the first time that I knew what the exact law on the subject 
 was. 
 
 There was some little talk about the railroad having withdrawn the 
 lands from sale at that time, and in the spring of 1907 the Oregon 
 Legislature passed a memorial asking Congress to do something to 
 break up this land monopoly. It was sent down here in March, 1907. 
 Mr. Hawley took it over to the President, and the President referred 
 it to Attorney General Bonaparte. General Bonaparte designated 
 young Harlan, who was down here in Washington from Alaska on 
 sick leave, to investigate the case. Mr. Harlan was sick and did not 
 do anything for 60 days. I came down here in June, 1907. I had 
 resigned ifrom the Government service and was in private practice, 
 and I came here on private business, and went over to the Shoreham 
 Hotel to see Senator Bourne. On the 12th of June, 1907, I talked 
 with Senator Bourne about this case, and he said he would like to 
 have me go over to the Attorney General's office and present the 
 matter. Senator Bourne and I went over there and I cited to Gen. 
 Bonaparte the law in the case, which provided that these lands should 
 be sold to settlers. He said he thought the Government had a cause 
 of action, and said he would be glad if I would leave a written state- 
 ment of what I had said to him. I came over then to the Senate 
 document room and worked there for four days. I got down the old 
 Congressional Globes and looked for any debates that might have 
 occurred in Congress at that time, and I found that the matter had 
 been fully discussed in the House and Senate in April, 1870. It was 
 suggested in those debates that these lands might grow in value and 
 that this very condition that has occurred might occur, but some of 
 the Members said that a land monopoly could never grow up under 
 this grant because, under the terms of it, every acre of the land had 
 to 'be sold to actual settlers. Mr. Sargent, of California, said that it 
 did not make any difference if the building of the road made the lands 
 worth $100 an acre, they must be sold to actual settlers just the same. 
 
68 OREGON AND 0AL.IFOENIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Senator Williams, of Oregon, said that these lands would continue 
 after the passage of this land grant, open to every citizen of the United 
 States, just the same as other public lands were open under the public- 
 land laws; that the passage of this land-grant act would not mterfere 
 with the settlement of these lands in any way or in any particular. 
 The only difference was that they must be sold at $2.50 an acre by the 
 railroad company, whereas the even-numbered sections were to be 
 sold by the Government at that price. Now, that was the situation 
 and the understanding of Congress when the grant was passed. 
 
 When Senator Bourne and I went over that day to see Gen. Bona- 
 parte, he said to us, "I have just designated a new man to go to 
 Oregon on the land-grant case, a man by the name of Townsend." 
 "Well," said Senator Bourne, "who is Townsend ?" Gen. Bonaparte 
 replied that he understood Townsend was the best lawyer in his dis- 
 trict, and that Senator Hansbrough had recommended him. When 
 I arrived home in Portland in July, Mr. Townsend had just landed 
 there, and he had with him a copy of my report to the Attorney Gen- 
 eral. He stopped at the Portland Hotel, where I had lived ever since 
 I had practiced law in Portland, and we saw a great deal of each other. 
 I wanted Mr. Townsend to go right across the street from the Port- 
 land Hotel in 1907 to the United States court and file a suit. enjoining 
 and restraining the railroad company from ever selling another acre 
 of that land contrary to law. I said, "If you will do that, Mr: Town- 
 send, every acre of that land which this railroad holds will be settled 
 upon inside of the next 12 months. It will be known that the Gov- 
 ernment means business, and all of that land that is worth taking 
 will be taken up." But Mr. Townsend said, "No, we must proceed 
 very cautiously in this matter." So he went down to Salem and 
 spent two or three weeks in the State library there, and came back 
 with the idea that the railroad ought to forfeit the remaining lands 
 back to the United States, and then they should be either opened to 
 entry or withdrawn and put into a forest reserve. 
 
 He was a nonresident of Oregon and did not care anything about the 
 lands being sold to settlers, and it has never been his idea that these 
 lands would be sold to settlers, but that they should be forfeited and 
 put into the pubUc domain. If that could be done, I would not have 
 any serious objections to it, but in pursuing that theory — if it were 
 practicable it would not be so bad, but it is simply going off on a 
 false theory of the law. Here were these lands granted by Congress 
 to the railroad company with affirmative provisions attached to that 
 grant. Those affirmative provisions were that they must sell the 
 lands. Mr. Townsend said, you will remember, that there are certain 
 restrictions in this grant and that the company has not obeyed those 
 restrictions. It is necessary for Mr. Townsend to call them "restric- 
 tions" in order to carry out his theory that this is a negative require- 
 ment of Congress and not an affirmative requirement; that it is a 
 condition subsequent, for which a forfeiture may be invoked. A 
 condition subsequent is very different from a trust. Now here is the 
 crux of the whole case. Here is the false theory that is being pursued, 
 and which if it is pursued for 10 or 15 years and the railroad is 
 permitted to pay taxes in the meantime they will win out in the 
 Supreme Court, and they are being permitted to pay taxes now. 
 This is not a condition subsequent. If the Government grants lands 
 to B on a condition subsequent, so long as the grantee refrains from 
 
OBEGON AND CAUFOBNIA LAND GBANT. 69 
 
 violating the condition subsequent he holds and enjoys the estate 
 foreyer. He incurs the obligation to pay taxes as a fee-simple owner, 
 because there is no presumption of a reversion. He obtains the 
 right to cut timber from the land if he wants to, because there is no 
 presumption of a reverter, no presumption therefore that it will 
 ever become a trespass. He may lease the land for 99 years, because 
 there is no presumption of a reverter. 
 
 Every element of a condition subsequent is lacking in this grant. 
 This act naakes the railroad company the sales agent of the Govern- 
 ment to dispose of these lands to actual settlers in tracts of 160 acres 
 and for not more than $2.50 an acre. Now, suppose Mr. Townsend's 
 theory is correct, that this is merely a restraint upon the power of 
 alienation, what would it lead to? When Mr. Townsend was back 
 before the court in Portland, I said to him, "Mr. Townsend, suppose 
 your theory that you are now giving to the court is true and is the law; 
 suppose this is only a restraiat upon the power of alienation, where 
 would you be at this time if the railroad company had never sold an 
 acre of this land up to this minute " ? That is the test. And he said, 
 "Well, they have sold the lands; they have performed the acts that 
 we can base a claim of forfeiture upon." "But," I said, "suppose 
 they had not, a mere restraint upon the power of alienation would not 
 in fact compel them to sell an acre of land, and they could hold it all 
 forever, and will you contend that such was the intention of Congrfiss 
 in making this grant ?" 
 
 In answer to Mr. Townsend I said to the court, "If this be a grant of 
 an estate upon a condition subsequent, the mere performance of the 
 condition subsequent of itself if it does require them to sell the land, 
 would result in the railroad company parting with all title and pos- 
 session to the estate granted; so that as soon as the grantee got 
 through performing or observing the condition subsequent, upon 
 which it was to hold and enjoy the estate forever, it would not have 
 any estate left to hold." Therefore it must appear plain even to a 
 layman that this is a trust that ought to be enforced, and not a mere 
 condition subsequent. 
 
 However, the litigation out there is in fairly good shape if it is 
 properly handled from now on. Mr. Townsend put in about a year 
 and a half or two years writing up a complaint, which was filed there 
 in court. It is a very good complaint. It sets out all the facts that 
 the Government could possibly put into a complaint. It asks for a 
 decree of forfeiture. It is a bill in equity, and I do not think he 
 could go into a court of equity and get a forfeiture in any event. 
 But he puts an alternative prayer in this bill of complaint, which is 
 the saving grace of the complaint for the Government or for any sub- 
 sequent attorney who may take it up. The bill of complaint will 
 not have to be rewritten or refiled. The first prayer is that a decree 
 of forfeiture be entered. The second is that if the court shall decline 
 to grant the relief prayed for in the first paragraph of the prayer, 
 then it is asked that the court appoint receivers to go ahead and take 
 charge of this land grant as trustees in place of the railroad company, 
 and dispose of the lands to actual settlers. Now, under that form of 
 a biU of complaint all of the rights of the Government are preserved, 
 but at the last trial Mr. Townsend abandoned altogether the trust 
 theory and said there was nothing to it except forfeiture. 
 
70 OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 The passage of my pending bill will aid in the prosecution of the 
 suit, in that it will eliminate all controversies except the big suit be- 
 tween the Government and the railroad company for the 2,400,000 
 acres of unsold lands. It will provide that no suits not filed within 
 a year from the date of the passage of this act shall be brought. That 
 will protect these small purchasers. It provides that the Attorney 
 General may compromise with the 45 purchasers who have been 
 sued. This bill, H. R. 23719, which I introduced last after confer- 
 ring with Secretary Fisher, meets with his approval, so far as I know. 
 He said that he did not think Congress should require the Attorney 
 General to compromise with these purchasers for $2.50 an acre or 
 for any arbitrary figure, so I introduced this bill, which authorizes the 
 Attorney General to use his discretion and to compromise with the 
 purchasers on such terms as would be just and equitable. That is 
 the language in my second bill, which is the one I ask to have reported 
 in place of the first bill. 
 
 Mr. Taylor. Don't you think that is rather unsafe, or unfair to the 
 owners of these lands at the present time ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Upon such terms as may appear just and equita- 
 ble to the attorney prosecuting the case for the Government? I 
 don't object to the definite $2.50 provision. I took the position 
 before General Bonaparte that only one suit should be brought, that 
 to enforce the law from now on, which would cover the 2,400,000 
 acres of unsold lands. 
 
 The Chairman. The Attorney General has clearly indicated that 
 he considers it just and equitable to settle for $2.50 an acre. What 
 would be accomphshed by changing that provision except to invite 
 controversy in the event the bill should be passed ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. I certainly have no objection to the $2.50 pro- 
 vision. 
 
 The Chairman. What do you think would be accomplished by 
 changing the provision in the bill ? I want to get your idea. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. I think the only thing accomplished would be to 
 obviate the objection of Secretary Fisher. Mr. Townsend states that 
 if this bill giving them the discretion in compromising is passed, he 
 will be frank to say that if the compromise is effected in his admin- 
 istration it will be at $2.50 an acre, that he thinks that is just and 
 equitable. 
 
 The Chairman. Now, you discussed the proceedings in the court 
 there. When was that ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. The Government suit was filed September 4, 1908. 
 Mr. Townsend arrived there in July, 1907. The railroad company 
 filed their demurrer, and the demurrer was argued in April, 1909. 
 Four months were given for filing briefs — 60 days for the first brief, 
 30 days for the answer, and 30 days for the reply. Mr. Townsend 
 did not file his brief for 17 months. It was a 960-page brief, filed 
 17 months after the argument in April, 1909, which brought it up 
 to December, 1911. 
 
 The Chairman. Is it the purpose of that statement, Mr. Lafferty, 
 to show that there has been unreasonable delay ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. That is the very object. The court overruled the 
 demurrer in April, 1911, and the railroad company filed its answer to 
 the merits in the fall of 1911. When I got home during vacation in 
 the fall of 1911 I went all over Multnomah County and raised a lot 
 
OBEGON AND OAUPOBNIA LAND GRANT. 71 
 
 of fuss about the waj^ this land-grant suit was being delayed, and the 
 answer was filed while I was out there. Judge Wolverton while I 
 was home fixed a day certain on which the testimony should be con- 
 cluded, which was to be April 21, 1912. All testimony must be in 
 by that time, but the time has been extended twice since then. Mr. 
 Townsend said the other day, "I know we won't be able to finish the 
 taking of testimony until after the summer vacation of the court," 
 and God only knows when the testimony on the merits of the case will 
 be finished. Then if it takes 17 months to file his brief the case will 
 not be decided in Portland for the next five years. It will get to 
 the court of appeals in San Francisco five years after that, and it will 
 get to the Supreme Court of the United States five years later, so that 
 m 15 or 20 years the Supreme Court may pass on this case. When 
 it was first started some grizzly old citizens out there said, "That case 
 will be in court 20 years. We know how railroad cases are handled." 
 I said, "You fellows don't know what you are talking about. You 
 are prejudiced against the courts. This case will be in the Supreme 
 Court of the United States within three years." I thought I knew 
 what I was talking about, but subsequent events have demonstrated 
 to my mind that those fellows knew more than I did. I made that 
 same statement to the circuit judge in Portland last fall, that I had 
 found that I was wrong and that the laymen, some of whom want 
 recall of judges, were right. I started in to quote to the judge what 
 President Taft had said down in Kansas a day or two before, that 
 "The delays of the courts of this country ought to bring a blush of 
 shame to the face of every American citizen," but the court said, 
 "You need not quote that, Mr. Lafferty." 
 
 Mr. Pickett. Is it not a fact that the lawyers are responsible for 
 those delays ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. Yes, sir; but if I were a judge upon the bench I 
 would say to these gentlemen, "Here is this order, and if you are not 
 ready with your answer when this thing is called, you will be in 
 default and the court will proceed to render judgment." 
 
 Mr. Pickett. Relative to this section in the proposed bill as to 
 compromise: If it should be the policy of the House to authorize a 
 compromise with these larger claims out there — the larger holders — 
 on the basis of S2.50 an acre, upon what theory should we differen- 
 tiate as between them and the holders of smaller tracts ? Why should 
 we abandon the right to commence action against the others ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. The Assistant Attorney General said to me the 
 other day that he could not undertake so many suits and investigate 
 all those records; that it would result in interminable investigation. 
 
 Mr. Pickett. It seems to me that if one suit would fail the others 
 would also. They are all substantially the same. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. Yes ; but running out titles and filing different com- 
 plaints in court against 5,000 transferees, with several more thousand 
 defendants, and the railroad would have to be made a defendant in 
 each case, would be almost interminable. And I think he is right 
 about that — that it will be impracticable to sue all of these pur- 
 chasers. 
 
 Mr. Tayloe of Colorado. He said it would unsettle the titles of 
 these innocent people, especially people who had only a lot or two in 
 a town, and he did not look upon it as practicable or for the best 
 interests of the public. 
 
72 OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. LAND GEANT. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes, sir; it is merely a matter of expediency and 
 procedure. I think that a small purchaser who has acquired a 
 small tract to make a home ought not to be molested. 
 
 I want to call attention to the resolution I have introduced in 
 Congress providing that the Public Lands Committee or any sub- 
 committee appointed by the chairman shall have authority to carry 
 on the investigation and keep tab on this land-grant suit, and I think 
 such subcommittee ought to be reappointed with the Sixty-third 
 Congress, and should be given authority to subpoena witnesses and to 
 liave the ordinary powers of the committee without any additional 
 appropriation 
 
 The Chairman. That involves a separate matter, don't it 1 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. No; it involves keeping track of this matter we 
 are now on. 
 
 Mr. Volstead. I would suggest that the Representatives and 
 Senators from the State of Oregon be appointed. 
 
 The Chairman. Before you proceed with the discussion of some 
 other resolution that is not involved in this bill I want to ask you a 
 (question or two. You have stated that in your judgment the DeJ)art- 
 ment of Justice made a vital mistake in its complaint in not proceed- 
 ing against the railroad company as a trustee for the United States, 
 charged with the affirmative duty of selling these lands to actual 
 settlere at $2.50 per acre. You also stated, u I understood you cor- 
 rectly, that the proper remedy would be a suit of injunction to pre- 
 vent the railroaa company forever from selling these lands except in 
 that way. Did your idea involve also an effort to compel the rail- 
 road company to proceed with the sales of these lands ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Certainly. When a trustee proves unworthy of his 
 trust, repudiates it, a court of equity has the inherent power to make 
 an order removing that trustee and appointing another trustee to take 
 charge of the property and dispose of it. 
 
 The Chairman. You have been studying this question for a great 
 many years very evidently. Have you authorities at hand to substan- 
 tiate the position that you take ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. That this was a grant in trust ? 
 
 The Chairman. Yes. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes, sir; I have those authorities in my office. 
 
 The Chairman. Will you be kind enough to put all of them that you 
 have collected during your investigations in this record when it is sub- 
 mitted to you for revision ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes, sir. 
 
 The Chairman. Just head it, "List of authorities cited by Mr. Laf- 
 ferty." Put in the authorities upon the legal phase of the question 
 that have led you to reach this conclusion. 
 
 If the procedure which you suggest had been followed, no suits 
 would have been instituted against the purchasers of land, but the 
 proceedings would have been wholly against the railroad company, 
 and not for any action that it has taken heretofore, but to regulate 
 its action in the future ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes, sir. 
 
 The Chairman. Your idea is, I suppose, that the action should have 
 been solely against the railroad company to compel it to do what the 
 grant required it to do, sell the land ? 
 
OREGON AND GAUFOKNIA LAND GRANT. 73 
 
 Mr. Laffertt. Yes; my investigation there in Oregon satisfied me 
 that the people had simply forgotten the terms upon which this land 
 was granted, and these titles did pass current there for 10 or 15 years. 
 
 The Chairman. And therefore you would have abandoned any 
 action against the grantee as to the lands already sold ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes. 
 
 Mr. Raker. If the kind of a suit was brought that you suggest 
 and injunction asked, that would have eliminated all of these sales ? 
 
 Mr. Lapferty. Yes. There are 65 settlers on the land now that 
 have had the nerve to go out on the land and settle there. Some of 
 them have gotten tired and given it up. The railroad company has 
 been trying to get these people to sign leases. I had a letter this 
 morning written by the land commissioner of the railroad company, 
 B. A. McAllister, to George A. Hall, of Monroe, Oreg., telUng him 
 that he must get off the land and that if he put any buildings up 
 they would be confiscated. They are also sending agents around to 
 get these settlers to sign leases for a nominal amount, $1 or $10 a 
 year, but as soon as a settler signs a lease of the Oregon-California 
 Railroad Co. he of course acknowledges the railroad company as 
 landlord. They are trying to get rid of every settler on the land if 
 they can. Mr. Townsend came here when the resolution was passed 
 in 1908 and issued notices through the press that any settler who 
 went on there afterwards would be considered a trespasser. I sym- 
 pathize with Mr. Townsend's theory in regard to certain land locators; 
 and.,my bill provides that after the passage of this act these lands 
 shall not thereafter be subject to the initiation of any right of entry 
 until the final determination of this main suit against the railroad 
 company. 
 
 Mr. Taylor of Colorado. Wouldn't an act of forfeiture, a forfeit- 
 ure act by Congress, eliminate all these questions and bring the thing 
 right square up to a final determination? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. If Congress would pass an act applying to all these 
 lands not sold, I think it would. 
 
 Mr. Pickett. I have not examined the authorities at aU, but I 
 understood you to say that the authorities support the proposition 
 that this was a grant in trust. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes, my line of authorities; Mr. Townsend has a 
 line of authorities in his 960-page brief in which he tries to show that 
 this was a condition subsequent. He has convinced the judge that 
 it was a condition subsequent. 
 
 Mr. Pickett. Is it your opinion that this was a grant in trust,, and 
 have you authorities to sustain that contention ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Yes, sir. 
 
 Mr. Pickett. That being true, then, you take the further position 
 that Congress has the power to revoke the trust ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Absolutely, in so far as it has not been carried out. 
 
 Mr. Pickett. If that is true, why haven't you people filed a bUl 
 here for the revocation of the trust and brought that matter to Con- 
 gress 1 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. This bill provides for that in section 1 . 
 
 The Chairman. Which bill? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. H. R. 23719. It provides in section 1 that the 
 acts of the Attorney General are "hereby ratified and confirmed, and 
 
74 OREGON AND OAL-IFOBNIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 are hereby declared to be of the same force and eflFect as declarations 
 of forfeiture by the Congress of the United States." 
 
 Mr. Eakee. What bill is that ? 
 
 Mr. Laffekty. H. R. 23719. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Won't you find out that that is simply a declaration 
 which is not going to be held by the courts to be a forfeiture of the 
 grant ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. Here is what T fear will happen if this bill is not 
 passed^the case will not reach the Supreme Court for 15 years. 
 Then the court will ask: "Ts there any question of actual settlers 
 involTed in this litigation?" The Government attorneys will say 
 "no." Then the court will ask, "Well, what taxes have been paid by 
 the railroad company?" They had paid about 25 cents an acre up 
 to the time the litigation was started and they are now falling over 
 themselves to get to the tax office to pay taxes, pending the out- 
 come of this snail-like litigation. Then the court will say "What 
 taxes have been paid?" "Seven dollars and fifty cents an acre, 
 your honors," the railroad attorney will answer. "Well, it seems 
 to the court that inasmuch as these lands were granted upon a con- 
 dition subsequent, which condition it now appears was impossible 
 of fulfillment because there are no settlers on the land for the com- 
 pany to sell to, we will hold that the company take the land relieved 
 from the condition. Therefore it is dangerous to have no settlers 
 on the land. That condition will lend weight to the contention of 
 the railroad company. 
 
 Mr. Raker. You stated that you appeared in court out there. 
 What capacity did you appear in ? 
 
 ilr. Lafferty. Jis attorney for these 65 settlers who were on the 
 land in the summer of 1907, for the purpose of making test cases as to 
 whether that law means what it says. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Were they parties to that suit? Were they inter- 
 venors in that suit ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. They were not the interveners. The Government 
 intervened in their suit. When I got home in July, 1907, Mr. Town- 
 send would not do anything about it and I said, "I wiU file suits for 
 some of those settlers myself," and I went down to the railroad office 
 and tendered them 12.50 an acre and said, "We want you to give us a 
 deed to this land." They refused, of course, and I drew up a com- 
 plaint, which Mr. Townsend has adopted almost literally — I drew up a 
 complaint setting out the facts and the law, setting out that the plam- 
 tiff, John L. Snyder, had settled on certain lands in pursuance to the 
 act of Congress, had tendered the company $2.50 an acre and 
 demanded a deed, and that they had refused to give him a deed, and 
 asking the court to enter a decree requiring the railroad company to 
 accept the $2.50 an acre for the land and execute a deed. That was 
 in 1907 that the first suit was filed. 
 
 The Chairman. This occurred in your own suit and this is not in 
 the railroad suit ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. No, the Government suit comes along a year later 
 and attaches onto us. We have tried to appeal from the decision of 
 the court against this settler, John L. Snyder, to the circuit court of 
 appeals, and the judge will not allow us to appeal until the Attorney 
 General appeals also. 
 
OREGON AND OALIFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 75 
 
 Mr. Kakee. In what case was it that the Attorney General made 
 your parties defendants ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. The main suit. We are parties now in the big suit. 
 
 Another thing I want to say, these settlers did not pay me anything 
 for filing this suit. I told them that they need not pay me a cent for 
 filing the suit and that if they won the suit they could pay me a fee 
 at the end of the case, not to exceed $125 in any one case. 
 
 The Chaieman. The statement has been made by others who h^ve 
 appeared here that these lands are not suitable for settlement by 
 actual settlers. Is that statement true ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. It is not true. There are settlers now all over that 
 country on the even-numbered sections, and there are a number of 
 settlers on the odd sections of the grant. 
 
 The Chairman. What percentage of the land is susceptible of 
 cultivation ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. On the railroad sections I should say about 20 per 
 cent is susceptible of cultivation and that about 60 per cent additional 
 can be reduced to horticultural and agricultural purposes. 
 
 The Chaieman. At least one-half of the lands involved in this 
 proposed resolution is subject, in your judgment, to actual settlement ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. It is all capable of being settled upon. 
 
 The Chaieman. It is very rarely that you can cultivate the whole of 
 any quarter section. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. After I conferred with Secretary Fisher the other 
 day I reintroduced my bill, making some changes in it. It now pro- 
 vides that the more valuable lands may be sold to settlers in tracts of 
 40 instead of 160 acres. I think it would be no more than fair that the 
 secretary should designate certain areas to be sold in amounts less than 
 160 acres. I think you will fund that my new bill (H. R. 23719) covers 
 every part of the case, and I hope that hereafter this litigation will be 
 kept track of by a special committee of the Public Land Committee. 
 
 The Chairman. What can we do about it ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. My pending resolution, if passed, authorizes the 
 chairman to appoint a special committee on this land-grant question 
 with authority to call for the records in the Department of Justice. 
 
 The Chairman. This committee can do that now. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. There was a Committee on Pacific Railroads at one 
 time, up until this Congress. Now, the subcommittee of the PubKc 
 Lands Committee on this Oregon-California land grant, I think, should 
 be a continuing committee. The Oregon delegation will keep them 
 posted. 
 
 Mr. MoNDELL. Mr. Lafferty, there are some matters connected with 
 the grant that have passed from my mind since the former discussion. 
 What is the approximate length north and south of this grant ? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. It runs from the Columbia River to the Calfornia 
 line, the full length of the State, a little over 300 miles. 
 
 Mr'. Mondell. How wide is it ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. Sixty miles. 
 
 Mr. Mondell. When did the railroad company cease selling this 
 land? 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. In 1904. 
 
 Mr. Mondell. That country had been fairly well settled — there 
 were good-sized towns there prior to that time ? 
 
76 OREGON AND^OALIFOBBTIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. Right in Willamette Valley prpper and Eogue 
 River Valley there is a dense population, but in the remote districts, 
 where the roads are not good, the people were just begmmng to take 
 up the even-numbered sections in the fall of 1904. 
 
 Mr. MoNDELL. The lands you considef valuable for agricultural 
 purposes were not generally so considered at that time, I presume ? 
 
 Mi. Laffeety. No; these were not the more valuable agricultural 
 lands, the more valuable farm lands. 
 
 Mr! MoNDELL. Are most of the remaining lands covered with some 
 timber growth ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. There is some timber on practically every quarter 
 in 1907. 
 
 Mr. MoNDELL. Is there any considerable amount of the land that 
 is at all level, or is it all pretty rough ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. There is lots of level land, even upon the iiigh 
 , table-lands. 
 
 Mr. MoNDELL. Have those lands some depth of soil, or are they 
 mostly rocky ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. Well, this soil grows big trees, and any kind of 
 land that grows big trees is rich land. 
 
 Mr. MoNDELL. Oh, I don't know about that. Sometimes the 
 biggest trees grow upon the poorest soU. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. Our trees are not like the jack piues in Wyoming. 
 These trees grow over 200 feet high. I have pnotographs in my 
 office showing where they raise strawberries and fruit of all kinds 
 right in the heaviest parts of the timber. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. Some of that land is the most valuable land in the 
 country, isn't it? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. Yes. I have been told by people who have been 
 in Switzerland and seen the vineyards there that the roughest of 
 this country is very much like the vineyard country in Switzerland. 
 
 Mr. Rakee. The vineyards are already there on part of the land 
 growing, are they? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. Yes. 
 
 Mr. Mondell. You say no considerable portion of this land is 
 rocky ? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. No, western Oregon has very few rocks. They 
 have large volcanic mountains, like Mount Hood and Mount Shasta — 
 Mount Shasta is in California — but there are no small rocks or small 
 bowlders like there are in eastern Oregon. 
 
 Mr. Mondell. Most all of the land then, whether it has much soil 
 or not, could be plowed? 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. Yes. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. I want to call your attention to the fact that you 
 have a letter here from Mr. Wickersham in support of this biU 
 22002. It was written and sent here during the absence of the chair- 
 man, and I want to see that that goes into the record. 
 
 The Chaieman. That wiU be inserted in the record. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. Another thing, this new bUl of Mr. Lafferty's, if this is 
 to be considered I certainly will want to be heard on it. iThere are 
 some clauses in there that we will object to to the last ditch. 
 
 Mr. Laffeety. This bill provides that all the purchasers to whom 
 land was "sold and conveyed by the railroad company" prior to the 
 
OEEGON AND CALIFOBNIA LAND GKANT. YT 
 
 Government suit shq,ll be compromised with. It cuts out thost 
 who did not have their deeds prior to the Government suit. There 
 are 19,000 acres of the Booth-Kelley Lumber Co. lands that thej 
 will lose under this wording of the bill. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. There are a good many thousand other acres, anc 
 besides that we want to be heard on this bill. 
 
 Mr. Lafferty. I have no objection if the committee desires tc 
 change the language of. my new bill from "all lands sold and con 
 veyed" to "all lands purchased from the railroad company." Thai 
 would let them through. 
 
 Mr. Dixon. In the first bill introduced there is a clause thai 
 relieves the owners of all lands that may be compromised from al 
 charge for trespass, and that ought to be in there if the bill is passec 
 at ail. In the new bill that is left out and we are subject to a charge 
 of trespass for what we have been doing for the last seven or eighl 
 years. 
 
 I also wanted to ask Judge Eaker if I was correct in thinking thai 
 perhaps he had confused the 45 defendants with Mr. Lafferty's 6i 
 clients ? 
 
 Mr. Raker. No; I have that distinct in my mind. 
 
 The Chairman. We will now adjourn until Friday morning at 1( 
 o'clock. 
 
 List of Atjthoeitibs Cited by Me. Lafferty. 
 
 United States v. Des Moines, etc., Co., 142 U. S., 527. 
 
 Colfield V. McClelland, 16 Wallace, 331. 
 
 Goldberg v. Kidd, 5 S. Dak., 169. 
 
 Stingfellow v. Kane, 99 V. S., 610, 
 
 Mills Co. 1). Railroad Companies, 107 U. S., 567. 
 
 Morgan v. Rodgers, 79 Fed., 577. 
 
 Rice V. Railroad Company, 1 Black, 378. 
 
 United States v. Michigan, 190 U. S., 396. 
 
 Railroad Co. v. Prescott, 16 Wallace, 607. 
 
 Topeka Commercial Security Co. v. McPherson, 7 Okla., 332. 
 
 The two decisions last cited show that the railroad company has no right to paj 
 taxes on these lands and thereby assume the position of a fee-simple owner. All th( 
 foregoing decisions show that this was a conveyance in trust and not a conveyanci 
 on a condition subsequent. 
 
 LISTS aF ALL UNSOLD LANDS. 
 
 The following is a description of all the unsold lands of the Oregon & Californii 
 Railroad Co., amounting practically to 2,400,000 acres, as submitted to the committee 
 by Mr. Lafferty, and as set out in the Government's complaint in the main suit. 
 
78 OEEGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GEANT. 
 
 List of Unsold Lands of the Oregon & Califoenia Railroad Co. Received bt 
 It Under the Acts of April 10, 1869, and May 4, 1870, as the Same Aitba? in 
 THE Government's Bill of Complaint., 
 
 EAST side grant. 
 [Act of Apr. 10, 1869.] 
 
 All of the lands of said east side grant are situated in the State of Oregon; the respec- 
 tive counties are indicated in the schedule. 
 
 The counties are arranged in the order in which they occur in the grant from west 
 to east, commencing at the north. Thus arranged, they appear in the following order. 
 For convenience, the total number of acres in each county is here stated: 
 
 Washington County 2, 452. 18 
 
 Multnomah County 8, 120. 00 
 
 Yamhill County 27,120.20 
 
 Clackamas County 89, 162. 07 
 
 Polk County 37,017.79 
 
 Marion County 30, 256. 00 
 
 Lincoln County 15, 906. 00 
 
 Benton County 53, 626. 99 
 
 Linn County ; 61, 966. 23 
 
 Lane County 299, 606. 00 
 
 Douglas County 616, 843. 14 
 
 Coos County 106, 563. 36 
 
 Curry County 7, 844. 64 
 
 Josephine County 167, 480. 98 
 
 Jackson County 441, 791. 15 
 
 Klamath County 43, 015. 00 
 
 Total east side grant 2,008,771. 73 
 
 Washington County. 
 [South ol base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 1, range 1: 
 
 W. i of SE. J of SW. i, sec. 19 20. 00 
 
 Township 3, range 1: 
 
 NE. i of N W. i, sec. 3 41. 00 
 
 Township 1, range 2: 
 
 Lotl, sec. 31 20.00 
 
 Township 2, range 2: 
 
 SW. i of SW. i, sec. 17 40.00 
 
 Township 1, range 3: 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 7 .18 
 
 SW. } of SW. i, sec. 21 40.00 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 25 11. 00 
 
 Township 2, range 3: 
 
 S. i of NE. J; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. J; N. i of SE. J; SE. i of 
 
 SE. i, sec. 11 280.00 
 
 NW. Jof SW. i; E. iof SW, i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 13 160.00 
 
 Township 1, range 4: 
 
 NW. iofNE. i; NW. i; SE. i, sec. 15 360.00 
 
 Township 1, range 5: 
 
 NE.iofNE.J; E. J of SE. i, sec. l.._ 120.00 
 
 NE. J; N.iofSE. i; SW. i of SE. J, sec. 3 280.00 
 
 SW.-^of SW. J; SE. i of NW. i, sec. 11 80.00 
 
 E. iof NE. i; SE. i, sec. 15 240.00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 NW. iof SE. J; S.Jof SE. J, sec. 35 120.00 
 
 Total Washington County 2 452. 18 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT, 79 
 
 Multnomah County. 
 [South of base line and east of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 1, range 4: Acres. 
 
 SE. Jof SW. i; N. Jof SW.i, sec. 11 120.00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i, sec. 13 40.00 
 
 W. iofNE. i; SE. iof NE. i; NE. i of NW. i, sec. 15 160.00 
 
 S. i of NE. J; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; N. i of SE. i; SE. i of 
 
 SE. J, sec. 23 320.00 
 
 Township 1, range 5: 
 
 All sec. 1 646. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 623. 00 
 
 SE. Jof NW. i; NW. iof SW. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 5 120.00 
 
 S. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; S. i 
 
 of SE. J, sec. 7 317.00 
 
 NE.JofNE. i; S. J of N. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 9 560.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 N.J; N. J of SE. i, sec. 15 400. 00 
 
 -N. IofNE. i; SW. J of NE. i, sec. 17 120.00 
 
 S. }, sec. 21 320. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. J; S. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. J of SW. i; NW. i of SE. 
 
 i, sec. 23 400. 00 
 
 Township 1, range 6: 
 
 NW. }, sec. 3 118. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 664. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 .... .• 632. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 Total Multnomah County. 8, 120. 00 
 
 Yamhill County. 
 [Soutli of base line and west of Willamette meridian. ] 
 
 Township 3, range 2: 
 
 Lotl, sec. 19 .50 
 
 Township 2, range 3: 
 
 NE. i of NW. i; SE. i of NE. i, sec. 23. - 80. 00 
 
 Township 5, range 3: 
 
 Lots 10, 11, 12, sec. 3 74.64 
 
 Lotl, sec. 9 3.90 
 
 Lotl, sec. 11 15.06 
 
 Lot 4, sec. 13 ' 15.82 
 
 Lot 6, sec. 21 .97 
 
 NE. J of SE. i, sec. 23 40. 00 
 
 Lots 7, 8, sec. 25 72. 70 
 
 Township 2, range 4: 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 31 1. 30 
 
 Township 3, range ,4: 
 
 Lotl, sec. 9 1.48 
 
 Lot 4, sec . 33 11 
 
 Township 4, range 4: 
 
 Lotl, sec. 13 ■■ 2.94 
 
 Township 5, range 4: 
 
 Lot 2, sec. 9 -31 
 
 Lotl, sec. 27 13.00 
 
 Lotl, sec. 35 25.44 
 
 Township 2, range 5: 
 
 SW.JofNE.i; SE.iofNW.J; NE.JofSW.i; NW. iof SE.i, seel 160.00 
 N.iSfNE.i; NE.iofNW.i; SW.iofNW.J; SW.J; S.Jof SE.}, 
 
 sec. 3...... - 400.70 
 
 SE. iofNE. i; S.J, sec. 5 .- 360.00 
 
 All sec . 7 645. 60 
 
 NE. iofNE. i; W.JofE.J; W. J; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 9 560.00 
 
 Ail sec. 17 640.00 
 
80 OREGON AND CALIFOKNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Township 2, range 5 — Continued. 
 
 W. i of NB. i; NE. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; W. J of SW. i; NE. Acres. 
 
 iof SE. i, sec. 19 283.60 
 
 .NW. J of NE. i; N. * of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, 
 
 aec . 21 200. 00 
 
 Lot 2, N. iof N. i of SW. i, aec. 27 57.05 
 
 NE. Iof NE. i, sec. 29 40.00 
 
 SE. iof NW. i; S. J, aec. 31 363.97 
 
 Township 3, range 5: 
 
 S. iof SW. 1, sec. 5 80.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SW. J of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; 
 
 W. iof SE. J, sec. 7 - 284.20 
 
 S. iof N.i; S. i, sec. 19 488.10 
 
 Lots 1, 2. sec. 23 41. 20 
 
 N.iofNE. i; SW. iofNE.i; NW. i; E.iofSW.J; SW.JofSWi; 
 
 SE. J, sec. 29 560. 00 
 
 SW. J; W. iof SE.i, sec. 31 248.21 
 
 W. i of NE. 1; E. i of NW. J; NW. i of SE. J; S. i of SE. i, sec. 33. . 280. 00 
 
 E. i of NE. 1, sec. 35 ." 80. 00 
 
 Township 4, range 5: 
 
 N. i, sec. 7 324. 51 
 
 NW. i; N. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 19 285. 76 
 
 Lot 4; SW. iof NW. i, sec. 21 79.06 
 
 S. iof S. iof SE. iof SE. i, sec. 31 10.40 
 
 Township 5, range 5: 
 
 Lot 7 (orNW. iof NW. i), sec. 5 30.05 
 
 -Lot 8, sec. 15 12. 00 
 
 Lot 8, sec. 25 .' .10 
 
 Lots 1, 5, 6, sec. 31 15.91 
 
 Lqtl, sec. 35 8. 00 
 
 Township 2, range 6: 
 
 - N. i; N. i of S. i, sec. 13 480. 00 
 
 W. iof NW. i, sec. 25 80.00 
 
 SW. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 27 240.00 
 
 S. i; E. iof NE. i, sec. 33 421.36 
 
 -.All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 3, range 6: 
 
 All sec. 1 641. 84 
 
 N. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; SW. i of SW. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 3. 202. 11 
 
 S. i, sec. 5 320.00 
 
 W. iof NW. i; N. iof SW. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 9 240.00 
 
 N. i of NE, i; SW. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; W. i of NW. i; SE. i 
 
 of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 11 440.00 
 
 All sec. 13. 640. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; 
 
 SE. i, sec. 15 360.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 W. iof E. i; W. i, sec. 21 480.00 
 
 E. i; E, iof NW. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 23 440.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640.00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 4, range 6: 
 
 NE. i; N. iof SE. i, sec. 1 239.85 
 
 N. i; N. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 3 560.62 
 
 N. iofNE. i; SW. iofNE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 5 605.47 
 
 All sec. 9 ; 640. 00 
 
 N. iofNE. i, sec. 11 80 00 
 
 E. i of NE. i, sec 13 80.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 662. 96 
 
 AH sf f 21 ; 640. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i- S. i of NE. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 23 160.00 
 
 N. i; W. iof SW. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 29 480.00 
 
 E. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; W. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; N. i 
 
 ofS.i, sec.Sl ...... . ' 415.78 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; NW.; N.iof SW. i, sec. 33 280.00 
 
 Iiots 1 , 2, sec. 35 4. 00 
 
OEEGON AND OALJPOENIA LAND GBANT. 81 
 
 Township 5, range 6: Acres. 
 
