Probado Realty - Revised Edition

This is a Revised Version of a personal writing about the History of the Mesita de Juana Lopez Land Grant. Many writings about land grant issues usually address the issue in general terms. This writing focuses on only one Grant with the inclusion of excerpts from an investigation conducted in 1886. The excerpts are not included within the writing as I did in the first version. This investigation includes testimony of individuals involved and ultimately revealed the intentional...
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This is a Revised Version of a personal writing about the History of the Mesita de Juana Lopez Land Grant. Many writings about land grant issues usually address the issue in general terms. This writing focuses on only one Grant with the inclusion of excerpts from an investigation conducted in 1886. The excerpts are not included within the writing as I did in the first version. This investigation includes testimony of individuals involved and ultimately revealed the intentional flaws. A resurvey of the Grant was recommended and submitted up the chain of command. It was halted by an Interior Secretary citing cases that did not appropriately support his decision. My writing reveals the flaws and how they came about. It also reviews that decision and the cases cited in a case where the original heirs and owners were left with nothing at all and the Officials involved were able to "escape with their fraudulent gains". Those gains were the valuable coal mines located on Public Land that wound up included in the Grant once the boundaries were unlawfully expanded.