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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · April 25, 1928 · Chapter 435

Chapter 435. Validating certain applications for and entries of public lands

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Chap. 435: Validating certain applications for and entries of public lands. Chapter 435 45 Stat. 1725 1928-04-25 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 private Chapter 435.— An Act Validating certain applications for and entries of public lands.April 25, 1928.[[H. R. 11020](/us/bill/70/hr/11020).][[Private, No. 89](/us/pvtl/70/89).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary Public lands.Patents allowed for designated entries.of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue patents upon the entries hereinafter named upon which proof of compliance with law has been filed, upon the payment of all moneys due thereon:
Mineral entry, Carson City, Nevada, numbered 014935, made by Pacific Portland Cement Company, Consolidated.Mineral patent to.the Pacific Portland Cement Company, Consolidated, on August 13, 1925, for the Empire mill site, situate in the southwest quarter, section 31, unsurveyed, township 31 north, range 24 east, Mount Diablo meridian, containing an area of four and nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths’ acres. 1726 Clara Gruver.Desert land patent to.Desert-land entry, Pueblo, Colorado, numbered 048139, made by Clara Gruver on April 20, 1918, for the northwest quarter section 24, township 39 north, range 9 east, New Mexico principal meridian.
Charles H. Elster.Additional home stead,Additional homestead entry, Sacramento, California, numbered 011835, made by Charles H. Elster on October 18, 1920, for the south half of the northwest quarter, south half of the northeast quarter, and the southwest quarter, section 32, township 15 north, range 8 east, Mount Diablo meridian. Reginald E. Margesson.Homestead.Homestead entry, Phoenix, Arizona, numbered 051810, made by Reginald E. Margesson on September 13, 1921, for section 20, township 16 north, range 25 east, Gila and Salt River meridian, upon payment of the sum of $200 within six months after the approval of this Act.Wald White.Homestead.Homestead entries, Buffalo, Wyoming, numbered 023864 and 025036, made by Waid White, for lots 3 and 4, southeast quarter of the northwest quarter, southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, and west half of the southeast quarter, section 4; northeast quarter of the northwest quarter and northwest quarter of the northeast quarter, section 9; and lot 2, section 4, township 44 north, range 63 west, sixth principal meridian.
Seth L. Iiams.Homestead.Homestead entry, Lander, Wyoming, numbered 012440, made by Seth L. liams on March 11, 1921, for the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, east half of the southwest quarter, and lot 4, section 19, and north half of the southeast quarter, south half of the northeast quarter, northwest quarter of the northeast quarter, and northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, section 30, township 34 north, range 93 west, sixth principal meridian. Elizabeth Anne Lund.Homestead.
Homestead entry, Bismarck, North Dakota, numbered 020151, made by Elizabeth Anne McCay (now Elizabeth Anne Lund) on April 17, 1920, for the northeast quarter, and south half of the northwest quarter, section 34, township 130 north, range 81 west, fifth principal meridian. Matie Brooks Newell.Homestead.Homestead entry, Montrose, Colorado, numbered 015557 (now Denver 036575), made by Matie Brooks (now Matie Brooks Newell), on September 8, 1921, for the east half of the southwest quarter, section 16, township 46 north, range 13 west, New Mexico principal meridian.
Ione Anderson.Homestead.Homestead entries, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, numbered 021332 and 022581, made by Ione Pry (now Ione Anderson), for lots 7 and 10, section 5, township 9 north, and lot 5 of section 31, township 10 north, range 90 west, sixth principal meridian. Harold C. Cheline.Homestead.Homestead entry, Blackfoot, Idaho, numbered 038383, made by Harold C. Cheline on July 16, 1919, under section 1 of the Stock-raising Homestead Act for the south half of the northwest quarter, north half of the southwest quarter, southwest quarter of the south-west quarter, section 27, and south half of the northeast quarter, southeast quarter, southeast quarter of the northwest quarter, east half of the southwest quarter, section 28, and northwest quarter of the northeast quarter, and northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, section 33, township 1 north, range 10 east, Boise meridian.
Frank U. McNary.Additional homestead.Additional homestead entry, Pueblo, Colorado, numbered 048971, made by Frank U. McNary for lots 1 and 2, southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, east half of the southeast quarter and southwest quarter of the southeast quarter, section 15, township 20 south, range 55 west, sixth principal meridian. Andrew J. Tays.Homestead.Homestead entry, Santa Fe, New Mexico, numbered 032530, made by Andrew J. Tays on October 11, 1920, for all of section 8, township 4 north, range 2 west, New Mexico principal meridian.
