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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THB
COMMISSIONER
OF THX
GENEEAL LAND OFFICE
FOR THB
FISCAL TEAS ENDED JUNE 30, 1890,
DATKD
SEPTEMBER IS, 1890.
WASHINGTON:
eOVBBNMBNT PRINTING OFFICE.
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REPORT
OF THB
COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
DSPABTMENT OF THE IKTBBIOB,
GsNEBAL Land Office,
Washington^ D. 0., September 13, 1890.
Sib : liQ transmitting the Annual Report of the General Land Office
for the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1890, submitted herewith, I deem it
proper to call attention to the increasing magnitude and importance of
this office, and the great mass of laborious and intricate work annually
performed by its officials. From comparatively a small beginning at
its original organization by act of Gougress of April 25, 1812, under the
Treasury Department, it has grown with respect to the quantity, char-
acter, and multiplicity of the affairs committed to its charge, until its
present force of officials, clerks, and other employes, many of whom
are required to have legal or more than ordinary clerical ability, is un-
able to dispose of the vast accumulation of business with satisfactory
expedition, and the necessity of its increase and additional office room
is becoming yearly more apparent.
The result, however, of its administration during the fiscal year, as
indicated in the accompanying report, is regarded as most gratifying
under all the circumstances.
The great object of the Government is to dispose of the public lands ;
to actual settlers only — to bona fide tillers of the soil — although liberal
grants have been made by Congress to States and corporations for
works of recognized public utility. To give effect to all the various
statutes on the subject is the duty devolving on this office. Accord-
ingly, an agricultural domain of nearly 19,000,000 acres — a domain al-
most equal to the aggregate area of the States of New Hampshire, Mas-
sachusetts, Bhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey — has, during
the year been transferred to enterprising and industrious settlers, by
patents issued to them for the above area, while the areas patented to
the States, under the swamp grant, and to corporations, under special
grants, have been great, although somewhat reduced, as compared with
previous years. At the same time, the area of coal and mineral lands
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4 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
patented has been greatly increased over that of the fiscal year ending
Jane 30, 1889, thus tending to the development of our immense depos-
its of coal and metals of every grade. The area patented to the States,
under the grants for educational and internal improvement purposes,
has increased 300 per cent.
This completed work, as shown by the following figures and facts, in-
dicating increased population, increased coal and mineral development?
and increased educational development and resources, is adverted to as
a suggestive element in the national progress.
TRANSACTIONS OF THE OFFICE DURING THE YEAR END-
ING JUNE 30, 1890.
AORIOULTURAL PATENTS ISSUED.
The class of patents embraced under this head includes all patents
issued on final and commuted homestead entries, on pre-emption, tim-
ber culture, desert, private cash, town-site and other entries embracing
land of an agricultural non- mineral character.
The number of such agricultural patents issued during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1890, was 117,247, embracing 18,759,520 acres. The
number issued during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, was 70,141,
including an area of 11,222,560 acres, showing an increase during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, of 47,106 patents, and of 7,536,960
acre? of land.
MINERAL PATENTS.
Of mineral and millsite patents, 1,407 were issued, as against 913 dur-
ing the previous fiscal year, an increase of 494 patents. Of coal patents,
224 were issued, as against 155 patents during the previous year, an
increase of 69, and including an area of 33,473.72 acres, as against an
area during the previous year of 17,096.80 acres, or an increase in area
of 15,376.92 acres.
In the following exhibit are shown the States and Territories in which
mineral patents were issued :
Coal land and mineral and millHte patents.
States and Territories.
Coal lands.
Acres.
Mineral
and mill.
site.
A1«i|Va
5
Arieonft x ,
25
California
6
127
m.oo
19,004.96
115
591
Dakota
40
Idaho
42
M^nt^^na ....... .
9
1.040.00
889
Nevada
27
KewMexico
2
160.00
26
Oreffon
10
Utah
19
37
25
2.890.84
S,6M.34
3.843.58
118
Washington
8
Wvominir -
21
Total
224
33,473.72
1,407
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STATE SELECTIONS APPROVED,
The approvals daring the year, under the different grants to the sev-
eral states for educational and internal improvement purposes, and for
public buildings, embraced an area of 539,779.84 acres.
The following exhibit gives the details by States :
state.
Alabama . . .
Arizona
Galiibrnia ..
•Do
Do
Do
Do
Colorado
Florida
Loaisiana. . .
Minnoflota . .
Miaaoari....
Nerada ,
Washington
Wyoming ...
Grant.
Totol.
TJniversity (a)
— do
School indemnity {b)
iDtemal improvement —
Seminary
A^ionltnral College
Public building
Agricultaral College
Internal improvement
School indemnity (d)
... do (d)
Agricnltaral College
School indemnity
University
...do
Quantity ,f PJIT^J?
Quaniitvl ^pprovoS ^X"^/'
granted. "Plo Jnly L^Jjuly
1, 1»H». j^ ^gi^
Acres.
46.080
40,080
600,000
46, 080
160,000
6,400
90.000
600,000
830.000
^000,000
40,080
46.080
Acres.
44,297.53
492, 652. 87
44. 822. L6
148, 499. 00
4, 778. 30
09, 555. 75
e407,761.09
324,623.65
0868,872. 20
23,042.02
Acres.
1,650.03
36,800.14
8, 881. 12
6, 612. 73
1, 154. 07
L 220. 82
820. 78
18, 391. 51
77.85
68,621.40
1, 015. 05
5,348.80
340, 42J. 25
80.00
40,001.34
630,770.84
Total
approved.
Acres.
45,048.46
36, 880. 14
408.205.00
45,076.23
140, 710. 82
6,099.08
87, 947. 26
497,838.04
820. 072. 51
718,204.45
24, 022. 02
i40,001.34
Bemalnder.
Acres,
131.54
0.180.80
1.734.40
103.77
280.18
1.300.02
2,052.74
2,10L00
«27.40
1,281,705.55
A22,057 06
a This is a second grant to Alabama of the same quantity for university purposes, the first grant
having been previously a<\Justed.
b This Is a grant of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections with indemnity following the grant.
The exact quantity granted and indemnity due have not been ascertained.
a This total represents the quantity embraced in approvals that have been allowed to stand upon
agreed at^ustment.
d This is a grant of sections numbered 10 with indemnity following the grant. The exact quantity
granted and the indemnity due have not been ascertained.
4 Grant practically dosed.
/ This is a grant of quantity in lieu of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections restored to the pablio
domain under act of June 10, 1880.
g This aggregate includes 0,228l 30 acres indemnity selected under the originiJ grant, and not under
the grant of 2,000,000 acres made by the act of June 10, 1880.
h By approvals on July 2 of this year the remainder has been reduced to 1,288.70 acres.
i The grant is of 72 entire sections (46,080 acres if the sections contain exactly 640 acres each) but
the 72 sections selected aggregated a few acres more than 46,080 acres.
The above stated acreage of 539,779.84 acres, as against an area
during the previous fiscal year of only 132,350.61 shows an increase of
407,429.23 acres or over 300 per cent.
In AppendixK is a farther detailed statement of adjustments of grants,
with references to important decisions and rulings relative thereto.
SWAMP-LAND PATENTS.
In the following statement is shown by States the acreage of swamp
lands patented during the year, as also the acreage selected by the
states and approved by this office, and the aggregate acreage of such
lands patented to the States, since the date of the swamp grant :
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6 SEPOBT OF COMMISSIOK£B OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Total during year of ftiHimp lands.
Stotes.
Arkanaas
California
Florida
niinoia
Indiana
Iowa
Lonwiana, 1840 .
Loalsiana, 1850 .
Mlchiffan
Minnesota .
HiasUttip
Bttippi .
)nri....
Olkio.
Oregon —
Wiaoonsin.
Total.
Relected.
Aoru.
970.61
182.28
15,253.88
" '2*810.* ii'
Approved.
Aer«f.
180.00
8.078.02
60,000.58
40.00
440.00
408.54
40,385.85
17,005.52
Patented.
AtT€9.
00a42
8,483.08
4,062.00
68,606.78
40.00
8S&13
2,04&17
86.68
408.64
8,082.28
88,086l22
2,077.87
10,218.58 128,000.40 I 100.861.80
Total pat-
ented unoe
date of grant.
A9nB,
411.180.28
7,847^700.88
1,480,480.26
16.114,726.74
1,4&6.84L45
1.257,888.05
1.188,020.88
8, 708. 68a 58
228.120.40
5.887.804.84
2,800.602.81
8.260,158.20
3.415,631.27
25,840.71
140.882.80
8,832,000.61
67,200,324.40
Number of lists of swamp and school lands prepared for approval 78
Certified copies of lists prepared and transmitted to governors of the several States and to local
oi&oers 116
Patents executed 24
DnriDg the previoas fiscal year endiDg on June 30, 1889, an area of
259,721.45 acres was patented to the several States auder the swamp
grants, bat during the present fiscal year, as shown in above table, an
area of only 109,351.89 acres was patented to the States, a decrease of
150,369.56 acres.
BAILBOAB LANDS PATENTED.
There were patented or certified, under the law, for the benefit of
railroad companies, during the year, 363,862.15 acres, as shown in the
following table :
Aores.
Iowa 80.00
Lonisiana 77,213.27
Minnesota... 261,773.01
Wisconsin 24,795.87
Total 363,862.15
as against an area patented to railroads during the previoas fiscal
year of 425,046.02 acres, or a decrease of 61,183.87 acres.
nn>IAK AND MISCELLANEOUS PATENTS.
The exhibit following shows the area patented to the States, daring
the year, on private land claims, donations, Indian claims in severalty,
and scrip locations :
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BEPOBT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Indian and nUicelUweoua patenU issued year ending JunedO^ 1B90.
Aoroa.
Indiftn Territory 43,444.13 Colorado
California 17,760.00 Arkansas
Florida 17.723.57 Washington.
Louisiana 8,190.64 Mississippi ..
Wisconsin 7,231.70 Missouri
Oregon 4,871.53 Minnesota...
Dakota 2,661.73 Indiana
Kansas 2,426.73
Michigan 640.00
or a decrease in
50,334.19 acres.
BecapiiulatUm ofpatenU iuued.
640. QD
640.00
633.00
160.00
160.00
153.00
50.00
Total 100.066.03
area, as compared with the previous fiscal year, of
Patents.
1889.
1890.
I
Aertt.
Agricnltiiral 11,222,560.00
Mlnerftl i 17.09C80
State selections 183,850. ei
Swamplands 269.721.45
Bailroad lands I 425,046.02
IndSanlsnds 150,380.21
Total t 12,216,165.09
AerM,
18, 759, 520. 00
88,478.73
539,779.84
100, 351. 88
363, 862. 15
109,056w02
19,915,043.62
Inoreaae. I Decrease.
Acret.
7,586,960.00 |
16,876.93
407,429.28
A»r€M,
•I
150,869.66
61,183.87
50,884.19
7,960,766.15 i 261,887.62
Total net
increase.
AerM.
7, 698. 87a OB
The following is a statement of the acreage of public lands disposed
of during the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1890 :
CASH 8ALBS.
Acres.
Private entries 38,617.79
Public sales 1 !28.66
Pre-emption entries 2,204,90.5.07
Timber and stone land entries 509, 896. 61
Mineral land entries :35,396.81
Desert land entries 478,849.56
Coal land entries 16,198.34
Town-site entries 1,745.57
Lassen County desert land entries 400,00
Excesses on homestead and other entries 15, 194. 8))
Abandoned military reservations 1, 613.51
3,302,846.76
MISCELLANEOUS.
Honistead entries (original) 5,531,678.60
Timber-onltnre entries (original) 1,787,403.14
Entries with military bounty land warrants 19,034.32
Entries with private land scrip 10,4.^.52
State selections, school and swamp 258,141.33
Railroad selections 1,752,758.86
Indian allotments 2,167.85
Entries with Valentine scrip 119.60
Entries with Siunz half-breed scrip 150.90
Entries with Portcrfield scrip 5.22
Donation entries 785.81
Total 9,362,685.24
Total area of public land entries and selections A2, 665, 531. 99
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INDIAN LANDS.
Acres.
Cherokee aohool lands 2,333.78
Ute lands 61,059.61
Sioux lands 57,096.87
Osage tmst and diminished reserve 11,763.96
Osage ceded 96.11
Kansas trust and diminished reserve 333.85
Winnebago lands 457.77
Uintah lands » 163.45
Total 133,306.42
Making a grand total of 12 798,837.41
rbcafitulahon.
▲i«a sold for cash 3,302,846.75
Miscellaneous entries 9,362,685.24
Indian lands 133,3a'>.42
Total 12,798,837.41
The foregoing does not include the following entries, the areas of
which have been previously reported in the ^< original entries" of the
respective classes :
Aisrea.
Oommnted homestead (section 2301, B. 8.) 905,536.41
Commuted homestead act, June 15, 1880 4.348.38
Final desert land entries 244,534.94
FiiMd homestead entries 4,060,592.77
Final timher-cnlture entries 423, 04a 70
Total areas previously reported 5,638,061.20
CASH BEOEIPTS.
The following is a statement of the cash receipts of the office from
various sources during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890 :
From cash sales $6,349,174.24
Homestead fees and commissions 697,623.07
Ttmher>oulture fees and commissions 173,145.00
Feea on locations of military honnty land warrants 599.00
Fees on scrip locations 17.00
Fees on donation claims 25.00
Fees on State selections 3,019.77
Fees on railroad selections 21,913.19
Fees on pre-emption and other filings 123,750. 00
Fees for reducing testimony to writing, etc 101,604.04
Total receipts from public lands 7,470,870.31
Beo^pts from disposal of Indian lands 293,062.30
Timber depredations 16,585.00
Total 7,780,517.61
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The filings made and the fees therefrom are stated in the annexed
table.
Kind of tilings.
Pre-emption
Homestead
Coal
Lassen Coonty desert
Town lot
Town-Bite ,
Yalentine scrip
Girard scrip
Mineral applications
Timber and stome applications
Total
Add to this mineral adverse claims
Number of |
filings.
25,829 !
712
1,645 I
174 I
2
2
45
1 I
1,293
3,617 I
Fees.
$65,164.00
1,571.00
4,927.00
522.00
6.00
6.00
45.00
"ii'moo
86, 170. 00
82, 820 j 121, 340. 00
241
2,410.00
33,061 123,750.00
The namber and kinds of every character of entries made during the
year, together with the cash receipts for the same, compared with the
previoas fiscal year, are shown in the following exhibit :
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Number amd okua of final and original entriet and seleetiona made during the year ending
pared with year end
Class of entry.
Public sales
Private entry
Pre-emption
Timber and stone
Coal
Mineral
Town sites
Town lots
Abandoned military reservations
Indian lands
Desert lands
Desert lands, Lassen County
Commuted homesteads
Commuted homesteads, act June 15, 1880
Military bounty land-warrants
Private land scrip
Yalentiue scrip
Sioux half-breed scrip
Porterfleld scrip
Donation claims
Indian allotments
Homesteads (final)
Timber-culture (final)
OBIGINAL BMTRIEB.
Desert-land
Timber-culture
Homesteads
BAILBOAD AND OTHBB 8BLKCTIOM8.
Railroad
Swamp
Swamp indemnity.
Educational, etc . . .
BBCAPITULATION BT TOTALS.
Final entries
Original entries
Railroad and other selections. .
Total
Deduct t^tal of increase .
Net total decrease.
Ifumber I
of I
entries. I
Number of
acres.
7
242
15,248
8,464
118
1,314
5
5
28
1,004
868
3
0,005
42
170
91
3
1
1
4
20
38,080
2,aia
t
60, 870
2&66
38,617.79
2,204,005.07
600,806.61
16,108.84
36^806.81
1, 745. 57
1,613.54
133,305.42
244,634.04
400.00
005, 536. 41
4,348.38
19,034.82
10,430.62
110. 60
150.99
6.22
785.81
2, 167. 85
4,060,502.77
423. 048. 70
8,612,872.32
1,504
11.935
40,244
53,773
478.840.56
1, 787. 403. 14
5,531.678.60
7. 797, 931. 30
1,752.758.86
19, 316. 53
3, 863. 32
235,061.48
2, 010, 000. 10
59.670 8,612,872.32
63,773 7,797,931.30
2,010,000.19
113, 443 18, 421, 703. 81
■11
Cash receipts.
Sales.
0200.12
49,418.22
2, 097,444. 16
1,272,186.66
282,964.70
186, 826. 16
2,781.06
238.00
2,339.98
298, 062. 30
246,080.76
500.00
1,227,065.77
5,900.18
6, 486. 210. 01
181, 253. 04
131,253.94
Fees and
com-
609.00
13.00
3.00
1.00
26.00
142, 007. 18
11,584.00
155,132.18
161.561.00
654, 715. 80
716, 276. 89
21, 913. 19
6,486,210.01
131,253.04
6,617,464.85 806,842.03
40.00
2, 970. 77
24. 932. 96
166; 182. 18^
716,276.88
24,982.96
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JwM 30, 1890 ; a,Uo amo%%% of eiuik reotipt$ far titme, and inerwue or d&ortoM as oom-
ing June 30, 1889.
Inereese m oompftred with 1888.
Knm-
berof
entries.
Number of
mores.
Cash sales.
Fees and
oom mis-
sions.
Number of
entries.
Number of
aores.
Gash sales.
Fees and
eemmisslons*
1
1,478
4,843
174.94
117,865.06
687,128.08
1168.28
188,688.62
988,148.80
1,088
175^876.78
436,830.56
68
12^628.89
218,675.50
10
408.28
885.65
6.839.46
710.48
i
61
1,286.70
38&02
86^462. 43
19
06
224
8
1,235.80
1S,868.]2
57.475.16
400.00
56,188.71
500.00
'•'n
618,000.69
2,811.41
44&88
6,402.82
198.70
66.61
826,820.68
3.811.18
12
29.00
62
4
S
882.00
7.00
1
5.22
4
88
1.272.24
8.412.96
40.00
2,531
2, MO
878.883.07
856,888.77
13,610.96
9,620.00
1
6.871
886,972.65
499,068.21
28.160.95
10,094 1 1.482,692.48
2 267, 84a 02
139.00
263
70,039.60
6.828.16
1
1
5.010
1,939
768,866.08
497.551.66
68,ii7.06
49,960.69
'-•/'••
353
70.039.60
6.829.16
6.949
1,261,217.74
119, on. 69
459, 090. 18
1.990,866.53.
8,175.92
50,648.36
5^350.76
42.00
766.88
2,503,660.94
6, 160. 14
6,371
258
986,972.66
70,039.60
499.069.21
1.829.16
23.160.95
*10.094
6,949
1,462,602.48
1,261,217.74
2,503,669.94
2,267,848.82
189.00
119,077.68
8,158114
6,684
1,057,012.25
505,898.87
23,160.95
17,048
6,624
S, 227, 680. 16
1,057,012.26
2,267.843.82
505,888.37
125,376.88
28.160.86
10,419
4,170,667.91
1,781,845.55
102.214.88-
^ Net deorease in Unal entries, 3.723; in aores, 475,718.83.
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ENTRIES PENDING.
It is shown by the official records that on Jane 30, 1889, there were
276,751 final entries of all kinds pending, and that at the close of the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, there were 208,064 of snch entries pend-
ing, a decrease as compared with the previous year of 68,687 entries.
MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS AND CLAIMS PENDING.
RAILROADS.
Railroad selections amounting to 29,776,955.76 acres were pending at
the close of the year, an increase over the amount pending at the be-
ginning of the year of 332,704.12 acres. There were also Oregon wagon-
road selections pending to the amount of 304,926.67 acres. In Appendix
F will be found a detailed statement of these selections and the com-
panies for whose benefit they are made.
EXECUTION AND DELIVEBY OF PATENTS.
Patents are executed in the name of the party making an entry or
location, except in cases where the statute expressly recognizes the
right of an assignee to take patent in his own name. (See depart-
mental decision of July 27, 1880, in case of Whittaker v. Sou. Pac B«
R., 7 Oopp, 85.)
The recitals and description of land in patents in all cases follow the
register's certificate of entry or location, as prescribed by law.
When patents are ready for deliyery they are, in all cases, trans-
mitted to the local office at which the location or entry was made,
where they can be obtained by the party entitled thereto, upon surren-
der of the duplicate receipt* or certificate, as the case may be, unless
the duplicate shall have been previously filed in this office with a
request that the patent be delivered as requested by the person sending
the same; and in no case is the patent delivered, either from this or
the local office, except upon receipt of such duplicate, or, in case of its
loss from any cause, upon the filing in lieu thereof of an affidavit made
by the present bona fide owner of the land, accounting for the loss of
the duplicate, and also showing ownership of the tracts or a portion
thereof embraced in the patent.
Patents are delivered free of charge.
BOUNTY LAND BUSINESS.
Of revolutionary bounty land scrip, authorized by the acts of August
3, 1852, and June 22, 1860, and founded on Virginia military land- war-
rants granted for services in the war of the Revolution, four claims, in-
cluding l,488j^ acres, were satisfied during the year by the issue of
scrip. The number of such claims pending is 313, embracing an aggre-
gate area of 1 02,404]^- acres. The latter include only snch as await the
removal by claimants of minor defects to perfect their claims.
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In coinmating these Virginia military land-warrants into scrip a
difflcalty occurs of no small magnitade, rendering the progress of the
work necessarily slow. Sach land- warrants were issaed maiDly to citi-
zens of Virginia and other Southern States. One of the results of the
late war of the rebellion was that many of these claimants either lost
their lives or were dispersed over the States. This, with other facts,
renders it difficult for claimants to establish <^ present proprietorship."
From the commencement of operations under the several acts np to
June 30, 1890:
Acres.
Under act of 1847, 88,263 patents were issued, including an area of 13, 21% 120
Under act of 1850, 189,133 patents were issued, including an area of 13, 167, 040
Under act of 1852, 11,991 patents were issued, including an aiea of. 694, 240
Under the act of 1855, 2^,597 patents were issued, including an area of . . 34, 075, 310
Total 68,148,710
There were located in the several land States and Territories during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890 (or, if before, not heretofore re-
ported), under the several acts of 1847, 1850, 1852, and 1855, before men-
tioned, warrants covering 24,040 acres.
ACCOUNTS.
Mistaken methods and practices which had grown np in the accounts
division of this office, has caused a great accumulation of official busi-
ness in arrears at the opening of the fiscal year which obstructed the
operations of the division, and unnecessarily consumed much valuable
time in work of no practical consequence. These methods and prac-
tices during the year were abolished. The clerical force was re-
arranged and in efiect its value increased by the transfer of clerk's from
unimportant or unnecessary to valuable work. The pressing business
of the division has thus been expedited, and greater efficiency effected.
The duties of the division, under section 456, Revised Statutes, in
aaditing <^all public accounts relative to public lands," are elaborate
and responsible, and involve an amount of labor not easily estimated.
The aggregate of accounts adjusted amounts to $10,200,339, and the
disbursements to $6,887,295.12, or an excess of receipts over disburse-
ments of $3,313,033.88.
The multifarious work of this division is up to date, with the excep-
tion of the accounts of deputy surveyors.
SPECIAL DEPOSITS.
During the year the deposits by individuals to defray the expense of
office work in connection with the survey of mineral lands in certain
public land districts, are reported as amounting to $69,264.25, and de-
posits by railroads for field and office work in California, Louisiana,
Minnesota, and Utah as amounting to $24,779.24, or a total by individ-
uals and railroads of $94,043.49.
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MINERAL LANDS.
ODethoasand three handred and foarteen mineral entries, embracing
35,396.81 acres, were made.
Onebandred and eighteen coal entries were made, embracing 16,198.34
acres.
One thousand four hundred and seven mineral patents and two hun-
dred and twenty-four coal patents were issued, the coal patents embrac-
ing an area of 33.773.72 acres. This is an increase of over 50 pei cent,
of mineral and coal patents issued, as compared with last year.
One thousand six hundred and forty-eight current mineral and coal
entries were examined, an increase oyer last year of about 60 per cent.,
and 1,958 suspended mineral and coal entries were re-examined, as
against 1,544 for previous year.
Contests received were 75, an increase of 16 over last year, and 127
quasi-contests were received.
Of contest cases 265 were considered, as against 231 for the previous
year, an increase of 34 cases. Of agricultural and quasi-con test cases,
involving mineral questions, 526 were examined.
Ex parte mineral entries are in arrears about two and one-half years.
Contest cases, quasi-contests, and ex parte coal entries are up to date.
The chief of the division submits the following draft of a bill for the
relief of persons who have or who may hereafter make entries under
the pre-emption or homestead laws :
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Bepresentativea of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That any person who baa made or who may hereafter make an
entry, at any district land office, under the homestead or pre-emption laws, of any
lands of the United States not known at the time to contain valaable deposits o^
mineral, shall have the right upon compliance with the requirements of the law under
which the claim is initiated, to a patent for the land so entered, notwithstanding any
discovery of mineral deposits upon or under the surface of any of said lands after the
date of such entry : Provided, that this act shall not affect the status of any entry
heretofore canceled.
Such proposed legislation, he believes, would be proper and just
in view of the present law as interpreted by departmental decisions,
which is, that this office will upon proper protest made that lands en-
tered under the agricultural laws, but not patented, have since entry
been discovered to be mineral in character, investigate the matter and
cancel the entry if the facts charged in the protest are found to be true.
He refers to the recent discoveries of phosphates in Florida as a demon-
stration of the hardship of the present law.
In addition to the great volume of work shown by the above state-
ments, a vast amount ot book-keeping, examining, copying, executive,
and miscellaneous work was done, much of which can not be classified
under any general head, including 107,649 official letters and decisions^
covering 50,607 pages of letter record.
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GREAT SIOUX INDIAN RESERVATION.
By the act of March 2, 1889, providing for a division of the great
reservation of the Sioax Nation of Indians in Dakota, into separate or
smaller reservations, and the relinqnishment to the United States of
the Indian title to the remaining lands, it is provided that on proof of
the proper relinqnishment of those lands by the different bands of the
Sioux Nation, nnder the forms or terms prescribed in article 12 of the
treaty of April 29, 1868, between the United States and the Sioux
Nation, the cession shall be made known by proclamation by the Presi-
dent of the United States.
Consequently, the President, acting on proper proofs of the cession,
on February 10, 1890, made known and proclaimed that the Sioux
Nation had lawfully ceded to the United States the lands outside of the
separate reservations, and declared the act of March 2, 1889, ^< to be in
full force and effect, subject to all the provisions, conditions, limitations,
and restrictions therein contained." Circulars dated, respectively,
March 3 and March 25, 1890, were addressed to registers and receivers,
explaining and enforcing the provisions of the act.
The proclamation and circulars in plain language declare that the
domain of the separate Indian reservation and the rights of the Indians
must be inviolable, and that all the provisions of the act must be rig-
idly observed. Equitable instructions, under the law, have been issued
to the proper officers for the protection of the Indians as fully as possi-
ble from wrong or Impositions from whatever cause, and in their rights
on the reserved lands, and on the lands on which they now reside ; also
for the protection of the lawful homestead and pre-emption settlers j
for the determination of all contests between Indians and citizens, as to
disputed claims to lands : for the allotment of lands in severalty to In-
dians on the reservation ; for the definition of boundaries ; the disposi-
tion of school sections 16 and 36 ; the survey of the lands, and generally
for the protection of the Indians in all their rights under the law and
the treaty of cession. No purchase by citizens of the settlement or im-
provements of the Indians will be recognized as having any validity,
and all filings and entries will be treated as subject to the Indians'
right to take allotments. (See Appendix C.)
By this acquisition, while certain tracts of land estimated as contain-
ing 12,681,911 acres are reserved for the occupation of the Indians, the
public domain receives an addition of about 9,053,935 acres, which will
secure valuable homesteads to a large number of families, after deduct-
ing the grant of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections for school
purposes, and satisfying all claims for Indiaii allotments in the ceded
country.
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OKLAHOMA.
By the act of March 2, 1889, and the President's proclamation ot
March 23, 1889, certain lands in the Indian Territory, known as Okla-
homa, were opened to settlement nnder the homestead laws, and land
offices established at Kingfisher and Oathrie. By the act of May 2,
1890, the tract of land known as the Public Land Strip, or ^^No Man's
Land," with certain other lands, was added thereto, and these several
tracts of land were created into a Territory to be known as Oklahoma^
with a suitable government.
Katurally, nnder the conditions orcircumstanoes attending the open-
ing of Oklahoma to settlement, unusually heavy labor and much diffi-
culty has been caused this office in the consideration and determination
of settlers' claims under the agricultural laws, as also by the special
town-site act of May 14, 1890, in determining their proper construction
and in the preparation of instructions to local land officers for their
government nnder them. In the circulars of the Secretary of the In-
terior, dated respectively June 18, 1890, and July 10, 1890, and in my
circular of July 18, 1890 (see Appendix O) is contained the latest in-
formation respecting land matters in Oklahoma.
ABANDONED MILITARY RESERVATIONS.
The appropriation of $20,000 for the survey, appraisal, and sale ot
abandoned military reservations by the act of March 3, 1885, was ex-
hausted in the execution of the surveys under the instructions of de-
partmental letter of January 20, 1887.
No further instructions authorizing surveys of these reservations
have been received since that date. Lack of funds has prevented a fur-
ther compliance with the provisions of the act of July 5, 1884, author-
izing the survey, appraisal, and sale of these reservations, and it is urged
that an appropriation of $20,000 will be necessary to complete their
survey.
An official list of these reservations, seventy-five in number, and their
acreage and present condition, will be found in Appendix G.
MAP OF THE UNITED STATES.
The draughting division was active in its labors during the year, and
executed some important and most useful work. The map of the United
States was revised and corrected from official surveys. Maps were com-
piled and tracings for maps made of a number of the States and Terri-
tories, and others are in rapid course of compilation. An edition of
14,000 copies of the map of the United States is now in press, and maps
of States are in the publishers' hands.
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A large number of railroad maps were examined and reported upon,
and a larger number prepared with land-office designations. Much
photo-lithographing work was performed under its direction, with much
other and useful labor, a description of which, in detail, will be found
in Appendix L.
CONTESTS.
The volume of contests under the different acts relating to the public
lands decreased somewhat duripg the year. During the previous fiscal
year the number of contest cases received was 8,179; those received
during this year numbered 7,631 (adecreaseof 548), while a larger num-
ber of cases during the year was finally disposed of, and a lesser number
at the close of the year remained pending. The annexed statement
embraces the principal transactions of the contest division during the
year:
Cases.
Contests on hand July 1, 1889 .' 8,185
Received during the year 7,t31
Total 15,816
Cases finally disposed of 8,470
Leaving pending July 1, 1890 7,346
Involved in these pending 7,346 cases is embraced an acreage of
1,175,360 acres. Other important work performed by the contest di-
vision will be found in detail in Appendix H.
Particular attention is called by the chief of this division to that class
of contest cases in which no appeal is taken from the decision of the
local land officers. On hand on July 1, 1889, and received during the
fiscal year, were a total of 11,660 such cases, of which 7,374 were closed
or disposed of during the year, leaving on hand 4,186 cases. Every
effort was made to expedite the closing up of this class of cases, but it
was found impracticable to accomplish more with the clerical force
available for such work. It is believed, however, that a practicable
remedy will be found through a proposed modification or amendment
of the rules of practice.
PREEMPnON.
Owing to the vast accumulation of entries not reached for action, and
the many thousand cases which were suspended under the merely tech-
nical rules of the late •* Board of Review," the correspondence of the pre-
emption division for the past year has been very heavy. Work was
especially directed to relieve the over-burdened suspended files, and to
reduce the surplus of accumulated cases. Great progress has been made.
But the efficiency of the pre-emption service was '* seriously crippled^'
by a reduction of its force by transfer to other divisions of some of its
9405 L O 2
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experienced employes, while tbeirt>laces were unavoidably left an filled
or only partially filled by inexperienced clerks.
Entries,
Om^c exitrios all in KaDsag .
Other pre-emption entries...
Total .
Suspended.
139
2,503
2,732
Not
examined.
14,225
47.040
61,274
In Kansas the 0«ia.;e entries, on which full pnymonts were ronde, not examined 7, 954
OsAge entries on which partial paynients weiomade.not examined 6,271
14,225
Cases ponding Juno 30, \BH9 88,754
Cases received dnring the year 24,008
112, 762
Disposed of during the year:
Approved for patent 48,526
Canceled or referred to ot^er diviaions 270
48,796
Pending July 1,1890 eaToW
Examined and suspended 2,092
Not examined 61,274
63,966
Entries sahjected to preliminary examination and suspension during the fiscal year 7, 117
VACANT OR UNSETTLED PUBLIC LANDS.
Every eflfort in my power has been made to obtain at least ap[)roxi-
mate areas and their location in tbe several land States and Territories
of vacant or unsettled public lauds. The local land officers, in their re-
spective districts, have labored faithfully to fnrnisb this information.
But with all their assiduity I have been unable to obtain completed re-
turns from all the States for my report proper. But a complete state-
ment will doubtless be included in appendix 0 of this report. To illus-
trate the value of this information, I will mention with reference to tbe
Southern States, as to which many inquiries have been received in re-
gard to particular localities, that 685,900 acres of vacant and surveyed
land in the Montgomery district, Alabama, have been reported ; in
Louisiana, in the New Orleans district, an approximate of 825,669 acres;
in Arkansas (entire), 4,902,329 acres; in Mississippi (entire), 1,407,480
acres ; in Florida (entire), 2,283,626 acres surveyed and over 3,000,000
acres of unsurveyed lands. It is probable, however, that the larger
part of the unsurveyed Florida lands have passed to the State under the
swamp grants, or is swamp in character.
This information is regarded as important to the emigrant or citizen
looking to a proper location on our public lands, and a statement, com-
prehending all the facts attainable will be pushed to an early comple-
tion.
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BAILBOADS.
The work of the railroad division, which consists chiefly in. the de-
termination of controversies affecting land grants made by Congress to
aid in the construction of railroads, wagon-roads, and canals, and the
examination of articles of incorporation and maps of location filed by
railroad companies seeking to acquire the right of way over the public
lands has continued to increase. This fact is due, in a measure, to the
act of March 3, 1887 (24 Stat., 656,), providing for the adjustment-of
the grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads;
and the questions arising are in many cases, by reason of conflicting
inter<»8ts, very complicated, and the amounts involved often very large.
The said act provides for an immediate adjustment, where it appears
that lands have been erroneously certified or patented on account of
railroad grants, and that demand be made of the company receiving
such lands for re-conveyance to the United States ; and directs, in the
event of failure to make such conveyance, that suit be instituted by the
Attorney •Genera^ to re-invest the ETnited States with title.
The said act also makes provision for the re-instatement of entries
erroneously canceled on account of railroad withdrawals, and, upon cer-
tain conditions, for the confirmation of titles derived by purchase of the
companies of lands shown to be excepted from the grants.
The demands made under this a<;t have been numerous, and in some
cases have resulted in the re-investment of title to the land in the United
States; but in most cases the demand has been refused, or no response
made thereto, and suits will be necessary.
The work of adjustment contemplates a disposition of every tract,
prescribed by the granting act, situated within the primary or granted
limits ; an inspection of each tract certified or patented to the company
within such limit, to determine whether such certification or patenting
was proper ; the listing of those tracts shown to be erroneously certi-
fied ; and the determination for what tracts lost to the grant indem-
nity is allowable.
It is necessary, in making such an adjustment, that all questions of
conflicting claims, either between settlers and the road, or between two
roads, the grants for which conflict or overlap, be flnally disposed of,
so that a proper disposition of the land can be shown in the adjustment.
The question of railroad land-grant forfeiture for breach of condi-
tions has been before Congress for a number of years without resulting
in the passage of a general act of forfeiture, and this oflice, in order to
avoid complicating the matter, has suspended action upon cases involv-
ing rights within the limits of such grants and opposite the portion of
the roads constructed out of time, awaiting the action of Congress.
Selections by the companies opposite such portions have, with few
exceptions, also been suspended, and certification or patenting withheld.
In some of the grants, notably the corporation grants, the lack of
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sarveys renders an immediate adjustmeut impossible, but recommenda-
tion, accompanied by estimates, has been made that a sum sufficient to
complete the surveys be appropriated by Congress.
The adjustments of the grants for the following companies have been
Bobmitted to the Secretary of the Interior for his approval, viz :
Kanie of railroad.
When sub-
mitted.
