Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-09-21
LACERATED FEELINGS.
Ex-senator Dorsey and the Ration
Range Aggrieved at the New Mex
lean for Printing Facts.

Ex-senator .. w. dorsey ana tine es-
teemed Ration Range seem to be very
much disturbed and aggrieved because, in
announcing that the Una dc Cato tract in
Colfax county had finally been thrown
open to settlement, the New MEXICAN re-
marked that this tract had been kept out
of the market as public land by the con-
tention of s. W. Dorsey and others that it
was grant and that they we're the owners
thereof. Certainly the letters of Mr.
Dorsey on file in the surveyor generals
Office prove that he was the chief claim
ant of the grant and it was natural con-
clusion that his contention had caused
the lands of the tract to be segregated.
But now both Mr.. Dorsey and the
Range insist that the lands mentioned
were not segregated, but we're long ago
restored to entry as part of the public
domain. Mr.. Dorsey even goes 80 far as
to say: 81 had the lands restored to the
public domain
What then does this letter from Re.
publican commissioner of the general
land Office mean?
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
General Land Office,
Washington, D. G., Sept. 5, 1891. }
Register and Receiver, Santa Fe, N. Nj.
Gentlemen: You will inform me, with
the least possible delay, by what author
ity you have allowed entries in the pri-
vate land claim known as the "Una de
Cato" situated in townships "a, 25 and 26,
north of range 20 east, and townships "a
to % north of range "a east, in your dis
trict, transmitting at the same time copy
of any letter authorizing same, if one has
been received from this office.
Very respectfully,
(SignedD w. NJ. STONE,
Asst. Commissioner.
Register Morrison, of the Santa Fe land
Office, replied to this letter on September
II, 1891, that he had been unable to dis
cover anything in his Office showing that
the lands in question had been withdrawn
from entry.
TO this the commissioner of the gen
eral land Office replied, calling attention
to the decision in the case of Tumacacori
Calabasas claim, and the principles set
forth, segregating all lands claimed as
grants.
Subsequently the surveyor general ad-
dressed the following communication to
the commissioner:
U. s. SURVEYOR GENERALS OFFICE,
Santa Fe, August 20, 1898.
Hon. Comr. Genl Land Office, Washington,
ID. G.
Sir: I have the honor to report that in
compliance with your instructions con-
tanned in letter sd" of August %, 1898, to
the register and receiver of the Santa Fe
land Office, I have furnished the said Of
fcers with diagram of the lands claimed
under the unconfirmed private land claim
No. 81, known as the "Una de Cato tract,
in order that they may make proper
annotations on their records for the pur-
pose, I suppose, of segregating and with
holding the lands claimed under said
grant from entry under the United States
land laws.
In this connection desire to state, that
said grant is unconfrmed, and the en-
closed certificate of the clerk of the court
of private land claims shows, that there
has been no petition filed in said court
for the confirmation of said grant; it
would therefore seem that the claimants
of said tract are entitled to no further
protection against bona fide settlers who
may desire to enter said lands under the
United States land laws.
Very respectfully,
(Sicaed) CHAs. F. EAsLEY,
Surveyor General.
Under date of August 81, 1895, the
commissioner wrote to the register and
claimants of the Una de Cato tract had
not filed their claim in the court of
private land claims within the time pre-
scribed by law, 'no part of the public
domain can now be held in state of
reservation on account of this stale
claim, known as the Una de Cato tract.
You will be governed accordingly and
make proper rotations on your records,
referring to these instructions"
If these letters and statements, drawn
from official sources, do not satisfy Mr..
Dorsey and the Range the NEW MEXICAN
ls prepared to dig much deeper into the
subject.
As to the suggestion that the New Mex
loan and Surveyor General Easley have
entered into a diabolical conspiracy to
down Mr.. Dorsey, the Range verges on
the ridiculous. The surveyor general
had nothing to do with the preparation
or inspiration of the article in these
columns further than aiding the reporter
to procure the facts he sought, and the
NEW MEXICAN assuredly had no thought
of injuring any one, either for political
or personal reasons, in giving publicity
to the facts.
SATURDAY SALAD.