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Show . RAILROADS DEFEATED. ' Oregon Land Grant Declared by Court to Have Been Forfeited. Portland, Ore. Federal District Judge Charles E. Wolverton decided on Monday that the Southern Pacific and the Oregon & California railway companies must forfeit about 2,400,-000 2,400,-000 acres of land which is valued at from $40,000,000 to $75,000,000. Interpreting the act of congress granting the land as an aid to railway rail-way construction, the court held that congress intended that this land should be sold to bona fide settlers in tracts not greater than 160 acres to one individual and at a price not exceeding ex-ceeding $2.50 an acre. Every contention conten-tion raised by the railway company has been defeated in its fight with the government. |