The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-21
Ian From Legal Department Repre-
senting stone and Webster and
other Financiers Enters
Upon Legal Duties.
LOOKING OVER PAPERS
while There Is Renewed Activity in
Water Power Circles Today, Lit
tile Real News Could
be Gained.

# jeremiah Smith, Jr., Of the legal
|sfrm Of Fish, Richardson, Herrick and
ANeave of Boston, representing Web
|3ster & Stone and other financiers, ar
,ed in Keokuk today from
the east and will pass on a number
al preliminary matters that demand
Immediate attention. Local water
mower men state that the absence of
Illegal sanction on much of the detail
ESed work has been instrumental in de-
#laying activities during the past few
@months
Il Attorney Smith has heavy budget
work before him in the few days
@that he will remain in Keokuk His
visit. it is said, is primarily for the
a purpose of deciding number of
&questions relatives to the right-of-
#way. Regarding this it is pointed out
'#that some of the options now possess
lea by the water power company con
q tain four stipulations. These stipu-
#lations all set out how much of the
& land may be purchased for different
4 sums of money, and it is to determine
a finally how much of the land will be
4 required that Attorney Smith is in
a keokuk.
q Office today he plunged into review
OF the abstract work with Attorney
~. O. Boyd. Following this work it is
n thought that a form of deed will be-
4 drawn up, this being merely perfume
tory.
& Whatever Attorney Smith does
q while in Keokuk will carry with it the
q sanction of the syndicate of financiers
4 who are backing the project.
Because attention of the eastern
4 legal department. has been delayed at
Il this time with many matters to be
& attended to it is said that the water
n lower company will encounter
many minor difficulties, espec-
Tally in the matter of TAX
ins up options. While the local
office has given out the statement that
the abstracts will be completed by
November 20, this is believed to be
impossible at the present rate of out
put. Already word has been receiy.
ed from many of the land owners say
ing that they will not stand by the
options granted Also because of the
fact that the abstracts will not be
completed by December 81, at the time
when q majority of them expire,
there will be opposition on this score.
me water power company will have
to content many of the land owners
with the promise that they will get
10 them as soon as possible. In a
proposition of this kind litigation
always accompanies it and already
mere Is evidence of court trouble
nfewing. 1t is believed, however,
mat this feature will be minimized by
fastening the work of turning out the
ABSTRACTS and taking up the options.
10 enumerate much of the detail
work necessary for the visiting at
.orhey to pass on is impossible. One,
however is the Hamilton stub, plans
lor which have been worked out, but
no word yet received to go ahead with
It's construction.
IN view of the recent statement
hiaoe by Attorney Hugh L. Cooper on
ms recent visit to Keokuk with refer
ehce to the building of the dam. that
y was strongly financed and would be
ouiit there is no cause for anxiety
oyer some legal opposition that might
arse during the process of acquiring
'ne options. The enterprise will go
steadily forward to a full consumma-
ioh and the activity that will assert
Nseif In few months will be most
siatilying to those who have been
waiting so long for such condition.