The Act of Incorportation of July 27, 1866, provides for the granting of alternate
sections of land within stated limits
ã------on each side of side railroad line, as is
Designated by a plat thereof, filed in the office
of the Commissioner of the General Land Office----.ä
These maps are referred to as MAPS OF DEFINITE LOCATION and the surveys
underlying them were made by, or under the direction of, the following gentlemen insofar
as our records are available:
J. Blickensderfer, Jr., Chief Engineer
E. Godfrey Rehrer, Division Engineer
F. S. Hodges, Engineer of Preliminary Surveys
Jas F. McCabe.
The reports, in full, are as follows:-
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Russell Crump