Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-10
DECISIONS OF THE INTERIOR
DEPARTMENT.

Washington, May 4.-CoppS Land O,cn,er
for May contains the following decisions of
the Interior Department
In the case of Bellows ct al owners of the
| Champion mine it is held that the party who
entered the land under the Homestead laws,
and received patent therefor, acquired no
title to known mines therein. The owners of
such mines may make application for patent
the same as though no homestead entry had
been allowed covering their claims.
All the mines located i'll the Black Hills,
| Dako~, should be recorded, to fully insure
them in regard to title therefor, where such
| locations were made prior to the ratification
of the treaty, to wit February %, 1877
In the case of Null VS.. Rolls and Ross, it
is held where land has been returned as agri
cultural i'll character on township plat, but
the township is afterwards withdrawn as min
eral land, the burden of proof is shifted upon
the agricultural claimant to show 10 mineral
character of the tracts he claims.
The Donation Act of 1850 expired by limit
alton December l, 1865, and settlers under
thai Act will not be allowed after the expira-
ton of the Act to set up claim to lands
falling outside of their orig inal notification,
ard over which they have exercised no legal
control.
The heirs or devisees of deceased home
stead claimant cannot be held responsible for
the failure of public officer to administer
upon the estate, and the statute does not run
against the heirs during the time which
elapsed after the death of the claimant and
the date the administrator takes charge of
the estate, provided the heirs are without
notice of their rights and the estate is admin
istered upon within seven years.
Where party who has made a timber-cul
foi1 TO- ID, ha
by the Act of March -, 1874, within one
year, his entry should be cancelled upon salts
factory proof of such failure.
Homestead claimants can now make their
final proof before County Judge, instead of
being compelled to travel to the local Land |
office
A well held Humboldt ranch and something |
of it's history are thus given by our meaty |
at Winnemucca.
Yesterday we accepted an invitation of Geo |
P. Harding Esq, to take a buggy ride to the |
Badger ranch, owned by j. G. Fairbank 1t |
is located on the Humboldt, about ten miles
east of Winnemucca, and was taken up by it's
present owner fourteen years ago, when Win
remucca was not i'll existence and the Central
Pacific Railroad not surveyed through
Nevada. In those days the Indians were on
The war path, and it was all man. calp was
worth to travel from Fairbanks to the settl-
nent in the lower part of the country; ye
strange to say; he and his family though
llways in danger, were never molested by
avases. The ranch, which consists of about
900 acres taken up by Fairbank & Negus,
s located along the Humboldt river, and is
me of the most extensive haying and grazing
racts on the river. By a system of levees,
600 acres of swamp or tule land has been
and is now producing excellent
rasses where, few years ago, tules flour
shed luxuriantly and myriads of waterfowl
uilt their nests and reared their young.
his one inpenetrable morass is now reclaimed
he tules have died out, and, except when
he Humboldt is unusually high, is sufi-
iently dry for agricultural purposes This
eason the river is low, and it is necessary to 4
'rigate haylands even on the Humboldt bo,- r
om. This contingency is provided for by v
itches from the river by which at least 900 (
cres of meadow land can be irrigated. As o
mere is a prospect of a short hay crop this
eason, unless where the bottoms can be
CODED by artificial means, Mr. Fairbank G
i'll be likely to reap the reward of his labor
ext Winter.