The Mussel Slough Tragedy

The Mussel Slough Tragedy Discussion
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The Mussel Slough Tragedy Discussion
The Mussel Slough Tragedy was a disagreement regarding land titles among pilgrims and the Southern Pacific Railroad that occurred in California on 11th May, 1880. The land had stayed remote and disrupted for quite a while. In 1886, the congress approved the railroad organizations to build a rail through the region which the Southern Pacific Railroad took. This led to land segmentation that allowed for the Southern Pacific Railroad to get large tracts of land. Given its authentic standing to permit pilgrims to remain at the land upon the consent to buy it, some begun presenting their applications for the terrains while others began crouching the land anticipating the Southern Pacific Railroad titles would be invalid.
The vagrants and grand leaguers were not to be detained or evicted. At the point when the Southern Pacific Railroad chose to reroute their rail route plan a few pioneers imagined would disregard the organization's unique sanction that would ruin the future land titles, notwithstanding, the organization was bought by the Big Four making the privileges of the changed course and rail land legitimized. The vagrants, through the Congress and California state Legislature, stood up to the Southern Pacific Railroad for the land titles which it didn't lawfully answer expecting to go them to clients. All things being equal, Southern Pacific ...