 E. i of NW. i, sec. 3 78.23 
 
 Township 4, range 7 : 
 
 SE. lofNE. 1; W. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 21 440.00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 |n[E. i; E. i oi NW. i; S. i, sec. 25 560. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 E. J; N. i of NW. i; S. i of SW. J, sec. 29 480. 00 
 
 E.J, sec. 31 320.00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. J, sec. 33 400. 00 
 
 W. i of E. i; NW. i; N. i of SW. h sec. 35 400. 00 
 
 Township 5, range 7: . , 
 
 E.iofNE.J;N.iofNW.i;SE.iofNW.J;NE.iofSE.i,sec. 3..-- 243.40 
 
 N. i of NW. i; SE. i, sec. 9 240. 00 
 
 SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 11 200.00 
 
 N. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i; SW. } of SE. J, sec. 15 600.00 
 
 SW. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 21 240. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. i of NW. i; lot 1, sec. 27 121. 20 
 
 SW. i, sec. 83 160.00 
 
 Township 6, range 7: 
 
 NW. i, sec. 3 156. 85 
 
 Total Yamhill County 27, 120. 20 
 
 Clackamas County. 
 [South of base line and east of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 3, range 1: 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 19 2.23 
 
 Township 4, range 1 : 
 
 Lotl, sec. 21 .49 
 
 Township 6, range 1: 
 
 NE. i of NW. i; S. J of NW. i; N. i of SW. \\ SE. J of SW. ■}, sec. 13 . . . 240. 00 
 
 Township 1, range 2: 
 
 Lot 4, sec. 35 2.80 
 
 Township 3, range 2: 
 
 Lots 1, 2, sec. 3 14. 55 
 
 Lotl, secT^ - .87 
 
 SE. iof SE. i, sec. 11 40.00 
 
 Township 4, range 2: 
 
 SE. 1 of NW. i; E. \ of SW. i, sec. 3 120. 00 
 
 NW. i of SW. i, sec. 5 40.00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; E. \ of SW. J; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 11 160. 00 
 
 NW. i of SE. i , sec. 13 40. 00 
 
 SW. iof NE. 1;N. i of SE. i; SE. Jof SE. i, sec. 15 160.00 
 
 NE. i of NW. i, sec. 21 40.00 
 
 SW. i of NW. i, sec. 23 40.00 
 
 Lots 1, 2, sec. 33 1. 80 
 
 Township 5, range 2: 
 
 Lots 1, 2, sec. 3 42. 66 
 
 Lot 2, sec. 5 4.47 
 
 S. i of NE. i; lot 2, sec. 13 125.55 
 
 E. iof NE. i;NE. Jof SE. i; lot 2, sec. 25 147.50 
 
 S. JofNE. i;E. JofW. i;SE. i, sec. 35 400.00 
 
 Township 6, range 2: 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. J; SE. i of NW. }; SE. i of SW. \; NE. iof SE. i; 
 
 S. i of SE. 1, sec. 1 440. 20 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; NW. J; E. J of SW. \; SE. \, sec. 5. . 552. 55 
 
 N. i; SW. i of SW. i; W. J of SE. i; SE. i of SE. \, sec. 7 475. 99 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 9 240.00 
 
 SW. iofJ)fE. i, sec. 11 40.00 
 
 E. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i; SW. \; W. J of SE. \, sec. 13 ....... . 360. 00 
 
 N. I of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; NW. i, sec. 15 ' 280.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. J; N. J of NW. }, sec. 17 ' 120.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; E. J of NW. i; N. J of SW. \\ SW. i of SW. \; NW. 
 
 i of SE. }; SE. } of SE. i, sec. 19 315.36 
 
 W. J of NW. i, sec. 21 80.00 
 
 47197—12 6 
 
82 OREGON AND CAtlFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Township 6, range 2 — Continued. ■*'*^- 
 
 S. 4 of NW. i, sec. 23 80. 00 
 
 W. i; NW. iofSE. i; S.iof SE. i, sec. 25 440.00 
 
 SW. iof NE. i; NE. }of NW. i; S. i of NW. i, sec. 27 160.00 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; N. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE.J, 
 
 sec. 29 400. 00 
 
 N.i; SE.i,sec.33 430.00 
 
 N.i; SW.i; NW.iofSE.J; S.^of SE. i, sec.35 600.00 
 
 Township 7, range 2: 
 
 Allsec. 1 640.00 
 
 E.i; E.iofW.i; NW. i of NW. i, sec. 3 516.38 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 5 198. 65 
 
 SE. iof NE. J; E. iof SE. }, sec. 9 120. 00 
 
 N-i; SW.i; E.J of SE.i,sec.ll 560.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 E. i; E. iofW. i; NW. i of NW. i, sec. 15 520.00 
 
 • All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 N. i; N.iof SW. i; SE. iof SW. J; SE. i, sec.25 600.00 
 
 TAwnahip 1, range 3: 
 
 NE. iof NE. i, sec. 29 40.00 
 
 Township 2, range 3: 
 
 Lot 5, sec. 21 .55 
 
 Lots 5, 6, 8, sec. 23 11.25 
 
 Township 3, range 3: 
 
 Lots 3, 11, sec. 1 45. 19 
 
 SW. Jof NE. i; NW. iof SW. i; lot 2, sec. 7 99.51 
 
 Lot 5, sec. 13 36. 34 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, sec. 15 .• 75.27 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; NE. } of NW. }, sec. 19 80.00 
 
 Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, sec. 25 71.26 
 
 SE. iofNE. i; SW. iofSB. i; lots 1, 2, 3, sec. 27 101.95 
 
 Lot4; SE. JofSW. i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 29 146.65 
 
 NW. i, sec. 33 160. 00 
 
 N. i, sec. 35 320. 00 
 
 Township 4, range 3: 
 
 S. iofNE. i; NW. J; N. i of SW. i; lots 1, 2; SE. i sec. 1 525.45 
 
 SW. i of SE. i, sec. 3 40.00 
 
 E. iof NW. i; NW. iofSW. i; S. i of SW. i, sec. 5 -^ 200.16 
 
 SW. i of NE. i, sec. 9 40.00 
 
 NE. iof NW. i; S. iofNW. i; SW. i, sec. 13 280.00 
 
 SW. i of SW. i, sec. 19 47.31 
 
 E. iofNE. i; SW. iofNW. i; N. i of SW. J, sec. 21 200.00 
 
 NW.iof NW.i; Siof NW. i; SW. i, sec. 23 280.00 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; S.Jof NE. i; S. i of NW. }, sec. 25 200.00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. } of NE. {; SE. J of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S.J 
 
 of SW. }; NW. i of SE. }, sec. 27 320.00 
 
 NE. iofNE. i; S. i of NE. i, sec. 29 120.00 
 
 S. iofNE. i; SE. i, sec. 31 240.00 
 
 N.iofNE. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 33 120.00 
 
 Township 5, range 3: 
 
 S. iofNE. i;E. iof SE.i, seel 160.00 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i, sec. 5 160.0U 
 
 NE.iotNE.i; SE.iofNW.i; NE. iof SW.i; lot 3; N. iof SE.i; 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. 7 290. 02 
 
 E. i; SE. i of NW. i; E. i of SW. i, sec. 11 440.00 
 
 N. i; NW. iof SW.i; S. iof SW.i; SE. i, sec. 13 600.00 
 
 N. i of NW. i, sec. 17 80. 00 
 
 NE. i; E. i of NW. i, sec. 21 - 240.00 
 
 N. i; E. iof SW.i; SE. i, sec. 23 560.00 
 
 Township 6, range 3: 
 
 S. i of NW. i; N. i of SW. i, sec. 17 : - 160. 00 
 
 Township 7, range 3: 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 1 559. 12 
 
 Allsec. 3.. ..... 637.28 
 
 All sec. 5 638. 00 
 
 SW. iof NE. i; W. i; NW. iof SE.i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 7 455.60 
 
OEEGON AND CAUFOBNIA LAND GEANT. 88 
 
 Township 7, range 3 — Continued. Acres. 
 
 All sec. 9.. 640. 00 
 
 NW. i; SW. i; NW. J of-SE-.-i, sec. 11 520.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; S. iofSW. ij SW. i of SE. J, sec. 15 : 280.00 
 
 N. iof NE. i; SW.-iof NW. i; SW. i; S. i of SE. i, aec.l7...... .. 360.00 
 
 All sec. 19 612. 40 
 
 All sec. 21...'. 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 N. i, sec. 27 320. 00 
 
 Township 1, range 4: 
 
 NW. iotNB.i; S. iofNE. J; NE. i of NW. f, sec. 25 160.00 
 
 Towlnship 2, raage 4: 
 
 W. J of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; E. i of SW. J, sec. 1 198. 49 
 
 Lot 4, sec. 19 18. 67 
 
 S. lof NE. i; S. iof S. J, sec. 25 246.00 
 
 SW. iof NW. i, sec. 29 40.00 
 
 N. iof NE. i; W.J; NW. i of SE. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 35 520. CO 
 
 Township 3, range 4: 
 
 S. Jot S.i, sec. 1 160.00 
 
 E. i; E.J of W.J; NW. i of NW. i; SW. i of SW. J, sec. 11 560. CO 
 
 N.J of N.J; SE. iofNE. i; SE. i of NW. i, sec, 13 240. CO 
 
 SE. i, sec. 25 160. 00 
 
 SE. iof SE. i, sec. 29 40.00 
 
 Lot 5; NW. i of NW. i, sec. 31 57.66 
 
 Lot 1, sec . 33 16. 00 
 
 Township 4, range 4: 
 
 NW. iof SW. i; S. J of SW. i, sec. 1 120.00 
 
 Lotl; NW. iof NE. i; E. J of NW. i, sec. 7 145.50 
 
 Lots 7, 8, 10, 11, sec. 9 60.11 
 
 SW. iof NE. i, sec. 11 40.00 
 
 E. J, sec. 13 320.00 
 
 S. JofNE.i; lot 4; SE. iof SW. i, except 2 acres in SW. corner, sec. 
 
 15 153.42 
 
 Lots 1, 4, 5, 7, and 8; SW. i of NW. i; N. J of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; 
 
 S. Jof SE. i, sec.l7 364.16 
 
 SW. i; SW. iof SE. i, sec. 21 200.00 
 
 NW.iofNE. i; E.JofSW. i; NE. iof SE. i; S. Jof SE. i, sec. 23. 240.00 
 
 AH sec. 25 ; 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 NE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 
 
 29 160.00 
 
 NE. iofNE.i; NE. iofNW. i; S. JofSW. i; E. Jof SE. i, sec. 31. 241.83 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 W.J, sec. 35 320.00 
 
 Township' 5, range 4: 
 
 All sec. 1 626. 12 
 
 All sec. 3 561. 91 
 
 All sec. 5 634. 88 
 
 All sec. 7 648. 38 
 
 All sec . 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 N.J; SW. i; N. J of SE. i, sec. 15 520.35 
 
 All sec . 17 629. 76 
 
 All sec. 19 577. 90 
 
 N. J sec. 21 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 25 640. 00 
 
 Township 6, range 4: 
 
 All sec. 1 <■■ 750. 36 
 
 All sec. 3 751. 48 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 S.J sec. 33 320.00 
 
84 QKEGON AND CAI/IFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 r 
 
 Township 7, range 4: Acres. 
 
 N.i;SW.i; NW. i of SB. i, sec. 5 428.60 
 
 S. iofN.i; S. i, sec. 7 537.19 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 N.i; N.iof S. i, sec. 15 480.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 . 714 52 
 
 N. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 21 '.'..'......'. 40o" 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i, sec. 29 480. 00 
 
 Township 8, range 4: 
 
 E. i; lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, sec. 7 462. 84 
 
 Township 1, range 5: 
 
 .N.iof NE. i; NW. isec. 2& 240 00 
 
 NWiofNE.i; NE.iofNW.i; SW. i of SW. }, sec. 29 120^00 
 
 S. i of SW. i, sec. 33 80.00 
 
 S.iofNE.i; S.i, sec. 35 400.00 
 
 Township 2, range 5: 
 
 NE.i; SE.iofSW.i; NE.JofSE.i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 1 319.37 
 
 Lot 5, sec. 7 38.52 
 
 NE. i; E. i of SE. }, sec. 13 240.00 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. J; SW. J of NW. i; NW. J of SW. i; NW. i of 
 
 SE.i; S. iofSE.i, sec. 15...: ... 440.00 
 
 .SW. }of NE. }; E. i of NW. J, sec. 19 120.00 
 
 NW. iof NE.i; N.iofNW. i; SW. i of NW. }, sec. 23 160.00 
 
 N.iof NE.i; S.iof SW. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 27 200.00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i, sec. 31 113. 11 
 
 N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; SE. i, sec. 33 280. 00 
 
 Township 3, range 5: 
 
 All sec. 1 641. 73 
 
 All sec. 3 645. 10 
 
 ' SE. iof NW. i; S.J, sec. 7 357.00 
 
 E. i; S. iofNW. i; N. J of SW. i, sec. 9 480.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 :. . . 640. 00 
 
 NE. iof NE.i; S. i of NE, i; N.^of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 15 360.00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 17 120. 00 
 
 NW. iof SW. i; S. JotSW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 19.; 154.12 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; SW. 
 
 iof SW. i; NW. iof SE.i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 21 360.00 
 
 E. i; E. iofW. i; NW. i of NW. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 23 560.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 S. i of N. i; NW. i of NW. i; N. J of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; S. i of 
 
 SE. i, sec. 29 1 400.00 
 
 N. iofNW. i; SW.iofNW.i; SW.iofSW.i; S.Jof SE. i, sec. 31. 236.59 
 
 N. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 33 560. 00 
 
 All sec . 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 4, range 5: 
 
 All sec. 1 - 640. 22 
 
 NE. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 3 319. 84 
 
 E. Jof NE. i; E. J of NW. i; S. i of S. J, sec. 5 321.69 
 
 All sec. 7 639. 26 
 
 All sec . 9 640. 00 
 
 W. iof NE.i; W. iof NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 11 520.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 , 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 637. 98 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 NE. i, sec. 27 160.00 
 
 S. iof N.i; NW. iof NW. i, sec. 29 200.00 
 
 All sec. 31 659. 66 
 
 E. i, sec. 35 ,. 322.98 
 
 Township 1, range 6: 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 624. 80 
 
 SW. i, sec. 33 160.00 
 
OBEGON XSD CALIFORNIA lAND GRANT, 85 
 
 Township 2, range 6: Acres. 
 
 All sec. 1 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 639. 42 
 
 All sec. 5 :• 638. 22 
 
 N. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; SB. i, sec. 7 597. 22 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 N.i; E. iof SW. J; SE. i, sec. 17 560.00 
 
 S. iofN.i; NW. iof SW. i; N. i of SE. J, sec. 19 282.99 
 
 S. iofNE. i; S. Jof SW. i; SE. J, sec. 21 : 320.00 
 
 N. i; N. i of S. 4; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 23 520. 00 
 
 N.iofNE. i; SW. i; NE. i of SE. J; S. ^ of SE. i, sec. 25 360.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 642. 82 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 4, range 6: 
 
 N. i; SW. i, sec. 1 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 5 644. 21 
 
 All sec. 7 639. 39 
 
 All sec . 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 700. 21 
 
 W. i sec. 13 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 640. 54 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 NW. i sec. 23 195. 68 
 
 NW. i sec. 27 160. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 621. 83 
 
 Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; NE. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 31 327.52 
 
 Lotsl, 2; NW. i; N. i of SW. i, sec. 33 303,04 
 
 Township 2, range 7: 
 
 »^l» All sec. 7 638. 41 
 
 PW All sec. 19 : 638. 42 
 
 "» All sec. 31 639. 59 
 
 Township 3, range 7: 
 
 W. i sec. 7 323. 32 
 
 W. i sec. 19 321. 78 
 
 South of base line and west of WUlamette meridian, township 3, range 1: 
 
 NE. i of SW. i, sec. 19 40.00 
 
 Total Clackamas County 89, 162. 07 
 
 Polh County. 
 [Soutli of base line and west of Willamette meridian.) 
 
 Township 6, range 3: 
 
 Lot 2, sec. 5 2. 00 
 
 Lot 4, sec. 21 .63 
 
 Township 8, range 4: 
 
 Lots, sec. 3 4.00 
 
 Township 9, range 4: 
 
 Lot 5, sec. 1 4.00 
 
 Lot 5, sec. 9 - • 1. 16 
 
 Township 9, range 5: 
 
 Lot 9, sec. 13 6.00 
 
 Township 6, range 6: 
 
 Lotl, sec. 35 28.00 
 
 Township 7, range 6: 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 3 94.00 
 
 SW. iofNE. i; S. i; lot 1, sec. 5 405.00 
 
 All sec. 7 655.00 
 
 SE. ■}• of NE. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. i; lot 3, sec. 9 318. 00 
 
§6 OREGON AND' OAltlFORNIA Im^JT'P OKANT. 
 
 Township 7, range 6 — Continued. ^'^r^- 
 
 E. i of N.5;. i; NE. i of SW, i; 8, i of SW. i; SE. i, aec. 17 360. 00 
 
 E. iof SW. i; NE. iof SB. i; SW. i of SE.. i, eec. 21 WO. 00 
 
 SE. i of 8E. i, sec. 27 40. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 ©40. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 , 662. 00 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; NW. i; SE. i, sec. 33 400. 00 
 
 Township 8, range 6: 
 
 N. 4, sec. 5 324. 00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; S. i of N. i; N. J oi S. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 7.... 415. 00 
 
 W. i of NE. i; S. i of NW. i; N. J of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 9. . 280. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; NW. i, sec. 17 200. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. 4; NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; 
 
 SW. i; S. iof SE. i, sec. 31 440.00 
 
 W. 4 of NW, i, sec. 33 '. 80. 00 
 
 Township 9, range 6: 
 
 N. i of NE. 4; NW. i, sec. 5 246. 00 
 
 N. i; N. 4 of SE. i, sec. 7 407. 00 
 
 SE . i of NW. J, sec . 9 . . . , , 40. 00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i, sec. 17 ■ 40.00 
 
 Township 7, range 7: 
 
 S. 4of NE. i; NW. i; S. 4, sec. 1 610.00 
 
 All sec. 3 739. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 736. 00 
 
 AH sec. 7 643. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 N. 4; N. 4of S. 4; SW. iof SW. i; SE. iof SE, i, aec. 11 ,.. 560.00 
 
 N. 4; SW. i; NW. iof SE. i; S. 4 of SE. i, sec. 13 600.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 642. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 : , 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 641. 00 
 
 N. 4, sec. 35. .■ 320. 00 
 
 Township 8, range 7: , 
 
 S. 4 of NW. i; SW. i; NW. i of SE. 4; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 1 320.00 
 
 W. 4; NE. i, sec. 3 481. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 641. 00 
 
 N. 4 of N. 4; SW. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. 4 of S- i, sec. 9. . 400. 00 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. it 40. 00 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i, sec. 17 :; 120.00 
 
 SE. i of NW. i, sec. 23 40. 00 
 
 N. 4bf NE. i; SW. fof NE. i; SE. iof SE. i,'sec. 25 160.00 
 
 All sec. 31 641. 00 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; SW.,i of NE. i, sec. 35 120. 00 
 
 Township 9, range 7: 
 
 NE. i; E. 4of NW. i; S. 4, sec. 1 ; 561.00 
 
 NW. i; S. 4, sec. 3 480. 00 
 
 Lots 3, 4; SW. i of NW. J, sec. 5 136. 00 
 
 N. 4; SW. J; N. 4of SE. i, SW. i of SE. J, sec. 9 600.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640.00 
 
 W. 4of NE. i; W. 4; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 15 440.00 
 
 Lots 9, IQ, 11, 14, 15., 16, sec. 17 245.00 
 
 NW. i; JJW. i of SW. i, sec. 21 200. 00 
 
 E. 4 of NE. i; NE. i of SE. J, sec. 23 120. 00 
 
 N. 4 ; SW. i, sec. 29 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 662.00 
 
 SE. i of NW. i; S. 4, sec . 33 360. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; W. 4 of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. 4 of SW. J; SW. 
 
 4of SE. J, sec. 35 280. 0» 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 87 
 
 Township 10, range 7: Acres. 
 
 N. J of N. i, sec. 1 190. 00 
 
 NW. i ; N . i of SW. i, sec . 3 248. 00 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 5 ;. . 184. 00 
 
 Township 7, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 780. 00 
 
 E. i; E. Jof W. i, sec. 8 569.00 
 
 All Sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 E. i; E. i of W. i, sec. 15 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 8, range 8: 
 
 N. *; SW. i, sec. 1 479.00 
 
 E. J; E. ^ot W. i sec. 3 458.00 
 
 N. J; SW. i, sec. 11 480.00 
 
 E. J of E. i, sec. 15 160. 00 
 
 S. i, sec. 23 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 N.isec. 35 320.00 
 
 Township 9, range 8: 
 
 N. iof NW. i; SW. iof NW. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 11 200.00 
 
 NE. i sec. 15 160. 00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 27 - 560. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Total Polk County 37,017-. 79 
 
 Marion County. 
 [South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 9, range 1: 
 
 Lot 9, sec. 13 29. 00 
 
 Township 9, range 2: 
 
 Lot 3, sec. 29 17. 00 
 
 Township 6, range 3: 
 
 Lot 2, sec. 1 9.00 
 
 Lots 8, 9, 10, sec. 21 -. 58.00 
 
 Township 8, range 4: 
 
 Lot 9, sec. 1 7. 00 
 
 [South of base line and east of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 6, range 1: 
 
 NE. i; N. J of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 25 280. 00 
 
 Township 7, range 1: 
 
 SE. i of NW. i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 1 
 
 Lots 1, 5, 6, sec. 7 
 
 S . J sec. 11 
 
 W. i of NE. i; W. i of W. J; NE. J of SE. i, sec. 13 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; E. i of SE. i, sec. 23 
 
 Township 8, range 1: 
 
 NE. } of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; NW. i; NE. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 1. 
 
 N. iof NE. i; SW. iof NE. i; W. i; S. i of SE. }, sec. 3 
 
 Lots 1, 2, sec. 7 
 
 N. i; W. iof SW. i; NE. i of SE. |-, sec. 11 
 
 ' NE. i; NE. iof SW. i; N. J of SE. i, sec. 12 
 
 NE. i; E. i of SE. i, sec. 13 
 
 E. i of SW. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 SE. i of NW. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 27 
 
 N. iof NE. i; NW. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 35 
 
 Township 9, range 1: 
 
 Lot 1, see. 23 
 
 Township 6, range 2: 
 
 SW. i of SW. i sec. 29 
 
 E. i of NE. i; NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; NE. i of SB. J; S. i of SE. i, 
 
 "^ 396.00 
 
 120. 00 
 
 36.00 
 
 320. 00 
 
 280. 00 
 
 120. 00 
 
 481.00 
 
 524. 00 
 
 17.00 
 
 440.00 
 
 280. 00 
 
 240. 00 
 
 160. 00 
 
 610. 00 
 
 160. 00 
 
 440.00 
 
 22.00 
 
 40.00 
 
88 OREGON AND CAUFOENIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 To-wiiE&ip 7, range 2: ' Acres. 
 
 W. i; NW. iof SE. i; S. J of SE. J, sec. 5 440.00 
 
 SW. lof NW. i; NW. iofSW. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 7 118.00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; W. i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 9 440. 00 
 
 SW. iof NW. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 15 120.00 
 
 NE. i; S. *of NW. i, sec. 17 240. 00 
 
 SE. iofNW. i: E. iof SW. i; SE. J, sec. 19 280.00 
 
 W. i of W. i; SE. i of NW. J; SE. i, sec. 21 360. 00 
 
 SW. i of SW. i sec. 25 40.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 S. iofNE. J; NW. i; E. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 33 f. 480.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 8, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 1 636. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 636. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 645. 00 
 
 S. iofNE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 7 562.00 
 
 All sec. 9 630. 00 
 
 All sec . 11 640. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. J; N. i of NW. i, sec. 13 120. 00 
 
 E. i; NW. iofNW. i; S. i of NW. i; SW. i, sec. 17 600.00 
 
 S. iofNE. i; SE. iofNW. i; S. i, sec. 19 441.00 
 
 W. i sec. 29. 320. 00 
 
 N. i; N. iofSW. i; SE. iofSW. i; SE. i, sec. 31 601.00 
 
 Township 9, range 2: , 
 
 All sec. 1 642. 00 
 
 NE. i; N. iofNW. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 3 328.00 
 
 NE. i; N. iofNW. i; S. i, sec. 5 575.00 
 
 • NW. iofNE. i; NE. iofNW. i, sec. 7 80.00 
 
 NW. i of SE. i; north 23 acres of SW. i of SE. i, sec. 9 63. 00 
 
 NE. i; S. iofNW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 11 364.00 
 
 NW. iofNE. i; S. iof NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 13 600.00 
 
 S. iofNE. i; SE. iofNW. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 15 200.00 
 
 NE. i; NE. iof NW. i; E. i of SE. i, sec. 23 280.00 
 
 E. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i; E. i of SW. i, sec. 25 200. 00 
 
 Township 8. range 3: 
 
 E. iof NE. i; SW. iof NW. i; S. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 13 536.00 
 
 S. iof SE. isec.23 80.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; E. iof NWri; S. i, sec. 27 560.00 
 
 S. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 29 240.00 
 
 All sec. 31 637. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 9, range 3: 
 
 E. i of NE. i; NE. { of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 1 360. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 643. 00 
 
 N. i; E. i of SW. i; NW. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 9 480. 00 
 
 N. iof NW. i; NE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 11...: 320.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; E. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 15 560.00 
 
 NE. i; S. i of NW. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 17 360. 00 
 
 N. i; N. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 21 560.00 
 
 SE. i of SW. i, sec. 23 40.00 
 
 Township 8, range 4: 
 
 W. i, sec. 17 320.00 
 
 E. i; lots 1,2, 3,4, sec. 19 466.00. 
 
 NW. i; S. i, sec. 29 473. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, sec. 31 315. 00 
 
 Township 9, range 4: 
 
 All sec. 5 642. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 614. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 : . . . . 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 613. 00 
 
 NW. i, sec. 29 160. 00 
 
 Total Marion County 30, 256. 00 
 
OEBGON AND CAUFOENIA LAND GRANT. 89 
 
 Lincoln County. 
 [South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 12, range 8: Acres. 
 
 SW. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 3 240.00 
 
 SW. i; NE. ioiSE. i; S. iof SE. i, sec. 5 280.00 
 
 NE. J; E. J of NW. i, sec. 7 240.00 
 
 N. i; E. iof SW. i; SE. J, sec. 9 560.00 
 
 S. iof NE. J; NW. i; S. i, sec. 11 560.00 
 
 All sec. 13 . . 640.00 
 
 W. Jof NE. i; W. i, sec. 15 400.00 
 
 NE-. iof NE. i; S. i of NE. }; S. i, sec. 17 440.00 
 
 N. Jof NE. J; SW. iofNE. i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 19 518.00 
 
 Allsec.21 • ■ 640.00 
 
 SE. Jof NW. i; S. J.-sfecr. 23 360.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640.00 
 
 'Allsec.27 640.00 
 
 AllBec.29 640.00 
 
 All sec. 31 639.00 
 
 Allsec.33 640.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 13, range 8: • 
 
 Allsec.l 678.00 
 
 Allsec.3 657.00 
 
 Allsec.5 658.00 
 
 All sec. 7 635.00 
 
 Allsec.9 640.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 AllBec.13 640.00 
 
 All sec . 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 Township 13, range 9: 
 
 E. Jof E. i, sec. 13 160.00 
 
 E. Jof E. §, sec. 25 160.00 
 
 Township 14, range 9: 
 
 E. 4 of NE. i; SE. i, sec. 1 240. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. }; SE,i of SW. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 13. 200. 00 
 
 NE. i; E. iofW. i; SE. J, sec. 25 480.00 
 
 Township 15, range 9; 
 
 E. i of NW. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 1 121. OO 
 
 Total Lincoln County 15,906.00 
 
 Benton County. 
 [South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 10, range 4: 
 
 Lot 6, sec . 15 1. 14 
 
 Lotl, sec. 21 .16 
 
 Township 13, range 4: 
 
 Lot 5, sec. 19 52. 40 
 
 Township 10, range 5: 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. * of NE. i; W. J, sec. 19 440. 00 
 
 Lot 4, sec. 23 -79 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; SW. 1; N. 4 of SE. J, sec. 29 280.00 
 
 Township 11, range 5: 
 
 Lotl, sec. 1 2.76 
 
 Township 13, range 5: 
 
 Lots 1, 2, sec. 7 2.00 
 
 Lotl, sec. 29 -84 
 
 Township 14, range 5: 
 
 Lotl, Bec..25 -26 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, sec. 31 5.88 
 
 Township 13, range 6: 
 
 S. 4 of SW. i, sec. 5 80.00 
 
 All sec. 7 68L60 
 
90 OBEGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GEANT, 
 
 Township 13, range 6— Continued. -*-<"«s. 
 
 Lot 5, eec . 13 - 11. 34 
 
 S. iof NE. i; W. J; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 17 520.00 
 
 N.J; SW. i; N. Jof SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 19 65L 39 
 
 S. iofK. i; SW. i; NE. + of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 21 440.00 
 
 SE . i of N W. i ; W. J of S W . i, sec . 23 , , 120. 00 
 
 N. i, sec. 25 320. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; NW. i of SE. i; 
 
 SE. i of SE. }, sec. 27 240. 00 
 
 NE. i; S. i of NW. i; SW. J; N. i of SE. i; SW. } of SE. i, sec. 29. . . . 520. 00 
 
 All sec . 31 701. 65 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; 
 
 SE. } of SW. i; N. i of SW. i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 33 400. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. J of NE. i; N. J of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; E. i of 
 
 SE. isec. 35 320.00 
 
 Township 14, range 6c 
 
 N.i; NE. iof SE. i, sec. 3 362.66 
 
 AUsec.5 ,. 642.82 
 
 All sec. 7 638. 60 
 
 W. i sec . 9 320. 00 
 
 Lotl, sec. 11 43.35 
 
 All sec. 17 640. QO 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 19 602. 82 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 AllSW. i, sec. 31 64L16 
 
 Township 15. range 6: 
 
 W. Jof SW. i; SW. iof SE. i; sec. 3 , 120.00 
 
 NW. i; S. J, sec. 5 481. 31 
 
 N. J of N. J, sec. 7 Ig9. 40 
 
 N. J of NW. i, sec. 9 80.00 
 
 Township 12, range 7: 
 
 S.iof S. i, sec. 7 158.87 
 
 NW. iof SW. J; S. iof SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 15 MO.OO 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 639, 62 
 
 N, J; SE. i, sec. 21 480.00 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; W. i of SW. i, sec, 23 v 120.00 
 
 All sec . 27 640. 00 
 
 NW. iofNE. i; S. JofNE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 29 600.00 
 
 All sec. 31 634. 78 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. OO 
 
 Township 13, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 3 705. 64 
 
 All sec. 5 680. 38 
 
 All sec. 7 •. 645. 40 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640.00 
 
 All sec. la 640. OO 
 
 E. J; N. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 15 480.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. OO 
 
 All sec . 19 644. 38 
 
 W. iof NE. i; NW. i, sec. 21 240.00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 Lots 7, 8, sec. 29 L 88 
 
 W. iof NE. i; NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 31.... 318.49 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 14, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 1 635. 34 
 
 All sec. 3 643. 92 
 
 S. iof NE. i; W. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 5 320.00 
 
 Lot 4, sec . 7 34. 84 
 
 All sec. 9 663. 68 
 
 All sec. 11 640. OO 
 
OEESGON AND OAUPORNIA LAND GHANT, 91 
 
 Township 14, range 7 — Continued. Ao«s?. 
 
 All sec. 13 631. 12 
 
 NE. i; E. Jof NW. i; S. i sec. 15 .'.. 560.00 
 
 All sec. 17 649. 99 
 
 All sec. 19 651. 99 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 , 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 , All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 665. 60 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 AH sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 15, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 1 596. 62 
 
 All sec. 3 609. 50 
 
 All sec. 5 575. 60 
 
 N. i of N. i, sec. 7 157. 69 
 
 N. i of N. i, sec. 9 160. 00 
 
 N. J of N. i, sec. 11 160. 00 
 
 Township 13, range 8: 
 
 AH sec. 19 637. 68 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 28 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 31 637. 19 
 
 All sec. 33 641. 80 
 
 N. i; SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 35 520.00 
 
 Township 14, range 8: 
 
 N. i of NE. i; NW. i, sec. 3 244.36 
 
 N. i: SW. i; N. i of BE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 5 607.68 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. J of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; E. J of SW. i; SE. i, 
 
 sec. 7 439. 01 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. 9 40. 00 
 
 E. i; S. J of SW. i, sec. 11 400.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; S. i of NW. i; SW. {; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 19 394.81 
 
 All sec. 21 640.00. 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; W. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 23 400. 00 
 
 NE. J;S. *of SW. i;E. Jof SE. i, sec. 25 320.00 
 
 All sec. 27: , 640.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640.00 
 
 N. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 31 590. 00 
 
 NE. i; E. i of NW. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; NE. J of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 33 400.50 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. J of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 35 603. 66 
 
 Township 15, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 774. 06 
 
 Lotsl, 8, 4, 5, 6,8,9, 10, 11, 12; S. i, sec. 3 659.00 
 
 N. * of N. i; SW. J of NE. i; SW. i of NW. J; S. i of SE. i, sec. 5. . . . 352. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i, sec. 7 40.00 
 
 N. i of N. i, sec. 9 16.0. 00 
 
 N. i of N. I, sec. 11 160. 00 
 
 Total Benton County 53,626.99 
 
 Linn County. 
 
 [South of base line and east of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 9, range 1: 
 
 Lot 4, sec. 17 16.00 
 
 Township 10, range 1 : 
 
 NE. i;NE. iofNW. i;lot8 2, 5, sec. 1 227.00 
 
 N. i of N. i; SW. i of NE. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. i, 
 
 sic. 19.. 478.00 
 
92 OREGON AND CALIFORNIA IjAND GRANT. 
 
 Acres. 
 
 TowBship 10, ranee 1 — Continued. 
 
 SW.lBec.21. 160.00 
 
 S. i of N. i; S. i, sec. 23 480. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. J; NW. i; S. i, sec. 25 600. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 27 600. 00 
 
 W. iof NE.-iiNW. i;S.i, sec. 29 - 560.00 
 
 N . J of N. i; lot 2, sec. 31 ■ 198. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640.00 
 
 Township 11, range 1: 
 
 All sec. 1 641. 00 
 
 Lotel, 2, 3,4; S. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; S. J, sec. 3 601.00 
 
 N. iof NE. i; NE. iof SW. i, sec. 5 120.00 
 
 W. J, sec. 9 320.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 NE.i; S.iofNW.i; S. i, sec. 17 560.00 
 
 N. i of N. i, sec. 21 160. 00 
 
 N. i; N. iof S. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 23 520.00 
 
 E. i; E. * of W. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 27 520. 00 
 
 SE. iof SW. i; NE. iof SE. i; S. i of SE. J, sec. 29 160.00 
 
 Lot 3, sec . 31 4. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 12, range 1 : ■ '■. 
 
 W. iofNW. i; SW. i, sec. 1 '239.00 
 
 N. i; SW. J; NW. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 3 596.00 
 
 All sec . 5 643. 00 
 
 N. i of N. i, sec. 9 160 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640 00 
 
 NE. i; S. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 23 560. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 ; 640. 0>i 
 
 Township 14, range 1: 
 
 E. i of SE. i, sec. 29 80 00 
 
 N. iof SE. \, sec. 33 80.00 
 
 All sec . 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 15, range 1: 
 
 N. i; SW. iof SW. i; NE. } of SE. J, sec. 1 409.00 
 
 Township 9, range 2: 
 
 SW. iof SW. i, sec. 25 40.00 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 27 4. 00 
 
 NW. iof SW. i; S. iof S. i, sec. 29 200.00 
 
 S, iof NW. i; S. i sec. 31 409.00 
 
 NW. iofNE. i; S. iof NE. i; E. i of W. i; SE. i, sec. 35 440.00 
 
 Township 10, range 2: 
 
 NW. i; S. J, sec. 1 479.00 
 
 N.i; NW. iof SW. i; E. i SE. i, sec. 5 440 00 
 
 NE. i, sec. 7 . 16000 
 
 E. i; NE. iof NW. i; S. i of NW. i, sec. 9 445.00 
 
 E. iofNE. i; SW. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 11 440 00 
 
 E. i, sec. 13 320.00 
 
 SE. iof NE. i; W. iof NW. i; S. i, sec, 15 440.00 
 
 S. iof N. i; N. iof SE. i, sec. 17 240.00 
 
 W. i, sec. 19 348.00 
 
 N. i of NW. i, sec. 21 .-. 80. 00 
 
 NE. i; S. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 23 560 00 
 
 NE. i, sec. 25 .• 160.00 
 
 All sec. 31 658. 00 
 
 SW. i of SW. i, sec. 33 40.00 
 
 Township 11, range 2: 
 
 S. i, sec. 3 320.00 
 
 All sec. 5 935. 00 
 
 E. i, sec. 7 320.00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 SE. i, sec. 13.-. 160.00 
 
OBEGtON AND CALIFORNIA LAND QEANT. 
 
 93 
 
 Township 12, range 2: 
 
 S. J, sec. 1 
 
 SE. i, sec. 3 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 , 
 
 All sec. 15 
 
 E. i; S. i of SW. i, sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 All sec. 29 
 
 Township 14, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 Township 15, range 2: 
 
 Lots 3, 4; SB. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. J, sec. 19 
 
 Township 10, range 3: 
 
 SW. i of SW. i; SE. }, sec. 1 
 
 SE. iofNW. i;S.iof SE. }, sec. 3 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; S. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. J of SW, i; lot 4, 
 sec. 5 
 
 N. i of N. i, sec. 7 
 
 N. i of N. i, sec. 11 
 
 S. J of NW. i; NE. i of SW. J; SW. J of SW. }; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 19. 
 Township 11, range 3: 
 
 S. i, sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 7 
 
 All sec. 9 
 
 NE. i;NE. Jof NW. i;S. iofNW. i;S. i, sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 All sec. 15. 
 
 : All sec. 17 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 '■ All sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 All sec. 27 ; 
 
 All sec. 29 
 
 All sec. 33 , 
 
 N. i; N. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. }, sec. 35 
 
 Township 12, range 3: 
 
 NW. i, sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 3 
 
 All sec. 5 
 
 All sec. 7 -. 
 
 All sec. 9 
 
 W. i of E. i W. i; sec. 11 -. 
 
 All sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 17 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 All sec. 21 ,--... 
 
 W. i of NW. i, sec. 27 
 
 . E. i; SE.. J of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i,, ?ec. 29 
 
 N. i of NE. i, sec. 31 
 
 NW. i, sec. 33 
 
 Township 14, range 3: 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, 4; E. Jof W. i, sec. 31 
 
 Township 9, range 4: 
 
 S. i of NW. i; N: i of SW. i; SE. J, sec. 31 
 
 Township 10, range 4 : 
 
 NE. Jof NW. i; S. iof NW. J; W. i of SE.-J, sec. 17. 
 
 E. jof E. i, sec. 19 
 
 W. ioi'E.i; W. i, sec. 29 
 
 [South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 9, range 1: 
 
 NW. i of NE. }; lot 6, sec. 21 , 
 
 Township 10, range 1 : 
 
 . NW. i of SE . i; W. i of SW. J, sec. 13 - - - ■ - 
 
 NE. iof SW. I, sec. 23 
 
 N. *of SW. i; SE. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 25 
 
 Acres. 
 320. 00 
 160. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 400. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 156. 00 
 
 200. 00 
 120. 00 
 
 277. 00 
 163. 00 
 160. 00 
 202. 00 
 
 320. 00 
 539. 00 
 640. 00 
 600. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 543. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 691. 00 
 440. 00 
 
 160. 00 
 637. 00 
 628. 00 
 630. 00 
 640. OQ 
 480. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 632. 00 
 640. 00 
 
 80.00 
 480. 00 
 
 80.00 
 160. 00 
 
 310. 00 
 
 306. 00 
 
 200. 00 
 160.00 
 480. 00 
 
 79.01 
 
 120. 00 
 
 40.00 
 
 280. 00 
 
94 OEEGON AND CALIFORNIA L-AND GRANT. 
 
 Township 14, range 1: Acres. 
 
 S. * of S. J, sec. 25 160.00 
 
 S. i of S. i, sec. 27 -. 160. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 640. 00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; W. i of SW. J; NE. } of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 33. 240. 00 
 
 All sec . 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 15, range 1: 
 
 All that part situated in Linn County, sec, 1 601. 00 
 
 NE. iof NEi; S. Jof NE.J; SW. i of NW. J; S. i, sec. 3 482.00 
 
 E. i; N. Jof NW. }; SW. J of SW. i, sec. 5 441.00 
 
 All that part situated in Linn County, sec. 7 160. 00 
 
 N . i, sec. 9 S20. 00 
 
 All that part of NW. } of NW. J situated in Linn County, sec. 11 15. 00 
 
 Township 13, range 2: 
 
 NE. i of NW. i, sec. 19 40. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i, sec. 21 4i0. 00 
 
 Township 14, range 2: 
 
 Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, sec. 13 >5. 00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 4, 5, sec. 15 103.00 
 
 NW. iof SE. i, sec. 21 40.00 
 
 N. iof NE. }; SW. iof NE. }; SE. J, sec. 25 280.00 
 
 N. iof NE. }, sec. 29 80.00 
 
 E. i of SE. i, sec. 33 a).O0 
 
 S. i, sec. 85 320. 00 
 
 Towndiip 15, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 1 642. 00 
 
 E. i, sec. 3 320.00 
 
 SW. Jof NW. J; SW. J; NE. Jof SE. J; S. i of SE. i, sec. 9....... 320.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All see. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 15 640. 00 
 
 NE. iof NE. J, sec. 17 40.00 
 
 NE. 1; S. i, sec. 21 , 480.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 29 640. 00 
 
 NE. iof NE.i; S. Jof NE.i; NW. J; S. i, sec. 31 621.00 
 
 All sec . 33 640. 00 
 
 Townriiip 16, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 5 638. 00 
 
 Township 14, range 3: 
 
 Lots 3, 4, sec. 3 48.00 
 
 Township 16, range 3: 
 
 E. J; SE. i of NW. i, sec. 1 36L00 
 
 Township 15, range 4: 
 
 SW. i of SW. i, sec. 35 «).00 
 
 Township 12, range 5: ^ 
 
 Lot 3 , sec. 1 .23 
 
 Township 14, range 5: 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 23 10.00 
 
 Total Linn Comity : 61, 966. 23 
 
 Lane County. 
 
