Re: Maple bats a hazard in baseball?

"depictureboy" wrote

Why does that matter? Drilling for oil is a private practice as far as
I know, its not a public domain application. Now if the drilling is in
the public domain section of the railway that would be another thing,
but I think that only extends 8 feet on either side. i find it hard to
believe they can put a pump that close to the railway

It's probable that they no longer teach American history in this country? :)

Most railroads in the US are private companies, and their tracks are located
on land owned by them in fee simple. Railroads were historically given huge
swaths of land on either side railways as an incentive to extend their reach
and open up our frontiers to settlement and commerce.

While the surface of a good part of that land has been sold to a third
parties down through the years, the minerals were most often reserved in
those transactions.

AAMOF, Union Pacific Railroad still remains one of the largest mineral
owners in the US, particularly out West where they own entire sections of
land that alternate on either side of the tracks, in a checkerboard manner,
for hundreds, if not thousands of miles (IIRC, across 23 states), and they
have an entire department that deals with nothing but the leasing of those
retained mineral rights. BTDT.


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