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  • Re: T&P RR Co. svys in Texas

    From Tammy Barnett@21:1/5 to Kent McMillan on Fri Jan 28 09:17:06 2022
    On Thursday, September 11, 1997 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Kent McMillan wrote:
    Rather than guessing, I should have pulled out Bowden’s monograph (J.J. Bowden, Surveying The Texas and Pacific Land Grant West of the Pecos River, Texas Western Press, The University of Texas at El Paso, 1975).
    May 2, 1873 the Texas Legislature authorized the Texas and Pacific Railway Company to receive twenty alternate sections of land for every mile of main or branch track completed. The legislation provided for the reservation of an
    80 mile wide strip of land West of the 100th meridian of longitude (the meridian boundary between Texas and what is presently Oklahoma) within which the T & P Rwy Company would have priority for locating their land certificates
    until January 1, 1880.
    The T & P Rwy Company was to survey at their own cost both the lands granted to them and the alternate sections reserved by the State. The T & P Rwy Company plan for the 80 mile reservation does not have duplicate block and township numbers in the portion West of the Pecos River, and probably does not in the part East of the Pecos either.
    Palo Pinto County is not within either reservation, however. Moreover, it was
    in a different Land District. The lands of Palo Pinto County fell in Milam and Robertson Land Districts. What is now Reagan County was in Bexar Land District.

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  • From Tammy Barnett@21:1/5 to Kent McMillan on Fri Jan 28 09:18:42 2022
    On Thursday, September 11, 1997 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Kent McMillan wrote:
    Rather than guessing, I should have pulled out Bowden’s monograph (J.J. Bowden, Surveying The Texas and Pacific Land Grant West of the Pecos River, Texas Western Press, The University of Texas at El Paso, 1975).
    May 2, 1873 the Texas Legislature authorized the Texas and Pacific Railway Company to receive twenty alternate sections of land for every mile of main or branch track completed. The legislation provided for the reservation of an
    80 mile wide strip of land West of the 100th meridian of longitude (the meridian boundary between Texas and what is presently Oklahoma) within which the T & P Rwy Company would have priority for locating their land certificates
    until January 1, 1880.
    The T & P Rwy Company was to survey at their own cost both the lands granted to them and the alternate sections reserved by the State. The T & P Rwy Company plan for the 80 mile reservation does not have duplicate block and township numbers in the portion West of the Pecos River, and probably does not in the part East of the Pecos either.
    Palo Pinto County is not within either reservation, however. Moreover, it was
    in a different Land District. The lands of Palo Pinto County fell in Milam and Robertson Land Districts. What is now Reagan County was in Bexar Land District.

    Do you suppose one could find a legal description for a specific segment of the T&P Railway (i.e. a portion traversing a Section)?

    Thanks for any help.

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