 [South of base line and east of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 16, range 1: 
 
 SW. i of SW. i (or lot 4), sec. 7 40.00 
 
 SE. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 13 200.00 
 
 W. i of NE. i; NW. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 17 160. 00 
 
 SW. J; SW. iof SE. i, sec. 21 200.00 
 
 E. iofNE. i; S. iofSW. i; SE. i, sec. 23 320.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. i, sec. 29 120. 00 
 
 W. i of NW. i, sec. 31 76.00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
OREGON AND CAUPOENIA I>A.ND GRANT. 95 
 
 Township 17, range 1: Acres. 
 
 NW. i, sec. 3 159. 00 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; lotsl, 2, sec. 9 114.00 
 
 NE. J, sec. 13 160. 00 
 
 SE. i of SW. J, «ec. 15 40.00 
 
 Lots 10, 11; W. i of SE. }, sec. 19 161.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; NE. J of NW. i, sec. 21 80. 00 
 
 Township 18, range 1: 
 
 All sec. 7 634. 00 
 
 S. Jof S. i, sec. 13 160.00 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; SW. J of NE. i; NW. i; N. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 19. 522. 00 
 
 NE. i; S. i, sec. 21 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 N. J; SE. i, sec. 25 480. 00 
 
 N.i; SW. i; N.Jof SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 29 600.00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. i of S. i, sec. 31 400. 00 
 
 Township 19, range 1: 
 
 All sec. 1. 639. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 '642. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 -640. 00 ' 
 
 Township 20, range 1: 
 
 S. J of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; E. J of SW. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4; SE. i, 
 
 " sec. 7 ,. 436. 00 
 
 SW. J of NE. i; W. i; NW. | of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 17 4S0. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 552. 00 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; S.iofNE. }; NW. }; S. i, sec. 21 600.00 
 
 SW. i of SW. J, sec. 23 40.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 616. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 670. 00 
 
 NW. i, sec. 35 160.00 
 
 Township 22, range 1: 
 
 All sec . 5 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 579. 00 
 
 NW. isec. 9 160.00 
 
 N. i; SW. i, sec. 17 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 ^ 578. 00 
 
 Township 16, range 2: 
 
 SW. J; S. iof SE. i, sec.l5 240.00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 17 520. 00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 19 559. 00 
 
 N. iofNE. i; SW. iofNE. i; W. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 21 480.00 
 
 Lots 2 to 10, inclusive, 12, 13, sec. 23 428. 00 
 
 NE. i; E. Jof NW. i; S. J, sec. 25 560.00 
 
 S. i of SE. J, sec. 27 80.00 
 
 W. iof NE. i; NW. i; NW. i of SW. J; lot 1, sec. 29 315.00 
 
 NW. Jof NE. i; S. iof N. i; S. i, sec.33 520.00 
 
 Lot5, sec. 35 27.00 
 
 Township 17, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 1 643. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 644. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 636. 00 
 
 NE. i; NE. JofNW. i, sec. 7 200.00 
 
 N. i of NW. J, sec. 9 80. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 Township 15, range 3: 
 
 SW. isec. 33 160.00 
 
 Township 16, range 3: 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; NE. i; E. i of NW. i, sec. 31 429.00 
 
 Township 17, range 3: 
 
 W. iof NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; lots 1, 2, sec. 3 181. 00 
 
 S. i of NW. i; lots 1, 4, 5; S. i, sec. 5 507. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 642.00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; S. i of NW. i; S. i; lots 3, 4, 5, sec. 9 517. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640.00 
 
96 
 
 OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 [South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 15, range 1: Acres. 
 
 All that part situated in Lane County, sec. 1 40. 00 
 
 All that part situated in Lane County, sec. 7 . 497. 00 
 
 N. Jof SW. i; SE. i, sec.9 240.00 
 
 SW. }, and that part of NW. i of NW. i situated in Lane County, 
 
 sec . 11 185. 00 
 
 N. i; N. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 13 , . . . 440. 00 
 
 NE. }; N. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 15 560.00 
 
 All sec . 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 660. 00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; N. J of SW. }; SE. i of SW. i; S. J 
 
 of SE. i, sec . 21 320. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; NW. i, sec. 23 200. 00 
 
 SE. iof SW. i; NE. iof SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 27 160.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 653. 00 
 
 Township 16, range 1: 
 
 All sec. 3 643. 00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; lots 7, 8, sec. 5 39. 00 
 
 N. i; N. i of SW. i, sec. 9 400. 00 
 
 NW. i; SW. iof SW. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 11 240.00 
 
 S. i of SW. i, sec. 13 80.00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. {; N. i of S. J; SE. i of 
 
 SE. i, sec. 15 400. 00 
 
 Lots3and4; N. J of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 17 181.00 
 
 Lots5, 6, 7, and8; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. J, sec. 19 241.00 
 
 S. iof S. i, sec. 25 160.00 
 
 S. i of S. i, sec. 27 160.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. }; NW. i; NW. i of SW. }; S. i of SW. 
 
 i; NE. iof SE. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 31 566.00 
 
 E. J; SE. i of NW. i; N. J of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 33 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 17, range 1: 
 
 E. J, sec. 1 320.00 
 
 N. i; N. iof SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. J, sec. 3 602.00 
 
 N. Jof N.i; SW.iof NW.i; lota 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, sec. 5.... 345.00 
 
 W. i o^NE. i; NW. i; lots 1, 2, 4, and 5, sec. 7 339. 00 
 
 E. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; E. J of SW. i, sec. 9 487.00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. J; S. J of NW. ir S. i, sec. 11 480. 00 
 
 N.i; SW. i; N. i of SE. }, sec. 15 560.00 
 
 SE. iotNE. i; S. i; lot 1, sec. 17 399.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i, sec. 19 40. 00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i, sec. 21 40. 00 
 
 NW. i of SW. i; lota 3 and 4, sec. 25 110. 00 
 
 S. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. J, sec. 31 126. 00 
 
 S. iof N.i; S. i, sec. 35 521.00 
 
 Township 18, range 1: 
 
 All sec. 1 682.00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. i of SE. }, 
 
 sec. 3 454 00 
 
 N.i; N. iof S. i; SW. i of SW. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 5 627.00 
 
 NE. i; E. i of NW. J; NW. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. 
 
 i, sec. 7 361. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. J; E. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 9 520. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 1 5 640. 00 
 
 N. i; E. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 17 520. 00 
 
 NE. i of SE. i, sec. 19 40.00 
 
 NE. i; N. iof NW. i; SE. i of NW. i, sec. 21 280.00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. 25 40. 00 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 97 
 
 Township 19, range 1: ' Acres. 
 
 S. i of NE. J-; -NW. i; S. J, sec. 31 567. 00 
 
 S. i of SW. I, sec. 33 80. 00 
 
 SW. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 35 240. 00 
 
 Township 20, range 1: 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 1 600. 00 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SE. J, sec. 3 242. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 618. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 768. 00 
 
 SE.iof NE. i;.SE. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 9 400.00 
 
 NE. i; S. i, sec. 11 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640, 00 
 
 Lots 7 to 12, inclusive; NW. i of SE. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 31 35^. 00 
 
 N. i, sec. 35 320. 00 
 
 Township 21, range 1: 
 
 Lots 2 to 7, inclusive, 11, 12, 13, 14, sec. 5 348. 00 
 
 Lots 1 to 10, inclusive, 15, 16, sec. 7 470. 00 
 
 W. i of SW. i, sec. 9 80.00 
 
 Lota 1, 7, 9, 13, sec. 17 156.00 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; E. i of SE. i; lot 6, sec. 19 151.00 
 
 Lots 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, sec. 29 314. 00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 31 520. 00 
 
 N. iof NE.i; NW. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec.33 280.00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. \, sec. 35. 520. 00 
 Township 22, range 1: 
 
 Lot 4, sec. 1 47,00 
 
 NE. i of NW. i; W. i of W. i; SE. J of SW. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 5. . 320. 00 
 
 Lots 1, 17, sec . 7 55. 00 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. J, sec. 9 320. 00 
 
 S. * of NW. i, sec. 13 80.00 
 
 W. *of NE. i; SE. i; lots 1, 2,3,4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, sec. 15 603.00 
 
 NW. iofNE. i; SE. iofNE. i; SW. iof SE.J; lots 1, 4, sec. 17... 201.00 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. 19 40. 00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, sec. 21 241.00 
 
 W. * of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 23 560. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640.00 
 
 E.iofNE.i; SW.iofSW.i; N. JofSE.i; SW. iof SE. i, sec. 27. 240.00 
 
 S. i of SW. i, sec. 29 80.00 
 
 E.i; lotsl, 2, 3,4,5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 20, sec. 31 740.00 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. 33 40. 00 
 
 NW. iofNW. i; N. Jof SW. i; SE. iof SW. i; SE.i,sec.35 320.00 
 
 Township 23, range 1: 
 
 N. i; SE. i, sec. 1 •- 492.00 
 
 S. * of NW. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. h sec. 3. 240. 00 
 
 S. iofNE. i; SE. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 5 440.00 
 
 NE.i: E. iofSE. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, sec. 7.. .. 635.00 
 
 Allslc.9. 640.00 
 
 S. i of SW. i; E. i of SE. i, sec. 11 160. 00 
 
 Allsec.l3.. .... 640.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640.00 
 
 Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16,17, 19, 20, sec. 19 463.00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640.00 
 
 Allsec.31 - 1,065.00 
 
 All sec. 33 640.00 
 
 ' N. i; SE. i, sec. 35 480. CO 
 
 47197—12 7 
 
98 OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Township 24, range 1: ^^'^■ 
 
 LDtsl,2, 3, 4; SW. i of NW. J, sec. 1 198.00 
 
 N. 4; SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 5 518. 00 
 
 NE.i, sec. 7 160.00 
 
 .Township 15, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 N.J; N. J of SE. i, sec. 35 400.00 
 
 Township 16, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 7 659. 00 
 
 Ail sec . 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 659. 00 
 
 AU sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 NW. iof SW. }, sec. 23 40.00 
 
 E.Jof NE. J; lots 5, 6; SE. i, sec. 25 268.00 
 
 NW. i, sec. 27 160. 00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 29 560. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 , 655. 00 
 
 W. i; lotBl, 2, 3-, sec- 33 367.00 
 
 Township 17, range 2: 
 
 N. i of N. *, sec. 5 171. 00 
 
 NW.iofNE.i; S.iofNE.i; W.J; N.JofSE.J; lota 1, 2, 3, sec.?. 618.00 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, 5, 9; NW. i of NW. J; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 13 216. 00 
 
 NE. i; S. Jof NW. i; lots 1, 2, sec. 15 316.00 
 
 NE. iof NE. i, sec. 23 40.00 
 
 Township 18, range 2: 
 
 N.J of N.J; SW. J of NW. i, sec. 1 .• 271.00 
 
 Lot 9, sec . 15 20. 00 
 
 Township 19, range 2: 
 
 S. J of SW. i ; SW. i of SE . J, sec . 15 120. 00 
 
 S. J of SE. i; lot 4, sec. 19 100.00 
 
 SE. iof NE. i; lots 3, 4, sec. 21 67.00 
 
 SW. iofNE. i; SE. iofNW. }; S. J, sec. 23 400.00 
 
 W.J of E.J; W.J; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 25 520.00. 
 
 N. J of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; N. J of NW. i; NE. i of SE. i; S. J 
 
 of SE. i, sec. 27 320. 00 
 
 S. J of NE. i; SE. i of NW. }; NE. i of SW. i; S. J of SW. J; SE. i, 
 
 sec. 29 400. 00 
 
 E. Jof NE. i; W. Jof SW. J; NE. J of SE. J, sec. 31 205.00 
 
 AU sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 20, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 1 592. 00 
 
 S. J of NE. i; SE. i of NW. J; E. J of SW. i; SE. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 
 
 5, sec. 3 526. 00 
 
 N. Jof NE. }; SE. J of NE. 1, sec. 11 120.00 
 
 All sec. 13 628. 00 
 
 S. Jof NE. i; SE. iof NW. i; E. J of SW. i; SE. J, sec. 15 360.00 
 
 NW. iofNE. i; S. Jof NE. i; NW. J; S. J, sec. 19 608.00 
 
 S. Jof N.J; W. Jof SW. J; E. J of SE. }, sec. 21 320.00 
 
 NE. i; N. JofNW. J; SW. iof NW. J; S. J, sec. 23 600.00 
 
 W. J, sec. 25 320. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; SE. J of NE. i; NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; E. J of 
 
 SE. i, sec. 27 360.00 
 
 N.J; N. Jof S. J, sec. 29 480.00 
 
 Lots 6, 7,9; W. J of SE. J; E. J of SW. J, sec. 31 193.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i, sec. 33 40.00 
 
 N.J; N. Jof SW. }; SE. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 35 600.00 
 
 Township 21, range 2: 
 
 N. J; N. J of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; NE. J of SE. i; S. J of SE. J, 
 
 sec. 1 56i. 00 
 
 SW, i of SW. J, sec. 3 40.00 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3; SE. iof SW. 1; NW. i of SE. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 5. . . 211. 00 
 
 SW. i of NW. iiE. J of SW. i; S. J of SE. J, sec. 7. 202. 00 
 
 N.J; N. JofSW. i; SE. } of SW. J; SE. i, sec. 9 600.00 
 
 E. J of NE. i; lot 1, sec. 13 103 00 
 
 All sec . 15 640. 00 
 
OREGON AND CAHFORNIA LAND GIUNT. ' 99 
 
 Township 21, range 2 — Continued. Acres. 
 NE. i; E. i of NW. i; NW. J of NW. i; N. i of S. i; SW. i of SW. i, 
 
 sec. 17 " 480. 00 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, aec. 19 40. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 NW. i of SE. i, sec. 23 40.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27. 651. 00 
 
 N.i; SW. i; W. i of SE. J, sec. 29 576.00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 22, range 2: 
 
 All sec . 1 856. 00 
 
 SE. i; lots 1 to 11, inclusive, sec. 3 631.00 
 
 Lotal, 2, 4, 8, sec. 5 166.00 
 
 SE. Jof NE. J; NE.iof NW. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 7 120. QO 
 
 W. iof SE. i; SE. iof.SE. i, sec.9 120.00 
 
 NE. J; N. i of NW. J; S. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 11. ..... . 360. 00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i; SW. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; 
 
 S. i of SE. i, sec. 15 240. 00 
 
 W. i of NE. i; NE. I of NW. i; SE. J of SW. i; NE. J of SE. J; 
 
 S. i of SE. i, sec. 21 280. 00 
 
 N. i of NW. i; SW. J of NW. i, sec. 23 ' 120. 00 
 
 S. i of S. i, sec. 29 160.00 
 
 All sec. 31 641. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 S.iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 35 240.00 
 
 Township 23, range 2: 
 
 S. i of NW. i; SW. i; NW. J of SE. i; S. i of SE. i; lots 2, 3, 4, sec. 1. 388. 00 
 
 All sec. 3.. 520. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 525. 00 
 
 All sec . 7 541. 00 
 
 All sec . 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 040. 00 
 
 NE. i of NW. i; W. i of W. i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 13 400. 00 
 
 All sic. 15.... 640.00 
 
 All sec. 17 ■- 640.00 
 
 All sec. 19 545. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 -. - 640.00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 W. Jof NW. i, sec.25 80.00 
 
 Alllec.27 640.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 N. *, sec. 33 320. 00 
 
 N. I, sec. 35 320. 00 
 
 Township 16, range 3: 
 
 Lots 3, 4, 5, sec. 9 i2. 00 
 
 N.i; N.^of S. i; SW. i of SW. i; SE. J of SE. J, sec. 13 560.00 
 
 Township 17, range 3; 
 
 E. J of SE. ifsec. 1 80.00 
 
 Lot 4, sec. 5 18.00 
 
 W. Jof NW. i, sec. 11 80.00 
 
 NE. iofNE.i,.sec. 13 40.00 
 
 Township 19, range 3: 
 
 W. i; SW. i of SE._i, sec. 19 376, 00 
 
 , Lot 3, sec. 35 3.00 
 
 Township 20, range 3: „„ „„ 
 
 ■E. iof NE. i; NW. iof NW. i; E. i of SE. i, sec. 1 199.00 
 
 NW. iof NE.i; NW. i; W. ^ of SW. i, sec. 7 -•--.. 292.00 
 
 SW. J of SW. i, sec. 9 40.00 
 
 Lot 4, sec. 13 
 
 N.i; N.iof SE. i; E. J of SW. i, sec. 17 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 19 
 
 SW. JofNW. i; S. 4 of SW. i, sec. 31 117.00 
 
 Township 21, range 3: „,, „„ 
 
 W. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; N-E. i of SE. {; S. i of SE. i, sec. 3. . 241. 00 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 9 = .... 
 
 39.00 
 
 480. 00 
 
 12.00 
 
 20.00 
 
100 
 
 OREGOK AND CALIFORNIA LAND GBANX. 
 
 Township 21, range 3— Continued. ^"^^• 
 
 S. iof NW. i; W. iof SW. J; S. J of SE. J, sec. 11 240.00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; W. J of SW. i; NW. 
 
 Jof SE.i, sec.13 - 280.00 
 
 NE.i; E. Jof NW. i; E. i of SE. i, sec. 15 320.00 
 
 Lot 5; S. i, sec. 17 343.00 
 
 E.J; E. J of W. J, sec. 19 480.00 
 
 N.J; NE. iof SW. J; S. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 23 600.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640.00 
 
 E. J; NE. J of NW. i; S. J of NW. i; N. J of SW. i; SE. i of SW. 
 
 i, sec. 27 .■ 560. 00 
 
 SW. iof NE.i; NW. i; N. J of SW. i; lot, 2, sec. 29 298.00 
 
 All sec. 31 654. 00 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 33 19. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 22, range 3: 
 
 W. J, sec. 1 333.00 
 
 All sec . 3 641. 00 
 
 NE.i; N. Jof NW. i; S. J, sec. 7 576.00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 « 640. 00 
 
 NW. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 17 80. 00 
 
 Lot 2; W. J, sec. 19 383.00 
 
 All sec . 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 NW. i; S. J, sec. 25 417. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 S. Jof NE.i; N. Jof SB.i, sec. 29 160.00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; W. J; NW. i of SE. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 31 502. 00 
 
 All sec . 33 649. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 650. 00 
 
 Township 23, range 3: 
 
 All sec. 1 645. 00 
 
 NE.i; NE.iof NW. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 3 240.00 
 
 W. Jof NW. i; NW. iof SW. i; S. J of SW. i, sec. 5 199.00 
 
 W. Jof NE.i; NW. i; N. J of S. J, sec. 9 403.00 
 
 SE.iof SW. i; lots 6, 7, sec. 11 122.00 
 
 All sec . 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; W. J of NW. i; SW. i, sec. 17 280. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 Township 18, range 4: 
 
 Lot 5, sec. 19 20. 00 
 
 NE. i of SW. i; S. J of SW. i, sec. 27 120. 00 
 
 E. J of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i, sec. 33 120. 00 
 
 E. Jof NE. i, sec. 35 80.00 
 
 Township 19, range 4: 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 3.. .. 282.00 
 
 S. Jof NE. i; N. Jof SE. i, sec. 5 160.00 
 
 S. J of NE.i; NE.iof SW.i; S. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 7 362.00 
 
 E. J of NE.i; W.J; NE. iof SE.i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 9 520.00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i, sec. 11 40. 00 
 
 SE.iof SW.i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 13 120.00 
 
 NW. iof SW.i; S. Jof SW.i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 15 160.00 
 
 E. J of E. J; W. J of NW. i; SE. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 17 320. 00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i ; SE . i, sec. 19 200. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 NE.i of NE.i; SW. iof NE. i;SE. iof NW. i;N. Jof SE. i, sec. 23 200.00 
 
 NW. i; S. J, sec. 25 480.00 
 
 S. Jof NE. i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 27 560.00 
 
 E.J; N. Jof NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. J of SW. i, sec. 29 520.00 
 
 NE.iof NE.i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 31 8L0O 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 NW. i, sec. 35 160. 00 
 
 Township 20, range 4: 
 
 W. J of E. J; SE. i of NE. i; W. J; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 1 558. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 637. 00 
 
OKEGON AND OALIFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 101 
 
 Township 20, range 4 — Continued. Acres. 
 
 N.iofNE.i;SW.iofNE.i;N.iofSE.};SW.iofSE.i,sec. 5 238 00 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, sec. 7 11. 00 
 
 NE. i; S. iof NW. i; SW. i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 9 480.00 
 
 NE. JiN.iof NW. i, sec. 11 240.00 
 
 SE.JofNE.iiN.iofNW.i; SE.iofNW.i; N.iofSW.}; SW. i 
 
 of SW. i;NE. iof SE. i, sec. 15 320.00 
 
 S. iofN.i; E. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 17 400.00 
 
 NE. }; E. i of W. i; N. i of SE. i; lot 2, sec. 19 425. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; NE. J of SE. i, sec. 21 520. 00 
 
 W. J of NW. i, sec. 23 80. 00 
 
 NW. i; N.iof SW. i; NE. i of SE. J, sec. 27 280.00 
 
 N. i; SW. i, sec. 29 480. 00 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; SW. i; lot 2, sec. 31 229. 00 
 
 NE. J; W. i of NW. i; SW. i of SW. i; SE. i of SE. J, sec. 33. . . . 320. 00 
 
 SE. Jof NE. i; S. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 35 280.00 
 
 Township 21, range 4: 
 
 N. iof NE. i; NW. i of NW. i, sec. 1 120.00 
 
 N. i; N. i of SW. i, sec. 3 365. 00 
 
 NE. J; N. i of NW. J, sec. 5 236. 00 
 
 W. JofNE. J; NW. i; S. i, sec. 23 560.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 E. i; E. i of SW. i, sec. 35 400. 00 
 
 Township 22, range 4: 
 
 NW. J of NW. J; S. J of NW. i; SW. i of NE. i; S. i, sec. 1 480. 00 
 
 E. i; E. i of W. i, sec. 11 480. 00 
 
 NE. J; N. iof NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 13 600.00 
 
 SE. J; W. iof NE. i, sec. 23 240.00 
 
 N. i; SE. i, sec. 25 480. 00 
 
 Township 23, range 4: 
 
 NE. i, sec. 1 160. 00 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. 13 40. 00 
 
 Township 16, range 5: 
 
 NW. J; W. i of SW. i, sec. 7 268. 00 
 
 Lots 4, 5, 6, sec. 27 12. 00 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; lot 8, sec. 29 65. 00 
 
 NE. Jof SW. i, sec. 31 40.00 
 
 Lot 2, sec. 33 13. 00 
 
 Township 17, range 5: 
 
 Lots 2, 3, sec. 27 1. 00 
 
 Township 18, range 5: 
 
 SW. i of SE. J, sec. 7 40.00 
 
 Lot 4, sec. 13 ll'. 00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i, sec. 15 40. 00 
 
 SW. i of SE. J, sec. 17 40.00 
 
 SW. JofNW. J; W. i of SW. }, sec. 23 120.00 
 
 SW. i of NW. i, sec. 25 40. 00 
 
 NE. J of SE. J, sec. 27 40. 00 
 
 SW. J of NW. i, sec. 29 40. 00 
 
 E. i of NE. i, see. 33 80. 00 
 
 NE. Jof SE. i; S.iof SE. i; lota 4, 5, 6, sec. 35 180.00 
 
 Township 19, range 5: 
 
 N.iofNE. i; W. i; W. i of SE. J, sec. 1 4810^) 
 
 All sec. 5 630. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 641. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; W. i of W. i; SE. } of SW. i; S. 
 
 i of SB. i, sec. 9 360.00 
 
 N. iof NE. i; SE. Jof NE. i; N. i of SE. J, sec. 11 200.00 
 
 Lot 7, sec. 13. 2.00 
 
 W. i of W. i; SE. i of SW. J; SW. i of SE. J, sec. 15 240. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of SE. J; SW. i of SE. J, sec. 17 .• 600.00 
 
 All sec. 19 640. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 21 560. 00 
 
 SW.-JofNW.i; SW. J; W. i of SE. i, sec. 27 280.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 645. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
102 OEEGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 Township 20, range 5: ■*^'^^- 
 
 AUsec. 3... «35.0O 
 
 •AH sec. 5 ._, ------ 644. 00 
 
 B. *; N.*of NW. i; SE. J of NW. i; S. * of SW. }, sec. 7 525.00 
 
 AH sec. 9 ....:.... 640.00 
 
 W. i: lots 2, 3,4, 5, sec. 11 - 412.00 
 
 ■ Lotsl,6;W.JofNE.i;NW.i;N.iofSW.i;SW.iofSW.i,8ec. 15. 419.00 
 
 NE. J; E. iof NW. J; S. i, sec. 17 560.00 
 
 AH sec. 19 : . . 048. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. \; SW. i; NW. i of SE. \; S. J of SE. \, sec. 21 360. 00 
 
 W. iofNW. i; SE. Jof NW. i; SW. i; S. J of SE. J, sec. 23 360.00 
 
 N. i; SW. J; N. J of SE. J, sec. 27 560. 00 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SW. J of NW. J; SW. \; NE. J of SE. J, sec. 29. . 480. 00 
 
 AU sec. 31 647. 00 
 
 AH sec. 33 r 640. 00 
 
 AH sec. 35 .'. 640. 00 
 
 Township 21,range 5: 
 
 N.^; N.iof SW. i; SE. J of SW. i; SE. J, sec. 1 600.00 
 
 Lots 2, 3, 4, sec. 3 122. 00 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 5 41.00 
 
 Township 15, range 6: 
 
 S. i of N. i; S. i, sec. 7 481. 00 
 
 S. 4 of NW. i; S. i, sec. 9 400. OO 
 
 NE. Jof NE. i; S. iof NW. \; SW. \, sec. 15 280.00 
 
 AH sec. 17 - 640. OO 
 
 AH sec. 19 644. 00 
 
 AH sec. 21 •- 640. OO 
 
 W. 4of NW. i, sec. 23 80.00 
 
 AH sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. OO 
 
 All sec. 31 637. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 N.^of N.i; SE. iof SE. \, sec. 35 200.00 
 
 Township 16, range 6: 
 
 NW. iof NE. J; W. i, sec. 1 366.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. J of N. i; N. * of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 3 483. 00 
 
 E. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. \, sec. 5 4m 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 7 534.00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; E. i of NW. i; SW. i of SW. i; NE. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 11 400. 00 
 
 . NE. i; E. iof NW. i; SW. i of SW. i; E. i of 8E. i, sec. 13 360.00 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; S. i of NE. i; S. i, sec. 15 440.00 
 
 E. i; N. iof NW. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 17 440.00 
 
 AH sec. 19 664. 00 
 
 NW. i; SE. iof SE. i, sec. 21 • 200.00 
 
 AH sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 E. i of SE. i, sec. 25 80. 00 
 
 N. iof NE. i; NW. i; N. i of SW. i, sec. 27 320.00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 29 600.00 
 
 All sec. 31 eS4. 00 
 
 SW. iofNW. i; NW. iof SW. i; S. i of S. i, sec. 33 240.00 
 
 AH sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 17, range 6: 
 
 N. i of N. i; SW. i of NW. i; N. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; lots 2, 3, 
 
 4, sec. 1 402. 00 
 
 SW. i, sec. 3 160.00 
 
 N. i, sec. 5 326. 00 
 
 SE.iofNE.i; N.iofNW.i; SW.iofNW.i; NE. iof SE. i,sec. 7. 202.00 
 
 SE. iof NE. i; S. i, sec. 9 360.00 
 
 N. i; N. iof SW. i; E. i df SE. i, sec. 11 480.00 
 
 Lots 2, 3, sec. 13 86. 00 
 
 N. i, sec. 15 320.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; E. i of W. i; NW. i of SE. i; lot 2, sec. 17 278. 00 
 
 Lots 2, 3; W. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 19 391. 00 
 
 N.iofNE. i; SE.iofNE.i; NE. i of SE. i; S. iof SE. i, sec. 21.. 240.00 
 
 E. iof SE. i; lots 4, 5, 6, sec. 23 106 00 
 
OREGON AND OAUFORNIA LAND GRANT. 103 
 
 Township 17, range 6 — Continued. Acres. 
 NW. i of NE. i; E. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 
 
 sec. 29. 258. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; N. i of SW. i; S-. i 
 
 of SE. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 31 365.00 
 
 E. ^of SW. i; NW. iof SE.i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 35 200.00 
 
 Township 18, range 6: 
 
 W. iof NW. i; lot 7, sec. 1 115.00 
 
 N.i; N.iof S.i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 3 570.00 
 
 N.i; N.iof SW. }; SE. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 5 668.00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 7 584. 00 
 
 NW. iof SW. i; S.iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 9 280.00 
 
 E. i; SE. iofNW. }; E. ^ of SW. J, sec. 11 440.00 
 
 NW. } of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. }; SE. J of NW. i; NE. 
 
 i of SW. i, sec. 13 280.00 
 
 N.iofNW. }; SW. JofNW. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 15 160.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 665. 00 
 
 All sec . 21 640. 00 
 
 Lots 3, 4; NE. Jof SW. i; S. J of S. i, sec. 23 248.00 
 
 N.i; N.iof SW. i; SW. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 25 600.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 665. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 646. 00 
 
 W. iof E. i; W. 4; SE. i of SE. 1, sec. 35 525.00 
 
 Township 19, range 6: 
 
 All sec. 1 639. 00 
 
 All sec, 3 ; 637. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 644. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 638. 00 
 
 N.i; SW. i; S. i of SE. }, sec. 9 560.00 
 
 N.i; N.iof SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; E. i of SE. i. sec. 11 520.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 02 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 21.'. 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 20, range 6: 
 
 N.i; N. i of SW. i; SE. }, sec. 1 564. 00 
 
 . N.i; N.iof SW. i; SE.iof SW. }; SE. J, sec. 3 607.00 
 
 All sec. 5 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 636. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; E. i of W. i; SW. i of SW. i; SE. i, 
 
 sec. 11 480.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 , 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 NE. }; N. i of NW. i; SE. } of NW. {; N. i of SE. i, sec. 19.- 360. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 N. i sec. 25 320. 00 
 
 Township 15, range 7: 
 
 S. i of NE. i; SE. } of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. i of SE. J; lots 
 
 2, 3, sec. 7 315.00 
 
 S.iof N.i; S.i, sec.9 480.00 
 
 S.Jof N.i; S.i, sec. 11 480.00 
 
 All sec. 13 612. 00 
 
 All sec . 15 640. 00 
 
104 OEEGON AND OALIFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Township 15, range 7 — ^Continued. ■' Acres. 
 
 Allsec. i?.. 640.00 
 
 All sec. 19 633. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 - - 639.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 758. 00 
 
 NW. \; lofal tol2, inclusive, sec. 33 549.00 
 
 NE. i; SE. J of NW. \; NE. \ ot SW. J; N. i of SE. J; lot 2, sec. 35. 366. 00 
 
 Township 16, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 1 614. 00 
 
 S. i; lotsl, 2, 3, 4, sec. 3 513.00 
 
 SE. i; N.iof SW. i; SE. J of SW. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 5 388.00 
 
 N. J of NW. i; SW. i; NW. J of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 7 377. 00 
 
 NE. J; SE. iof NW. i; N. J of SE. }, sec. 11 280.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 Lots 1 to 12, inclusive, sec. 15 562. 00 
 
 S. i, sec. 19 329.00 
 
 All sec. 21 774. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 628. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 NE. \\ S. i, sec. 31 489. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 753. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 627. 00 
 
 Township 17, range 7: 
 
 N. i; SW. i, sec. 1 480.00 
 
 All sec. 3 640.00 
 
 All sec. 5 617. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 : 642. 00 
 
 All sec . 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 SW. \ ot NW. i; S. i, sec. 13 360. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. \; NW. J; S. J of S. \, sec. 19 362. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 N. Jof N.i; SE. JofNE. i; SW. J of NW. J, sec. 23 240.00 
 
 NE. J; S. \, sec. 25 480. 00 
 
 NW. iof NW. i; S. Jof SW. }; SE. J, sec. 27 280.00 
 
 E. iof NE. i; W. iofW. }; SE. \, sec. 29 400.00 
 
 NE. i; W. i, sec. 31 482.00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 AH sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 18, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 1 .. 696.00 
 
 N. i; SE. i, sec. 3 533.00 
 
 N. \, sec. 7 313. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 640.00 
 
 NE. iof NE. J; NW. i of NW. \; S. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 11 480.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640.00 
 
 All sec. 19 633.00 
 
 All sec. 21 640 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 638. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 19, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 1 641. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 646. 00 
 
OREGON AND CAUPOBNIA. LAND GRANT. 105 
 
 Township 19, range 7 — Continued. Aores. 
 
 Lotsl, 4; SE. iof NE. J; S. i, sec. 5 402.00 
 
 E, i; lotsl, 2,3,4, sec. 7 391.00 
 
 All sec. 9 630. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; lot 1,860.19 182.00 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, sec. 21 428. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 N. JofNE. J; S.iof SE. i, sec. 25 160.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 , 640. 00 
 
 Township 20, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 1 727. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 746. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 N. i, sec. 13 320. 00 
 
 N.iof NE. i, sec. 15 80.00 
 
 Township 15, range 8: 
 
 S. iof N.J; S. i, sec. 7 468.00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; S. i of NW. J; SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. J, 
 
 sec. 9 400. 00 
 
 S. 4of N.i; S.J, sec. 11 480.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 622. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 627. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 16, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 656. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 681. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 729. 00 
 
 E. i; SE.Jof SW. J; lotsl, 2,4, sec. 7 456.00 
 
 All sec. 9 ; 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 656. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 651. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE, i; NE. i of NW. i; NE. J of SE. }; S. i of SE. }; lots 
 
 1, 2, 3, sec. 19 303.00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 659. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 656. 00 
 
 NE. i; NE. Jof NW. i; S. Jof NW. i; S. i, sec. 29 600.00 
 
 E. J, sec. 31 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 N. i; NW. J of SE. i, sec. 35 360. 00 
 
 Township 17, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 644. 00 
 
 N. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. }; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 3 485. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 646. 00 
 
 E. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. J of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i, sec. 9 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 N. i; SE. i, sec. 17 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
106 OREGON AND OALIFOENIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Township 17, range 8 — Continued. Acres. 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 E. i of E. i, sec. 33 160. 00 
 
 All sec, 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 18, range 8: 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; NW. }; W. J of SW. i, sec. 1 281.00 
 
 All sec. 3 642. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. J; NW. J of SE. J; S. i of SE. i, sec. 11 600.00 
 
 S. iof NE. i; W. JofNW. J; E. Jof SW. J; SE. i, sec. 13 400.00 
 
 N. i; S. iof SW. i; NB. iof SE. J, sec. 15 440.00 
 
 W. i; NE. i, sec. 17 480.00 
 
 All sec. 19 686. 00 
 
 NE. i; W. i of NW. i; SW. J; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, see. 21. . 520. 00 
 
 SE. Jof NE. i; SW. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 23 400.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 , W. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 29 560.00 
 
 All sec. 31 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 35 600.00 
 
 Township 19, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 ■ 844. 00 
 
 LotBlO, 11; W. iof SE. i, sec. 3 160.00 
 
 All sec. 5 785. 00 
 
 N. iof N. i; SE. iof NE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 11 240.00 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 13 320. 00 
 
 Township 15, range 9: 
 
 E. i; SE. iof NW. i; E. iof SW. i, sec. 13 440.00 
 
 E. i; E. i of W. i, sec. 25 480. 00 
 
 Township 18, range 9: 
 
 SE. i, sec. 23 160.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 S. iof SE. i, sec. 33 80.00 
 
 All sec. 35 : 640. 00 
 
 Township 19, range 9: 
 
 SW. i; lots 1 to 11, inclusive, sec. 1 585. 00 
 
 Lots 1,2,3,4; NE. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 3 353. 00 
 
 Total Lane County 299, 606. 00 
 
 Douglas County. 
 [South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 TAwnsliip 23, range 1: 
 
 SW. i, sec. 35 160.00 
 
 Township 24, I'ange 1: 
 
 S.iof NE, f;SE. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 1 440.00 
 
 All sec. 3 640.60 
 
 NE, i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 5 120. 00 
 
 Lots 1 to 20, inclusive; SE. i, sec. 7 91:3.08 
 
 All sec. 9 640.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640.00 
 
 All sec. 17 ■; 640. 00 
 
 Lots 1 to 20, inclusive; E. i, sec. 19 1,144.45 
 
 All sec. 21 640.00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640.00 
 
 jMlsec. 27 640.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640.00 
 
 Lots 1 to 20, incluFive; E. J, sec. 31 1, 198. 15 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35. 640.00 
 
OEEGON AND CALlFOBNlA LAND GEANT. 
 
 107 
 
 T(5\«lship 25, range 1: 
 
 All sec. 1 ■ 
 
 All sec. 3 
 
 All sec. 5 
 
 Lots 1 to 20, inclusive; E. J, sec. 7 
 
 All sec. 9 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 All sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 17 
 
 Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20; SE. J, sec. 19 
 
 All sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 All sec. 29 
 
 Lots 1 to 20, inclusive; E. i, sec. 31 .' 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 Township 30, range 1: 
 
 All sec. 1 , 
 
 All sec. 7 
 
 NE. i; SW. 4; N. J of SE. J, sec. 9 
 
 AH sec . 11 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. {; NW. i; S. i, sec. 15 
 
 AUsec. 17 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 All sec . 21 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 All sec . 29 
 
 All sec. 31 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 Township 31, range 1: 
 
 All sec. 5 ; 
 
 N. i of NE. i; W. i of NW. i; SW. J; N. i of SE. i, sec. 7. 
 
 SW. i, sec. 17 
 
 NE. i; NE.JofNW. J; S. JofNW. i; S. J, sec. 19 
 
 N. i; SE. i, sec. 21 
 
 NW. i of NE. 1; S. i of NE. J; NW. i; S. i, sec. 29 
 
 All sec. 31 
 
 NE. iof NE.i; S. § of NE. i; S. i, sec. 33 
 
 Township 32, range 1: 
 
 Lota 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 12, sec. 1 
 
 Lots 1 to 16, inclusive; S. j, sec. 3 
 
 Lota 1 to 12, inclusive; S. |, sec. 5 , 
 
 All sec. 7 
 
 All sec. 9 
 
 W. ^, sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 17 
 
 N. i, sec. 19 
 
 NE. 4 of NE. i, sec. 21 
 
 Township 23, range 2: 
 
 NW. 4ofSW. 4; SE.4, sec. 33 
 
 S. §, sec. 35 
 
 Township 24, range 2 : 
 
 All sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 3 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 E. i, sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 23 , 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 All sec . 35 
 
 Acres. 
 
 641. 84 
 
 642.48 
 
 643. 68 
 
 , 085. 04 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640.00 
 
 640. OO 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640.00 
 
 511.61 
 
 640. OO 
 
 640.00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640.00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 . 088. 60 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 639. 52 
 
 639. 58 
 
 400. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 600.00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 6^1.12 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 26 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 633. 62 
 
 392. 48 
 
 160. 00 
 
 595. 71 
 
 480. 00 
 
 600. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 440. 00 
 
 199. 80 
 
 872. 86 
 
 825. 02 
 
 -,616.64 
 
 640. 00 
 
 320. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 306.71 
 
 40.00 
 
 200. 00 
 
 320. 00 
 
 638. 40 
 
 639. 40 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 320. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 638. 68 
 
 640. 00 
 
108 OREGON AND CALIFOENIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 -Township 25, range 2: ■*-™s- 
 
 Lots 1 to 20, inclusive; S. i, sec. 1 1. 036. 32 
 
 Lotsl to 20, inclusive; S. i, sec. 3 1,065.48 
 
 Lots 1 to 20, inclusive; S. J, sec. 5 1, 067. 60 
 
 All sec. 7 510. 56 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 SW. i, sec. 11 160.00 
 
 NW. iofNW. J; SE. iof SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 13 120.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 533. 12 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 612. 37 
 
 All sec. 33 617. 48 
 
 All sec. 35 626. 04 
 
 Township 26, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 1 .-. 642. 84 
 
 All sec. 3 638. 84 
 
 All sec. 5 635. 18 
 
 All sec. 7 636. 80 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 13 640. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. J; NW. i; S. J, sec. 15 600. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. J of SW. i; 
 
 SE. } of SE. }, sec. 17 440. 00 
 
 NE. i; NE. iof NW. i; S. i of NW. }; S. i, sec. 23 600.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 SE. i, sec. 35 160.00 
 
 Township 27, range 2: 
 
 All sec . ] 647. 60 
 
 N. i; NW. iof SW.i; SB. i of SW. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 3 :... 488.28 
 
 All sec . 5 649. 34 
 
 NW. J, sec. 7 156. 80 
 
 Township 30, range 2: 
 
 All 3ec. 13 640. 00 
 
 S. J, sec. 15 320. 00 
 
 E. i, sec. 21 320.00 
 
 All sec . 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 NE. iofNE. i; S. i of NE. i; S. JofNW. i; S. i, sec. 33 .... 520.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 31, range 2: 
 
 NE. i; NE. iofNW. i; S. i of NW. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 1 361.35 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; NW. i, sec. 3 201. 06 
 
 SW. i, sec. 9 160. 00 
 
 NW. iofNE. i; S. iofNE. i; NW. i; N. J of SW.i; SW.i of SW.i; 
 
 N. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 11 520. 00 
 
 NE.i; N. JofNW.i; SE.iofNW.i; NE. iof SW.i; S. iof SW.i; 
 
 N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 13 520. 00 
 
 SE. i, sec. 15 160. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640.00 
 
 E. i; N. iof NW. i; S. i of SW. i, sec. 25 480.00 
 
 Township 24, range 3: 
 
 W. iof NE.i; W. i, sec. 5 408.34 
 
 All sec. 7 633. 00 
 
 W. iof W. i, sec. 9 160.00 
 
 E. i of NE. i;' NW. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 15 200.00 
 
 E. iof NE.i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 17 160.00 
 
 W. i, sec. 19 317. 28 
 
 SE.iofNW.i; N. i of SW. i, sec. 21 120.00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i, sec. 23 40.00 
 
 N. iof N. i; SW. iofNE. i; SE.iofNW.i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 3i.. 321.23 
 
OBEGON AND OAUFOBNIA LAND GBANT. 109 
 
 TowBsMp 25, range 3: Acres. 
 
