..."Every alternate section of pjblic land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of * * * ten alternate sections of land per mile on . each side of said railroad line wherever it passed through any state, and whenever on the line thereof the United States have...

...Is hereby granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, •> • • every alternate section of public land not mineral, designated by odd numbers; * * • provided, further, that all mineral lands be and the same are hereby excluded from the operation...

...construction and public stores over the line of said railroad, every alternate section of of mud, ic. pnbhc land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile (ten on each side) of said railroad line; and when any of said alternate sections or parts of sections...

...Pacific Railroad Company, &c., for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad, &c., every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers," to the amount of ten and twenty alternate sections per mile as therein set forth, " whenever, on the line thereof, the...

...Pacific Railroad Company, &c., for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad, \c., every alternate section of public land, not " mineral, designated by odd numbers," to the amount of ten and twenty alternate sections per mile as therein set forth, " whenever, on the line thereof, the...

...and Pacific Railroad Company. The grant to the last named company (section 3 of said act) was of " every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers," etc. Was land of this character mineral, within the meaning of the law? The act of Congress of July...

...between the States of Wisconsin and Michigan, in a direction leading to Outomigon,on Lake Superior, every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, Mineral lands for three sections in width on each side of said road. But in case it shall not i-'rant«dappear...

...rail- per mile in the road line, as said company may adopt, through the Territories of the Territories. United States, and ten alternate sections of land...whenever it passes through any State, and whenever tio^we"jm on the line thereof, the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, tue states, granted,...

...designate. This company was so designated. The grant is of every alternate section of the public lands, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile (ten on each side) of said railroad line. Indemnity is provided for lauds lost to the grant by other...

...substituted for Atlantic and Pacific Eailroad Company in the section. It grants the odd sections " on each side of said railroad line as said company may adopt * * * when1879.] Opinion of the Court— Sawyer, CJ ever on the line thereof the United States have...