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"Not much law, but plenty of order, and not the least pretence about it." "The courts " "No courts at all, or at least within sixty miles. Why, we haven't even a town organization not a town officer. There was never even a town-site plat filed." Mr. Ellsworth turned on him suddenly. "Where's your titles?" he asked. "We haven't needed any, so far.
Elkins found himself the president of a real railway, with all the perquisites that go therewith. Among these being the power to establish town-sites and give them names. The former function was exercised according to the principles usually governing town-site companies, and with ends purely financial in view. The latter was elevated to the dignity of a ceremony.
Town-site schemes in western Kansas were at that time innumerable, and a steady stream of immigration was pouring westward by rail and wagon into the high and dry plains of the country, where at that time farming remained a doubtful experiment.
"That long one there, with the big seals, come all the way from Ottawa. Nothing territorial about that. The national Canadian government cinches me in the possession of this town-site." "How many lots you sold in the two years you've had it?" Shorty queried. "None of your business," Sanderson answered sourly. "There ain't no law against a man living alone on his town-site if he wants to."
"They're there, and in possession." "Nonsense!" snorted Barkley. "How much title have they got? You say yourself they've never filed a town-site plat. We can go in there and take the town away from under their feet, and they can't help themselves. More than that, I'll bet there's not one mining claim out of fifty that we can't 'adverse' in the courts and take away from its dinky locater.
At San Diego we were as much rejoiced as the followers of Xenophon to see the sea. The town-site was duly registered in San Diego, which could not have been done if both banks of the Colorado just below its junction with the Gila had not been recognized as being within the jurisdiction of the State of California. The county of San Diego collected taxes there for many years.
The next town-site we reached was the Greenough pronounced Greenuff Flats, being in another very excellent agricultural district; here another address was presented to me, and we were entertained at an excellent lunch. As usual, great numbers of people came to inspect us, and the camels, the latter laying down with their loads on previous to being let go.
"But Dwight Sanderson's selling it for a town," Smoke baffled. "Come on. We've got to climb this slide." The slide was steep, and a narrow trail zigzagged up it on a formidable Jacob's ladder. Shorty moaned and groaned over the sharp corners and the steep pitches. "Think of a town-site here. They ain't a flat space big enough for a postage-stamp. An' it's the wrong side of the river.
"I seldom think when I am being entertained," his passenger declared. "Well, that poor stupid had dammed the creek, and every night he shut the gate and flooded his road." If the clustered derricks of the town-site pool were impressive, there was something positively dramatic about the Extension.
He interspersed this address with many adjectives, but as nobody took the slightest notice of him, he started away, banning and blaspheming as he went, and for an uneducated, unscientific West Australian, his, was not a bad effort at profanity. At Guildford, a town-site on the Swan, we were publicly received by the Mayor, Mr.
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