Memorandum
This item includes a memorandum that concerns the investigation of land frauds on the Pacific coast.
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OCR Page 1 of 4MEMORANDUM.
Nearly a year ago information reached the Secretary
of the Interior which strongly indicated that frauds of a serious
nature had been and were be ing perpetrated against the Government
under what is known as the forest reserve lieu land act of June 4,
1897, by a combination of land speculators on the Pacific Coast,
and that cortain Federal officials located in California and
elsewhere were implicated in the frauds. The information and
indicated frauds were of so grave a character that the Secretary
at once directed a thorough investigation to be made. This
investigation was commenced last January, and has been conducted
by those having charge of the actual work with great care and
with all possible expedition consistent with thoroughness. The
investigation has proceeded step by step, without intermission,
under the Secretary's personal direction, and every clew to
wrongdoing has been quietly followed to its source, with the
result that it is the confident belief of those in charge of the
inquiry that the guilty parties will be apprehended and speedily
brought to justice.
It has been the determination of the Secretary from the
beginning that the matter should be probed to the bottom regard-
less of the apparent influential character of some of the men
involved or of their political and the inquiry has
been conducted throughout along these lines. The work is now
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