Why does the State of Oregon say the public owns the Tenmile Lakes?
A. The state acquired ownership of the Tenmile Lakes upon admission to the Union in 1859. The state has asserted an ownership claim to the lakes by virtue of their fulfilling the federal court requirements for navigability. The lakes have sustained commercial and recreational use since their shores were first settled in the late nineteenth century, and quite possibly even before that by Indians. Boats carried milk to the creameries from lakeshore dairies during the 1890’s. School children, the mail and supplies have been continually and regularly transported over the lakes. Logs have been driven and towed over the lake from logging site to mill site. The “claim” has been attested by (1) a 1924 U.S. Government survey; (2) 1949 notification of all lakefront owners by the Land Board; (3) waterway leasing activity beginning in 1950; and (4) a 1977 Attorney General’s Opinion. Further, the 1924 finding of the U.S. Government’s Cadastral Engineer that the lakes should have been meandered link
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