Show TEXAS MAY CLAIM GREAT LAND GRANT HOUSTON Tex The The state of ot Texas through the attorney generals general's department department depart depart- ment is preparing to lay legal claim to the old Lo Pre Ita land grant which embraces embraces embraces em em- braces acres of choice land situated situated sit sit- In the western part of the state Most of this land already Is settled upon upon upon up up- on and has been highly improved The value alue of the tract amounts to a a. great many millions of dollars donars and If It the state Is successful in maintaining its proposed suit for title to the property in the courts It will mean enormous losses to the many private claimants who have believed their titles were sound and se se se- cure recently made by J. J The discovery discover was state land commissioner T. T Robinson that there is no record of the ancient LaI La LaI I I Prieta Preta Spanish grant to be found In the archives of that department of govern govern- ment The absence of any official record 0 o the grant caused Mr Robinsons Robinson's suspicions suspicions suspicions sus sus- to be aroused as to the legal existence ex existence existence ex- ex of such a grant If It the present claimants to the enormous tract of ot land lane are unable to prove their respective titles by the fact that the grant was vas legal and duly made the land must be a a. part of ot the public domain of the state of Texas and pass from their control u j Before suit is Instituted to recover this land land on behalf of the state Mr Robinson will make a thorough investigation of the archives of the government of Mexico in inthe Inthe It In the City of Mexico and of the old state o of Coahuila which formerly had jurisdiction over the the- theland land embraced in this grant I If he does not find a a. record of the grant i it will be conclusive proof he declares that tha the land Is a part of ot the unsold public domain of ot Texas Mr Robinson also Is of ot the opinion that tha I there may be other fictitious Spanish land lane grants in Texas Many of these grants exist along the Rio Grande border Most Mos of them have been divided and sold to toe private e parties who wRt have established aa s homes tEi thereon He will Investigate the titles of these properties with the view of ot discovering whether the state has any claim on them |