The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1912-07-20
SEE If THERE IS A TITLE BEHIND IT

FOR some land and paid some
money down in good faith, think
ing they owned the land, the bal
ance Of the purchase price to be
paid on or before five years. On
or before means that myself and
others could pay for the land at
any time between the time the
contract was drawn and the five
years. About a year after my
contract with the company con-
tracted the same land to q third
party who was willing to take il
over and pay the money for II,
and | expected the company to
come through with the deed. but
instead the following is its an
swer by letter:
1T will be difficult, II not i'm
possible, to have Chas. Altschul.
in whose name the title rests,
convey this tract by itself to the
Oregon q Western Colonization
Company. You will understand
that the Oregon & Western Col
onization Company have not paid
up in full for all the road land,
and have n working agreement
by which they secure deeds TO
lands in blocks of five sections,
and they would not like to ad-
vance the money for FIVE sections
in order TO secure the deed for
this tract. The question resolves
itself then to this point: win
Mr.. -. the third party. be
satisfied to take the deed from
the Oregon g. Western Colonial
tion Company and await for the
title to be conveyed from Alt
schul in the regular course OF
business. WAsGAT"
The man said no.
Now then gentlemen, If l can
read between the lines Of this
letter just a little, this Oregon &
Western Colonization Company
does not own a foot of this land
they are trying TO sell. Five
section lots! Think Of i'll And
then is not willing to advance
money enough to buy that
amount TO fill its contracts that
it has made. They even asked
us to deed this tract of land to
the third party, and us wait on
them for the deed and then ac-
knowledged they did not own
the land. Further: After we
had refused to make any more
payments on the land and asked
the company to cancel the con-
tract. this is the answer we re-
ceived, that il we would make
one more payment they would
cancel the contract, as the first
payment was not enough. Even
after acknowledging to not own
ing the land. Do you call that
honest?
One thing more: Why don't
the Oregon g. Western Colonial
ton Company have their head
Office in Oregon where all this
land is? Is it because they don't
want the people to know who
they are, or because they don't
want to face the people an d
have them ask questions or know
anything about their business.
Who is this company? Well, no
matter who they are. we will
take and look over the re-
cords and see what they own.
Going into the Clerk 8 Office which
is the record Office for deeds,
you will find no record that the
Oregon a. Western Colonization
Company owns one foot Of land
in Harney county and still they |
are selling land to the people and |
their money. Further: |
Step in the assessors Office what |
do we find there. The sam @ |
thing. There is no record of
land being assessed to this COM
pany or any sign. as far as the |
records are concerned, that there |
eyer was such company. Let's
step down a little further into
the abstract company office and
ask those gentlemen to give US
an abstract showing what title |
this Oregon & Western Colonial
ton Company holds to this land
they are selling. What is their
answer? There is no such COM
pany on record owning land in
Harney county," and still this so
called Oregon & Western Coloni-