This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ... the usual procedure of local land offices to date, it is unlawful for a person to ffle on land, assign the filing to another, and file again; this under the provision of the Desert Land Act to the effect that no person shall hold more than 320 acres under that act. A very large number of the best ranches in the Valley ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ... the usual procedure of local land offices to date, it is unlawful for a person to ffle on land, assign the filing to another, and file again; this under the provision of the Desert Land Act to the effect that no person shall hold more than 320 acres under that act. A very large number of the best ranches in the Valley are now held by entrymen who took them on assignment from other persons who had made it a business to file on land, cover it with water stock and sell it, repeating this operation several times. If the local land office decision is allowed to stand it will invalidate the claims of the present holders above referred to. An organized attempt to secure a reversal of this ruling is being made at the present writing. It has been stated (and tenable ground for dispute of the statement has yet to be established) that there have been no extensive frauds perpetrated on the government by entrymen in the Imperial Valley. In 1908 it was asserted by the United States District Attorney for the Southern District of At One Time the Railroad at Salton Was Nearly Out of Commission California, Oscar Lavvler, later Solicitor-General for the Department of the Interior at Washington, that an organized conspiracy for defrauding the government lands bureau had been unearthed and, in pursuance of an investigation of this alleged conspiracy, indictments were returned against Frank N. Chaplin of Holtville, David Chaplin of El Centro, the Oakley brothers of Los Angeles, H. W. Blaisdell of Los Angeles, F. C. Paulin of Los Angeles, Arthur Kemper of Los Angeles, and Paul Mc Pherrin of Los Angeles, charging them with engaging in conspiracies organized with the intent to defraud. The complaints alleged technical infringements of the law; the meat of the charges being that th...
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