The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-09
NEWS OF THE CITY
BOARD OF CONTROL
RUNS AGAINST SNAG
Mineral and Timber Reserva :
tons Cloud Title to Lands
Wantedfor Sanatorium

The board Of control, acting for the
state, is encountering unexpected diff
Guilty in securing titles to lands which
are being purchased for the site of the
proposed sanatorium for consumptives
in Northern Minnesota.
Original owners of cut-over pine
lands, profiting by costly experience in
disposing of their lands without MAX
ing reservation of mineral and pine
rights, are not disposed to give the
state a complete title to lands for
which the board of control has made
partial deals.
Several hundred acres of land will be
required to complete the original plan
of having a large wooded tract supple
mentary to the institute for the states
tubercular patients, and While pur-
chases have been made of part of the
total area of land needed, there are
tracts upon which the unexpected con-
tlngency has arisen as to titles.
T. B. Walker Reserved Rights
Some of the land desired and for
which deals have been practically con-
summated was owned by t. b. Walker,
the Minneapolis millionaire lumber
man, but had been sold for a merely
nominal sum to the men with whom
the board of control is now negotiat-
ing. In deeds passing from Walker to
the present owners, reservations of
mineral and timber rights We're with
held by Walker. and while the present
owners are willing to give their war
ranty deeds to the state, the title to
the land is clouded by the fact of the
existence of the mineral and timber
clauses in the Walker deeds
Il sold one quarter section of land
for $3.50 an acre. which afterwards de-
veloped into an iron property worth
over a million dollars" Walker is re-
ported to have told a man who >remon-
strated with him for insisting on the
reservation clause in his deeds, ard
for some years he has reserved mineral
and pine rights in the practically waste
lands sold to incoming settlers and
from whom the board of control must
now buy.
jacobson Tells of Difficulty
ct has been almost as much trouble
as the lands are worth" said Chairman
j. f. Jacobson yesterday in discussing
the new contingency arising in the
purchase of land for the sanatorium
grounds. walker has sold all his
lands with these reservation clauses
contained in the deeds, and the John S.
IiSUuIS estate mas QOne the same
thing. We have been delayed for some
weeks. and have encountered deeds
from William r. Merriam, late director
of the census and a former governor of
Minnesota; one from Mrs. Charles F.
Kindred, wife Of the Reading railroad
official, who was one of the figures in
the most sensational congressional con-
test ever pulled off in this state, and
there are other notable people who
inf tod I.,r1 l.
We hope to obtain quitclaim deeds
from these former owners, and when
these are secured and warranty deeds
are had from the present owners. there
will be nothing the matter with the
states absolute title to it's purchases"
The board of control members had
expected to make a trip to Walker to
designate site on the lands pur-
chased for. the new Sanatorium, but the
trip has been delayed by the unexpect-
ed arising of the contingency as to
titles.