[ [99] T. C. Smith, American Nation, Vol. XVIII, p. 60.
[100] E. W. Martin, “History of the Grange Movement,” 1874, p. 35.
[101] Donaldson, “History of the Public Domain.” University of Wisconsin Bulletin: “Congressional Grants of Land in Aid of Railways,” by J. B. Sanborn, Pol. Sci. and History Series, Vol. II, No. 3.
[102] The “History of the Grange Movement,” a subscription book by Edward Winslow Martin, published in 1874, but which can hardly be taken as wholly reliable, says: “The lands granted by the Government to various railway corporations make up a total area of 198,165,794 acres, or about 300,000 square miles—an area larger than the State of Texas, which contains 237,504 square miles ... and the railway subsidies comprise nearly one-tenth of the entire Union.”
[103] Dunbar, “A History of Travel in America,” Chap. LVI, et seq. Donaldson, “History of the Public Domain.”
[104] Senate Executive Document No. 78, 33d Congress, 2d Session.
[105] U. S. Statutes. Acts of 1862 and 1864.
[106] By subsequent provision the right of way was cut to two hundred feet, although the company still holds four hundred feet through parts of Nebraska.
[107] Thomas Donaldson’s “History of the Public Domain.”
[108] “House Reports,” 42 Cong., 3d Session, No. 77.