Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-04

tiers where they belong. Mr.. Rector ON
section forty-four is the only person that
remember as being affected by reason
of his survey not being full, and we have
no power 10 make 10 different. There ia
a lap OF ninety-six varas In running from
the nearest old corner north of 1t to an
intersection with line brought east
from line Of old corners on the west
line OF block three, same surveys, al
which we were compelled TO stop. Mr..
Rector's field is inclosed with a brush
fence and one wire, and he loses three or
four acres of cleared land Mr.. Rector
and Mr.. Napier are the only sufferers that
know of. On the other hand Mr.. Bar
net on section thirty-eight would have
lost the water on his section II full sec
lions could be given TO all As an exam.
pie OF the motives that actuated some of
the slgners Of the petition to the land
board, when told that full course and
distance would have given the water on
his section TO section forty one, Mr.. Bar
net replied that he would lose his water
to spite the railroad.
Among others who signed the protest
are Mr.. Morris and Mr.. Wilson, who live
on Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado
Railway company land, with which we
/ law hObhAhH W NOs MI w lisOD lgDO-
rantly located, poor emigrant, on rail-
road section, where he made valuable i'm
provements, That is his Ignorance.
Many others had as poor reasons, and
| the protest does not represent the senti-
ment Of the county. We retraced the
old work, and in dong il found it
necessary to run many trial lines, but
we invariably removed All corners that
we found it necessary to change in fitting
the sections to old corners. We spent
sixty days locating about two hundred
sections, which would have been the
work OF but one-fourth the time IL
course x and distance could have
governed. We have completed the
work in Fisher county, and | have
noticed several new farms and other
improvements made on the lines run by
us. Your correspondent seeks to excite
prejudice, because the Houston & Texas
Central Railroad company is interested in
the lands, hoping to excite sympathy on
that account. | will venture the pre-
dictlon that he is not landowner in the
state and has no interest in Fisher
county. Such adventurers are constantly
trying to work up prejudice against
these lands being surveyed. / only
mentioned the name of one man in my
letter published in the Galveston News.
That was the elder billiard, and the
records of Haskell county criminal
docket and the United States court
criminal docket al Dallas will bear me
out in what | said of him. He claims to
be surveyor, and has adopted the
method of disappearing us to the
people to build up business.
The survey Is In charge of Mr.. S. L
Chalk, who was once surveyor Of BAYLOR
Land district when it had fourteen
counties attached, and is regarded as one
of the best surveyors IN the state. The
instrument work and field-notes are CON
ided 10 Mr., John Bagley, who is county
surveyor of holland county, to which
Fisher is attached. have observed the
surveys very closely, after assisting, and
believe them to be correct, and
have net hesitated to defend them when
ever assailed. We have but one desire,
and that is that the work Shall be abso-
lutely correct and that exact Justice may
be melted ont to eech section
don't know VINO Gillian is he is too
cowardly to let himself be known, but
bold enough in his obscurity TO make
threats. An expedition was organized
against our camp about the 4th of July
every man 3 Leonidas. The cook was
celebrating the nations birthday by con-
lining water in the shells of old cartridges
and placing them in the fire when they
would soon explode, making quite loud
report. This happened about the time
the deadly onset should have been made
The heroes hesitated, they vanished
They stlll live. "Need more be said?'
Yours, very truly, NJ. o. HALL.