Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1880 — Beavor Lake Lands. [ARTICLE]

Beavor Lake Lands.

The State of Indiana, it seems, is ih' owner, by grant from the United rates, of about 9.000 acres of land in the bed of Beaver lake, in Newton county. A large number of persons have squatted on the land and have been using the ground for a number of years pas s , and the State, through Attorney general Woolen and Attorneys Julian & Julian, have instituted fait in tho Newton circuit court against such persons, claiming to be owners thereof, for possession aDd damages. The lands are valuable rich soil, and worth at least SIOO,OOO. Indianapolis Sentinel. Odd, isn’t it. that the iron and copper mines of Lake Superior have each turned out more sol d gold and silver during the year 1879 than the celebrated Leadville district? Such is the fact., however, though we haven't made a h indredth partus much noise übontiv—The Mining Journal.