St^ouin. IroDtMonotain and Sooth-
em (A rkauMM)
Cfrdar Rapids and Missouri River.
Dabuqueand racifia
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha.
Little Kook niid Fort Smith
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Atchinson, Topeka and Santa F6 . . .
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manito-
ba, and St Paul and Northern
Paoiflo
Auji:.18,1888
Nov. 17, 1888
Sept. 23, 1880
Oct. 30,1869
Nov. 12, 1889
Nov. 18, 1880
Dec. 20, 1880
Jan. 25, 1890
Name of railroad.
Alabama and Florida
Florida and Alabama
Vickaburg, Shreveport and Pa-
cific.
St. Paul and Dnlath
Southern Minnesota Extension —
Chicaizo and Northwestern (TiVis-
consin)
Alabama and Chattanooga
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
(Iowa)
When sub-
mitted.
Feb. 26,1890
Do.
Do.
Do.
D .
Do.
Feb. 27,1890
Ma}' 19,1890
An adjustment of the grant for the Coos Bay military wagon-road
was sabmitted January 13, 1888.
The letters submitting the adjustments will be found following the
tables in appendix F.
The adjustments of the grants for the following railroads have been
approved, viz :
Name of railroad.
Slonz City and St. Paul . . .
Hannibal and St. Joseph . . .
Grand Rapids aud Indiana
When
approved.
July 22,1887
May 29,1890
June 20, 1890
The adjustments of the grants for the Hastings and Dakota Railway
Company and the Florida and Peninsula Railroad Company are in
course of i)reparation. Both of these roads have been entirely con-
structed, but a large portion of each was built out of time.
During the last year reports have been made, through the Secretary
of the Interior, upon a number of bills referred by the several commit-
tees of Congress for expression of opinion.
The records and files of the railroad division are distinct from those
of other divisions, and while record is made upon the tract books of
selections made by the companies, and the approval or rejection of the
same, yet those interested, after making an examination of the tract
books, invariably resort to that division for confirmation of the record
as shown in the public lands division.
The vital question presented in most of the controversies over which
the railroad division has jurisdiction is, was the tract excepted from the
operation of the grant ? Which involves the further question, What
claims serve to except land from the grant *
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lu the early administration of these grants the construction was gen-
erally in favor of the grantee^ and the record of a claim was not deemed
sufficient to defeat the grant, but it8 validity must be established.
A claim based upon settlement and residence, without an entry, was,
therefore, not recognized ; neither was a pre-emption tiling upon which
proof had not been ma4e, or, in other words, that had not ripened into
an entry.
In the case of Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Aurys (8 L. D.,
362), it is held that ^< a claim resting on settlement, residence, and im-
provement, and existing at the date when the grant becomes effective,
is a claim contemplated by Congress in the exempting phrase, < occu-
pied by homestead settlers,"' and a review of this principle was refused
March 4, 1890 (10 L. D., 258).
In the case of Malono v. Union Pacific Railway Company (7 L. D., 100),
it was held that "the existence of a prima facie valid preemption tiling,
at the date when the right of the road attached, excepts the land cov-
ered thereby from the operation of the grant," aiid in the case of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company v. Stovenour (10 L. D., 045) this
principle was reaffirmed.
The change in the rulings made in these cases affects large bodies of
land and disturbs adjudications heretofore made, as, under the act of
March 3, 1887, it is mandatory upon the Secretary of the Interior to de-
mand a reconveyance of title, if the grant is unadjusted and the lands
have been erroneously certified or patented to or for the benefit of rail-
roads. (Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company, 9 L. D., 649 ; Prin-
deville and Dubuque and Pacific Railroad Company, 10 L. D., 575.)
The act of June 22, 1874, makes provision for the relinquishment of
lands by railroad companies in favor of parties who have been erro-
neously permitted to make entry thereof, and the selection of other lands
within the limits of the grant in lieu thereof.
Heretofore, in accepting such relinquishments and permitting selec-
tions in lieu thereof, no distinction was made between lands within the
granted limits and those within the indemnity limits; but, under date
of January 23, 1890, it was held that •* lands within . the indemnity
limits of a grant do not afford a basis for relinquishment and selection
under the act of June 22, 1874 "that a certification on such a basis is
erroneous, and proceedings for the recovery of title under the act of
March 3, 1887, were directed. (St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad
Company 10 L. D., 50.)
Of the certifications heretofore made under this act a large propor-
tion is based upon the relinquishment of indemnity lands.
During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, 363,862.15 acres of the
public lands were certified or patented to States and corporations for
railroad purposes ; a decrease as compared with the previous year of
61,183.87 acres. The number of railroad patents issued was eighteen.
For wagon-roads or canals, no certificates or patents were issued.
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The mileage of land-grant railroads actaally constrncted np to the
close of the last fiscal year was 18,070.71 miles, of which 40 miles were con-
strncted dnring the year,
The lists of railroad selections at the close of the last fiscal year
awaiting examination or action covered 29,471,709.09 acres } the selec-
tions for wagon roads in Oregon covered 305,246.67 acres ; making an
acreage of 29,770,955.76 acres embraced in pending lists of selections
for railroad and wagon-road construction.
Public lands certified or patented to States and corporations up to 1890.
Acres.
For railroad purposes (1850 to 18U0) 51,379,346.21
For wagon-road pnrposes (1824 to 1890) 1,732,730.83
For canal purposes (1828 to 1890) 4,424,073.06
For river improvements (1828 to 1890) 1,400,210.80
58,992,360.90
A Statement of the annual report for June 30, 1888, (p. 232-241)
shows the dates of filing of maps of location by land-grant railroad com-
panies and the dates of withdrawal of lands made thereon. But one
snch map has since been filed (main line of the Southern Pacific Bail-
road about 20 miles westward from Huron in California), withdrawals on
which were ordered April 15, 1890.
Articles of incorporation filed by thirty-six railroad companies for
right of way through the public lands were approved during the year.
The whole number of railroad companies claiming such right of way
on July 1, 1890, under the general right-of-way act of March 3, 1875,
was 360. A large number of maps of location, filed by these com-
panies during the year, were returned, as failing to strictly comply with
the prescribed forms of certificate and affidavit required to be attached
to such maps.
A logging company managed to secure approvals of articles of in-
corporation and maps of location for a railroad. In its construction
public timber was used. But it was subsequently learned that the road
was not intended as a common carrier, as required by the act of March
3, 1875, under which the right of way was claimed, but merely as a
private vehicle to facilitate or aid the company in its logging business,
and consequently proper measures were promptly taken to procure a
revocation of the grant of right of way.
SWAMP LANDS.
In the adjustment of claims for swamp lands and swampland indem-
nity, six special agents were employed during the year in making per-
sonal examinations in the field of lands claimed under the swamp grant,
and were present on behalf of the Government at the taking of the tes-
timony presented by the respective States relative to the character of
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the land, in accordance with the ralea and regulations of the Depart-
ment, dated Augast 12, 1878.
Dnring the past fiscal year, 19,216.53 acres were claimed and reported
to this office under the acts of Congress, approved September 28, 1850,
and March 12, 18G0, granting swamp and overflowed hinds to the sev-
eral States, making the total area claimed and reported under snid acts
80,218,419.21 acres.
Lists embracing 126,990.49 acres have been formally approved to the
several States during the past year, increasing the total amount thus
approved to 59,100,463.67 acres, including 8,708,588.48 acres approved
to the State of Louisiana, pursuant to-the provisions of the act of March
2, 1849, under which act the approval has the force and eifect of a patent.
Patents have been issued during the last fiscal year under the acts
of September 28, 1850, and March 12, 1860 (Sees. 2479, 2480, 2481, and
2490, Rev. Stat.) for 109,351.89 acres, or a decrease as compared with
the previous year of 150,369.56 acres, making the total patented under
said acts and approved under the act of March 2, 1849, 57,209,324.43
acres.
No land was disposed of during the last fiscal year under the pro-
visions of the swamp land grant of March 2, 1849. This grant applies
only to the State of Louisiana.
Under the indemnity acts of March 2, 1855, and March 3, 1857, dur-
ing the past year, cash indemnity accounts amounting to $32,472.83
were examined and allowed, and the tracts patented to the several States
as indemnity amounted to 7,906.63 acres.
The total amount of swamp-land indemnity adjusted and allowed
since the passage of the indemnity act is 1,566,011.41 acres for cash
entries of swamp land, and 588,126.23 acres patented in lieu of swamp
lands located with military bounty land warrants and scrip.
The correspondence and general work relating to swamp lands have
been kept up as far as possible, and a larger number of old cases has
been finally disposed of this year than in the preceding one.
New selections are being made and reported constantly, and con-
siderable progress has been made in the adjustment of such claims.
PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS.
During the year the following work was performed by the private
land claims division.
Indian patents :i54
Oregon and Washington donation patents 24
Claims in California patented 1
Claims in Indiana, Louisiana, Florida, and Arkansas patented 28
Claim in New Mexico, reported to Congress 1
Claims in Louisiana (act of June 2, 1858) satisfied with scrip amounting to
16,272.87 acres 29
Entries with certificates of location finally approved 147
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The following is a statement of the conditiou of the work in that di-
vision on July I, 1890 :
California cases docketed and not finally adjudicated 14
Cases confirmed in New Mexico and Arizona and not finally adjudicated 27
Imperfect claims reported under acts of June 22, 1860, etc., to be reported to
Congress by this office 2
Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, etc., cases awaiting action 2,935
Claims within the limits of Las Animas grant in Colorado in which awards
were made by the register and receiver at Pueblo under act of February 25,
1869, not adjudicated 3
Claims within Las Animas grant in Colorado, act of February 25, 1869, on i51e,
exclusive of one disposed of in 1874, and one withdrawn 24
Scrip locations pending 854
Scrip cases, act of June 2, 1858, reported and awaiting action 59
Oregou, Washington, New Mexico, and Arizona, donation cases reported and
not finally adjudicated 117
Indian allotments not patented 109
ARIZONA,
The survejor-general reports that the work in his office relating to
private land claims has received much of his attention during the last
fiscal year. He states that:
In October I reported the Peralla claim for almost 5,000,000 acres of land as a for
gery and fraud through and through, and recommended the prosecution of the fab-
ricators of the fraud. The Commissioner ordered the claim stricken from the docket,
which order was complied with. There are several private land-grant claims in this
oflQce and undisposed of, and some before the honorable Secretary of the Interior on
appeal on questions preliminary to final investigation and report.
THE ALLEGED GRANT TO DON MIGUEL DE PERALTA.
In the case alluded to above by the surveyor-general I rendered a
decision on February 20, 1890, holding that the essential foundation of
a recognizable claim under the laws of Spain and Mexico do not appear,
etc., «and ordering the case stricken from the docket. The letter con-
taining said decision is given in the appendix, marked D.
An appeal from the decision was taken, and is now pending before
the Department.
NEW MEXICO.
No progress has been made during the past year in the final adjust-
ment of private land claims in New Mexico. The subject is one of vital
importance to the people of that Territory, and many measures have
been introduced in Congress, from time to time, looking to the speedy
and just settlement of these rights of property asserted under treaty
stipulations, but they have failed to become laws. I quote from the
last annual report of the bureau upon the subject of said claims as
follows:
This bureau annually, for many years, has called special attention to the unsettled
condition of private land claims in New Mexico (and also in Arizona and Colorado),
asserted under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and Gadsden purcliase.
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More than a third of a century has elapsed since Congress, by the act approved
Jnly 22, 1854 (10 Stat., 308), provided the first machinery for the definite adjnstment
of these claims to portions of ceded or purchased territory, assuming that the valid
claims were subject to recognition and protection by the United States, under treaty
stipulations, terms of purchase, the laws, usages, and customs of the countries having
the granting authority, etc. But few laws have been enacted touching said claims.
The act of 18r)4 was supplemented by the act of February 28, 1861 (12 Stat., 172), the
seventeenth section of which provides that the duties, powers, responsibilities^ etc.,
of the surveyor-general of Colorado shall be the same as those of the surveyor-gen-
eral of New Mexico, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and such
instructions as he may from time to time deem it advisable to give him.
• In the sundry civil appropriation act approved July 15, 1870 (16 Stat., 291), the
surveyor-general for Arizona is clothed with power to examine claims of this charac-
ter in his jurisdiction and report upon the same, which reports '* shall be laid before
Congress for such action thereon as shall be deemed just and proper.''
Under the provisions of law referred to, supplemented by departmental instructions
based thereon, the proper officers have investigated aud reported upon numerous
claims, embracing millions of acres, and those reports, witli transcripts of the records
on which they purport to be founded, have been duly laid before the legislative branch
of the Government, whlch*alone, under existing statutes, can finally confirm or reject
them. The titles to some have been determined to be valid ; they have been located
and surveyed in place and carried into patent ; but many are still pending before Con-
gress (as per exhibits published in former reports), which tribunal has so far neglected
to deal with them individually; i
In the mean time it is evident that the claimants are to a greater or lesser extent
enjoying the usufruct of the land, especially where preliminary surveys have op-
erated in conjunction with official constructions of law to reserve the tracts claimed
from entry and improvement by actual settlers under the public-land system, this
without reference to the standing of the claims, prima facie, as set forth in whatever
official reports have been made in the premises.
No claim has been directly rejected by action of Congress thereon to my knowledge ;
and in this connection attention is called to the ''Rancho elpasodelas Algodones,''
in Arizona, in which case special action by Congress has heretofore been recommended.
There is a pressing necessity for further legislation looking to the final and speedy
settlement of these demands upon the soil, to the end that the public domain may be
separated froin, and its surveys fixed and closed upon, the legitimate boundaries of
private property.
Particular attention .is invited to that portion of the surveyor gen-
eral's report (which will be found printed in full in the appendix) rela-
tive to the small holdings by the large number of people in New Mexico
who became citizens of this Kepublic as a result of war and annexation.
Under a perfected colonization system of the former Government, and
the equitable laws of the Latin races in matters pertaining to the soil,
these small farmers were secure in their rights ; and, although menaced
by hostile savages, they clung to the same small parcels of irrigable
land, subsisting and multiplying thereon, from generation to genera-
tion.
These people have no paper titles, and are almost totally ignorant of
tbe land system of this Government.
This matter has been fully explained to Congressional committees in
times past, and remedial legislation is much needed to protect the inter-
ests of such native-born New Mexican farmers. Their ^' preference
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rights" to tracts so inhabited and cultivated should certainly be recog-
nized, an<i made as clear by law as are similar rights of native or natur-
alized citizens under exivSting public land laws.
I quote from the surveyor-general's report as follows :
GRANTS.
During the year the boundaries of the grant known as La Salina, which said grant
was confirmed to the heirs of Henry Volcker (25 U. S. Stat., 1194), have been estab-
lished. Prior to the survey an investigation was made for the purpose of furnishing
information upon which to base special instructions.
Only one petition has been filed under section 8 of the act of June 22, 1854.
The claim above referred to is filed by the Indians of Isleta, who claim certain
lands outside of the boundaries of the grant confirmed to them, and which is alleged
to have been purchased by them in 1750. They claim to have been in actual posses-
sion of the land ever since the date of sale to the Pueblo. '^ * *
The failure of claimants to present their claims may be easily accounted for. It is
a matter of some expense to present a claim before this office. Witnesses must be
brought here and an attorney must be employed.
Even should the surveyor-general return a favorable reifcrfc to Congress, the return
for all this trouble and expense would be very small. Past experience shows that
the report would probably not be acted on by Congress, without which action the
opinion of the surveyor-general would amount to nothing, in view of the decision of
t L Supreme Court of the United States, that the favorable opinion of the surveyor-
general is no evidence of title.
There is no subject that more justly demands the immediate attention of the Gov-
ernment of the United States than this matter of unsettled laud claims. The num-
ber and character of unsettled claims so far as they have been filed in this office is
given in the annexed statement marked Exhibit C, but there is also a very great num-
ber of just claims that have never been filed.
New Mexico was first taken possession of by Spain through an expedition com-
manded by Coronado, Just 350 years ago, before De Soto had reached the Mississippi.
It was permanently settled before 1600. From that time until 1821 title to land
within its borders was gradually passing from the Government of Spain to pri-
vate parties. In a similar manner the Republic of Mexico, by wise colonization lawp,
endeavored to promote the settlement and private ownership of lands, while the Gov-
eroors acting under her authority often gave away land with what seems to us reck*
less prodigality.
When New Mexico became a part of the United States, it contained a population
of SOjOOO. Some of these were wealthy and held great tracts of land, often given
them as a reward for military services.
Although smaller holdings of land are more consonant with our ideas of what is
best for a Tree community, still it mnst not be forgotteu that the Government of the
United States agreed to protect these persons in the enjoyment of their property,
whether they resided hero and became citizens of the United States or remove*!
southw^ard and remained citizens of Mexico. ,
A large number of these claims have been cidjusted under the provisions of the law
of 1854, establishing the office of surveyor-general, and the remainder would soon be
disposed of if Congress would act upon the reports of the surveyor-general. A care-
ful re-examination and re-survey would, however, in many cases be desirable by rea-
son of the conflicting reports of previous surveyors-general and in order that all the
facts obtainable bearing on each case might be laid before Congress.
If, however, Congress should be unwilling to take the responsibility of deciding
these cases, it should empower some tribunal to proceed to decide them.
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SMALL HOLDINGS.
By far the larger part, howeveri of the 80,000 people who became citizens of the
United States by the annexation of New Mexico were poor. They and ytheir anc^-
tors had been located where they were by the colonization plan pursued by Spain add
Mexico.
About the time of the discovery of New Mexico Emperor Charles V of Spain de-
creed as follows :
'*If in that which is already discovered in the Indias there should be any places
and districts so good that it may be proper to found settlements, and any person
should make application to settle and reside in tliem, In order that with a greater will
and profit they may do so, the viceroys and residents may give them in our name
lands, house-lots, and waters, in conformity with the disposition of the land."
This plan was pursued until the annexation of the territory by the United States.
Under the Republic of Mexico the colonization laws and regulations became a very
complete system, admirably adapted to the character of the people they were design<>d
to benefit and to the character of the country to be occupied. The goyerning ideas
always were that to any one without land land should be given as long as the
Government had unoccupied land, and that it was better for the nation that the
country should be settled and the land reduced to private ownership.
Generally the lands and Waters were assigned to each person "in conformity with the
disposition of the land " by an inferior officer (Alcalde) sent with them for the purpose.
The result wouid be a placita with ite outlying lands, Bomething like the following : ^
The Arabic figures indicate the house lot on which the man lives with his family,
and the Roman' jiumerals his farm lot, on which he raises the little crop of wheat and
vegetables by which they subsist.
The moisture which causes bis crop to grow comes not from the blue sky over his
head, but from the acequia at the rear ; and when his turn comes to use it he cuts its
bank with his hoe, and the life-giving water quickly fills his first square of earth to
the depth of a few inches, then, as the ground all slopes gently down toward the
river, the water moves quietly on from cross- ridge to cross-ridge, leaving the square
behind it so thoroughly soaked that under the warm sun of New Mexico they will
produce luxuriantly of whatever may be required of them. From the nature of his
cnltivation his land must extend from the acequia downward as the land slopes ;
and so farms that look all out of shape to the Eastern man are the almost universal
custom here, and they are more apt to grow narrower rather than wider, for if a man
who owns a strip 200 yards wide and one-fourth of a mile long dies leaving four
children, then each of them, without a will or deed, but simply because every one so
understands it, becomes the owner of one-fourth of it, that is, of a strip of the full
length and 50 yards in width. Again, the owner of lot 3 may, on marriage, acquire
with his wife lot 14. Then he goes on cultivating the two without seeming to try to
get his holdings consolidated.
Of course, the owners can not make entries under the land laws for land in such
shapes. Their not living on the lands would also prevent entry.
The owners of all the farm lots up and down the river live together about the
plaza, in which they can quickly rally in case of an Indian attack, the regulations
requiring every man to be supplied with arms and horses for the common defense.
Unitedly they dig the acequia and do other work for the common good ; unitedly
they rear the village church and maintain its worship. Sometimes the settlement
was established by a formal grant, which gave to it also the land for ten or twenty
miles on either side of it. In such cases it is specified that this is for the common
benefit of the settlers, by furnishing them pasture land and wood land, and for those
who should afterward join themselves to the new settlement.
The idea of the Mexican people always was that the large tract gave the settle-
ment room to grow, and that any new comer or boy becoming of age who wanted a
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piece of land oat of the common stock to cultivate could have it, and could goon to
improve it by taking out a new ditch or otherwise.
In view of these facts I think that everyone living in this community at the lime
that it was transferred to the United States had a certain interest in the outlying
lands, and thai they did not belong esclusively to the heirs or assigns of the one or
more settlers-mentioned in the original papers. I also think that every member of
such a community, no matter how poor he may be, was included in the provisions of
the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, that Mexicans electing to becomes citizens of the
United States *' shall be protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property."
In order to protect them in their properly in laud, and to avoid taking it away from
them and throwing it into the mass of its own property, the public domain, it was
necessary for the United States to determine what the property of each one was.
This should have been done at once. As it was not done, and matters were allowed
to drift along in the old way, I consider that the Mexican custom as to the rights of
new comers who joined themselves to a community, continued to run, and that every
person now holding land on a grant made under the colonization laws has an inter-
est in the outlying lands of the grant.
The question as to what each man owns should be settled at once. The whole
prosperity of New Mexico depends upon it. The gravest evils have already resulted.
Supposed interests in community grants have been brought up, and uuder them
large tracts have been fenced and poor men have found themselves substantially
shut up to their farm lots and thereby reduced to the greatest distress. While they
could get a living from the farm lot combined with the herd of goats and sheep
living on the common pasture, and with the privilege of the common timber lands,
they can not get it from the farm lots alone. The result is widespread suffering, rest-
lessness and trouble, which threatened the peace of the community.
I think the remedy for this is surveys, combined with authority given the land
offices to issue patents to each man for what belongs to him. The deputy surveyor's
going to such a community and telling the people that he has come to assist them in
getting title to their homes, would be rendered every assistance. Let every farm lot
of long occupancy be surveyed and shown on the township' plat as belonging to its
owner. Then if it be an unconfirmed community grant with outlying lands, assign
to each one a wood lot, say of the same size as his farm lot, in payment for his in-
choate right in these outlying lands. Lands that could be made very valuable can
not be left as unfenced commons for the benefit of a few goats find cattle.
The system that was adapted to the old time and the needs of a sparsely settled
community must now pass away and be replaced by the American plan of individual
ownership and inclosed lots, and the sooner the Government makes the inevitable
change, the better it will be for all concerned.
After the plat goes to the register, the indications of ownership thereon should be
subject to contest by anyone claiming the s£me land, in the manner that entries are
now.
But there would be but few contests. The ownership of lots iu this country is
well known, and universally acquiesced in, with rare exceptiocs. Long continued
occupation, with the consent of the Goverument and all parties interested, consti-
tutes as just a claim as property is hold by anywhere. A settlement of these matters
in accordance with justice will be a permanent settlement and will be the best for
the Government, and best for all interests in New Mexico.
Certain title to the land is the foundation to all values. Enterprise in this Terri-
tory is greatly retarded because that foundation is so often found lacking.
COLORADO.
^Nothing of importance is contained in the annual report of the sur-
veyor-freneral regarding the few private claims in his district. From
a special communication from him (to enable this office to reply, in part,
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to inquiries by the United States Senate, resolution of June 20, 1890),
the following extracts are furnished :
Of the Vigil and St. Vrain graut onl3' one derivative claim, No. 2, awarded to
Norton W. Wei ton, amounting to 760 acres, is pentling before this office. (See letter
of July 2, ld90.)
Of only two unconfirmed grants papers are on file in this office, namely: The
Conejos graut and the Meudano and Zapato grant.
I can not find in the office any record of a decision taken in regard to these grants,
but I presume that in the time of Surveyor-General Pelham, then surveyor-general,
for New Mexico and Colorado, these grants were declared invalid.
1 cau not find in the records any papers, petitions, or names of counsel or attor-
neys, who have prosecuted said claims since the time of Surveyor- General Pelham.
Below follows a synopsis of the papers on file in regard to the said Conejos and
Meudano and Zapato grants, giving boundaries as claimed, names of claimants, etc.
CONEJOS GRANT NO. 80.
Petition to Hon. William Pelham, survey or- general of New Mexico; Jos^ Maria
Martinez, Antonio Martinez, Julian Gallajos, and Celedonio Valdez, in their behalf
and of others, represent to be claimants and owners of a tract situated on the Rio de
los Conejos, on the north bounded by the hill of the Garita; on the south by the
mountain of San Antonio ; on the east by KI Rio del Korta, and on the west by La
Sierra Montoza, each of the claimants having 200 varas in width, fronting on the
river.
The original grant made by the Mexican Govern meut being lost, they ask to make
oral proof. They can nc/t set forth the quantity of land included in the grant, no
Survey having been made. They do not state how many claimants, bnt ask confirma-
tion by their attorney, J. Houghton, not dated.
Carlos Beaubien makes a statement under date of Augosl 4, 1S55, that in the year
1832 or 1833, he was with an alcalde, deceased, ordered to lay out the tract of Los
Conejos and distribute the tract to the persons who asked the donation.
Thirty-six persons claim right to land, and petition Hon. Juan Andres Arobaleta,
prefect of the first district, also without date.
MBNDANO AND ZAPATO GRANT.
Antonio Mattias Gomez and Jos6 Luis Baca de Monday a, appear before the Governor,
Facunda Melgares, by petition dated January 19, 1820, asking to forward an applica-
tion to Mexico in order that they may be placed in possession of a tract, known to be
pabllo land, and as a grant commonly called the Springs of the Mendano and the
Zapato and the Rito, which leads near the outlet of the Pedrogosa mountain, and
which joins the Grand Lake.
The governor by date of March 14, 1820, states in his petition that this grant appears
to him to be just, and approved the possession of the above-named petitioners.
Thence follows a decree dated Mexico, April 1, 1820, issned by the President ad
interijn of the Republic of Mexico, stating that the petition of Antonio Mattias Gomez
and Jos6 Luis Baca de Sondaya, addressed to the Senate, is granted, and the Gov-
ernor ii ordered in company with his alcaldes to designate the boundaries of the grant
and give title papers.
The signature of the governor, Facunda Melgares, is different from his signature
on papers of other confirmed grants on file in this office.
The governor also makes (order) that this grant shall be in force on common pa-
per, there being none with stamps in this kingdom or in this jurisdiction under his
charge.
A petition going at the present time from Santa F^ to Mexico to the Senate, to the
President, and back to the petitioners in fourteen days, would be considered quick
traveling and a speedy action taken. In the year 1820, it was utterly impossible.
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LOUISIANA,
Very few coDflrmed private land claims in Louisiana have been car-
ried into patent during the fiscal year.
Upon this subject, I quote from the surveyor-general's report as follows:
It is certainly remarkable that years shoald be allowed to roll on, decade after de-
cade, leaving tbe citizens totally unable to obtain patents on at least 5,900 private
claims solely becantie the ofiSce possesses no ** clerks '* to prepare plats of survey. Time
only adds embarrassments to this matter, and unless it is soon attended to, the em-
barrassments will certainly increase. - Bat since my predecessors have urged the same
matter for years past, I am satisfied that the Department is fully cognizant of all the
facts in the premises.
SURVEYOR- general's SCRIP.
Of the jiending claims to this class of indemnity, under the provis-
ions of section 3, of the act approved June 2, 1858 (11 Stat, 294),
twenty-nine have been adjusted during the year, and the scrip, or " cer-
tificate of location," authenticated and delivered to the legal represent-
atives of the deceased confirmees. The amount of land involved is
16,272.87 acres.
It is deemed proper to again call attention to the recommendations
in this matter contained in the annual report of this office for the year
1888 (pp. 36, 36, 37, and 448).
FLORIDA.
There are a large number of confirmed and surveyed but unpatented
j)rivate land claims in Florida. Conflicting surveys exist, which have
not been adjusted as contemplated by the eleventh section of the act
approved February 8, 1827 (4 Stat., 204). In relation to the original
papers upon which these claims were based, the surveyor-general
reports as follows :
THE 6PANISB ARCHIVES.
Since 1849 this office hae been the depository of that large mass of ancient docu-
ments of the Spanish provincial government, left at St. Angustine when the United
States acquired title to Florida. These records contain the basis of titles to lands to
an extensive amoant, and probably contain, also, historical matter of ronch valae.
In my opinion they are worthy of better care than they have heretofore received.
It is believed that the Spanish land titles derived from them and preserved in other
records, written and printed, are bn.t a portion of the important matter still locked
up in these archives, which contain the probate records, the original wills, the
dockets of civil and criminal conrts, and voluminous records of naval and military
history.
These records are unique, and in case of loss can not be duplicated or restored.
They are not wholly safe from fire. They have long been subject to the destructive
attacks of insects which perforated some of the volumes and bundles to an alarming
extent, so that I have used means for destroying the moths. These original manu-
scripts are of much the same character and importance as tbose of some of the Pacific
districts, where they have been honored with a special officer as keeper of Spanish
archives.
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I would respectfnlly recommend that provision be made for a corapeteDt olerk and
translator, who shall index, translate, and preserve the valuable portions, and make
their contents accessible to investigation, before the fading of ink and ravages of in-
sects shall render them useless, or fire shall entirely destroy them.
A similar collection of Spanish archives of the province of West Florida was kept
at Pensacola in care of an officer called '' keeper of Spanish archives."
When that office was discontinued in 1849, the papers in his charge were retained
at Pensacola. At the suggestion of yonr office I have made investigation, and find
that only a small portion of these archives are extant, the remainder having been
destroyed by Are.
CALIFORNIA.
Que private land claim patent in this State was issued during the
fiscal year; the " Rancho Canada de los Baqueros f area 17,760 aqres.
. UNDELIVERED PATENTS.
There yet remained in the office of the surveyor-general eleven un-
delivered patents for private land claims, upon which fees amounting
to $2,262.33 are due. A list of the same with their respective areas, and
names of the ])atentees will be found in the last annual report of this
office on page 21.
SPANISH ARCHIVE DEPARTMENT,
Relative to this branch of the surveyor-general's office, I quote the
following from his report :
In reference to this department, which is a ver^' important one in connection with
this office, I would state that upon the records therein rests the title to a large por-
tion of the lands in the State, as well as containing in itself a full account of the
early settlement of the State and all matters of public interest from which a com-
plete history could be compiled. It appears to be in a satisfactory condition. Ref-
erence to former reports show that the Department must be folly advised of the past
work performed and of the work outlined for the future, and for that reason I will
condense the somewhat lengthy report made to me by the officer in charge.
The work has been great and laborious translating and indexing 959 expedientes,
or records of proceediugs, with all the title papers tiled in the 813 cases presented
for contirmation, and including as well copies and translations of the books of reg-
ister of titles Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 ; books of records of possession Nos. 5, 6, and 7 have
been completed and the originals carefully preserved. The volume entitled Miscel-
laneous Documents and Transfers, that shows the chain of title from the original
grantees to the parties who presented any individual claim to the Board of Land
Commissioners for contirmation, is now complete.
All original title papers and all other documents that in any way relate to the
tracts of land referred to in the petition of the applrcant, have been segregated so
that whoever examines the trauseripts will find the proceedings that were had upon
the petition of any individual for a specified tract of land up to the date of the pres-
entation of the claim to the laud commissioners.
The completed work contains 18,200 pages of writing, in twenty-six large volumes,
each indexed and two volumes containing 623 tracings of original maps or disefios.
The work of compilation of the 302 volumes of Spanish archives has likewise been
completed during the past iiscal year, and the work now being performed is that of
classifying and assorting the innumerable subjects, after recording and indexing in
chronological and proper order. The abstracts and translations of which the index
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will be oompoBed have been made by carefnl 8tady from 280,639 pages of Spanish
mannsoript cootained in these ancient archives, and it is expected that daring the
next three or four years the Gk>verDment will have In its archives the most complete,
descriptive, and interesting index of pnblio records that has ever been made of Span-
ish archives.
The index will be arranged alphabetically and chronologically with proper side
refeitfnces, in snch a way that any one desiring to know a certain fact contained in the
volnme will at once find what he wants in English, often reading in the index itself the
exact words that were nsed by the writer of the docnment one handred years ago.
The volumes, embracing a great variety of subjects, have been arranged differ-
ently, to facilitate reference, and are numbered from 1 to 302, the former way of index-
ing being absolntely unintelligible.
SURVEYS OP PUBLIC LANDS.
Daring the fiscal year endiug Jane 30, 1890^ sarveys have been ac-
cepted, after an examination in the field and careful comparison with
the examiner's reports and inspection of the plats and field notes in
this office, as follows :
States and Territories. ] Acres. ,! States and Territories. Acres.
Arizona i 507,748.*i«7 ! Nebraska 23,038.51
California 182,031. 41 Nevada 408,857.33
Colorado ' 473,467.72 ! New Mexico 287,181.78
DakoU ; »29,M2.85 I Orefion 84,100.46
Ftorida ' 2,619.33 Utah 576,626.50
Idaho , 22,14a68 Washington 180,122.99
Minnesota 144,855.29
Montana 620,161.42 Total 4,462,69L94
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The appropriation (approved March 2, 1889) for the survey and re*
sarvey of the public lands for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, was
^200,000, of which sum $20,000 was authorized by the act to be applied
to the examination of surveys, etc.
Said act specifically provided as follows, viz :
That in ezpendiog this appropriation preference shall be given in favor of sarvey*
ing townships occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers ; and the surveys shall
be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations.
With reference to rates of mileage the act further provides as fol-
lows, viz :
That the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow for the survey of
lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not
exceeding $13 per linear mile for standard and meander lines, $11 for township, and
$7 for section lines ; or if^ in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, the work
can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may
be made by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior,
at rates not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard and meander lines, $15 for
township, and $12 for section lines.
The terms of the appropriation act specially allotted the sum of
$10,000 for the surveys of lands opened to settlement in the Territory
of Montana under the act approved May 1, 1888 } also allotted the sum
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of $5,000 for the sarvey of the west boundary line of the White Mount-
ains or San Carlos Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Arizona.
Deducting the specific ftUotments made by the act for surveys in
Montana and Arizona and examination of surveys in the field (aggre-
gating $35,000), the amount of the appropriation actually available for
public surveys and resnrveys and applicable to all surveying districts
was $165,000, which was apportioned to twelve districts, as provided
in the following table :
DUtriotB.
Arizona...
CaUforoia
Colorado..
Dakota...
Idaho
Mfnnesota
Hontaaa..
Amoont.
$5,000
10.000
15,000
25,000
10,000
5,000
15,000
Distriota.
New Hoxioo
Oregon
UtS
Waahttigton
Wyoming...,
Total...
Amoank
$10,000
10.000
5.000
20.000
10,000
140,000
The sum of $25,000 was reserved for any contingencies that might
arise in any of the several surveying districts, including Florida, Louisi-
ana, and Nevada, to which no formal apportionments were originally
made, although stated amounts for special surveys were subsequently
apportioned to Louisiana and Nevada.
During the fiscal years, 1885-'86, 1886-^87, and 1887-'88, under official
instructions, expenditures of the appropriation were confined to districts
where existing settlements on the lands presented special claims for
recognition. Said regulations were in effect first incorporated by Con-
gress in the appropriation act approved October 2, 1888, and were em*
bodied in the act approved March 2, 1889.
The annual surveying instructions for the several fiscal years as
stated, which defined the class and character of the lands to be sur-
veyed (except as to timber lands and other modifications), were con-
tinued in force, and additional surveying instructions for the fiscal year
1889-'90 were issued to all surveyors-general, and were transmitted July
26, August 16, 20, and 22, 1889.
The annual suifveying instructions for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1890, read as follows :
Department of the Interior, General Land Office,
Washington, D, C, A\igmt 16, 1889.
The.U. 8. Surveyor-General,
Sir : By the act of Congress approved March 2, 18ti9, making appropriations for
sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, and
for other purposes, there was appropriated :
**For surveys and resnrveys of public lands, including ten thousand dollars for
surveys of lands opened to settlement in the Territory of Montana under the act ap-
proved May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and including five thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the survey of the wost boundary
line of the White Mountains or San Carlos Indian Reservation in the Territory of
Arizona, two hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear
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mile for standaTd and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for
section lines : Provkfed, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be
given in favor of surveying townships ocoapied, in whole or in part, by actual set-
tlers ; and the surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of
reservations : Provided further j That the Commissioner of the General Land Office
may allow, for the survey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with
dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard
and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines,
or if, in case of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, work can not be contracted
for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be made by the said
Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceed-
ing eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for
township, and twelve dollars for section lines.''
