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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1903
Page
3
Notice of timber land filings in Roseburg Oregon with witnesses named Nel Signalness Bignalnesa J Bignalnesa Crouch and others. Claims must be filed by March 21 1903 with Register and Receiver. Public notice issued December 1902 lists lands in Roseburg and Seemanes areas with various dates and witness names.
Miss Julia McBride of Hopewell Clarke County Washington filed a sworn statement for the purchase of a timber land section in Oregon. She will prove the land is more valuable for timber or stone than agriculture before the Register in Roseburg on May 21 1908. Witnesses include S R Brisbane S C Brisbane and J L Kirkendall. Any adverse claimants must appear before the 21st of May 1908.
Land Office notice in Roseburg Oregon dated October 9 182 provides that Gabriel McBride of Hopewell Clark County Washington files sworn statement No 3821 to purchase the e percent of the e percent of Section 10 Township 2 South Range 8 West and will offer proof May 1 at Roseburg Oregon before the Register J T Bridges. He lists witnesses B R Brisban S C Grisban J L Kirkendall Julia McBride. Adverse claimants must file within 30 days.
Notice in compliance with the Timber Land Act of 1878 extends for public lands in Oregon and Washington Territory. Minnie a says she has filed sworn statement to claim 160 acres in section 12, township 11 west, range 11 west to establish her right before the Receiver on May 15 1879 in Roseburg Oregon. Witnesses named include Elvin K Kennedy Albert Serues Harry Greenway and Charles Camas Valley. Adverse claimants must file their claims at the office before the specified date.
Notice posted by the Land Office Oregon announcing a land sale under the Act of June 2 1878 and related acts. It lists locations in Oregon Nevada and Washington Territory and requires claimants and witnesses to prove up timber or mineral value before the Receiver in Roseburg Oregon on a specified date in May 1908. Witnesses named include Frank Orcut, Cleveland, Charles Thom, W A Brown, J Buchanan, Rose art.
Public notice summarizes land act references from 1878 and 1608, naming California, Washington, Oregon and states extended by acts. Mentions sale implications and public lane dates. This fragmentary report notes timber land claims and official actions under congressional acts.
Witnesses named Elvin M. Kennedy of Roseburg and Greenway and Charles Grouch of Camas Valley Oregon to file their dates on or before May first. J. T. Bridges, exister, notes the claim in Roseburg Oregon with receivership details.
Notice filed under the Timber Land Act of June 2 1878 in Roseburg describing a sworn statement by Charles A Peters of Moscow Idaho for the purchase of government land Lots 13 township 2 south range 11 west with proof to establish a claim at the Oregon office before February 2 102 witnesses Angenvine Favor George Gale Warner H Carithers Henrietta P Carithers all of Moscow Idaho Adverse claimants must file entries by the same date Bridges Register
Public land records show James F Robnett McKinley Oregon filed sworn statements for timber land Lots 1 2 and 3 4 in Township 2 south Range 10 west and similar claims by Ford Manning and others with witnesses named, notices set for February 1903 in Roseburg Oregon, with filings under Timber Land Act June 3 1878 in multiple sections and locations across Oregon Washington Territory and California.
Several sworn statements filed for land purchases in Railroad Timber Land Act areas. Names include Harlan J. Miller Portland and Horatio G. Hortzman Seattle with witnesses from Camas Valley and Walla Walla. Hearings set before the Roseburg Register and Receiver in February and March 1900, with claimants urged to file objections.
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