Before the honorable Secretary of the Interior in the matter of location of Valentine scrip, by Frank Burns, Jr.
Subtitle: Seattle, Washington, land district, brief in support of scrip location
By: Britton & Gray, S. A. Williams, B. Howard Haman, attorneys for Frank Burns, Jr.
Contributors: Williams, S. A.; Haman, Howard B.; Pacific Northwest History Collection.
Publisher: Gibson Bros., Printers and Bookbinders
Published: 1890
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Homestead law -- United States; Land settlement; Seattle (Wash.) -- History
Notes: "January 9, 1889, Burns applied to located Valentine scrip upon 120 acres of public lands in Township 24 N., Range 3 E., Washington Territory. The land is a mud flat situated on the shore of Puget Sound, lying between high and low-water mark. Such application was denied by the local officers, because, in their judgment, the land was not subject to such location."--cf. p. 1.

WSU MASC copy is: 002-119882496.