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Show BEFORE RECISTtR CROO. i A homestead patent ifs now on hand at the Suit Lake office for C. P. Bowen, Jr., Collinston. The Land Office last week decided decid-ed the case of Enoch Hunsaker vs. the Central Pacific Railroad Co. The case involves a part of section 7, township XI norih Cjf range 2 west. Hunsaker claims that at the time of the location of the line of the railroad the land was occupied occu-pied and settled on, and should be excluded from the grant to the railroad. The case was heard May 22nd. The decision was that while the land was fenced at the time of the location of the railroad, no house was built on it, and no residence resi-dence established thereon by the entryman, and the entry was not such as would exclude it from the grant to the railroad company. In the land office this week the register and receiver handed down a decision in the case of Joseph Wight vs. Central Pacific Pa-cific Railroad Co., involving the southwest quarter of section 17, township 10 north, range 2 west. Mr. Wight claimed the tract by virtue of having established a residence resi-dence on it prior to October 20, 1868. The register and receiver receiv-er find that he did not settle on the tract in question, but "had a house in Brig-ham Brig-ham City, where finally resided, and it ie not even alleged t lift t he lived elsewhere than at that home during any of the period when the contestant asserts this claim to the land in question was being initiated. initiat-ed. If Wight performed any acts looking to the entry of this l.md, j they were not, in our opinion, sufficient suffi-cient to withdraw tho tract from the operation of the grant to the railway company." The decision, therefore, is in favor of the Central ', Pacific. i |