The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-04-10

In all arguments and reports that have
been made to Congress in favor Of the Nc
Garrahan claim, much stress has been laid
upon q survey Of the land under on act ap-
proved June 2, 1862. This act Of 1862 was
introduced by Mr.. Blair, of Missouri. The
necessity for this new survey will be apparent
from the following quotations from On article
on this subject In city contemporary, which
also shows the deep fraud on the part of
the claimant,
"Gomez's petition to the Land Commits
sioner, filed February 5, 1858, prayed for
for three leagues Of land granted him under
Mexico In 1874, as follows: "Called Panoche
Grande, (now lying aud being In the county
Of San Joaquin bounded as follows; on the
| south by lands Of Francisco Aryas; on the
| north by lands Of Julian Urzua and the low
hills, and on the west by barren hills, as ex-
planned by the map hercunto annexed" al
leging that the map was the same which
| accompanied the original espediente.
SIN the original petition to Micheltoreno
the following boundaries are laid down;
The place known by the name Of Panoche
Grande, bounded on the north with Don Ju-
| Ian Urza, on the south with the hills, on
the east with the valley Of Tulares, and on
the west by Don Francisco Aryas, which land
Is the extent Of three square leagues, as cx.
planned by the map which l will present,
more correctly than the one now offered
with this petition
"By comparing these descriptions 1t is
found:
| THAT the south boundary Of the first Is
the lands Of Francisco Aryas : In the Sec
| ond the south boundary Is Tho hills
| That the north boundary Of the first Is
by lands Of Julian Urza and the low hills :
and In the second the lands of Julian Urza.'
THAT the west boundary Of the first Is
barren hills : in the second 'by Don Fran
cisco Aryas.'
"That the east boundary in the second is
the Valley OF Tulares, in the first not given.
"Here Is considerable discrepancy In
boundaries and location, that indicates a
shifting disposition In the several maps and
petitions pertaining to the bogus grant, very
ca-iy In the day in point Of geography, but
esI pecially IN contents. From certain land
marks used for reference, to construct maps
and surveys, from the Surveyor Generals
| office OF California, Lauren Epson, Surveyor
General, deposes, June II, 1865, that the
location described in Gomez's petition to the
Land Commission, and to Micheltorene In
1874, have been fully established In his
Office"
The following facts were established by
this;
81. That the land nominated In Gomez's
two petitions was not on the location of the
quicksilver mines of the New Idria Com
pany.
''2. That the northern line of the private
survey subsequently made by authority of a
special enactment of Congress chow carried
we shall see hereafter) on the ID of June,
1869, covering the land of the New Idrla
Company, was SIXTEEN miles south Of ne
southern boundary of the plat described In
the petition of Gomez, and decreed to Nc
Garrahan and Ord by the district court on
the 9Th of February, 1858, afterwards set
aside, and then subsequently confirmed by
Haight on the 4th OF August, 1862.
"Thls puts conclusiyely these different par
cells Of land sixteen miles apart by their near
est boundary.
SO. That the works the New Idria Com
pany being six miles south of the northern
boundary Of the tract now claimed by Nc
Garrahau, are twenty-five miles from the
nearest point on the tract decreed and con-
frmed to Gomez, or McGarrahan and Ord.
90. 1t was fourd that If the claim of Co.
mez Chen McGarrahan 81 Coz had ex-
tended over the intervening space of sixteen
miles, as above stated, and taken in the ex-
tremest boundaries Of both the four leagues
dccreed to McGarrahan of the Panche
Grande Rancho, in which are the works of
the New ldra Company, his claim would
have been seventy leagues In extent instead
Of four"