United States v. Sioux City & St. P. R.

The congress of the United States, by the act approved May 12, 1864, granted to the state of Iowa, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a railroad from Sioux City to the south line of the state of Minnesota, to such point on said lino as the state of Iowa might select, between the Big Sioux and the west fork of the Des Moines river, and also a line of railroad from South McGregor, in said state, running *618westerly on or near the forty-third, parallel of north latitude, to a point of intersection with the first-mentioned line in the county of O’Brien, every alternate section of land…