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Come to Criticise, Carr^ Awaj toPraise/’The 5c prints at Culien HrosThe Cull River Company’s CaseThe secretary of the interior has trans-mitted to the attorney general pai»ers of the United States district attorney of Minnesota in relation to the suit pending against the GuH Hivcr Lumber C.’oru-pany of Minnesota for the cutting of 7U4,U00 feet of lumber from the public lands of Minnesota. The district attorney says that the company offerfc to compromise by paying per l.biiU feet, j The secretary lu his letter to the alter- j ney general, rays.In view of all the facts in the as some concessron to the company s claim ihal it did aot intend to appropriate thegovernment timber, and to avoid delayand litigation in the settlement of the case, this department will consider favorably a proposition by the company to settle the respss upon the payment of per l.OUO feet for the timber, amounting 794,000 feet. If this sum is aot paid, then the law had lettcr take its course If this case of trespass were the only one m whTch this company were implicated, and the amount oi timber were not so large, more favorable terms might be considered; but the fact shows a great and continued disregard for the proj^rty rights of the government.
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Brainerd Dispatch
Brainerd, Minnesota, US
Fri, Oct 15, 1886
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