The said act also provides that an amount not exceeding 1*20,000 (out of the $200,000
appropriated for surveys) may he expended for examination of surveys in the field to
test the accuracy of the work, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect
surveys returned by deputy surveyors, etc.
From the |165,000 available for apportionment among the several surveying dis-
tricts there is hereby apportioned to the district of the sum of .
The fund provided for examinations will be retained under the direct control of
this office, and expended in the main for the maintenance of a corps of competent
examiners, who will be detailed according to the exigencies of the service in the sev-
eral surveying districts. A few cases may arise when it will be found more conven-
ient and less expensive to have examinations made under the immediate supervision
of the surveyor-general, and in such cases the question of the assignment of sums
sufficient to enable the surveyor-general to have the examination made will be con-
sidered.
The law requires that in expending this appropriation preference shall be given in
favor of surveying townships occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers; hence,
in taking measures for the letting of contracts, it will be your first duty to ascertain
the localities in which there are bona fide settlers, and the funds should be so applied
as to benefit the greatest possible number of settlers.
For several years past it has been the policy of this ofbce to prohibit the survey of
forests or heavily-timbered lands (see annual instructions dated September 15, 1885),
but it is necessary, under the requirements of this appropriation act, to make some
modification cf this restriction. There are in some localities fine agricultural lands,
which, although heavily timbered, are occupied in part by bona fide settlers, who at
great labor and expense have improved the lands and made for themselves perma-
nent homes to which they desire to obtain title. Whenever such cases arise, all the
facts as to the character of the lands, the kinds and qualities of the timber, the num-
ber of settlers, and the character and approximate value of their Improvements should
be presented for the consideration of this office before contracting for the survey.
Contracts will be allowed for the survey of timber lands only when their value for
agricultural purposes is well established, and satisfactory proof given of their occupa-
tion by bona fide settlers who have made permanent improvements.
By the terms of the appropriation act the surveys must be coufiued to lands adapted
to agriculture and lines of reservations. With regard to the survey of public lands
this restriction is construed as pertaining to suhdivieional surveys^ and it will be neces-
sary in some instances to extend standard and township lines over inarable lands in
order to reach lands which are adapted to agriculture and occupied by actual set-
tlers. In order, however, that the gi'eatest possible benefit may be derived from the
appropriation for surveys, the apportionment for your district should be applied as
far as practicable to the survey of such townships containing arable lands and em-
bracing settlements as are contiguous to existing lines, thus avoiding the expenditure
of an undue portion of the available funds for the survey of standard lines.
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luBtractions heretofore issued require that where a contract embraces the subdivis-
ion of a township, the survey of such township must be completed in its entirety,
unless natural (.'bstacles render such completion absolutely impossible. The object of
this requirement (embraced in the annual instructions of September 15, 1885) was to
prevent the practice' of surveying the easier portions of a township and omitting the
more difficult portions.
The carrying out of this requirement might in many cases necessitate the survey of
portions of townships unfit for agricultural purposes, and such lands are not survey-
Able under the appropriation for the current fiscal year. Cases may arise, especially
in monntainons regions, where a considerable portion of the lands are not adapted to
agricultural purposes, while the arable portion is occupied by actual settlers, and as
preference is to be given nnder the law to occupied land, the regulations are so far
modified as to permit the survey of the cultivable portions of townships in which
settlements have been made, leaving the nncnltivable portions nnsurveyed. In con-
tracting for surveys fn mountainous regions or in a tract of country where you know
or have reason to believe that a portion of the lauds are unfit for agricultural purposes,
you will specially instruct your deputies as to the legal requirement to confine the
surveys to lands adapted to agriculture, and direct them in surveying townships con-
taining both classes of land to extend the subdivisional lines over all the lands in the
township that can be properly classed as agriculturaU
Contracts must state specific rates. Whenever practicable, contracts will be let,
under existing regulations, at not exceeding the minimum rates ($9, $7, and $5), but
you may, when necessary, allow a compensation not exceeding the intermediate rates
($13, $11, and $7), named in the appropriation act for the survey of the class of lands
for which said rates are provided, and in letters transmitting contracts you will state
fully f for the informatiox^ of this office, your reasons for allowing such rates.
In case of a demand for surveys for which, owing to exceptional difficulties to be
encountered by the surveyor, a compensation exceeding the intermediate rates must
be paid, you will, before taking any steps toward letting a contract, forward a state-
ment showing the reason why the survey is required, and specifically why augmented
rates should be allowed, setting forth the lowest rates at which you can obtain the
services of a competent surveyor, character of the land, and all particulars necessary
to the formation of a judgment by the Department upon the question of authorizing
such a contract.
You may proceed with the letting of contracts without the formality of advertis-
ing for proposals, but will use your best endeavors to secure the services of competent
and reliable surveyors at as much* less than the rates allowed bylaw as possible.
Select as your deputies, as far as practicable, men of known skill and integrity, and
when not heretofore known to the United States surveying service, you will require
satisfactory evidence of their competency, honesty, and ability to carry their con-
tracts to completion. In letters transmitting contracts with persons not heretofore
employed, you will present a statement of the evidence of qualification furnished by
them.
The act of Congress approved March 2, 1889, entitled, " An act to divide a portion
of the reservation of the Sioux nations of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations,
and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder,^' appropriates
the sum of $100,000 for the survey iof the lands opened to settlement under said act.
This appropriation will not, however, become available until the acceptance and con-
sent of the Indians to the provisions of the act shall have been obtained. In the
event of acceptance and consent by the Indians, you will be duly instructed in the
matter of the survey of the relinquished lands.
No contracts for resurveys will be entered into until express authority Therefor shall
have been granted by this office.
The regulations and requirements of the annual instructions bearing date Septem-
ber 15, 1885, so far as the same are not in conflict with the foregoing, are hereby con-
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tintied in force, and yoo will be governed accordingly in the matter of sarveying
contracts and instrnctions to deputy snrveyors.
In forwarding surveying contracts for the approval of this office, the letters of
transmittal shonld contain in full the reasons which induced you to select for survey
thejregion covered by the contract. All contracts for snbdivisional surveys must be
accompanied by evidences of settlement, in the shape of applications for the survey
of the lands from bona fide settlers thereon, who will also be required to submit in-
dividual affidavits (so far as practicable) as to the nature, extent, and value of their
improvements on the lands ; also satisfactory proof that the lands are adapted to
agriculture.
Very respectfully,
W. M. Stone,
Acting Commiasioner,
ARIZONA.
Out of the apportionment of $5,000 made to this district for the
fiscal year two contracts were awarded, the total liabilities of which
aggregated $1,100.
As explanatory of the limited amoant of surveying contracted for
during the fiscal year, the United States surveyor-general, in his
annual report, states as follows, viz :
This limited amount of surveying arose from the restrictions in the matter of sur-
veys. The Land Office instructions of July 26, 1889, advised me that ''By the terms
of the appropriation act the surveys must be confined to lands adapted to agriculture
and lines of reservations.^'
This clause, as applied to this arid belt, as I understand it, practically limits sur-
veys to lands that can be artificially irrigated, or grows some agricultural produce
without irrigation ; and lands liere are not usually adapted to agriculture, except
where so situated as to be artificially irrigated. The great bulk of the land locations,
however, are located where the possibility of irrigation is exceedingly remote, and
in many cases only exists in the possibility of artesian water. Still this land serves
the purposes of homes, and wherever located ought to entitle the settlers to the same
privileges of surveys as is accorded those who have been more fortunate in their se-
eotiouH. «
It is a very common thing for homes to be established in Arizona on the plateaus
adjacent to moun|;ain ranges, where a spring of water can be obtained for household
and other domestic purposes, which location may be convenient Ibo some business in
which the occnpant is actively employed, such as mining, etc.
These locations make very suitable Bud convenient homes, though the soil can not
be termed as agricultural, inasmuch as in many instances it is not even valuable for
grass; still that it is desirable as a home, on account of some property interests of
value in its neighborhood which settles it up, ought to entitle occupants of such
lands to the benefit of surveys.
The instructions as applied to Arizona ought to be very liberal, and left largely to
the discretion of the surveyor-general, whose knowledge of the peculiar character-
istics of the country will enable him to place the surveys where the largest number
of persons will be benefited. The public interests are not subserved by depriving
the surveyor-general of discretion in the placing of these surveys, as of necessity a
surveyor- general must be acquainted with the wants of the people.
In addition to the contracts for public-land surveys a contract for the
survey of the western boundary of the White Mountain or San Carlos
Indian Reservation was awarded May 16, 1890, to John C. Smith, United
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States depaty surveyor; liability $3,000, payable from the annaal ap-
propriation for the fiscal yean Eeferring to said contract, tbe United
States surveyor-general in bis annual report states as follows :
The survey of the above line is of vast importance, inasmuch as it will determine
the locus of very valuable mines, passing as it does through one of the richest min-
eral belt's in the country. ' A direct north and south line would make a more desirable
boundary than the present line, and could cutoff valuable mines without doing the
slightest injury to the Indians.
In connection with this, I desire to most earnestly renew my recommendation that
a straight east and west line be established for the south boundary, by Executive
order, so run as to cutoff the coal-fields, which are reported to be from 2 to 6 miles on
the reservation.
If upon development these fields were found to be extensive and the coal of good
quality, it would be the incentive for developing the resources of this Territory more
than anything that could be done. Cheap fuel is what is particularly needed in a
mining country, and Colorado owes much of its prosperity to this fact. A straight
east and west line, well defined, with stone monuments, would be a more comprehen-
sive boundary for the Indians, and the land cut off is valueless to them, except for
the collection of mescal, from which they make liquor.
OALIFOBNIA.
The surveyor-general reports that under the apportionment of
$10,000 for public-land surveys made to this district for the fiscal year
be has let seven contracts, aggregating $2,367, and has issued special
instructions for surveys in seven cases, the aggregate estimated liabil-
ity of which is $896.45. There were also seven contracts let and one
set of special instructions for surveys under the deposit system, aggre-
gating $3,555.
The surveyor-general states that —
Much trouble regarding the completion of the surveys of the public lands in this
State arises from the fact of very large fraudulent surveys in former years, which
has caused the suspension of large tracts of Government lands embraced within 163
different townships, and the great number of settlers located thereon anxious to per-
fect title to their homes are thereby prevented from so doing. Under the present in-
structions from the honorable Commissioner^ no surveys can be made of lands adjoin-
ing the suspended townships, and settlers upon those townships are thus placed in
the same dilemma as those within the suspended townships. I can but call the at-
tention of the Department and the honorable Commissioner to thiscondition of things,
and to urgently recommend chat the suits now pending against the parties making
the alleged fraudulent surveys be vigorously pressed or otherwise disposed of, in
order that the townships suspended may, by resurveys, be restored to the action of
the laws governing the disposal of public lands.
Eeferring to the oflBce work performed during the past year, the sur-
veyor-general remarks that —
The force now employed is none too great for the trantoction of the volume of business
passing through the office, and is very satisfactory as regards those performiug the
work. It is hoped that it will not be necessary to decrease the number of persons
now employed, and that some way may be found by which it can be mainlained, not-
withstanding the fact that the appropriatiou is much smaller than was recommended
by this office.
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The estimate sabmitted by the Oeueral Land Office for clerk hire in
the office of surveyor-general of California daring the fiscal year end-
ing Jane 30, 1891, was $20,000, bat the amount appropriated by Con-
gress was only $10^000, and the office has been mainly dependent upon
the special-deposit fund for the maintenance of a requisite clerical force ;
but this fund will be entirely exhausted before the commencement of
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, hence it is especially necessary
that the full amount estimated by this office for clerk hire in California
during the next fiscal year be appropriated.
Regarding swamp and overflowed lands, the surveyor-general states
that—
There remain forty oases of land claimed by the State of California under the
Bwamp-land grant of September 28, 1850, which are pending inyestigation by this
office as to the character of the land. There is also a large amount of land held
suspended from entry, owing to the fact that the State is not required to give the
names of the parties who have filed upon it for the purpose of obtaining it through
the State. The State is not careful enough in the designation of its representative,
and this office in consequence finds it difficult to reach such representative.
A law might be enacted, or circular instructions issued by the Department, that
would enable the more expeditious disposition of these claims, if so framed as to re-
quire exact information as to the claimants under the State, and fixing a time within
which the investigation should be commenced, and requiring a deposit sufficient to
cover the expenses of the same at the time of the application for suspension, to be
estimated by the surveyor-general.
There is evidently much land held suspended under the present practice, which is
detrimental to the interests of the United States.
OOLOBADO.
The original apportionment of the annual appropriation for the sur-
vey of the public lands for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, was
$15,000, to which was subsequently added as additional apportionments
the sum of $2,190 ; making a total of $17,190. Under the several ap-
portionments eleven contracts and four sets of special instructions for
public surveys were awarded.
DAKOTA.
Of the annual appropriation for the survey of the public lands for the
fiscal year the sum of $20,000 was apportioned to this district. Eleven
contracts for public-land surveys were awarded, the aggregate liabili-
ties of which amounted to $19,815.
CEDED SIOUX LANDS.
Section 25 of "An act to divide a portion of the reservation of the
Sioux Beservation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and
to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and
for other purposes " (approved March 2, 1889), appropriated the sum of
$100,000, to be applied and used toward surveying the lands opened to
settlement.
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The President, in pnrsaance of section 28 of said act, having in Fe1>
rnary last issued his proclamation ratifying the action of the Oommis*
sion and the Indians with reference to the ceded lands, the survey
thereof was authorized, and the CJnited States surveyor-general noti-
fied in March last that $93,000 of the stated appropriation was availa-
ble for the purpose. Under said authority twenty contracts for the
survey of said lands were awarded, involving liabilities to the amount
of $92,7505 which surveys are ijow being prosecuted in the field.
Two contracts (liabilities $6,$00) for the survey of the ceded lands
situate in the State of Nebraska, payable from the stated appropriation,
were also awarded by this oflBce.
FLOEtBA.
No apportionment of the annual appropriation for publie-land' sur-
veys was made to this district. Two sets of special instructions (in
lieu of contracts) for the survey of two islands were issued and ap-
proved, liabilities of which, $40 and $30 respectively, were charged to
the reserve fund of said appropriation.
Referring to the recent discoveries of valuable and extensive deposits
of mineral known as " phosphate rock,'' and applications for the ap*
pointment of United States deputy surveyors of mineral lands, the
United States surveyor-general in his annual report states as follows :
No sarveys have been made by direction of this office under the laws relating to
mining claims. I have received several applications for the appointment of United
states deputy surveyors of mineral lands ; but as I have received no authority to
make such appointments, and no instructions whatever from your Department relat'*
ing to these mineral lands, I have simply filed the applications for future action.
Great activity has prevailed for several months past in various connties in Florida
in prospecting and staking valuable and extensive deposits of the mineral known as
phosphate rock, and at certain places the work of mining and shipping the substance
is being conducted on a large scale. It can hardly be doubted that the discovery of
these deposits in Florida, exceeding in extent and thickness all such beds previously
known in the world, is an event destined to produce great increase of value not only
in the mineral lands of the State, but the agricultural also. In the general efifort to
find and secure phosphate lands many have decided to proceed in accordance with
the law of United States mineral lands, and are awaiting action by your Department
in the premises.
This remarkable discovery of unsuspected wealth within a few feet of the surface
in scores of t-ownships has caused large numbers of men to explore the country geo-
logically with spades and boring apparatus. By such means other useful substances
are said to have been found, such as marl, kaolin, fossil guano, slate rock, mica-schist^
mica, zinc ore, and sulphur, and specimens thereof have been submitted to the tests
of the State chemist ; showing that Florida ought long ago to have received the bene-
fit of a thorough geological survey.
In his annual report for the fiscal year the United States surveyor-
general, referring to " swamp lands reclaimable for sugar farming,''
states that the unsurveyed portions of the State of Florida are said
to consist of large areas of lauds of said character. The following ex-
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tracts from his report relating to said subject are herein embodied, to
wit:
SWAMP LANDS RECLAIMABLE FOR SUGAR FARMING.
A very recent importaDt agrioultaral development in this State is the establish-
ment of sugar farms npon lands reclaimed by drainage. These sngar lands pre-
viously were vast watery areas of saw-grass growing upon deposits of pure mnok of
nnknown depth. Of the quality of this material an eminent official chemist wrote
of a sample that '* it seems to equal the best potting mold, and partakes more of
the character of a manure than of a soil." When drained and cultivated it producea
from 30 to 40 tons of cane-stalks per acre of a quality equal to the best raised in
Caba. ,
There are many places in this State where extensive sngar mills like the successful
works at St. Cloud may be operated upon reclaimed similar lands. The saw-grass,
marshes of South Florida are reported susceptible of drainage and reclamation. As
soon as this is well done, they are likely to commsfnd a large price per acre, Judging
by past experience in Polk County.
The unsurveyed portions of this State are said to include large areas of such land ;.
and as its prospective value, which in past years' was considered nothing, is now
shown to be considerable, it is respectfully suggested that this office be authorized to-
take advantage of any season of nnusual dryness to extend the lines of survey in that
region. Capitalists interested in cane culture are favorably impressed by the suc-
cess achieved in Florida, and are said to be considering plans for draining and re-
claiming tracts of saw-grass marsh, where canals of no great depth or extent, with
ample difference of altitude, may be relied on to carry off the water to the Atlantio
or the Golf.
I would respectfully recommend that a portion of the general appropriation for
snrveys be set apart for this purpose, to be used under direction of the General Land
O^oe in case the recent low stage of water in the regions referred to should again
occur,
IDAHO*
The 6ttm of (10,000 out of the appropriation for the survey of the
public lauds for the fiscal year was apportioned to this district. Three
contracts, the liabilities of which aggregated the apportionment, were
awarded by the United States surveyor-general.
In addition to the public-land surveys several sets of special instruc-
tions were issued to Edson R. Briggs, United States deputy-surveyor,
for surveys for allotments within the Kez Perc6 Indian Reservation,
which were executed under the immediate supervision of the special
Indian agent, and paid from the Indian appropriations.
With referelice to the great and increasing demand for public sur-
veys in Idaho, the United States surveyor-general, in his annual re-
port, states as follows :
A great and increasing demand for public surveys exists.
Judging from the petitions and affidavits of residents on the lands this demand usu*
aUy comes from bona fide settlers who have actual improvements, many of whom
have been on their claims for a number of years and desire to acquire title to their homes.
In some instances the survey of heavily timbered lands is sought. As a rule this
oiBce can not determine as to the advisability of surveys until the standard and
township lines are run. Such exteriors should be surveyed over all portions of thfr
State where practicable, in order primarily that the Siirveyor-G«neral may form aa
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intelligent opinion as to what townships should he sahdivided, and secondarily in
order to complete the public land system of suryeys, as nearly as possible, over this
entire saryeying district. This would also enable settlers on unsurveyed land to de-
note, in their petitions for surveys, the township and range in which their claims are
flitnated, an impracticable matter now over a large portion of Idaho, which has not
been penetrated by public surveys.
I especially recommend an early extension of surveys in northern Idaho where a
large number of people have settled within the last few years, aod where many
others desire to make their homes when surveys are assured.
The usual apportionment of the appropriation for such work each fiscal year is
totally inadequate to meet the demands, and I suggest that at least the amount of
my estimate, per letter of June 25 last, be apportioned to this surveying district
from the appropriation for the coming fiscal year.
IRRIGATION AND BBCLAMATION OF ARID LANDS IN IDAHO.
In his annual report for the fiscal year the United States surveyor-
general for Idaho refers at some length to the proposed irrigation and
reclamation of the arid lands by the Government. In view of the gen-
eral interest manifested as to this matter not only in Congress, but in
the several States and Territories, within which are situate the arid
lands, the following extracts are deemed of Interest as contributing to
the present desire for further information regarding these lands :
Referring to my annual report of last 3'ear to your office, I desire to repeat a rec-
ommendation therein made : That either the irrigation and reclamation of the arid
lands of the West be undertaken by the Government, or the lands be granted to the
respective States and Territories upon such terms and conditions as will assure the
oonstruotion of necessary canals and reservoirs for reclaiming all of the lands
possible.
When thus reclaimed these lands in Idaho will support a dense population, afford
homes for thousands of settlers, and be a source of wealth to their possessors and of
revenue to the Government, both State and national.
The immediate enhancement in the value of lands now a desert waste would be so
great as to far more than refund the cost of irrigation, and the work is of such char-
acter as should be undertaken either by the Federal Government or by the Territory
or State, in order that the greatest good may result to the greatest number.
The matter of irrigation is of vital importance to Idaho, and is attracting wide,
spread attention to this State. The calls upon me are so numerous for information in
the premises, and the subject is one of such importance to your office in relation to
our irritable arid public lands, that I have deemed it advisable to incorporate as a
part of this report the following from that originally submitted by me to Hon. George
L. Shoup, governor of Idaho, as hereinbefore stated :
Irrigation in this State, to the extent of the normal flow of streams, has reached its
limit in several counties, while in some it has been overdone notwithstanding the
fact that we have 8,791,350 acres of good agricultural land capable of reclamation by
water, of which only 740,350 acres are now reclaimed and in process of reclamation,
being only 8 per cent, of what might be accomplished. This estimate does not include
the large areas of agricultural land in Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Nez Perc6, and Shosh-
one counties, which are not arid and do not require artificial irrigation, except to a
limited extent ; nor does it include a considerable area in other portions of the State
where the elevation is such as to insure a rain-fall sufficient for the growing of crops.
Thus it appears that about 8,051,000 acres of irrigable land — now arid— belong to
the Government, and ever will belong as a heritage for sage-brush and Jack rabbits
until storage reservoirs and main canals are constructed.
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It therefore remains for Congreiw todevise^the plan and formalate the proceedings
by which this water, which is in excessive abundance, shall be brought to these lands
and maintained and controlled for the greatest good to the greatest number.
Hundreds of iiiiUions of pounds sterling have gone and are still going fiom England
to India, where every available site for a canal is being occupied by an English joint
stock company. They realize from 8 to 25 per cent, yearly on their stock, and each
one improves annually as an investment.
The fever caused by this success in India has extended to the United States, but
the methods of Joint stock companies do not harmonize with our republican ideas.
Local control in the hands of the land owners concerned might be arranged, It would
seem, to suit every irrigation basin, leaving nothing more to be desired.
The plan I have adopted for presenting this subject by counties, rather than irri-
gation districts or water-sheds, will present to all inquirers a full conception of the
immense possibilities in store for each one of our counties and for Idaho as a whole.
The apnaal report in extenso will be found in its appropriate place.
LOUISIANA,
No formal apportionment of the annual appropriation was made to
this district for public surveys, although one contract (liability t7,500)
was under departmental directions awarded and charged to the reserved
fund, for the survey of several full and fractional townships wi.tbin the
limits of the Houma grant and the location of the claims of John
McDonogh, jr., and Henry Fontenot in the southeast district, east of
the Mississippi River, as required by the decisions of the Secretary of
the Interior, dated January 6, 1888, and January 25, 1889.
In his annual report the United States Surveyor-General refers to
said contract and surveys as follows :
The contract for surveys and resurveys of all the remaining townships in the
''Houma grant,'' stated in Exhibit D, was the result of the decisiye legislation on the
subject of this celebrated grant, contained in the act of Congress approved March 2,
1889, commonly known as the '* Gay bill." These surveys, when completed, as they
win be in the coming fall or winter, will be of great importance to the large number
of settlers on the lands who are anxiously awaiting their approval in order that they
may place their claims of record in the manner pointed out by law. In this connec-
tion there is an important subject which I tbin'k should in advance receive the con-
sideration of the Department, and be the basis of instructions to this office at an early
date. I refer to my duty in the matter of compiling and transmitting, with the re-
tains of surveys, lists of selection of swamp lands, under the act of Congress granting
such lands to the State of Louisiana, which may by the field-notes of survey be found
within any of the townships retmiied and to be returned within the old lines of the
claim. As I understand the decision of the Department of April 11, 1888 (15 Copp's L.
C, J}2), overruling the former decision of May 3, 1881 (8 Copp's L. O., 21), the posi-
tion it now assumes is that no lands were granted to the State under either of the
fiwarop-land grants within any one of the three subdivisions of the "grant,'' either
that of Donaldson and Scott, or of Daniel Clark, or of William Conway*.
The " Gay bill" seems to proceed upon this construction, and as I interpret it, con-
secrates the entire grant to homestead settlements under the laws of the United
States reserving to the State any rights she may have to the " surplus " after all
actual settlers shall have been satisfied. The question, therefore, of the State's right
to such lands as may be returned as swamp under the surveys now under contract
not depending upon their physical chanicteriKtics as swamp and overflowed lands, but
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rather upon the statas of the coDstraction to be placed upon the lands referred to, I
snbmit that this conBtruction should at this time be settled by the Department, or at
least so far settled as may be necessary to the issue to me of the necessary instruc-
tions in the premises.
BEDS OF SHALLOW LAKES, PONDS, FOKMER STREAMS, ETC.
The Surveyor-General refers to the subject of the survey and dis-
posal by the Government of the beds of shallow lakes, ponds, former
streams, etc., in the following manner, viz :
The subject of the survey and the disposition by the United States of the beds of
shallow lakes, ponds, former streams, etc., in this State is one of increasing interest.
Every year of increased and better drainage and levee construction increased the
number of acres of these valuable lands, while the removal of obstruction rafts in
the navigable streams, and where total overflow is not prevented thereby, serves to
diiainish the period of overflow, thus increasiug the time within which crops may
be raised on such lands. As they are of immense fertility and often bear cities and
towns and railroads, which give them additional valtie, they attract the attention of
cnltivators and capitalists, who are constantly seeking means through this office of
acquiring title to them. But practically the subject is environed with so many legal
difficulties that after learning them many applicants, in despair, give up their efforts.
I find that in 1877 the Bureau, after a full review of the embarrass meuts surrounding
the subject, resolved to refer the whole matter to Congress, and I understand that
sQch determination has been considered a bar to any proceeding under then existing
circulars and decisions. I refer to pages 11 and 12 of the Land Office Report for 1877.
As Congress has not taken action, and some thirteen years have elapsed since the
matter was so referred to that body, my recommendation is that the Land Department
should go on and perform its duty under existing laws, and that for this purpose the cir-
cular of July 13, 1874 (1 Copp's L. O., 69) should be extended to districts for which there
are Surveyors-General, or at least to the district of Louisiana, and that a sufficient
sum be annually set apart from the general appropriation for the survey ot the pub-
lic lands to pay for such surveys as may be made under such circular. It is rather
an anomalous condition of affairs and one not very creditable to our laud system which
practically denies many legal steps by which every class of our citizens, settlers, or
capitalists seek to honestly acquire title to these lands.
If they apply to the United States Land Office for the proper district, they are there
told that the township plats and tract books do not represent the desired tracts as
surveyed lauds, but as lakes, streams, ponds, etc., whose areas are unknown, and that
until they are surveyed and the survey returned to the proper land office they are
without authority to take any action at all looking to the acquisition of title. In
brief, they are referred to the Surveyor-General in order to have the necessary survey
made. When .they come here, they are told, first, that under the existing instructions
and decisions the whole matter is in suspense, that it was referred to Congress in 1877,
and that as that body has taken no action, the surveying department will take none ;
moreover, they are further told that if this office could lawfully survey these lands,
no funds are allotted to pay for such matter, and if they reply that they are williug
under the '* deposit system -' to pay for it themseUres, they are thou told that under
the construction placed on the laws founding that system it does not apply to lands
of that status. They then go to the State land office, hoping to find in the State leg-
islation some law or system arising under the supposed grant of such lands to the
State under the Federal swamp-land grant, but are there met with the information
that in the absence of Federal survey and selections and approval of these lands as
inuring to the State under these laws, its officers are powerless to allow sales or any
other kind of disposition known to the land laws of the State applicable to other
lands. Thus, practically every avenue of acquisition is found closed or so sur-
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rounded with expense and difficulty tbat the attempt is abatidoned. And thus the
richest lands in the State, probably amounting to half a million acres and of untold
fertility, are placed beyond the reach of the citizens, and must remain the breeding
places of the alligators and snakes, infecting the surrounding air in hot weather with
miasmatic poisons, instead of being drained and put in cultivation by the poor home-
seekers, or the more powerful capitalist, or land improyement company. Some of
these lakes contain from 10,000 to 25,000 acres, while those that contain from 500 to
5,000 acres are numerous.
I strongly recommend that the " Bureau " should take the subject in hand and sup-
ply instructions and money with which this office may take action in particular cases,
when proper application is made for that purpose.
SURVEY OP MILITARY RESERVATIONS OX THE GULF COAST, WEST OP THE MISSIS-
SIPPI RIVER.
The expediency of apportioDing funds to the District of Louisiana
or the survey of the ten military reservations on the Gulf coast, west of
the Mississippi Eiver, is referred to by the surveyor-general, as follows :
It may not be inappropriate for me to state, though the subject has not been sub-
mitted to this office officially, tbat funds have to be apportioned to the District for
the survey of the ten military reservations on the "Gulf coast" west of the Missis-
sippi River, which it is contemplated to offer at sale under the act of July 5, 1884.
The old surveys were made about 1830, and an examination of the field-notes shows
the most crude and imperfect methods of marking the lines and corners were prac-
ticed. Most of the lands were then and are yet prairie or sea-marsh, or upon sea-
shore, and otherwise unfitted for perpetuating lines and corners of the '^public sur-
vey b." It is too plain that any tract to be disposed of under this law will have to be
resurveyed, and this can be done better in the dry months of the tall and early
winter than at any other season. Hence, if this matter is contemplated at all, it is
now time to enter upon the preliminary steps.
MINNESOTA.
Six contracts for public land surveys and four sets of special instruc-
tions, the latter for the survey of islands (aggregate liabilities $5,152),
were awarded in this district. To the original apportionment of $5,000
of the annual appropriation an additional amount was added to cover
the excess as contract<ed for.
In his annual report the United States surveyor-general states that
the number of acres surveyed during the fiscal year is 143,390.49 ; which,
added to the amount previously surveyed (42,848,625.49), gives the total
number of acres surveyed in the State to date, namely, 42,992,015.78.
He further states that applications which are being received at his
office from settlers on unsurveyed lands, asking for the survey of the
townships in which they are located, indicate an increased demand for
surveys during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891.
MONTANA.
Under the apportionment of $15,000 nine contracts and two sets of
si)ecial instructions for public land surveys were awarded to the full
amount apportioned.
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XJDder the special apportionment of $10,000, made by the act of March
2, 1889, for the survey of the relinquished lands within the Blackfeet
Indian reservation, one contract was awarded to the full amount of the
apportionment.
One contract for the survey of lands for allotments within the Crow
Indian reservation was awarded; liability $9,000, payable from the
Indian appropriation approved February 8, 1887. This survey was
ordered by the Department on the recommendation of the Commis-
sioner of Indian Affairs.
One contract, liability $110, payable from special deposits, was also
awarded for public land surveys.
In his annual report the United States surveyor-general, referring
to the apportionment for public surveys for the fiscal year, states as
follows :
All of the saiii apportioned to this district by the Commissioner for surveys dar-
ing the fidcal year ending Jnne 30, 1890, has been contracted for. This result has
been in great measure owing to the surveys being confined to agricnltnral and settled
lands, and also to augmented rates being allowed by the terms of the last appropria-
tion. I would also state that the recent practice of allowing surveyors-general to
appoint local examiners to inspect and report on the work as soon as completed has,
at least in this district, worked very well, and has enabled the examinations to be
conducted with great promptness, efficiency, and economy, and has obviated in a
great measure the delays whieh formerly occurred in approving the returns of con-
tracts.
Begarding the compensation allowed by law for public land surveys,
and the character of the remaining unsurveyed lands in Montana, the
United States surveyor-general further reports as follows :
The compensation per mile allowed for public land surveys, is, in most cases, insuf-
ficient. VThilst there still remains some comparatively level land to be surveyed in
Montana north of the Missonri River and along Milk River, the greater part of the
State consists of narrow valleys along the principal streams and their branches, sep-
arated from each other by hills, mountains, or arid table-lands. In the west, particu-
larly on the Clark's Fork of the Columbia River, and the Flathead Lake region,
there is a great deal of good agricultural land, but heavily timbered, which, in the
interest of the Government, as well as of settlers, should be surveyed. It is found
by experience that it is impossible to survey this country (with any profit to the sur-
veyor) even at the highest augmented rates allowed.
Under the most favorable circumstances, the ground in any specified section of the
country is generally so broken, and the quantity which can be surveyed so difficult
to estimate, that even in large contracts it falls 8hor^, and the surveyor finds that he
has made a large outlay for a comparatively small compensation. Hence, it is noto-
rious that it is almost impossible to have surveys made, in distant and rough sections
of the State, unless the settlers assist the surveyor with their own labor, or that of
their teams, free of charge. They should not be put to this expense ; the compensa-
tion should be such as to justify the surveyor in undertaking the work, without call-
ing on the settlers for aid.
In addition to the foregoing surveys, and in compliance with the
direction of the Department on the recommendation of the Commis-
sioner of Indian Affairs, a contract was awarded by this office to John
P. Brown for the survey of portions of the south and west boundaries of
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the Crow Indian reservation ; liability $3,200, payable from the appro-
priation of $10,000, per act approved March 2, 1889, for the snrvey and
subdivision of Indian reservations.
NEVADA.
One contract for resurveys in townships 5 and 6 south, range 35 east
(liability, $1,615), together with special instructions for fragmentary
surveys in township 9 north, range 27 east (liability $15), were author-
ized and approved. Said liabilities were charged to the reserved fund
of the appropriation. .
In his annual rei)ort, the United States surveyor-general, referring
to settlers in various parts of Nevada, states as follows :
There is qaite a number of settlers in varioas parts of the State who have asked
that the pablio snrveys be extended to enable them to obtain title to their lands.
And as no surveys have been made in this State outside of the limits of the Central
Pacific Railroad grant for a number of years, I would recommend that, in addition
to the amount appropriated for surveys within those limits, a sufficient sum be appro*
priated to extend the surveys in other parts of the State to accommodate them.
In view of the improved condition of affairs in the State, as set forth
in his annual report, the surveyor-general feels justified in asking
much more liberal appropriations for surveys than have been made for
several years past.
Referring to the several contracts for public surveys in this district
which were awarded in May and June, 1887, chargeable to the special
appropriation of $30,000, made to Nevada by act approved August 4,
1886, the United States surveyor-general defines their present status
as follows :
There are four contracts under the appropriation of Angnst 4, 1886, which have not
been acted upon. Of these the iiold-notes of contracts 187, ld8, and 189, comprising
fifty-two townships and fractional townships, have been in this office for more than a
year, and the field-work of contra^st 186, comprising twenty-one townships, I under-
stand is about completed, but the field-notes have not yet been returned to this office.
IRRIGATION.
The surveyor-general also refers to the great interest manifested by
the people of that State in the problem of water storage and irrigation.
Extracts from said report are herewith appended :
The lands of this StafiC, even those designated as second and third rate in the field-
notes and plats of the public surveys, need only irrigation to make them produce as
abundant crops as regions favored by a more generous rain-fall. And for much of
this land irrigation is CDttrely practicable, needing only capital and the co-operation
of the settlers to store the water in the mountains in the season of rain-fall and bring
it upon the lands as it is needed.
During the past year great interest has been manifested by the people of the State
in the problem of water storage and irrigation. A State board of trade has been
organized, and plans are being matured for building storage reservoirs and construct-
ing extensive canals, which will bring under irrigation many times the area now
cultivated.
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For the last three years the rain-fall has been exeeptioaally light, and last snmmer
nearly all the streams of the State, including the Hamboldt, Traokee, Carson, and
Walker Rivers, went entirely dry. The heavy snow-fall of last winter, coming after
a series of dry years with short feed, caos^ a heavy loss of live-stock throughout the
State; hat the melting of the snow has filled the ground with water, restored the
springs and streams, insuring good crops and abundant feed for stock, and enabling
the qnartz mills, which have been stopped from lack of water, to resume operations.
This puts life into the languishing industries of the State, and gives reasonable assur-
ance of a prosperous season both In agriculture and mining.
NEW MEXICO.
UDder the apportionment of $8,000 made to this district ten contracts
for public surveys were awarded ; total liabilities, $7,825.