 SW. iof NE. i; NW. iof NW. i; S. i of NW. i, sec. 3 157. IS 
 
 S. i of SE. J, sec. 5 80.00 
 
 E. i; E. i of W. J; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 7 510. 52 
 
 NW. i ; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 9 200. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 W. i, sec. 17 320.00 
 
 All sec. 19 630. 51 
 
 NE. J; S. i, sec. 23 480.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 SW: i of NE. i; S. i of NW. i; N. E. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 31 197.99 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 ■ All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 26, range 3: 
 
 E. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; S. i of ,SW. i, sec. 1 521. 54 
 
 N. i of NE. i; NW. i, sec. 3 233. 98 
 
 SE. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 9 ■ 200.00 
 
 S. i, sec. 11 323.32 
 
 All sec. 13 643. 60 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 E. i of NE. i, NE. i of SE. J, sec. 21 120. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 N.^; NE. Jof SW. i; N, i of SE. i, sec. 27 440.00 
 
 • NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 33 120. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 ~ 640. 00 
 
 TownsMp 27, range 3: 
 
 N. i; E.iof SW. i;SE. i, sec. 1 554.44 
 
 W. 4 of NE. i; E. i of NW. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 3 401. 42 
 
 NE.i; E.iof NW.i; S. J, sec. 7 561.90 
 
 All sec. 9 .". . , 648. 00 
 
 Lots 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, sec. 11 407.79 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 635. 20 
 
 All sec. 21 '. 640. 00 
 
 E. i; W. i of W. i, sec. 23 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 W. iof NE.i; NW. i; N.iofSW.i; SW. iofSW. i; SE. i, sec. 27. 520.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 637. 99 
 
 E.i; SE. iof NW. i; E. i of SW. i, sec. 35 -440.00 
 
 Township 28, range 3: 
 
 NW. i, sec. 19 152. 80 
 
 SW. i, sec. 31 160.00 
 
 Township 29, range 3: 
 
 All sec. 1 631. 89 
 
 AH sec. 3 591. 12 
 
 All sec. 5 572. 88 
 
 All sec. 7 606. 56 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, sec. 9 616.11 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, sec. 15 492. 03 
 
 N.i; NW. iof SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 17 400.00 
 
 NE.i of NE.i; S. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 21 480.00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. CO 
 
 All sec. 27 624. 48 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 634. 23 
 
 Lotsl, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, sec. 33 490.22 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
110 OBEGON ASrp CAIJFOENIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Township 30, ranges: ^<"^- 
 
 Lots], 2, 3, 4; S. i, sec. 1 398.7^ 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, 4; S . i, sec. 3 ----- <101. 00 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 5; NE. iof SE. i; S. i of S. 4, sec. 5 251.34 
 
 Lots], 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; E. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 7 449.54 
 
 All sec. 9 625. 20 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13: :....... 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15.- . - 640. OO 
 
 All sec . 17 : 640. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; NE. J of SW. i; S. J of SW. i; SE. i, 
 
 sec. 19 401.63 
 
 All sec. 21 649. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. J; S. i, sec. 25 480.00 
 
 N. i;N. 4of SW. i, sec. 27 400.00 
 
 N. iof NE. l;lot8 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; S. i of S. i, sec. 29 343.88 
 
 All sec. 31 598. 74 
 
 N. J of NE. i; NW. J; S. i, sec. 33 493. 56 
 
 NE. i; S. 4 of NW. J; S. J, sec. 35 , . . . 495. 80 
 
 Township 31, range 3 : 
 
 All sec. 1 799. 73 
 
 All sec. 3 806. 20 
 
 All sec. 5 814. 78 
 
 All sec. 7 654. 84 
 
 All sec. 9 610. 26 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00, 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 657.28 
 
 All sec. 21 609.09 
 
 All sec. 23 640.00 
 
 All sec. 25 •- -. . . «40.00 
 
 All sec . 27 -' 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640.00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, sec, 31 138.40 
 
 N. 4; N. 4 of SW. }; SE. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 33 600. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 32, range 3: 
 
 All sec. 3 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 5 640. 00 
 
 A.11 sec . 7 644. 18 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 Township 21, rana;e 4: 
 
 S. *of NW. f; S. 4, sec. 5 400.00 
 
 All sec. 7 642.20 
 
 NE. i of NE, i; NW. i; NE. } of SW. i; NW. } of SE. i, sec. 17. . . 286.00 
 
 W. 4of NE. i; E.4of NW. i; NW. J of SE. i, sec. 19 200.00 
 
 SW. i; N. 4of SE. i, sec. 21 240.00 
 
 N.4; N.4of SW. }; SE.Jof SW. }; SE. }, sec.27 600.00 
 
 N. 4of SW. i, sec. 29 80.00 
 
 N.4of SW. i; SW. iof SW. i; S. 4 of SE. i, sec. 31 204.04 
 
 E, 4; S, 4of SW. i, sec. 33 400.00 
 
 NW, i;W. 4of SW. J, sec. 35 240.00 
 
 Township 22, range 4: 
 
 SW.^, sec. 3 . iqO.OO 
 
 NE. J of NE. i; S. 4 of N. 4; W. 4 of SW. i; SE. } of SE. J, sec, 5. . . 3H6. 24 
 
 All sec. 7 677. 44 
 
 E, 4; N.4of NW. i; S.4of SW. i, sec. 9 480.00 
 
 W. 4 of W. 4, sec. 11 160.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 NE, iof SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec.l7 80.00 
 
 N.4; N. 4of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 21 660.00 
 
OREGON AND CAMPOENIA LAND GRANT. Ill 
 
 Township 22, range 4 — Continued. 
 
 E. iof SW.|;aE. iof NE.i; NW. i, sec. 23 
 
 S. iofNW.f; SW. i,.sec. 27 
 
 SE. i of N-E. i; N. i of S. -i, sec. 29 
 
 W. Jof NW. J, sec. 31 
 
 S. Jof SE, J, sec. 33 
 
 N. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. J, sec. 35 
 
 Township 23, range 4: 
 
 NW.i; SE. J; N.Jof SW.i; SE. i of SW. J, see. 1 
 
 N. iof NW. i; S. Jof SW. J, sec.3 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. i of S. 'Jj NW. } of SE. i, sec. 7 
 
 NW.JofNE.i; S.iofNE.i; E.JofNW.J; NE.JofSE.i; S.Jof 
 SE. J, sec. 9 
 
 NE.iof NE. i; S. i of NE. }; NW. iof SE.i, sec. 11 
 
 NE.i; S.'iofNW.i; SW. i; N. JofSE.i; SW. iof SE. i, sec.l3. 
 
 SE. J of SE. i, sec. 15 
 
 A'll sec. 17 
 
 NE. i; S. 4-of NW. i; N. iof SW. i; SW. i of SW. J, sec. 19 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 NE. i of SW. i; SW. J of SW. i; N. i of NW. J; SE. } of NW. i, 
 sec. 29 : 
 
 S.-i, sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 35 , 
 
 Township 24, range 4: 
 
 All sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 3 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; W. -Jof SE.i; lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, sec. 5 
 
 N. i; N. i-of SWi; SW. i of SW. J; SE. }, sec. 9. 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13., 
 
 E. Jof NE.J; W.Jof NW.i; lots 4, 5, sec. 15 
 
 S. Jof SE.-i; lot 4, sec. 23 
 
 N. i; NW. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 25 
 
 WE. i; S. i-of NW. i; NE. J of SW. i; N.-J of SE. i, sec. 29 
 
 SE. J, sec. 33 
 
 W. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; SW. \, sec. 35 
 
 Township 25, range 4: 
 
 N. i of NE. 4; SW. i of NE. \; NW. i; NE. i of SW. J; NW. i of SE. 
 J, sec. 3. - 
 
 SE. i of SW. J, sec. 11 
 
 S. iof NE. i; SE. .J, sec. 13 
 
 NW. 4 of NW. i; S. i of NW. 4; SW. 4; lots 3, 5, sec. 17 
 
 NE. 4 of NE. 4; S. i of NE. \; S. i of S. i; NE. \ of SE. \, sec. 19. . . 
 
 S. i of SW. 4, sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 N. J; W. i of SW. 4; E. i of SE. 4, sec. 25 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 NE. 4 of NE. 4; S. i of NE. 4; NW. 4 of NW. 4; NW. 4 of SAV. 4; S. 
 i of SW. 4; SE. 4, sec. 29 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 'fownahip 26, range 4: 
 
 N. iof NE. 4, sec. 3 
 
 Lot 5, sec. 7. 
 
 Lots 9, 10, sec. 17 
 
 SW. 4 of SW. 4, sec. 23 
 
 NW. 4 of SE. 4, sec. 35 
 
 Township 27, range 4: 
 
 Lots 3, 4; W. i of W. \, sec. 1 
 
 NE. 4of NE. 4; lot 2, sec. 7 
 
 E. iof NE..4: NW. 4of NW. 4; SW. 4of SW. 4; SW. 4of SE. 4, sec .11 
 
 NB.4; N.iofNW.4; SE.4ofNW.4; N.iofS.i; SW.4pfSW.4, 
 sec. 13 
 
 NE.4 of NE. 4; SW. 4 of SE. 4, sec. 21. 
 
 NE. 4 of NE. 4; S. i of NE. 4; E. i of SE. 4, sec. 23 
 
 All sec . 25 
 
 320. 00 
 
 240. 00 
 
 200. 00 
 
 99.60 
 
 80.00 
 
 560. 00 
 
 440. 62 
 
 160. 06 
 
 239. 52 
 
 320. 00 
 
 160. 00 
 
 520. 00 
 
 40.00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 366. 69 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 2G0. 00 
 
 320. 00 
 
 647. 75 
 
 651. 91 
 
 636. 40 
 
 307. 53 
 
 600. 00 
 
 641. 32 
 
 636. 52 
 
 198. 00 
 
 94.50 
 
 520. 00 
 
 360. 00 
 
 160. 00 
 
 360. 00 
 
 366. 26 
 
 40.00 
 
 240. 00 
 
 329. 34 
 
 319. 79 
 
 80.00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 480. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 440. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 80.80 
 
 46.83 
 
 1L56 
 
 40.00 
 
 40.00 
 
 217. 42 
 
 43.96 
 
 200. 00 
 
 480. 00 
 
 80.00 
 
 200. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
112 OEEGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 Township 27, range 4 — Continued. 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; S. i of NW. i; N. J of SW. i; lots Acres. 
 
 1, 2, sec. 29 294. 14 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; NEiof SE. i; lots, sec. 31 - 96.50 
 
 N. Jof NE. i; SE. iof NE. i, sec. 33 120.00 
 
 SW. i, sec. 35 160. 00 
 
 Township 28, range 4: 
 
 All sec. 1 658. 86 
 
 S. J of N. i; S. i; lot 1, sec. 3 524. 04 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 4; SW. }; E. iof SE. i, sec. 5 286.52 
 
 NE. 1 of NE. 1; SE. i of NW. i; lots 1, 2; E. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. 
 
 i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 7 360. 80 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 N.iofNE.i; SE.iofNE.i; SW.JofSW.i; NW-i; NW.JofNW. 
 
 }of SW. J; S. i of NW. } of SW. i; SE. }, sec. 13 510.00 
 
 N.i; SW. J; lotsl, 2, 3, 4, 5, sec. 15 602.20 
 
 NE. }; S. i, sec. 17 480.00 
 
 E. i; N. i of NW. i; S. i of SW. i, sec. 19 481. 13 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i; W. i of SE. { of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 21 620. 00 
 
 S. i of SW. J of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 23 60. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 6^0. 00 
 
 W.iofNW-i; N.JofSW.i; SE.JofSW.i; NE. iofSE.J; S.Jof 
 
 SE. i; SE. i of NW. i of SE. i, sec. 27 330. 00 
 
 E. iof NE. J; NW. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 29 320.00 
 
 NW. J; S. J, sec. 31 480.32 
 
 W. i of E. i; W. i, sec. 33 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 29, range 4: 
 
 S. i of NW. i; SW. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, sec. 1 .^. . 527. 51 
 
 Lots 1 to 16, inclusive, sec. 3 .*. . 721. 38 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; E. i of SE. i; lots 3, 4, sec. 5 196. 14 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. J; E. J of W. J; W. i of SE. i, sec. 7. 319. 12 
 
 Lots 1 to 16, inclusive, sec. 9 612. 64 
 
 All sec. 11 650. 64 
 
 All sec. 13 ■. 640. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 15 560.00 
 
 SW. } of NE. i; N. i of SW. J; NW. i of SE. i; lots 1 to 10, inclusive, 
 
 sec. 17 493. 94 
 
 NE. i; N.iof NW. i; E. Jof SE.i; lot 3, sec. 19 358.60 
 
 SE. Jof SW. i; S. iof SE. i; lots 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, sec. 21 268.05 
 
 SW. iof SW. i; SE. }; lot 4, sec. 23 249.74 
 
 E. iof E. i; NW. i; W. J of SW. i, sec. 25 400.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 S. iof SW. J; SE. i, sec. 29 240.00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i; fractional W. * of NW. i of NW. i; 
 
 NW.iofSW.}; S. i of SW. i, sec. 31 248.80 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 N.i; SW. i; N. i of SE. }; SW. i of SE. J, sec. 35 600.00 
 
 Township 30, range 4: 
 
 Lotsl, 4, 9, sec. 1 64.00 
 
 Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, sec. 3 510. 41 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, sec. 5 635. 58 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 7, 8, sec. 7 113.19 
 
 Lots 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, sec. 11 433. 49 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, sec. 13 223.20 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, sec. 15 267.45 
 
 Lots 10, 11, 14, 15, sec. 17 118.94 
 
 Lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, sec. 19 303. 56 
 
 Lots 2, 3, 4, 6, 15, sec. 21 199.08 
 
 Lots 13, 14, 15, 16, sec. 23 16L95 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8", sec. 25 143.05 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 625. 27 
 
 NE. i; E. iof NW. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, sec. 31 369.36 
 
 N. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 33 368. 20 
 
 W. JofNE. i; NW. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, sec. 35 357.61 
 
OREGON AND OALIFOENIA LAND GRANT, 113 
 
 Township 31, range 4: Acres. 
 
 All sec. 1 825. 16 
 
 All sec. 3 824. 08 
 
 All sec. 5 811. 08 
 
 All sec. 7 631. 96 
 
 All sec. 9 622. 88 
 
 All sec. 11 631. 64 
 
 All sec. 13 •. 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 AH sec. 17 620. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 631.' 68 
 
 All sec. 21 627. 56 
 
 All sec. 23 631. 20 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; SW. i of SW. i; E. J of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 27 ■ 400.00 
 
 All sec. 29 613. 55 
 
 All sec. 31 644. 49 
 
 E. i of NE. i; W. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. J; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 33. 240. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 632. 80 
 
 Township 32, range 4: 
 
 E. Jof NE. i; S. i sec. 1 400.00 
 
 N. i; lotsl, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, sec. 3 636.08 
 
 N. iof N.4; S. iof S.i, sec. 5 320.00 
 
 E. Jof E. i; SW. iof SE. J; lot 1, sec. 7 239.40 
 
 All sec. 9 566. 04 
 
 All sec. 11 : 638. 92 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 , 640. 00 
 
 E. i; E. Jof NW. i; lotsl, 2, 3, sec. 17 442.39 
 
 All sec. 19 475. 30 
 
 All sec. 21 ; 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 : . 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 E.JofE.i; E. JofW. iofNE.J; W. Jof E. Jof NW. i; W.JofNW. 
 
 i; SW. i; E. J of SW. i of SE. J, see. 29 500.00 
 
 All sec. 31 692. 93 
 
 E. i of NE. i; E. i of NW. i of NE. J; NW. i of NW. i; lots 3, 4, 6, 
 
 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, sec. 33 406.13 
 
 Township 33, range 4:" 
 
 S. Jof N. i; SW. J; N. J of SE. i; lotsl, 2, 3, 4, sec. 5 515.68 
 
 All sec. 7 632. 96 
 
 Township 21, range 5: 
 
 Lot 1; S. i of N. J; SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec.3. . . . 480. 54 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; NW. i, sec. 5 281. 96 
 
 All sec. 7 646. 20 
 
 ■ NW. i of NE. i; SE. { of NE. i; E. J of NW. J; W., i of SE. i; E. i 
 
 of SW. i, sec. 13 - 320.00 
 
 All sec. 19 650. 20 
 
 NW. i of NW. i, sec. 21 40. 00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; E. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i 
 
 of SE. i, sec. 25 320.00 
 
 • E. i of NE. i; NE. i of SW. J, sec. 27 120. 00 
 
 E. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. J, sec. 29 120. 00 
 
 W. iof NW. i, sec. 33 80.00 
 
 Township 22, range 5: 
 
 All sec. 1 633. 99 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; lots 1, 2, 3; S. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; N. i of 
 
 SE. i; SB. i of SE. J, sec. 3 396. 37 
 
 NW.iofNE.i; N.iofNW.i;SW.iofNW.i;NW.iofSW.i,sec,5. 205.40 
 
 W. iofNE. i; NW. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 7 338.31 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 E. *of NE. i, sec. 13 , 80.00 
 
 N.i; NE. iof SW. i; N. i of SE. J, sec. 15 440.00 
 
 SE. iof NE. }, sec. 19 .' 40.00 
 
 E. Jof SE. i, sec. 23 80.00 
 
 47197—12 8 
 
114 OBEGON AND C.AJjJS'OBliriA LAND GRANT, 
 
 Township 22, range 5— Continued. ■*■<"«''- '. 
 
 NE. iofNE. i; S.^of N. i; S. 4, sec, 25..... 520.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. J of N. ij SE. i; NE, i of SW. i, sec. 27 . - , . - . 397. 66 
 
 SE. iof SW. i; SW. 4 of SE. i, sec. 29 ,.- 80.00 
 
 NE. i of SE. i, sec. 31 40. 00 
 
 W. iof NE. i; NW. J, sec. 33 240.00 
 
 N. i; lot 1, sec. 35 340.36 
 
 Township 23, range 5: 
 
 N. Jof NE. i; W. i; NW. J of SE. J, sec. 5 431.36 
 
 W. i of NE. i; E. i of NW. J; W. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. J; SE. i 
 
 of SE. i, sec. 7 353.75 
 
 E. i of NE. 4; SE. J, sec. 13 240. 00 
 
 W. iof SW. 4, sec. 17 80.00 
 
 N. i; SW. 4; N. i of SE. 4, sec. 19 546. 70 
 
 SW. 4 of NW . 4, sec . 21 40. 00 
 
 S.J of NW. 4; N. J of SW. 4, sec. 29 160. 00 
 
 NW. 4 of NE. 4, sec . 31 40. 00 
 
 Township 24, range 5: 
 
 SE. 4 of NW. 4; NE. 4 of SW. 4, sec. 3 „ ., 80. 00 
 
 Lot 5, sec . 29 ...;.... .- 28. 41 
 
 SW. 4of NW. 4; SW. 4; SW. 4 of SE. 4, sec. 31 236.73 
 
 S. iof SE. 4, sec. 35 80.00 
 
 Township 25, range 5: 
 
 NE. 4 of SW. 4; S. i of SW. 4; N. i of SE. 4; SW. 4 of SE. 4, sec. 9. 240. 00 
 
 NE. 4 of NE. 4; NW. i of NW. 4; S. i of NW. 4, sec. 17 160. 00 
 
 NE.4of SW. 4; S. iolSE.4, sec. 23 120.00 
 
 NE. 4; S. i, sec. 25 480. 00 
 
 N. i; N.iof SW. 4; SE. 4, sec. 27 560.00 
 
 S. iof NE. 4, sec. 29 80.00 
 
 N. i of NE. 4; NW. 4 of NW. 4, sec. 35 /. 120. 00 
 
 Township 27, range 5: 
 
 S. iof SE.4, sec. 25 80.00 
 
 Township 28, range 5: 
 
 NE. 4; S. i, sec. 13 480. 00 
 
 N.iof NE. 4; NW. 4; SE. 4of NE.4, sec. 23 280.00 
 
 E. i; NE. 4 of NW. 4; SW. 4 of NW. 4; N. i of SW. 4; SE. 4 of SW. 
 
 4, sec. 25 520. 00 
 
 N. iof NE. 4, sec. 27 80.00 
 
 E. iof NE. 4, sec. 29 80.00 
 
 N. i of NE. 4; NW. 4; N. i of SW. 4; SW. 4 of SW. 4; NE. 4 of SE. 
 
 i. sec. 31 408. 32 
 
 NW. 4of SW. 4; S. i of SW. 4, sec. 33 120.00 
 
 NE.4; E. iof NW. 4; S. i, sec. 35 560.00 
 
 Township 29, range 5: 
 
 N.iof NE.4; NE. 4of SW. 4; S. i of SW. 4; SE.4, sec. 3 362.66 
 
 SE. 4of NW. 4; N.iof SW. 4, sec. 5 120.00 
 
 NE.4 of NE.4; S. i of NE. 4; SE. 4 of NW. 4; SE. 4, sec. 9 320.00 
 
 N. i of NW. 4; SW. 4 of NW. 4; NW. 4 of SW. 4; W. i of SE. 4, sec. 11. 240. 00 
 
 E . i of NE . 4 ; W. i of NW. 4, sec . 15 160. 00 
 
 E. i of NE. 4; SE. 4, sec. 17 240. 00 
 
 N.i; W. iof SW. 4, sec. 21 
 
 SE. 4 of NE. 4; SW. 4 of NW. 4; N. i of SW. 4; SE. 4 of SW. 4; SE. 
 
 4, sec. 25 360. 00 
 
 E. iof NE.4; W. iof SE.4; lot 1, sec. 29 199.53 
 
 NW. 4 of NE. 4; S. i of NE. 4; NW. 4; N. i of SW. 4; SW. 4 of SW. 
 
 4, sec. 31 418. 72 
 
 E. i of E. i, sec. 35 160. 00- 
 
 Townphip 30, range 5: , 
 
 All sec. 1 : ! 654.10 
 
 N. i; SW. 4; N. i of SE. 4; SW. 4 of SE. 4, sec. 3 623.36 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 4; SE.4, sec. 9 3U.20 
 
 NE.4; NE. 4ofNW. 4; S. i of NW. 4; S. i, sec. 11 600.00 
 
 NW. 4 of NE.4; NW. 4-; N. i of SW. 4; lota 1, 3, sec. 13 308.50 
 
 N. i; TNfW. 4 of SW. 4; TSr. i of SE. 4, sec. 15 440. 00 
 
 N.i; lots 4 5, sec. 17 370.63 
 
 NE. 4 of NW. 4; S. i of NW. 4; lots 1, 5, 6, sec. 19 192. 75 
 
 NE.4 of NE.4; lot 1, sec. 21 49 20 
 
 S. iof SE.4, sec. 25 SoioO 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA I*AND GRANT. 115 
 
 Township 30, range 5 — Continued. Acres. 
 
 Lot 7, sec. 27 , : . 57 
 
 Lotl; W.iofNW. J; SE. J of SW. J; S. Jof SE.J, sec. 29 .' 217.'32 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. 31 .:.... 40 00 
 
 S. iofN. J; NE. iof NW. }; S. J, sec. 35 520.00 
 
 Township 31, range 5: 
 
 All sec. 1 645. 38 
 
 All sec. 3 715. 22 
 
 E. i of SE. i of SE. i of NE. J; SW. i of NW. i; NW. i of NE. i of 
 SW. i; S. i of NE. i of SW. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. J of SW. }; S. 
 i of N. i of SE. i; E. J of NE. i of NE. J of SE. J; S. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec . 5 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 638. 66 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 NW. iofNE. i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 11 520.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 664. §2 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 .^ 640. 00 
 
 Township 32, range 5: '" 
 
 N. i; N. iof SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. J, sec. 1 600.00 
 
 E. I sec. 3 319. 60 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 9 600.00 
 
 NW. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 11 200. 00 
 
 SW. iof NE. i; SE. Jof NW. i; S. i, sec. 13 400.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 N. Jof M. i, sec. 19 165.86 
 
 E.J; N. Jof SW. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 23 440.00 
 
 N. Jsec.25.: 320.00 
 
 W. Jof NE. i; SE. J, sec. 27 240.00 
 
 E. Jof SW. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 29 160.00 
 
 NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i of SW. i; E. J of SE. i of 
 
 SW. 1, sec. 35 230.00 
 
 Township 33, range 5: 
 
 B.J; NE. iofNW. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. J of SW. i, sec. 1 483.89 
 
 N.J; E. J of SE. J, sec. 3 398.94 
 
 N. J; N. J of S. J, sec. 5 487. 32 
 
 E. Jof E. J; N. Jof NW. i; lots 1, 2, 3, sec. 11 332.43 
 
 N.J of N.J; SW. iofNE. i; SE. i of NW. }, sec. 13 240.00 
 
 Township 20, range 6: 
 
 SW. iofNW. i; SW. i; S. J of SB. i, sec. 19 282.58 
 
 S.J sec. 25 320.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 A41 sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 643.01 
 
 N.J; E. Jof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 33 560.00 
 
 N. J; N. J of SW. i; SB. i, sec. 35 560. 00 
 
 Township 21, range 6: 
 
 N.J; SW. i; N. J of SB. i; SW. i of SE. J, sec. 1 606.40 
 
 All8ec.3.. 680.00 
 
 All sec. 5 729. 02 
 
 All sec . 7 584. 80 
 
 All sec. 9 640.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640.00 
 
 All sec. 13. 640.00 
 
 Allsec.l5 640.00 
 
 Allsec.l7 640.00 
 
 All sec. 19 601.80 
 
 All sec. 21 640.00 
 
 All8ec.23 640-00 
 
 W.J, sec. 25 316.64 
 
 Alllec.27 640.00 
 
 All sec. 29 - 640. 00 
 
116 OEEGOM" AND OAUFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Township 21, range 6 — Continued . ■*^''"'- 
 
 All sec. 31 616.38 
 
 All sec. 38 640. 00 
 
 NE. }; N. i of NW. }, sec. 35 240.00 
 
 Township 22, range 6: 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; S. i of SW. i; lote 5, 6, 7, sec. 1 167.74 
 
 All sec. 5 643. 84 
 
 N. i of NE. i; NW. i; NE. i of SW. }, sec. 7 265.04 
 
 N; iof NE. i, sec. 11 80.00 
 
 Lots 3, 4; SE. i of SW. i; SE. }, sec. 15 205. 72 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; S. i; lot 3, sec. 17 390. 72 
 
 All sec. 19 633. 25 
 
 All sec. 21 640.00 
 
 W. i of NW. i; SW. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 23 320.00 
 
 W. iof NE.i, sec. 25 80.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 633. 96 
 
 All sec. 31 664. 80 
 
 All sec. 33 694. 58 
 
 S. J of NE. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. J, sec. 35 320. 00 
 
 Township 23, range 6: 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. }; SE. J of NW. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. } 
 
 of SE. i, sec. 1 280. 83 
 
 All sec. 3 637. 60 
 
 All sec. 5 655. 56 
 
 ' All sec. 7 601. 60 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 ' All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 19 622. 88 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 N. J; W. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 23 560. 00 
 
 N. i;"SW. i; NW. Jof SE. i, sec. 25 520.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 633. 48 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 24, range 6: 
 
 NE. iof SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; SE. J of SE. J, sec. 1 120.00 
 
 All sec. 3 640. 80 
 
 All sec. 5 635. 40 
 
 All sec. 7 654. 72 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. J of SE. i, sec. 9 600.00 
 
 N. i of NW. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 11 160. 00 
 
 N. iof NE. iiNE.^of NW. i, sec. 13 120.00 
 
 E. iof NW. J, sec. 15 80.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 Lots 2, 3, 4; SE. J of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; NE. h sec. 19 370.44 
 
 S. Jof SW. i;SW. Jof SE. i, sec. 21 :.. ' 120.00 
 
 W. i; SW. } of SE. }, sec. 27 360.00 
 
 All sec. 31 653. 26 
 
 E. i of W. i; NW. i of NW. \; SW. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 33 400. 00 
 
 S.iof SE. i; SW. i, sec. 35 240.00 
 
 Township 25, range 6: 
 
 NE.J; S. iofNW.J; N.JofSW.i; SW.iofSW.i; NE.iofSE.J, 
 
 sec. 3 •. .. 404.65 
 
 NW. i, see. 5 165. 33 
 
 N. i; W. i of SW. i^, sec. 7 404.09 
 
 Lot 10, sec. 15 2.00 
 
 SE.iof NW. J; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 17 80.00 
 
 Lots 2, 3, sec. 21 1. 20 
 
 Lots 1,2, 3; S. Jof NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; SE. i, sec. 25 324.75 
 
 SE. i of SB. J, sec . 33 , 40. 00 
 
OREGON AND OAUFORNIA LAND GRANT. 117 
 
 TowHship 26, range 6 : Acres. 
 N. i of N. i; SE. i of NE. i; NE. } of SW. J; S. i of SW. i; NE. i 
 
 of SE. Ji sec. 3 361.44 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. 5 40. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. J; SW. i of NW. i; lots 3, 4, 5, 6, sec. 7. 267. 20 
 
 W.iofNE.i; SE.iofNW.i; SW. i, sec. 9 280.00 
 
 NE. i; E. i of W.i; N. J of SE. J; SW. i of SE. i; lot 2, sec. 17. . . . 445. 86 
 
 Township 27, range 6 : 
 
 Lots 3, 4; E. J of SE. i, sec. 7 96.27 
 
 NE.iofNE.i; NE.JofNW.i; W.JofW.J; SE.Jof SW.i, sec. 19. 267.24 
 
 Township 28, range 6 : 
 
 S.iof SE. i; SW. i, sec. 25 240.00 
 
 NW. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 31 120. 00 
 
 Lot 9, sec. 33 21. 50 
 
 Lot 4, sec. 35 5. 60 
 
 Township 29, range 6: 
 
 N.iofNE.i; SW. i of NE. i, sec. 1 120.54 
 
 S. iof NE. i; N.^of SE.i; lots 4, 5, 6, 7, sec. 3 223.55 
 
 All sec. 5 645. 80 
 
 E. i of E. J; W.. J of W. §; SE. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 7. . 416. 38 
 NE. i of NE. i; W. i of E. i; S. i of SW. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 
 
 sec. 9 446.91 
 
 SW. i; lot 4, sec. 11 195.32 
 
 NE. i; NE.JofNW. i; S. J of NW. i; S. J, sec. 13 600.00 
 
 NE'i; SW. i; lot 3, sec. 15 345.18 
 
 E. J of E. J; NW. i of NW. i; SW. { of SE. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 5, sec. 17. 309. 80 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. -jr, sec. 19. . 292. 87 
 
 E. i; lotsl, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, sec. 21 492.05 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. i of N. i|; NW. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. J 
 
 of SW. i; SE. J, sec. 23 520.00 
 
 NW. i of NE.i; SE. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. i of SW. i; E. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 25 400. 00 
 
 NE.i; E. Jof NW. i; S. i, sec. 27 560.00 
 
 NE. i, sec. 29 160.00 
 
 E. i, sec. 33 320.00 
 
 N.iofNW. i; N. Jof SW. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 35 240.00 
 
 Township 30, range 6: 
 
 E. Jof E. i; W. i, seel 464.55 
 
 NE. i; S. i, sec. 3 470.39 
 
 NE. iofNE. J; S. ^ofNE. J; NW. JofNW. i; SE. iofNW. J; NE. 
 
 iof SW. i; S.iof SW.i; SE. i, sec. 5 476.67 
 
 NE. i; NW. iof NW. i; S. i of NW. i; S. J, sec. 7 622.30 
 
 N. i; SE. i, sec. 9 480. 00 
 
 SW. iofNE. i; W. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 11 400.00 
 
 NW. iof NW. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 15 120.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; 
 
 NE. iof SW. i; S.iotSW. i; SE. i, sec. 19 495.20 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; 
 
 W. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 21 440.00 
 
 SW. i of NW. i, sec. 23 , 40. 00 
 
 SW. i of SW. i; SE. i of SE. i; lot S, sec. 25 : IIL 82 
 
 N. iofNE. i; SW. iofNE. i; NW. i; NW. iof SW. i, sec. 29.... 320.00 
 
 W. iof NW. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 31 13L 90 
 
 SE. i of NE. i, sec. 35 40.00 
 
 Township 31, range 6: 
 
 All sec. 1 646. 02 
 
 All sec. 3 651. 62 
 
 E. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 5 526. 24 
 
 All sec. 7 665. 76 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 Jill sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 666. 34 
 
 All sec. 21 640.00 
 
 All sec. 23 640.00 
 
118 OKEGON AND GALIFOBNIA LAND GEANT. 
 
 Township 31, range 6— Continued. ■^'"^■ 
 
 N. *; SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 25 520.00 
 
 S.*, sec. 27. : :' 320.00 
 
 SE. }o£NW. }; NE. iof SW.i; N. J of SE. i, sec. 29 160.00 
 
 All sec. 31 664. 00 
 
 S. i, sec. 33 320.00 
 
 Township 32, range 6: 
 
 N. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 3 394. 14 
 
 All sec. 5 636. 80 
 
 NW. i, sec. 13. 160.00 
 
 NE.i; NE.iofNW.i; SW.iofSW-i; N.iofSE.J; SE.JofSE.i, 
 
 sec. 15 360.00 
 
 E. 4, sec. 17 320. 00 
 
 NE. iofNW. i; lota 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 19 244.48 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 NW. i; SE. iof SW. \; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 23 240.00 
 
 N.iof NW. i, sec. 25 80.00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; SE. i, sec. 27 200. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 Lot 1, sec . 35 15. 42 
 
 Township 33, range 6: 
 
 N. i, sec. 1.-' 321,20 
 
 SE. iSW.i; SE. i, sec. 3 200.00 
 
 S. i of SE. i, sec. 5 80. 00 
 
 NW. iof NE.i; S. iof NE.i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 7 605.84 
 
 NW. i of SW. i, sec. 9 40. 00 
 
 Township 19; range 7: 
 
 NE. iof SE. i; S. Jof SE. i; lot 4, sec. 19 143.02 
 
 Lots 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, sec. 21 197. 06 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 E. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 31 418. 82 
 
 All sec. 33 631. 60 
 
 Township 20, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 5 773. 98 
 
 E. i; lotsl, 2, 3,4, sec. 7 371.98 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 S. i, sec. 13 320. 00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 15 560. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 6iO. 00 
 
 E. i; lotal, 2, 3, 4, sec. 19 395.20 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 25 640. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i, sec. 27 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 E. i; lotel, 2, 3,4, sec. 31 423.58 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; S. i, sec. 35 480. 00 
 
 Township 21, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 1 789. 60 
 
 All sec. 3 785. 83 
 
 S. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i; lots 1 to 12, inclusive, sec. 5 630. 81 
 
 All sec . 7 600. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 610. 60 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 , 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 , 629. 98 
 
 All sec . 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
OEBGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 119 
 
 Township 22, range 7: Acres. 
 