Adie G. McAllister.Homestead.Homestead entry, Santa Fe, New Mexico, numbered 051006, made by Adie G, McAllister on April 14, 1922, under section 1 of the Stock 1727Raising Homestead Act for all of section 12, township 2 north, range 17 east, New Mexico principal meridian. Sec. 2. That the entries hereinafter named be, and the same are Homestead, etc., entries validated.hereby, validated, and the Secretary of the Interior authorized to issue patents thereon upon submission of satisfactory proof of compliance with the law under which such entries were allowed:
Homestead entry, Salt Lake City, Utah, numbered 032805, made Hans Maurice Naegle.by Hans Maurice Naegle on April 3, 1925, for the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter, section 20, northwest quarter, section 29, north half of the northeast quarter and lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11, section 30, and lots 3 and 4, section 31, township 39 south, range 12 west, Salt Lake meridian. Homestead entry, Blackfoot, Idaho, numbered 040646, made by Fred Morrison.Fred Morrison on June 1, 1926, for the north half of the northwest quarter, north half of the south half of the northwest quarter, west half of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter, and the west half of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, section 15, township 14 south, range 17 east, Boise meridian.
Homestead entry, Pierre, South Dakota, numbered 024918, made Oscar T. Locken. by Oscar T. Locken on April 7, 1926, for the south half of the northwest quarter, northeast quarter of the northwest quarter and east half of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter, section 26, township 2 north, range 19 east, Black Hills meridian. Sec. 3. That homestead entry, Las Cruces, New Mexico, numbered David Alvillar.025151, made by David Alvillar on July 30, 1924, for lots 5 and 6, section 16, township 26 south, range 3 east, New Mexico principal meridian, be, and the same is hereby, validated ; and that the State of New Mexico, through its proper officers, be, and it is hereby, Lieu selection by New Mexico, authorized.authorized to select an equal area of surveyed, nonmineral, unappropriated, and unreserved public land in lieu of the above-described tract.
Sec. 4. That homestead entries, Las Cruces, New Mexico, numbered Jony Jones.Homestead entries by, validated.025786 and 025787, made by Jony Jones on March 13, 1917, consolidated and reduced to the east half and the southwest quarter of section 26, township 25 south, range 35 east, New Mexico principal meridian, be, and the same are hereby, validated. Sec. 5. That mineral entry, Fairbanks, Alaska, numbered 01199, Pioneer Gold Dredging Company.Mineral entry validated.made by the Pioneer Gold Dredging Company on August 24, 1925, for the Ouellet Fraction Placer on Cleary Creek survey numbered 1733, containing an area of four and six hundred and eighty-six thousandths acres, be, and the same is hereby, validated.
Sec. 6. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Columbia Oil Shale and Refining Company.Patent to.authorized to issue to the Columbia Oil Shale and Refining Company a patent for the east half of the southwest quarter of section 4, township 5 south, range 95 west, sixth principal meridian, upon payment therefor at the rate of $1.25 per acre: *Provided*, That there *Proviso*.Minerals reserved.be reserved to the United States all oil, coal, or other minerals in the land and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same.
Sec. 7. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Matthew D. Carothers.Patent to.authorized to patent to Matthew D. Carothers, of Labonte, Wyoming, lots 23, 39, 40, 41, 44, and 45, section 31, township 31 north, range 72 west, and lots 3, 4, and 5 of section 1, township 30 north, range 721/2 west, sixth principal meridian, Wyoming, upon payment therefor at the rate of $1.25 per acre. Sec. 8. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Clinton H. Richards.Homestead application allowed.authorized to allow homestead application, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, numbered 030128, filed by Clinton H.
Richards on July 19, 1926, for lots 7, 8, 9, and 10, section 19, township 8 north, range 89 west, sixth principal meridian. 1728 Sec. 9. Standard Investment Company.Designated lands quitclaimed to. That the Commissioner of the General Land Office be, and he is hereby, authorized to quitclaim to the Standard Investment Company, of Oakland, California, lots 7 and 15, section 15, township 28 north, range 14 west, Willamette meridian, Washington; also lots 3, 4, 5, southeast quarter of the northwest quarter, section 6, township 9 north, range 26 west, south half of the northeast quarter and south half or the northwest quarter, section 1, township 9 north, range 27 west, and all of section 36, township 10 north, range 27 west, San Bernardino meridian, California.
Sec. 10. New Mexico.Tract in Hot Springs granted to, for public purposes.*Proviso*.Forfeiture for other uses. That there is hereby granted to the State of New Mexico the tract in block 95 of the town site of Hot Springs, New Mexico, marked “Reserve ” on the plat approved October 31, 1919: *Provided*, That the grant hereby made is subject to forfeiture by the Secretary of the Interior upon the determination by him that the tract hereby granted has been used for purposes other than the erection and maintenance of bathhouses, hotels, or other improvements for the accommodation of the public.
Sec. 11. Daniel M. Nicoll.Desert land entry of, assigned to Thomas D. Devine, validated. That desert-land entry, Sacramento, California, numbered 020160, made by Daniel M. Nicoll on July 21, 1919, and assigned to Thomas D. Devine, of Long Pine, California, on September 20, 1922, embracing lots 11 and 12, southwest quarter of northeast quarter and southeast quarter of northwest quarter, section 4, township 16 south, range 35 east, Mount Diablo meridian, containing an area of one hundred thirty-six and nine one-hundredths acres, be, and the same is hereby, validated.
Approved, April 25, 1928.
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