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30 The Oregon Central Military Road Company, after doing what was necessary to secure their grant, and finding it inconvenient to be taxed as a private corporation on so large an amount of property that had never been made greatly productive, sold its lands to the Pacific Land Company of San Francisco, in 1873, and thus this magnificent gift to the state passed with no adequate return into the hands of a foreign private corporation.

In the matter of the swamp-lands, nothing was done to secure them during a period of ten years, 81 it being held that the right to them had lapsed through neglect, and Gibbs having had enough to do to secure the other state lands.

George Woods, who in 1866 succeeded Gibbs as governor, made some further se lections for school purposes.

Not all of his selections had been approved when, in 1870, Grover was elected governor.

The agricultural-college lands which had been selected in the Klamath Lake basin had been declared not subject to private entry by the land- office at Roseburg, within which district the lands lay, and that office had refused to approve the selection.