 All sec. 1 668. 38 
 
 S. i of NE. i; N. i of SE. -i; SW. i of SE. i; SE. i of NW. i; E. i of 
 
 SW. }; lots 1 to 7, inolusive, sec. 3 661. 32 
 
 All sec. 5 • 645. 13 
 
 NE. i; E. i of NW. }; NE. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. }; 
 
 lots 1, 3, 4, sec. 7 470. 67 
 
 All sec. 9 631. 97 
 
 NE. }; S. i, sec. 11 480. 00 
 
 NE. i; SE. iofNW. i; NE. Jof SW. i; S.-JofSW.J; N.JofSE. i; 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. 13 440. 00 
 
 E. i; NE. Jof SW. i, sec. 15 360.00 
 
 NE. Jof NE. i; W. J of NW. i, sec. 17 120.00 
 
 Lots 8, 9, sec. 19 29.93 
 
 NE. J; NE. iofNW. i; S. J of NW. i; S. i, sec. 23 600.00 
 
 All sec. 25 582. 56 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, sec. 31 17.52 
 
 Lots!, 2, 7, 8; E. -J of SW. i; NE. i of SE. }, sec. 35 293.14 
 
 Township 23, range 7: 
 
 S. i of N. i; S. i; lots 1, 2, 3, sec. 1 656. 40 
 
 S. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; N. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 3. . 281. 26 
 
 Lots 2, 3, sec. 7 49. 10 
 
 Lots 7, 8, sec. 9 41. 70 
 
 Lots 4, 16, sec. 11 76. 13 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 Lots 4, 5, 6; NE. Jof SE. 1, sec. 15 137.00 
 
 W. iof W. J; lotsl, 2, 3,4,5, 6, sec. 17....' 358.97 
 
 Lots 6, 7, 8, 9; NE. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. J, 
 
 sec. 19 239.06 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; W. i of SE. i; 
 
 SE. i of SE. i; lots 1, 3, 4, sec. 21 352. 95 
 
 Lots 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, sec. 23 526. 07 
 
 All sec. 25 ' 640. 00 
 
 Lots 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, sec. 27 133.17 
 
 S. J sec. 31 320.00 
 
 Lot 3 ; S. i of SW. i, sec. 33 118. 20 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, sec. 35 k,.... 482.95 
 
 Township 24, range 7: 
 
 Lots 1, 4; SE. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. J; E. J of SE. i, sec. 1. . . . 235. 67 
 
 Lots 9, 10, 11, 12, sec. 3 ■ 14^05 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; SW. i; W. J of SE. i, sec. 5 280.00 
 
 All sec. 7 661. 52 
 
 Lotsl to 12, inclusive, 14, 15, 16, sec. 9 608.91 
 
 Lots3, 4, 9; S. i of NW. i; SW. i; SW. i of SE. 1, sec. 11...: 386.32 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 6, 7,8; S. i of SE. i, sec. 13 206.76 
 
 Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; W. J of SW. i, sec. 15 390.59 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; SE. i of NW. i; E. J of SW. i; N. i of SE. i; 
 
 NE. i, sec. 17 : 600.60 
 
 W. Jof NE. i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 19 566.76 
 
 SE. iof SE. i; lotsl, 4, 5, 7, 11, sec. 21 188.88 
 
 All sec. 23 639. 52 
 
 All sec. 25 - 640.00 
 
 All sec. 27 609. 96 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; E. i of SE. i; lots 4, 5, sec. 29 322 60 
 
 W. iof NW. i; S. J of SW. i, sec. 31 162.03 
 
 N.lofNE.i; SE.iofNW.i; N. Jof S. i; lotsl, 3,4, 5, 6, 7, sec. 33. 494.56 
 
 All sec. 35 640.00 
 
 Township 25, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 1 --■- 659.68 
 
 All sec. 3 649.96 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; S. i of NW.-i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. i of SE. 
 
 i, sec. 5 355. 40 
 
 N. Jof NE. i; lotsl,2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, sec. 7 384.54 
 
 NE. i; lotsl,2, 3,-4, sec. 9 238.40 
 
 NE. i; S. Jof NW. i; S. J, sec. 11 560.00 
 
 NE.i; N.-JofNW.i; SE. Jof NW. i; SW. i, sec. 13 440.00 
 
120 OREGON AND OAUPOB.NIA. LAND GBANT. 
 
 Township 25, range 7 — Continued. Aoresi, 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; SB. i of NE. i; N. i of SE. i; lot 3, eec. 15 213. 33 
 
 All sec. 17 625. 36 
 
 All sec. 19 640. 64 
 
 Lots 5, 6; NE. iof SW. i;NW. iofSE. i; S. i of S. i, sec. 21 327.74 
 
 E. i of NE. J; NE-. i of SW. i; NW. i of SB. i, sec. 23 160. 00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. J of SW. i; lot 6, sec. 27. 356. 30 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. J of NE. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. J of SW. i; SB. i, 
 
 sec. 29 400.00 
 
 E. i; E. J of SW. i, sec. 31 400 00 
 
 Lotsl, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7; SW. i; NW. iof SB. i, sec. 33 491.74 
 
 Township 26, range 7: 
 
 Lot 6, sec. 3 4. 90 
 
 All sec. 5 643. 04 
 
 All sec. 7 646. 02 
 
 NE. i;S. Jof NW. J;S. 4, sec. 9 560.00 
 
 S. i of SW. i; NE. i of SB. i, sec. 11 120 00 
 
 W. iof NW. i, sec. 15 80.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 644.32 
 
 W. i of NE. i; W. i; NW. i of SE. J; S. i of SB. i, sec. 21 520 00 
 
 N. i of NW. i, sec, 27 80 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640 00 
 
 All sec. 31 636. 00 
 
 W. 4, sec. 33 320.00 
 
 Township 27, range 7: 
 
 NE. iiSB. iof SW. i; W. 4 of SB. }, sec. 5 .- 278.72 
 
 All sec. 7. 633. 00 
 
 SE. iof NW. i; B. 4of SW. {; SE. i, sec. 15 280 00 
 
 NE, i; W. 4, sec. 17 480.00 
 
 All sec. 19 639. 90 
 
 NE. i;S. 4, sec. 23 480.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i; N. 4 of NW. i, sec. 25 160 00 
 
 N. 4;SW. i;W. 4 of SE. i, sec. 27 560 00 
 
 N. 4 of NW. i, sec. 31 -. 82. 48 
 
 NB. i; E. 4 of NW. i; S. 4 of SW. i, sec. 33 320 00 
 
 Township 29, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 1. . . ., 639. 40 
 
 Lotl;E.4of SW. i;NW. i of SB. i; S. 4 of SE. i, sec. 3 229.81 
 
 NB. i of NW. i; S. 4 of NW. i; NW. i of'SW. i, sec. 5 162.28 
 
 * S. 4 of NE. i; N. 4 of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. i; lots 1, 4, 5, sec. 9. 458. 67 
 
 All sec. 11 640 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640.00 
 
 SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; S. 4 of SE. i, sec. 17. 200. 00 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; S. 4 of NW. i; S. 4, sec. 19 617. 30 
 
 NB. i;N. 4of SE. i;SE. iof SE. i, sec. 21 , 280.00 
 
 N. 4; N. 4of SE. i;SE. i of SB. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, sec. 27.... 598.68 
 
 NW. i;N. 4of SW. i, sec. 29 240.00 
 
 All sec. 31 664. 41 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 Township 30, range 7: 
 
 S. 4 of NE. i; N. 4 of NW. i; W. i of SW. i; SB. i of SW. i; SE. i, 
 
 sec. 1 420. 07 
 
 All sec. 3 643. 08 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 4; S. 4 of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i; SE. i or SW. i; S. 4 of 
 
 SB. 4, sec. 5 339.11 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; W. 4; NW. i of SE. i; S. 4 of SB. i, sec. 7 52L 99 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 N. 4of NB. i;SE. i of NE. i; W. 4, sec. 11 '440.00 
 
 N. 4;SE. i, sec. 13 '. 480.00 
 
 All sec. 15 688. 23 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 680. 71 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 , 640. 00 
 
 W.4of B.4; W.4; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 27 520.00 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GffilANT. 121 
 
 Township 30, range 7 — Continued. Acres. 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 681. 60 
 
 N.i; N.Jof SE. J; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 33 440.00 
 
 « , N. 4; SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 35 600.00 
 
 rTownship 31, range 7: 
 
 NE. i; NE. iof NW. J; S. ^ of NW. J; S. 4, sec. 1 .'.... 605.69 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; S. iof N. J; NE. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 3 560.00 
 
 S. i of N. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. i of SW. J; NW. i of SE. J; S. i of 
 
 SE. i, sec. 5 400. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; W. i of SE. i; W. ^ of SE. i of SE. i; N. i of NE. i of 
 
 SE. i; SW. i of NE. i of SE. i, sec. 7 603. 52 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SE. J of NE. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. i of S. i; NE. i of 
 
 SE. i, sec. 9 369. 20 
 
 All sec. 11 649. 20 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 E. i; N. i of NW. i; W. 4 of SW. i of NW. J; NE. i of SW. J of NW. 
 
 i; E. 4 of SE. i of NW. i; NW. J of SE. i of NW. i; S. i of SW. 
 
 i; E. 4 of NE. i of SW. i; W. J of NW. i of SW. i, sec. 17 580. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 636. 40 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 N.i; N.iof SW. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 25 440.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 NW. i; S. 4, sec. 29 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 647. 68 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 W. 4of NE. i; S. 4, sec. 35 400.00 
 
 Township 32, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 1 653. 76 
 
 i All sec. 3 657. 52 
 
 N. 4, sec. 5 328. 48 
 
 NE. J; SE. i of NW. i; S. 4 of SW. J; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 7 324.33 
 
 NE. i; S. 4, sec. 9 480.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; NW. i of NE. J of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; W. 4 of NE. i 
 
 of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; NE. J of SE. i; E. 4 of NW. i of SE. J; 
 
 S. 4of SE. i; lots 2, 3, 4, sec. 19 537.58 
 
 N.4; SW.i; S. 4 of SE. J, sec. 21 560.00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 N.4; SW. i; W. 4 of SE. i, sec. 25 560.00 
 
 E. 4; E. 4 of SW. i, sec. 27 400. 00 
 
 S. 4of NE. i; NW. iofNE. J; NW. i; S. 4, sec. 29 600.00 
 
 All sec. 31 "- 642. 40 
 
 NW. i of NE. i of NW. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. 4 of NW. i; NW. i of 
 
 NE. J of SW. i; SW. i of NW. i of SW. i; N. 4 of NW. i of SW. J; 
 
 NW. i of SW. i of SW, i; S. 4 of NE. i of SE. J; E. 4 of SW. i 
 
 of SE. i; SE. iof SE. i, sec. 33 260.00 
 
 N. 4; N. 4 of S. 4; SW. } of SE. i; SW. i of SW. h sec. 35 560. 00 
 
 Township 33, r^nge 7: 
 
 Lots 3, 4; S. 4 of N. 4; S. 4, sec. 1 564.56 
 
 SW.iofNE.i-; SW.J; NW.JofSE.i; S. 4of SE. i, sec. 3 320.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 N. 4, sec. 13 320. 00 
 
 Township 19, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 7 777. 16 
 
 W. 4, sec. 9 ' 320.00 
 
 SW. i of SW. i, sec. 11 " 40.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 776. 80 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
122 OKEGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GE ANT. 
 
 Township 19, range 8 — Continued. •^"■'es. 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 : 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 r 779. 58 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 20, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 640. 39 
 
 All sec. 3 639. 20 
 
 All sec. 5 639. 30 
 
 All sec. 7 788. 39 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640.00 
 
 NE. iof NW. i; SE. i of SW. J, sec. 17 80.00 
 
 E. i; lots, 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, sec. 19 634.05 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. QO 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 788. 59 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 21, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 637. 99 
 
 All sec. 3 634. 60 
 
 All sec. 5 635. 76 
 
 All sec. 7 789. 80 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 ■. 793. 60 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 797. 04 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 22, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 724. 92 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, sec. 3 462.44 
 
 Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10; SW. i of NW. i, sec.S 257.06 
 
 N. i of NW. \; SW. i of NW. \; NW. \ of 8W. \; lots 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 
 
 11, sec. 7 301. 60 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; lots 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, sec. 9 180.79 
 
 Lotsl, 2,3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, sec. 11 463.50 
 
 Lots 9, 10, sec. 15 25.'30 
 
 Lotsl, 2,3; N. JofNE.i;SW.iofNE.l;W. J;W. iofSE.i, sec.l7 566.77 
 
 All sec. 19 679. 45 
 
 Lots 7, 14, sec. 21 2.42 
 
 Lots 8, 9, 10, 11, sec. 23 11.00 
 
 NE. i; W. iof NW. i, sec. 25 240.00 
 
 Lots 2 to 12, inclusive, sec. 27 459.65 
 
 W. i of W. i; lots 1, 2, 3, sec. 29 206.89 
 
 All sec. 31 692. 69 
 
 Lot 1; S. i of NE. i; NW. i; NE. i of SW. \; S. i of SW. \, sec. 33. . . . 395.20 
 
 Township 23, range 8: 
 
 Lots 7, 9, sec. 1 5. 30 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3; S. i of N. J; S. J, sec. 3 613.67 
 
 AH sec. 5 669. 48 
 
OKEGON AND OAUFOKNIA LAND GBANT. 123 
 
 Township 23, range 8 — Continued. Acres. 
 
 E. i; lots 7, 10, 11, 12, sec. 7 47.3.41 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 Lots 1, 5, 7; W. i of W. i; SE. i of 8W. i; S. i of SE.i, sec. 11 376.36 
 
 Lots2, 3, 4; S. iof N. J; S. i, sec. 13 604.39 
 
 All sec. 15 • 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 AH sec. 19 772. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 N. i of N. i; SE. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 23 520. 00 
 
 SE.iofNE. i; NW. iofNW. i; SW. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 25 320.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29. : . . 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 775. 98 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 20 
 
 Township 24, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 653. 74 
 
 All sec. 3 650. 46 
 
 All sec. 5 644. 94 
 
 Lofal, 2, 3, and 4; E. i, sec.7 484.38 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4; E. i, sec. 19 490. 40 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, and 4; E. i, sec. 31 493.18 
 
 All sec. 33. 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 641. 92 
 
 Township 25, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 636. 80 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 33. ... - 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 26, range 8: 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; S. i of NW. i; SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i; 
 
 lots 3 and 4, sec. 1 477. 75 
 
 All sec. 3 639. 92 
 
 All sec . 5 642. 40 
 
 All sec. 7 640.80 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640.00 
 
 AH sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19..... 641.04 
 
 All sec. 21 640.00 
 
 All sec. 23 - 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 : 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27.. - .- 640.00 
 
 All sec. 29...... 640.00 
 
 All sec. 31.. . . . .-. 640. 92 
 
 All sec. 33....... 640.00 
 
 All sec. 35......... 640.00 
 
124 
 
 OKEGON AND OAUFOBNIA LAND GKANI. 
 
 Township 27, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 ,. - , 
 
 All sec. 3 
 
 All sec. 5 ■ ■ - 
 
 All sec. 7 -: ■ ■ 
 
 All sec. 9 ■■ 
 
 All sec. 11. -. , - - 
 
 All sec . 13 - 
 
 All sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 17 
 
 All sec . 19 
 
 All sec. 21 : 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 All sec . 29 
 
 All sec. 31 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 Township 29, range 8: 
 
 E. i of NE. i; W. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. i, 
 sec. 13 - - 
 
 SE. i, sec. 15 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. 17 
 
 All sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 All sec . 27 
 
 E. i; E. i of SW. }, sec. 29 
 
 S. Jof N. i; S. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 31 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 Township 30, range 8 : 
 
 All sec. 1 , 
 
 All sec. 3 
 
 All sec. 5 
 
 All sec. 7 
 
 All sec . 9 
 
 All sec. 11 ■ 
 
 S, iof N. i; S. h sec. 13 
 
 All sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 17 ' 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 All sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 E. *; N. iof NW. i; E. * of SW. i, sec. 25 
 
 All see , 27 
 
 All sec. 29 
 
 All sec. 31 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 All sec . 35 
 
 Township 31, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 5 
 
 All sec. 7 
 
 All sec. 9 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 All sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 17 
 
 All sec . 19 = 
 
 All sec. 21 
 
 All sec . 23 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 Ail sec . 27 
 
 All sec. 29 
 
 All sec. 31 
 
 All sec . 33 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 Acres. 
 633. 84 
 639. 80 
 639. 68 
 639. 36 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 639. 68 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 639. 60 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 
 440.00 
 160. 00 
 40.00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 400.00 
 
 607. 73 
 640. 00 
 640.00 
 
 606. 20 
 622. 63 
 644.72 
 700.44 
 MO. 00 
 640.00 
 480. 00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 704.00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 480. 00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 
 707. 74 
 640.00 
 640. 00 
 
 639. 96 
 606.01 
 744. 84 
 640.00 
 640. 00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 610.00 
 751. 84 
 640.00 
 640. 00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 743. 20 
 640.00 
 040.00 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 125 
 
 Township 32, range 8: 
 
 N. i; SW. J; N. i of SE. J; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 3 
 
 All sec. 5 
 
 All sec. 7 
 
 All sec. 9 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 All sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 17 ; 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 All sec. 21 , 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 All sec. 29 
 
 N. * of NE. i, see. 31 
 
 All sec . 33 
 
 All sec. 35 ; 
 
 Township 19, range 9: 
 
 All sec. 9 ■ 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 „ 
 
 All sec. 15 
 
 E. i; E.^ofW. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 17 
 
 ' E. i; E. iofW. J, sec. 19 
 
 All sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 All sec. 29 
 
 All sec. 31 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 Township 20, range 9: 
 
 S. i of NW. i;. W. i of SW. J; lots 1 to 14, inclusive, sec; 1 .- 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; NE. J of SE. 
 J, sec. 11 
 
 E. i of NW. i; SW. i; lots 1 to 12, inclusive, sec. 13 
 
 NW. i of NE. 1; NW. i; N. i of SW. }; E. i of SE. J, sec. 15 
 
 All sec . 17 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 W. i; SE . i of SE. i, sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 NW. i; lots 1 to 12, inclusive, sec. 25 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i, sec. 27 
 
 N. i of NW. i, sec. 29 
 
 S. J of NE. i; E. i of NW. J; NE. J of SW. J; lot 2, sec. 31 
 
 NE. iof.NE. i; SW. i; SW. i of SE. }, sec. 33 
 
 NE.JofNE.i; S. J of N. i; S. J, sec. 35 
 
 Township 21, range 9: 
 
 All sec. 1 
 
 S. iof SW. i; NW. Jof SE.i; lotsl, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, sec. 3. 
 
 E. iof E. i; NE. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. J, sec. 5 
 
 All sec. 7. 
 
 All sec. 9 - - - 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13. 
 All sec. 15. 
 All sec. 17. 
 All sec. 19. 
 All sec. 21.. 
 All sec. 23. 
 All sec. 25. 
 All sec. 27. 
 All sec. 29. 
 All sec. 31. 
 
 Acres. 
 600. 80 
 645. 41 
 653. 08 
 631.62 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. OO 
 637. 79 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640: 00 
 
 80.00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 800. 80 
 640. 00 
 520. 00 
 480. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 800. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 
 717. 47 
 
 360. 00 
 712. 38 
 360. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 360. 00 
 640. 00 
 628. 92 
 280. 00 
 80.00 
 
 239. 19 
 
 240. 00 
 520. 00 
 
 906. 19 
 472. 08 
 240. 00 
 828. 40 
 898. 36 
 640. 00 
 657. 20 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 645. 88 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 650. 55 
 640. 00 
 640. CO 
 642. 78 
 
1-26 OREGON AND CAUPOKNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Township 21, range 9— Continued. Acres. 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 35 - - 640. 00 
 
 Township 22, range 9: 
 
 All sec. 1 626. 33 
 
 All sec . 3 - 629. 94 
 
 S. i of NE. J; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i; lots 
 
 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, sec. 5 468.86 
 
 Lots 6 to 16, inclusive, sec. 7 525.88 
 
 S. * of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; SE. J; lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, sec. 9. . . 569. 60 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 11 560.00 
 
 S. iof SE. }; lots 5, 6, sec. 13 149.00 
 
 N.iof NE. J; SW. iof SW. i; lots 8, 9, sec. 15 160.31 
 
 NW. iof SW. i; SW. iof SE. i; lot 7, sec. 17 112.20 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; NE. i of SW. i; E. J of SE. i; lots 1, 2, 3, sec. 19. . 328. 25 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; E. i of SW. i; W. i of SE. i; lots 4, 5, 6, sec. 21. . . . 328. 44 
 
 N. i; SW. i; W. J of SE. J, sec. 23 560.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 610. 56 
 
 All sec. 29 593. 44 
 
 N. i; SW. 1, sec. 31 .' 481. 76 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of 
 
 SW.i; SE. 1 of SE. i, sec. 33 440.00 
 
 AH sec. 35 678. 38 
 
 Township 23, range 9: 
 
 All sec. 1 640. 60 
 
 Lot 4; S. iof N. i; S. J, sec. 5 520.40 
 
 NE. i of SW. i; lots 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, sec. 7 492. 51 
 
 SW. i of SW. i, sec. 9 40. 00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i, sec. 11 40.00 
 
 SW. iof SE. J; lots 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, sec. 13 233.02 
 
 SW. J, sec. 17 160.00 
 
 S.J, sec. 19 317.55 
 
 E. i; lotsl, 2, 3,4, sec. 21 380.52 
 
 NW. i, sec. 23 160. 00 
 
 All sec . 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 NW. i; N.iofSW.J; lotsl, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, sec. 29 334.67 
 
 All sec. 31 633. 56 
 
 All sec. 33 654. 40 
 
 All sec. 35 643. 84 
 
 Township 24, range 9: 
 
 All sec. 1 635. 88 
 
 All sec. 3 629. 89 
 
 All sec. 5 638. 96 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 26, range 9 : 
 
 All sec. 1 654. 28 
 
 AH sec. 3 663. 20 
 
 AH sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 AH sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 AH sec. 15 • 640. 00 
 
 AU sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 AH sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 AH sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 AH sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 29, range 9: 
 
 NW. i of SE. i, sec. 1 40.00 
 
 NE. i; S. iof NW. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 13 320.00 
 
 N.i; SW.i; NW. J of SE. J, sec. 23 520.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. {; S. i, 
 
 sec. 35 560.00 
 
OHEGON AJTD OAUFOBNIA L.AND GRANT, 127 
 
 Township 30, range 9: Acres. 
 
 All sec. 3 630. 22 
 
 All sec. 5 626. 32 
 
 All sec. 7 .' 650. 12 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 S-. Jof N.i-; S. i, sec. 17 480.00 
 
 All sec. 19 652. 78 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 655. 64 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 31, range 9: 
 
 All sec. 1 561. 84 
 
 All sec. 3 567. 00 
 
 N. i; SE. J, sec. 5 409.44 
 
 S. iof NE. i; E. ^of NW. i; lot 1, sec. 7 200.33 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11: '. • 640. 00 
 
 E. iof E. i; W. i, sec. 13 480.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 E. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. J; S. ^ of SW. i, sec. 17 520.00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 , 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; S.i, sec. 29 480.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 19, range 10: 
 
 SE. J, sec. 25 160.00 
 
 Township 20, range 10: 
 
 All sec. 1 709. 98 
 
 E. iof NE. i; S. i, sec. 11 400.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 N. i; NE. iof SW. J; SE. i, sec. 23 520.00 
 
 N. iof NW. i; SW. Jof NW. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 25 200.00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; E. i of NW. i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 27.. 280. 00 
 
 W. J of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. J; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 35. 361. 32 
 
 Township 21, range 10: 
 
 E. iofNE. i; SE. iof SE. i, sec. 9..: 120.00 
 
 NE. i; E. Jof NW. i; S. J, sec. 15 560.00 
 
 NE. i, sec. 21 - 160.00 
 
 Township 22, range 10: 
 
 All sec. 1 745. 76 
 
 S. i; lots 1 to 12, inclusive, sec. 3 745. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 N. *ofNE. i;SW. iofNE.i;NW. i;NW.iof SW.i;lot 6, sec. 13.. 356.66 
 SW. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; SE. J of SE. J; lots 
 
 1, 11,12, 13, 14, 15, sec. 15 401.07 
 
 All sec. 21 594. 28 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; E. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i; lots 5 
 
 to 11, inclusive, sec. 23 494. 56 
 
 NE. i of NW. i; W. i of W. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 25 240. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 E. i; E. i of W. i, sec. 33 480. 00 
 
 Lotsl,2,3,4; S.iofN.J; W.JofSW.i; N. Jof SE.i, sec. 35 479.20 
 
 Township 23, range 10: 
 
 All sec. 1 952. 09 
 
 Lot 1; SE. i, sec. 11 164.42 
 
 NE. i, sec. 13 160. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 : 640.00 
 
 Total Douglas County 616,843.14 
 
128 
 
 OKBGON AND OAUFOKNIA liANB GRANT. 
 
 Coos County. 
 J [South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 26, range 9: 
 
 All sec. 5 
 
 All sec. 7 
 
 All sec. 9 
 
 All Bee. 17 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 All sec. 21 ■ 
 
 All sec. 29 
 
 N.i; SE.iof SW.i; SE. J, sec. 31 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 Township 27, range 9: 
 
 All sec. 1 
 
 All sec . 3 
 
 All sec. 5 
 
 N. i, sec. 7 
 
 All sec . 9 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec . 13 
 
 All -sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 17 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 All sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 All sec. 29 
 
 All sec. 31 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 Township 24, range 10: 
 
 All sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 3 
 
 Lotl; SE. iofNE. i; E. i of SE. i, sec. 5 
 
 All sec. 9 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 All sec. 15 
 
 E. i, sec 17 
 
 All sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 -; 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 All sec. 27 ,. . 
 
 E. J, sec. 29 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 Township 25, range 10: 
 
 All sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 3 
 
 NE. i; NE. iof NW. i; S. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 5 '. 
 
 E. J, sec. 7 
 
 N. \ of NE. }; SE. \ of NE. }; NE. i of SW. }; S, i of SW. \; SE.i, 
 sec. 9 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 All sec. 15 
 
 E.J; NE. iofNW. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. }, sec'l?".;!!;; 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 AH sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 Allsec.25 
 
 NE. J of NE. }; W. i of E. i; W. i, sec. 27 
 
 All sec. 29 
 
 Allsec.31 ■""■; 
 
 -- All sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 Acres. 
 647.00 
 612. 00 
 640. 00 
 ,640.00 
 614.00 
 640.00 
 640. 00 
 507. 00 
 640 00 
 
 664. 00 
 672. 00 
 684.00 
 322. 00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 640. 00 
 640 00 
 640.00 
 641. 36 
 640.00 
 640 00 
 640. 00 
 640 00 
 640 00 
 641.00 
 640 00 
 640. 00 
 
 623.00 
 587.00 
 145.00 
 640.00 
 640. 00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 320.00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 640. 00 
 320.00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 
 637.00 
 634. 00 
 597. 00 
 320 00 
 
 400.00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 480. 00 
 821.00 
 640,00 
 640.00 
 640. 00 
 520.00 
 640.00 
 834. 00 
 640.00 
 640.00 
 
OEBGON AND CAljIF0K2>riA LAND GBANT. 129 
 
 Township 26, range 10: Acres. 
 
 All sec. 1 , . . 681. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 683. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 678. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 690. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 687. 00 
 
 N. i, sec. 21 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 : : 692. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 N.J; SW. i, sec. 35 480.00 
 
 Township 27, range 10: 
 
 E. iof NE. i; SE. i, sec. 1 240.00 
 
 All sec. 3 644. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 717. 00 
 
 N. J, sec. 9 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 744. 00 
 
 All sec . 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23.. - 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 777. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 29, range 10: 
 
 Lots 6, 7, 10, 11, sec. 7 160.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 N. i, sec. 23 320. 00 
 
 NE. }, sec. 25 160.00 
 
 NW. i; NE.iof SW. i; S. i of SW. i, sec. 27 280.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 781. 00 
 
 NW. iof 8W. i; S. i of S. i, sec. 33 200.00 
 
 SW. i, sec. 35 160.00 
 
 Township 30, range 10: 
 
 All sec. 1 625. 00 
 
 Lots 1,2; NW. Jof SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of S. J, sec. 3 313.00 
 
 All sec . 5 621. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 798. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; E. Jof SE. i, sec. 9 560.00 
 
 N. Jof N. i; NE. }of SW. i; S. J of SW. i; SE. J, sec. 11 440.00 
 
 N. Jof N. J; NE. iof SE. i, sec. 13 200.00 
 
 S. J of SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 15 120. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 801. 00 
 
 SE. iof SW. }; E.i, see. 21 360.00 
 
 SE. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 23 • 80.00 
 
 N. -Jof NE. i; SE. iof NE. J; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 25 160.00 
 
 47197—12 9 
 
ISQt OBEGON AND 0AI/IFOBNIA L,ANI> GRANT. 
 
 Township 30, range 10 — Continued. ■*■<?!■«?■( 
 
 E. i; S. JofNW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. Jof SW..i, sec. 27 520.00 
 
 NW. i of SW. i; S. J of SW: i; NW. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; E. i 
 
 of SE. }; NW. i, sec.29...... 440.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. }; SE. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, sec. 31. . . 519. 00 
 
 ^ ,NE. i; E. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 33 560.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. J of N. J; S. j, sec. 35. . , . . , 520. 00 
 
 Township 31, range 10: 
 
 SE. iof NW. i; NE. JofSE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 1 160.00 
 
 Lots 1,2; N. Jof SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 3 165.00 
 
 SE. i of SW. i, sec. 5 40. 00 
 
 NE. i; W. i of SE. i; lots 1,2,3, 4, 5,6,7, 8, 9, 12, sec. 7 651. 00 
 
 SE. J-of NE. J; NE. iof SE. i, sec. 9 '80.00- 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; S. i of SW. i; W. J of SE. i, sec. 13 200. 00 
 
 ■SE. i of SW. }, sec. 17 40. 00 
 
 Lots 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, sec. 19 206. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; SW. i of SW. i; NE. } of SE. i; 
 
 S. i of SE. i, sec. 21 240. 00 
 
 N. iof NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; NE. J of NW. I, sec. 23 160.00 
 
 E. iof NE. i; NE. iof SW. i; S. i of SW, i; SE.i,sec.27 360.00 
 
 -S. Jof NE. i, sec. 29 80.00 
 
 Lots 8, 11, sec. 31 80. 00 
 
 E.i; N.iofNW.i; SW.Jof NW.i; NW.-Jof SW.i; S.^of SW.i, 
 
 sec. 33 560. 00 
 
 E. 4 of NE. i, sec. 35 80. 00 
 
 Township 26, range 11: 
 
 Lots 1, 2; S. J of NE. i, sec. 1 123.00 
 
 SE. isec. 23 : 160.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640.00 
 
 Township 27, range 11: 
 
 All sec. 13 - 672. 00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, sec. 15 433.00 
 
 All sec. 23 616. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 651. 00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3,4,5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, sec. 27 452.00 
 
 All sec. 35 625. 00 
 
 Township 29, range 11: 
 
 All sec. 7 644. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 645.00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, sec. 13 536.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 N.i; SW.iotSW.i(orlot4);NE.i-ofSE.i; SW. Jof SE. i, sec. 19. 444.00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 E. iof NE. i; SW. i; NE. i-of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 23 360.00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 5, 8, 9, 15, 16, sec. 25 292.00 
 
 NE.JofNE.i; S.iofNE.-J-; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. i 
 
 of SW. i; N. iof SE. J; SW. iof SE. i, sec. 27 400.00 
 
 S. i, sec. 29 320.00 
 
 All sec. 31 633.0P 
 
 NW.iofSW.i; NE.iofSE.i; S.iofS.i; W. iof NW. i,sec. 33... 320.00 
 
 NE.iofSW.i; S.iofSW.i; N. iofSE.i; SW. iof SE. i, sec. 35... 240.00 
 
 Township 30, range 11: 
 
 E. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 3 240.00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. J of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 5 600.00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 7 554. 00 
 
 W. i; NE. iof SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 9 400.00 
 
 NW. i of SW. i, sec. 11 40.00 
 
 SE. iof NW. i; S. i; NE. i of NE. i, sec. 15 400.00 
 
 S. iof NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; NE. iof NE. i, sec. 17 160.00 
 
 SE. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 19 200. 00 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; S. i of NE. i; SE. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 21 320.00 
 
 N. i of N. i; SE. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i; SE. i of SW. i; NE. 
 
 iof SE. i; S. iof SE. i, sec. 27 400.00 
 
 S. iof N. i; S. i, sec.29 480.00 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA lAND GRANT. 131 
 
 Township 30, range 11 — Continued. Acres. 
 
 N. i; SE. i, sec. 31 479. 00 
 
 NW. i, sec. 33 Igo.OO 
 
 Township 31, range 11: 
 
 SW. iof NE. J; W. i sec. 1 359.00 
 
 All sec. 3 641. 00 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 5 . 40 00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; E. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; NW. j of SE.i, 
 
 sec . 7 200. 00 
 
 E. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 9 360. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 N. i of N. i, sec. 13 160. 00 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. i; S. J of SW. i; NE. J of SE. {; S. J of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 15 440. 00 
 
 NW. iofNE. i; S. iofNE. i; SE. i, sec. 19 280.00 
 
 • NE. iofNE. i; S. iofNE. i; SE.i of NW.i; S. iof S.J, sec. 2].. 320.00 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; S. iof NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 23 600.00 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; NW. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 25 240.00 
 
 SEiiof NW. i; NE. iof SW. i; S. i of SW. i, sec. 27 160.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; NW. i; SE. i of SW. i; W. J of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 29 400. 00 
 
 N. }of NW. i; SW.iof NW. i, sec. 33 120.00 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 35 120.00 
 
 Township 28, range 12: 
 
 NW. i; N. iof S. i; SE. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 35 400.00 
 
 Township 29, range 12: 
 
 SE. iof SE. i, sec. l-.i 40.00 
 
 SE. iof SW. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 11 80.00 
 
 NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of 
 
 SE. i, sec. 13 360.00 
 
 E. i of SE. i, sec. 15 80. 00 
 
 E. i; E. i of SW. i, sec. 23 400. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; NW. 
 
 iotSE. J, sec. 25 240.00 
 
 NW. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 27- 80. 00 
 
 NW. iof SW. i, sec. 29 40.00 
 
 NW.iofNE.i; SE.iofNW.i; E.iofSW.i; S.iof SE.i,sec.35. . 240.00 
 Township 30, range 12 : 
 
 All sec. 1. . . . '. 652. 00 
 
 E.iofSW.i; SE. i, sec. 3 240.00 
 
 Lot 6, sec. 5 2. 00 
 
 NW. i, sec. 7 160. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i, sec. 9 40.00 
 
 E. i; N. i of NW. i, sec. 11 400.00 
 
 N. i, sec. 13 320. 00 
 
 SE.'i of SE. i, sec. 19 40. 00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 25 200. 00 
 
 W. i of E. i; W. i, sec. 29 480. 00 
 
 Lots 2, 3, 4; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 31 243. 00 
 
 E. i of NW. i, sec. 35 80.00 
 
 Township 31, range 12: 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 5; S.iof NW. i, sec. 3 146.00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; NE. i of SE. 
 
 i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 5 439.00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. if'SW. i; N. i of SB. i, sec. 7 356. 00 
 
 SW. iof NW. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 9 80.00 
 
 Lots 2, 3, sec. 11 - 52. 00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; lots 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, sec. 13 110.00 
 
 NE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 15 320. 00 
 
 E. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 17 440. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 - 640. 00 
 
 Lots 2, 3, 4, 6, 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, sec. 23 485.00 
 
 Lots 4, 5, 12, sec. 25 126.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 N.iof NE. i; NE. i of NW. i, sec. 33 120.00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; W. i of NW. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. 
 
 i of SW. i; S . i of SE . i, sec . 35 400. 00 
 
132 OEEGON ANB CALIFOBliriA LAND GEANT. 
 
 Township 30, range 13: Acres. 
 
 N. i of NW. i; SW. i; SW. i of SE. J, sec. 25 280. 00 
 
 SW. Jof NE. i; NW. i of SE. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 35 160.00 
 
 Township 31, range 13: 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 4; SE. i, sec. 1 318.00 
 
 Total Coos County 106, 563. 36 
 
 Curry County. 
 [South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 34, range 11: 
 
 All sec. 3 618. 05 
 
 N.J; SW. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 7 518.40 
 
 All sec. 9 540. 77 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. i; lots 1, 4, 5, 7, 
 
 sec . 17 384. 07 
 
 All sec. 19 571. 38 
 
 All sec. 31 607. 81 
 
 Township 35, range 11: 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. }; E. i of SE. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 
 
 11, 12, 13, sec. 7 455.78 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 NE. iof NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; lotsl, 2, sec. 19 147.07 
 
 NE. -i; E. i of SE. }; lot 5, sec. 29 268. 70 
 
 Township 31, range 12: 
 
 N.iof NW. i; SW. iof NW. i; SW. i; W. J of SE. i, sec. 19 356.00 
 
 SE.Jof NW. i; E.JofSW. }; NW. iofSE.i; S. i of SE. J, sec. 29. 240.00 
 
 Township 35, range 12: 
 
 E. J of SE. J; lots 4, 5, 6, sec. 13 136. 61 
 
 Township 31, range 13: 
 
 N. JotNE. }; SW. iof NE. J, sec. 11 120.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. }; SW. i of NW. }; NW. i of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; 
 
 NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 13 280. 00 
 
 W. i of NE. i; NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. }, sec. 23. 520. 00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; S. i of SW. J; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 25 160. 00 
 
 Total Curry County 7, 844. 64 
 
 Josephine County. 
 
 [South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 33, range 5: 
 
 W. J of SE. i; SW. i, sec. 3 240. 00 
 
 S. iof S. i, sec. 5 160.00 
 
 N. i of NE. {; NW. i; NE. i of SE. J; S. i of SE. i, sec. 7 338. 68 
 
 N. i of NE. J; N. i of SW, J of NE. i; N. J of S. i of SW. i of NE, }; 
 NW. i; N. i of SE. i of NE. i; W. J of SW. i; S. i of SE. i; S. i of 
 NE. i of SE. i; S. i of N. J of NE. i of SE. i; S. i of NW. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec . 9 500. 00 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; SW. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. }; lots 4, 5, sec. 11. . 140. 15 
 
 SE. JofNE. i; SW, iofNW. }; S. J, sec. M 400.00 
 
 E.JotSE.i; E,JofSW,J-ofNE.i; W.JofSW.J; NW.JofNE.iof 
 NW. i; E. J of NE. i of NW. i; S. J of S. i of SW. i of NW. 1: 
 SW. iofSE.iofNW.i; E. Jof SE. Jof NW. i; SE. -J-of NE. i; B. 
 
 iofNE. Jof NE. J, sec. 15 310.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 N.iofNE.i; SE.JofNE.i; E.JofNW.J; N.JofSE.J; lots 1,2, 8, 
 
 sec . 19 352. 81 
 
 SE. i- of NE. i; NW. i; NW. i of SW, i; lots 1, 3, sec. 21 314. 13 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. -1; W. J of NE. i of SE. }■ NW. i of SE. J; S. J of SE. i, 
 
 sec . 25 620. 00 
 
 NE.i; N. JofNW. J-; SE. iofNW. J; S. i, sec. 27 596.09 
 
OBEGON" AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 133 
 
 Townahip 33, range 5 — Continued. Acres. 
 
 All sec. 31 593. 82 
 
 All sec. 35 .' 640. 00 
 
 Township 34, range 5: 
 
 N. i; N. iof SE. J, sec. 3 407.20 
 
 N. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i, sec. 5.. 126. 38 
 
 S. iof NE. i; SE.i sec. 9 240.00 
 
 N.i.ofNE.i; SW.iofNE.i; S. Jof SE.Jof NW.J; NE.i-ofSW.i; 
 
 SE.i, sec. 17 ,, 340.00 
 
 All sec. 19 612. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; W. i of SW. i; N. J of SE. i; E. ^ of SE. i of 
 
 NW. i, sec. 29 380.00 
 
 SW. i; S. iof SE.J, sec. 31 224.76 
 
 E-i; N.iofNW.i; SE.iofNW-i; NE. ^of SW. i, sec, 33 480.00 
 
 W. J of NE. i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 35 560. 00 
 
 Township 35, range 5: 
 
 NW.iofNE.-i; S.JofNE.J; W. i; SE.i,sec.l 622.50 
 
 NE.iofNE.i; S.JofN.i; N.^ of SE.i; N. Jof S. Jof SE.J; SW. i, 
 
 sec . 3 479. 98 
 
 W. ^ofNE.i; W.J; NW. Jof SE. i, sec. 5 439.52 
 
 All sec. 7 651. 81 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 666. 76 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 ; . 664. 20 
 
 All sec. 17 645. 61 
 
 NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; W. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i; 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. 19 481. 39 
 
 NE. I of NE. i; S. i of NE. J; NW. i; N. J of SW. i; N. i of SW. i of 
 
 SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i; N. i of SE. i 
 
 of SE. i, sec. 21 580.34 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 N. J of NE. J; N. i of SW. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i: NE. i of NW. i; 
 
 SW. i; N. i of SE. i of NW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec.' 27 400. 00 
 
 S. i of NE. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. }; W. i of E. J of NE. i of NW. i; 
 
 W.JofNE.iofNW.i; NW.iofNW.i;S.iofNW.i;S.4,sec.29. ' 570.00 
 SE. i of NW. i; SW. i; W. 4 of SE. i; SE. i of NE. i; SE. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 31 
 
 N. 4; SE. i; N. i of SW. }; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 33 
 
 NE. i; E. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 35 
 
 Township 36, range 5: 
 
 All sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 3. ... ; 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of NE. i, sec. 5 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; SW. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 7 
 
 W. i of E. i; W. i, sec. 9 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; SE. i of SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 11. 
 
 Airsec. 13 - '■ 
 
 N. Jof SE. iof NE. i, sec. 15 ■ 
 
 S. iof SE. i, sec. 19 
 
 Lot8;SE.iof SE. i;N. iof NE. i sec. 21 
 
 Lot 8; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 23 
 
 S. iof SW. i;NW. iof SE. i, sec. 29 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; N. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 31 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 33 
 
 Township 37, range 5: 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 1 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 5 
 
 NE. i;W. isec. 7 
 
 N. i; SW. i; E. i of SE. i; E. i of NW. i of SE. i, sec. 9 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of NE. i of SE. i; SW. i of NE. i of SE. i; W. i of 
 
 SE. i; W. i of SE. i of SE. i, sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 17 
 
 360. 20 
 
 624. 36 
 
 560. 00 
 
 638. 40 
 
 637. 92 
 
 IBO. 00 
 
 122. 00 
 
 480. 00 
 
 200. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 20.00 
 
 80.00 
 
 150. 80 
 
 78.58 
 
 120. 00 
 
 404. 14 
 
 80.00 
 
 598. 23 
 
 477. 63 
 
 500. 74 
 
 580. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 610. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
134 OREGON AND OAUFOKKTIA LAND GEANT. 
 
 Township 37, range 5^ — Continued. Acres. 
 
