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_No. 5A862. Deed No. 5603.
<br /> Deed.. DEED
<br /> TIC ITNION PACIFIC LAiTD COI,iPAeTY j
<br /> Tho Union Pacific, to
<br /> Land Com an TrITION PACIFIC RAI.IROAD C01.12JUTY•..
<br /> Indenture made the .first day of July, A. D. 1925, between
<br /> TIC ITyTO.i> PI-iS I IC LxTND COIP1Si�T�C, I
<br /> Union Pacific Railroad a corporation of the State of Utah, party of the first part,
<br /> C o�;ar_v• and I
<br /> TTi;IOIT PAIIV TC Rf�TTnr. 1, ) COlriPsti tTY,
<br /> Filed for record at' ' a corporation .of the State of .Utah, party of the second part:.
<br /> 33i, ht o'clock* A. T; ., YFAMEAS• M LWiXEM-7ORT11, PAVYMW liND VEESTIBR1:T 11AILROP C011-
<br /> AuUust - 17th, 1925. P•jUTY, a corporation created in or about the year 1855 by an Act
<br /> E. H. Akerly, Recorder• of the Legislature of' the Territory of Kansap, (the name of
<br /> which corporation was, pursuant to lawful authority, changed in
<br /> or about the'year 1863 to UNION PACIFIC RAILVIAY C013?A1-ff, MAOST-
<br /> MIT DI'VIS10171, and again ohan. ed in or about the; year 1869 to
<br /> I01aSAS. PACIFIC R:AI:TWAY COirEAt�TY), constructed a line of railroad j
<br /> flrom •the,Xiasouri River at the mouth of the T�ansas River (now j
<br /> Kansas Cit�f, Missouri) , through the Territory (later State) of I
<br /> Kansas to Denver, in the Territory (now.State of Colorado, with a branch line of railroad from
<br /> :Leavenworth to Zavrrence, both in Kansas• Said Construction was authorized and, in aid of said con- j
<br /> struction, said corporation was granted public lauds of the•United States by the following Acts of
<br /> Congress: (1) An Act(12 Statutes 489) approved July 1, 1862, entitled ":'.uz Act to aid in-the Con-
<br /> struction of a Railroad and Telegraph Zine from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to
<br /> secure to the Government the Use of the same for Postal, Military; and Other Purposes". (2) An Act i
<br /> (13 Statutes 356) , approved July 2, 1864, entitled "4n Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to aid
<br /> in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Iissouri River to the Pacific Ocean_,
<br /> and to secure to the Government the Use of the same for, Postal, I.ilitary, and Other Purposes' , ap-
<br /> proved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty two". (3) A Joint Resolution (14 Statutes 355), ap-
<br /> proved 11ay 7, 1866, entitled "A Resolution extending the Time for the Completion of the Union
<br /> Pacific Railvray, Eastern Division".(4) t;n Act (14 Statutes 79) , approved July 3, 1866:, entitled
<br /> as an Act to ainend the aforesaid Acts op July 1, 1862, and July 2, 1864• ,(5) An Act (15 Statutes
<br /> 324), approved March 3, 1869, entitled "An Act; to authorize the Transfer of Lands granted to the
<br /> Union_ Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division, betvreen Denver and the Point of its•Coiulection
<br /> with the Unions Pacific Railroad, to the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, and to ex-
<br /> pedite the Completion of Railroads to Denver, in the Territory of Colorado." The public lands j
<br /> granted to said corporation by the aforesaid Acts of Congress An aid of and pertaining to the con-
<br /> struction of said line of railroad-froin the Missouri River at Kansas City, 11issouri,• and Leaven-
<br /> worth, Kansas, to Denver, Colorado, and all right, title and interest of said corporation therein,
<br /> excluding, however, the lands, granted by said Acts which were transferred to the Denver Pacific
<br /> Railway and Telegraph Company under the authority of the Act of Congress approved l=arch 3, ,1869$
<br /> last aforesaid, are hereinafter called the "Kansas Pacific Land Grant". Said Kansas Pacific Land j
<br /> Grant was in due course, confirrr_ed and the title thereto perfected by the issue of patents by the'
<br /> Government of the United States for lands -included therein to said corporation or its successors-
<br /> In or 'about the year 1880 said Kansas Pacific Railroad Company was consolidated with The Union
<br /> Pacific Railroad Company and the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company under the .name -of
<br /> THE DIII011T PACIFIC RA2T1dAY G01-TAeTY.
<br /> l' M +AS: Said IWMAS PACIFIC ItAIT;dAY COI,iPANY, under date of I1ay 1, 1879, executed its Con-
<br /> solidated First Mortgage, to secure an issue of its consolidated first mortgage bonds; to Jay
<br /> Gould and Russell Sage, as•trustees, vrhereir- and whereby it conveyed to said trustees, in trust
<br /> as security for said bonds, among other property, said Kansas Pacific land Grant, so far as the
<br /> saa;ie had not theretofore been sold and '.conveyed by it. Thereafter, its corporate successor, said i
<br /> The Union Pacific Railway Company, b.avi?ag made default in the payment of interest upon said con- i
<br /> solidated first mortgage bonds, suits for the foreclosure of said mortgage %sere cormaenced by the
<br /> trustees thereof against said The Union Pacific Railway Company and others in the United States E
<br /> Circuit Courts for the Districts of Kansas and Colorado and such proceedings were had therein that
<br /> decrees, of foreclosure and sale were duly entered in the Circuit Court for the District of Kansas
<br /> on July 30, 1897, end in the Circuit Courtfor the District of Colorad6 on July 316t, 1897, •and I
<br /> thereupon the mortgaged properties were sold pursuant to said decrees. Upon said foreclosure sale I,
<br /> said Kansas Pacific Mand Grant, so far as the same had not theretofore been sold and conveyed, and
<br /> certain miscellaneous lands were sold to Alvin It. Iirech and Zavrrence Greer, the highest bidders
<br /> therefor, who thereafter assigned and transferred their bid and all their rights as bidders and
<br /> purchasers to TIM UNION PACIFIC LLXTD COhPAY1, party of the first part hereto. Thereupon, pursuant �
<br /> to said foreclosure decrees and the proceedings aforesaid, said Kansas Pacific Land Grant, so far I
<br /> as the samie had not theretofore been sold and conveyed, and said miscellaneous lairds were conveyed i
<br /> to The Union Pacific :Land Company, party of the first part hereto, by several deeds, dated the
<br /> 15th day of April;% A. D 1898, executed by William D. Cornish, as Special Master appointed in said
<br /> foreclosure suits, the Receivers of The Union Pacific Railway Company, the Trustees under said
<br /> Kansas Pacific Railivay Corapezy's Consolidated First 11ortr_-age, said The Union Pacific Railway Com-
<br /> p-any, and said Alvin IT. Isrech (and wife) and Macrrence Greer ,(and wife)-, as grantors, and said The
<br /> Union Pacific Land Company; as grantee, one of said deeds being duly recorded in each county of ;
<br /> the :Mates of Kansas and Colorado in which the lands-so conveyed were oituated, and also•by a
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