[or-roots] Daniel R Christian

[Leslie Chapman]

Okay back to Oregon genealogy;

I stand corrected;

From;
Genealogical material in Oregon donation land claims
Portland, Or.?: The Forum?, 1957-, 809 pgs.

No. 2647 CHRISTIAN, Daniel R., Lane Co; b 1817, Washington Co, Md; Arr. Ore.
6 Oct 1852; SC 6 June 1854; m Catherine E nyn (sic) 25 Aug 1839, Ogle Co.,
Ill. 1 Sept 1854 aff. by James H. Muse states "abt 30 May 1854 at Eugene
City DAvid Masters told me he had abandoned the land c Daniel R. Christian
has this day filed his notification on." Aff: Charmel Mulligan, James H.
Muse, Abram S. Patterson, Geo C. Fisher.

So he got in just under the wire as I believe 1853 sometime was the cutoff
date for being entitled to a DLC.

Paul, I don't know if you are familiar with the system or not but what
happened was many of the DLC's were claimed before the USGS Township, Range
and Section grid system was surveyed; so when the Surveyors came through to
establish the grid system they had to create seperate blocks of land apart
from the grid system to identify the DLC's. The system will probably be
providing employment for licensed surveyor, lawyers and judges for at least
another 50 years.

I think in this case however they broke the claim across the section line,
most likely being in Eugene it had already been surveyed before he filed his
claim. I believe somewhere BLM would actually have the records of all the
paper work involved, I am hoping before I post this to hunt up the survey of
the area and see if it mentions Daniel.

The portion in section 31 (North part) was 84.75 acres. According to the
index it was entered in records 12/14/1866, but I don't think that date has
anything to do with the DLC, but some internal USGLO thing.
Does anyone on the list remember the details about Civic Stadium in Eugene?
All I remember is that the land owners who gave the property to Eugene for
the stadium had some kind of condition in the deed that they got the
property back if it was not going to be used for it's purpose anymore and
there was a big flap over that. Paul, get you a good lawyer, and you might
own a piece of Eugene!!!

;-}         Me cause trouble!   .   .   .   .   never!

Okay this it proving to be a very interesting history lesson for me on my
own home turf; I have been trying to relate the map of DLC 72 to todays
landscape. I suddenly became much easier to understand when I realized that
a giant oxbow of the Willamette River that is shown on the orignal plat map
and on the map that details the boundries of the sections and DLC  blocks no
longer exists. If you look on a map that shows Autzen stadium, just imagine
the River making a big loop around it; as near as I can reconstruct it
turned almost due north from about Judkins point and hooked across I 105 and
looped back down to the southwest along Coburg road and rejoined it's
current bed about Ferry Street Bridge. The ferry was Skinner's Ferry and I
believe it was just downstream from the present bridge location. Judge
Skinner's claim was seperated from Daniel's by Charnel Mulligan who owned a
panhandle piece to the west and north and the Judge had a big piece from
their to the river.

If you dial in the address for the house on Google earth and have street
view enabled you can zoom in and look at the house if you haven't seen
pictures of it, I'm not certain which house it is, but it seems to be the
second one from the corner on the south side of 12th just west of  Pearl.

That puts it in the NE corner of claim 72 which runs from  mid block on High
street between 11th and 12th on a funny diagonal course down almost to 17th
and Pearl, then jogs east almost two blocks almost to to Mill before running
straight south to the section line which runs along 18th, more or less it
turns north at Olive and follows that back til mid block before 11 and
closes down the middle of that line. I am guessing if I pulled up the
original street plat for that neighborhood I would find his north boundry
running down and alley.

I am going to send you a couple of screen shots off list to make sure you
have all there is available in maps of the property. Block 47 is much more
boring, it just takes off from 18th more or less due south to about 25th and
makes a nice rectangle south of Block 72 which includes about half of South
Eugene High School, most of the Amazon YMCA or whatever it is Sports complex
and of course good old Civic Stadium sits right in the middle of it.I'm sure
that at the height of the real estate boom a lot of those blocks were
probably worth close to a mil apiece. Are you sure you are content just
having the history? I know I sure as heck wish my Grandpa had hung on to all
that "worthless real estate" he let go for a cow or a rifle or whatever.

Les C