 N. i oi SW. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 19 129. 84 
 
 NW. i of NE. }; NE. i of NW. i, sec. 21 '. 80. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 ....'. 640. 00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; E. i of NE. i of NW. i; NW. i of NW. i; NE. i of 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; W. i of W. i of SW. i, sec. 25 150. 00 
 
 E. i of NE. i, sec. 27 80. 00 
 
 E. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; SW. J-; N. i of SE. i; 
 
 SW. i of SE. i, sec. 29 480.00 
 
 All sec. 31 657. 20 
 
 N. i of NE. i; S. J of SW. i, sec. 33 160. 00 
 
 Township 38, range 5: 
 
 All sec. 3 647. 40 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i, 
 
 sec. 11 200. 00 
 
 E. 4 of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 13 280.00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; E. i of SW. i of SW. i; 
 
 E. J of SE. i of SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 15. . . . 280. 00 
 NW. i of NE. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i of NE. i; NW. i of NE. i; S. J 
 
 of NE. i; SW. i of SW. i; W. J of NW. i of SW. i; W. i of E. i of 
 
 NW. i of SW. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 21 .^ 260.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 25 160.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640.00 
 
 All sec. 31 658. 60 
 
 N. i of NW. i; SE. J of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i 
 
 of SE. i, sec. 33 280. 00 
 
 E. i, sec. 35 320. 00 
 
 Township 39, range 5: 
 
 All sec. 1 640. 00 
 
 NW. iof NE. i;W. 4;SE. iof SEi, sec. 7 412.38 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; E. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 11 360. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 SE. i of NE. J; NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. J; S. J, sec. 15 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 19 654. 12 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. J, sec. 23 600.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 634. 64 
 
 All sec. 33 615. 62 
 
 All sec. 35 618. 02 
 
 Township 33, range 6: 
 
 SW. i; N. iof SE. i; SW. J of SE. i, sec. 1 280.00 
 
 S. Jof S. i, sec. 9 160.00 
 
 N.iof NW. i; W. iof SE. }, sec. 11 160.00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. J; SE. J, sec. 13 360. 00 
 
 N. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 15 360. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 N. 4; SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. J of SE. J, sec. 19 593.48 
 
 S. i of NE. J; NW. i of NW. J; S. i of SW. J; SE. 1, sec. 21 360. 00 
 
 NE. }; S. iof NW. i; S. 4 of SE. }, sec. 23 320.00 
 
 SE. i of NW. i; NE. iof SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; W. iof SE. h sec. 25. . 200. 00 
 
 W. i of NE. }; W. i; NW. i of SE. J; S. 4 of SE. i, sec. 27 522. 92 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; NE. J of NW. }, sec. 31 120. 00 
 
 N.4; N.4of SW. J; N.4of SE.J; SW. Jof SE.i, sec. 33 520.00 
 
 E. 4 of NE. i; SW. i of NW. J; W. 4 of SW. J; E. 4 of SE. i, sec. 35. . 280. 00 
 Township 34, range 6: 
 
 N. 4; N. 4of SE.i, seel 402.64 
 
 N. 4ofNE. i; SW. JofNE. i; NW. i; N. 4 of SW. i, sec. 3 364.65 
 
 S. 4of NE. }; W. 4, sec. 7 394.04 
 
 SE.Jof SE. Jsec. 9 40.00 
 
 SE . i of SW. i; SE . i, sec. 11 200. 00 
 
OREGON AND CALIFOEliriA LAND GEANT. 135 
 
 Township 34, range 6 — Continued. Aotes. 
 
 W. iofE. i; SE.iof SE!}; W. J, sec. 13 : 521.71 
 
 E. i; E. i of SW. i, sec.lS 400. 00 
 
 NW. Jof NE. i; W.^, sec. 17 360.00 
 
 All sec. 19 634. 60 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. J of N. i; NW. J of SW. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 21. . 320. 00 
 
 E.i; S. iof SW. i, sec. 28 400.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 SE. J of NE. i; N. i of SE. }; SW. i of SB. i, sec. 27 160. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; SW. i of SW. i; NE. i of 
 
 SW. J, sec. 29 ... - 360. 00 
 
 ' All sec. 31 636. 40 
 
 ■ E.Jof NE. J; NE. iof SW. i; S. iof SW. J; SE. i, sec.33 360.00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 5, sec. 35 95.47 
 
 Township 35, range 6: 
 
 '■ E. 4; N. iofNW. i; SE. iof NW. i; NE. iof SW. i; S. JofSW. i, 
 
 sec. 1 ; 573.98 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; E. J of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; SW. i of 
 
 SE. i, sec. 3..... 371.10 
 
 S. i of NE. i; NW. i of SW. i;- SE. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 5 320. 00 
 
 N. i; N. i of S. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 7 517. 22 
 
 N. i; NW. iof SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 9 400.00 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. J of SW. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 11 320. 00 
 
 E. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; E. J of SW. i, sec. 13 520. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. i of N. i; SE. i, sec. 15 400. 00 
 
 NW. iofNW. i; SE. i of SE. i, see. 17 80.00 
 
 E.i; N. iofNW. i; NE. i of SW. i, sec. 19 439.94 
 
 NE. i of NE. J; NW. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, 
 
 ^ sec. 21 200. 00 
 
 ' S. i of NE. i sec. 23 80.00 
 
 ' NE. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; SE. -i of SW. i, sec. 25 120.00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; S. J, sec. 27 480. 00 
 
 N. i; SE. i, sec. 29 480. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. J; W. i; NW. i of SE. J, sec. 31. . . . 443. 96 
 
 ' NE.iofNE. i; S.JofNE.i; NW.ii^SE.iofSW.i; SE. J, sec. 33. 480.00 
 
 Township 36, range 6: 
 
 ■N. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; S. 4 of SE. 
 
 •^ ' i,sec.l 560.14 
 
 N. i; SW. i; S. 4 of SE. i, sec. 3 561.88 
 
 S. 4 of N. 4; NE. i of NW. i; S. 4, sec. 5 521. 08 
 
 N. 4oiNE. i; W. 4 of NW. i;.W. 4 of SW. i; S. 4 of SE. J, sec. 7... 310.90 
 
 N. 4; W. 4of SW. i; E. 4 of SE. i, sec. 9 480.00 
 
 NW. iofNE. i; NW. i, sec. 11 200.00 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; NW. i, sec. 17 240. 00 
 
 N. 4of SW. i; SE. 1; lots 5, 10, It, sec. 21 277.07 
 
 ' SW. iof NE. i; W. 4; SW. iof SE. i, sec. 23 400.00 
 
 ' W. 4 of NE. i; W. 4 of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; S. 4, sec. 25 520. 00 
 
 ' NW. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; W. 4 of NW. i; S. 4, sec. 27 480.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. 1; S. 4 of NE. i; NE. 1 of NW. i; E. 4 of SE. i, sec. 29. 240. 00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; S. 4 of NW. h sec. 31 114. 64 
 
 NE. i; N. 4of NW. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 33 280.00 
 
 E. 4of NE. isec. 35 80.00 
 
 Township 37, range 6; 
 
 E. 4 of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. 4 of NW. i; W. 4 of SW. i; NE. i 
 
 of SE. i, sec. 1 319. 16 
 
 E. 4 ; S. 4 of SW. i, sec. 3 398. 30 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; E. 4 of SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 5 160. 00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; S. 4 of NW. i; SW. i; SW. i of SE, i, sec. 7 301. 00 
 
 ' N. 4; SW. i; N. 4 of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 9 600.00 
 
 • 'N. 4 of NW. i; S. 4 of SW. i; B. 4 of SE, i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 11. 280. 00 
 ■NE. i of SE. i; S. 4 of SE. J; NW. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i, 
 
 sec. 13 200.00 
 
 'N. 4; SE. i, sec. 15 480.00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; NW. 1 of SE. i; SE. i of SB. i, sec. 17 120. 00 
 
 NW. i; S. 4, sec. 21 480. 00 
 
 W. 4 of NE. i; W. 4; N. 4 of SE. i; SW. i of SB. i, sec. 23 520. 00 
 
136 OBEGON AND CAUCFOOBNIA I^AND 6EANT. 
 
 Township 37, range 6— Continued. „ 
 
 NE. }; NW. i of NW. i; NE, J of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. Acres. 
 
 i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 25 440.00 
 
 All sec. 35 - 640.00 
 
 Township 38, range 6: 
 
 All seel.... 742.40 
 
 All sec. 3 732. 48 
 
 All sec. 5 732. 44 
 
 All sec. 7 - 644. 92 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 643. 08 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640 00 
 
 AH sec. 31 ■- 645. 36 
 
 Al! sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 ■ 640. 00 
 
 Township 39, range 6: 
 
 All sec. 1 ----- 656. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 679. 40 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 5 , 197.60 
 
 S. ioiS. i, sec. 7 ,..- 181.15 
 
 All sec. 9- - - ; 640 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 : 636. 72 
 
 All sec. 15 ; 640 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 , - 726. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 729. 28 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec, 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 33, range 7: 
 
 S. i, sec. 13 320.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All spc. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; W. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 25 600.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. }; E. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 27 360. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; W. iof W. i; E. i of SE. }, sec. 31 399.20 
 
 NE. iof NE. :i; W.jofNW. i; N. iofSW.-J; SE. }, sec. 35 360.00 
 
 S. i of NE. i; W. J; N. i of SE, }; SE. J of SE. J, sec. 35 520. 00 
 
 Township 34, range 7 : 
 
 N. i of N. i of NE, i of NE, i; W, i of E. J; W. i, sec. 1 493. 05 
 
 All sec , 3 648. 80 
 
 W. J of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 5 568. 10 
 
 All sec, 7 652. 92 
 
 All sfc. 9 640. 00 
 
 All ."icc. 11 640. 00 
 
 All Hfc. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 15 640. 00 
 
 Allsec,17 640.00 
 
 E. i; NE. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. J; NE. i of SW. i; S. J of SW. i, 
 
 sec. 19 561. 33 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
OBEGON AND CAUFOBNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 137 
 
 Township 34, range 1— Continued. ^'"^^^^ 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 632. 60 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 35, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 1 666. 63 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. ^ of SE. i; SW. iof SE. J, sec. 3 621.88 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; lots 7, 9; N. 
 
 iof lots, sec. 5 422.36 
 
 SE. iof NE.i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 7 519.20 
 
 All sec. 9 632. 24 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; N. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec . 11 400. 00 
 
 N.J sec. 13 320.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 - 640. 28 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 W. iof NE. i; SE.Jof SE. i; lot 8, sec. 25 138.80 
 
 NE. -iof NE. i; W. iof E. i; SE. i of SE. i; W. i, sec. 27 560.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 641. 99 
 
 N.i; SW. i; N. iof SE.^; SW. iof SE.i, sec. 33 600.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; NW. i; lots 1, 8, 9, sec, 35 283. 27 
 
 Township 36, range 7: 
 
 N. i of NE. i; S. i of NW. i; SE. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. i of NE. i, 
 
 sec 1 439. 99 
 
 Lots 3, 6, 7, 8; W. i of NW. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i, sec. 11.... 153.12 
 
 Lots 11, 12, sec. 13 4.72 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; SW. i, sec. 23 200. 00 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 25 360. 00 
 
 Township 37, range 7: 
 
 NW. iofNE.i; N.iofNW. i; S.iofSW.i; SW. iof SE. i, sec. 1.. 240.10 
 
 All sec. 3 640. 72 
 
 N.i; SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 5 607.04 
 
 N. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 7 561. 41 
 
 N.i; N. iof S, i; SE. i of SW. i; SE.'i of SE. i, sec. 9 560.00 
 
 NE. i; SE. iof NW. i; SW. i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 11 440.00 
 
 All sec. 13 660. 48 
 
 W. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 15 568. 92 
 
 E. iof NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; E. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 17 360.00 
 
 S. iofNE.i; W. i; SE. i, sec. 19 561.16 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 40 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 E. i; NE.iof SW. i; S. i of SW. i, sec. 31 439.54 
 
 N.i; SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 33 600.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 38 j range 7: 
 
 All sec. 3 641. 56 
 
 All sec. 5 643. 92 
 
 N. i of N. i; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; lot 
 
 4, sec. 7 313. 48 
 
 W. iof NW. i; lotsl, 2, 3,4, 5, sec. 9 24L 13 
 
 All sec. 11 : 640. 00 
 
 E. iof NE. i; lots 2, 3, 4; S. i, sec. 13 432.86 
 
 N. i of NE. i; S. i, sec. 15 400. 00 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 5; SW. i; E. i of SE. i, sec. 17 298. 41 
 
 W. i; lotsl, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, sec. 19 443.23 
 
 NE. i; NE. iof NW. i; W. i of SW. i; E. i of SE. i, sec. 21 360.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 N.iof SW. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 29 120.00 
 
 All sec, 31 - 649. 26 
 
138 OEEGON AND OAUFOBNIA I/AHD GBANT. 
 
 Township 39, range 7: -*^<»^ 
 
 ' NW. i, sec . 19 lee. 83 
 
 NE. iofNE. i; S. JofNE. i; W. iofNW.i; NW.iofSW.i; N.J 
 
 of SE . i, sec. 21 320. 00 
 
 E. i; E. iof W. i, sec. 27 480.00 
 
 N. i of NE. }; NE. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i, sec. 29 200. 00 
 
 Township '40, range 7: 
 
 N. i, sec. 3 319; 01 
 
 N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i of SW. i; SW. J of SE. 
 
 i of SW. J, sec. 5 150.00 
 
 W. i of NW. 1; N. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; lots 1, 2, sec. 7 245. 91 
 
 NE. i; S. i, sec. 11 480.00 
 
 Township 32, range 8: 
 
 S. iof NE. i; NW. J; S. i, sec. 31 560.42 
 
 Township 37, range 8: 
 
 All s^c. 1 681. 64 
 
 ' All sec. 3 677. 00 
 
 ' NE. J; N. iof NW. i; N. iof SE. i, sec. 5 351.80 
 
 All sec. 7 630. 40 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 NW. Jof NE. J; S. iofNE. }; NW. i; S. J, sec. 13 600.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 633. 20 
 
 All sec . 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 E. i of NE. i; W. J of NW. i; E. J of SW. i; W. J of SE. i, sec. 25.. 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 629. 64 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 630. 41 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 W. i of NW. i; E. J of SE. J, sec. 35 160. 00 
 
 Township 38, range 8: 
 
 S. iof SE. i, sec. 1 80.00 
 
 W. iofNE. J; W. i, 8ec.3 403.73 
 
 NW. iofNE. i; NW. J; SW. i; W. Jof SE.}, sec. 9 440.00 
 
 S. iof N. i; SW. }; N.Jof SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 13 440.00 
 
 W. iof W. i; E. iof SE.i, sec. 15 240.00 
 
 W. iofNE.}; S. iof SW. }; SE. }, sec. 23 320.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 E. i; E. iof NW. }; SW. }, sec. 27 560.00 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 33 29. 72 
 
 All sec . 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 39, range 8: 
 
 All sec. 1 641.52 
 
 All sec. 3 645. 28 
 
 N. iofNE.}; SW.}of NE.}; NW. } of SE. }; W.i,Bec. 5 486.20 
 
 All sec. 7 .« 614. 84 
 
 NE. }of SW.}; lots 5, 6, sec. 9 80.02 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 SE.}ofNE. }; NW.}ofNW.}; NE.}ofSE.}; N.iof NE. },sec. 15 200. Oi) 
 
 N. iofNE. }; SE. }ofNE. }; SW. }ofSE.}; W. i, sec. 17 480.00 
 
 All sec. 19 618. 02 
 
 N. i of NE. }; SW. } of NE. }; SW. } of NW. }; SW. }; E. i of SE. }, 
 
 sec. 21 400. 00 
 
 N.i; S.iof SW.}; NE. } of SE. }; SW. } of SE.},Bec.23 480.00 
 
 NW. } of NE. }; N. } of NW. }, sec. 25 120. 00 
 
 N.iofNW.}; SW.}ofNW.}; NE.}ofSE.}; NW. }ofNE.}; SE. 
 
 } of NE. }, sec. 27 240.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 NE.}of NE.}; W.iof E.i; W.i,sec.31 ■ 502.26 
 
 E. i; E. i of W. i, sec. 33 480. 00 
 
 SW.}ofSW.}; lots 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, sec. 35 148.68 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 139 
 
 Township 40, range 8: Acres. 
 
 SE.iof SW.i; SW.iofSE.J; lots 1, 7, 8, 9, sec. 1 131.25 
 
 All sec. 3 640.70 
 
 NE.i; E.iofSE.i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, sec. 5 338.03 
 
 E.iofNE.J; SW.iofNW.i; S.|; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sec. 7 536.12 
 
 N. i; SW. }; W. i of NE. i of SE. i; W. J of SE. i; W. i of SE. i of 
 
 SE.i,sec.9 600.00 
 
 E.iofE.i; SW.Jof NW.i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 11 280.00 
 
 Lot 3; NW. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. J, sec. 13 129. 77 
 
 NE. i; E. J of NW. i; E. i of W. ^ of NW. i; E. 4 of SE. i, sec. 15.. . . 360. 00 
 
 W.Jof E.i; SE.-iof NE.i; W.i,sec.l7 520.00 
 
 - NW.JofNE.i; W.i of SW.i; E.i of SE.iof SE.i, sec. 21 140.00. 
 
 S.i of SE.iof NE.i; W.JofW.J; lots 1, 7, sec. 23 22L 64 
 
 Township 40, range 9: 
 
 N.i; SW.i; N.^of SE.i; SW.i of SE.i; lotl,sec.l 630.76 
 
 NE.i, sec. 13 160.00 
 
 Total Josephine County 167, 480. 98 
 
 Jackson County. 
 [South of base line and east of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 32, range 1: 
 
 All sec . 3 641. 80 
 
 All sec. 5 537. 88 
 
 All sec. 7 : 675. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 - All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 AH sec. 19: 674. 28 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 E. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SW.-i of NW. i; SE. i, sec. 23 360. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 E.iofNE.i; NW.iofNW.i; NE.iofNW.i; E. -J of SW.i; SE.i, 
 
 sec. 27 400. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 N.J of NE.i; NW.iof SW.i; NE. i of NW. i, sec. 31 168.17 
 
 NW.i; W.iof SW.i; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, see. 33 360.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 33, range 1: 
 
 All sec. 1 639. 40 
 
 All sec. 3 641. 28 
 
 SW.iofNE.i; W.i; NW-iofSE.i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 5 477.42 
 
 E.iofNE.i;S.iofNW.i;NE.iofSW.i;S.iofSW.i;SE. i, sec. 7 446.63 
 
 NE.i; E. iof NW. i; S. J, sec. 9 560.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 N. i of N. i; SE. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. i of 
 
 S. i, sec. 13 440.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; NW. i of 
 
 SE.i, sec. 17 360.00 
 
 NE.i; W. i; N. J of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 19 607.58 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 W. Jof E. i; SE.iof SE.i; W. f, sec. 23 520.00 
 
 NE.i; W.J; N. J of SE. i, sec. 27 560.00 
 
 All sec. 29 • 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; S. J of NW. i; S. J, sec. 31 56L 47 
 
 E.J; N.J of NW.i; S. J of SW. i, sec. 33 480.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 34, range 1 : 
 
 E.J of NE.i; W.J of NW.i; S. J, sec. 3 479.85 
 
 All sec. 5 636. 54 
 
 All sec. 7 637. 48 
 
140 OREGON AND CALIFOEOSriA LANB GKANT. 
 
 Township 34, range 1 — Continued.. 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 E. i; N. iof NW. i; S. J of SW. i, sec. 11 480.00 
 
 N. JofNE. i; NW. i; W. J of SW. i, sec. 13 320.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 636. 20 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; SE. i of SW. i; NW. i of 
 
 SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 21 :.. 440.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SE. J of NW. i; SW. J; 
 
 N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 23 520.00 
 
 E.i; E. iotNW. i; SW. i of SW. J, sec. 25 440.00 
 
 N.i; E.^of SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 27 440.00 
 
 W. iof E. i; NE.iof SE. i; W. i, sec. 29 520.00 
 
 All sec. 31 640. 44 
 
 NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; SW. J; N. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 33. . 480.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 35, range 1: 
 
 N. i of N. i; SE. i of NE.'j; SW. J of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. J 
 
 of SW. i; E. iof SE. i, sec. 1 440.04 
 
 All sec. 3 643. 60 
 
 All sec. 5 642. 86 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. J of SW. i; SW. J of SW. i; 
 
 SE.i, sec. 7 565.80 
 
 All sec. 9 -^ 640. 00 
 
 NE. i of NW. i; W. i of W. *; NE. i of SW. i; S. i of SE. J, sec. 11. . 320.00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; E. i of SE. i, sec. 13 560.00 
 
 NE. }; NE. iof NW. i; S. i of NW. i; SW. J, sec. 15 440.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 N. i; NE. iof SE. J, sec. 19 363.20 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 SW. iofNE. i; W. i; SW. i of SE. }, sec. 23 400.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 N. i; N.iof SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. J, sec. 27 600.00 
 
 NE. i, sec. 29 ' 160.00 
 
 SW. }of NW. i; lot2, sec. 31 77.74 
 
 E. * of NE. i; W. i of NW. i; SW. i; N. J of SE. i; SW. J of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 33 440. 00 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; S.Jof NE. i; NW. i; S. ^ sec. 35 600.00 
 
 Township 36, range 1; 
 
 E. i; NW. }of NW. i; SE. J of SW. i, sec. 1 399.94 
 
 NE. i; N. 4of SE. J, sec. 3 ^ 240.69 
 
 N. iof NE. i, sec. 5 79.44 
 
 E. *of NE. i; lots, sec. 7 102.08 
 
 W. iof NE. }; S. iof NW. i; SW. i, sec. 9 320.00 
 
 E. J,of NE. i; NE. iotSW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 11 ■.. 160.00 
 
 S. J of SW. i, sec. 13 - 80.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; SW. J of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec . 15 200. 00 
 
 E, I; B. Jof NW. i; NE. J of SW. i; SW. J of SW. i, sec. 17 480.00 
 
 E. i of E. J; SW. } of SE. i; NW. i of NE. i; W. i, sec. 21 560. 00 
 
 NE. }; NE. iof NW. i; S. J of NW. i; S. *, sec. 23 600.00 
 
 NE. J; W. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 25 '. 560.00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; S. i of N. i; N. i of S. i; SW. } of SW. i; SE. i of 
 
 SE. i, sec. 27 440.00 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; N. J of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; S. i of SE. i, sec 29. 240. 00 
 
 N. i; W. iof SW. J; NE. i of SE. }, sec. 33 440.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 37, raiigis 1 : 
 
 N. iof NE. i; NW. i; SE. i of SW. J; W. i of SE. i, sec. 1 359.26 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; 
 
 SW. i, sec. 3 ^ *' 359.31 
 
 N. JofNE. J; SW. iofNW. i; SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 5 320.19 
 
 NE. i; NE. J of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i, sec. 7 240.00 
 
 E. i of NE. i; W. 4 of NW. i; NW. J of SW. i; S. i- of SW. i; NE. •}■ 
 
 of SE. i, sec. 9 ''. ^ 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
OKEGON AND CAIilPOENIA LAND GEANT. 141 
 
 Township 37, range 1 — Continued. 
 
 SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 15. 
 
 E.i; E.iof W. i, sec. 17 
 
 SW. iof NE. i; NW. }; W. i of SW. J, sec. 19 
 
 E. i; NW. iof SW.i; S. * of SW. i, sec. 21 
 
 NE. i; SW. il)f NW. i; SW. i; NE. i of SE. J, sec. 23 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; NW. }; N. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 25 . . . 
 
 N.Jof NE. i; NW. i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 27 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; NW. i of SW. J; S. i of SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; 
 
 SW. i of SE. }, sec. 31 
 
 W. iofNE.J; E. iofNW. i; NE.JofSW.i; W. Jof SE. i, sec. 33. 
 NE. i; E. i of NW. i; W. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. J; SE. i of SE. J, 
 
 sec. 35 
 
 Township 38, range 1: 
 
 NW. i; S. iof SW. i; W. 4 of SE. J, sec. 1 
 
 NE.iofNW.i; SW. J of NW. i, sec. 3 
 
 NW. i of NE. J; SE. i of NE. i; NE. J of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; 
 
 N.iof SW. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 5 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. J; SE. J of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; 
 
 N. Jof SE. }, sec. 11... 
 
 E. i; E. iof W. i, sec. 13 
 
 SW. iof NE. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 15 
 
 SW. i of NW. i, sec. 31 
 
 Township 39, range 1: 
 
 W. i of NE. i, sec. 7 
 
 W. iof NW. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 17 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 NE. i; E. i of NW.i; E. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i; 
 
 W. i of SE. i of SE. i, sec. 21 .' 
 
 SW. i of SW. i, sec. 25 
 
 NE. i sec. 27 
 
 Township 40, range 1: 
 
 Lot 3. sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 All sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 All sec. 29 
 
 All sec. 31 
 
 Township 41, range 1: 
 
 All sec. 1. 
 
 Lot 1, sec. 13 
 
 Township 32, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 E. iof NE. i; W. iof NW.i; S. J, sec. 29 
 
 All sec. 31 - 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; W. i of SE. i; W. i, sec. 33 
 
 Township 33, range 2: 
 
 SW. i of SW. i, sec. 1 
 
 N. i; N. iof SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 3 
 
 All sec. 5 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 7 
 
 N. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 9 
 
 S. i; S. 4 of NE. i, sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; S. 4 of NW. i; S. i, sec. 15 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; N. 4 of SE. i; SE. i 
 
 of SE. i, sec. 17 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. 4 of NE. i; N. 4 of NW. i; SE. -J of NW. i; SE. i 
 
 of SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 19 
 
 NE. i; N.4 of S. 4; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 N. i; N.'iof SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 27 
 
 SE. iof NW.i; NE.i, sec. 29 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; E, 4 of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; N. 
 
 i of SE. i; lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, sec. 31 
 
 E. i of NE. i; SB. i, sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 80.00 
 
 480. 00 
 
 288. 06 
 
 440. 00 
 
 400. 00 
 
 320. 00 
 
 320. 00 
 
 246. 19 
 
 280. 00 
 
 440. 00 
 
 319. 11 
 
 70.08 
 
 318. 83 
 
 280. 00 
 
 480. 00 
 
 80.00 
 
 43.32 
 
 80.00 
 
 120. 63 
 
 642. 40 
 
 460. 00 
 
 40.00 
 
 160. 00 
 
 37.27 
 
 682. 12 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 687. 20 
 
 640. 76 
 
 38.20 
 
 633. 38 
 
 480. 00 
 
 629.44 
 
 440.00 
 
 40.00 
 
 602. 68 
 
 644. 70 
 
 314.40 
 
 480. 00 
 
 400. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 600. 00 
 
 280. 00 
 
 320. 28 
 
 360. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 640. 00 
 
 600. 00 
 
 200. 00 
 
 53L07 
 
 236. 07 
 
 625. 00 
 
142 OREGON" AND CAUFOKNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Township 34, range 2: ^<"^- 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. i of SW. i, sec. 5 364.22 
 
 S.iofSW.i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. T 121.10 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; 
 
 S. Jof S. J; NE. J of SE. i, sec. 17 400.00 
 
 'AH sec. 19 640. 58 
 
 All sec. 21 - 640. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; N. 4 of SW. i; N. J 
 
 of SE. i; SE. i of SE. J, sec. 29 360.00 
 
 SW. isec. 31 159.78 
 
 N. 4of NE. i; SE. iof NE. i; E. 4 of SW. i, sec. 33 200.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 35, range 2: 
 
 N. 4; N. 4of SW. i; SE.iof SW. i; SE. J, sec. 1 584.35 
 
 N. 4; N. 4 of S. 4, sec. 3 469. 74 
 
 SW. iofNE. J; W. 4; NW. i of SE. i; S. 4 of SE. }, sec. 7 477.60 
 
 SE. i of NW. i; W. 4 of SW. }, sec. 9 120. 00 
 
 NE. i; NW. iof NW. i; S. 4 of NW. i; S. 4, sec. 13 600.00 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; S.. 4 of N. 4; S. 4, sec. 15 520.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 N. 4; SE.i, sec. 19 475.09 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 AH sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 SE.iof NE.i; NW. i; S. 4, sec. 29 520.00 
 
 All sec . 31 621. 92 
 
 NE. i; N. 4of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; S. 4, sec. 33 600.00 
 
 All sec . 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 36, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 1 640. 96 
 
 All sec . 3 642. 52 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; E. 4 of NW. i; S. 4 of SE. }, sec. 5. 280. 89- 
 
 W. 4ofNE. i; NW. i; N. 4 of SW. i, sec. 7 319.50 
 
 N.4; SW. i; S. 4 of SE. i, sec. 9 560.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 E. 4 of NE. i; SE. i; W. 4 of NW. i; N. 4 of SW. J; SE. i of SW. }, 
 
 sec. 15 440.00 
 
 N. 4 of N. 4, sec. 17 160. 00 
 
 S. 4 of SW. i; SW. i of SE. J, sec. 19 120. 05 
 
 NW. Jof NW. i, sec. 21 40.00 
 
 N.4; NE. iof SW. i; NW. i of SE. }, sec. 23 400.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 S. 4otNW. i; SW. i, sec. 29 240.00 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; S. 4of NE. i; NW. i; S. 4, sec. 31 601.26 
 
 All sec. 35 641. 24 
 
 Township 37, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 1 -. 640. 48 
 
 N. 4of NE. }; SE. iofNE. i; NE. J of SE. i, sec. 3 165.57 
 
 All sec. 5 653. 92 
 
 NE. Jof NE. i; S. 4 of NE. -J; SE. J of NW. J; S. 4, sec. 7 479,41 
 
 NW. iofNW. i; S. 4ofNW. i; S. 4, sec. 9 440.00 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; NE. J of NW. i; SW. J of SW. i; SE. } of NE. i, 
 
 sec. 11 200. 00 
 
 S. 4, sec. 13 320. 00 
 
 N.4ofNE.i; SE. iofNE. J; NE.iofNW.i; SE.iotSW.J; SE.}, 
 
 sec. 15 360.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640.00 
 
 E. 4; B.4otW. 4; lot 4, sec. 19 521.06 
 
 E.4otNE. }; W. 4otNW. i; S. 4, sec. 21 480.00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 N.4; SE, }of SW, i; SE. i, sec. 27 520.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 E. 4; NE. } of NW. i, sec. 31 360.00 
 
OBEGON AND OALIPORNIA LAND GRANT. 143 
 
 •TpwnBhip 37, range 2 — Continued. Acres. 
 
 ,V ■ NE. iof NE. i; S. i of N. i; S. 4, sec. 33 520.00 
 
 All sec. 35 ■. 640. 00 
 
 TownsMp 38, range 2: 
 
 NW. i; S. i, sec. 1 479. 23 
 
 All sec. 3 639. 92 
 
 „ N. i; SW. iof SW. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 5 : 403.84 
 
 All sec. 7 641. 03 
 
 .,., All sec. 9 ". : 640. 00 
 
 ;■: N. Jof NE. i; SW. iof NE. i; W. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 11 520.00 
 
 " All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 ,, All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 ; N. i; SW. i; N. J of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 17 600.00 
 
 :':; sw.i,sec.i9 161.28 
 
 ;.,;, , NW. iof NE. i; SW. iof SW. i; W. Jof SE.i, sec. 21 160.00 
 
 E.iofNE.i; N. 4 of NW. i, sec. 23 160.00 
 
 ""' NW. i of NE. i; S. i of N. i; N. J of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 25. 320. 00 
 
 ,, NW. i of NE. i; NW. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 27 240.00 
 
 ; ,; SW. i, sec. 29 160. 00 
 
 ;■, SE. iof NW. i; NE. iof SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 31 120.00 
 
 E. i of W. i; NW. i of SW. i; SW. i of NW. i; N. i of SE. i; SE. i 
 
 of.SE. i, sec. 38 360. 00 
 
 B. J of SW. i, sec. 35 ' 80. 00 
 
 Township 39, range 2: 
 
 W. Jof E. i; S. Jof NW. i; SW. i, sec. 1 400.50 
 
 All sec. 3 641. 86 
 
 ,. . SW. i of NW. i, sec. 5 40. 00 
 
 :',:[ Lots, sec. 7 3.00 
 
 ;■ NE. iof NE. i; S. J of NE. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 9 160.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. J of N. J; N. J of SW. i; SE. i 
 
 ., , of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 11 480.00 
 
 ; , NW. i of NE. i; S. J of NE. i; W. i; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, 
 
 : sec. 13 560.00 
 
 ; , NE. i of NE. i; S. J of NE. i; N. J of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; W. 
 
 ,;; J of SW. i, sec. 15 320.00 
 
 ,.; W. i of SE. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 21 120. 00 
 
 '" N. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; NE. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; NE. 
 
 iof SE.i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 25 320.00 
 
 N. J of NE. i; NW. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 27 ; 280.00 
 
 Lotl,sec.31 9.58 
 
 E. Jof SW. i; SE.i; NE. i of NW. i, sec. 33 280.00 
 
 N. Jof N. J; SE. iof NE. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 35 240.00 
 
 Township 40, range 2: 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; E. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 1 320. 00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 7 80. 00 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; W. J of W. J; N. J of SE. 
 
 i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 13 520.00 
 
 NE. i; NE. iof NW. i; E. J of SE. i, sec. 17 297.12 
 
 S.J, sec. 19.. 318.20 
 
 E. J of NE. i, sec. 23 80. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 E. i of E. J; SW. i of SE. i; lots 2, 3, sec. 31 249. 92 
 
 Township 41, ranee 2: 
 
 All sec. i.... 648.56 
 
 All sec . 3 642. 52 
 
 All sec. 5 645. 12 
 
 All sec. 7 648.06 
 
 All sec. 9 640.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640.00 
 
 N. J of N. J, sec. 13 85. 86 
 
 N. J, sec. 15 181- 70 
 
 N. I; sec. 17 248.26 
 
 Township 33, range 3: 
 
 Lots 3, 4, sec. 7 117- 31 
 
 All sec. 19 715.52 
 
 W. J of NE. i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 29 ^^?-22 
 
 All sec. 31 721. 28 
 
 NW. iof NW.i;S. Jof N.J;S. J, sec.33 ,-- 520.00 
 
144 OKEGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Township 34, range 3: •*-«™. 
 
 W. i of SE. i; SW. }, sec. 3 ■- --■ 240.00 
 
 All sec. 5 562. 79 
 
 All sec . 7 733. 48 
 
 N. J, sec. 9 320. 00 
 
 S. iof NW. i;SW. }, sec. 11 240.00 
 
 W.'i of SW. i, sec. 13 80.00 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; N. J of S. i; SW. i of SW. i, 
 
 sec . 15 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 734. 58 
 
 N. * of N. i; SW. i of NW. }; SW. i; NW. i of SE. I; S. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec . 21 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 29 640. 00 
 
 SE. J of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SE. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 
 
 7, 8, 9, sec. 31 631.06 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 - 640. 00 
 
 Township 35, ransje 3: 
 
 All sec. 1 628. 92 
 
 N. Jof NE. J;NW. i, sec. 3 1 236.06 
 
 All sec. 5 631. 26 
 
 SW. i sec. 7 162.15 
 
 E. i; X. V of NW. i, sec. 11 400. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 NE.i;NW. iof SE. i; SE. i of SE. J, sec. 15 240.00 
 
 SW. i of NW. i; W. J of SW. }; SE. }, sec. 17 280. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SE. J of NE. i; W. i of W. i; SE. i of SW. i; S. i of 
 
 SE.i, sec. 19 403.36 
 
 W. Aof NE. J;E.4of NW. i; N. * of SE. i, sec. 21 240.00 
 
 E. i of NE. i; W. i of NW. i; SW". }; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 23 360.00 
 
 W. Jof NW. i;SW. i, sec. 25 240.00 
 
 S. .\, sec. 27 320.00 
 
 SE. i, sec. 29 160.00 
 
 All sec. 31 637. 28 
 
 N. J of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 33 600. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 36, range 3: 
 
 All sec. 1 572. 36 
 
 S. i of NE, i; W. J of W. i; SE, J of SW. i; SE. }, sec. 3 422. 49 
 
 All sec. 5 596. 20 
 
 All sec. 7 ! 629. 40 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 626. 96 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. 1; SE. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; S. i of SW, i; SE. i, 
 
 sec . 31 396. 00 
 
 All sec, 33 640. 00 
 
 N.i; NE. }of SW. i; N. J of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 35 480.00 
 
 Township 37, range 3: 
 
 All sec , 1 639. 20 
 
 N.J; E. Jof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 3 559.20 
 
 All sec. 5 636. 21 
 
 All sec. 7 634. 83 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
OREGON AND CAUFOBNIA LAND GBANT. 145 
 
 Township 37, range 3 — Continued. Acres. 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 633. 76 
 
 E. iofNE. i; W. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 21 480.00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 N.iofN.J; SE. iof NE. i; SW. i of NW. J; S. i, sec. 27 560.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 631. 20 
 
 NE. i; NW. iofNW. i; S. i, sec. 33 520.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 38, range 3: 
 
 All sec. 1 640. 38 
 
 N. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 3 561. 88 
 
 N.iof NE.i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 5 563.50 
 
 N. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. J, 
 
 sec . 7 556. 31 
 
 N. i; SW. i, sec. 9 480. 00 
 
 NE. i; NE^of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 11 600,00 
 
 N.J; SW. iilJ. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 13 600.00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; NW. i, sec. 15 240. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 N. i; NE. iof SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 19 479.33 
 
 W.J of E.J; SE. iof SE. i; W. J, sec. 21 520.00 
 
 NE. iofNE. i; S. J of NE. i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 23 600.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 E.J; E. Jof NW. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 31 441.22 
 
 N.J; SW. i; N. J of SE. i; SW. i of SE. }, sec. 33 600.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 39, range 3: 
 
 All sec . 1 640. 16 
 
 All sec. 3 639. 12 
 
 All sec. 5 646. 50 
 
 All sec. 7 636. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 - 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 S. J of NE. i; W. J of NW. i; E. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 15 400. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 , - 645. 18 
 
 NE. i; NE, iof NW. i; S. J of NW. i; S. J, sec. 21 600.00 
 
 All sic. 23.. 640.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 NW. i, sec. 27 160. 00 
 
 SE. iofNE. i; NE.iof NW.i; W. Jof W.J; SE.iof SW.i; NE. i 
 
 of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 29 360. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 - 648.80 
 
 N. J; SE. i, sec. 33 480. 00 
 
 SE.i, sec.35 160.00 
 
 Township 40, range 3 : 
 
 N.J; N. JofSW.i; SE. i, sec. 1 560.52 
 
 All sec . 3 - - 641. 98 
 
 NE. J of NW.i; W.J of W.J; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 5 241.53 
 
 N.J; SW.i; NW. i of SE, i; S. Jof SE. J, sec. 7 596.38 
 
 All sec. 9 653. 56 
 
 NW.i; S.J sec, 11 480.00 
 
 ■NE. i; SE. iofNW, i; S. J, sec. 13 520.00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; S. J of NW. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 
 
 ggQ ij 565. 73 
 
 ins^clF----------- ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: moo 
 
 i}}^:^:!:::::::::::::::::::: 64o.oo 
 
 All sec . 25 0^2. 88 
 
 47197—12 10 
 
146 OEBGON AND CAUFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 3?ownship 40, range 3 — Continued. ^''^'*' 
 
 All sec. 27... 640.00 
 
 All sec . 29 .-.-., ■ - - - 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 686.81 
 
 All sec. 33 - 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 35 - 640. 00 
 
 Township 41, range 3: 
 
 All sec. 1 , - - - 643. 60 
 
 All sec . 3 650. 00 
 
 All sec . 11 640. 00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3,4, sec. 13 53.84 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 15 66. 38 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3,4, sec. 17 69.66 
 
 Township 37, range 4: 
 
 All sec. 7 617. 20 
 
 All sec . 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 619. 24 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 N. i, sec. 29 320. 00 
 
 Township 38. range 4 : 
 
 N. Jof N.i; S.i, sec. 1 r^.... 480.66 
 
 All sec. 3 638. 40 
 
 NE.}; N.iof NW.i; SW.iofSW.i; N.J of SE.J; SE. iof SE.J, 
 
 sec . 5 462. 34 
 
 N.JofN.J; SE.iofNE.i; SW.JofNW.J; SW. i; NE.iofSE.J; 
 
 S. iof SE. J, sec. 7 516.62 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 . ■ All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 SW. iof NE. i; S. JofNW. i; SW. i; W. iofSE.i, sec. 19 358.47 
 
 All sec. 21 640.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 E. J of NE. i; SW. \ of NW. i; N. \ of SW. \; SW. \ of SW. \; SE. \ 
 
 of SE. i, sec . 31 279. 81 
 
 . All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 39, range 4: 
 
 E. i of SE. i; NE. i, sec. 1 240. 40 
 
 All sec. 3 632. 04 
 
 All sec. 5 640. 61 
 
 All sec. 7 638. 98 
 
 All sec . 9 640. 00 
 
 E. i of SW. i, sec. 11 80. 00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 13 120. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 645. 40 
 
 All sec. 19 641. 60 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; W. J, sec. 27 360.00 
 
 All sec. 29 643. 24 
 
 NW.iofNE. i; E.JofE. i; NW. iofSW.i; S. iof SW. i, sec. 31. 320.52 
 
 N. i; N. Jof SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 33 600.00 
 
 Township 40, range 4: 
 
 NE. i; SE.} of NW.i; S. i sec. 5 532.96 
 
 All sec. 7 562. 62 
 
 NW.i; N.iof SW.i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 9 280.00 
 
 All sec. 17 639. 92 
 
 All sec. 19 566. 04 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 S. i, sec. 25 320. 00 
 
 . NE. iof NW.i; E.J of SW.i, sec. 27 120.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 31 565. 82 
 
 N.J; SW.i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 33 520.00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. . 147 
 
 Township 41, range 4: Aorea. 
 
