Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — THE TITLE TO MILLIONS. [ARTICLE]

THE TITLE TO MILLIONS.

Immense Interests Affected by Delay to Confirm Peckham. Probably the most important interest affected by the delay of 'the Senate in giving the fulFbench to the Supreme Court is the settlement of the titles to mineral lands along the Northern Pacific Railroad. By its charter this road was given the alternatqsections of land forty miles each side of its track, excepting the mineral lands, but the question has arisen in numerous lawsuits whether the title was for those sections which were known to contain mineral deposits when the grants took effect or also for all lands in which mineral deposits have since beemdiscovered. CR'iliit Court decisions have placed the firsf; construction upon the grants, and there has been the test ease of Richard P. Borden against the Northern Pacific before the Supreme Court for more than a year. This case has been once argued, but is now sidetracked to await the confirmation of a ninth justice. Upon its decision depends the title to all recently discovered mineral wealth along the Northern Pacific, for an eighty miie belt across the whole width of the State of Montana and part of Idaho.