In his annual report, referring to the demand for public surveys, the
United States surveyor general states as follows :
The demand for public surveys seems to be increasing. I am constantly in receipt
of letters from settlers in all parts of the Territory inquiring as to the manner of pre-
paring applications for survey of public land.
In reply to all these letters I have given instructions, which are in all cases full
and complete, and which direct in the minutest particulars as to the form and sub-
stance of the application. Notwithstanding this, applications for public surveys are
in many cases not only defective in form, but they do not contain the information
which is necessary to form an intelligent opinion as to whether or not the township
is of the character which the public interest requires to be surveyed.
In view of the fact that settlers on public lauds are not accustomed to prepare doc-
uments of this character, to hold them to technical accuracy would, under existing
regulations, be an effectual bar to the survey of jGoverument lands. This difficulty
might be obviated by furnishing a blank form, to be prepared under the direction of
the Commissioner of the General Land Office, which might easily be comprehended,
and when properly filled out to contain all the information required.
In the matter of applications for surveys* of public lands in townships
made fractional by preliminary surveys of private land claims, the
United States surveyor-general reports as follows :
I have had many a]>plications and letters of inquiry relating to the survey of town-
ships made fractional by preliminary surveys of unconfirmed grants. In these cases,
settlers have been promptly advised that under the rulings of the Department such
ownships are not surveyable.
The only possible objection to surveying the townships which are made fractional
by these preliminary surveys, is that the lines upon which the township lines would
close may not be adopted when final action is taken on the grant. On the other hand,
a reference to the map of this Territory will show that surrounding many of these
preliminary surveys the Government land is unsurveyed. Some of this land may be
classed as the richest in New Mexico, and upon which settlers have lived for years,
making improvements and cultivating the same, without being able to obtain title to
their homes. If these lands were surveyed they might be disposed of to the mutual
advantage of the Government and the settlers.
That the present state of affairs is a hardship on the settlers needs no further dem-
onstration. Unless final action is to be taken in regard to these unconfirmed grants
in the very near future, I am of the opinion that this rule should be abrogated. If
it is thought to be advisable to close on these grant lines which may not be perma-
nent, and to complete the survey of the fractional township, in case the grant is
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finally deolared to be invalid or the boandariee changed, the township lines might be
extended within the boundaries of the preliminary sarvey, and that portion of the
township which is in conflict with the grant might be withheld from sale and entry.
This is especially so when only a small portion of the township would be out by the
line of the grant.
That the title to the land included within the boundaries of these grants has been
so hopelessly imperfect for so many years, is enough in itself to seriously impair the
prosperity of New Mexico. It is an additional hardship that lands not included therein
fihonld be tied up also.
OKLAHOMA,— PUBLIC LAND STRIP.
UDcler the provisions of ^<An act to provide a temporary government
for the Territory of Oklahoma, to enlargethe jurisdiction of the United
States court in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," approved
May 2, 1890, the public land strip, which is bounded east by the one
hundredth meridian, south by Texas, west by New Mexico, and north
by Colorado and Kansas, was included in the limits of the Territory
of Oklahoma.
Section 19 of said act, in addition to creating a land district in the
public land strip, provides that —
The Commissioner of the General Land Office shall, when directed by the Presi-
dent, cause the lauds withiu the Territory to be properly surveyed and subdiyided
where the same has not already been doue.
The only unsurveyed lands in the Territory of Oklahoma are em-
braced in the public land strip, the area of Oklahoma proper having
been surveyed and subdivided some years prior to opening the lands to
settlement.
In compliance with the directions of the Secretary of the Interior
measures were taken to secure a partial survey at least of the public
land strip. In the absence of a special appropriation by Congress for
the purpose of surveying the strip, the balance of the reserved fund of
the annual appropriation for the survey of the public lands for the As*
cal year ending Juuie 30, 1890, with unexpended balances of apportion-
ments made to several districts, was utilized, and the sum of $21,000
made available for partial surveys.
Under said amount three contracts for subdivisional surveys were
awarded by this office to two well-known and reliable deputy survey-
ors, who are now in the field prosecuting the work. The surveys con-
tracted tor extend westward from the eastern boundary of the strip
(the one hundredth meridian and the west boundary of the Indian Ter-
ritory), and embrace ranges 28 to 15 east, inclusive. It was ascertained
that the majority of the towns and settlements are located in the east-
ern half of the strip ; hence the desire to comply with existing law in
the matter of the authorized surveys and to give preference to town-
ships occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers.
The surveys contracted for embrace sixty full and fractional town-
ships of the one hundred and thirty-five full, and thirty-three fractional
townships which comprise the total area of the strip.
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ORE(K>N.
Under an apportionment of $10,000 for public sarveys made to this
district tor the fiscal year, eleven contracts and one set of special instruc-
tions were awarded ; liabilities aggregating $5,405.
Under directions from the Department, on the recommendation of
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, two contracts for the survey of
. Indian boundaries and for allotments were also awarded by the United
States surveyor-general, viz : Contract No. 647, dated August 2+, 1889,
for surveying the west boundary of the Warm Springs Indian reserva-
tion ; liability $1,000. Contract No. 549, dated August 30, 1889, for
surveys of several townships for allotments within the Siletz Indian
reservation ; liability $700.
A detailed statement as to the status of contracts awarded prior to
July 1, 1889, is given in the report of the United States surveyor-gen-
eral for the fiscal year. The report will be found in its appropriate
place.
The following extracts from the annual report of the United States
surveyor- general relative to public surveys in Oregon, applications there-
for, particularly of forests or heavily timbered lands, as also of agri-
cultural lands and other matters connected therewith, are deemed of
interest and appended hereto :
Daring the past year nuineroas petitions have been received in this office asking
for snrveye in different parts of the State.
The balk of the petitions are for snrveys in townships along the coast, where the
lands are for the greater part broken and monntainons, covered with timber often
qnite heavily, and almost invaribly covered with a very dense nndergrowth, which
make the work of surveying it difficult and expensive.
These lands when once cleared are generally well adapted for agricnltural and
grazing purposes, and are fast filling up with settlers, who to all appearances have
located thereon in good faith, and with the intention of making permanent homes
for themselves and families.
For several years past it had been the policy of your office .to prohibit the survey
of forests or heavily timbered lands, and former regulations provided that the sur-
vey of a township must be completed in its entirety unless natural obstacles rendered
its completion absolutely impossible, but owing to the restriction in the appropria-
tion act confining the surveys to agricultnral land, provision was made for the sur-
vey of timbered lands where they were adapted to agriculture and occupied by actual
bona fide settlers, who at great labor and expense had made for themselves per-
manent homes.
The surveying instructions were modified so as to provide that a deputy surveyor
should survey all the cultivable land and omit the uncuUivable, bat that in survey-
ing a township the subdi visional lines must be extended over all the land that can
be properly classed as agricultural.
This restriction made the ^ork of surveying a township more tedious and expensive
than if a deputy was allowed to complete it in its entirety, as he was compelled to
stop the survey of a line when it reached itiarable land, unless lands of proper char-
acter lay beyond.
It also placed upon him the responsibility of determining what lands were agri-
cultural and consequently surveyable under existing restrictions.
Owing to this and the further fact that nearly all the surveys desired in the mount-
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unous regions along the coast where the undergrowth is very 'dense, competent snr^
▼eyors were deterred from entering into contracts even at the highest rates of |18,
$15, and $12 per mile for standard, town'ship, and section lines, respectively, allowed
in oases of exceptional difficulty in the execution of the surveys.
Eleven contracts have been entered into and one survey provided for under special
instructions, the estimated liability aggregating |5,405, payable from the appropria-
tion for the fiscal year ending June 30,1890.
I expected to award contracts for other additional surveys, the estimated liability
aggregating more than $3,000, but was disappointed.
Offers had been made by competent surveyors to execute surveys in four townships
at certain stipulated rates per mile.
The consent of your office to awarding the contracts and allowing the rates asked
had been granted.
In the meantime this office had been furnished with copies of the Manual of Sur-
veying Instructions of December 2, 1889, and with the contracts prepared for the
execution of surveys in these four townships a copy of the manual was forwarded to-
the coDtractiDg deputies.
The contracts were returned without being executed, the surveyors claiming that
under this manual considerable more work was required of the deputy, and in a rough
mountainous country like that in which the proposed surveys were to be made, it
would be very difficult making their work close within the limits prescribed.
I endeavored to find other surveyors to undertake the work, but did not succeed.
I regret this, as L was very desirous of executing contracts covering as much ae
possible of the amount allotted to this district.
I believe, however, that contracts can be awarded for the survey of these town-
ships as soon as the appropriation becomes available.
Your office has placed a liberal construction on the restriction confining surveys to
agricnltural lands, and I am of the opinion that much less difficulty will be expe-
rienced in securing the services of competent surveyors, providing fair rates are
allowed for executing the work.
At the present time there are quite a number of petitions on file in this office ask-
ing for the survey of lands that are occupied and improved by actual settlers, but the
localities and character of the land in the townships sought to be surveyed are such
as will require the benefit of the special augmented rates in order to secure con-
tracts.
I would therefore respectfully recommend that a liberal amount be apportioned to
this district from fiie appropriation for the present fiscal year for the survey of the
public lands, as the demands for such as are actually needed is now very urgent and
constantly increasing.
UTAH.
There was apportioned to this district out of the appropriation of
$200,000 for surveys and resurveys of public lands, the sum of t5,000,
and contracts were entered into to the full extent of the apportionment.
There was also one contract involving a surveying liability of $762.05,
payable from repayments by the Central Pacific Railroad Company.
The surveyor-general calls attention to the urgent need in his office
of a system of connected mineral plats, and to the estimates of appro-
priations for this purpose, submitted by him in 1889 and again in 1890,
In the estimates submitted by this office for the surveying service for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, there is embraced an item of $9,000
for clerk hire in the office of the surveyor-general of Ftah, of which
amount the sum of $5,000 is intended to be applied to the preparation
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of connected map8.of the several mining districts in Utah, as explained
in the note accompanying the estimate.
The necessity for complete and accurate maps of the mining districts
is recognized by this office, and it is earnestly hoped that the amoant
asked for may be appropriated,
WASHINGTON.
Of the appropriation' for the survey of the pablic lands for the fiscal
year the snm of $20,000 was apportioned to this district. Under said
apportionment seven contracts for pablic surveys were awarded; total
liabilities aggregating (11,794.
One contract was also awarded for the survey and resurvey of the
south and west boundaries of the Yakima Indian reservation) liability
(2,163, payable from the appropriation (approved March 2, 1889) for
the survey and subdivison of Indian reservations. This contract was
authorized by the Department on the recommendation of the Commis-
sioner of Indian ^ifairs.
WYOMING.
Under the apportionment of (10,000 made to this district, two con-
tracts of (5,000 each for public land surveys were awarded during the
fiscal year.
One contract (liability (90) was also awarded to John E. Shannon for
the survey of the strip of land adjoining the eastern boundary of the
Fort McKinney military reservation, which was relinquished by the
military authorities and promulgated in executive order dated January
10, 1889.
On the recommendation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs the
Department directed the award of a contract for the survey of lands for
allotments within the Shoshone Indian reservation. Jn compliance
with said authorization a contract was awarded to Howard B. Carpen-
ter ; liability (12,000, chargeable to the appropriation of February 8,
1887, for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians.
EXAMINATION OF SURVEYS IN THE FIELD.
By the act of Congress making appropriations for sundry civil ex-
penses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, ap-
proved March 2, 18«9, there was appropriated for surveys and resurveys
of public lands the sum of (200,000.
Of this amount a sum not exceeding (20,000 was authorized to be ex-
pended in the examination of surveys iu the field to test the accuracy of
the work executed by the United States deputy surveyors, and for the
examination of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective.
Under this appropriation four special agents for the examination of
surveys were appointed. One of these agents was discharged after a
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few months' servioe, bat the remainder have been copstantly employed
ihroagh the year.
In addition to the field examinations made by the special agents
under the immediate direction of this office, the sarveyors-general in
several districts have from time to time been aathorized to employ
special examiners to inspect certain snrveys — the cost of snch inspec-
tion to be defrayed from assignments of moneys oat of the general
fand above mentioned.
Daring the past year snrveys have been accepted apon reports of
examination in the field, either by special agents of this office or by
special examiners appointed by the snrveyors-general under the anthor-
ity of this office, as follows :
Contracts.
Arizona 7
California 5
Colorado 19
Dakota 5
Idaho 1
Lonisiana 1
Minnesota 9
Montana 7
Nevada 9
New Mexico ^ 12
Oregon 5
Utah 11
Washington 4
Wyoming : 1
Total 75
Snrveys executed nnder contracts and special instrnctions were ac-
cepted withont field examination as follows :
States and Territories.
Califoroia .
Colorado .
Dakota
Florida....
Idaho ....
Louisiana.
Cont«oU. I ^'.^
States and Territories. Contracts.
14 6 Minnesota.
2 2 , Hontana . . .
8 ' New Mexico .
1
2
2
1 I 2 ' Oregon ' 3
ashini
1 I Washington i 2
M
Instrnc-
tions.
The cases in which surveys were accepted withont field examinations
were either those where the liabilities were so small that it was not
deemed advisable to incur the expense, or where the depnty surveyors
were well known as competent and trustworthy persons whose work the
snrveyors-general recommended for acceptance without inspection.
Inclnded in the surveys accepted during the year were those nnder
certain contracts referred to in the last annual report as suspended, as
follows: In Anzona contrficts Nos. 3 and 41 ; Idaho, contract No. 102;
Loaisiana, contract No. 24 ; Minnesota, contract No. 2 ; Montana, con-
tracts Nos. 196 and 203 ; Utah, contracts Nob. 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144,
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145, 156, and 157. These surveys were saspended awaiting examina-
tion, or, having been saspended for reported imperfections, were held
for corrections in the field and farther examination.
Among the accepted surveys were those of abandoned military reser-
vations as follows : In Arizona, Fort Verde Garden Reserve, Camp
Goodwin, Old Gamp Grant, and Gamp Grittenden ; in Dakota, Fort
' Bice reservation ; in New Mexico that portion of the military reserva-
tion of Fort Butler lying outside the Pablo Montoya grant; in Wyom-
ing the Fort Fetterman reservation, together with the old and new Fort
Fetterman wood reservations.
The following surveys of Indian reservations were also included in
the a6cepted surveys, viz : The north and west boundaries of the Hoopa
Yalley Indian reservation in Galifornia; tlie survey of a part, of the
north boundary of the Southern Ute Indian reservation in Golorado ;
the north boundary of the Warm Springs Indian reservation, and the
survey of the boundaries and subdivision of the Umatilla Indian reser-
vation in Oregon.
SURVEYS UNDER INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED BY OR CONTRACTS ENTERED
INTO BY THE COMMISSIONER OP THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
During the past year this office issued special instructions for sur-
veys of several islands omitted in the previous township surveys, which,
on accoant of the small liability involved in each case, were accepted
without examination in the field.
These islands are situated in States where the office of surveyor- gen-
eral has been discontinued, and under the law the Gommissioner is ex
officio surveyor-general. In each case the applications for these frag-
mentary surveys were, under the rule, submitted to the Department,
and the requisite instructions were issued when the surveys had been
sanctioned by the Department.
SURVEY of: the east boundary of the SEMINOLE LANDS IN THE
INDIAN TERRITORY.
The survey made in 1884-'85 of the east boundary of the tract in the
Indian Territory purchased from the Greek l^ation for the Seminole
Indians having been found defective, this office rejected the same and
entered into a new contract for the survey of said boundary. The new
survey having been critically examined in the field, was found to have
been executed in the best manner and in strict accordance with the
contract and instructions, and was duly accepted by this office. The
fact was developed by this survey that the 175,000 acres purchased
from the Greeks did not include all the lands actually occupied by the
BeminoleSy a number of them being located east of the boundary line-
The surveyor stated that to include all the lands occupied by the Sem-
inoles would require the running of a new boundary east of the one
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established by him so as to embrace an estimated area of abont 25^000
9cres iu addition to the 175,000 acres previously purchased from the
Greek Nation.
REJECTED SURVEYS.
8URVBT OF THE IOWA INDIAN RESERVATION IN KANSAS AND NEBRASKA.
In April, 1888, under the direction of the Department, a contract
was made by this office for the survey of that reservation, and the sur-
vey was returned to this office, but the field-notes were so defective
that proper plats could not be constructed, and after repeated trials on
the part of the surveyor he failed to make his returns acceptable and
the survey was rejected. A new contract was entered into for this
work. .
SURVEYING CONTRACT NUMBER 169, NEVADA
The surveys under this contract were inspected in the field by a
special agent of this office, and in view of a number of corners missing,
the discrepancies in the descriptions of corners, and in the measure-
ments and alignments, and after making due allowance for deteriora-
tion between the dates of survey and examination in the field, the sur-
veys were rejected. From the decision of this office the deputy survey
ors took an appeal to the Department, which, by decision bearing date
July 25, 1890, affirmed the action of this office.
SURVEY OF THE FORT HALLECK MILITARY RESERVATION AND THE CAMP MCDBR-
MITT HAY RESERVATION IN NEVADA.
These reservations having been transferred to the Interior Depart-
ment under the provisions of the act of July 5, 1884, the surveyor-
general of Nevada was authorized to contract for the survey thereof.
The surveyor made returns of his work, but the surveyor- general, who
made a field inspection of the same in person, reported that it was very
evident that the deputy had not attempted in his surveys of those reser-
vations to correctly run and sufficiently mark the lines and corners
thereof, nor to iu any sufficient manner fulfill the terms and require- '
ments of his contract and instructions, and the surveys were accord-
ingly rejected by this office. A new contract for the survey of said
reservations has been awarded.
RESURVEY OF RANCHO BUENA VISTA.
The surveyor-general of California was instructed to make a resurvey
of the boundaries of this rancho in conformity to the decisions of the
Department of April 6 and July 19, 1887 (5 L. D., 659 ; 6 L. D., 41). The
resurvey being found not in conformity with said Departmental decis-
ions, was rejected.
SURVEY OF THE SIOUX CEDED LANDS IN NEBRASKA,
During the year contracts have been made for the survey of all that
portion of the Sioux ceded lands in Nebraska except the tier of frac-
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tional townships adjoiniog the north boundary of the State between
the Missouri and Keya Paha Bivers, which were necessarily omitted ow-
ing to the fact that this portion of said north boundary had not yet
been surveyed and marked in the field. These surveys include that
portion of the old Ponca Indian reservation situated in townships 32
^and 33 north, ranges 9 and 10 west.
Instructions were also issued for the survey of Ifl'iobrara Island, in
Niobrara River, which, by the terms of section 21 of the act of March
2, 1889 (25 n. S. Stat., 888), was donated to the city of Niobrara, and
accepted by said city by an ordinance bearing date January 28, 1890.
NORTH BOUNDARY OF NEBRASKA.
The act of March 28, 1882, entitled "An act to extend the northern
boundary of the State of Nebraska'^ (22 U. 8. Stat., 35), provides tor
the extension of said boundary, so as to include all that portion of the
Territory of Dakota lying south of the forty-third parallel of north lati-
tude and east of the Keya Paha Eiver and west of the Missouri River*
That portion of the northern boundary of Nebraska extending firom
the northwest corner of the StMe to the Keya Paha River, was surveyed
in 1874, but from the Keya Paha to the Missouri Eiver the line has not
been marked. In February last a special estimate of $2,052 was sub-
mitted for this survey. Until this boundary shall have been surveyed
and marked it will not be practicable to complete the survey of that
portion of the Sioux ceded lands in Nebraska, nor to properly close the
surveys of the ceded lands in South Dakota adjoining the boundary.
THE TEXAS BOUNDARY.
The act of Congress approved June 5, 1858, authorized the President
of the United States in conjunction with the State of Texas to run and
mark the boundary lines between the Territories of tb'e United States
and the State of Texas.
Commissioners on the part of the United States and Texas were duly
appointed and the survey was proceeded with. The present status of
the survey is fully set forth in the report of the Commissioner made to
the Department under date of January 11, 1882, in response to a reso-
lution of the United States Senate of January 6, 1882, requiring the Sec-
retary of the Interior to furnish the Senate with the report, if any, of
the survey of the United States and Texas Boundary Commission, made
under the provisions of the act of June 5, 1858. The following is a copy
of said report :
Department of the Iihvrior, General Land Office,
Washington, D. C, January 11, 1882.
Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, by reference from the Depart-
ment for report, of a resolution of the United States Senate, dated January t>, 1882,
calling on the Secretary of the Interior to *' famish the Senate with the report, if any,
of the survey of the United States and Texas Bonudary Commission, made nnder the
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proyisions of the act of Congreas, approyed Jane 5, 1858 " ; and if do final report of
said commissioD waa made, that fact is reqaired to be reported, together with
the taiaps, saryeys, and report of the work so far as it was prosecuted.
In reply, I haye the honor to state that no report of said survey on the part of the
commissioner for the State of Texas was eyer made.
Seyeral partial reports were made by John H. Clark, United States commissioner,
and his report of September 30, 1861, covers briefly the whole field of operations by
both commissioners in establishing said boundary.
I transmit herewith, in separate packages, the maps and notes of field-work of the
survey returned by the United States commissioner; also the correspondence in the
case, including copy of the instructions by the Department to said commissioner for
said survey and letters to the governor of Texas.
Of the sixteen maps returned by the commissioner, Nos. 3 and 16 are missini;, the
latter being a general map of the whole suryey, noted on the records as ''missing" as
early as May 7, 1662 ; the former, No. 3, being a map of that part of the thirty-second
parallel from Crow Spring to the Pecos River.
All the maps are in more or less of an unfinished condition as to topography, letter-
ing, etc., some of them being nearly completed. The bound volume. No. 9, contains
manuscript notes of all the field work of triangulation and topography. None of the
maps or records are authenticated or approved.
From an examination of the papers and reports, which will be found in the bundle
marked ''Correspondence," the following is prepared as showing, in brief, what was
accomplished under said act of Congress approyed June 5, 1858. (Stat, at Large,
Vol. II, p. 310.)
The joint commission on the part of the United States and the State of Texas com-
menced work together on the Rio Grande, but the Texas commissioner did not re-
main long in the field on account of personal differences between himself and the
United States commissioner. A new Texas commissioner came and assisted in the
survey of a part of the west boundary, or one hundred and third meridian, west lon-
gitude.
In the next year, viz, 1860, when the United States commissioner surveyed the
north and east boundaries, it does not appear from the records and papers that the
Texas commissioner took any part in the work, and the language used by the United
States commissioner indicates that he did the work without' any co-operation.
The east boundary, being that part of the line between Texas and Indian Territory
along the one hundredth meridian, west longitwle, had been in part previously estab-
lished by Messrs. Jon 08 & Brown, Surveyors, in 1859, under a contract for marking
the boundary line of certain Indiau lands, which boundary, by treaty of January 22,
1855, was the one hundredth meridian, or the line between the State of Texas and the
Indian country.
Said surveyors had marked the one hundredth meridian from the ncftih bank of
Red River, or what is designated on the United States maps as Red River, north to
the Canadian River, and about 19 miles farther north, and under the instructions
issued to the United States commissioner by the Secretary of the Interior, for the
survey of the United States and Texas boundary, he was only required to retrace so
much of said* meridian as had been thus previously established by said surveyors,
Jones and Brown.
The copy of letter from the Department to the Ooyemor of Texas, dated August
17, 1858, with the correspondence in the package accompanying this letter, sets forth
the reasons why the Qovemment proposed to adopt the survey made by said sur-
yeyors as a part of the line between the United States and State of Texas.
As stated in my letter dated January 5, 1882, to Hon. S. B. Maxey, the work of
Commissioner Clark was terminated in January, 1862, by the direction of the De-
partment in letter dated the 16th of that month, and the office work was therefore
neyer completed, the field-work haying been executed, as required by the Secretary
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of the Interior, except a part of the west boundary, which was not run, viz, from 33^
north latitude to 33^,45' north latitude.
No part of said boundary survey has ever been officially agreed upon or accepted
by the two governments as contemplated in the act of Congress authorizing the
survey.
In explanation of the condition of some of the maps, I have the honor to state
that they were damaged by water at the time of the Patent Office fire in 1877.
The Senate resolution is herewith returned.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
N. C. McFarlakd,
Commissioner,
Hon. S. J. Kirk WOOD,
Secretary of the Interior,
The commissioner's sarvey and the accompaoying papers and maps,
were printed (by order of the Senate), under the title of" Report of the
Commissioner of the General Land Office upon the survey of the United
States and Texas Boundary Commission," Senate Executive Document,
Fo. 70, Forty-seventh Congress, first session.
In view of the fact that the survey has never been officially agreed
upon or accepted by the IJnited States or Texas, as contemplated by
the act of Congress authorizing the same and of the long time (thirty
years) which has elapsed since the survey was made, rendering it very
probable that the major portion of the monuments marking the line
have been obliterated ; and further, as the position of the one hundred
and third meridian west from Greenwich, as determined and established
in said survey, is believed to be between 2 and 3 miles west of the true
position of said meridian, which forms a portion of the boundary between
New Mexico and Texas, it is earnestly recommended that provision be
made for a new survey under a joint commission, and that the posi-
tions of the meridians of longitude, and parallels of latitude which under
the law, form the State and Territorial boundaries, be determined by
approved modern methods, and marked upon the face of the earth by
durable and conspicuous monuments, in order that all questions as to
the limits of the several jurisdictions may be set at rest.
SURVEY^^OP HEAVILY TIMBERED AND MOUNTAINOUS LANDS IN THE
STATE OF WASHINaTON.
In the estimates submitted by this office for public land surveys dur-
ing the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, special rates are asked for the
survey of lands in the State of Washington, heavily timbered, mount-
ainous, or covered with dense undergrowth. The rates named in the
estimate are those submitted by the United States surveyor-general
of Washington as necessary in order to enable him to let contracts for
the survey of such lands, which he is unable to do at the augmented
rates now allowed by law. The rates submitted are $25 per linear mile
for standard and meander lines, $23 for township, and $20 for section
lines. These special rates are asked for the State of Washington be-
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cause of the great difficnlties encountered in surveying the exceptionally
heavily timbered lands in the western portion of the State. These lands
are not only heavily timbered, but are covered* with an undergrowth so
dense as to greatly impede the work of the surveyor, rendering his
progress tedious and expensive. So great indeed is the cost of running
the lines in this densely wooded region that competent and trustworthy
deputies can not be induced to enter into contract for surveys even at
the highest rates now allowed by law, realizing, as they do from actual
experience, that if their work is performed with a proper regard for the
obligations of their contract, there will remain little or no margin of
profit to compensate them for their arduous labors. The high rates are
not, of course, intended for general application throughout the State, but
only to those lands covered by heavy timber and dense under^owth,
which can not be surveyed at present legal rates, and which it may be
desirable and necessary to' survey in order to meet the demands of
actual settlers, and that the State may make selections of lands in sat-
isfaction of the several donations made by the enabling act of February
22, 1889.
PUBLIC LANDS OF THE ARID REGION.
In the annual report of this office for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1888 (pages 181 to 184), and in that for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1889 (pages 48 to 54), the subject of irrigation of the arid lands of the
public domain was treated of.
Since then, the arid lands, or lands within the arid region, as affected
by the provisions of the act of Congress of October 2, 1888 (25 Stat.
626), havo been the subject of consideration in the Department and in
Congress. As affording information on this important subject, I here
present the contents of Executive Document No. 136, Senate, Fifty-first
Congress, first session, as follows, viz :
Department op the Interior.
Washington, June 3, 1890.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the resolation of the Senate
of May 3, 1890, in the following language :
'* Whereas the act approved October 2, 1888, malting appropriations for anndry
civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, in appro-
priating the sum of $100,000 for investigating the extent to which the arid region of
the United States may be reclaimed by irrigation, and to enable the Geological Snr-
Tey to select the sites for reservations and oth^r hydraulic works connected therewith,
further provides as follows:
"And all the lands which may hereafter be designated or selected by such United
States surveys for sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigation purposes,
and all the lands made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals
are from this time henceforth reserved from sale as the property of the United States,
and shall not be subject after the passage of this act to entry, settlement, or occupa-
tion until further provided by law:
^^Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interior be requested to inform the Senate
what construction is placed by his Department upon the scope and effect of the res-
ervation from sale and disposal of the arid lands under the provisions of the act above
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cited, and what iiifitraction or orders, if any, have beea iasued or made thereander
(whether f^eaeral or special) with respect to the saspensioa of the arid lands from
entry under the public land laws, or the suspension of entries thereof heretofore
made, or affecting the rights of citizens to construct canals and ditches for irrigating
purposes on the public domain."
In reply thereto I have to state that the question as to the construction of the
statute mentioued in this resolution first arose upon the presentation to the Secretary
of resolutions of the oouHtitutional convention that assembled in Idaho Territory on
account of the supposed conflict then about to occur between that Territory and the
• Territory of Utah as to the use of the waf<ers of Bear River. These resolutions were
transmitted through the governor of the Territory, and a copy of which is hereto
annexed, and wherein this memorial, among other things that were recited, states:
** Whereas the Government of the United States has taken steps toward redeeming
the arid lands of the West ; * * * and
'^ Whereas, for the purpose of establishing a thorough system of storage reservoirs,
canals, and irrigating ditches, engineering parties are making surveys for this pur-
pose; and
'^ Whereas it is learned that the plans of the Government are threatened to be
thwarted by speculators having men to follow up these surveys to make filings on
lands, reservoirs, and canal locations :
^^ Resolved, By the Idaho constitutional convention now assembled at the capital of
said Territory, having the good of the general public and the good of the people of
Idaho with the prosperity of the Territ'Ory at heart, do hereby memorialize the De-
partment of the Interior to take such action at once as will remedy the evils which
threaten this fair Territory in the manner outlined in this memorial."
Thereupon a response was made by the Secretary, dated August 2, 1869, and di-
rected to the Hon. G. L. Shoup, governor, Bois^ City, Idaho, which, after acknowl-
edging the receipt of the resolutions, stated that a full reply to the questions might
be found in the provisions of the appropriation act of October '^ 1886, which was
then and there quoted, and in regard to which the Secretary went on to state :
''This is the law of to-day, unreversed, unrepealed, and in full force. You per-
ceive its vast extent and the immense consequences that will follow therefrom in the
direction that your resolution points unless there be further action in regard thereto
by Congress. It follows necessarily that the speculators, corporations, or other per-
sons referred to in the resolution are under the effect of this law and unable to obtain
the advantages that you say they are seeking. Unless the law is repealed or the
President opeus the lands to settlement under the homestead laws the Government
must have and will take eventually absolute control of every acre of arid land that
may be redeemed by the system of reservoirs, canals, and ditches, as provided in the
appropriation act mentioned. The subsequent appropriation act has not affected the
above provision.
"This, I think, is a full solution of the whole trouble between the Territory of
Idaho and Utah, and parties entering upon the lands in thither Territory will be sub-
jected to the superior title and further control of the United States."
In consequence of this correspondence, as promised therein and under what was
deemed a pressing necessity, a circular was prepared by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, under direction of the Secretary, and distributed to the regis-
ters and receivers of United States district land offices, under date of August 5, 1889,
in which it was held :
" That the object songht to be accomplished by the foregoing provision (being that
cited in the resolution of the Senate) is unmistakable. The water sources and the
arid lands that may be irrigated by the system of national irrigation are now re-
served to be hereafter, when redeemed to agriculture, transferred to the people of
the Territories in which they are situated for homesteads. The act of Congress and
common justice require that they should be faithfully preserved for these declared
purposes.
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''The Btatate provides that all lands which may hereafter be designated or selected
by the (Geological Survey as sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigating par-
poses, and all lands made susceptible of irrigation by snch reservoirs, ditches, or
canals, are, since ttte passage of said act, absolutely reserved firom sale as property of
the United States, and shall not be subject after the passage of the act to entry, set-
tlement, or occupation until further provided by law or the President, by proclama-
tion, may open said lands to settlement.
" Neither individuals nor corporations have a right to make filings upon any lands
thn^reserved, nor can they be permitted to obtain control of the lakes and streams
that are susceptible of uses for irrigating purposes.
"You will therefore immediately cancel all filings made since October 2, 1888, on
such sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigating purposes and all lands that
may be susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals, whether made
by individuals or corporations, and you will hereafter receive no filings upon any
such lands.
**This order yon will carry into effect without delay."
A copy is herewith transmitted.
This has been the construction held since, and under jt large portions of the public
survey have been designated by the Director of the Geological Survey to be set apart
for reservoirs, ditches, etc., amounting to many thousand acres.
Upon the receipt of the Senate resolution, and in order that there might be no fhture
misunderstanding as to the validity of the conHtrnction by the Secretary, he asked
and obtained first the opinion of the assistant attorney-general assigned to his depart-
ment as to the construction to be placed upon the act, which was given, and there-
upon the matter wae further presented to the Attorn ey-Gtoneral of the United States,
who has rendered his opinion, and states his couclusious in the following words :
** The object of the act is manifest. It was to prevent the entry upon, and the set-
tlement and sale of, all that part of the arid region of the public lands of the United
States which could be improved by general systems of irrigation, and all lands
which might thereafter be designated or selected by the United States surveys as
sites for the reservoirs, ditches, or canals in snch systems. Unquestionably, it would
seriously interfere with the operation and purpose of the act if the sites necessary
for reservoirs in snch plan of irrigation could be entered upon by homestead settlers.
So, too, it would be obviously unjust if, pending the survey made with a view to
their segregation for improvement by irrigation, these lands could be entered upon
and settled as arid lands of the United States. It was, therefore, the purposs of
Congress by this act to suspend all rights of entry upon any lands which would come
witl\;n the improving operation of the plans of irrigation to be reported by the
Director of the Geological Survey under this act. Language could|hardly be stronger
than are the words of the act in expressing this intention : *Ail the lands which may
hereafter be designated or selected,' etc., ' are from this time henceforth hereby
reserved from sale,' etc., ' and shall not be subject after the passage of this act to en-
try,' etc., ' until further provided by law.' There can be no question that if an entry
was made upon land which was thereafter designated in a United States survey as a
site for a reservoir, or which was by such reservoir made susceptible of irrigation, the
entry would be invalid, and the land so entered upon would remain the property of
the United States, the reservation thereof dating back to the passage of this act.
" The far-reaching effect of this construction can not deprive the words of the act
of their ordinary and necessary meaning. The proviso that 'the President, at any
time in his discretion, by proclamation, may open any portion or all of the lands,' so
reserved, was the legislative mode of modifying and avoiding the far-reaching effect
of the act, whenever it should appear to the Executive to have too wide an opera-
tion. Entries should not be permitted, therefore, upon any part of the arid regions
which might possibly come within the operation of this act."
Thus it appears that the Attorney-General fully sustains the opinion of the assist-
ant attorney-general and the action of the Secretary heretofore had.
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Copies of these several opinioDS are also transmitted.
The Secretary is not called npon to express his views farther than upon the con-
stmction he has placed npon this act ; bnt he asks the privilege to say that he deems
that this matter is one of snoh magnitude and of snoh vital interest to the people in-
habiting or who may heroafter inhabit these vast regions, that if the Senate and
House of Representatives do not as a body fully concur in the pnrpose of this law
they should take the business in hand without delay to so modify it as they may deem
the public interests require ; as otherwise there may be the greatest losses on the one
hand to persons who, ignorant of the law or disregarding the same, settle npon these
lands, or npon the other vast and valuable properties that should be controlled by
the Government for reservoirs, ditches, etc.
In this connection I beg leave to refer the Senate to the report recently made by
the Committee on Arid lands and Irrigation, and espeeially to so much thereof as Is
set forth in the minority report in relation to this subject, which has been submitted
to the Director of the Geological Snrvey, and I believe meets with his approval.
Very respectfully,
John W. Noblk,
Secretary,
The President of ths Senate.
Department of Justice,
Washingt4m, D, C.,MayU4, 1890.
Sir: By a letter of April 21, 1890, you submitted for the consideration of the Attor-
ney-General a letter from the Commissioner of the Greneral Land Office, raising the
question: ''Whether, under the act of October 2, 1888 (25 Stats., 526), the reserva-
tion extends to such tracts as may be actually selected as sites, etc., becoming opera-
tive only after such selection, or whether the reservation, from disposal, extends
from the date of the act to the entire expanse of the arid region, as mor^particularly
defined in the communication.''
