The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-12
IN EARNEST ABOUT IT
Business Men In MiSS0ula Who Are
Organized for Action.
~esoiutiops Regarding the
Mineral Land Grab and the
Northern Pacific Ready to
Take Up the Fight.
special To the standard

>tsyLll To the >t:tlststIb
Feb. G.. Merrill
addressed "a large meeting at the opera
house last might i'm behalf of the Mineral
association. At the close of the meeting
J. A. Wolfe presented the reso-
buttons. which were enthusiastically adopt
cd:
Northern Pacific Railroad company excludes
i in.n. from t II, a %i"%' II said aii%Ii sra MIN aud ''"' VI"
THE people of the county Of Mis-
%inin s' in, ter pas ~ ,@, ,ie STATE ~ 81 II! To %s.,n's aid al f"'
v, The SAIL mining Interests are being
i,opar,liZ,,i hy the claims al the Northern IA
cine 4" %ous-haif OF all the mineral lands within
aud
there han e been sury eyed over @o,Usn,cres inIhc
.sid-numhered SECTIONS which have been selected
Ivy the said railroad company. and upon which
are ,honsa9ds 81 mining proIerties which mo",d
THESE lands are issued I" the Northern Pacific,
and.
claimed 10y the said company il within The limits
III Niss,ula county a large portion of which are
>iich mounta inous lands rs are universally in
this stat. known tn lie mineral i'm character, Int
rxpiorcsi for mineral: thsrei"r".
R.@dryd, That the citizens OF Mis>oula county
rru Pacific 10 acquire title Ia large areas of our
hest mineral lands hearing the precious metals.
IL which they ar" not entitled Ivy the act giving
Rss,ir.i, Tia, We endorse tn. efforts now he
ing ms.l.. 10y lii. Mineral Land association al
Montana to prevent the ~ ,uisition Of these
critics. MOI raisntci hui ownrd by the people IL
Montana, which would Ice wrongflily ana irreNo-
-ably taken FROM their rigitfui ow ners should
ls,ien, lssnc "a this company, !, eo,rs. which
and the greatest calamity that could hei;iil our
mining Interest,"
urged in All reasonable ways Ia pass such "a law
as will enable the department to ascertain he-
yond u reasonable doubt She character of the
lands sought to he ls,tcnts3 tn the Northern Pa
cinc and Ia declare that WAS not the intention
nf the congress "f the Uni ed states, In granting
lands 10 the Northern P3riiic to give the said
and iron. and that We waAid la yc>ting to the
Northern Pacific something Ia which they were
never entitled under the act Of congress donating
lands to and in the consf ructiun III "a r'sid from
Lake superior tn Iug.t Sound.
Resolved. That n il the sense of this meeting
that the government Of the United states >hould
lands as Ia enable the public domain to Ice sur
Neyed in order that the same may he opened tu
settlement aud that title may be acquired there,
To by actual scttlcrs,tha the mineral lands should
te surveyed AS well as the other land and that
the character of the land within the limits of the
said survey shall he ascrrtainsh as speedily as
possible. 81 that there may bc am end Ia the dis
mtes between the people and the Northern Ia
.ihc relative 1" the mineral character of III,
with full authority tn ascertain the cl,aractei
of the land lying within the limits of the grant
AMI thai the report. of the said commission
should he final as Ia the character of said land
Resolved, Further, that that IL il the sense. q
this meeting thai no patent should he issued &
the Northern Pacific within the limits of an,
the land described in said patent il non ~ ineri
in character. and in this way comply with I'll,
terms Of III. act granting ian.i to the Northern
Pacific railroad company.
Resolved. That n committee of fNc he apV.,intc,
whose duty 10 shall be Ia present these facts 4.
the ts-ople of Mi>sniila county AMI urge them Il
incvery way in their power in the work in wlhirl
they are engaged.