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Show A I and Court, l'rnbinly. Drnvr Hopublli an. We are glad to be able to sav that there is a good prospect that u court will soon be established for the ad judication judi-cation of land grant claims in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming. I'tah ami Nevada. Ne-vada. A bill for this purpose has already al-ready passed the house. This court when once established will undoubtedly load to the settlement of a great number of land grant claims which now cloud the title to a vast quantity of land in tho territory which will be under the jurisdiction of tho court. This is particularly true of New Mexico, which has labored for years under the incubus of unsettled Spanish and Mexican grants. Very probably a great deal of the land claimed in New Mexico under these grants will be thrown open to sett.e-luent sett.e-luent under the I'nited States land laws, for many of the claims are worthless. worth-less. Investigation will show that the worthless grants were eit her never made, or that they will fall through a defect in the description of thu land sought to be conveyed. Uut even in the case of worthless grants, as long as the question of validity is an open one, the injury to tho country is just as great as in the case of valid grants. When the land grant questions shall have been settled, the people desiring to acquire property in New Mexico will know whether they can take up a particular par-ticular tract under the I'nited States laws or whether they would have to purchase it from private owners. They will, doubtless, have to pay more for land owned by private persons tnan for land belonging to the government. Hut it is not likely that they will have to pay so high a price that the cost of the land will operate as an obstacle to tho settlement of the territory. It is a great deal better to pay a little more ami know that one gets a good title than never to be certain as to whether one has any title at alt. |