Since your letter of April 21 you have transmitted also the opinion of Mr. Assistant
Attorney-General Shields, assigned to your Department, to whom you referred the
question. After an examination of the law and of the considerations presented by
Mr. Shields in his opinion, I have to say that I fully concur with him in his eoncln-
sious and the grounds stated therefor ; and that, in view of the lucid opinion which
he has rendered, it is unnecessary for me to give extended reasons for snoh oouoar-
rence.
The section of the law which presents the question of construction referred by yon
to this Department is found in the snndry civil appropriation act of 1888, under the
appropriations for the United States Geological Survey. The subjeot is introduced
by an appropriation of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, " for the
pnrpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can
be redeemed by irrigation, and the segregation of the irrigable lands in such arid re-
gion, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary
for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation." The Director of the Geologi-
cal Snrvey is then required to make a report to Congress on the first Monday in De-
cember in each year, showing how the money appropriated has been expended. Then
follows the particular language which is the subject for construction :
*'And all the lands which may hereafter be designated or selected by such United
States surveys for sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigation purposes, and
all the lands mad^ susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals are
from this tiipe henceforth hereby reserved from sale as the property of the United
States, and shall not be subject, after the passage of this act, to entry, settlement, or
occupation until further provided by law : Provided^ That the President, at any time
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in his diflcretioDy by proclamation, may open any portion or all of the lands reserved
by this provision to settlement under the homestead laws/'
The object of the act is manifest. It was to prevent the entry upon and the settlement
and sale of all that part of the arid region of the pablio lands of the United States
which oonld be improved by general system of irrigation, and all lands which might
hereafter be designated or selected by the United States snrveys as sites for the
reservoirs, ditches, or canals in such systems. Unqnestionably, it would serionsly
Interfere with the operation and purpose of the act if the sites necessary for reservoirs
in SQoh plan of irrigation conld be entered upon by homestead settlers. So, too, it
would be obviously unjust if, pending the survey made with a view to their segrega-
tion for improvement by irrigation, these lands should be entered upon and settled
as arid lands of the United States. It was, therefore, the purpose of Congress, by
this act, to suspend all rights of entry upon any lands which would come within the
improving operation of the plans of irrigation to be reported by the Director of the
Geologrical Survey under this act. Language could hardly be stronger than are the
words of the act in expressing this intention :
''All the lands which may hereafter be designated or selected,'' etc., ** are from this
time henceforth hereby reserved trom sale," etc., *' and shall not be subject after the
passage of this act to entry," etc., " until further provided by law."
There can be no question that if an entry was made upon land which was there-
after designated in a United States survey as a site for a reservoir, or which was by
such reservoir made susceptible of irrigation, the entry would be invalid, and the
land so entered upon would remain the property of the United States, the reservation
thereof dating bacli: to the passage of this act.
The far-reaching effect of this construction can not deprive the words of the act of
their ordinary and necessary meaning. The proviso that '* the President at any time
in his discretion, by proclamation, may open any portion or all of the lands" so re-
served, was the legislative mode of modifying and avoiding the far-reaching effect of
the act whenever it should appear to the Executive to have too wide an operation.
Entries should not be permitted, therefore, upon any part of the arid regions which
might possibly come within the operation of this act.
All the papers accompanying your request, together with the opinion of Mr. Assist-
ant Attorney-General Shields, are herewith returned .
Very respectfully,
Wm. H. Taft,
Acting Attame^'Qeneral.
The Secbbtary of the Intbriok.
DSPARTMBNT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LaND OfFIOE,
Washington, D, C, ApHl 2, 1890.
Sir : I have had under consideration the matter of the public lands in what are
known as the arid regions affected by the provisions of the act of Congress of October
2, mSB (25 Stats., 526), and the departmental circular of August 5, 1889 (9 L. D., 282).
The portion of that act applicable to such lands reads as follows, viz :
** For the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the United
States 6an be redeemed by irrigation and the segregation of the irrigable lands in such
arid region, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works
necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and the prevention
of floods and overflows, and to make the necessary maps, including the pay of em-
ploys in field and in office, the cost of all instruments, apparatus, and materials, and
all other necessary expenses connected therewith, the work to be performed by the
Ctoological Survey under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, the sum of one
hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. And the Director
of the Geological Survey, under the supervision of theSecretary of the Interior, shall
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make & report to Congress on. the first Monday in December of each year, showing in
detail how the said money has been expended, the amount osed for actual survey and
engineer work in the field in locating sites for reservoirs, and an itemized account of
the expenditures under this appropriation. And all the lands which may hereafter
be designated or selected by Buoh United States surveys for sites for reservoirs,
ditches, or canals, for irrigation purposes, and all the lands made susceptible of irri-
gation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals, are from this time henceforth hereby
reserved from sale as the property of the United States, and shall not be snbject after
the passage of this act to entry, settlement, or occupation until further provided by
law : Providedj That the President at any time in his discretion, by proclamation,
may open any portion or all of the lands reserved by this provision to settlement
under the homestead laws.''
The following Is qiioted from the circular of August 5, 1889, in reference to the snb-
ject, viz :
" The object sought to be accomplished by the foregoing provision is unmistakable.
The water sources and the arid lands that may be irrigated by the system of national
irrigation are now reserved to be hereafter, when redeemed to agriculture, trans-
ferred to the people of the Territories in which they are situated for homesteads. The
act of Congress and common justice require that they should be faithfully preserved
for these declared purposes.
** The statute provides that all lands which may hereafter be designated or selected
by the Geological Survey as sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigating pur-
poses, and all lauds made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or
canals are, since the passage of said act, absolutely reserved from sale as property of
the United States, and shall not be subject, after the passage of the act, to entry,
settlement, or occupation until further provided by law, or the President, by procla-
mation, may open said lands to settlement.
'* Neither individuals nor corporations have a right to make filings upon any lands
thus reserved, nor can they be permitted to obtain control of the lakes and streams
that are susceptible of uses for irrigating purposes.
** You will, therefore, immediately cancel all filings made «ince October 2, 1888, on
such sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigating purposes, and all lands that
may be susceptible of irrigation by such teservoirs, ditches, or canals, whether made
by individuals or corporations, and you will hereafter receive no filings upon any
such lands.
** This order you will carry into eflfect without delay."
The lands affected as aforesaid may be considered as embraced in two classes : First,
such as have been actually selected by the proper authority for sites for reservoirs,
ditches, or canals for irrigation purposes, and such as may hereafter be selected in
the progress of the surveys ; and second, all the lands being in possibility of such
selection for sites, or of being made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs,
ditches, or canals.
With regard to the first class, the act of selection or designation by authority in
the progress of the surveys, and the proper promulgation thereof, would determine
to what particular tracts the reservation should apply, and there would thereafter be
no difficulty for all persons interested, whether as officials or otherwise, to avoid want
of conformity in their proceedings, so far as such difficulty might arise from uncer-
tainty in this respect. And it scarcely need be suggested that prior to such selection
there can be no certainty in the matter, and that no reservation is possible, under
the terms employed in the statute, limited to particular tracts, in the absence of any
certainty as to the particular tracts to be afi^ected thereby.
With regard to the second class, two possible views present themselves as to the
operation of the statute: First, that the reservation extends to such tracts as may be
actually selected as sites becoming operative only after such selection, and such
as may be found to be susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or
canals after the latter are actually made or brought into existence, and as may be
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selected or designated by proper authority after this is fonnd to be the case, firom
time to time, in the progress of the sarveyS) while as regards all other lands in the
arid regions, the laws for the disposal of the pnblio lands generally remain operatiye,
notwithstanding the provisions of the particular statute ; or, second, that a resenra-
tion from disposal of the entire expanse within the arid regions, embracing some
lands that are naturally arable and susceptible of profitable cultivation, or that may
be irrigated by individual effort, went into immediate effect as soon as said act was
approved, so as to render invalid and subject to cancellation any filings, locations, or en-
tries thereafter allowed as being for the land that might possibly, in the course of time,
be selected for sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals, or that might be rendered suscep-
tible of irrigation, thereby embracing possible appropriations at public sale, agricult-
ural private entries or locations, pre-emption settlements, entries, or locatione, home-
stead settlements or entries, timber and stone entries, timber-culture entries, town-lot
eutries, town-site entries, scrip locations, mineral entries, desert-laiid entries, coal
land entries, selections under Congressional grants for school indemnity, or for other
purposes; in fine, every description of disposals provided for in the system of land
laws in a region of country extending approximately from the one hnndredth degree of
longitude on the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west, and from the British Posses-
sions en the north to Texas and Mexico on the south, as indicated on a map of the
arid regions, in the office of the Geological Survey, and including in whole or in part
he States of California, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, and the Territories of Arizona, Idaho,
New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
The practical enforcement of the latter construction of this statute would suspend
the operation of the land system of the land laws in general, so far as regards the
extent of country mentioned, thereby affecting important interents, or would require,
in case any disposals are allowed therein, that it should be at the risk of the parties
seeking title, leading to an indefinite suspension of issue of patents, with an accumu-
lation of unsettled claims, and corresponding uncertainty of rights, until it may be
determined, in course of time, whether the tracts, title to which is sought t > be ac-
quired, are affected by the statute as sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals, or as
made susceptible of irrigation thereby ; until this is determined, applications to enter
can not be understandingly acted upon.
Already, in the progress of the business of this office, numbers of entries are found
to have been made within the arid regions sinco October 2, 1888, thus presenting the
question of their approval or other treatment as a practical one. I have directed
that until further orders no entries be approved for tracts lying within the arid
regions where the right had its inception subsequent to the passage of the act of
October 2, 1888.
In view of the premises, I have the honor to submit this important matter to the
Secretary, ae the official head of the Department, exercising directory and supervi-
sory authority over its operations. I respectfully ask directions how I shall proceed
therein with reference to the language used in the circular of Augast 5, 1889, as
above quoted.
lam of opinion that the first view presented above, as to the operation of the ^4tatute,
«hould be adopted and acted upon, allowing of disposals sub<)eqnently a;! w 41 as prior
to its approval, except as it regards tracts actually selected anddeHignated by proper
authority for sires for reservoirs, ditches, or ca'ials, or actually selected and dt^sig-
nated by proper authority as susceptible of irrigation from such reservoirs, ditches,
or canald, and the selection and designation thereof made known in the usual man-
ner for the information and guidance of all concerned.
If this view should not meet the approval of the Secretary, then I am of th^ opin-
ion that the alternative course would require that the country deetned to be inulnded
within the law as arid regions should be indicated by declared limits, and iiistrno-
tions given to the district land officers to cease operations so far as regards disposals
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within such limits until the conditions as to liability to disposal shall be definitely
ascertained, and that some rule should be given for proper proceedings with reference
to entries, filings, or locations found to have been made within the declared limits
after the approval of the act of October 2, 1888, before or subsequent to the promul-
gation of the departmental circular of August 5, 1889.
I respectfully suggest, in view of the public interests involved, that there should
be no unnecessary loss of time in passing npon the points calling for action, as above
stated.
Very respectfully,
Lewis A, Groff,
Comvii98ionei\
The Secrktary of the Interior.
DipPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Waahingtonf May 24, 1890.
Sir : In accordance with your request I have considered the questions presented
by the Commissioner of the General Land Office in his let ter of April 2, 1890, asking
for instructions as to the proper action to be taken to carry into efiiect the provisions
of the act of Congress of October 2, 1888 (25 Stat., 505-526), relating to the survey and
segregation of the arid lands of the United States, and would respectfully submit the
following:
Said act, after making an appropriation for the purpose of investigating the extent
to which the arid region is susceptible of irrigation, and the segregation of the irri-
gable lands in such arid region and for the selection of sites for reservoirs, further
provides as follows :
''And all the lands which may hereafter be designated or selected by such United
States surveys for sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals f( r irrigation purposes, and all
the lands made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals are from
this time henceforth hereby reserved from sale as the property of the Uni ted States, and
shall not be subject, after the passage of this act, to entry, settlement, or occupation
until further provided by law : Provided, That the President, at any time in his dis-
cretion, by proclamation, may open any portion or all of the lands reserved by this
provision to settlement under the homestead laws."
A brief statemeut of the history of the legislation under consideration may render
assistance in arriving at a conclusion upon the questions now presented.
On February 13, 1888, the following resolution was agreed to by the Senate of the
United States :
**Reaolvedf That the Secretary of the Interior be requested to inform the Senate if,
*in his opinion it is desirable, to authorize the organization in bis Department known
as the Geological Survey, to segregate lands of the public domain capable of irriga-
tion, in the sections of the United States where irrigation is required, from other
lands, and to lay out suitable places to be reserved for reservoirs and rights of way
for ditches and canals for the purposes of irrigation. " (Record, 1888, Fiftieth Con-
gress, Vol. 19, pt. 2, p. 1137.)
In response to this resolution the Secretary forwarded to the Senate a report of the
Director of the Geological Survey recommending that such action should be taken,
and that without delay. (Cong. Record, 1888, Fiftieth Congress, vol. 19, pt. 3, p.
2636,S.Ex. Doc. 134.)
By Joint resolution approved March 20, 1888 (25 Stat., 618), it was resolved :
** That the Secretary of the Interior, by means of the Director of the Geological
Survey, be, and he is hereby, directed to make an examination of that portion of the
arid regions of the United States where agriculture is carried on by means of irriga-
tion, as to the natural advantages for the storage of water for irrigating purposes,
with the practicability of constructiug reservoirs, together with the capacity of the
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Btreams aiul the cost of coDstmotion aad capacity of reservoiis, and snch other fftcta
as bear on the qnestion of storage of water for irrigating purposes.''
The Senate on March 27, 1888, passed a resolution directing the Secretary of the
Interior to report what appropriation was necessary to carry into effect the said Joint
resolution. (Cong. Record, 1888, vol. 19, pt. 3, p. 8428.) In response to this the Sec-
retary recommended an appropriation of $250,000. {Id., p. 4078, S. Ex. Doc. 163.)
When the sundry civil appropriation bill was being considered in the Senate an
amendment was made thereto by which there was to be appropriated ^'for the pur-
pose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can be
redeemed by irrigation," etc., the sum of |250,000, and it was provided in said amend-
ment,^' and all lands which may be designated for reservoirs and canals for irrigation
shall be reserved as the property of the United States, and shall not be subjected to
entry or settlement until hereafter provided for by law." (Cong. Record, 1888, vol.
19, pt. 8, p. 7012.) This amendment was amended in the House and the bill was
finally passed and approved in its present shape.
It is quite clear that it was the intention to withhold from sale and to withdraw
from entry, settlement, or occupation all lands needed for the purposes of reservpirs,
canals, or ditches, and also all lands that might be irrigated by means of the system
of irrigation contemplated, which included all arid lands susceptible of irrigation.
An examination of the Congressional Record shows that this provision of the law
was debated at considerable length, and that i^ was clearly understood it contem-
plated a withdrawal from the date of the passage of the law' of all lands needed for
or to be benefited by the scheme of irrigation contemplated. The discussion in the
House upon this proposition is found in part 9, vol. 19, of the Congressional Record,
Fiftieth Congress.
Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, after stating that the first proposition was the appropria-
tion of a sum of money, said :
'*The next branch, and by far the most important— in fact the important proposi-
tion of this amendment— is the reservation now, at the time of the jiassage of the
law, of lands that may hereafter be needed at any time for reservoirs or for irrigat-
ing canals, and all lands that may be irrigated by virtue of the establishment of res'"
ervoirs hereafter." (P. 8506.)
On page 8507 the following appears :
*<Mr. HoLMAN. If the gentleman will allow me to interrupt him, I would like to
ask this question : Does the gentlemen intend hereby that all lands hereafter, at any
time hereafter, that may be found necessary for the sites of the reservoirs, canals, or
ditches, or that may be made valuable by irrigation through snch sources, shall be
reserved from entry, and that entries made hereafter in the interval shall not be op-
erative ?
'* Mr. Symes. That is the intention of the amendment and its effects as it now
stands. I know that the Senate conferrees will agree to the first part of the amend-
ment ; that is to say, from now on all lands selected for reservoirs, ditches, or canals
shall be absolutely reserved, and that if A, B, or C in the mean time locates upon
them that he shall be subject to be dispossessed, if the sites are necessary for such
purposes."
It appears the House amendment was formulated by Mr. Symes, of Colorado, and
offered by Mr, Breckinridge, of Kentucky.
Mr. Breckinridge, in the course of his remarks on the amendment, said (p. 8513) :
** I take the liberty of accepting Mr. Stone's explanation of my amendment.
'* What does this amendment propose f It proposes to appropriate |250,000 to in-
augurate and prosecute extensive surveys in what is known as the arid region of the
country, to locate its boundaries accurately, to ascertain where natural reservoirs
may be established for the storage of water supplies, to ascertain the extent and loca-
tion of these desert or arid lands which may be reclaimed or restored to agricultural
uses by a system of irrigation, and to suggest the best and most practicable methods
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of irrigation. It provides also tliat all the lands that may be utilized and made valu-
able by irrigation shall, after the passage of this bill, be withdrawn from sale or
other disposition until such time as Congress shall provide for disposing of them.
That is the sum and substance of the amendment. That is the whole proposition.
" Mr. Speaker, so far as I am concerned, and so far as this qnestion is concerned,
that is the whole of it."
Afterwards Mr. Symes, on behalf of the friends of the measure, moved to amend the
amendment by striking out the words '^ and all lands made susceptible of irrigation
by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals," which amendment was by the House rejected
(p. 8515). It was sought tiO substitute for the House amendment an amendment
which provided—
'' That during the pendency of measures now before Congress affecting the public
lands the entry of lands known and designated as desert lauds shall be suspended ;
but this provision shall not prevent the entry of such lands under the homestead law^
except that section 2301 of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to such entries'' (p.
8542).
This proposition was also defeated and the amendment first offered was adopt-ed.
When the bill was again considered in the Senate, Mr. Teller, in explanation of the
House amendment, said :
" I should like to say that on an examination of the bill, hastily made, it appears
that the House has amended the proposition for reservoirs l»y striking out |150,000,
leaving the appropriation $100,000 instead of $250,000, as theSenate proposed. They
have also reserved not simply the reservoirs which we had reserved from occupation,
but all the lands that are susceptible of irrigation below.
''That has evidently happened because the House could not have understood what
the real result would be. That is equivalent to saying in the State of Colorado, if a
reservoir should be located on the head of a stream, thnt all the land below that should
be reserved. There are thousands of acres that may still be irrigated by the waters
of the stream. It would practically withdraw in Colorado and in some parts of Nevada
all of what we call the arid lands, all the lands that have to be irrigated. That part
will not do. It will be no benefit to the western country at all. If you put that in
we should be worse off than if we had nothing at all. It would be worse than a dis
agreement to the Senate amendment.''
The Senate disagreed to the amendment proposed by the House, and the bill was
referred to the conference committee, where it was finally agreed to, with the addition
of the proviso, ** that the President may, at any time in his discretion, by proolama-
tion, open any portion or all of the lands reserved by this provision to settlement
under the homestead laws," and the report of the committee was concurred in both
by the Senate and the House (pp. 8809 and 889r^).
This act direct^s the withdrawal of two classes of lands : First, those needed or to
be designated for sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals, without regard to their char-
acter as arid or non-arid lands ; and, second, arid lands made susceptible of irriga-
tion by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals. It is important that no lands other than
those embraced in these two classes should be withdrawn from disposition under the
general land laws. The difficulty lies in determining what lands are embraced by
these two classes. One point, however, seems so clear that there can be no doubt as
to the proper course to pursue in relation thereto. The act of March 3, 1877, com-
monly known as the " desert-land law," relates only to the class of lands withdrawn
from disposition by the act under consideration ; that is, arid lands susceptible of
irrigation, and it therefore necessarily follows that no entries under the said desert-
land law could be properlj allowed after the passage of the act under consideration'
and hence that from and after October 2, 1888, the operation of the desert-laud law
was suspended and must so remain until further action by Congress. Notice of this
should, it seems to ipe, be promptly given by the Commissioner of the General Land
Office, if such action has not already been taken, and steps should be taken for the
cancellation of any such entries as may have been made since October 2, 1888.
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Id the matter of giving notice of tlie provisions of this law and iesuing sach iu-
etractions as v^ould prevent the allowance of filings or entries on such lands as are
thereby reserved, no step seems to have been taken until August 3, 1889, when you
addressed a communication to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, inclosing
a telegram from the governor of Idaho in regard to said law with the following di-
rections :
^* You will communicate without delay the provisions of the statute therein cited
to the land officers in all the arid districts for their information and guidance, and
with direction that all lands falling within the language of the statute are reserved
by force thereof until opened by the President."
In accordance with these directions the circular of August 5, 1889 (9 L. D., 282),
referred to and quoted from in the Commissioner's letter of April 2, 1890, was pre-
pared and promulgated. This circular has, as I am informed, been modified to the
extent of allowing filings and entries subject to the provisions of said act.
Any entry or filing and any settlement made within the territory of the arid region
after October 2, 1888, is liable to defeat by reason of the lands covered thereby being
subsequently selected as sites for reservoirs, ditehes, or canals, or being rendered sus-
ceptible of irrigation by means of such reservoirs, canals, or ditches a8 may be con-
structed in pursuance of the scheme of irrigation contemplated by said act. In order
to relieve the settlers in that great territory of the doabt and uncertainty resnltiug
from this condition of affairs, the work of selecting and designating the particular
tracts coming within the provisions of this law should be prosecuted with all possi-
ble diligence. In the meantime, and until this work can be accomplished, the lands
contemplated by the act should, both for the accomplishment of the ends aimed at
and for the protection of individuals, be designated and pointed out as segregated
from the public domain. Whether there is sufficient information in the possession of
the Bureau of Geological Survey to make it possible to designate certain portions of
the arid region, as subject to said act and certain other portions as not in any event
falling within the provisions thereof, I am not in possessioil of such information as
would enable me to express an opinion. It seems to have been thought, while the
measure was pending before Congress, that such a course would be found feasible.
Mr. Oates, in the course of his remarks, made use of the following language :
**I see from the testimony of Mr. Powell that the surveys which have been jnade
and are now in progress, while not distinct enough for him to locate and designate
all the different catchment basins and to segregate them one from another, yet they
are distinct enough so that the neighborhood in which they lie, and where, in all
probability, the reservoirs would be located, can easily be ascertained. The with-
drawal of these districts from the market is all that seems to me to be necessary at
this time.'' (Congressional Record, 1888, part 9, page 8481.)
In view of the evident intention of this legislation, loan not concur with the Com-
missioner of the General Land Office in his recommendation of the adoption of the
view ''that the reservation extends to such tracts as maybe actually selected as
sites, becoming operative only after such seleotiun, and such as may be found to be
susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals, after the latter are ac-
tually made or brought into existence, and as may be selected or designated by proper
authority after this is found to be the case, from time to time, in the progress of the
surveys ; while^ as regards all other lands in the arid regions, the laws for the dis-
posal of public lands generally remain operative, notwithstanding the provisions of
the particular statute," this view, aH he say9, '' allowing of disposals subsequently, as
well as prior to the approval" of the statute, ''except as it regards tracts actually
selected and designated by proper authority for sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals,
or actually selected and designated by proper authority as susceptible of irrigation
from such reservoirs," etc.
To adopt this view would, in my opinion, be to defeat the object of the act by allow-
ing available sites and locations for reservoirs to be appropriated by individuals or
corporations, to prevent which the reservation was inserted in the law. This view
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can i)ot, I think, be adopted, although the only alternative would, as said by the
Commissioner, '* require that the country deemed to be included within the law as
arid regions should be indicated by declared limits and instructions given to the
district land officers to cease operations so far as regards disposals within such limits
until the conditions as to liability to disposal shall be definitely ascertained." This
action will not, however, be necessary to the fnll extent intimated by the Commis-
sioner if the information in the possession of the Geological Survey is sufficient to
make it possible to say that certain territories within the larger limits of the arid
region are excepted from the operation of this law. No entries, filings, or locations
made within the arid regions since October 2, 1888, should be allowed to go to patent
or be perfected until it shall be satisfactorily determined that the lands involved are
not within the reservation created by the act under consideration. There seems to
be no escape from these conclusions, in view of the broad and comprehensive terms
of the enactment. Whatever may be the opinion of the officials of the Department
as to the expediency of the legislation, it is clearly their duty to comply with the
statute, leaving to Congress the remedy by future laws. If, after the withdrawal of
these arid lands, it should be found that portions of them were not properly with-
drawn, or are not within the terms of the act, or for any other reason, the President
may at any time, in his discretion, by proclamation, open any portion or all of the
lands reserved to settlement nnder the homestead law.
The letter of the Commissioner of the General Land Office is herewith returned.
Very respectfully,
Geo. H. Shields,
AsHatant Aitomey-Genen^aJ,
The Secretary op the Interior.
[Telegram.]
Department of the Interior,
WaBhington, August 3, 1889.
Hon. G. L. Shoup,
Governor, Boiai City, Idaho :
I have last received the resolution adopted by the constitutional convention, trans-
mitted by you to me through telegram. A full reply to this question I think is found
in the following provision of the appropriation act of October 2, 1888, which reads as
follows :
*^ For the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid regiou of the United
States can be redeemed by irrigation and the segregation of the irrigable lands in such
arid region, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works
necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and the prevention
of floods and overflows, and to make the necessary maps, including the pay of em-
ployes in field and in office, the cost of all instruments, apparatus, and materials, and
all other necessary expenses connected therewith, the work to be performed by the
Geological Survey, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, the sum of one
hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. And the Director
of the Geological Survey, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, shall
make a report to Congress on the first Monday in December of each year, showing in
detail how the said money has been expended, the amount used for actual survey
and engineer work in the field in locating sites for reservoirs, and an itemized account
of the expenditures under this appropriation. And all the lands which may there-
after be designated or selected, by such United States surveys for sites for reservoirs,
ditches, or canals for irrigation purposes, and all the lands made susceptible of irri-
gation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals are from this time henceforth hereby
reserved from sale as the property of the United States, and shall not be subject after
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the passage of this act to entry, settlement, or occapation until farther provided by law :
Provided, That the President may at any time, in his discretion, by proclamation, open
any portion or all of the lands reserved by this provision to settlement nnder the
homestead laws/'
This is the law of to-day, unreversed, unrepealed, and in fall force. Yon perceive
its vast extent and the immense consequences that will follow therefrom in the direc-
tion that your resolution points unless there be farther action in regard thereto by
Congress. It follows, necessarily, that the speculators, corporations, or other persbns
referred to in the resolution, are under the effect of this law and unable to obtain
the advantages that yoa say they are seeking. Unless the law is repealed, or the
President opens the land to settlement under the homestead laws, the Government
mast have and will take eventually absolute control of every acre of arid land that
may be redeemed by the system of reservoirs, canals, aud ditches, as provided in the
appropriation act mentioned. The subsequent appropriation act has not affected the
above provision.
This, I think, is a full solution of the whole trouble between the Territory of
Idaho and Utah, and parties entering upon these lands in either Territory will be
subjected to the saperior title and farther control of the United States.
I have directed the Commissioner of the Land Office to notify the local officers of
this law and prohibit entries of the kind you specify, and I have also ordered the
Superintendent of the Geological Survey to proceed rapidly with the surveys on Bear
River. The statnte, you observe, reserves these lands from the date thereof, and the
Assistant Attorney-General of this Department agrees with me that it is constitu-
tional and effective to the extent expressed. I fully appreciate the conflict of rights
that must arise between Territories and States, but those all can and will be better
regulated by national control than local conflicts and contradictory legislation.
I fear that the statute to which I have referred is not known in the Western Terri-
tories to the extent at least that it ought to be, and I will have your dispatch and
this published to-day in full.
JOHK W. NOBLB,
Secretary.
Department of thb Interior, General Land Office,
Washington, D. C, JuffU8t 5, 1889.
Gentlemen : Information having reached this Department that parties are endeav-
oring to make fllings on arid lands reserved for reservoirs, irrigating ditches, and
canals, and for the purpose of controlling the waters of lakes and rivers and their
tributaries in the arid regions, I am directed by honorable Secretary of the Interior
to call your special attention to the act of Congress approved October 2, 18;P8 (U. S.
Statutes at Large, vol. 25, page 526), as follows :
''For the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the
United States can be redeemed by irrigation, and the segregation of the irrigable
lands in such arid region, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hy-
draulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water for Irrigation and
the prevention of floods and overflows, and to make the necessary maps, including
the pay of employes in field and in office, the cost of all instruments, apparatus, and
materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, the work to be per-
formed by the Geological Survey, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior,
the sura of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
And the Director of the Geological Survey, under the supervision of the Secretary of
the Interior, shall make a report to Congress on the first Monday in December of
each year, showing in detail how the said money has been expended, the amount
used for actual survey and engineer work in the field in locating sites for reservoirs,
and an itemized account of the expenditures under this appropriation. And all the
lands which may hereafter be designated or selected by such United States surveys
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for sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigation purposes, and all the lauds
made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals, are from this
time henceforth hereby reserved from sale as the property of the United States, and
shall not be subject, after the passage of this act, to entry, settlement, or occupation
until further provided by law : Provided, That the President at any time in his dis-
cretion, by proclamation, may open any portion or all of the lands reserved by this
provision to settlement under the homestead laws."
The object sought to be accomplished by the foregoing provision is unmistakable*
The water sources and the arid lands that may be irrigated by the system of national
irrigation are now reserved to be hereafter, when redeemed to agriculture, transferred
to the people of the territories in which they are situated for homesteads. The act
pf Congress and common justice require that they should be faithfully preserved for
these declared purposes.
The statute provides that all lands which may hereafter be designated or selected
by the Geological Survey as sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigating pur-
poses, and all lands made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or ca-
nals are, since the passage of said act, absolutely reserved from sale as property of
^he United States, and shall not be subject after the passage of the act to entry, set-
tlement, or occupation until further provided by law, or the President by proclama-
tion may open said lands to settlement.
Neither individuals nor corporations have a right to make filings upon any landa
thus reserved, nor can they be permitted to obtain control of the lakes and streams
that are susceptible of uses for irrigating parposes.
Yon will therefore immediately cancel all filings made since October 2, 1888, on such
sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigating purposes, and all lands that may
be susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals, whether made by
individuals or corporations, and yon will hereafter receive no filings upon auy such
lands.
This order you will carry into effect without delay.
Respectfully,
W. M. Stone,
Aciing Commissioner.
Registers and Receivers,
United States Land Offices,
Memorial of the Idaho Constitutional Convention to the Secretary of the Interior, praying
that the Government of the United States take steps toward redeemifig the arid lands of
the West.
Whereas the Government of the United States has taken steps toward redeeming
the arid lands of the West ; and
Whereas for the purpose of establishing a thorough system of storage reservoizB,
canals, and irrigating ditches, engineering parties are making surveys for this pur-
pose; and
Whereas it is learned that the plans of the Government are threatened to be
thwarted by speculators having men to follow up these surveys to make filings on
lands, leservoirs, and canal locations ; and
Whereas it is learned that one corporation is seeking to seize and control Bear Lake,
together with large bodies of land adjoining its shore-lines, with the intention of
making that lake a great storage basin ; and
Whereas the same corporation is seeking to control the waters of Bear Lake, to-
gether with all the waters of Bear River, with the tributaries thereof, and gulches, for
a distance of about 150 miles in Idaho, with a view of monopolizing all these waters
to their own uses, one purpose of which is that they may dispose of a very large por-
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tion thereof within the Territory of Utah, greatly to the injury of Idaho, and against
the interests of her people : Therefore be it
Resolved, That it was not contemplated by the Government or the Territory of
Idaho, that any such monopolizing of the lauds and waters of Idaho should be per-
mitted.
Beeolved, That steps should be taken'at once to preyeut such seizures of reservoirs
and canal locations and the same be preserved for the people.
Sesolvedf That Bear Lake should be retained for a public storage reservoir, and the
lands immediately adjoining the lake should be withdrawn from market to aid in
carrying out such purpose. '
Besoleed, By the Idaho constitutional convention, now assembled at the capital of
said Territory, having the good of the general public and the good of the people of
Idaho, with the prosperity of the Territory at heart, do hereby memorialize the Depart-
ment of the Interior to take such action at once as will remedy the evils which
threaten this fair Territory in the manner outlined in this memorial.
Reaoleedf That this memorial be spread upon the journal of this convention, and a
certified enrolled copy thereof forwarded by the governor to the Secretary of the
Interior.
Idaho Territorial Constitutional Convention,
Bais^ City, Idaho, August 2. 1889.
We hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the memorial as adopted by
the constitutional convention of Idaho Territory on the 2d day of August, A. D.^
1889.
Wm. H. Clagett,
President
Attest ;
Chas. H. Reed,
Secretary/
On the 25th of July, 1890, in reference to the subject of an inquiry
from the Hon. John H. Reagan, of the [Jnited States Senate, I made
the following report to the Hon. Secretary of the Interior, viz :
Department of tsb Interior, General Land Office,
Washington, D. C July, 25, 1890.
Sir : I have had the honor to receive from the Hon. John H. Reagan, of the United
States Senate, a telegram dated at El Paso, Tex., the 20th instant, addressed to him
by Edgar B. Brouson, president El Paso National Bank, in reference to the arid landa
affected by the act of Congress of October 2, 1888 (Stats. 25, p. 526), on which Mr.
Reagan has made an endoi'sement dated the 22d instant, which reads as follows, viz i
" Respectfully referred to Hon. Lewis A. Groff, Commissioner of the General Land
Office, Washington, D. C. Yon will see what is said about the officers of the Land
Office receiving entries for land in the arid regions up to June. Can this be
tmef'
The statement referred to is that '* up to the end of June, the land officers of that
district (southern New Mexico) were receiving the money of entrymen and issuing
receipts therefor for any variety of filing on Government land desired to be made."
In reply I have to state that the act of October 2, 1888, in question, provides for
surveys to be made in the arid regions and for designations or selections of lands for
reservoirs, etc., and for ascertaining lands susceptible of irrigation thereby, which
work was to be performed by the Director of the Geological Survey, under the direc-
tion of the Secretary of the Interior, and for the reservation of such lands. No action
was taken under said act in this office, under the last administration, no reports of
operations thereunder having been received from the Director of the Geological Sur-
vey, and it apparently having been considered unnecessary to take action looking to
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the reservation of the lands, until after action hyhim for the desif^nHtion or selection
of sites for reservoirs, etc., and for ascertaining the lands made snsceptible of irriga-
tion thereby. No action was taken until August 5, 1889, when a circular was issued
by the Acting Commissioner of this office, under the direction of the Secretary, in
which tbe district land officers were directed to " immediately cancel all filings made
since October 2, 1888, on such sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigating
purposes, and all lands that may be susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs,
ditches, or canals, whether made by individuals or corporations,*' and that they
ehould ** thereafter receive no filings upon any such lands."
It will be seen that when this circular was issued there was, speaking generally, no
specification of sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals, nor any specification of lands
made snsceptible of irrigation thereby that were to be reserved, nor was there any
order of reservation of the public lands generally embraced in their districts.
Under these circumstances letters were received from the district land officers, state
iug that they were at a loss to understand their duty in the premises and asking to be
instructed as to the specific lands to be reserved, and, in reply, they were referred to
the terms of the statute and the circular mentioned, and informed that any person
making entries would do so at their own risk.
These things occurred before the present incumbent of the office of Commissioner
of the General Land Office entered upon duty.
There has never been any order to the registers and receivers of the district land
offices to withhold all lands from entry or filing within what are understood to be the
arid regions, but all entries or filings so allowed are understood to be made at the risk
of the parties making them. On the Ist of April last I issued an order that no such
«ntry or filing should be approved in this office for patenting until further orders,
and on the 2d of the same month I addressed a communication to the head of the
Department stating the case and asking for instructions how further to proceed
under said act.
Thus the matter stands, and in connection therewith I would refer to the Execu-
tive Document No. 136, Fifty-first Congress, first session, from which it appears that
the attention of Congress was called to the subject by the Secretary under date of
the 3d June last.
In view of the foregoing I have no reason to doubt that entries are being allowed
at the district offices of land not appearing to be embraced in selections for reservoirs,
or made susceptible of irrigation thereby, at the risk of the parties as aforesaid.
Very respectfully,
Lewis A. Groff,
CofMni$s%oner,
The Sbcretary of the Iktbrior.
Copies of a letter from this office to the honorable Secretary of the
Interior of August 8, 1890, and another to him of the 9th of the same
mouth, with a copy of the instructions to registers and receivers of
district land offices of the latter date, are added as showing subsequent
proceedings in the matter, viz :
Department of the Interior, General Land Office,
Washingtanf D, C, August 8, 1890.
