Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — THE RAILROADS. [ARTICLE]

THE RAILROADS.

A controlling interest of the common stock of the Dayton and Michgan Railway has been sold by tho Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton directory to David Sinton and Thomas J. Emery for $1,000,000. According to Land Commissioner Sparks, the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad received under former administrations of the Land Office patents for 209,000 acres more than it was entitled to under its land grants. A suit for restitution is pending. The Pacific Railroad Commission, says a Washington special, has received from the Commissioner of the General Land Office a report showing, in tabular form, the amounts of land granted to, selected by, and patented to the several Pacific railroads. This statement shows that the Central Pacific Railroad had a grant of nearly 8,090,000 acres, of which it has received patents for 1,040,210 acres, and has yet to select 6,413,712 acres; the Union Pacific was granted 11,309,844 acres, and has yet to select 3,147,682; the Kansas Pacific had an original grant of 6,009,000 acres, of which but 1,788,255 acres has been selected. The remaining roads—the Central Branch of the Union Pacific and Western Pacific, and the Sioux City Pacific—have made selections amounting to upward of 715,000 acres, for nearly all of which patents have been received.