Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1880-09-16
ss Sugsles Nsrald.
nussEL SLOUGH MEMO
Z. RIAL. E
1sl13szs Pzoscat their Case to President
Hayes.


n1ss BY several hundred of the
- Of the Mussel Slough coun.
~ Tu1aro and Fresno counties,
11pon President Hayes at his
Nh In the Palace Hotel last
H1lay evening to present an adj
1Gs oIgned by nearly 800 citizens
&hQDo countless inviting him to
~ HApford, In the Mussel Slough
lily, to see for himself the peo-
= and view for himself the result
tholr great labor In reolaimIng
onort and making Of 1t o COM
1ni1y Of happy homes and fruit
~ kindly aud courteously re.
"a by the President, who with
nnSh Interest inquired into the
|116t uD OF the case. He received the
11o01 and assured the committee
( - be would give it careful con-
6(1eEntion and patient investiga.
TO, ~ we'll as such action as he
o0Id End proper In the premises.
- committee speak in warm
Enns Of the Kindness of their re-
ption by the President. and of the
0km interest manifested by him
whatever concerns the best in
5000 OF the State. The address
~ y foilows:
< ~ HIS Ezcellency Rutherford b.
6res, President of the United
S hates: We, the undersigned,
1o1aens Of the United States, and
Ir61ldonts Of what lie known as the
Euasol Slough country In the coun.
- ~ Tulare and Fresno, in. the
E 1Sto Of California, on our own be-
661G and on behalf of hundreds of
) &1hor citizens, whose signatures we
<nyo not had time to procure, con-
Z @1otulAte you and ourselves on
onr opportune presence at this
i Inno In the western extremity OF
4 - Bopublic; and present to you
~, their respectful address, to
nlehs in your triple capacity OF q
i = 6yietlan man, an American
g I1lEop, and executive head OF the
odoRaI Government, we earnestly
z Im3ito your personal and serious at
nflon. We have the strongest
6onoible claim to your considerA-
3 ,E-x - xr-. -. h.rd .oIyk;nnl -,
~ .L s9. vuo nanu, Pv .ho n,.l III
!. sl.tHs =. uis.u =, So'o .h Va yS nnro
1Ot VI .no LIZ. ,,,,tn-
ks.Vnr,ssss nonopoi.es' % R"v
fslthful to the Constitution and
the laws, inseparAbly linked to our
z oountTy by social and domestic ties,
4 Industrious, and moral In our
sst.o =. "vo,ase s .n.eis en0o or nru
S S' ; Hpeson.,Ss .,,D yo,y
sec VI pont,cai anu aeas.vuSs
,n.cn a.nous usceu. v.IiAG S anu
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ao& asA'~ Va s"n'Neu &c 'no
nETTLERs' LEAGUE OF TuLARE
= Ano Fresno counties lor tne inwtu,
xosectlon, tnfough tne cons.ltuteo
SsnoritIes, oI our Iignts W Tue
es anu properly we nave Gre
49,, ana upon tne OASIS, wnicn un-
Sl!ie. ou! Poiltical !nsI.tu.lone
80 Al enuguteneu staSesmausnip
sne Cniceu O'"tes, VI tne ia'I
0IstkInution OF the puoiic iahds not
snet WISE "ppIoPrlateu among ac'
eaA nuu quaIiHen sesI'ers. IN 1000
SS9 ooutneIn racine tanroad OF
flsi~S ~ sssociat;on IN whieh IN
accordance with public statute,
the general route OF its projected
railroad, from San jose to San Di.
go and from thence to the eastern
boundary Of the State, was defined.
1his route was not within from
ninety to one hundred miles Of any
oS the lands occupied by US, and 1t
y doubtful, moreover, whether the
: present Southern Pacific Railroad
Company, established under what
arc termed Amended Articles Of
Association, and under which var.
touB other railroad companies have
been consolidated, is either the
same corporation or its legal sue
csseor. In 1866 Congress formed
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
Company, and made to that corpo-
ration grant, dependent upon the
completion of it's proposed line of
railroad In sections Of twenty-five
miles each, of the odd sections of
vacant public land within twenty
miles Of it's route on either side. A
provision of the Act
ExTrNDED THE GRANT
~ 1nen exlating Southern Pacific
ssiiloaq Company OF California,
Xnlcn. Jan. .. 1857, filed in the De-
Yertment OF the Interior map In
ynscn, from the town of Hollister,
y een benito county 1t detected
snn its original lines IN Its arti.
ole. q sesocistion IN sucn mannel
q 20 pierce the neaft OF the MUSE
9'oIgn country. IN 1871, oy join
sssolutiop, congress attempted tt
Sute tn's OBVIOUS ln1ractlon OF TN
sW, spu me company, recognizing
re necessity VI patching togethe
corporate existence and of UNITING
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