Sir : I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 4th instant, referring to my
report to yon under date of the 25th nltimo, in reply to a letter to me from the Hon. J.
H. Reagan, of the United States Senate, in reference to the puhlic lands in the arid
regions as affected hy the act of Congress of October 2, 1888, and the Departmental
circular of August 5, 1889 (9 L. D., 282).
Tour letter directs that aU disposals of public lands within the arid regions be
stopped, and that all filings or entries of any such lands made subsequent to the pas-
sage of said act, be canceled.
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In coDformity tberewitli, instractions are now being prepared in this office to be
addressed to tbe proper district land officers of sncb a cbaracter as to prevent tbe
acceptance by them of any filings or entries of land witbin the arid region, any of
which lands are liable to be selected as sites for reservoirs, or ditches, or canals for
irrigation purposes, and to be made susceptible of irrigation thereby.
I am in possession of a map, furnished me by the Director of the Geological Survey
Jnly 1, 1890, sbowing in a general way the limits of the arid regions contemplated in
said act. This map I will act upon as authority, unless otherwise directed. I find,
however, that the out-boundaries of the arid regions shown on that map by lines
separating the arid regions from lands adjoining and beyond, which it is to be as-
sumed are arable without irrigation, and therefore not comprehended within the
provisions of the act for a reservation from disposal are on a small scale, and not
sufficiently definite to indicate the particular lands in the manner in which disposals
are provided for, viz : by sectional subdivisions, townships, and ranges, so as to ad-
mit of accepting or rejecting entries, or filings applied for, accordingly as they may
be judged to fall upon one or the other side of such out-boundaries. I have there-
fore to request that the Director of the Geological Survey be asked to furnish this
office with proper maps, in reference to such localities, of such definite character as
to enable me to decide upon the claims of applicants when it is made a question
whether the precise land applied for lies within the limits of the arid regions or not.
It is suggested that the desired action be taken, without unnecessary delay, in order
that the matters involved may be placed in a condition to be promptly disposed of.
Very respectfully,
Lewis A. Groff,
Commissioner.
The Secretary of the Interior.
Department of the Interior, General Land Office,
Washingtorif D. C, Attg'U8t9, 1890.
Sir : In reference to the public lands within the arid regions of the United States,
as affected by the act of October 2, 1888 (25 Stat., 526), and circular of August 5,
1889, being the subject of yonrs of the 4th instant and mine of yesterday's date, in-
forming you that instructions were being prepared to the district land officers on the
sabject, in compliance with your directions, I have now the honor to inclose herewith
a copy of the instructions referred to.
Very respectfully,
Lewis A. Groff,
Commissioner.
The Secretary of the Interior.
Department of the Inthrior, General Land Office,
WashingUmj D. C, August 9, 1890.
Gentlemen: On the 5th of August, 1889, a circular was addressed to you, by direc-
tion of the honorable Secretary of the Interior, calling your attention to the provisions
of the act of October 2, 1888 (25 Stat., 526), relative to the lands in the arid regions
of the United States and instructing you thereunder, which reads as follows, viz:
"Information having reached this Department that parties are endeavoring to
make filings on arid lands reserved for reservoirs, irrigating ditches, and canals, and
for the purpose of controlling the waters of lakes and rivers and their tributaries' in
the arid regions, I am directed by the honorable Secretary of the Interior to call your
special attention to the act of Congress approved October 2, 1888 (U. S. Statutes at
Large, vol. 25, page 526), as follows :
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'-'For the purpose of investigatiDg the extent to which the arid region of the
United States can be redeemed by irrigation and the segregation of the irrigable
lands in such arid region, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hy-
draulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and the
prevention of floods and overflows and to make the necessary maps, inclndtng the
pay of employes in tield and in office, the cost of all instrument^, apparatus, and ma-
terials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, the work to be per-
iJormed by the Geological Survey, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior,
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
And the Director of the Geological Survey, under the supervision of the Secretary of
the Interior, shall make a report to Congress on the first Monday in December in each
year, showing how the said money has been expended, the amount used for actual
survey and engineer work in the field in locating sites for reservoirs, and an itemized
account of the expenditures under this appropriation. And all the lands which may
hereafter be designated or selected by such United States surveys for sites for reser-
voirs, ditches, or canals for irrigation purposes, and all the lands made susceptible of
irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals, are from this time henceforth hereby
reserved from sale as the property of the United States, and shall not be subject,
after the passage of this act, to entry, settlement, or occupation until further pro-
vided by law : Provided, That the President at any time in his discretion, by proela-
mation, may open any portion or all of the lands reserved by this provision to settle-
ment under the homestead laws.'
'^The object sought to be accomplished by the foregoing provision is unmistakable-
The water sources and the arid lands that may be irrigated by the system of national
irrigation are now reserved to be hereafter, when redeemed to agriculture, transferred
to the people of the Territories in which they are situated for homesteads. The act
of Congress and common Justice require that they should be faithfully preserved for
these declared purposes.
''The statute provides that all lands which may hereafter be designated or selected
by the Geological Survey as sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigating pur-
poses, and all lands made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or
canals are, since the passage of said act, absolutely reserved from sale as property of
the United States, and shall not be subject, after the passage of the act, to entry, settle-
ment, or occupation until further provided by law, or the President, by proclamation,
may open said lands to' settlement.
** Neither individuals nor corporations have the right to make filings upon any lands
thus reserved, nor can they be permitted to obtain control of the lakes and streams
that are susceptible of uses for irrigating purposes.
" Yon will, therefore, immediately cancel all filings made since October 2, 1888, on
such sites for reservoirs, ditches, or canals for irrigating purposes, and all lands that
may be susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches, or canals, whether made
by individuals or corporations, and yon will hereafter receive no filings upon any such
lands.
' <*This order you will carry into effect without delay.'*
It is found that, notwithstanding said act and the instructions given thereunder by
said circular, numerous filings and entries of lands within the arid regions appear to
have been permitted to be made subsequent to October 2, 1888, the date of the
passage of the act. These entries and filings were made at the risk of the parties.
Under date of the 2d of April, 1890, the matter of the proper course of proceeding
under said act was submitted by this office to the honorable Secretary of the Interior
with a request for instructions therein. It appears that the subject was laid by the
Secretary before the honorable Attorney-General for his opinion, who, under date of
the 27th of May, 1890, gave au opinion, from which the following is an extract, viz :
''The object of the act is manifest. It was to prevent the entry upon and the set-
tlement and sale of all that part of the arid region of the public lands of the United
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States which could bo improved by general system of irrigatioD, and all lands which
might be designated or selected by the United States surveys as sites for the reser-
voirs, ditches, or canals in such systems. Unquestionably it would seriously inter-
fere with the operation and purpose of the act if the sites necessary for reservoirs in
such plan of irrigation could be entered upon by homestead settlers. So, too, it
would be obviously unjust if pending the survey made with a view to their segrega-
tion for improvement by irrigation, these lands should be entered upon and settled
as arid lands of the United States. It was, therefore, the purpose of Congress by
this act to suspend all rights of entry upon any lands which would come within the
improving operation of the plans of irrigation to be reported by the Director of the
Geological Survey under this act. Language could hardly be stronger than are the
words of the act in exprcsstug this intention.
" * All the lands which may hereafter be designated or selected, etc., are from this
time henceforth hereby reserved from sale, etc., and shall not be subject after the
passage of this act to entry, etc., until further provided by law.'
*' There can be no question that if an entry was made upon land which was there-
after designated in a United States survey as a site for a reservoir, or which was by
such reservoir made susceptible of irrigation, the entry would be invalid, and the
land so entered upon would remain the property of the United States, the reservation
thereof dating back to the passage of this act.
"The far-reaching effect of this construction can not deprive the words of the act
of their ordinary and necessary meaning. The proviso that the President at any
time in his discretion, by proclamation, may open any portion or all of the lands so
reserved was the legislative mode of modifying and avoiding the far-reaching effect
of the act, whenever it should appear to the Executive to have too wide an opera-
tion. Entries should not be permitted, therefore, upon any part of the arid regions
which might possibly come within the operation of this act.' "
These proceedings having consumed some time, I am now in receipt of the Secre-
tary's letter of the 4th instant, in which, after alluding to previous correspondence
and the opinion of the Attorney-General from which an extract is above quoted, he
directs that this office shall proceed to carry the law " into effect, according to the
terms and instructions already existing from the Secretary," referring to the instruc-
tions contained in circular of August 5, 1889, above given.
I have to call your special and particular attention to the foregoing order from the
head of the Department, and to direct in reference to the subject matter that you pro-
ceed strictly in accordance therewith. Althotigh, in any case, there be at the time
no designation of the land involved therein as a selection for a site or sites for reser-
voirs, ditches, or canals for irrigation purposes, or as land thereby made susceptible
of irrigation, that fact is not to be considered as showing that the land is open to
entry, as although not yet so selected, it may be liable to such selection under said
act, which is held to withdraw all lands so liable from disposal.
You, will, therefore, permit no entry or filing of any lands lying within the arid
regions that may be included in your land district, on any condition whatever, but
will promptly reject any application that may be made for such an entry or filing,
with the usual right of appeal. You will take any necessary action to ascertain the
proper limits of the arid regions, and whether any lands in your districts are included
therein, and if you have any doubt thereof, you may submit the question to this
office for specific instructions. *
Any entries or filings of lands within the arid regions which may have already
been allowed, subsequent to the passage of the act of October 2, 1888, and reported
to this office, ^ill be taken up and acted upon according to the principles indicated
herein, as soon as practicable, in the course of official business.
Very respectfully,
Lewis A. Groff,
Commissioner.
Registers and Receivers,
United States Land Offices,
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Since the foregoing statement was prepared Congress has intervened
by its act approved August 30, 1890, repealing so much of the act of
October 2, 1888, as withdraws the land in the arid region from entry,
occupation, and settlement, with certain exceptions and qualifications,
and in view thereof a circular of the 5th September, 1890, was issued
by this office under direction of the Secretary of the Interior, a c6py of
which is given as follows, viz:
Department of the Interior, General Land Office,
Waahington, D. C, September 5, 1890.
Gentlemen: I am directed by the honorable Secretary of the Interior, by letter
of September 4 L'590, to call your attention to the attached copy of that portion of the
act of Congress approved August 30, Ib90, which repeals so much of the act of Octo-
ber 2, 1888 (25 Stat., 526), as withdraws the lands in the arid region of the United .
States from entry, occupation, and settlement, with the exception that reservoir sites
heretofore located or selected shall remain segregated and reserved from entry or set-
tlement until otherwise provided by law, and reservoir sites hereafter located or
selected on public lands shall in like manner be reserved from the date of the loca-
tion or selection.* The circulars of this office of August 5, 1889, and August 9, 1890,
are hereby rescinded.
Entries validated by this act will be acted upon in regular order, and all patents
issued on entries made subsequent to this act and on entries so validated, west of the
one hundredth meridian, will contain a clause reserving the right of way for ditches
and canals constructed by authority of the United States.
Your particular attention is called to that portion of the law which restricts the
acquirement of title under the land laws to 320 acres in the aggregate.
You will require from all applicants to file or enter under any of the land laws of
the United States, an affidavit showing that since August 30, 1890, they had not filed
upon or entered, under said laws, a quantity of land which would make, with the
tracts applied for, more than 320 acres. Or, provided the party should claim by
virtue of the exception as to settlers prior to the act of August 30, 1890, you will re-
quire an affidavit establishing the fact.
As soon as practicable a blank form of affidavit wiJl be furnished you.
Very i-espectfiiUy,
Lewis A. Groff,
Registers and Receivers. ' Commissioner,
United States Land Offices.
* For topographic surveys iu various portions of the United States, three hundred
and twenty tive thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be expended west of
the ouehmulredtli meridian; and ho iiiucb of the act of October second, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-eight, entitled ^*Au act making appropriations (or saudry civil ex-
penses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and eighty-nine, aud for other purposes," as provides for the withdrawal of the pub-
lic lands from entry, occupation, and settlement, is hereby repealed, and all entries
made or claims initiated m good faith and valid but for said act, shall be recognized
and may be perfected in the same manner as if said law had not been enacted, except
that reservoir sites heretofore located or selected shall remain segregated and reserved
from entry or settlement, as provided by said act, until otherwise provided by law,
and reservoir sites hereafter located or selected on public lands shall in like manner
be reserved from the date of the location or selection thereof.
No person who shall, after the passage of this act, enter upon any of the public
lands with a view to occupation, entry, or settlement under any of the land laws,
shall be permitted to acquire title to more than three hundred and twenty aeres in
the aggregate under all of said laws ; but this limitation shall not operate to curtail
the rignt of any person who has heretofore made entry or settlement on the public
lands, or whose occupation, entry, or settlement, is validated by this act : Provided^
That in all patents for lands hereafter taken up under any of the land laws of the
United States, or on entries or claims validated by this act, west of the one hundredth
meridian, it shall be expreseed that there is reserved from the lands in said patent
described, A right of way theroon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority
of the United States.
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PROTECTION AND DISPOSAL OF THE PUBLIC LANDS.
The heariugs and important labor performed during the year by the
special service division and its agents in the field are shown in detail
in Appendix P.
FRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIES.
In the investigation of fraudulent land entries and otherwise in the
important duty of protecting the public lands from illegal appropria-
tion during the year sixty-one agents were employed ; their aggregate
length of service was four hundred and nineteen months and eighteen
days, being equivalent to the employment of thirty-four agents for the
entire year and one agent tor eleven months and eighteen days.
The number of reports received from special agents and acted on are
as follows :
PendlDg June 30, 1889 273
Received daring the year 2,027
Totol 2,300
Acted on daring year 1,785
Leaving pending Jane 30, 1890 515
To special agents, during the year, were referred 2,684 cases for inves-
tigation, 243 hearings wereorderj^, 437 cases were held for cancellation,
638 were canceled, and 1,909 were examined and passed. Final action
was taken in 5,938 cases, and 7,025 cases of all descriptions in the dif-
ferent States shown in the following table were pending June 30, 1890.
Awaiting action are 482 records of hearings and 448 registers' and
receivers' reports and miscellaneous letters. During the year there
were received 16 reports of unlawful inclosures of {Public land, involv-
ing, as far as ascertained, 115,455 acres. In 8 cases suits were recom-
mended, and in 8 cases the fences are reported as having been removed.
Cases pending
in Dimsion P June 30,
1890.
1
1
1
1
3
8
60
18
862
21
56
1
" 1
83 ! 4
1
20
10
16
173
11
5
3
11
68 14
14 4
1 I
1 4
5 ....
1
42
190
7
4
1
1
1
28
39
40
14
21
?a
215
76
165
491
8
17
n
Final homestAAds
2 '28
1
15
1
2 2
6 ....
31 ....
s ■
1
CommntMl homesteadB
Pre-emption— cash
Pre-emption — declaratory state- 1
menu
Tlml)er*oaltare entriee
19
6
17
8
....
Final timber-oultare en tries ........
1
Timhftr and utone landa - -
1.566
31
16
7
•
Beeert lands ,
25
U
'25'
50
24
Finftl HA«Art; land
I
....i ---
Private cash
1
23
22
17
1
[
1
....
1
Mineral land | ....
Coa^l lapd - r- , « T
"" 1
Coalland — declaratory statements . . - <-
. .
1
Total '
121
100
«
2,671
583
61 125 < 2
235
80
33
211
1?
1
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Cases pending in Division P June 30, 1890.
I'l
1 I'l
i
P
82
19
20
1AA
28
10
1
68
7
26
i
11
loo
h»
IS
267
4
14
2
3
14
86
1
i
1
7
1
Homesteads
3 14
18 i 6
2
1
16'....
8 ....
10
77
189
JU
TT«
0 6
90 K
11 • AA7
Commuted homesteads
8
84
.....
458
Pre-emptlon-^Kjash
, 14
42 :::i884
6 , 87 U
2 ' 4 1
6 1 ....
2.177
115
ments
!«
4 L...I 21 1
Timber-col tn re entries
1
16 ....
!.--.
40 1 24
240
Final timber-onltnre entries .......
e
Timber and stone lands
!"■
58
4M
2,100
Desert lands
25 ;
1
45
16
'I
22
8
16
Final desert land
11 1
12
"i ''
160 IM
Private cash
88
MinerHlland
6 .
.....| ........
2
15
47
Coal land
:::. v
,
«!■-
70
Coal land— declaratory statements .
1 !...
1
61
TV
i 1
Total
16 75
108 1
773 200
207
896
117 680 1 20
m
7,025
TIMBER TRESPASS.
In the protection of the public timber lands daring the year fifty-
five timber agents were employed, aggregating a length of service of
three hundred and fifty-one months and fourteen days, which was equiv-
alent to the employment of twenty-nine agents for one year and one
for three mouths and fourteen days«
Special agents during the year reported three hundred and ten cases
of timber trespass, involving public timber and the products therefrom
valued at $3,(»67,151.66. The following is a statement of the sums re-
covered during the fiscal year by the Government from suits for timber
trespass :
Accepted nnder propositions of settlement |12, 692. 42
On settlements accept«d dnring previons years 275.00
Sales of timber and lumber 4,552.40 -
Recovered through legal proceedings* 83,420.50
$100,940.32
In addition to the above, there were pending on July 1, 1890, as far
as reported, two hundred and eighty-two civil suits for the recovery of
$14,794,286.55 for timber reported a« having been unlawfully cut from
the public lands, and three hundred and six criminal prosecutions for
violations of the timber laws.
THE FOBESTS OP TDE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
A careful examination has been recently made of the annual reports
of this office covering the years from July 1, 1881, to June 30, 1889, in-
clusive, for the purpose of ascertaining what has been accomplished
*The reports of tbe United States attorneys for a majority of the districts had not
been reeeived at date of this report.
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daring that time, throagh legal proceedings, in the way of enforcing
the laws for the protection of public timber. The resalt of that exami-
nation is conclusive npon two points :
First. That the most valuable timber on the public lands is being
rapidly exhausted.
Second. That the several laws relating to public timber now in force
are utterly inadequate to properly protect either the public forests from
unlawful appropriation or the interests of the settlers engaged in de-
veloping the country, to whom the use, to a certain extent, of public
timber is essential.
It has been demonstrated in years past that the spoliation of the
public timber lands is not altogether the work of lawless depredators
who appropriate public timber in .defiance of law, but great areas are
yearly swept for purposes of speculation under cover of the several acts
granting the use of public timber to aid in the construction of railroads,
and of the act of June 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 88), in the interests of residents
in mineral districts. Experience has shown that these acts, while un-
doubtedly fostering important interests and enterprises in certain direc-
tions, have unintentionally, of course, opened a door to unlicensed waste
and destruction of the public timber.
Besides what has been written in Government reports, and spoken in
the debates in Congress, the subject of forestry and the protection of
the forests of the Government has been widely discussed in the periodi-
cals of the country, and the theories advanced have been many and
conflicting.
It has been advanced by some writers that all the public timber lands
of the country should be withdrawn at once from entry, and the Army
assigned to the duty of guarding and protecting them, and- that this
being done,) then under Congressional authority a commission should
be appointed by the President to investigate the whole subject thor-
oughly in all its relations to the prevention of conflagrations, the water
supply, floods, and the various interests of the i>eople, and make report
to Congress as the basis of proper legislation.
Upon the wisdom of appointing such a commission I have now
nothing to say. My duty has been to make reports- on the subject in
connection with proposed legislation by Congress, and therein my
views have been expressed. They are, in brief, that a law should be
enacted repealing statutes found to be objectionable or inoperative,
inhibiting from entry the rugged, stony, or other timber lands not
arable and along the mountain sides and at the sources of water
supply, except under the mining laws, or by such form of necessary ap-
propriation, by miners and settlers, in such regions, as that allowed by
the town-site laws, allowing the free use of timber by those settling up
the country to the extent only of their actual needs, and inviting con-
current action of State and Territorial legislatures looking to the pro-
tection of^ the timber generally from waste and destruction, or from
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being removed or monopolized for purely specalative ends. This coarsOi
it seems to me, would be more in accordance with the necessities of a
growing country than to pursue a severely restrictive policy, depending
principally, perhaps, upon the Army, scattered far and wide, to act as
a constabulary force, and appealing, as it would, to the sentiments of
all good and patriotic citizens, interested, as such citizens are, in the
welfare of their particular neighborhoods, and having pride in their
respective Commonwealths, as well as their common country, be
better calculated to lead to concurrent legislation by the State and
Territorial law-makers for the protection and husbanding of the timber
and enforcement of the legal provi^sions adopted to that end.
The precise condition of the matter and my views more in detail, are
given in the following report to you on Senate bill 1394, made on the
10th of March last;
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, by reference from the Department, for
report in dapUcate and return of papers, of a oommanication from Hon. P.B. Plumb,
chairman of Committee on Public Lands of the United States Senate, trantimitting
Senate bill 1394 ** Authorizing the citizens of Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Montana, Nevada, and the Territories, to fell andromove timber on the public domain
for mining and domesiie purposes," and requesting the views of the Department
thereon.
I have carefuUy considered the provisions of the proposed bill ; and while it is in
some respects an improvement on the several laws relating to the public timber now
in force, yet it falls far short of accomplishing the results that are required to meet
the demands of the people and provide for the public interests. I can not, therefore,
recommend its adoption.
The bill grants specific privileges as to the use of the public timber in certain named
States and Territories, by citizens thereof, which are not granted to the citizens in
other States, but which are specifically denied to such citizens by laws of the United
States now upon our statute books.
This, in my opinion, is an unjust discrimination.
To make this fact clearly understoed, I respectfully call attention to the provis-
ions of the proposed bill, and the provisions of other laws now in force on the same
subject. The proposed bill applies specifically, and by name, to the States of Colo-
rado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Nevada, and to the Territories of
New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho ; and grants to citizens of the
United States, who are bona fide residents in either of said States or Territories, the
privilege of procuring from public mineral lands such timber as they may require for
peiHoual UHe, or as they may desire to manufacture into " lumber or fuel for sale for
naiuiug, quartz- milling, building, agricultural or other domestic purposes."
It further provi<lo8 that a bona fide settler upon the public lands, ''or a mine ope-
rator or manufactoror " or any other citizen of the United States who is a bona fide
resident of any of the States or Territories named, shall have the privilege of procnr-
in^ from any other public land in the State or Territory of which he is a resident, any
timber, fuel, and fence material, free of cost, for his own use, or for sale upon the
payment of a certain license fee and rate per acre for the land from which the timber
is felled and removed.
The privilege8 granted by this proposed act to the citizens of the States and Terri-
tories named therein are not ji^i'anted to the citizens of any other State.
The act of June 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 89), applies specifically and by name to the
States of California, Oregon, and Nevada, and Washington Territory (now State);
and section 4 thereof prohibits citizens of the United States and bona fide residents
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in either of the States or the Territory named, from catting or removing tjlmber from
any of the public lands therein '^ with intent to export or dispose of the saLDe."
Section 2461, United States Revised Statutes, the only law applicable to ttie States
and Territories not named in either of the acts referred to, prohibits the .citizens
thereof from procuring timber from any public lands, with intent to export, dispose
of, use, or employ the same in any manner whatsoever other than for the use of the
Navy of the United States.
The great injustice and hardship imposed by this law can not be too forcibly urged
upon the attention of Congress.
At the first glance section 2461' appears to apply, or to have been intended to apply
only to Navy reserved lands; but a careful reading will show tliat it applies to all
public lands, and that its provisions are the most stringent and restrictive that could
possibly have been enacted.
After prohibiting the cutting of timber on reserved lands it provides as follows:
'* or if any person shall cut, or cause or procure to be out, or aid or assist or be em-
ployed in cutting any live-oak or red cedar trees, or other timber on^ or shall remove,
or cause or procure to be removed, or aid or assist, or be employed in removing any
live-oak or red cedar trees or other timber^ from any other lands of the United States,
acquired, or hereafter to be acquired with intent to export, dispose of, iMe, or employ
the same in any manner whatsoever, other than for the use of the Navy of the United
States,'' he shall be fined and imprisoned.
The italicising is my own for the purpose of calling your special attention to the
application and stringency of the law.
In nearly every public-land State and Territory, poor, hard-working laboring men,
who have been compelled to cut timber t>o procure the means of a bare subsistence
for themselves and families, have been arrested, convicted, fined, and imprisoned for
catting and removing timber from vacant, unappropriated, and unreserved non-
mineral public land in violation of section 2461, U. S. Revised Statutes.
It is true that iu some localities the sympathies of the people are so strong and in
other localities the timber is an article of such pablio necessity, that it is impossible
to convict a man for violation of said section, even if caught in the very act and the
proof is overwhelming ; so that to eome minds the retention of that law upon oar
statutes is deemed quite immaterial. But in other sections of our country I am sat-
isfied that men have been convicted upon information filed under this same law in a
spirit of revenge or in spite ; and in other sections that it has been used as a political
factor, and citizens have been convicted thereander for the sole purpose of disfran-
chising them.
The effect of the proposed law if enacted and approved, iu conjunction with the
laws now on our statute-books, would be as follows :
Citizens of Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,
Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho would have the privilege of procuring timber
from public lands for personal domestic use without cost, and for manufacture and
sale upon payment of a license fee and rate per acre of the ground eut npon.
Citizens of California, Oregon, and Washington, who are miners or agrioulturists,
would have the privilege of procuring timber from public lands to improve their
claims or support their improvements, but would be prohibited from selling or dis-
posing of same. Citizens who are not miners or agriculturists would have no author-
ity to procure timber from public lands for any purpose.
Citizens of Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the other
public-land States not hereinbefore named, would have no right or privilege to pro-
oare timber from the public lands /or any purpose whatever, either for personal ase or
for sale.
If it is proposed to legislate for the exclusive benefit of the mining interests and
mineral districts of the United States, the States of California, Oregon, and Washing-
ton should be named in the bill in addition to those now named therein, as large por-
tions of those States also contain valuable and remnnerative mines.
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I am, howeyer, anable to see any good reason wby a citizen of the United States
who is engaged in thejemanerative business of extracting the ores from the earth
shonld bor accorded any greater privilege than is granted to a citizen who is engaged
in the i/n remunerative business of extracting other properties therefrom in the rais-
ing of grain and other life-giving products. There can be no good reason why the
mining industry of our country, in which thousands of men have acquired fortunes,
should be fostered and encouraged by the Government to any greater extent than the
farming industry, in which the citizens engaged, with but few exceptions, acquire
only a precarious livelihood. To the contrary, it seems to me the interests of the
farmer are paramount, and should receive first consfderation.
Section 1 of the bill under consideration, which authorizes the indiscriminate fell-
ing and removing of timber from strictly mineral lands, is, in my opinion, prejudicial
to the public good. Mineral principally exists in the mountainous regions, the head,
waters of the streams and rivers which irrigate the valleys below. To insure the
gradual melting of the snow and ice which accumulate in the mountains in the win-
ter months, and secure the valleys from the inundations which must result from the
sudden melting of the suow and ice, nature has provided the trees and undergrowth
of the steep mountain-sides as a protection against the fierce sun's rays. The inun-
dations and floods which year after year devastate portions of our country are the
inevitable resnlt of the destruction of this natural protection. The bill nnder con.
sideration appears to be intended for a re-enactment and enlargement of the provis-
ions of the act of June 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 88), which authorizes the indiscriminate de-
struction of timber upon mineral or mountainous lands, which the welfare and best
nterests of the whole country demand should be protected ; and section 2461, U. S.
Revised Statutes, rigidly protects the timber growing ijpon non- mineral or agricult-
ural lands, where such protection is not so necessary. The timber growing in such
localities is not required to graduate the melting of the snow and ice, and it has to
be removed anyway before the ground can be prepared for the cultivation of crops.
The payment of a license-fee and stumpage at a certain rate per acre for the priv-
ilege of felling and removing the timber from the public lands, as provided for in
the proposed bill, should not, in my opinion, be required of any citizen of the United
States. j
The Government is not a corporation nor individual owning the public lands. It
merely holds them in trust; and, like the trustees of an estar^e, it should permit such
use of the proceeds thereof by the persons in whose interest it is acting as will enable
them to subsist and maintain themselves.
Timber and its products are an absolute public necessity. In many sections of onr
country the timber upon the public lands is the only available source of supply, and
to prohibit its legitimate and judicious use in such sections for buildings, manufact-
uring purposes, or for developing the natural resources of the country is to deprive
our citizens of the use of their heritage and retard settlement.
We have laws upon our statute-books for the encouragement of settlement upon
the public lands by citizens who desire to acquire homes; yet we also have a law upon
our statute-books (Section 2461, U. S. Rev. Stat.) which prohibits them, if rigidly and
strictly enforced, from making use of the one great necessity in perfecting f\nch homes.
My principal objections to the bill under consideration are: It does not go far
enough ; it proposes legislation as to public timber for only a small portion ot onr
country, whereas it is demanded for our whole country; it authorizes the cutting of
timber from lands which the public good requires should be protected ; and it requires
payment for an article of public necessity. I am heartily in favor of the enactment
of a general law relative to the public timber which will absolutely prohibit it or its
products from exportation from our shores ; which will protect and preserve the trees
and undergrowth in localities where it is necessary to insure a proper and equable
water-supply and prevent or check the inundations and floods which so frequently
devastate portions of onr country, and at the same time permit the free, legitimate,
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and jndicioas nse of public timber in other localities for all purposes required in
building up and settling our common country and developing its natural resources.
It is useless to enact laws to prohibit the use of an article of absolute necessity ,
upon a judicious nse of which the growth and prosperity of our country largely de-
pend. If the exportation of timber, and the destruction of trees and undergrowth
upon the mountain slopes can be preyented, and other public timber left free and
open to all subject to proper restriction, there will, in my opinion, be far less destruc-
tion and waste than is now going on through unlawful appropriation and forest fires.
Competition will reduce the price of lumber and thus benefit our whole people, and
no more timber will be cut than is required, as there will be no market or demand
for it
The laws now in force are discriminating and unjust. Under them the owner of a
mine in Arizona, from which he may be receiving an income of |100 a day, can pro-
cure all of the timber necessary in developing and operating said mine from the pub-
lic mineral lands without cost except for the felling and removing, while the owner
of a farm in Minnesota, upon whose labors we are depending for our daily bread, can
not procure a stick of timber from any public land ^' with intent to use or employ
the same in any manner whatsoever" — not even to build a fire with which to keep
the warmth of life in his body if he be freezing— without violating the law.
The necessity for a general law to remedy this evil can not be too strongly urged
upon Congress.
I respectfully suggest that it should contain provisions against —
The exportation of public timber or its products from the United States ;
The felling or removing of any timber from any reserved lands of the United States
and from mountainous regions and other woodlands at or in the vicinity of the head-
waters or sources of prominent streams and rivers, which for climatic, economic, or
public reasons should be held permanenily as forest reserves, exception being made
in favor of individual settlers or locators of mines in such localities for personal ne-
cessities and for use in developing the natural resources, and then only upon written
authority of the Secretary of the Interior.
Bona fide settlers upon the public lands, surveyed or unsurveyed, who are complying
with the laws and the rules and regulations of this office relative thereto, should be
fully protected in their rights and from any cutting or removing of timber from their
claims by others without their consent.
Locators or miners, settlers upon the public lands, and all other citizens of the
United States, bona fide residents of either of the States or Territories, should be au-
thorized to fell and remove from any vacant, unoccupied, and unreserved public
lands, mineral or non-mineral, surveyed or unsurveyed, so much timber as may be
actually required for their individual use or necessities, but not for sale or disposal:
Provided^ That no growing trees less than S inches in diameter shall be felled or re-
moved ; that all of each tree cut that can be made use of shall be ptilized, and that
the tops and lops shall be piled up or disposed of so as to prevent th^ spread of forest
fires.
Provision should be made for a legitimate procuring of timber from the public
lauds by mill-men and lumber manufacturers, for sale, to the extent necessary to
supply the community in the location in which they operate, with the lumber and
other timber products needed in the settlement thereof, to encourage its growth and
prosperity, and to develop its natural resources. This can probably best be provided
for by prohibiting the felling and removing of timber from the public lands for sale
or for purposes of manufacturing into timber products for sale or disposal, except in
accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the local legislatures of the
several States and Territories not in confiict with the laws of the United States.
Legislation of a similar character (Sees. 2319, 2324, and 2338, U. S. R. S.) has been
enacted relative to mineral lands, and I can see no good reason why the same princi-
ple can not be applied to timber lands. The inhabitants in each of the several States
and Territories certainly have the highest interest in the prosperity thereof, And their
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own welfare would require that they shoald confine the felling and removing of tim-
ber within jadicioas boands. I suggest this matter to your consideration for the
reason that the resources and requirements of the widely separated sections of onr
country are so varied that it would be extremely difficult to enact a general law
relative to the procurement of public timber for purposes of sale which would apply
with equal force and justice to each State and Ten-itory.
FOREST FIRES.
Probably the most serious cause of the destruction of the public timber
is fire. Especially is this the case in the mountainous country in the
arid regions of the far West, and in some of the other portions of the
west, where conflagrations yearly sweep through vast areas, destroying
some of the finest forests in the world.
Since in nearly every instance these tires arise from carelessness, if not
willful neglect to take the most ordinary precautions to prevent them^
legislation looking to their prevention is urgently needed and such leg-
islation has been recommended to Congress.
FRAUDULENT TIMBER AND STONE LAND ENTRIES.
I have recommended, as will be observe<l abovie, that the policy of
selling the lands chiefly valuable for timber and stone be abandoned.
The act of June 3, 1878, providing for the sale of such lauds in Cali-
fornia, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington should be repealed. I have
found, as have my predecessors, that while it provides for entries of no
more than 160 acres in all, for the sole use and benefit of the entryman
or association of persons, it has been made the vehicle of speculative
and fraudulent appropriation from the beginning, through perjury and
subornation of perjury, in the interest of domestic and foreign syndi-
cates and speculators, and has caused the destruction of the forests
where most needed to husband the water supply and prevent floods.
I will not enlarge on this matter here, having indicated above the
general policy which, in my opinion, should prevail.
EespectfuUy submitted.
Lewis A. Groff,
Commissioner.
Hon. John W. Noble,
Secretary of the Interior.
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OF THE
BUSINESS OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE
BY DIVISIONS AND IN SURVEYING DISTRICTS
FOR THK
r
FISCAL YEAR BIDDING JUNE 30, 1890.
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DETAILED STATEMENT.
I A detailed statemeDt of the work performed in the General Land
Office and surveying districts daring the year is given under the follow-
ing heads:
1. B. Becorder's division.
2. C. Public lands division.
3. D. Private land claims division.
4. B. Surveying division.
5. F. Bailroad division.
6. G. Preemption division.
7. H. Contest division.
8. K. Swamp-laud division.
9. L. Draughting division.
10. M. Accounts division.
11. N. Mineral division.
12. P. Special service division.
13. Eeport of sai'veyor-general of Arizona.
14. Eeport of surveyor-general of California.
15. Report of surveyor-general of Colorado.
16. Report of surveyor- general of Dakota.
17. Report of surveyor-general of Florida.
18. Report of surveyor-general of Idaho.
19. Report of surveyor general of Louisiana.
20. Report of surveyor- general of Minnesota.
21. Report of surveyor- general of Montana.
22. Report of surveyor-general of Nevada.
23. Report of surveyor- general of New Mexico.
24. Report of surveyor- general of Oregon.
25. Report of surveyor-gen**ral of Utah.
26i Report of surveyor-general of Washington.
27. Report of surveyor-general of Wyoming.
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B.— RECORDER.
Work performed in division B during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
Letters pending Jaly 1, 1889 115
Letters received 21,242
Letters answered 11,055
Letters reqairing no answer '. 9,021
Letters referred 1,099
Letters pending June 30, 1890 , 182
Letters written 18.152
Pages of record covered by letters written 6,271
Circulars sent out 4,151
Copies furnished from patent records 3,859
Attorneys' cards received and answered 10, 141
Agricultural Patents.
Cases for patents .pending Jnly 1, 1889 4,551
Cases received 1... . 118,936
Cases patented as follows :
Cash patents 77,346
Homestead patents 36,928
Timber culture patents 2,266
Military patents 396
Surveyor-general's scrip patents 115
Supreme Court scrip patents 87
Agricultural-college scrip patents 20
Sioux half-breed scrip patents 13
Valentine scrip patents 6
Miscellaneous scrip patents - 70
Total 117,247
Cases approved and awaiting patent June 30, 1890 6, 240
Patents transmit ted 111,860
BBVOLUTIONABY BOUNTY LAND SCBIP.
