The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-07-11
is THE TITLE TO
YOUR LAND PERFECT?

There are $4,000 patents in this Of
fee that have never been delivered to
the legal owners of the land, and it is
my ambition to see that every one Of
these patents are recorded and the
patent delivered to the present owner
of the land described in said patent.
This is a good time for you to look
up your titles, and see if you can give
an abstract showing a clear chain of
title from the government down to the
present time. This letter is written
to the different newspapers in the
state for the benefit of land owners
who own land and their patent has
never been recorded.
We are anxious to lend you our as
sistance to get your title perfected,
and we want to send every patent out
Of this office free of cost, so that you
may have them recorded. shall
maintain a regular and continuous
work with the view of getting these
patents into the hands of the persons
who own the land at this time. and if
you will write me | will let you know
by return mail whether your patent
is here or not.
Of course, these patents will bene-
fit no one except the legal owners of
the land. These patents date back as
far as 1920, and many are written up
on sheep-skin, the signature Of every
President for the past 100 years is to
be found among the patents.
Every land owner who has a patent
in this office land | will add there is
$4,000 patents belonging to the land
owners in Missouri) who will go to the
Recorder of Deeds in the county in
which the land is located, and have
the recorder fill out the following
blank and deposit with the recorder
81 to pay for recording the patent and
the recorder mails me this blank |
will send by return mail the patent.
This is the form to be used by the
recorder and send to C. C. Davidson,
Register of the United States Land
Office, Springfield, Mo.
81, the recorder of the county of
st. Francois, hereby certify that the
owner Of the following described land
has deposited with me the necessary
fee to pay for the recordation of the
desired patent, which l hereby agree
when receive this patent, to record
the same, and then deliver it to the
party now owning the land, described
in scid patent" This should be signed
by the recorder.
If the records in your county do not
show a clear title from the govern
ment and your patents have been lost
then write me and | will give you all
the information in my power to get
your title perfected, and tell you how
you should go about it. Correcting
and perfecting land titles has con-
sumed much of my time during the
last year, and while there is yet pos
sibly a hundred thousand imperfect
titles in Missouri which could be made
perfect by writing to this office for
information.
Practically every county in the
state has more or less patents in this
office going to each county in the
state. Some counties only few pat
ents, while others will run from 200
to 500 a county, therefore the news
papers of the state can be of great
benefit to the land owners or the read
ers of their paper by helping them to
get their patent, and giving this arti-
Gle as much publicity as possible.
| am making personal appeal to
the newspapers, recorders and alb
stractors throughout the state, ask
ing them to support me in notifying
the land owners of the state, and it is
more than probable that their patent