 All sec. 1 638. 64 
 
 N.i; SW. i; N. Jof SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 3 :.. 595.42 
 
 All sec. 5 637. 12 
 
 NE. } of NE. i; W. i of E. i; W. i, sec. 7 521. 28 
 
 AH sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 NE. i; W. i of W. i; SE. i of SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec. 11 480.00 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, sec. 13 59. 46 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, sec. 15 35. 80 
 
 Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, sec. 17 22. 56 
 
 I 
 
 (South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 'Township 32, range 1: 
 
 Lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16; S. i, sec. 1 680. 00 
 
 E. i, sec. 11 320.00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 S. i, sec. 19 306. 21 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; S. iof NE.i; NW. i; S. i, Bec.21 600.00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27. 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 615. 80 .^ 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 33, range 1: 
 
 All sec. 5 639. 31 
 
 All sec. 7 644. 16 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 -NE. i; NE. iof NW. i; S..^ of NW. i; S. i, sec. 19 599.67 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 21 560. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 N. i; NE. iof SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SE. J of SE. i, sec. 25 480.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 639. 20 
 
 NE. i; S. iof NW. i; SW. i; W. J of SE. i, sec. 33 480.00 
 
 N. i of NE. J; SW. i of NE. i; NW. J; W. J of SW. J; SE. i of SE. J; 
 
 NE.'iof SW. i, sec. 35 440.00 
 
 Township 34, range 1 : 
 
 ; All sec. 1- . . .' 638. 86 
 
 E. i of SE. i; lots 1, 2, 7, 8, 9; W. i of NW. i, sec. 3 320. 23 
 
 W. J of NE. i; E. i of NW. J, sec. 5 158.54 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. J; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i, 
 
 sec 7.... :...... 402.15 
 
 N. i; SW. i; NW. i of SE. -i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 9 600.00 
 
 AH sec. 11 .... 640.00 
 
 All sec. 13 < 640. 00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; SE. i; lots 1, 3, Bec.l5 274. 88 
 
 N.J; SE.i; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 17 600. 00 
 
 AU sec. 19 650. 60 
 
 W. J; lot 8, sec. 21 356. 37 
 
 Alllec.23. 640.00 
 
 All sec. 25.. 640.00 
 
 E.J; E.J of W.J; NW. i of NW. i, sec. 27 520.00 
 
 N.JofNE.i; SW-iofNE.i; W.J; W. J of SE. i, sec. 29 520.00 
 
 NE. iof NW. i; SW. i; S. J of SE. J, sec. 31 284.20 
 
 All sec. 33 - - - ■ 640. 00 
 
 Township 35, range 1: 
 
 NW. i of SE. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 1 120. 00 
 
 ' SW. i of SW. i, sec. 3 fO. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i, sec. 5 .....; : 40.02 
 
 ' SE. i of SW: i; SW-. i of SE. i, sec. 7. r : - - 80. 00 
 
 NW.JofNE.i;S.JofNE.i;NW.i;E.JofSW.i;SE.i,sec.9.... 520.00 
 
 E. J of SW. i, sec. 11 - - ■■•■ 80.00 
 
148 OREGON AND CAUFOiBNIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 Township 35, range 1— Continued. ^f^- 
 
 E. i of NE. i; S. 4 of Bee. 13 v"--^,--; '^^■^ 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. J of NE. i; E. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; N. i 
 
 of SE. i; SE. i of SE. }, sec. 15 : 360.00 
 
 W. iof NE. J; NW. 1 of SE. i, sec. 19 ---- 120.00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i, sec. 21 40. 00 
 
 SE. i of SW. i, sec. 23 40.00 
 
 SW. i of SW. i, sec. 25 40.00 
 
 Township 36, range 1: 
 
 Lots 4, 5, sec. 9 ' 29. 61 
 
 SW. iofNE. i; SE. iofNW. },sec. 11 80.00 
 
 NW. i of NW. i, sec. 15 40. 00 
 
 NW. iofNE. J, sec.25 40.00 
 
 NE. iof SE. i, sec. 27 40.00 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; N. i of NW. i, sec. 35 , 120.00 
 
 Township 37, range 1: 
 
 SW. J of SE . i, sec. 1 40. 00 
 
 NE. i; NE. iofNW. i; S. iofNW. i; S. i, sec. 11 600.00- 
 
 NW. iofNE.i; S. iofNE. i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 13 60.00 
 
 NE. i; NW. iof SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 15 240.00 
 
 NW. i of SW. i, sec 17 40.00 
 
 NE. iof SW. i; S. iof SW. i; lot 1, sec. 21 147.04 
 
 E. 4 of NE. i; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 29. 240. 00 
 SW JofNE.i; NE.JofNW.i; S.JofNW.i; SW. }; NW. iofSE. 
 
 i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 31 452.09 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; NW. iofNW. i; S. i of NW. i, sec. 33 160.00 
 
 SE. iof NE. i; E. J of SE. i, sec. 35 120.00 
 
 Township 39, range 1: 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; E. i of SW. i, sec. 1. 240. 46 
 
 E. i of SE. i, sec. 3 80.00 
 
 N. * of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 5 120. 00 
 
 W. iofNE.i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 7 638.48 
 
 N. i; SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 9 520. 00 
 
 NW. iofNW. i; S. iofNW. i; SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 11 . . . . 320.00 
 
 NE. i of SE. i, sec. 13 40.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640.00 
 
 N.i; SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 19 682.68 
 
 All sec. 21... ... - 640.00 
 
 NW. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i; SW. i of SW. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 
 
 11, 12, 13, sec. 23 415.01 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; W. i of E. i; W. i, sec. 27 520.00 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; S. iofNE.i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 29 600.00 
 
 All sec. 31 722. 68 
 
 NE.i; S. iofNW. i; S. i, sec. 33 560.00 
 
 All sec . 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 40, range 1: 
 
 All sec. 3 623. 68 
 
 All sec . 5 635. 60 
 
 All sec . 7 704. 56 
 
 All sec . 11 , 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 705. 76 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640.00 
 
 All sec . 25 640. GO 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640.00 
 
 All sec . 31 :... 707. 28 
 
 All sec . 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 33, range 2: 
 
 Lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, sec. 1 420.95 
 
 All sec. 3 636. 80 
 
 All sec . 5 634. 64 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; S. iofNE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 7 633.16 
 
 All sec. 9 640.00 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 149 
 
 Township 37, range 2 — Continued. , Acres. 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 675. 16 
 
 S. iof SW. i; NW. i of NE. i, sec. 21 120.00 
 
 N. i; N.iof SW. i; SE. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec, 23 600.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 AU sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 672. 28 
 
 N. iof NE. i; SE. iof NE. i; NW. i; NW. \ of SW. J; NE. \ of SE. \; 
 
 S.Jof SE. i, sec. 33 440.00 
 
 All sec. 35 : 640. 00 
 
 Township 84, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 1 636. 76 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; SE. i of SE. i; W. i of E. J; W. i, sec. 3 551.88 
 
 W. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 5 560. 79 
 
 All sec. 7 646. 40 
 
 E. i; W. i of NW. i, sec. 9 400.00 
 
 NE.i; NE.iofNW.i; SW. i; N.^ofSE.i; SW. iof SE. i, sec, 11. 480.00 
 
 NE. i; NW. iof NW. i; S, i of NW, i; S. J, sec, 13 600,00 
 
 N. \ of NE. i; SW. \ of NE. i; NW, i; S, \, sec, 15 '. - 600. 00 
 
 NW. i; S. i, sec. 17 480. 00 
 
 NE. i; S. i of NW. i; S. \, sec. 19 561. 24 
 
 N. i of NE, i; SE. i of NE. i; SE. \ of NW, i; W, i of SW, i; NE, \ 
 
 of SE. i, sec. 21 280.00 
 
 All sec. 23 -■ 640. 00 
 
 NE.i; NE.iofNW.i; W.JofSW.i; NE.iofSE.i; W,+ofNW,i, 
 
 sec, 25 400, 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S, i of NE. \; E. \ of W, i; SW, i of SW, \; SE, i, 
 
 sec. 27 480. 00 
 
 N. i of SE. i, sec. 29 80,00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. \ of NE, i; E. \ of SE. i; W, \ of NW. \; E, \ 
 
 ofSW. i, sec.31 360.00 
 
 NE. i; S. i of NW. i; S, \ of SW. i; N, \ of SE, i; SE, \ of SE, i, 
 
 sec 33..: 440. 00 
 
 NE. i; N. i of NW. i; SW, i of NW, \; N, i of SE, i, sec. 35 360, 00 
 
 Township 35, range 2: 
 
 NE, i; NE. i of NW. i, sec, 1 '- 199. 64 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; N. \ of NW. i; SW. \ of NW. i; SW, i; W, \ of 
 
 SE, i, sec.3 398.77 
 
 S. i of NE. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 5 120. 00 
 
 E. ^, sec.7 320.00 
 
 NE.i of NE.i; SW. iof NE.i; S.^ofNW.i; SW. i; N.^ofSB.i, 
 
 sec. 9 400.00 
 
 SW. iof NW. i; NE, i of SW, i, sec. 15 80.00 
 
 S. i of N. \; S. i, sec. 17 480. 00 
 
 N. iof NE.i; SW. iof NE.i, sec. 19 120.00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; SW. \ of SW. i; E, \ of SE. \, 
 
 sec. 21 200.00 
 
 SE. i of SE. i, sec. 23 40. 00 
 
 SE. i of NE. i, sec. 25 40. 00 
 
 NE. i of SE. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 29 ]20. 00 
 
 S. iof NE.i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 35 560.00 
 
 Township 36, range 2: _ 
 
 NE.i of NE.i; S. i of NW. i; SW. i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 1 359.92 
 
 E.i, sec. 3... ..... 320.78 
 
 SW i of NE. i; SE. \ of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S, \ of SW, i; SE, 
 
 1 ggg 5 360, 00 
 
 N. lofNE.'irNKi'of NW. i; S. j of NW. i; SE, i, sec, 7 360.51 
 
 W.i,8ec.9 320.00 
 
 NW. iof NE.i; lot 4, sec. 11 79.26 
 
 Lot 7, sec. 13 23.39 
 
 Lots 9, 10, sec. 15 Jl\- °? 
 
 NW. i of NW. i; SW. i; S. i of NE. i of NW. i, sec. 19 224. 51 
 
 Lots 4, 5, 6, 7, sec. 21 ] 23. 29 
 
 NW. i of SE. i. sec. 29 40.00 
 
150 OREGON AND CAXiIFOBNIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 Township 37, range 2: ^ •'^"res. 
 
 Lot 5; S. i of SW. i, sec. 5 81.97 
 
 E. i of E. J; S. i of NW. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; NW. i 
 
 of NW. i, sec. 7 413.06 
 
 W. iof NE. i; E. iof NW. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 17 200.00 
 
 N. J of SW. i of NE. J; NE. i of SW. i, sec. 31 60.00 
 
 Township 38, range 2: 
 
 Lot 6; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 3 47.52 
 
 NE. i of NW. i; E. i of NW. i of NW. }; S. i of SW. i, sec. 7 144.26 
 
 SE. i, sec. 17 160. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; SW. i; W. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 19 326. 23 
 
 W. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i, sec. 21. 240. 00 
 
 NW.iof SE.i; NE. i of SW. i, sec. 23 80.00 
 
 N. Jof N. i; S. iof S. i, sec. 27 320.00 
 
 E. i; NW. iof NW. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 29 440.00 
 
 All sec. 31 ^ 660. 16 
 
 N.JofNW.i; SE.iofNW.i; E. JofSE.}; NW.iof SW.i, sec. 33. 240.00 
 
 Township 39, range 2: 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; NW. i of SE. i; NW. i; N. i of SW. 
 
 i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 5 446. 84 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; S. J of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 7 630.94 
 
 NE. i; E. iof NW. i; S. i of S. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 9 440.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; S. J of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i of NE. i; E. i of 
 NW. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i of NW. i; E. J of NE. i of NW. 
 
 i; S. Jof NW. i; S. i, sec. 17 580.00 
 
 . E. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; S. i of SW. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 19. . 246. 54 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 W. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. J of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; NW. i of 
 
 SE. i; S. 4 of SE. i, sec. 23 480. 00 
 
 S. Jof NE. i; SE. iof NW. i; S. J, sec. 27 440.00 
 
 S. Jof NW. i; SW.i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 29 280.00 
 
 All sec. 31 • 668. 42 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 Township 40, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 1 638. 84 
 
 All sec. 3 640.99 
 
 AU sec . 5 640. 58 
 
 All sec . 7 647. 42 
 
 All sec . 9'. 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640.00 
 
 N.J; SW. i; A¥. J of SE. i, sec. 17 560.00 
 
 All sec. 19 640. 93 
 
 All sec. 21 640.00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640.00 
 
 All sec . 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 639. 01 
 
 All sec . 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 35 640. 00 
 
 Towjiship 33, range 3: 
 
 All sec . 1 630. 40 
 
 All sec. 3 627. 68 
 
 All sec. 5 625. 39 
 
 All sec . 7 624. 64 
 
 All sec . 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 13 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 626.35 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND 6BANT. 151 
 
 Township 33, range 3 — Continued. Acres, 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 627. 20 
 
 N. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. J of SW. J; N. J of SE. }; SE. J of SE. i, 
 
 sec . 33 560. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Township 34, range 3: 
 
 All sec. 1 641. 80 
 
 AH sec. 3 643. 50 
 
 All sec. 5 644. 42 
 
 All sec. 7 610. 48 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11... 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 N.J; SW. J; N. Jof SE. }; SE. i of SE. J, sec. 15 600.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 608. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 N.JofNW.i; SW. iofNW.i; SW.J; W. JofSE. i; NE.}, sec.23. 520.00 
 
 NE. i; E. Jof NW. i; S. i, sec. 25 560.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 NE.i; E.JofNW.i; NE.JofSW.i; SW.iofSW.J; N.JofSE.i; 
 
 SE. J of SE. J, sec. 29 440. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 615. 00 
 
 N.i; N. iof S. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 33.. 520.00 
 
 NE. i; NE. iof NW. i; S. i of NW. J; S, J, sec. 35 600.00 
 
 Township 35, range 3: 
 
 .N.J; SW. i; N. J of SE. J; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 1 600.20 
 
 NE. i; NE.iof NW. i; S. J of NW. J; S. i, sec. 3 597.51 
 
 .SE, i of SW. i; S. J of SE. J, sec. 5 120. 00 
 
 .NE. iof SW. i; S. J of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 7 275.40 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 W. J of NE. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i of NE. }; NW. i of NE. i; 
 
 S. Jof NE. }; NW. i S. i sec. 11 630.00 
 
 NE. i of NW. i; W. i of NW. i; N. i of SW. i; E. J of SE, i, sec. 13. 280. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 N. i; N. i of SE. i: SW. i of SE. i; N. J of SW. i; SE, i of SW, i; 
 
 E. i of SW. i of SW. i, sec. 17 580. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 631. 74 
 
 N. » of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; W. § of E. J of SW. i; W. J 
 
 of SW. i; E. i of W. i of SE. i, sec. 21 440. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; W. J of SE. i, sec. 23 560.00 
 
 All sec. 27... 640.00 
 
 NE. i; W. i of E. i of SW. i; W. J of SW. i; N. I of SE. i; E. J of 
 
 SW. i of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 29 420. 00 
 
 N. iof NE. i; NW. }; S. i, sec. 31 557.02 
 
 E. i; NW. i of NW. ]-; S. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i, sec. 33 480. 00 
 
 W. Jof E. i; SE. -iof SE. i; W, J, sec, 35 520,00 
 
 Township 36, range 3: „ „„ 
 
 W. i of NW. i, sec. 1 78. 97 
 
 N.JofNE.i; SW.iofNE.i;W. JofSE.iof NE.i; N.JofNW, i; 
 
 SW, i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. i; W. i of NW. i of 
 
 SE. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, sec. 3 • 438. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; NW. i; NW. i of SE. }, sec. 5 314. 76 
 
 N.4; N.Jof SW.l; SE. J, sec. 7 564.97 
 
 AU sec. 9 •- 640. 00 
 
 NW. iof NW. J; N. Jof SE. i; SE. Jof SE. 1; lot 3, sec. 11 188.73 
 
 Ix)t7,sec.l3 48.75 
 
 W. J of NW. i, sec. 15 ■ 80. 00 
 
 N. J of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; lot 3, sec. 17 127. 05 
 
 SW. i; W. Jof SE. i, sec. 19 245.40 
 
 Lot 5; NE. i of SW. h sec. 21 - &»■ »7 
 
 SE. iof NE. J, sec. 23 •- 40.00 
 
 NE.i; S.JofNW. i;SW.i;N.JofSE.i, sec. 29 480.00 
 
 Lots 2,3; SW.'i of'sW.' V, sec. '33 - ■ - - • -■---■ 102. 78 
 
 NE. i of NE. it SW. i of SW. i ; W. J of SE. i of SE. h sec. 35. . . . 100. 00 
 
16,2 OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 TotTi(mBhip 37, range 3: ^'^<»- 
 
 ■ SW. i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 1 234.84 
 
 N.J; E. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 3 561.30 
 
 N. i of NE. i of NE. i; S. J of N. i of SE. i of NE. i; S. i of SE. i of 
 NE. i; NW. i of SW. i; S. J of SW. i; SE. i; S. i of SW. i of SW. 
 
 J of NE. i; lot 1; south 10 acres of lot 5, sec. 5 360. 23 
 
 E.i; SE. Jof NW. J; NE. iof SW. i, sec. 7 400.00 
 
 W. i of NE. i; W. i; E. i of SE. i, sec. 9 480. 00 
 
 W. i of E. i; SW. i, sec. 11 320. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; NW. i, sec. 13 240. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640.00 
 
 All sec . 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 S. iof NW. i; SW. i; NW. } of SE. i, sec. 23 280.00 
 
 S. iof NE. i, sec. 25 80.00 
 
 S. iof NE. i; NW. i; SE. i, sec. 27 ,4100.00 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; NW. i of NW. J; S. i of N. i; S.J, sec. 31 555.10 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 SW. iofSW.l; NE.iofNE.iofSEi; NW. iof SE. iof SE. i; N. J 
 
 of SW. i of SE. i; N. iof S. iof SW. i of SE. i, sec. 35 90.00 
 
 Township 38, range 3: 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; E. J of SW. i, sec. 1 159. 96 
 
 N. i; E. Jof SE. i, sec. 3 400.76 
 
 E. JofSW.i; SE.i,8ec.5 240.00 
 
 N. J; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. i of SW. i; SW. i 
 of SE. i of SW. i; N. i of N. i of SE. i; N. i of S. i of NE. i of SE. i; 
 
 SE. i of SW. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i of SE. i, sec. 11 550. 00 
 
 SW. i, sec. 13 160.00 
 
 W. iof NW. i;NE. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 21 200.00 
 
 NE.iofNE.i;W.iofW.iofNW.i;SE.iofSE.i;lots4,5, sec. 23. 160.67 
 
 NW. i of NW. i, sec. 29 40. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 637. 76 
 
 SW. iof NW. i; W. iof SW. i; lots 1, 7, sec. 33 168.58 
 
 W. i, sec. 35 320.00 
 
 Township 39, range 3: 
 
 E.J; E.J of W.J; NW. i of NW. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 1 562.00 
 
 NE. i; SW. iofSW. i, sec.3 i,01.49 
 
 N. Jof NE. i; SE. iof NW. i; SW. i; S. J of SE. i, sec. 9 360.00 
 
 NE. i; E. Jof NW. i; lot 1, sec. 11 284.42 
 
 N. J of NE. i; SE. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; SW. i, sec. 13 320. 00 
 
 E. J, sec. 15 320.00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 N. J, sec. 23 -. 320. 00 
 
 NE.i, 8ec.25 160.00 
 
 NE. i; S. J; SE. i of SW. i of NW. i; NE. i of SE. i of NW. i; S. J 
 
 of SE. iof NW. i, sec. 27 520.00 
 
 E. J; SW. i of NW. i; N. J of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 33 480.00 
 
 Township 40, range 3: 
 
 All sec. 1 639. 33 
 
 All sec. 3 640. 36 
 
 S. J of N. J; lots 1, 3, 4; S. J, sec. 5 597. 90 
 
 E. J; N. J of NE. i of NW. i; N. J of NW. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. 
 
 i; SW. i; S. JofSE. i of NW. i, sec. 7 582.83 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 •. 640. OJ 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 B.J; E. Jof E. JofSE. i of SW. i, sec. 19 330.00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 640. 84 
 
 All sec. 33 ' 640. 00 
 
 N. J; SW. i; N. i of SE. i, sec. 35 560. 00 
 
OREGON AND CAUPORNIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 153 
 
 Township 41, range 3: 
 
 N.J; S. i of S. i, sec. 1 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. JofSE. i; SW. i of SE. i sec. 3 
 
 All sec. 5 
 
 All sec. 7. 
 
 All sec. 9 
 
 NE. i; NE. }of NW. i; S. JofNW. i; S. i, sec. 11 
 
 N. Jof N. i;Jotsl, 2, 3, 4, sec. 13 
 
 N. Jof N. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 15 
 
 N. iof N. I; lotsl, 2, 3, 4, sec. 17 
 
 Township 32, range 4: 
 
 Lots 5, 12, sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35 : 
 
 Township 33, range 4: 
 
 All sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 3 
 
 S. i of SE. i, sec. 5 
 
 All sec. 9 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 ; 
 
 NE. i; E. Jof NW. i; S. J, sec. 15. 
 
 All sec. 17 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 N. i; N. iof SW. i; NW. J of SE. i; SE. i of SE. i sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 NW. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i, sec. 29 
 
 All sec. 31 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 Township 34, range 4: 
 
 All sec. 1 
 
 N.J; SW. i; N. J of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 3 
 
 NE. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; E. i, sec. 5 
 
 All sec. 7 ^ 
 
 All sec. 9 -' 
 
 NE. J; NE. iof NW. i; S. J of NW. i; S. i, sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; W. J of SW. i; W. i of E. J of SE. i of SW. i; W. i 
 
 of SE. i of SW. i; NE. i of SE. i, sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 17 
 
 All sec. 19 : 
 
 NE. i; W. J, sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. J; S. J of N. J; S. J, sec. 27 
 
 N.J; SW. i; N. J of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 29 -. 
 
 E. J; E. Jof W. J, sec. 31 
 
 NE. i of NW. i; SW. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. J, sec. 33 
 
 NE. \ of NE. i; S. J of NE. i; N. J of NW. i; E. J of SW. i of 
 
 NW. i; SW. i; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i; 
 
 NE. i of SE. i of SE. i, sec. 35 
 
 Township 35, range 4: 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i; W. J of SW. i, sec. 1 
 
 N. J of NE. i; SE. i, sec. 3 
 
 N. J; NW. i of SW. i; S. J of SW. i; NW. J of SE. i, sec. 5 
 
 All fipp 7 .........---------------- 
 
 NE. i of NE" V;'n.' j ofNW.'i;' Se! Vof SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; S. J 
 
 of SE. i, sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 SE. }, sec. 15 
 
 N. JofNE. i; SE. iof NE. i; W.J; SE. i, sec. 17 
 
 NW. iof NE. i; S. Jof NE. i; NW. i; S. J, sec. 19 
 
 SW. i of SW. i, sec. 21 
 
 N.J; N. Jof SW. i; SE. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 23 
 
 N. J of NE. i, sec. 27 
 
 Acres. 
 480. 00 
 600. 00 
 640. 00 
 643. 64 
 640.00 
 600. 00 
 
 273. 25 
 
 274. 67 
 268. 58 
 
 78.19 
 791. 92 
 
 639. 68 
 599. 20 
 80.00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 659. 76 
 560. 00 
 640. 00 
 629. 18 
 480. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 280. 00 
 626. 84 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 
 648. 44 . 
 615. 32 
 448. 10 
 623. 44 
 640. 00 
 600. 00 
 640. 00 
 
 190. 00 
 640. 00 
 624. 80 
 480. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 560. 00 
 600. 00 
 480. 00 
 120. 00 
 
 510. 00 
 
 160. 02 
 241. 76 
 493. 56 
 640. 08 
 
 280. 00 
 640. 00 
 160.00 
 600. 00 
 598. 20 
 
 40.00 
 600. 00 
 
 80.00 
 
154 OKBGON AND CALIFOENIA LAND GEANT. 
 
 TownBhip 35, range 4 — Continued. Acre,. 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 638; 56 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; W. i of E. i; SE. i of SE. i; W. i, sec. 33 560.00 
 
 N. i; N. iof SW, i; SE. i of 8W. i; SE. i, sec. 35 600.00 
 
 Township 36, range 4: 
 
 N. i; N. i of SW. i; N. J of SW. i of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; E. J of 
 
 SE. i, sec. 1 •---- 539.16 
 
 S. Jof NE. i; E. 4of SW. }; SE. J, sec. 3 320.00 
 
 NE. 1; S. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 5 539. 52 
 
 All sec. 7 653. 22 
 
 NW. i; N. i of SW. i; W. 4 of SE. J; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 9 360. 00 
 
 NE. i; NW. J of NW. J; S. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 11 600.00 
 
 NE. i of NE. 1; S. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. }; SW. i; W. J of SB. i, 
 
 sec. 13 - - 400. 00 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of NW. i, sec. 15 200.00 
 
 W. i of NE. i; S. J of SE. i of NE. J; NW. i; S. J, sec. 17 580.00 
 
 N. i; N. Jof S. i; lots 3, 4, sec. 19 598.52 
 
 SW. i of NE. J; S. 4 of S. i; NW. i of. SE. }; lots 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, sec. 21 . . 376. 63 
 
 N. iof NE. i; SE. Jof NE. J; AV. i, sec. 23 440.00 
 
 E. i of NE. i; SE. } of SW. i; NE. i of SE. i; lots 1, 7, 9, 10, sec. 25. 225.88 
 
 NE'. i of NE. i; S. J of SW. i; lots 9, 12, 14, sec. 27 177. 16 
 
 NE. iof NE. J; NE. } of NW. i; S. J of N. i; S. i, sec. 29 560.00 
 
 E. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. J of SW. i; SE. i of NW. i, sec. 31 489. 50 
 
 N. i; SW. i; NW. i of SE. J; S. ^ of SE. i, sec. 33 600.00 
 
 SE.'iof NE. i; W. iof SW. i; lots 1 , 5, sec. 35 166.70 
 
 Township 37, range 4: 
 
 N. i of N. J; SE. i of NE. }; SW. i of NW. i; SB. i of SE. i, sec. 1 . . 277. 32 
 
 SE. iof NE. J; S. J, sec. 3 360.00 
 
 All sec. 5 642. 34 
 
 All sec. 7 654. 40 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 W. i of NE. i of NE. i; S. J of NE. i; E, i of SE. i, sec. 11 180. 00 
 
 W. i of NW. I, sec. 13 80. 00 
 
 W. h sec. 15 320.00 
 
 All sec. 17 640.00 
 
 E. J of NE. i; E. i of NW. i of NE. J; E. i of E. i of SW. J of NE. 
 
 i; SE. i; S. i of NE. J of NW. i; W. i of NW. i; W. i of SE. i o^ 
 
 NW. i; NW. i of SW. }; W. i of SW. i of SW. i, sec. 19 458. 86 
 
 N. i;SW. i;N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 21 600.00 
 
 W. i of E. i; N. J of NW. i; SE. J of NW. i; SW. i, sec. 23 440.00 ' 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; S. i of N. i; S. i, sec. 27 .520.00 
 
 NE. i; NE. iof NW. i; S. J of NW. i; S. i.'sec. 29 600.00 
 
 E. i of W. i of NE. i of NE. i; E. i of NE. J of NE. i; W. i of NW. i 
 
 of NE. ij W. J of E. J of NW. i of NE. J; S. i of NE. J; NE. i of 
 
 NW. i; NE. iof SE. i; lota 1, 3,4, 5, sec. 31 281,33 
 
 N. i; N. iof SW. i; SE. J; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 33 600.00 
 
 N. i; SW. }; W. J of SE. J, sec. 35... .560.00 
 
 Township 38. range 4: 
 
 All sec. i 638.40 
 
 All sec. 3. 638. 64 
 
 S. Jof NW. i; S. i sec. 5 400.00 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; SW. } of NE. i, sec. 7 80.00 
 
 All sec. 9 040. 00 
 
 E. iof E. i; SW. iof SE. J; SW. i, sec. 11 360.00 
 
 N.J; E. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 13 .580.92 
 
 N. i; SE.i, sec. 15 480.00 
 
 NE. iof NE.i, sec. 17 40.00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SW. i of NE. i; W. i; W. i of SE. i; lot 3, sec. 19... 535. 79 
 
 NW. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i; SW. i of SE. i, sec. 21 160.00 
 
 NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; S. i of SW. i of SW. i; N. i 
 
 of SE.i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 23 380.00 
 
 W. i of SW. i; lots 1, 2, 5, sec. 25 116. 66 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 29 : :... 520.00 
 
 N.i; SW. i; NW. i of SE. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 31 603.92 
 
 N. iof NE.i; SE. iof NE.i; E. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 33 520.00 
 
 All sec. 35 646. 00 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 155 
 ■, 
 
 Township 36, range 4: Acres. 
 
 All sec. 1 697. 40 
 
 All sec. 3 ; 639. 77 
 
 S. i of NW. i; W. i of SW. i; E. i of SE. i; lots ], 3, 4, sec. 5 358. 95 
 
 N. 4 of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; SE. i of SE. i; lots 2, 4, sec. 7 240. 06 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 ; . . 640 00 
 
 All sec. 13 697. 96 
 
 All sec. 15 640 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640 00 
 
 NE. }; S. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 19 559.36 
 
 All sec. 21 640 00 
 
 All sec. 28 640 00 
 
 AU sec. 25 699. 64 
 
 All sec. 27 640 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 : 662. 42 
 
 All sec. 33. 665. 94 
 
 All sec. 35 671. 66 
 
 Township 40, range 4: 
 
 N. 4; N. iof SW. i; S. 4 of S. 4 of SW. i; SE. i;, sec. 1 602.02 
 
 NE. J, sec. 3 159.36 
 
 SW. J, sec. 7 .'. 162.84 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 640 00 
 
 SE. i, sec. 15 160 00 
 
 N. i; SW. i; N. i of SE. i; SW. i of SE. 1, sec. 17 60O 00 
 
 All sec. 19 641. 04 
 
 N. 4; N. 4 of SW. i, sec. 21. 40O 00 
 
 All sec. 28 640 00 
 
 All sec. 25 •- . . 640 00 
 
 E. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 27..... 40O 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640 00 
 
 All sec. 31 642. 04 
 
 All sec. 33 640 00 
 
 . N. i; SW. i; N. iof SE. i; SW. i of 8E. i, sec. 35 600 00 
 
 Township 41, range 4: 
 
 ' SW. iof NE. i; SE. iof NW. i; S. i, sec. 1 400.00 
 
 N. i; N. 4of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; SE. J, sec. 3 600.00 
 
 All sec. 5 640 00 
 
 All sec. 7 644. 36 
 
 All sec. 9 - 640. 00 
 
 NE. J; E. iof NW. i; S. J, sec. 11 560.00 
 
 N. iofN.i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 18 263.72 
 
 N. iof N.. 4; lotsl, 2, 3,4, sec. 15 259.88 
 
 N. iof N.i; lotsl, 2, 3, 4, sec. 17 256.12 
 
 Total Jackson County 441,791.15 
 
 Klamath County. 
 [South of base line and east of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 38, range 5: 
 
 All sec. i.... 643.00 
 
 All sec. 3 655.00 
 
 All sec. 9 - 640.00 
 
 N. i; W. iof SW. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 11 485.00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, sec. 13 „?i- x5 
 
 Allsec.l5 640.00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; S. i of NW. i; S. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 23 542. 00 
 
 All sec. 25 640. 00 
 
 Township 39, range 5: .., .. 
 
 All seel 641.00 
 
 • All sec. 3 - 645.00 
 
 All sec. 11 ^^-^ 
 
156 OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Township 39, range 4 — Continued. Acres. 
 
 All sec. 13 640. 00 
 
 JSfE. i of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i; NW. i of SW. i, sec. 17 120. 00 
 
 rgW. i of SW. i, sec. 21 :.... 40.00 
 
 NW. i, sec. 29 : ; 160.00 
 
 N. 4, sec. 31 ■ 822.00 
 
 W. iof SW. i, sec. 33 , 80.00 
 
 Township 40, range 5: 
 
 W. i, sec. 7 322.00 
 
 S. i, sec. 23 320.00 
 
 All sec. 25 640.00 
 
 NE. i of NW. i; SE. i of SW. i; S. J of SE. i; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, sec. 31. . 319. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 , 640. 00 
 
 Township 41, range 5: 
 
 All sec . 1 641. 00 
 
 All sec. 3 639. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 642. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 632. 00 
 
 E. J, sec. 11 320. 00 
 
 Lots 1, 2, sec. 13 31.00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 4, sec. 15 93.00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 4, sec. 17 87.00 
 
 Township 38, range 6: 
 
 All sec. 5 642. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 646. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 641. 00 
 
 W. i; W. i of SE. i, sec. 21 400. 00 
 
 S. J of SW. i, sec. 27 80. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 33. . . ■- .- 640. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. J; S. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 35 320. 00 
 
 Township 39, range 6: 
 
 All sec. 5 ; 627. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 647. GO 
 
 W. i, sec. 9 320. 00 
 
 Lofa 1 to 12, inclusive, sec. 15 485. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 646. 00 
 
 E. J; E. iof W. J; lotsl, 2, 3,4, sec. 19 643.00 
 
 W. i, sec. 21 320. 00 
 
 Township 40, range 6: 
 
 SW. i; NW. iof SE. J; lots 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, sec. 1 385.00 
 
 S. iof NW. i; lots 2, 3, 4, sec. 3 187.00 
 
 SE.Jof NE.i; SW. Jof NW. i; lota 3, 4, sec. 5 152.00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 13 606. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 618. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 639. 00 
 
 All sec . 31 746. 00 
 
 SE. iof NE. J; E. i of SE. J, sec. 33 120.00 
 
 All sec. 35 633. 00 
 
 Township 41, range 6: 
 
 All sec. 1 640. 00 
 
 N. i of NE. i; SE. J of NE. i; NW. i; W. i of SW. i; NE. 4 of SE. 
 
 i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 3 480.00 
 
 N.J; SW. i; N. Jof SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 5 600.00 
 
 NE. J; N. iofSE.i; SW.iofSE. i; lots 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, sec. 7. 513.00 
 
 NW. 4of NE. i; S. Jof NE. i; NW. i; SE. J, sec. 9 440.00 
 
 W. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. 4; SW. J of SW. ' 
 
 i; S.-iof SE. 4, sec. 11 480.00 
 
 LotBl, 2, 3, 4, sec. 13 194.00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 4, sec. 15 181.00 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, sec. 17 123.00 
 
 Township 40, range 7 : 
 
 All sec. 3 639. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 634.00 
 
OEEGON AWD CAt.IFOE.NIA LAND GRANT, 157 
 
 Wwnship 40, range 7 — Continued. Acres. 
 
 N. inNE. i of SW. i; N. Jof SE. i; SE. i of SE. i, sec. 7 476.00 
 
 All sec . 9 660. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 641. 00 
 
 NW. J; S, J, sec. 15 480. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 644. 00 
 
 All sec. 19. 632. OO 
 
 All sec. 21 642. OO 
 
 W. iof E. i; W. i, sec. 23 480.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. OO 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 633. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 -. 640. 00 
 
 W. J of NE. J; W. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 35 443.00 
 
 Township 41, range 7 : 
 
 All sec. 3 642. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 641. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 643. 00 
 
 N. i; E. iof SW. i; SE. i, sec. 9 560.00 
 
 NW. i; N. iof SW. i, sec. 11 240.00 
 
 N. iof N. i; lotsl, 2, 3, 4, sec. 15 257.00 
 
 N. iof N. i; lotsl, 2, 3, 4, sec. 17 224.00 
 
 Total Klamath County 43,015.00 
 
 WEST SIDE GEANTi 
 [Act Of May 4, A. D. 1870.], 
 
 Of the lands of said west side grant, 292,50 acres are situated in the State of Wash- 
 ington; with this exception all of said lands are situated in the State of Oregon. 
 
 The counties are arranged in the same order as in the case of the east side grant. 
 Thus arranged, they appear in the following order. For convenience the total 
 number of acres in each county is here stated : 
 
 A.CTGS 
 
 Clarke County, Wash 292.'50 
 
 Columbia County, Oreg 17, 678. 83 
 
 Tillamook County, Oreg 29,74100 
 
 Washington County, Oreg 15, 480. 00 
 
 Multnomah County,'Oreg 927. 00 
 
 Yamhill County, Oreg :.... 1,563.11 
 
 Total west side grant 65, 682. 44 
 
 Clarke County, Wash. 
 
 [North of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 2, range 1: 
 
 Lotl, sec. 1 7.00 
 
 [North of base line and east of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 3, range 1: 
 
 W. fof SW. i, sec. 3 80.00 
 
 E. iofNE. i; NW. i of NE. i, sec. 21 120.00 
 
 Lotl, sec. 31 5.50 
 
 N. i of SE. 1, sec. 33 80.00 
 
 Total Clarke County 292.50 
 
 Columbia County, Oreg. 
 [North of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 3, range 1: 
 
 Lot 2, sec. 21 12. 98 
 
 Township 4, range 1: 
 
 Lots 6, 7, sec. 17 54. 90> 
 
 Lot 3. sec. 19 , 22. 9& 
 
158 OREGON AND CAUFORNIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 Township 3, range 2: Acres. 
 N. i of N. i; SW. i of NW J; N. J of SW. i of SW. i; NW. i of ; 
 
 SE. i, sec. 3 362.58 
 
 All sec. 5 635. 90 
 
 N. i; W. Jof SW. i, sec. 7 400.20 
 
 NE. i; N. J of NW. i; SE. i of NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; N. i of SE. 
 
 i, sec. 9 400. 00 
 
 NW.iof NE.i; NE. i of NW. i, sec. 11 80.00 
 
 W. J of SW. i, sec. 15 80. 00 
 
 E. iof SW. i, NE. Jof SE. i, sec. 17 120.00 
 
 Township 4, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 7 612. 96 
 
 N. 4 of SE. i; SE. J of NE. i, sec. 27 120. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 31 1 621. 42 
 
 SE. iof NW. i; NE.iof SW. i; S. i of SW. i, sec. 33 160.00 
 
 Township 5, range 2: 
 
 All sec. 31 636. 90 
 
 Township 3, range 3: 
 
 All sec. 1 637. 86 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 Township 4, range 3: 
 
 Lotsl, 2, 3, 4; S. i sec. 1 512.36 
 
 All sec. 3 i 660. 81 
 
 All sec. 5 667. 00 
 
 E. i sec. 7 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 11 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 15 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 17 640. 00 
 
 E. i sec. 19 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 23 : . 640. 00 
 
 All sec . 25 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 29 ." 640. 00 
 
 E. i sec. 31 320. 00 
 
 All sec . 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 ; 640. 00 
 
 Township 5, range 3: 
 
 E. i sec. 31 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 33 640. 00 
 
 All sec. 35 640. 00 
 
 Total Columbia County 17, 678. 83 
 
 Tillamook County, Oreg. 
 [South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 1, range 6: 
 
 NE. J; SE.Jof NW. i; S. i sec. 19 531.00 
 
 Township 2, range 6: 
 
 N.iof SW. i; SE. iof SW. i; W. J of SE. J, sec. 19 200.00 
 
 Township 3, range 6: 
 
 All sec. 7 667. 00 
 
 All sec. 19 666. 00 
 
 All sec . 31 665. 00 
 
 Township 4, range 6: 
 
 All sec. 7 : 662. 00 
 
 Township 1, range 7: 
 
 S. i of SW. J sec. 23 80. 00 
 
 NE.i; SE.iof NW. J; N. i of SE. J, sec. 25 280.00 
 
 E. isec. 27 320.00 
 
 S . J of SW. i sec . 31 70. 00 
 
 Township 3, range 7: 
 
 S. i sec. 5 320. 00 
 
 All sec. 7 646. 00< 
 
 All sec. 9 682. 00 
 
OREGON AND CALIPOENIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 159 
 
 Township 3, range 7 — Continued. 
 
 All sec . 11 
 
 All sec . 13 
 
 All sec. 15 
 
 All sec. 17 
 
 All sec. 19 
 
 All sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec . 25 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 All sec . 29 
 
 All sec. 31 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35.. 
 
