Show Central Pacific Lands On Thursday morning we briefly mentioned that Mr W Singer jr attorney for the Central Pacific Company Com-pany was examining the record 01 the land office in tnid city with a view to ascertaining what lands belonged be-longed to the company Mr Singer baa long been Find attorney for the Central Pacific having operated on its California and Oregon branch and is therefore eent here on account of his peculiar fitness for the work The Central Pacific Companys land grant embraces each tcrnntu section for a distance of twenty miles on either aida of the line of the road that is each odd numbered section prima face belongs to the company The object of Mr Singers researches is t Ascertain which lands belong to the company and these will be surveyed and the title of the < o apany to the same be secured by the process provided pro-vided for by law He id i making out I recerd showing which are the lands that pnmajacie belonged to the coin pany yet which have been taken up by settlers In cases where settle merits have been made on the odd od sections before the Central Pacific acquired the lands by its grant the settlers will be left in undisturbed possession but Mr Singer is of the opinion tbatmnny of the odd sections have been settled upon after the lands bad fallen to the C P under its grant Mr Singer states that he does not find many locations which he will contest in a good many instances the odd sections have been settled upon lawfully and the title perfected to the settlers so that there nil be no contest with the possessors of these land It i i only where the settlement settle-ment has been made after the lands have reverted to the Central Pacific that he will institute proceedings for and contest the ownership to the same But few claims advene to that of the company will be found outside a narrow belt commencing with township 6 north range 1 west extending north about thirty miles with a width of len or twelve miles on each side from the meridian line and with but few exceptions these adverse claims antedate the railroad companys rights and no attempt will be made t disturb them Another of the objects of Mr Singers Sin-gers visit is to grade the prices of the lands belonging to the Central Pacific The plan followed by the company is to place the price of all lands at a figure which unimproved lands in the neighborhood command Improvements Improve-ments may have been made on lands adjoining those of the Central Pacific and on the Central Pacific sections lectons by means of irrigation etc which would make them worth perhaps 60 an acre while lands adioining which are not improved might be ntriniicilly worth only 3 or 5 an acre or still lees the Central Pacific would therefore place a price on its lands which is commanded by the unimproved lands adjoining those which have been improved |