The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-01-18
SETTLING OF PUBLIC LANDS
apNnRA4, ANSWERS TO MANY SPECIAL
INQUIRIES
Rom The Cincinnati Times

From The Cincinnati Times
|. The larger portion 81 Nc uhiqlPf'"
on nrcpltivarcd soil OF the United Sta Is,
inntn6in0 neaIly al! Of that Of the states
# Tebr|ska Nevada, and Oregon, as also
ofoII tha territories, Is still the proper'y
ri the Federal Union, and is known as
the Public Domain
wnile n,ach Of The domain is sterile,
rocky. MOUNTAINOUS, and thus unfit cr
emit, vation, a large portion Is fertile ami
ovcrlltnt, Including thousands of square
miles winch, being ;reeicss and very tim
t. orassecl, have 0ern accounted desert,
b1. which prove quite productive WHEN
reclaimed by irrigation.
g Asa gen.rui rule, any part OF this
don;a n nor already granted TO or occn'
lied liz private owners is open TO settl,
n. ~ 5y auv enc lie who sqnats ~
. ,rant t. wlich hc has 10 'tle, is re
parded as holding il by presumption. Ii
il 1T course liable to ne, but seldom l.,
q. o>-, .~ed i:g 53au file pu' cha,er.
The government prof - a quarter
src.ial. 400 acro>) to any one who s'ttItS
n..5., p. traces fr winch ~ adverse title 90
p exists. efe@.s. i hHbitntiUU, and i've
on i las five }eIfs. He has 10 pay
taa Dap.ts auu legal 'urnalit Is requ1r
ing ;.Dot so - all. Tins is called
~. ing E, h0nlo~tead
5 C,ngy,s> u;,- from time 20 time ma 4
eXten i've sUats 81 land to states at
c.n,.,...es III All f The construction -
r. lroens through tie punItc doma".
Ta4sa grants are usuaity Of alternate ST..
tian- lr -unarl m..ps) Tor d certain dis
tance on elthrr s1de OF the projected rail-
road
G. Tue alternate sections reserved by
tie gavrrnmeut are doubled III price;
AMI .-c who settles OF tNe~c and proceeds.
t. acquire = }tsme unoer the Homestead
acy S lowed eighty instead OF the usual
one hnuGred ana sixty acres
T TIE general price OF The pnhlic lands
is 81 Is pr acre, or $500 10 100 auLes
III. I.Gvrilte ,ccji u. re.arV,d by th"
Government dong the tIErs ~ railroads
are hei.i at louD.c prlce. nr Sl.5Oper acre,
s Tie ralIrnad companies generally
clIarg, mprc Tor tLelr alternate sections ,
bur rs ne Governments land IS held at
s. 80 ser acre, and eighty acr's ct 1t III ~
b. Cqurtd hv settlement + less t''"fi
$50, the governments sections are likely
tu have the preference.
}. Il Is deCiuediy advisable That those
VIII. huv means should buy their lands,
either IT the governments or OF the rail-
,"ad L plttiudes all c ntrO"ersy as III
the due perform tuCe IT the homestead e
qliremrnts, gives all instant and perfect
utic and enables the owner To sell and
convey, 90 and connie, lease or rent, with
ou peru OF creating al adverse title 81
invaiiduting his own.
10. NJ one can Ieg'lty locJtr, whetheI
with cash OF scrip, quarter section Hc.n
ally In til" p0-s'S>lun, by legal occupancy
and reSlde"ce, IT Il settler, though he lt>
not pad aud does not mean to pay Cor 1t
But This principle does uot apply to h,
ALTERNATE sections granted to railroads
Which do non rt cosnlze pre- emptions.
IL a quar5,r section nj public lands il
III necessarily regular quarter Of s"m'
designated sclinn, but may he made III
q 1--WE c1g htcs or four forties forming
one compact bndy, through these wet'
parts ii different quarter sections tech
uIcally conslucred.
Sucm Is the substance IF the avs aD'
r,gulatI"IIa governing the acquisition +"
psDlIc lands by indlvl tuaIs, as we under
sand them. We trust this conpil4tit,
answers most 1T he questions addressed
10 us whcreI0 we are unable to Civ
special replies
A YEARS RAILROAD ACCIDENTS =
From record ut the railroad disasters II
the United States, dating from the begin
mag OF Nov, mber, 1870, t" the end y
Oct"bfr, 1871, VIZ CLEAN the fOll0win;
fact. She report n question Is compile
simply from newspaper records of CauSu
alitCs by rail, aud is thus only au approxl
=, 20 ft.i7th rh. III .,i,
t.h!e comprises returns of 1917 railroa,
''acuidents," The greater portion Of whlc
W're rightly speaking, not accidents u
all 1t shows a total of 81 killed ait
254 wounded, rs the result of collisions
| cnmntive explosions, giving way q
britg. s, and trains running off the track
Were our railroads worked as they ough
to be, it is peri, city obvious that COLI
sions III least ought to rank as imposslUl
occurrences. OF this class of accidents
there were 40 IN all duricg The period re
ferred to, showing a total OF 108 person
killed and gil wounded. Thae is to sHy
two thirds Of the killed and nearly one
thIrd of the wounded were beyond an,
doubt, victims of the negligent or penuri
Gus management Of railroad corporations
The foremost place in the recoId 0
slaughter is occupied by the Revere dis
a>ter,on August &c; the New Hambur.
tragedy on February 8. follows in the
magn tuGe Of its results; while the traii
thrown from bridge at narper's River
Tennessee, and the collision at Edwards
vile, H., take the third and fourtl
places. These few events alone account
tur seventy nine dead and eighty nine
wounded, while if the accident ut Bangor
Maine, on August 8, be added to the list