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The Railroad Land-Grant Legend

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

John B. Rae
John B. Rae
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1955 , pp. 112 - 113
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1955

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References

1 A summary of these acts and their provisions can be found in General Land Office, Statement, showing Land Grants Made by Congress to Aid in the Construction of Railroads, etc. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915), pp. 22–24Google Scholar.

2 4 U. S. Statutes at Large 305 (May 26, 1828).

3 Federal Coordinator of Transportation, Public Aids to Transportation (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1938), II, 36. Mr. Gates gives no estimate of the amount of the loss, although this figure would seem essential to a determination of the adequacy of compensation.

4 About a quarter of all the railroad land lay in the states of Arizona, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, none of it particularly good homesteading territory. See Department of the Interior, Transportation (Information Bulletin, 1939 Series, No. 5, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1940), pp. iv–vGoogle Scholar.