Chapter 223. To grant to the Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway Company right of way and certain lands for railroad purposes through the San Gabriel Forest Reserve
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CHAP. 223.— An Act To grant to the Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway Company right of way and certain lands for railroad purposes through the San Gabriel Forest Reserve. February 28, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway granted right of way through San Gabriel Forest Reserve. That there is hereby granted to the Pagadena and Mount Wilson Railway Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California, and to its successors and assigns, authority to construct, maintain, and operate a railway for a distance of nine miles, more or less, over and through Vol. 27, p. 1049.the San Gabriel Forest Reserve (heretofore reserved from entry and settlement and set apart as a public reservation by Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, by proclamation of date the twentieth day of December, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-two), Location.from the place in said forest reserve known as Rubio to the summit of the mountain known as Mount Lowe, in the Sierra Madre Mountains, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, the course of said railway to be the same as that of the railroad now operated by said railway company from Rubio aforesaid to Alpine Tavern, the present terminus of said railroad, and from thence to the summit of said Mount Lowe, by the most practicable route; said right of way being hereby granted to said Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway Company, but subject to the rights, privileges, rules, and restrictions Vol. 18, p. 482.of an Act entitled “An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States,” approved March third, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-five, said Act being hereby *Provisos.*Timber cutting restricted.Bond.made applicable to the right of way hereby granted: *Provided,* That no timber shall be cut by said railway company for any purpose outside of the right of way herein granted: *And provided further,* That said company shall give bond as provided by the regulations of the Secretary of the Interior prescribed under the law relating to forest reserves.
Sec. 2. Sale to company of additional land for hotels, etc. That in addition to such of the public ground as said railway company will be entitled to take, under and in accordance with the provisions of the said Act entitled “An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States,” approved March third, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-five, for station buildings, depots, machine shops, side tracks, turn-outs, and water stations, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to the said Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway Company, its successors and assigns, for stations, hotels, astronomical observatories, seminaries of learning, and such other buildings and purposes as may be required in connection with said railway line, the following-described parcels of land along said right of way, to wit:
The unsurveyed land described as the west half of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section two, when regularly protracted, in township one north, range twelve west, San Bernardino meridian, containing twenty acres, more or less. Also the tract or parcel of land described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point in the easterly line of the two-hundred-foot right of way FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. in. Chs. 223, 224. 1899. 911 of the Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway Company, which point is north twenty-seven degrees thirty minutes west nine hundred feet from the point where said right-of-way line crosses the north line of section three, township one north, range twelve west; running thence north sixty-two degrees forty minutes east five hundred feet; thence north twenty-seven degrees thirty minutes west one thousand eight hundred and fifty feet; thence west three hundred and fifty feet, more or less, to the easterly line of the right of way aforesaid; thence southeasterly along said right of way to the place of beginning, containing twenty acres, more or less.
Also the unsurveyed lands described as the west half of the west half of the southeast quarter and the east half of the east half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-six, township two north, range twelve west, San Bernardino meridian, when regularly protracted, containing eighty acres, more or less. Also a tract of land consisting of forty acres at the terminus of said right of way at Mount Lowe: Provided, That all minerals, includingMinerals, etc., excepted. coal, in all of said right of way and lands hereby granted are reserved to the United States.
Sec. 3. That the said right of way and lands for stations, hotels,Right of way, etc., to vest in successor, etc. astronomical observatories, seminaries of learning, and other purposes granted hereby are intended for the use of said Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway Company, its successors and assigns, and in case of the sale of said Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway and its appurtenances by act of the corporation or under decree of court, all of the rights and benefits hereby granted shall vest in the owner or owners for the time being of said railway line and appurtenances.
Approved, February 28, 1899.