The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-05-25
NEW RAILROAD LAND RES
 ERVATION.

ERVATI0N.
 The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Com pany have just completed their surveys on the Pacific end of the route. The road Is definitely located from San Francisco to san Miguel Mission on the border Of San Luis Obispo county. For the greater part of this distance 1t Is substantially coast road. The contour of the coast is closely followed until the line passes around Monterey Bay Thence southward the line bears away from the coast fifteen miles or more until San Miguel Mission is intersected. IL appears that plat of this location was filed in the General Land Office 1t Washington on the I2th day of March last, and duplicate show ing the line of the road, together with a map defining the 20-mile reservation of pub Ec land, was filed in the Land Office in this city to-day, together with the following let ter:
 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
 GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
 WasHrSGToS, D. C., April 22, 1872 )
 Register aad Receicer, Ssa Prancisco. Cai.- Gentlemen: transmit herewith a diagram showing the definite location of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, under Act of July 2 |, 1866, Stat Vol II, p. 292, from San Fran cisco to San Miguel Mission, Cal, showing also the twenty and thirty mile limits of the land grant under said Act; and you are here by directed to withhold from pre-emption, all the odd numbered sections falling within those limits, both surveyed and unsurveyed, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise ap- propriated, and free from pre-emption or other claims or rights at the time the line of said road was designated by filing plat thereof in this office chich nds MgTch l2- 1872.
 The even numbered sections within the twenty mile limits you will increase to S2.50 an acre, and dispose of them at that ratabil ity; and only under the pre-emption and homestead laws. The even sections outside of this twenty mile limit are not affected by this withdrawal.
 Claims initiated by settlers under the pre- emption laws prior to the right of the road attaching March l2, 1872, are not affected by this order, etc. Very respectfully,
 WILLIS DRUMMoND,
 Commissioner.
 Few persons, we apprehend, were aware that the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Con- pany had any land within the limits of this State But turning to the Act of July, 1866, by which the Company was incorporated, we find the following requirements as to To- ltion:
 Beginning at or near the town of Spring field, in the State of Missouri, thence to the western boundary line of said State, and thence by the most eligible route as shall be determined by said Company to a point on the Canadian river, thence to the town of Albuquerque, on the Rio del Norte, and thence by way Of the Agua Fria or other suitable pass, to the head waters of the Col orado Chiquito. and thence along she thirty fifth parallel of latitude, as near as may be found most suitable for railway route to the Colorado river at such point as may be selected by said Company for crossing, thence by the most practicable aad eligible route to the Pdcifcn
 By the charter, the Company is authorized to build road from Springfield, Missouri, to San Francisco, the latter being the most eli gible point on the Pacific.
 The second section of the same Act grants the right of way, with the usual privileges. In the third section of the same Act there is granted to the Company t,oeaty alternate sec tions per mile on each side of such line as may be adopted through the Territories of the United States, and tea alternate sections per mile on each side of the located line where 1t passes through any State. When the public lands have been exhausted in the States, the right Is extended to take the ten sections within ten miles beyond the first limit.
 We find chartered line of railroad under this Act from Missouri to an indefinite point on the Pacific; with the privilege of reaching that point by the most eligible route. The route and the point have been determined by the Company, and in conformity there with the plats have been filed and rcserva- tions made. It Is clear also under the Act cited, the land grant runs with the entire line of the road from Missouri to San Fran cisco.
 There is very little available Government land between San Francisco and Monterey Bay. The lands once sought to be made available for the San Jose Railroad Company as part of the Southern Pacific, were not allowed by the Department. But south of San Jose the lands marked as reserved on the plat filed by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, with the additional ten miles limit, extended for some distance nearly to the ocean, overlapping, as it would seem, the lands now designated in the plat now filed by the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Com pany. But further south, the lines of the two roads, as designated by the plats filed, diverge so far that one does not appear to interfere with the other.
 In San Luis 0bispo, Santa Barbara, and other counties there are some bodies of pub lie lands still held by the Government, and which could probably be made available for the construction of the Atlantic and Pacific road. The country within which selections may be made is thirty miles wide, and prob ably within these limits considerable grazing lands will be found. The resuscitation of the grant, so far as it relates to California. is fact of much significance. -Buuetia.