Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-25

works. if reports be true. 4 f0lvnSman. or
no matter who, files on Ii section or quarter
section, puts up some inexpensive and tenn
p0rary Improvements. stays few days or
weeks on his ranch, - and when he gets
tired of hunting quail and Jack rabbits goes
back to town for a change OF scenery.
Along comes another fellow in search of a
home where he may rest IN the sweet bye
and bye under his own vine and fig tree
Finding little hut ana possibly well or
living water, ne Jumps the claiul-that Is
squats OF it-and files an application with
the land Office with the proper afiidavits,
showing that the claim was found vacant.
and therefore subject under the law TO set
tlement
The boundary line question is 4 trouble
some one in several counties. especially
Floyd. Lubbock, Dickens, Hale and Crosby
counties, and is the outgrowth of imperfect
and unskillful surveys by local surveyors
Settlers living in one county are assessed i'll
another. and many hardly know in what
county they belong. Contests and disputes
of various kinds arise, al of which are re-
feIred to the land Office tor settlement. In
running the boundary lines of new counties
which under the law should be traced geo
detically, that is conforming to the rotund-
ity of the world, but frequently are not
the work of the surveyor must be approved
by the general land Office before it becomes
valid. This IS not waited for often, and
again whether approved by the Land Office
or not the local surveyor stands by his work
and his county by him and trouble sets in.
II seems that the boundary question is
bound to be Il source of worry and vexation
until the legislature shall take the matter in
hand and send 4 commission with power to
reSurvey and fix the boundary lines wher-
ever disputes exist.
COMPTROLLER MCCALL
IS well pleased with the promptness with
which county collectors are settling up. As
many as eighty have settled llp to date
1t appears that there is going to be a race
between Mr.. Shipe, who built the electric
car line now in operation here, and the
Eastern owners of the mule car line, 10
cover certain additional streets with
electric lines, the latter having decided, il
is said, to replace the mule cars with those
operated by electricity. Mr. Shipe is
already at work extending his lines. and it
is presumed that the others viii begin
pretty soon. This rivalry is the result OF
an unsuccessful effort TO consolidate both
interests.
The Travellers protective association
boys of Austin are working up big dele
cation TO 90 to Little Rock in Il few days,
where the National travellers protective as
sOciatiOn convention is TO De held. The con-
ventiOn is going 10 select q site for a ma
tional sanitarium, and Texas thinks she
ought to have it. Austin wants it, of
course, and feels that if it comes TO the
state she ought 10 have it because Of her
healthful climate, beauty of scenery, her
many delightful surroundings. the greatest
of which is, of course, her great dam and
unriyaled lake. The boys are going in gay
stJT,e and mean to make a strong pull for
the sanitarium.
Land Commissioner McGaughey sent the
following question to the encouragement
for an official answer: Can a man, under
~, i
public vacant land wherever found no
matter whether enclosed or mott" The at
Orney-general replies that he can. and cites
q decision Of the supreme court entitled
Poston VS.. Blanks. 1ith :. W. Rep 64
holding that vacant and unappropriated
public domain could be taken up. although
enclosed by trespasser, provided said land
is not titled OF equitably owned under
color of title from the sovereignty of the
state.