[Acts of August 31, 1852, and June 22, 1860, founded on Virginia military land war-
rants granted for services in the war of the Bevolntion.]
Four claims of this description for 1,488|^ acres have been satisfied by
the issue of scrip. The number of such claims now pending is 313,
aggregating 102,4(^yg- acres.
The commutation into scrip of these Virginia military land warranto
is necessarily of slow progress, occasioned both by the lapse of time
since the same were allowed and issued and by the subsequent changes
of title by death or other causes, as well as the requisite care and cau-
tion necessary to be exercised in their examination and the reports on
the same.
These warrants were mainly issued to citizens of Virginia and other
Southern States, many of whom either lost, their lives during the rebel-
lion of 1861-^65, or were dispersed and scattered by the results of the
war, so as to render it a matter of very great difficulty for present claim-
ants to establish satisfactorily the '^ present proprietorship."
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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
There are oo perfected casen peuding, bat quite a uamber awaiting
the removal of small defects at present existing therein, whereupon the
same will be reported for final adjudication.
WAR OF 1812 WARRAIVTS.
[Aotof July 27, 1842.]
One hundred and sixteen warrants of this class were issued for 19,040
acres which appear to be still outstanding.
POBTERFIBLD WARRANTS.
[Actof AprilU, 1860.J
Two warrants of 40 acres each have been patented during the past
year. The original number of warrautn issued under this act, and aggre-
gating 6,133 acres, was subdivided into one hundred and fifty-three
warrants.
There appears to be still outstanding and unsatisfied thirty-six war-
rants of this class, each calling for 40 acres.
Condition of bounty-land huHnest under acts of 1847, 1H50, 1852, and 1855, showing ih€
issues and locations from the oommenoement of operations under said aots to June 30, 1890.
Grade of warrantB.
Namber
issued.
80,680
Acres em-
braced
thereby.
12 QO« AOO
Number
located.
70, 105
7,082
Acres em-
brnced
thereby.
12. 656, 800
283. 280
Number
oat-
standing.
Acres em-
braced
thereby.
Aotof 1847:
160aore8
1,575
501
252,000
40 acres
7, 583 ' 303,' 820
20,040
Total
88, 263 13, 212. 120
80,187 ' 19. 040. 080
2,076
272,040
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Act of 1860:
160 acres
27,443 4,390,880
57,714 4,617.120
103, 076 ; 4, 159, 040
26,868
56,340
100, 760
4, 208, 880
4, 507, 920
4, 030, 760
575
1,365
3,207
02,000
80 acres
100, 200
40 acres
128,280
Total
189,133 ! 13,167,040
183,986
12.837,560
5,147
320,480
Act of 18^2 :
160 acres
1.222 i 196,620
1 699 1 13fi fi20
1,194
101.040
28
33
186
4,480
2^640
80 acres
1, 666 : 133, 280
8,884 366,300
40 acres
9,070
362,800
7,440
Total
11,991
604,240
11 744 A7fl A80
247
14,560
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Actof 1855:
160aorea
116.102
07, 031
6
40.463
350
541
6
18,430,720
11,643,720
600
8, 057, 040
21.540
21,640
50
100 057
6.235
6.161
76
2
887.600
739,320
100
120acre8
00!870 16! 904,' 400
5 500
48,181 ' 3.854,4M>
315 , 18, 900
466 , 18,640
3 30
100 acres
89 acres
102,660
2.640
60 acres
40 acres
3,000
90
10 acres
Total
262,597
34,075,310
249,797 \ 32,300,070
12,800
1,686,240
SUMMARY
loc'iJid. A--S.
86, 187 12, 940, 080
1^3,986 12.837,f.60
11,744 679.780
240, 707 32, 300, 070
Outstand-
ing.
2, 076
5,147
247
12,800
Grade of warrants.
No.
issaed.
Acres.
13 919 19ii
Acres.
Act 1847
88,263
272,040
329.480
14.660
Act 1850
189,133 ii; 167; 040
11,991 1 694,240
262,507 34,075.310
Act 1862
Act 1855
1,685,240
Total
551,984
61,148,710
531,714 1 58,847,400
20,270
2.801,820
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The following is a statement of the nuii]t>er of acres represented by
military bonnty land-warrants located in the several land States and
Territories for the year ending Jane 30, 1890, or not heretofore re-
ported, which warrants were issued under the acts of 1847, 1850, 1852,
and 1855. The aggregate number of acres is computed at the rate of
$iJ25 per acre. It does not show the exact area of the lands located
with the warrants :
StAtee and Territories.
Arfxona...
Arkansaa .
CalifomU.
Colorado..
Florida...
Idaho
KanaAs ...
Loniaiana.
Michigan .
Minneaota
Aores. !
40 ;
80 '
6,480 I
1,820 ,
leo I
80 I
920 I
44U
2,520 I
120 .
State* and Territories.
Miaaonri
Montana .....
Nebraska —
New Mexico.
North Dakota
Orefcon
South Dakoto.
Washington . .
Total...
Acres.
400^
180
4,00*^
520
680
1,440
4,080
. 600
24,040
. SUMMARY.
Benomination of warrants.
40 acres. 80 acres.
120 acres.
160 aores.
Total.
Act of 1847
8
1
1,280*
1,160
120
Act of 1850
is 1 0
1 ' I
18
Act of 1852
Act of 1855
25
100
31,480
Total
24,040
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C— PUBLIC LANPS DIVISION.
In this divisiou are posted, iu tract-books specially prepared for tbat
purpose, all the entries, filings, selections, grants, reservations and resto-
rations of public lands, as well as the cancellation of any entries by relin-
quishment or by the action of this office. It also devolves upon this divis-
ion to examine the greater portion of the entries made, with regard to the
regularity and smfficiency of the papers 5 as to whether the land is subject
to entry, and where proof is required, as to the sufficiency of the proof;
to approve for patent the final entries found satisfactory, and conduct
the correspondence with the local officers looking to the perfection of
entries found defective in the proof submitted, in some of the papers, or
in the qualifications of the entry man; to transcribe into tract-books for
any new land-office districts which may be established, all the entries^
filings, etc., upon lands included in such districts; to correspond with
individuals relative to their claims to public lands, or in regard to the
land laws, rules, and regulations.
, In addition, there is a great deal of miscellaneous businej^s, such as
the work necessary for disposing of abandoned military reservations
under the act of July 5, 1884 (23 Stats., 103), and other acts, the adjudi-
cation of soldiers' additional entries under section 2306, Revised Stat-
utes, and reports to the Secretary of the Interior in regard to Congres-
sional action affecting public lands.
The following statement shows the number of entries for which re-
turns were received in this division during the fiscal year ending June
30,1890:
EntrieSf locatio»s, selecHonSy and filings, by oUuses, received far record during the year
ending June 30, 1890.
ENTRIES AND SELECTIONS.
Class of entry.
'Namberof
entries.
FINAL BKTIUB8.
Final boraesteads
Coal cash
Com mated cash
Soldiers' adaitional homesteads.
Timber-cnltare
Desert-land
Indian homesteads
Timber and stone ...
Warrant and scrip locations
Private cash v
Graduation cash
Jnnel5, 1880
Indian cash
Pre-emption cash
Townsites
Mineral entries
Misoellaneoas
Total.
94
83, 475
287
0,826
386
2,689
1,669
64
4. 056
344
1,041
141
1,909
18.426
2
742
5,196
Number oi
acres, ap-
proxlmate.
4. 017, 000
45,760
1, 179, 120
30. 880
430, 240
531. 080
10, 240
648,960
55,040
166,560
22,560
305,440
2, 211, 120
320
14.840
623,530
80, 253 10, 296. 680
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EntrieSf locationSy aeleotiona, andfilingt, by otasaes, 6«o.— Continued.
ENTRIES AND SELECTIONS— Continued.
Class of entry.
Nnmber of
entries.
53,236
4,197
17,723
Nnmber of
acres, ap-
proximate.
Homesteads
OBIOINAL RNTBntS.
6,388,320
I>eAertland
1.843,040
Timbdr-oaltriiTf) ...... -- -- ---.
2,835,680
Total
75,166
10, 567, 040
BECAPITULATIOK BY TOTAUS.
Final entries . . . .
80,253
76,166
10, 295. 680
Original entries
10, 567, 040
A flroTAfriitA
165,409
20, 862, 720
In addition to the above, filings of different kinds have been received
to the namber of 45,418 with an aggregate area of 5,450,160 acres.
The following table shows the number of entries pending, by classes,
at the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890:
FINAL ENTRIES.
H«»mes4eadB 20,010
Coal cash 124
Commntedcash 8,609
Soldiers' a<ldltional homesteads 760
Timber culture 2,857
Desert land 800
Indian homesteads 87
Tioiber and stone 4,080
Warrant and scrip locations 548
Private cash i 2,062
Graduation cash 6,096
June 16, 1880 362
Indian cash 846
Pre-emption cash 6,860
Iflneral entiles 222
Misoelianeous 928
Total 64,18
ORIGINAL ENTRIES.
Homesteads 206,989
Desert land 7,841
Timber culture ^.., 128,087
Total : 386,851
Work performed in the division during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
Letters pending June 30, 18'^9 4,107
Letters received during the year 49, 014
Total 53,121
Letters disposed of :
By answer 15,943
By filing (no answer required) 23, 770
By reference to other divisions 9,593
Total disposed of 49,306
Balance pending June 30, 1890 3,815
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Letters and decisions written :C836
Secretary's decisions promulgated 286
Certified copies made 108
Fees for the same $272.37
Pages of type writing 2,354
Cancellation^ and relinquishmonts noted 33, 298
Entries and filings posted ^ 221, 950
Final entries examined and approved r>9, 733
Final entries examined and suspended 14, 205
Of which there have been amended and approved 6, 071
Pages of copying 5,720
Pages of recording 1, 843
Repayments noted 376
At the close of the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1889, there were i>end-
ing in this division 92,973 unexamined final entries, 4,107 letters, and
59,524 filings and entries which had not been posted in the tract-books.
At the close of the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1890, there were pending
64,184 anexamined final entries, 3,815 letters, and 40,791 filings and
entries not posted, thus showing a decrease of the work daring the fis-
cal year of'28,789 final entries, 292 letters, and 18,733 in the unposted
filings and entries. It will also be observed that the receipts largely
exceeded those of the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1889.
Vacant lands in the public land States and Territories,
By circular of July 10, 1890, the district officers were directed to re-
port approximately the qaantities of lands in the several counties and
parishes in their districts not embraced in Indian or military reserva-
tions remaining unappropriated by filing or entry. The records of this
office are not kept by counties; bat inasmuch as many inquiries have
been received as to the quantity of unappropriated lands remaining in
particular counties, parishes, or localities, it was concluded to make a
statement for this report by counties so far as reports from the district
officers in such shape could be obtained, and to fnake the statement
by land districts in other cases.
It has not been practicable for many reasons, such as the magnitude
of the work involved, the manner of creating the boundaries of coun-
ties and the frequent changes therein, and also the fact that a large
part of the unsurveyed public domain lies within the limits of grants
to railroads, to more than obtain approximate estimates ot the lands
not covered by entries or filings ; but the statement will serve the pur-
pose for which it is made, to wit, tp inform correspondents and the
general public as to whether there is much, little, or any public land
in the several public-land States and Territories and the land districts
therein, and, in most instances, in particular counties or localities.
The statement, it is believed, shows an aggregate of vacant lands
somewhat in excess of the exact quantity now subject to settlement or
entry, for reasons which will appear by reference to certain of the foot-
notes, but it is highly probable that this excess will be offset fully by
restoration to the public domain through declarations by Congress of
forfeitures of railroad grants, the opening of lands in the Indian Teiri-
tory to entry, and abandonment and cancellation of the claims of set-
tlers.
It must be borne in mind that quite a considerable portion of the
vacant land is embraced in the heavily timbered regions of the Southern
States, the lake region, and the Pacific coast, and the mountainous and
arid regions of the far west, and that the portion of land cultivable
without clearing or irrigation is comparatively small. It is a reason-
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able conclusioD, however, that vast bodies of arid lands will in time be
reclaimed by irrigation as the resalt of the efforts of the government
to coustract storage basins and ditches for the pnrppse, seconded, as
nndoabtedly they will be, by private enterprise, and that, as a conse-
quence, the rain areas of the West will be considerably enlarged.
In naming the land districts in the following statement, the names of
the present offices are adopted as the names of the districts, for the
reason that districts are thus named and known by the settlers, and be-
cause it would be inconvenient to give the statutory names of the differ-
ent districts created by Congress in addition to the names of the offices.
Statement hy States, Territorieej and land dUtHcta, and also by counties where practicable,
of lands not granted or reserved and subject to settlement or entry,
ALABAMA.
Luid diAtriot.
County.
Blount
Surveyed
land.
Acres.
6,620
a 12. 280
5,800
6.460
2,520
4,480
M,800
57.000
4,520
5,040
45, 120
e 44, 040
68,860
6,660
10,260
!i,080
dl,700
67,920
111, 180
Unaurveyed
land.
AertM.
Total area.
HnDtaville
Acres.
Cherokee
Colbert
Cullman
DeKalb
Etowah
Fayette
JackM>n
Lauderdale
Limestone
Lawrence
Lamar
Marion
Marshall
Madison
Morsan
St, Clair
Walker
Cherokee school land . .
406^040
/12,620
Total
y419.160
Hontgomery
Antauffa
^880
•0,480
«,200
2.080
87,820
5,640
19.880
51,r20
18,480
4,000
40
22,840
7.200
A2,040
5,120
4,040
280
80,120
A21,320
24.840
Bibb
Butler
Ballook
Barbour
Baldwin
Crenshaw
Conf ouh
Covington
Coffee
Clark
Choctaw
Coosa
Chilton
Chambers
Cleburne
Calhoun
Cherukee
Clay
Date
Elenore
Escambia
Favette
Geneva
a Total in Hontsville and Montgomery districta, 14,820 acres.
b Total in Hnntsville and Montgomery districts, 23.120 acres,
e Total in Huntaville and Montgomery districts, 44, 560 acres.
d Total in Hontsville and Montgomery districts, 4,080 acres,
a Total in Huntaville and Montgoniery districta, 20,6M0 aorea.
/These lands are sold for caah at private entry for the benefit of the Cherokee school ftod.
g This total does not include land containing coal and iron contemplated to be offered at public sale
by the act of March 3. 1 883.
h See Huntoville district.
9405 L o-
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HEPOST OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statemmt hy StateSf Terriiorie$, and land dUMotSf tfto.— CoDtinned.
ALABAMA-^ontinaed.
Luddlstriot.
Coanty.
Snrmed
XJnsurreyed
land/
Total area.
MmitffomerT
Green
A<TM.
400
760
6,480
10, 920
80
aS'iO
23,280
80
Acrei.
Acres.
Hale
H< nry
Jefferson
Lee
I^amftr
MiiDode :
Macon
Mobtte
89,040
2,760
6,600 I
1.280
920 !
2,040
4,840|
760
a8,280 1
3,960,
12, 160 1
1,040 1
63, 280 !
Maren ffo. .............
Picket :::..::::::::
Pike
Perry
RoMf^U
Raudolph
Sumter
St Clair
Shelby
Talladega
TaAoalooaa
Washington
88.160
al2,760
1.620
Walker
Wilcox
Totia
685,900
ToM in Aliilmnift
1, 105, 000
ARIZONA.
Pr«aooti.
Total.
Tnoaon
Total
Total in Arizona.
Apaohe. .
Gfia
Mohave..
Yavapai .
8,800.000
100,000
22,960
2,280.000
^6,202.960
Apache . . .
Coohise...
Gila
Graham ..
Maricopa .
Pima
Pinal
Yama
13,440
1, 374, 240
50,780
758,870
792.400
1, 800, 000
862,494
628,422
b 1, 183. 120
• 60,000
€6,151,600
/15, 092, 000
22.428,720
27,760
2, 524, 820
410,020
2,230,862
3,690,900
5. 780. 646
2,220.406
4,184,378!
€4.933,120
d 150, 000
6, 174, 580
17,372,000
28.629,700
^41.200
8,898,660
A 460, 800
2,989.782
i4, 483, 300
1,300,000
8,082,960
4,812,800
15,288,706
11,983,626
37,716,426
21,060,352
49.099,(
a Bee HnntsvUle district
6Snl]t)«o<^ to entry and the railroad srant.
e Total in Apaohe ooonty in Prescott and Tacson difitriots. 4,974,320 acres.
d Total in Gila county in Prescott and Tucson districts, 610,800 acres.
sThe nnsnryeved lands in Mohave couDty are either subject to settlement or to the railroad grant
less the Hualpal Indian reserve, area of which is unknown.
/The unsurveyed lands in Yavapai county are subject either to settlement or the railroad grant
^ The district officers state that 466.880 acres are embraced in entries, but whether this quantity
shonld be dednoted from the aggregate of surveyed lands reported does not appear.
ASee Prescott district
< A amall portion of Maricopa county is in Prescott district. Of this portion very little has been sar-
Toyed and tne Prescott officers make no mention of it in their report.
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StatemmU &y 8tate$t Terriiariet, and land digtrieU, o/o.— Continaed.
ABKANSAS.
County.
Surveyed
TTneorveyed
land.''
Total area.
Camden r
Anhley
Aeret.
a 28, 620
88,440
24,980
9,520
40,800
6 5.200
e8,880
d 102. 320
109.800
#89.200
4,240
12,560
17,360
5.060
210,860
2,640
10.400
120,800
/339,380
63.360
46, 910
Aeret.
Aeret.
Bradley ^
Clark..
Columbia
Calboan -.
Cleveland
Drew
1
G arland ...... ...,-x-.
Howard
HotSprlnee
Henipatead
Lafayf^tte
Little Biver
Miller
Montirn*nery ^
Nevada
Ouachita
Pike
Polk
Sevier
Union
Xotal
1,285^710
DfirtiATielle ..r
SS^rto^'T"*.!"^.'.::
^16,000
50.000
A 43. 000
d75.000
115,000
62,000
{140,000
j 85, (KM)
166.000
i6l,000
185,000
815,000
81,000
Franklin
Garland (north part) . .
Johnson
Lo|Ean
Perry
Polk (northweat pan) .
Pope
Saline (noHhwest part)
Yell :....
Scott
ToUl .*
1,202,000
HBRiSOfl - -
Baxter
Benton
118,049
47,020
69.430
80,480
21.500
m 120. 460
n7,760
0 44, 100
99,040
124,540
269,020
282,360
149,380
p84,960
. 24,480
Boone
Carroll
Franklin
Fulton
Independence
Ixara
Madlaon
Marion
Newton
Searcy
•
Stone
YanBnren
Total.
1,458^470
Little Book
Arkanaaa
1,760
4,600
139, 640
1-6,880
Ashley
Chicot
Clay
CleDnme
Cleveland
a Total in Camden and Dardanelle districts, 81.77U acres.
b Total in Camden and Little Kock districts, 12.080 acres,
e Total in Camden and Little Bock dintncts, 6,120 acres.
d Total in Camden. Dardaoelle. nnd Little Bork districts, 182,280
• Total in Camden and Little Rock districts, 46,680 acres.
/Total in Camden and Dardanplln districts. 874,360 acres.
a Total in Dardanelle and Little Bock districts, 26.400 acres.
h Total in Dardanelle and Harrison districts, 44,500 acres.
i Total in Dardanelle and Little Bock districts, 160,6^ acres.
i See Camden diatrict.
( ToUl in Dardanelle and Little Bock districts, 119,920 acres.
P See Dardanelle district.
m Total in Harrison and Little Rock districts. 100.660 acres,
n Total in Harrison and Little Book districts, 48,806 acres.
0 Total in Harrison and Little Bock districts. 54,340 acres.
p Total in Harrison and Little Bock districts, 295,240 acres.
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Statement by StateSf Territories, and land districts, etc. — Continoed.
ARKANSAS— Contiiiaed.
Land district.
County.
SoTvered
lana.
Little Bock.
Total
Total in Arkansas .
I Conway
' Craighead
CruM
Dallas
Dmba
l>rew
, Faulkner
Folutn
i Garland
Grant
Greene
HotSprinf^
' Independence.
I Izard
I Jackson
' Jefferson
I Lawrence ,
i Lee
I Lincoln
' T.ouoke
Mis8is8ippi . . .
Monroe
Perry
; Phimps ,
Poinsett
' Prairie ,
. Pnlaski ,
, Kandolph ,
' Saline
Sharp
St. Francis
VanBnren
White ,
IJnsnrveyed
land.
Acres.
all, 400 ,
600
1,000
8,880 i
1.160 ;
62,240 <
10. 200 I
670,200
e4.M0
6,120
4,720
66,480 .
<241,040 ;
d 10, 240 I
840 '
2,000
9,720
160
10,220
200
4.760
240
a 20, 680
40
5,860
280
21,360
61,600 I
a 58, 920
112.480 !
480 !
d260,280 ,
10,240
.1.
Acres.
Total
Acres.
916,140
4.902,829
CALIFOBNLL.
Humboldt • —
Independence .
Total..
Loa Angeles..,
Alpine
Fresno
Inyo
Kern
Mariposa
Moro
San Memardino.
Tulare
Tuolumne
4,584,960
31,760
561,020
2, 179, 200
1, 256, 320
65,280
1, 888, 000
2, 149, 120
482,500
80.640
8,684,800
115,200 ' 4,700,160
299,520
3,826,720
244,480
11,520
760,720
1, 813. 760
x9,600
92,160
/ 21, 760
0861,440
5,505.920
Al, 500, 800
i 76, 890
2.688,720
/8, 962, 880
1:572,160
2172,800
6,628,480 i 15,318,280
Kern 110,120 47,339 ml66,459
Los Anjceles 550.417 246,734 797,151
Orange 3,799 25,400 29,190
San Bernardino 2, 484, 708 2, 243, 371 m 4, 728, 079
SauDiego 3,801,813 3,102.493; 6,904,806
a See Dardanelle district.
b See Camden district.
c See Camden and Dardanelle districts.
d See Harrison district.
• The oflBcerb report that county lines have been changed since publication of the latest maps, and
thstit is impracticable to make the statement by oouuti»s.
/Total in Independence and Sacramento districts, 671,380 acres.
a Total in Independence, San Francisco, Stockton, and Visalia districts. 1,929,460 acres.
A Totol in Independence, Los Angeles, San Krancisco. and Visalia districts, 2,284,755 acres.
i Total in Independence and Stockton districts. 576,497 acres.
{ Total in Independence and Los Angeles districts. 8.690,959 acres.
k Total -in Inde|>endence and Visalia districts, 1,116,160 acres.
I Total in Independence, Sacramento, and Stockton districts, 867,216.
m See Independence district.
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Statement by States, TerritorieB, and land dUtriets, 0(c.— Cootinaed.
CALIFORNLA.— CoDtinaed.
101
Land dUtrict.
Coanty.
Soryeyed I Unsurvey^
land. land.
Los Angeles .
Total.
liarysTille..
Total.
Bedding....
Total .
Sacramento.
Total .
Santa Barbara .
Ventura
Bntte. . . .
Colasa...
Nevada..
Plamas...
Sotter . . .
Sierra
Tehama. .
Yolo. ...
Tuba...
Shasta...
Sinkiyon..
Tehama..
Trinity..
Alpine
Amador
Calaveras. .
Eldorado. . .
Nevada —
Placer ....
Plumaa . . . .
Sieini
Taolamoe ,
San Franoiaoo .
.' Alameda
I GoIUHa
Frosio
I Kern
I Lake
I .Mendocino
1 Merced
Monterey
I N apa
I San Benito
I San Joaqain
San Luis Obispo .
j San Mateo
I Santa Barbara . .
i Santa Clara
SHnta Cru2
, Solnno
' Sonoma
I Stanialaaa
"Ventura
Total.
Total axea.
Aores.
45.630
766,890
Aerei.
92.897
78,590
Aeret.
a 138, 027
&245.480
7.172,877 1 5,836,324
18,«I08,701
212, 818
143.158
7.014
361,967
3,000
29,095
76,448
75,883
60,150
83.425
1,683
246.243
e 144. 841
d 7. 014
70, 472
• 332. 439
3,000
/ 40, 295
i7 77,258
83,193
n3« 910
ii,266
805
7,310
33,760
869,533; 158,655 1,028,188
944,393
972,738
461, 876
272,383
2, 651, 385
498,620
221.500
248,500
616,860
185,000
359,100
193,840
183,500
265. 000
118,614 I
275. 936 >
16,965 I
51,611
1, 063, 007
1,248,669
k 478, 841
323,994
463,126 3.114,611
150,800
5,000
4.900 >
35,200 I
4,100 I
67,900 j
"*4.000
17,200
2, 7T2, 120
279, 100
8,200
15.% 20U
105. 000
61. 500
400,600
787, 130
38, 240
1, 021. 840
23,500
290,700 ,
10,760
384,080
2,400 I
443,731
84,880
2,200
2,218
49,500
38.800
215, 224
i 649, 620
226,500
j 2^8, 400
652,060
ft 189, 100
417,000
» 108, 840
M87,500
i282, 200
3,051.220
8,500
2,662
35.096 I
111,590
203,980 I
82,240
5,115
150, 012
8,200
A 163, 700
il97,662
i 97, 496
518. 190
991, 110
1:38,240
1,104,080
23,500
295. 815
210,760
534,092
2.400
TO 571, 717
89,880
2,200
2,218
90,753
n 39, 537
m271, 571
4,216,703 I 838,417 1 5, 053, 120
Stockton ; Calaveras ol8,0H0 I
I Fresno I 1670,678'
a Total in Los An{;eles and Sao Francisco districts, 700,744 acres.
b Total in Los Angeles and San Francisco districts, 517.051 acres.
0 Total in Marysville and San Fmacisco districts, 308,541 acres.
d Total in Marysville and Sacramento dii«trict8, 196,114 acres.
#l'otal in Marysville, Sacramento, and Saaanville districts, 1,506,914 acres.
/Total in Marysville, Sacramento, and Susanville districts, 384,432 acres.
X Total in Marysville and Bedding districta, 556,094 acrea.
See Marysville district.
iSee Independence .district.
j Total in Sacramento and Stockton districts. 271,480 acres.
Jb Total in San Francisco and Stockton districts, 75,121 acres.
IToul in San Francisco and Stockton districts, 13,100 acres,
in See Los Angeles district
n Total in San Francisco and Stockton diatrlota, 89,440 acres.
o See Sacramento district.
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Statement by SiateSf Territories, and land distriote, etc, — Continued.
CALIFOR]!nA--CoDtiimed#
Land district
•
County.
Surreyed
land.
UnBurveyed
land.
Total area.
Stockton
Heroed
ACTM,
a36,881
6408,667
a2,340
a49,908
6412,216
Aerea.
Acret.
Mariposa
San Joaquin
StanislMus ...■
Tnolnnine
Total
1,688.705
e600,445
2,189.246
Lasflon ........••• ....
SvnanTillif
2,297,936
1,714,028
900,810
56,637
39,683
111,609
79,825
2, 337, 619
1,825, 727
d980.636
d56.687
Modoo
Plamaa
Sierra
Total
4,969,411
231,207
5,200,618
Fresno ................
YiMilia
18t.320
460.880
505,280
15,360
09,120
38,720
6199,680
6520,000
6544,000
Kem
Tulare
Total
1,140,480
123,200
1,263,680
Total in California
38,750,564
15, 172. 154
• 63,922,718
COLORADO.
Central City
Boulder
190,080
102,382
221,200
52,792
1,007,880
86,280
162,960
217,600
el99,080
102,883
/221,200
52,702
Clear Creek
•
Gilpin*-"!I*"I".'!II!
Grand
43,520
^1,051.400
^86.280
Jeffereon .............
Rontt
il52,960
i 217, 600
Summit
Total
2,040.174
43.520
2,083.694
Conbjoe
Del Norte..,
403.940
77,460
276,800
477,680
1,025,240
3 840
186,880
287,040
46,000
"'"' 50,220*
23,040
590,820
864,500
£322.800
2477,580
ml, 075, 460
n 26,886
Coetflla
Hinodale ^
Rio Grande
Sajniaohe
San Juan ..
Total
2,264,86(i
698,180
2,858,040
Arapahoe
Denver
1, 128, 800
024,220
142,340
p269,280
028,900
9 425.020
r 1,235. 360
Boulder
Douglas
Elbert
Jeffemon
Kit Carson
Larimer
a See San Francisco district.
6 See Independeuce district.
e This total was not estimated by counties, but the oflScers report fifteen full townships in the dis-
trict nnsurveyed, and unsnrveyed fands in the townships partly sunreyed, agin^K^ting 154,845 acres.
d See Marysville district.
« Total in Central City and Denver districts, 123,300 acres.
/Of this quantity four townships, or 87,040 acres, are suspended from entry becaueeof irregularities
in the surveys. Total area in • entral Citv, Glenwood Spriues, and Leadville districts, 868,102 acres.
g Of the surveyed land in Grand eounty thirteen townships, or 282,880 acres, are suspended from en-
try because of irregularities in the surveys.
A Of this quantity one township of 21,760 acres is suspended fh>m entry because of irregularities in
the survey. Total area in Central City and Denver districts, 115,180 acres.
i Total in Central City and Glenwood Springs districts, 3,781,084 acres.
J Total in Central City and Leadville districts, 887, 3K8 acn\8.
k Total area in Del Norte, Darango. and Ghinoison districts, 900,100 acres.
I Total area in Del Korte and Dnrango districts, 525,080 acres.
mTotal in Del Norte and Gunnison districts, 1,412,460 acres.
n Total in Del Norte and Dnrango districts, 249.880 acres.
o See Central City district.
p Total in Denver and Pueblo districts, 461.780 acres.
q Total in Denrer and Lamar districts, 505,920 acres.
r Total in Denrer and Glenwood Springs districts, 1,263,180 acres.
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Statement by Stalee, TerritoHee, and land dUtriota, ^to, — Continued.
« COLOBA DO— Continoed.
loa
Land district
County.
Lincoln ---
Snrreyed
land.
XTnsnrveyed
land.
Total ana.
DeiiTcr
Aeret.
a 217, 120
325,740
316,500
80,880
58,400
286,300
803,280
279,200
Aerea,
Acr$§.
Losan
Morgan
PhilBpa
Sedffwick
Washington
Weld..?
fuma
TotaJ
^ 681. 240
Arohnlota
0335,200
476,240
208,800
499,340
786,760
9,600
47,600
222,500
42,000
335.200
d 599, 240
0801,300
^801,700
A9^500
047,600
0222,500
i 42, 000
Dolores
124,000
97,600
29,000
75,000
Hinsdale
LaPlaU
llontezama
Onrar
Rio Grande
San tlnan
San Miguel
Total
2,621,840
325,600
2 947,840
Eagle
OlMiwood SDrinira -r
348.060
1,446.960
58,280
27,820
195, 200
179.800
1,459,872
8,628,124
215,040
923,240
124,020
1604,000
i 870, 200
1:177,000
127,820
m484,420
n603,680
2,040,670
j 3, 651, 164
GsrfiAld
Gannison
Larimer
Mesa
239,220
323,^0
580.704
. 23,040
Pitkin ,
Rio Blanco
Kontt
Total
7,340.076
2,420.684
9, 760, 660
Delta
Gnnnisoii
7,000
700.000
246,000
30,000
837.000
o7,000
1> 1,087, 000
0 276,000
0 91,000
0337,000
Gannison
987,000
30,000
61,000
Hinsdale
Montrose
Sagoacbe
Total
1,320.000
1,078,000
2,398,000
Baca
Lamar
710,000
r368.000
308,000
1 170. 000
0 315,000 ,
1 309, 000
2146.000
4:47,000 !
Bent
Cheyenne
Kit Carson
Kiowa
Lan A nimas
Lincoln ...... ..
Prowers
t
1
Total
2,863,000
1
a Total in Denver and Lamar districts, 363.120 acres.
5 The Sonthern Ute Reservation, covering aboat 1,000,000 acres, is in this district and may soon be
restored to entry.
e Tbe abandoned Fort Lewis military reservation in Archuleta Coanty of about 30,000 acres of agri-
cnltnral land, heavily timbered, has been surveyed, but the plats have not as yet been filed and the
land re8ton*d to the public doroaiu.
d Total in Dnrango and Montrose districts. 639,620 acres.
0 See Del Norte dintrict.
/Of the 29.000 aorea in La Plata county, classed above as an8nrveye<l, 23,000 acres have been sur-
veyed, and the plats it is expected will soon be filed.
g Much of the land in Montezuma county is known as the mesa verde land, and Is not in demand by
settlers.
h Total in Dnrango and Montrose districts, 153,803 acres.
i Total in Dnrango and Montroae districts, 711,704 acres.
i See Central City district.
* Total in QlenwcHid Springs, Gunnison, and Leadville districts, 1,906,629 acres.
1 See Denver district
m Total in Glenwood Springs and Montrose districts, 1.985.044 acres,
n Total in Glenwood Springs and Leadville districts. 586,602 acres,
o Total in Gunnison and Montrose districts, 387,389 acres.
J9 See Glenwood Springs district.
q Total in Gunnison nnd Montrose districts. 1,871,737 acres,
f Total in Lamsr and Pueblo districts. 452.200 acres.
# Total in Lamar and Pueblo districts, 389,000 acres.
f Total in Lamar and Pneblo districts, 1,170,552 acres. "
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104 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND" OFFICE.
Statement by SiateSf TerritarieSf and land di9trioi8f elo. — Continaed.
GOLOBAD(>-Continue^
Land distriot.
LeadTiUe.
CooDty.
Chaffee . . .
Baffle
ElPaao...
Gannlaon .
Lake
Park
Pitkin ....
Sammit...
ToUl .
If ontroae . . .
« Total
Pueblo
Total *....
Total in Colorado.
Delta
Dolores
MeHM
Montrose . . .
Ourav
Ban Miguel .
Surveyed ! Unstn-veyed j .^^^^i
Acres.
642,054
a82,M2
b SO, 397
e 41, 729
184, 215
1,015,765
e&^022
a 169, 788
Aeret. ' Aertt,
I 2, 270, 506
811,279 I
40,380
864,352
935,137
144.303 I.
600.584 i
69,120
d3)K).399
«40,380
686.272 I cl.5iS0,624
845, 600 ; d 1, 280. 737
0 144,303
69,120 tf 669, 704
2, 896, 035 I
1,170,112 1 4,066,147
Bent
Custer
Elbert
El Paso
Fremont . ..
Huerfano . . . .
Kiowa
Las Animas ,
Otero
Pueblo
/ 84. 200
820,642
p 192, 500
A 637, 000
655,515
58L.001
74,000
861. 652
929, 450
780,000
/»
34,354,550
5,648,806
6.116,760
39,991,446
FLOBIDA.
I
•|
42,290
3.160
4, 720
86,299
90.800
14.880
32,590
7,770
97. 360
124, 380
2,280
78,100
12, 100
9,373
7,920
2.120
33,240
78.100
2,510
52, 140
4a 640
215, 735
7,882
40, 720
15,372
17,280
146, 020
17,884
QainesTlUe Alachua
Baker
Bradiord
I Brtivard
('Rlhoun
CItms
Clay
I Columbia
Dade
1 DeSoto
Dnval
Escambia
Gadsden
Hamilton
Hernando
Hillsborough . .
Holmes
, Jackson
Jefferson
I Lnfayette
Lake
I Lee
i Leon
Lew
; Madinon
I Msnatee
I Marion
I Monroe
a See Central City district.
6 Total in Leadville and Pueblo districU, 687,397 acres.
e See Glen wood Springs district,
ct See Gunnison district.
0 See Durango district.
/See Lamar district.
«See Denver district.
I^See Leadville district.
{Undoubtedly nearly all the unsurveyed laud is swamp, and much «1 it is selected by, or patented
tOt the State as swamp.
■"'2,"217,"000
i 2, 119, 680
% 529, 920
745,655
""i'69lV266
700,084
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105
Statement hy States ^ Territories, and land districts ^ etc. — Cod tinned.
FLORID A.— Continued .
Laud district.
County.
I Surveyed
' land.
Gainesville .
Total in the district and State
Acre*.