 TbwnsHp 4, range 7: 
 
 All sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 3 
 
 All sec. 5 
 
 All sec. 7 
 
 All sec. 9 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 N. i; N. i of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 15 
 
 N. ^ of N. i, sec. 17 
 
 Township 1, range 8: 
 
 Lot 3, sec. 1 
 
 W. i of W. i, sec. 23 
 
 W. * of NE. i; SW. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. }, sec. 25 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; SE. i of NW. i; E. i of SW. i; W. i of SE. i, sec 27. . 
 Township 2, range 8: 
 
 W. i of NW. }, sec. 13 
 
 E. ^ of SW. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 21 
 
 W. A of W. i, sec. 27 
 
 NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; S. h sec. 33 
 
 Township 3, range 8: 
 
 SW. i; S. i of SE. i, sec. 1 
 
 All sec. 3 
 
 All sec. 9 ;j 
 
 All sec. 11 * 
 
 All sec. 13 
 
 S. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 21 
 
 All sec. 23 
 
 All sec. 25 
 
 All sec. 27 
 
 All sec. 33 
 
 All sec. 35 
 
 Township 4, range 8 : 
 
 N. i of N. il SE, i of NE. }; SW. i of SW. i; SE. h sec. 1 
 
 N. J of N. i; NE. i of SW. }; S. i of S. J, sec. 3 
 
 E. |;E. ^of W. J, sec. 9 
 
 All sec. 11 
 
 N. i of N. i, sec. 13 
 
 N. i of N. i, sec. 15 
 
 Total Tillamook County 29 
 
 Washington County, Oreg. 
 [North of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 2, range 2: 
 
 SE. \ of SE. i, sec. 5 
 
 N. J of NW. i; SW. i of NW. i, sec. 7 
 
 N. i of SW. i, sec. 9 
 
 N. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i, sec. 19 ■- 
 
 SE. i of NE. i; N. i of SW. i, sec. 21 
 
 SW. i of NE. i, sec. 29 
 
 Acres. 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 645. 00 
 660. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 644. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 
 642. 00 
 644. 00 
 642. 00 
 641. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 600. 00 
 160. 00 
 
 24.00 
 160. 00 
 160. 00 
 240. 00 
 
 80.00 
 160. 00 
 160. 00 
 600. 00 
 
 240. 00 
 650. 00 
 640.00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 560. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 640. 00 
 
 400. 00 
 360. 00 
 480. 00 
 640. 00 
 160. 00 
 160. 00 
 
 741. 00 
 
 40.00 
 123. 00 
 
 80.00 
 120. 00 
 120. 00 
 
 40.00 
 
160 OEEGON AND CALIFOKNIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 Township 3, range 2: Acres. 
 
 E. i of NE. i; NW. i of NW. i; S. i of NW. i; S. i, sec. 19 520. 00 
 
 All sec. 21 • '. - 640. 00 
 
 N. i; N. i of SW. i; SW. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 29 600. 00 
 
 NW. i of NE. i; S. i of NE. i; NW. i; S. i, sec. 31 601. 00 
 
 SE. i of SE. J, sec. 33 40. 00 
 
 Township 2, range 3: 
 
 W. i of NE. i; NW. i; N. J of SW. i; SE. i of SW. i; SE. i sec. 1 . . . . 523. 00 
 
 SW. i of NE. i; NW. i; NE. i of SW. i; NW. i of SE. i, sec. 3 284. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 662. 00 
 
 W. i of SW. i, sec . 9 80. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; SW. i of NW. i; SW. i of SW. J, sec. 11 120. 00 
 
 NE. i of NE. i; NE. i of NW. i; SE. i of SW. i, sec. 13 120.00 
 
 W. Jof NE. i;SE. isec. 17 240.00 
 
 S. iof NE. ijN.Jof SE. i, sec.21 160.00 
 
 SE. iof SE. i, sec. 23 40.00 
 
 Township 3, range 3: 
 
 All sec. 3 ■ . - - 639. 00 
 
 All sec. 5 640. OO 
 
 E. i, sec. 7 - 320.00 
 
 All sec. 9 640. 00 
 
 N. i;SW. i;N. i of SE. i, sec. 13 560.00 
 
 E. I of NE. }; N. i of SW. i, sec. 15 160. 00 
 
 NW. iof NE. ijS.iof NE. i;NW. i;S. i, sec. 17 600.00 
 
 E. i, sec. 19 320.00 
 
 E. J;N. iof NW. i;SW. i of NW. i; E. ^ of SW. i, sec. 21 520.00 
 
 N.J; N. iof SW. i;SW. iof SW. i, sec. 23 440.00 
 
 W. i;E. iof SE. i, sec. 25 400.00 
 
 All sec. 27 640. 00 
 
 E. iof NE. i; NW. i; W. i of SW. i, sec. 29 320.00 
 
 E. i, sec . 31 320. 00 
 
 NE. iof NE. i; S. i of NE. J, sec. 33 120.00 
 
 NE. i;NE. iof NW. i; S. Jof NW. i; S. i, sec. 35 600.00 
 
 [South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 1, range 5: 
 
 W. i, sec. 3 320. 00 
 
 S. iof NE. i; N.fof SE. i, sec. 5 160.00 
 
 E. iof E. i; N.iof SW. i, sec. 9 - 240.00 
 
 N. iof NW. i, sec. 15 80.00 
 
 NE. i; S. i, sec. 19 482.00 
 
 All sec. 29 640. 00 
 
 N. iof NE. };W. i, sec. 31 406.00 
 
 Township 1, range 6: 
 
 E. iof NE. i;NE. iof SE. i, sec. 25 120.00 
 
 All sec . 29 640. 00 
 
 Total Washington County 15, 480. 00 
 
 (None of the above-described lands in township 1 south, range 5 west, have ever 
 been patented, with the exception of those described as situated in section 15; but all 
 of said lands are listed in the annual tax return made by the defendant Oregon & Cali- 
 fornia Railroad Co., and are therefore included in this schedule.) 
 
 Multnomah County, Oreg. 
 [North of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 2, range 2: Acres. 
 
 N. i of NE. i; W. i of NW. i, sec. 3. . . , 167. 00 
 
 SE. iof SW. i, sec. 15 40.00 
 
 Township 3, range 2: 
 
 S. i of NE. i; N. i of NW. i; S. i of SW. i; SE. i, sec. 27 400. 00 
 
 N. i, sec. 35 320.00 
 
 Total Multnomah County 927.00 
 
OEEGON AND CAUFOUNIA LAND GRANT. 161 
 
 Yamhill County, Oreg. 
 [South of base line and west of Willamette meridian.] 
 
 Township 2, range 6: Acres. 
 
 All sec. 21 642 47 
 
 E. i; NE. i of NW. }, sec. 29 36o! 00 
 
 NW. i; W. i of NE. i, sec. 33 240. 00 
 
 Township 3, range 6; 
 
 N. i, sec. 5 320. 64 
 
 Total Yamhill County : 1, 563. 11 
 
 Committee on the Public Lands, 
 
 House of Representatives, 
 
 Saturday, May 25, 1912. 
 The committee was called to order at 11 a. m., Hon. Joseph T, 
 Robinson (chairman) presiding. 
 
 The Chairman. Representative Hawley, from the State of Oregon, 
 is present and will address the committee on H. R. 22002. 
 
 STATEMENT OF HON. WILLIS C. HAWLEY. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I will 
 not take much of your time, for the reason that Mr. Townsend, a 
 special United States Assistant Attorney General, appeared here and 
 presented the legal features of the bill. Mr. Dixon later represented 
 those directly interested in the bill. 
 
 The land granted lies in the western portion of Oregon and extends 
 from Portland to the California line, and through three valleys, the 
 Willamette Valley, the Rogue River Valley, and the Umpqua Valley. 
 The railroad company was to receive the odd-numbered sections for 
 20 miles on each side of the road, and in case the lands within that 
 20-mile strip oa either side had been previously disposed of the 
 company had the right to make lieu selections within strips 10 miles 
 wide outside of the 20-mile strip. 
 
 The road was built after many years, and it ran through the best 
 part of the State of Oregon. The grant included all kinds of land, 
 and I doubt if Congress, at the time the grant was made, knew very 
 much about the character of the lands they were granting. I suppose 
 Congress thought they were mostly agricultural, and for that reason 
 
 Erovided they should be disposed of to settlers. The valley lands had 
 een largely disposed of, consequently the company went into the 
 lieu limits on the outside to take lands. Much of the lieu land was 
 timbered, especially in the southern portion of the State. No one 
 made any complaint of the raih-oad company as long as they disposed 
 of the land; in fact, I suppose few of the people of the State of Oregon 
 knew of the conditions attaching to the grant. The State of Oregon 
 has suffered a great deal from these land grants — wagon-road and 
 railroad land grants — a very considerable portion of the entire 
 domain in the State being granted for the construction of railroads 
 and wagon roads. So when this grant was made no one, I think, 
 paid any particular attention to the specific wording of it, more than 
 that the general grant had been made for the construction of a rail- 
 road. For a while the railroad company disposed of the land they 
 had in small and large tracts; people went on them, buUt homes and 
 
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162 OREGON AND CALIFOBNIA LAND GEANT. 
 
 small towns; lumber companies in more recent years have acquired 
 some of the lands for the purpose of developing the natural resources 
 of the State. That was the reason the grant was made in the form 
 it was made. 
 
 The railroad company would receive a subsidy if they sold the land 
 at a maximum price of $32,000 for every mile of road they constructed, 
 and $32,000 per mile would have constructed, on an average, a better 
 road than was buUt by the company when they first buUt their line 
 and acquired their grant. The Government, at the close of the Civil 
 War, had an enormous debt, and no money in the Treasury, and no 
 means of getting very much revenue even for the maintenance of the 
 Government. And the Government, in order to aid the develop- 
 ment of the State of Oregon — ^which State had taken care of itself 
 during the Civil War and furnished soldiers not only to maintain 
 peace in the State, but in the surrounding States where the Indian 
 tribes were inclined to be rebellious when the Government was in 
 that great struggle — made this grant to encourage the development 
 of Oregon by the construction of a railroad and the settlement of the 
 country. 
 
 The three vallevs mentioned are separated from the coast by moun- 
 tain ranges whicn would average probably 50 or 60 miles wide, and 
 from each other by mountains, so the oiily feasible way to get the 
 products of the people out of the valleys was to get them out by rail. 
 Until 15 years ago timberland, as timberland, was of no special value 
 except to the lumber companies. I can remember withm 20 years, 
 when if a man had to take a piece of timberland in settlement of a 
 debt, he was rather inchned to believe he had "otten a bad bargain 
 at that time, if it was an isolated tract and no lumber mill close by 
 the land. 
 
 About the year 1900 considerable attention was paid through the 
 Eastern States to the development of Oregon. We began to receive 
 large numbers of people from the Eastern States, and demand was 
 made for the purchase of this railroad land. You will note that we. 
 grew, from 426,000 to 672,000 within the last 10 years, an increase in 
 our population of more than 50 per cent. This immigration made a 
 demand for this land, because it was comparatively close to the rail- 
 road. This demand increased the value or the land, and the railroad 
 company began to refuse selling the land, and I know hundreds of 
 . instances where men have gone or sent agents or representatives to 
 the railroad offices in San Francisco with particular descriptions and 
 applications to buy particular pieces of land and with the money 
 required by the law to be paid and were uniformly refused. The 
 people of the State then began to ask. Are we to be always handi- 
 capped by this holding out of use all this land, none of which is more 
 than 30 miles away from the railroad ? Adjoining the city of Grants 
 Pass, a town of about 6,000 people, I am told there is a whole section 
 of land over which the town would naturally grow. It has grown up 
 around it. Down on the Applegate there are 16,000 acres of agricul- 
 tural or grazing land in one general body that can not be secured. I 
 could cite many other instances. 
 
 At a public meeting held in the State of California at the capital city, 
 Sacramento, the question was asked Mr. Harriman what he intended 
 to do with these lands. He said they intended to hold them as a 
 forest reserve of their own. Further attempts on the part of the 
 
OREGON AND CALIPOROTA LAND GEANT. 163 
 
 people to make use of these lands showed that such was the policy 
 of the company. As a result of an agitation, the legislature adopted a 
 memorial to (jongress. And Congress passed a resolution in the first 
 part of the Sixtieth Congress which is the basis of the present suit of 
 the Government against the railroad. It was no iU will of the people 
 against the railroad company that caused that action, but it was the 
 pressure of the people for the opportunity to develop the natural 
 resources of the county. When tne resolution was pending before 
 this committee and before Congress, various attempts were made to 
 incorporate in that resolution relief for those who had acquired lands 
 of the railroad company, but, as Mr. Townsend so ably explained, it 
 was thought impossible to do so without jeopardizing the suit of the 
 Government. Mr. Townsend said there was no intention, so far as 
 he knows, on the part of the Department of Justice to interfere with 
 those who held less than a thousand acres, and that some 46 suits 
 had been instituted against those who held more than a thousand 
 acres. These men who hold more than a thousand acres acquired 
 their lands from time to time at the price the railroad company was 
 willing to sell them for. Mr. Townsend went into an exhaustive 
 argument as to the history of the transfer. 
 
 Mr. Ferris. What percentage of those landholdings of less than 
 1,000 acres each was bought in and conformed with the grant? 
 
 Mr. Hawlet. I think the greater portion of them. 
 
 Mr. Ferris. Within the price of $2.50 per acre? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. Yes. 
 
 Mr. Ferris. You think the greater portion of them was ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. That is my impression. I have not the figures to 
 justify that now, but that is my impression. 
 
 Mr. Ferris. Is there anything in Mr. Townsend's statement, or in 
 the record anywhere, to show just what lands were purchased within 
 the law and what outside the law ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. I think Mr. Townsend was asked by the committee 
 to furnish a schedule of the land. 
 
 Mr. Graham. I think he stated most of it was sold at more than 
 the Government price. 
 
 The Chairman. Practically none of it was sold at the price fixed 
 in the act by the railroads. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. I thought Mr. Ferris's question was as to the acreage. 
 
 The Chairman. Mr. Townsend examined that question very thor- 
 oughly, and his statement is worthy of acceptance in the matter. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. I agree to that. 
 
 Mr. Graham. His statement showed the railroad company ignored 
 the hmitation as to price altogether. 
 
 Mr. Kaker. Mr. Hawley, why is it the people of Oregon are not 
 anxious to have the suit now pending against the railroad pushed to 
 an early determination ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. If there is anybody out there who is not anxious to 
 have the suit decided at the earhest moment possible, I have not met 
 him. 
 
 Mr. Eaker. They are all anxious to have the suit agamst the rail- 
 road company pushed to a final determination ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. So that if the land is to go to the Government to be 
 disposed of to citizens of the United States we may know it, and if it 
 
164 OREGON AND CALIPOENIA LAND GRANT. 
 
 belongs to the railroad companies, they may know it and adjust them- 
 selves to the conditions. 
 
 Mr. Eakee. That being the case, why are they seeking now to 
 retard it by virtue of legislation to eliminate about 400,000 acres from 
 suit ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley, I don't think it wiU retard it. Mr. Townsend's 
 opinion is that it will expedite it. If this bill is not passed, if the 
 committee in its judgment thinks it is not wise to report this biU, in 
 all probability the purchasers, in order to defend themselves, will 
 join hands with the railroad company;, which they have not done up 
 to this time, and will then unite their forces, and that is what the 
 railroad is endeavoring to have done ; they want to defeat this legis- 
 lation in order to combine their interests with those of the purchasers 
 and so make their cases stronger, that the equities of the case may 
 appeal to the court and defeat the Government's claim. 
 
 Mr. Raker. How could a,nyone joining with the railroad company 
 j|,dd to the equity of the railroad company's case ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. I am not a lawyer 
 
 Mr. Raker. Providing that the railroad company had disposed of 
 this land ? It is held now by other parties. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. If the courts hold that the sales to these purchasers 
 already made are to be upheld as rightfully made, that does away 
 with the basis of the Government's action against the company. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Would they not present that fact ? If that is the fact, 
 do you suppose the railroad company will let that fact pass and not 
 present it m its main case now ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. But if these purchasers come in and confess judg- 
 ment and acknowledge in open court that their lands were possibly 
 not acquired according to the strict letter of the law, and pay for 
 them and acquire new titles from the Government under a new law, 
 it will strengthen the Government's case. But that point was argued 
 by Mr. Townsend and was not in my mind to argue. The people, as 
 I nave said, have no ill will against the railroad company. "They want 
 to develop their country, which is natural for them to do. 
 
 Mr. MoNDELL. May I make this suggestion: First, that the com- 
 mittee is very familiar with the history of this case, having gone over 
 it in great detail at the time the resolution was introduced author- 
 izing the beginning of the suit. That suit is now under way. The 
 question before the committee now is whether or not we shall by 
 legislation eliminate from the suit the lands which have been sold, or 
 certain lands which have been sold, and providing also for the entry 
 of the lands if they shall be forfeited, which is really the question 
 before the committee. The early history of the case we are familiar 
 with. 
 
 The Chairman. You should confine your remarks to that point. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. I am glad for the suggestion; but I saw a great many 
 faces here that were not here when we had this matter up in the 
 Sixty-first Congress. 
 
 The Chairman. For your information I will say that we have 
 devoted a great deal of time to these hearings, and I have received 
 some communications from both the Attorney General and the Sec- 
 retary of the Interior, and also Mr. Lafferty since he appeared before 
 the committee in connection with this legislation, and I feel that I 
 
OE.EGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GKANT. 165 
 
 ought to call your attention to them at this time in order that you 
 may, if you desire, express your opinion concerning these communi- 
 cations. The Attorney General states : 
 
 Ol'FICE OF THE AtTOENEY GENERAL, 
 
 Washinyion, D. C, May ^3, 1912. 
 Hod. Joseph T. Robinson, 
 
 Chairman Comniittee on Public Lands, House of Kepresentalive.s. 
 
 Dear Sir: I tave examined the provisions of the bill H. R. 22002, and I have 
 conferred with the Secretary of the Interior respecting it. ^^^lile I agree in general 
 ■with the views expressed by Mr. B. D. Townsend, who appeared before your com- 
 mittee, both the Secretary of the Interior and I think that section fi of the bill should 
 be Somewhat modified. We are not persuaded that a compromise with the purchasers 
 from the Oregon & California Railroad Co. should le authorized at the rigid sum of 
 $2.50 per acre. Assuming that they purchased in good faith and without knowledge 
 of the restrictions contained in the acts of Congress affecting the grant, the case of 
 different purchasers would present different questions. In some instances, purchasers 
 may have improved the lands or made large investments in faith of "the title, and in 
 other cases they may have done nothing but to hold the lands. All of these circum- 
 stances, it seems to me, should be taken into account in making any compromise. 
 Inasmuch as these various questions concern jjeculiarly the administration of the 
 land laws of the United States, I thinlc the compromise proposed in any instance 
 should be assented to by the Secretary of the Interior before it becomes effective. 
 The modification which we propose in section 6 authorizes a compromise made after 
 taking into consideration "all the facts and circumstances respecting the purchase 
 of said lands and the use, occupation, and improvement thereof." 
 
 If the bill should be amended in this respect, it would be satisfactory to the Secre- 
 tary of the Interior and to me. 
 
 Respectfully, Geo. W. Wickersham, Attorney General. 
 
 The Chairman. Mr. LaflFerty also writes a letter, and that wUl be 
 embodied in the record. Also the last bill vs^hich he introduced 
 (H. K. 23719), on this same subject: 
 
 House of Representatives, 
 Washington, D. C, May 18, 1912. 
 Hon. Joseph T. Robinson, 
 
 Chairman Committee on the Public Lands, 
 
 House of Representatives. 
 My Dear Colleague: Some time ago Mr. B. D. Townsend and myself prepared 
 a biU touching the Oregon and CaUfomia land grant, which met with my satisfaction. 
 Senator Bourne introduced the measure in the Senate, and I introduced it in the House. 
 Since that time I have introduced a similar bill in the House (H. R. 23719), which 
 safeguards the rights of those who would desire to settle upon the railroad lands if 
 forfeited. The first bill referred to does not contain such safeguards, but under its 
 provisions I find that the Secretary of the Interior, under what is known as the Picket 
 law, passed a year ago, could withdraw from the homesteader, immediately after the 
 court decision, all lands that might be forfeited. 
 
 Therefore, I have gone carefully into the subject and have drawn the last bill 
 mentioned, which would prevent the withdrawal of these lands from the reach of 
 settlers, if forfeited, without the express assent of Congress. 
 
 My last bill also provides that the more valuable lands shall be disposed of m tracts 
 of 40 acres. It is by far the most practical of any of the bills suggested, in my opinion, 
 and it is the only one to the passage of which I will give my consent. 
 
 I am not overly anxious to have any bill passed at all, because under the law as it 
 stands citizens have the right to go upon these lands, and this right would surely be 
 taken away from them if any of the proposed measures, except the last one I have 
 introduced (H. R. 23719), should become a law. 
 With best regards, very truly, yours, 
 
 A. W. Lafferty. 
 
166 OREGON AND CALIFOBinA LAND GBANT. 
 
 [H. R. 23719. Sixty-second Congress, second session.] 
 
 A BII/L Supplementing the joint resolution ol Congress approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and 
 eight, entitled "Joint resolution instructing the Attorney General to institute certain suits," and so 
 forth. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
 in Congress assembled, That all claims of forfeiture heretofore or hereafter asserted by 
 the Attorney General on behalf of the United States in or by any and all suits in equity, 
 actions at law, or other judicial proceedings instituted pursuant to the joint resolution 
 of Congress, approved April thurtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled "Joint 
 resolution instructing the Attorney General to institute certain suits," and so forth, 
 be, and the same are hereby, ratified and confirmed and are hereby declared to be of 
 the same force and effect as declarations of forfeiture by the Congress of the United 
 States. 
 
 Sec. 2. That none of the lands reverting to the United States by virtue of any right 
 of forfeiture thereto as aforesaid shall, after the passage of this act, be subject to entry 
 under any of the public-land laws of the United States, or to the initiation of any right 
 whatever under any of the public-land laws of the United States, except as hereinafter 
 provided. 
 
 Sec. 3. That none of the lands reverting to the United States as aforesaid shall be 
 or become subject to State selection, railroad indemnity or lieu selection, forest lieu 
 selection, or any other kind of lieu selection or exchange, or to Sioux half-breed scrip, 
 Wyandotte scrip, Porterfield scrip, Valentine scrip, soldiers' additional homestead entry 
 or any other kind of scrip, the intention hereof being to pirohibit the disposition of any 
 of said lands under any limited or special right of selection, location, or entry, except 
 as provided by section seven of this act. 
 
 Sec. 4. That after, but not before, any judgment or decree sustaining any right of 
 forfeiture asserted as aforesaid shall become final, with no right of appeal therefrom, 
 all of the lands so adjudged to have reverted to the United States shall be disposed of 
 under the general public-land laws of the United States, and shall be opened to settle- 
 ment, location, and entry by proclamation of the President under the drawing system, 
 except as to mineral lands, which proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which the 
 lands may be settled upon, located, and entered by persons entitled to make entry 
 thereof under the public-land laws of the United States; and no persons who shall, after 
 the passage of this act, attempt to initiate any right to enter on said lands prior to the time 
 designated, or otherwise in violation of anjr of the provisions of said proclamation, 
 shall be qualified to initiate, exercise, or enjoy any rights whatever as to any of said 
 lands under the publitf-land laws of the United States; the purpose hereof being that 
 all such lands shall be opened to entry at such a time and in such a manner that all 
 persons entitled to make entry thereof shall have equal opportunity therefor: Provided, 
 That the provisions of this section shall not apply to any lands that shall be disposed 
 of under the provisions of section seven of this act: And provided further, That all lands 
 within the present exterior boundaries of any national forest which shall revert to the 
 United States as aforesaid shall become national forest lands, if also at the date of final 
 decree within the exterior boundaries of a national forest, and shall be disposed of only 
 under the public-land laws applicable to forest lands. 
 
 Sec 5. That none of the lands reverting to the United States as aforesaid which are 
 outside of the present exterior boundaries of any national forest shall ever be included 
 in any national forest, or be otherwise withdrawn from homestead entry, unless Con- 
 gress shall hereafter authorize such withdrawal to be made : Provided, That the Presi- 
 dent may classify said lands reverting to the United States according to their value, 
 and may designate certain areas to be disposed of under the homestead law in tracts 
 of not more than forty acres on one-fourth of a quarter section, certain other areas in 
 tracts of not more than eighty acres or one-half of a quarter section, and certain other 
 areas in tracts of not more than one hundred and twenty acres or three-fourths of a 
 quarter section, while the remainder of said lands reverting to the United States shall, 
 when entered under the provisions of the homestead law, be disposed of in tracts of 
 not more than one hundred and sixty acres or a quarter section. 
 
 Sec. 6. That no suits in equitjr, actions at law, or other judicial proceedings shall 
 be instituted pursuant to said joint resolution approved April thirtieth, nineteen 
 hundred and eight, that shall involve any lands sold by the Oregon and California 
 Railroad Company prior to April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, unless the 
 same shall be instituted within one year from the date of the approval of this act: 
 Provided, That this section shall not be construed to apply to any suits in equity 
 heretofore instituted, nor to any of the parties thereto, nor to any of the lands involved 
 therein, nor to the institution of any further suits in equity, actions at law, or other 
 judicial proceedings relating to any of the lands that are involved in said pending 
 suits. 
 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT. 167 
 
 Sec. 7. That the Attorney General is hereby authorized to compromise, upon such 
 terms as may appear to be just and equitable, any suit heretofore or nereafter instituted 
 pursuant to the provisions of said joint resolution approved April thirtieth, nineteen 
 hundred and eight, involving lands sold and conveyed by said Oregon and California 
 Railroad Company prior to September fourth, "nineteen hundred and eight. In any 
 such suit the Attorney General may, in his discretion, stipulate with the defendant or 
 defendants who purchased said lands, or are the successors or assigns of such purchaser 
 or purchasers, that decree shall be entered adjudging that the lands involved therein 
 have been and are forfeited to the United States, and that such lands may be repur- 
 chased from the United States by the purchaser defendant or defendants, or their 
 successors or assigns, under the provisions of this act at the price agreed to in said 
 stipulation. If said purchaser defendant or defendants, or their successors or assigns, 
 shall within six months from the entry of said decree file with the Secretary of the 
 Interior a certified copy of said decree, together with an application to purchase all 
 of the lands adjudged by said decree to have been forfeited to the United States as 
 aforesaid, and shall pay to the Treasurer of the United States the sum agreed upon in 
 said stipulation of compromise for all of the lands so applied for, the Secretary of the 
 Interior shall cause patents to be issued conveying to said purchaser defendant or 
 defendants, and their successors and assigns, all of the right, title, and interest of the 
 United States in and to all of said lands. 
 
 Sec. 8. That the provisions of section seven of this act shall not be construed to apply 
 to the suit, involving approximately two million three hundred and sixty thousand 
 acres, now pending in the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon, 
 wherein the United States of America is complainant and the Oregon and California 
 Railroad Company, Southern Pacific Company, Stephen T. Gage, Union Trust Com- 
 pany, and others are defendants, being designated in the records and files of said court 
 as suit numbered thirty-three hundred and forty; nor shall the provisions of said sec- 
 tion seven of this act be construed to apply to any of the lands involved in said last- 
 described suit, nor to create any rights or privileges whatever in favor of any of the 
 defendants therein. 
 
 Sbc. 9. That nothing in this act contained, nor action taken pursuant to the provi- 
 sions of this act, shall be construed as a condonation of any of the breaches of any of 
 the conditions or provisions annexed to any of the grants designated in said joint reso- 
 lution approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, nor as a waiver of any 
 of said conditions or provisions, nor as a waiver of any right of forfeiture in favor of the 
 United States on account of any breach or breaches of any of said conditions, nor as a 
 waiver of any cause of action or remedy of the United States on account of any breach 
 or breaches of any of said conditions or provisions, nor as a waiver of any other rights 
 or remedies existing in favor of the United States. 
 
 The Chairman. You will notice in this communication Mr. Lafferty 
 states he first gave his consent to the passage of that law, but submits 
 a bill (H. R. 23719) introduced April 24, 1912, by him, which he 
 states has been prepared with great care, safeguarding the rights of 
 settlers, as he says in his communication to the chairman, and he 
 says he thinks this bill should be passed and that the former bill 
 introduced by himself should not be passed. I make that statement, 
 as I presume you are not familiar with the provisions of the last bill 
 (H. R. 23719) introduced by Mr. Lafferty. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. No; I am not. 
 
 The Chairman. But I thought it proper that the record should 
 contain these communications. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. You spoke of a letter from the Secretary of the 
 
 Interior. „ , t • i • 
 
 The Chairman. No; but the Secretary of the Interior desires to 
 be heard concerning this matter, my information is, and also -the 
 Attorney General, and I have suggested to them that they appear 
 
 before tKe committee. . „ „ ,r tt i ^ j t 
 
 Mr Taylor. Why wouldn't it be well for Mr. Hawley to deter 
 further presentation of the matter. If Mr. Lafferty does not want 
 his own bill passed, Mr. Hawley is liable to change his mmd, and it 
 seems to me Mr. Hawlev ought to introduce a bill he can stay by. 
 
168 OREGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GEANT. 
 
 and then we can have a hearing when these parties can be heard and 
 not take up any more time now. 
 
 Mr. Hawlet. Might I suggest that it is in the wisdom of this com- 
 mittee, outside of the wisdom of any particular member, to frame a 
 bill from such material it has before it and from what is suggested at 
 the hearings that will meet the conditions as to these lands? 
 
 Mr. Ferris. You must reaUze the fact that we have 400 bills before 
 this committee, and most of the members here are on other com- 
 mittees, and the time is getting very short now, and we have not the 
 time to give to hearings on bills, especially on difficult matters, that 
 don't seem to meet with very general approval. 
 
 The Chairman. Have you prepared any opinion concerning the 
 suggestion made by the Attorney General ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. As to the suggestion made by the Attorney General, 
 I told Mr. Townsend and I told everyone that I was working strictly 
 in cooperation with the Department of Justice — that nothing be done 
 to jeopardize the Government's suit against the railroad or that will 
 embarrass the Government in any way. 
 
 Mr. Graham. I would suggest that Mr. Lafferty be requested to 
 submit in writing the particular differences between the new bill and 
 the old one and that his letter and the whole matter be referred to a 
 subcommittee for the purpose of comparing the two bills and report- 
 ing to this committee. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. I have made my prehminary statement, and my 
 conclusions are very brief, and if I could conclude them at this time 
 they would come in connected order. 
 
 The Chairman. How long will you take ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. Seven or eight nainutes. 
 
 The Chairman. Very well. 
 
 Mr. MoNDELL. May I ask Mr. Hawley one or two questions, bring- 
 ing out the points that are really before the committee? The bul 
 before us, or the bills before us, or, rather, the propositions before us, 
 the important feature of them is the proposition to exempt from the 
 proceedings now in court the lands which the railroad company have 
 parted title with and to confirm them when the purchasers make the 
 
 Eayment of $2.50 an acre. Are you in favor of that proposition? 
 »o you want to have that done ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. I was coming to that. The purchasers from the 
 railroad company who bought quantities of land in excess of the 
 1,000 acres bought them at the market price at the time they ac- 
 quired them. Some lands were acquired in large bodies and some in 
 smaller tracts. Some of this land is at present being developed by 
 the operation of sawmills. On other lands operations will belsegun. 
 The lumber product forms a considerable portion of the product that 
 we send -outside the State in the course of a year. These purchasers 
 when they bought their lands could have bought other lands equal 
 in timber value for practically the same price, but they bought these 
 lands in order to consohdate their holdings so that they would not 
 have to log across lands owned by other parties. The amount they 
 
 {)aid for these lands at the time was th« market price, and for some 
 ands they paid a considerable sum. While some lands are more 
 valuable at the present time than they were when they were pur^ 
 chased, yet that is one of the fortunes of investors, to have invest- 
 ments increase or decrease in value. These people want to go on 
 
OEEGON AND CALIFOENIA LAND GRANT, 169 
 
 with their work. Mr. Dixon, who appeared before you the other day, 
 represents a company whose mill burned down at Springfield. It 
 was a very valuable mill, and yet he can not afford to rebuild the mill 
 and employ his men to continue operations unless he knows whether 
 he can log by sections in a consohdated body or whether he shall log 
 in alternate sections. 
 
 Mr. MoNDELL. These reasons and arguments have all been placed 
 before the committee. As one member of the committee, I should 
 like to have your personal and individual opinion in concrete state- 
 ment. Do you desire this committee to pass legislation which will 
 exempt the lands sold by the railroad company from the suit, or do 
 you not ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. I do; and I was coming to that. 
 
 Mr. MoNDELL. If that is done, do you think there should be a uni- 
 form additional charge placed upon this land so exempted ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. As I was just about to say, Mr. Mondell, when you 
 asked the question 
 
 Mr. Mondell. I understand the arguments pro and con. I want 
 to get your opinion. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. I want to give my opinion; but I am used to giving 
 it in my own way. I am very glad to be interrupted, but I am m the 
 habit of expressing my opinion in my own language, and I get along 
 better in my own way. 
 
 Mr. Mondell. Sometimes you get along better if you give the com- 
 mittee the information it desires. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. I think you are right about that. Now, in order to 
 enable these people to go on with their logging operations and for the 
 general benefit and development of the State, I believe that some 
 relief of this kind ought to be granted and that these people ought 
 to know what their status is, and if this bill is passed they can go 
 into court and confess judgment and know that they will have their 
 lands. As to the price of $2 .50 an acre, I believe thej' have already 
 paid what the land was worth at the time they acquired it, and to 
 pay $2.50 per acre now is in the nature of a gift to the Government. 
 When the Government made the grant it intended to part with 
 these lands finally and definitely, with no intention of making any 
 money whatever out of them, but with the intention of filling the 
 State of Oregon with settlers and industries and of developing this 
 new country. That was the purpose of the Government — to part 
 with its title and get nothing back but the development of a new and 
 unsettled country. 
 
 These purchasers paid the market price at the time they pur- 
 chased. They are willing to come in and pay $2.50 per acre more, 
 not because it is due the Government or because they should pay this 
 further amount, but because they desire to quiet title and go on with 
 their business. 
 
 The Chairman. Do you think that the price should be uniform in 
 case the committee reports legislation affecting the matter and limit- 
 ing to $2.50 an acre, or do you think the Secretary of the Interior 
 ought to be given discretion in fixing the price according to the rela- 
 tive equities of the respective purchasers ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. I believe that $2.50 proposition would, in a blanket 
 manner, generally meet the equities of the situation, if any price at 
 all should be charged; but if the Department of Justice, after a more 
 
170 OEEGON AND CALIFORNIA LAND GBANT. 
 
 intimate investigation, thinks that some of the land should pay less 
 or more, I am wUling to agree to that for the good of the State, for 
 that is all the interest I have in the matter. But I don't want it put 
 in such a form that they can go and compel these people to pay the 
 present value of the land. I don't think that would oe fair, and I 
 believe that a fixed maximum would be better. 
 
 Mr. MoNDELL. You want a maximum ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. Yes. 
 
 The Chairman. What maximum would you suggest? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. I had thought that $2.50 was a fair maximum, 
 because that is a million dollars contributed to the Government 
 Treasury on a body of land the Government parted title with abso- 
 lutely for the purposes for which it is now being used. 
 
 Jklr. MoNDELL. rassing over that for the moment, because we 
 understand your views in regard to that, if the committee deemed 
 it wise to provide for such an exemption and confirmation, is it your 
 opinion that we should, or are you iaclined to insist we shall, in 
 addition thereto, provide in advance of the settlement of the suit 
 for the disposition of the remaining lands in case the Government 
 wins its suit ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. Well, I have been working with my colleague, Mr. 
 Lafferty, in this, but my opinion is that the disposition of the lands 
 yet owned by the railroad could easily wait until the suit is decided. 
 I have had considerable trouble since the suit was inaugurated. 
 For instance, Chicago companies have been sending printed matter 
 offering to sell locations to people preliminary to bupng the lands 
 still held by the railroad company, and I have been burdened with 
 letters from persons so approached who desire to know the facts in 
 the case. They write to know how they can get the land, sending 
 me the literature of these Chicago companies. I am afraid no legis- 
 lation will prevent that. 
 
 The Chairman. Is there any uncultivated land that tlie Govern- 
 ment has there now ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. Yes. 
 
 The Chairman. What price does the Government put on it now? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. When they sell timber land — they are not selling 
 much now, I think, but when they did, they appraised the stumpage 
 value of the timber and also put a value on the land, as though it had 
 no timber. But Sante Fe or Northern Pacific scrip, felling from $10 
 to S12 an acre, has largely interfered with sales of timber land for 
 cash. The price per acre also depends upon the quantity of timber 
 per acre, so that it is difficult to state an average price. But the 
 price of scrip fixes the maximum value. 
 
 Mr. Graham. Suppose that particular land had remained all these 
 years in the Government, has there been any legislation or any poHcy 
 of the Government in the meantime which would enable you to state 
 whether the Government would stiU hold it at $2.50 an acre, or 
 whether it would have increased in price on that particular land ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. The land would naturally have increased in value 
 with the development of the country and demands for land covered 
 with timber. 
 
 Mr. Graham. Why not at this time treat it as if it was never out 
 the Government's hands and fix a maximum now such as would have 
 been fixed if it had remained in the Government's hands ? 
 
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 Mr. Hawley. The objection to that was this: People have been 
 led to buy these lands. The attorneys of the Government, as Mr. 
 Townsend said, supposed the titles were good and passed them. It 
 has been a long period of years since the grant was made, and people 
 bought the land supposing the titles obtained were good. The pur- 
 chasers, in many cases at least, exercise more than ordinary diligence. 
 The later patents themselves did not recite the act that contained 
 the lirnitation. These purchasers paid a fair price, the market price, 
 for their lands. If you now fix the value of the land, and require the 
 purchasers to pay a, full value price as if the Government had never 
 parted with them, it would be unfair to them, and require them to 
 purchase the lands at their market value, twice. 
 
 Mr. Graham. But ordinary diligence, or the highest diligence, 
 would not mend a bad title. Why should it in this case ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. If the Government said itself through its agency, the 
 Interior Department, that the titles were good, would not citizens be 
 justified in believing the titles to the land were good ? If the Govern- 
 itself was not at fault, it would be a different proposition. Have you 
 concluded your questions ? 
 
 Mr. Graham. Did I understand you to ask the question, if the 
 Interior Department gave an opinion which was a wrong opinion that 
 would estop the Government from setting up its rights ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. While my reply was in the form of a question, I 
 intended it as a statement. I thought you had another question. - 
 
 Mr. Dent. The point is, if the Government misleads an individual 
 to buy and take a bad title, the Government is at fault. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. Yes, sir. I think I have exhausted my eight minutes. 
 
 Mr. Eaker. It seems to me that when this original legislation was 
 
 Eassed in regard to authorizing the suits the people were anxious to 
 ave the railroad lands forfeited. That was the position. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. The people were anxious to have the railroad lands 
 disposed of, either by specific performance or by forfeiture. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Under the original legislation in the State of Oregon 
 the people were anxious to have the railroad lands forfeited to the 
 United States because of the fact they had not complied with the 
 grant. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. Either to have the terms of the act enforced or for- 
 feiture declared, whatever remedy the courts should decide was the 
 better remedy. 
 
 Mr. Raker. Now the fight is entirely by the settlers, or those who 
 obtained land, to prevent the suit going on to final determination. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. Not in the least. 
 
 Mr. Raker. You realize that the testimony has not been taken 
 yet; it has not been decided by the district circuit court; they can 
 then a,ppeal to the court of appeals and to the Supreme Court of the 
 United States. Why don't you dispose of the suit now pending 
 determination of the question whether or not this land is to be for- 
 feited beifore time and labor is spent by other individuals in the 
 meantime ? 
 
 Mr. Hawley. The suit will go on as to the 2,300,000 acres held by 
 the railroad whether this legislation is passed or not; it will go on 
 better, in my judgment, and I think in the judgment of the Depart- 
 ment of Justice, if this bill is passed. But in the meantime, if this 
 relief legislation is not passed, great industries in the State of Oregon 
 
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 will stand still, 'mills will be closed, railways will be removed, and 
 that great industry paralyzed in central Oregon. Men have said 
 they can not afford to operate on alternate sections and can not 
 afford to cut the timber on disputed sections and be subject to crimi- 
 nal prosecution under the law. I earnestly urge a favorable and 
 early report upon the bill. "' 
 
 Mr. Graham. I move that bills 22002 and 23719 be referred to a 
 subcommittee, with instructions to confer with Mr. Lafferty, and 
 report to this committee the differences between the old bill and the 
 new bill. 
 
 The Chairman. Do you desire the subcommittee shall also hear 
 the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Interior, or shall they 
 be heard by the full committee ? 
 
 Mr. Graham. I think the whole committee should hear them, and 
 it would simply save the full committee the trouble of having hearings 
 on these two bills. 
 
 The Chairman. If there are no objections the chair will appoint 
 k subcommittee for the purpose suggested. There being no objec- 
 tions, the chair will appoint Mr. Graham, Mr. Ferris, and Mr. Mondell 
 to act as the subcommittee. 
 
 Mr. Hawley. 1 would like to make the request to have the privilege 
 of revising my remarks. 
 
 The Chairman. Very well. 
 
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