Nansau 4, 330
Orange 32,000
Osceola 12,072
Pasco 2,200
Polk 81,620
Putnam 21,659
St. John's I 19,160
Santa Bosa 218,040
Sumter 020
Suwannee i 7, 200
Tavlor 144,660
Volusia 82,680
Wa»hington 204,800
Walton 266,820
2.283,626
IDAHO.
^'^''^^^^ Total area.
Acres.
Acres.
1
3,340,800 I 5,624,426
Blaokfoot .
Bear Lake .
Binebam . .
Oneida
Total.
Bois6City..
Ada
Bois6
Elmore
Idaho
Owyhee
Washington
282.880
79.5.682
507.734
15, 200
606,653
115,200
298,080
1,492,335
622.034
1,586.206
827,053
2,413,349
447,360
81,640
281, 280
3,840
707, 200
205,680
640.000
2, 240, 000
768, 000
1, 280. 000
3, 520i 0«>0
1,280,000
1, 087, 360
2,321,640
a 099, 280
51,283,840
4, 227, 200
1,575,680
Total
Total in Idaho
IOWA.
Dos Moines.
KANSAS.
Garden aty .
Clark ..
Finiiev .
Ford "
Garfield .
2,000 I
12, 260
68,820
2.717
6,680
i3,000 I
5,000
a See also note under head of the Hailey district as to Elmore County.
h Total in Idaho County in Boisd City and Lewiaton iliittnctH. 12,436,H3:i acres.
e Total in Shoshone County in CcQur d' Alene and LKwiatou districts, 1,863,062 acres.
d The district officers say :' " HaiU>y district coutaiu!) about 19,000, UOu acres, about 800,000 acres of
which have been surveyed^ mostly in Loiian, Elmore, Alturtis, and Lemhi counties. About two-thirds
of the surveyed land hns been settled npon and improved. About 15 to 20 per cent, of the land in this
^strict could 1)0 cultivated if water could be procured from the lar^rer streams of the State.
€See Bois6 City district Unsurroyed landH composed of mountains, prairie and timber land.
/One*half of ttie nnsiirveyci land is mouutainnus and heavily timbered.
0The roost of the nnsnrveyed land is rongh broken prairie.
ft See CcBor d* Alene district. The unsurveyed land is mostly covered with timber.
i About 1,000 acres of the unsurveyed lands are accretions along the Missouri River, and about 2,000
I are in dried-up lake-beds.
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106 REPORT OP COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement hy States, Territoriei, and land dUtHoU, 6(0.— Continaed.
KAKSAS-Contiiiiied.
Land district
County.
Surveyed
land.
Aere»,
16,280
21,400
51,841
9,200
18,300
76,240
56.600
52,871
58,770
16,000
41.860
Unsoryeyed
land.
Total area.
Garden City
<?-rantr , .......
Aeret.
Acrea,
Gray
Hamilton
Hod fireman
HasleU.^
Kearney
Meade
Morton
Seward
Stanton
Steveiiff .r
Total
608»739
Kirwina
Larned 6
26,006
60,768
800
40
10,399
el60
d 1,240
«1.200
20,000
Oberlin
Cheyenne
Decatur
Norton
•
Sawlin A
Sheridan
Thomas...
Total .,
64,007
500
Salina
BnaBell
/600
Topekay
WaKeeney
Ellis
13,712
21.529
Grove
1
Graham
1
Greelev
10,860
•
Laoe.....
6,440
32,706
TiOffan ...... ...T....
NcHs
Bookb
1,480 1
2,320 t
160 t
10.680 1
A920 !
A 6, 480
;i320 1
9,248 1
Rash
Scott
Sheridan
Sherman
Thomas
Trego
Waflaoe
41,450
3,640
Wichita
Total
1 161, 046
""'
Total in Kansan
756,791
1
LOUISIANA.
Natchitoches | BienvUle.
Bossier . . .
j 25. 040
49, 170
27, 629
Jk2.260
^560
83,KK5
m5.532
I
I Caddo
• Claiborne
.Grant
Katchitoches .
Rapides
a No land in thediiitriRt subject to entry, except that there may be a few isolated tracts.
b The officers report it impracticable to make a statement by counties iu the short time at their com-
mand in the present condition of their records, but they have approximated the quantity of yacMit
land in the entire district.
e Total in Oberlin and WaKeeney districts, 1,080 acres.
dTotal in Oberlin and WaKeeney districts, 7,720 acres.
e Total in Oberlin and WaKeeney districts, 1,620 acres.
/ Reported scarcely fit for jprazing.
g Officers report that they do not bi*Iiove that one entire section of vacant land in the district could
be fonnri by a " line by line search of the tract books."
h See ObeHin district.
% This total may be increased by the expiration of fllinfrs>
j Total in Natchitoches and New Orleans districts, 39.280 acres.
* Total in Natchitoches and New Orleans districts, 6.780 acres.
2 Total in Natchitoches and New Orleans districts, 65, 600 acres,
m Total in Natchitoches and New Orleans districts. 42,662 acres.
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107
Statement by State$y TerriU>r%e$f and land districts, etc,— OorxUnned,
L0T7ISIAKA Continued.
Land ditiriot.
Connty.
I
Surveyed
land.
Vatohltochee .
Supplemental liat not reported by
conn ties
Bed River .
Sabine
Vernon....
Webeter...
Winn
Aeoension d .
AMnmption .
Avovelles ...
AoadU
Bienville
Caloasieii ....
I Cameron
Total
Total in Lonlaiana.
Caldwell
Catahoula
Claiborne
Bant Baton Rouge . . .
East Carrol]
East Feliciana
Franklin
Grant
Iberia
Jackson
Jefferson
Lincoln....!
LiviuKstoD
Morehouse i
Madison
Ouachita I
Plaquemines i
Puinte Coupee
K'apides I
Richland ,
St. Bernard '
St. Helena
St. Landry
St. Martin
St. Mary's
St. Tammany . .
Tan^pahoa
Tensas
Terrebonne ....
Union
Vermillion ....
V«rnon
Washinfrton ...
West Carroll ..
West Feliciana
Winn
Acres,
11,186
62,247
098.292
25^870
616,660
183
2,400
1,040
• 14.240
134.000
1.000
61,480
98,360
e 4,520
3,800
820
3,836
2,207
060,940
2,200
30.000
2.000
3,240
/IS, 000
13,390
160
32,000
4,970
173
037.130
800
2.380
2,820
4ft, 000
1,200
600
31,000
20,000
200
2,0(»0
30,200
520
e31. 000
28,000
1,250
820
•104,300
1,243,460
Unsurveyed
land.
Acres,
e 115, S
Total
Acres.
583,164
115.393
826,669
1,368,863
a Total in Natchitoches and New Orleans districts, 129.292 acres.
b Total in Natchitoches and New Orleans districts, 119.950 acres.
c The unsurveyed lands in Natchitoches district were not reported by parishes. Theae lands un-
doabtedly are mostly dried-up lakes, or such as are subject to overflow or inundations.
d The district officers say in their report : " Pending the resnrvey of certain townships situated in
this parish, formerly reserved from entry because claimed to be embraced in the Houmas grant, and
their reatoration to the public domain under aot of March 2, 1889. and the adjustment of the claim of
the State of Louisiana, involving a large portion thereof, it is difflcult to stat<* with any degree of ao-
euraoy what quantity of snch lands will accrue to the United States, but it is estimated that there will
1m found subject to entry in the parish about 60,000 acres." This quantity is excluded from the table.
• See Natchitoches district
/The district officers say : *' Owing to the nnoeriainty as to the location of the back line of the Mo*
Donogh and Fontanot claims, we remiin from including Tps. 8 and 9 S., K. 5 E., and Tps. 8 and 9 3.,
B. 6 E., former S. B. Dist, east of river, but it is estimated that about 2,300 acres will be found in
theae townships sobjeet to entry and filing after location of said claims and approval of State selec-
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108 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement hy States, Territories, and land districts, etc.— Continaed.
MICHIGAN.
Land district.
Chrayling .
Total.
Marqaette..
Total
Total in Miobigan .
Cuunty.
Aloona
Alpena
Benzie
Crawford
Oraod Traverse..
iHabflla
loeco
Mason
Montmorency ...
Newaygo ,
Ogemaw
Oscoda
Otsego
Presqnelale
Boscommon
(o)
Sarveyed
land.
Aeres.
8,100
5,000
3,300
22,500
3,000
3,800
87,800
3,200
26,500
2,500
2,400
44.900
3,000
1],6C0
7,100
8,600
Unsnnreyed
land.
Acres,
Alger
Baraga
Chippewa . -
Delia
Gogebic
Houghton ..
Iron
Isle Royale.
feweenaw .
Luce
MacklDao ..
Marqnette..
MenomlDce .
Ontonagon..
Schoolcraft .
13, 285
b 30, 0.')7
104. 614
39,466
4,666
06,903
31, 412
16,102
2,139
23.259
16,608
83,520
9, 140 i
C141.192
28,524 I
Total 1
Acres,
192,060
d689,907
882,707
MINNESOTA.
Crookston
Becker
Clay
Kitt8t4)n
Marahall
Norman
46,060
17, 280
891,680
92,160
46,080
17,280
606,880
60,120
808,560
161,280
Polk
27,450
isoo
80, 010
Aitkin
Total
574,650
578,560
1,153,210
Dulutb
42,800
26,160
434,356
79,040
278.660
690,499
042,800
Carlton
26,160
Cook
Itasca .'
136,240
230,400
666,160
862,480
572,596
/809,440
941.820
Lake
St. Lonis
1,542,970
Total
1,646,615
1,889,280
3,435,706
Dakota
MarshaU
40
40
40
. 40
40
80
40
80
Freeborn
Houston
Lac-qni-Parle
Lyon
McLeod
^nrrav
Renville
a Scattered tracts in other counties in the district.
h Id this county 49.792 acres are reserved for Indians exclusive of the quantity given as vacant,
cin this county 2,551 acres are reserved for Indians exclusive of the quantity given as vacant,
d There are also in this district 18,704 acres embraced in the forfeited land grant of the Ontonagon
and Brule Kiver Railroad, and Marqaette, Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad, now claimed by the
Michigan Land and Iron Company,
e Total in Dnluth, St. Cloud, and '
r Total in Dulath and St. <^ad districts. 1,811,480 acres.
1 Taylor's Falls districts. 132,038 acres.
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109
Statement hy Stateg, Territories, and land distrietSy «<c.— Continued.
MDfNESOTA-Contlnued.
Luiddtotrict.
I
ManfaaU
ToUl.
StCload...
Total....
Taylor's Falls .
Total
Total in Minneeota .
Jaekaon .
County.
Soi'veved
land.
Rock
Sibley ....
Wabaaha
Winona ..
Aere».
40
200
80
Aitkin
Benton
Beltrami ...
Cass
Crow Wing.
Grant
Hnbbard...'.
It>asca
Kandiyohi..
Morrison ...
OiterTail ..
Pope....'
Sherborne . .
Stoams
Stevens
To«ld
Traverse ...
Wadena ....
WUkin
Wright
Aitkin
Isanti
Elanabeo...
MilleLacs.
Pine
54. 9H)
280
69,880
219.540
17,360
120
61.880
165,720
200
13,440
2,980
80
130
306
440
5,240
460
56,660
2,180
40
Unuurveyed
land.
Aeres.
207,360
671, 916
» 35. 158
620
10, 418
9,358
52,587
2,902,034
1,336,320
Total area.
Acres.
1,543,680 2,215,506
4, Oil. 620
a 54, 980
280
277. 240
219, 540'
17,360
120
61.880
al, 502, 040
200
18,440
2,980
80
130
306
440
5,240
460
66,660
2,180
40
108,091
6,913.554
mSSISSIPPL
Amite
Attala
Calhoan
Carroll
Choctaw
Clarke
Copiah
Covington
Franklin
Greene
Grenada
Hanoook
Harrison
Hinds
Holmes
Jackson
Jasper
Jeiferson
Jones
Kemper
Laaderdale
Lawrence
Leake
Leflore
Lincoln
Lowndes
Hadison
I Marion
I Monroe
Montgomery
Neshoba
' Newton
a See Dalnth district
13,400
14,280
560
2,840
5,240
29,660
4,560
88,320
82,000
92,200
6,520
72.040
170,860
240
720
109. 140
11,080
1,640
39,840
14,640
12,380
22,840
13,800
440
5,640
80
240
145,920
4,720
7,860
20,7tf0
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Statement ^y States, Territorieey and land diitricis, etc. — Continned.
MISSISSIPPI— Contimied.
Laud district.
County.
Surv^ed
ITnBarreyed
land.
Total aiOft.
Jaokson .,..,
Noxnbee
Aeret,
4,480
1,820
U,780
124, 140
17,720
18.200
10,040
77,520
56,720
3,120
160
55,800
8.020
82.520
15,820
660
Acm.
Aeret,
Oktlbbeba
Peari River
Perry
Pike
Rankin
Soott
Simpson
Smith
•
Tallahatchie
Washinfcton
Wav ne
Webster
Wilkinson
Winston -
»
Yalobusha
Total In district and Sfcate .
1,407,480
MISSOURI.
Boonvllle
Benton...
Camden
Cedar
19,000
130,000
a 1.000
8,800
634.800
20,000
e80,600
5,600
10,200
600
8.200
a2.000
a 87, 000
12,000
•
Crawford
Dallas
Hickory
Lsdede
Maries
Miller
MortTftn ....... .T»»--.,-
Phelps
Polk
Palaski
St. Clair
Vernon d
Total
800,700
s257,880
Ironton
357,830
46,280
Sprinfffleld
Barry
Cedar/
Ditilas
/6.000
50,000
/ 10, 000
51,080
1,200
100,000
aaS?.::::::::;::::,
McDonald
Newton
Ozark
Polk/
Pnlaski/
Stone
Tanev
01,478
200,000
12,000
Texas
Vernon/
Webster
6,000
10,000
Wright
Total
568.988
Total in Missoori
1,151.4«8
a There is no vacant land in that portion of this county in the Springfield dlntriot.
b Total in Boonville Hnd Sprinjrfleld districts, 30,800 acres.
e Total in the Boonville and Sprinsfield districts, 40,600 acres.
dNo vacant land in either the Boonville or Springfield district.
e The district officers report it impracticable to report areas by counties. Of the total area in the
district, 77,900 aorea are in the townships east of the fifth prlnoipal meridian, and 179,080 aorea ire in
those west thereof.
/ See BoonviUe district.
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PUBUO LANDS.
Statement hy States, Terriimea, and land dietriote, etc, — Contlnaed.
MOITTANA.
Ill
Land district.
Goanty.
Gallatin
Jefferson
Surveyed
Aeret.
118,870
34,230
28,090
38U,180
336,770
Unsurveyed
land.
Total area.
BoMfoan .x...-
AcrtM.
543.360
34.660
115,200
1,344,000
215.680
Acres.
a656,780
668.790
Madison
cl43,290
dl, 726, 130
0552,450
Park
Yellowstone
Total
894,590
2.252,800
8,147,390
Beaver Head
Helena
880,600
526,900
2,167,200
222,080
2, 044. 800
2,340,660
604, 300
22,704,740
1,300,300
1,128,080
3,5()0
254.600
476,000
689,820
1,074.800
7, 014, 440
8,300
179, 000
107,860
2,730,260
1,131,200
24, 871. 940
1,523,280
3,173.780
/8,500
/3«8,100
661.880
/1, 047, 820
Cascade
Choteau
Deer Lodge
Fergns
Gallatin
Jefferson
Lewis and Clarke
Madison
133, 600
176,380
358.000
590.540
122,600
38,400
77,060
203,300
Meaffher
Missonla
Park
Silver Bow
1,665,340
7,137,040
/ 41, 700
266,060
Yellowstone
^310,660
Total
7,042,260
87,889,800
44,932,060
iffiWCity* . ...
i 1, 674, 465
il5.058,7l2
16.728, 177
Total In Montana
9,611,315
65,196.312
64. 807, 627
NEBRASKA.
Allianoe
BoxBatte
k 120, 400
1340,540
m 610, 480
n 219, 440
0 466.640
j> 450, 160
Cheyenne. ..*
Denel
Scott's Bluff
Sheridan
Sioux
Total
2, 207, 660
a Total In Bozeman and Helena districts, 660,230 acres.
6 Total in Bozeman and Helena districts, 456,890 acres.
e Total in Bozeman and Helena districts, 1 , 191, 110 acres.
d Total in Bozeman and Helena districts, 1,767,830 acres.
e Total in Bozeman and Helena districts, 310, 6o0 acres. There is also an area of 649.600 acresof this
oonntv in the Miles City district, bat the area of the entries, which cannot be lar^e, has not been re-
ported.
/See Bozeman district.
a See Bozeman district and note under head of Miles City district.
Alt was not found practicable to apportion the entries io the different counties, namely, Meaeher,
Choteau, Yellowstone, Dawson, and Custer, because when the office was opened the district was fdl
within Custer countv, and many entries were made befon* its subdivision.
i Deducting lands listed to the Northern Pacific Railroad Compsny and for university purposes and
the school sections, and there remain 1,913,674 acres of surreyea land, fVom which amount one-eighth,
or 239,209 acres, is de<lnciedas filed upon or entered, leaving 1,674,465 acres as sutiject to entry.
jTrom 4,082,240 acres estimated by this office to be the total quantity within the granted or forty-
miles limits of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the district^ the quantity listed to the company, to wit,
1,114.192 acres, is deducted, leaving 2,968,048 acres as approximating the quantity unsurveyed within
said limits ; and deducting the last quantity from 18,021,760 acn^s. estimated by the district officers to
be the total quantity unsurveyed in the district, and there remain 15,053,712 acres as the area of un-
snrveyed land subject to settlement. The school sections are not deducted, as they are sabjectto set-
tlement at any time before survey in the fluid, but undoubtedly nearly of them will inure to the State un-
der the school grant when surveyed, thus reducing the area that then will be subject to settlement
and entry.
k Total in Alliance and Chadron districts, 146,640 acres.
I Total in Alliance and Sidney districts, 643,260 acres.
m Total in Alliance and Sidney districts, 783,280 iicres.
n Total in Allianoe and Sidney districts. 264.240 acres.
0 Total in Allianoe and Chadron districts, 794,990 acres.
p Tot&l in Allianoe and Chadron districts, 970,200 acres.
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Statement by States^ Territories^ and land districta, etc, — Continned.
NSBR A SKA— Continned.
Land district.
County.
Arthur
Blaiue
Brown
Surveyed
land.
Acres.
a 203, 520
Unsurreyed
land.
Total area.
' Broken Bow
Acrea.
Aeret.
288,260 1
MM, 800 ;
«608,640 1
d 125, 440 1
380, 160
390,800 1
0158,640 1
Cherry
Custer
Grant
Hooker
Lofl^an -. . .. .......
Mcpherson
/237,440
384,000
Thomas
Total
^2,932,700
Chadron
Box Butt-e
A 26, 240
126,880
A 828^350
A 520, 040
Dawes
Sheridan
Sioux
Total
1,001,61*
17.989
Grand Island
Adams
Buffalo
Custer
18
275
A680
»14
14,296
35
83
40
8
79
2,453
Dawson
Greeley
Hall
Merrick
Platte
Polk
Sherman
Valley
Total
McCook
Chase
57,894
108,180
Frontier^
188^074
Hayes
22,000
Hitchcock
RedWniow
Total
Keligh
Antelone
10,560
162,400
Jb82.320
21J,960
2 62,720
14,800
Garfield
Holt
Loup
Rock
Wheeler
Total
499^ S8&
North Platte
m298,860
m24,580
n660
ol60
160
p 171,300
a Total in Broken Bow and North Platte districts. 502,880 acres.
fr Total ill Broken Bow and Valentine districts, 404,800 acres.
0 Total in Broken Bow and Val> ntine districts, 858,640 acres.
d Total in Broken Bow, Grand Island, and North Platte districts, 150,709 acres.
• Total in Broken Bow and North Platte districts, 181,480 acres.
/Total in Broken Bow and North Platte districts, 397,380 acres.
9 This total is exclusive of townships 17, 18, 19, and 20, of ranges 17, 18, 19, and 20. In Gnster County,
the plats of which had not been received from Grand Island land ofiBoe when report of the distriot
officers at Broken Bow was made.
h See Alliance district.
i Total in Grand Island and North PUtte districts, 674 acres.
jSee North Platte district.
ib Total in Melifch and O'Neill districts, 147.320 acres.
I Total in Nelish and Valentine districts, 247,720 acres.
mSee Broken Bow district. ,
n See Grand Island district.
0 See McCook district.
p Total in North Platte and Valentine districts, 229.600 acres.
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NEBKA^SC^— Continaed. «
113
Land district.
Coanty.
, Sarveyed
I land.
'^"hSd?"^ I Total are*.
I
North Platte
Lincoln
Logan
McPhenon .
Perkins
Aeret.
403,000 i
a22,d40
a ISO, 940
4.140
Acres.
Total .
O'Neill
Sidney
Total .
Valentine...
Holt
Banner
Cheyenne
Deael
Keith
Kimbalt
Scott's Blnff .
M15.000
50,520
c 302, 720
e 172. 800 '
d5S,240
14o,620 I
044,800 {
Brown • a250,000
Cherry i al,900,0OD ,
KejaPaha 60,000,
Rock 6185,000 I
Aeret,
1, 086. 700
115,000
783,700
ToUl 1 1 i 2,895,000
TotHlinJNebpaska i I , 11,226,584
NEVADA.
Carwm City.
Total .
Xoreka
Churchill..
Donelas ...
Elko
Esmeralda .
Homboldt .
Lander ....
Lyon
Nye
Ormsby
Storey
Washoe ...
. Elko ...
' Eureka .
j Lander .
I Lincoln .
Nye
Whi
hite Phne .
1, 123, 872
218. 144 j
80,432 I
1, 806, 762 ,
3,066,067 I
324, 582 I
290,141 ;
424,036
28,836
40,555 I
1,841,760
1,875,347
60,070
1,200
1,680,883
6,171.624
403,841
540,840
285.640
18,560
00,084
1,850,154
0,255.077
5, 401. 012
676,657
844,042
4,871,685
8, 708, 156
2, 377, 738
12,584.660
Total
Toul in Nevada .
18, 060, 100
27,316,167
045^820
484,872
663; 110
5.211.626
3, 210, 500
387,885
10, 003, 813
a 8. 043, 288
/843,241
9 81, 622
k 3, 575, 526
<0.265.6S0
j823,828
1876,673
1768,577
m 50, 716
n 148, 530
0 8, 216, 407
21,840,587
p 6. 436, 882
1,161,520
1. 508, 052
10, 083. 311
p 7. 008, 656
2.765.623
28, 06i. 008
23.488^373 50,804,540
a See Broki^n Bow distiict.
b See Neligh district.
eSee Alliance Uistriot
tf See North Platte dlstriot.
e This total embraoes also 44,060 acres of mineral land.
/This total embraces also 55,118 acres of mineral land.
a The entire area of vacant land in Oarson Cit? and Eureka districts ags^regatea 6,518,454 acres.
A This totol Inolndbs also 87.882 acres of mineral land.
i This total embraces also 27,098 acres of mineral land.
j This total embraces also 5,005 acres of mineral land.
k This toul erobraoea also 39,681 acres of mineral land.
{ This total embraces also 58,001 acres of mineral land. The entire area in Carson City and Eureka
distrieto aggregates 7,777,233 acres.
mThia total embraoep al<io 12,320 acres of mineral land,
n This total embraces also 2.000 acres of mineral land,
o This total embraces also 24,583 acres of mineral land.
p See Carson City distriot.
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Statement hy StateSf Tetritorie8f and land dietriotSf «to.~Continaed.
NEW HBXICO.
Land district
County.
FoUom ,
; Colfax
Linooln
Mora
San Mij^nel.
Stxrveyed
land.
Acres.
a 1, 813, 060 I
6 266,660
a 1,271, 360 '
a 3, 527, 480 !
^"uS^^^^lTot*!
Aeret.
Acres.
Total.
LaaCmcea.
Total.
Roawell
Santa F6....
Dona Ana..
Grant
Sierra
, Socorro....
Lincoln .
, Bernalillo...
Colfax
Mora
Bio Arriba..
San Jnan ...
SanMigael..
Santa F6....
Socorro
I Taos
Valencia
Total
Total in Kew Mexico .
6.860,360 1
e 400. 840
7,360,200
3,743.360
3. 307, 520
1, 377, 920
5.040.640
1. 707, 120
2. 246, 400
46,080
1,354,880
6,540.480
5,653,020
1, 424. 000
(16,305.520
13,460.440 '
6,444,480
18,013,020
8,303.820
6.000,680
el5.88S.S0O
1.434,602
601,200
2.125,702
250,005
02,160
0342,265
308,776
276.480
«e7ft,26S
1, 117, 04fi
000.720
2,108,666
1,111,308
676,000
1.687.308
1, 717, 360
230.400
« 1.047, 750
871,504
46.080
017,584
1,256.062
60,120
/1, 326, 082
301,844
845,600
647,444
2, 467, 710
487,760
2,003.470
10,028,186
3.755,620
14,688.706
30,660.806 16,600.520
56, 360, 326
NORTH DAKOTA.
Bismarck 1 A-llred.
; Billings
Bowman
Bnford
Burleigh....
Dunn
, Eddj9
- Emmons
I Flannery . -
I Foster h....
, Gsrfleld ....
, Hettinger ..
Kidder
I Logan
; Mercer
I Mcintosh..,
I McKenxie..
1 McLean ....
Montiallle.
Morton
OUver
Renville....
Sheridan ...
Stark
Stevens.....
Stntsmani.
I Villard
I Wallace....
Ward
163,840
471,040
348,160
042,080
285,660
358,400
060
287,060
3,187.840
3,620
20,200
624, 640
865,120
230,880
184,480 .
178.660
868,640
06,160 .
810,900 I
788,960
150.840
614,400
811,700
176^680
737,280
216,200
474, 560
85.640
473,440
02,120
1, 108* 080
737,280
042,080
322,"666'
1.187,840
20.200
1,882,400
207.860
668,160
8io.*i6o*
1.653,000
614,400
447.760
276,480
787,280
28,040
1,106,020
8^640
506,880
a See Santa F4 district.
6 See Roswell district
0 The unsnrveyed lands in this district were not stated by counties in the report of the
cers. They form a strip on the east boundary of the Territory about 100 miles long and 4
d Total in Las Cruces and Santa F6 districts, 7,721,602 acres.
e Bee Folsom district.
/See Laa Cruces district
n Total in Bismarck, I>eTirs Lake, and Fargo districts, 67,360 acres.
h TotAl in Bismarck and Fargo districts, 57,520 acres.
i Tot«l in Bismarck and Fargo districts, 300,840 acres.
255,060
1.660,120
1.086,440
1, 884, 160
285,560
680.060
060
287,060
2,875,680
3.620
40,400
2, 007, 040
26.M20
230,880
301. 84»
178,060
1,036,800
86,166
1,638,400
2,300,650
150,840
1,228,800
760,666
452,160
1.474,560
288,240
1.580,480
171.886
080,820
district oflB-
miies wide.
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Statement by States, Territories, and land disiriota, etc^Continaed.
K^ORTH DAKOTA— ConUnued.
Land dUtrict.
Coanty.
Surveyed
land.
I ^-^^^^^y^ I Total area.
Bismarck .
Wells a...
Williams .
Wynn....
Total. . .
Devil's Lake.
Acres. Acrei. ! Acres.
188,680 161,280 : 844,960
317,440 460,800 , 778,240
266,240 266,240 , 982,480
11.540,680 13,916,000 | &25,455,680
Total.
Fargo.
Benson c
Bottiman .
Church ...
Edd^d....
McHenry .
Pierce ....
Ramsey e .
Rolette ...
Towner . . .
Wells d ...
220,000
200.000
68.000
36.000
626.000
400, 000
27,000 j
210,000 I
260,000 '
166.000
276.000
292,500 i
576,000
230,000
138.000 I
^5,600
276, 000
46,000
496,000
492,500
643,000
86,000
755^000
538.000
27,000
296,500
626,000
211,000
Barnes
Cass ,
Dickev
Eddyd
Fosterd ....
GrifCffs ,
La Moure...
Ransom —
Richland ...
Sarfrent
I Steele
I Stutsman d
2, 101, 000
16,200 i.
480 j.
69. 800 i .
30,400 .
54,000 '.
28,400 .
29.600 .
18,300 .
22,700 !.
5,800 ,.
720 ,.
71,600 |.
1,919,000 4,020,000
Total..
Grand Forks .
348,000
Total
Total in North Dakota.
Benson/ •.
Cavalier
Grand Forks
Kelson
Pembina
Ramsey/
Walsh
Unorganized conntrj^.
29,840
164,400 I
138,000
29.840
292,400
42,640
42,640
21,560 i
29.860
60,520
92,000
28,000
92,000 ,
113,660
52,860
142,620
328, 820
846,000 I
678.820
14, 318, 400 16, 179, 000
80, 497, 400
OKLAHOMA.
Gnthtie
1
Ko. lo !
No.2
A 6, 360
1 5, 920
240
No.3
No. 6
Total
11 520
Kinfffisber
ifo.i
j39
jllO
1,162
9,055
No.2
No. 8
No.4
No.6
Total ...:
10,583
Total in Oklahoma
22,053
t S. 672. A40
8,694,698
a Total in Bismarck and Devil's Lake districts, 256,960 acres.
b Besides this quantity, there is considerable land within the indemnity limits of the Northern Pa-
cific Railroad, bat it is probable that it will all be needed to satisfy the grant of indemnity to said
road.
e Total in DeTil's Lake and Grand Forks districts, 526,810 acres.
d See Bismarck district.
c Total in Devil s Lake and Grand Forks districts, 140,660 acres.
/See Devil's Lake district.
a See Kingfisher district.
A Total in Guthrie and Kingfisher districts, 5,399 acres.
i Total in Guthrie and Kingfisher districts, 6,030 acres.
j See Gnthrie district.
AThe nnsurveyed lands in Oklahoma are in the *' Public Land Strip.'
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Statement by States, Territories, and land districts, etc, — OoDtinued.
OREGO^^
Land district.
County.
Surveyed . Unsurveyed . fr«*«i «..i»o
lanci. land. : Total area.
BuniB.,
Total .
LaOrande..
Bakor ...
Crook —
Grant ....
fiarney...
Malheur.
Baker ....
Grant ....
Morrow .
Union —
Umatilla.
Wallowa.
Total .
Lakeriew...
J.
Total ..
Oregon City .
Crook....
Klamath .
Harney..
Lake ....
Malheur .
r
Total.
Roaebnrgh .
Benton
Clackamaa...
Clatsap
Colnmoia
Linn
Marion
Multnomah..
Polk
Tillamook . . .
Waahinzton .
Yamhiir.....
Benton
; Coae
I Curry
Douglas . . .
Jaokaon . . .
Josephine .
Klamath . .
Lane
Linn
Total.
The Dalles..
I
Crook ....
Gilliam...
Grant ....
Morrow .
Sherman
Wasco...
Total
Total in Oregon.
Acres.
Acres.
Acres.
239.258
87, 057
a 276, 315
171, 120
b 171, 120
1. 185, 826
233,074
0 1,415,900
2, 370, 069
380,160
d 2, 756, 229
1,932,623
1, 362, 720
e3. 295. 348
6,904,896
2,013,011
7,017,007
766.988
225.600
/992.583
1. 385, 516
14,080
/1, 399. 506
227,278
o 227, 273
1,448,899
1,077,799
371,166
438,402
96,520
534,022
635,600
799,988
1.435.588
4, 531. 573
1.507,288
6.038,861
1,114.716
286,000
/1, 400, 716
1, 298. 993
896,000
kU 694, 993
1,443,029
572,000
/2, 015, 029
2, 626, 187
704,000
3,330,187
1,006,808
968.000
/1. 974, 806
7, 480, 733
2, 936, 000
10, 425, 733
70,640
121, 600
i 102, 210
34.160
460.640
494,800
35.820
288.000
323, 820
29,680
30.000
59.680
58,600
506.880
J565.480
13,820
506,880
520, 700
3,520
60.000
63,520
25,320
69.1-iO
94.440
173, 400
258.440
426,840
18,000
57.600
75,600
26.720
26,720
489.680
2. 354, 160
2.848.840
23.860
88,720
it 62. 580
184.960
396,537
581,487
107,680
706,760
814,880
328, 130
1.479,800
1. 807. 030
874,810
374,490
748.800
84,200
769,900
854.100
10,060
231,470
2242,430
415,230
1.420.600
1,836.730
24,780
316.620
Jt.840,300
1,654,060
6,783.687
7,287,747
2,000.640
68.000
/2, 068, 640
256,000
17,000
273,000
261.400
15,000
/27«,400
293,000
2.600
m206,600
38,000
88,000
660,000
257,666
817,500
8,409,040
350,100
n 8, 750, 140
28, 378, 062
14,804,246
38.273,228
a Total in Bums and La Grande districts, 1,268,000 acres.
b Tutal in Bums, Lakeview, and The Dalles districts, 3,630,476 acres.
e Total in Bums, La Grande, and The Dalles districts, 3,094,896 aoren.
d Total in Burns and Lakevlew districts, 4,771,258 acres.
e Total in Bums and Lakeview disirlcts, 5,270.151 acres.
/ See Bums district.
g Total in La Grande and The Dalles districts, 522.873 acres.
A Total in Lakeview and Robeourgh districts. 1,937,423 acres.
i Total in Oregon City and Roseburgh districts, 254^820 acres.
} Totul in Oregon City and Roseburgh districts, 90I>,780 acres.
k See Oregon City district.
I See Lakeriew district,
m See La Grande district.
n In addition to this total the officers report 1,457,000 acres within the granted limits of Northern
Pacifl 0 Railroad as liable to forfeiture.
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Statement by States j Ttsrritories, and Jnnd dietriotSf efe.>— Continued.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
Land district.
County.
Surveyed
Aerei.
2,000
109,520
95,480
186,560
83,640
Unsurreyed
land.
Aere».
Total area.
Aberdeen
Brown
Aeret.
Campbell
'
Bdmuxids
1
McPhereon
Walworth
.-.:..::...:. .I::::;:.;;:.:
Total
[
477,200
Brule
Bui&lo
f.'^f^S;:::::::::;:;:
Nowlln
Lyman
Pratt
Preaho
Stanley
Chamberlain . . .. .
27.514
24.560
802"
19,235
27,614
24,560
138,240
391,680
441,280
108, 638
570,240
395,486
31.680
138,240
391,680
0441,280
109.440
570, 240
414,721
631,680
Total
72,111
2,077,244
2, 149, 355
Beadle
Faulk
Hand
Huron
1,449
22,470
45.822
117,854
79.445
496
37,455
Hvde
1
Potter
Spink
Sully ...
Total
304,991
Mitchell
el, 000
Hushes
Pierre
100,957
Nowlln
d 368, 649
92,160
d646.120
552,060
Pyatt
Stanley
Sterling
Total
100. 957
1,668,880
1, 750, 887
Butte
Bapid City
170, 525
460, 000
690,000
437.000
575,000
598,000
600,000
345,000
207,000
460,000
630, 526
Bnrdiok (unorganised)
Custer
690,000
157,980
604,980
575,000
048,860
350,860
Harding (unorganised)
Lawrence....
600,000
380,300
384,140
35,800
127, 140
194,620
Meade
Pennington
654,620
Total
1,086,425
4,462,000
5,498.426
Brookings
Watertown
120
9,5M
3,153
12,741
2,360
6,540
500
9,296
1,080
........
Clark..;.
1
Codington
Day
Deuel
Grant
Hamlin
Mur^hi^n ,
1
1
'
Roberts
1
'* 1
Total
1
45.290
Charles Mix
Yankton
5,400
5,400
Total in South Dakota
2,043,374
8,198,124 1
10,241,458
a Total in Chamberlain and Pierre districts, 809,920 acres.
b Total in Chamberlain and Pierre districts, 676.800 acres.
e The officers report only a few l8olat«d tracts Tscant in the entire district, not aggregating more
than about 1,000 acres.
d See Chamberlain district
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Statement hy States^ Territoriea, and land districts, etc.— Continued.
UTAH.
Land dlatrict.
County.
Salt Lake City.
.1 Bfaver
I Box Elder...
Cache
j Davig
JBmery
Garfield
' Iron
. Jnab
Kane
I Millard
Morgan
I Piute
I Rich
Salt Lake....
San Pete
I Sevier
' Summit
Tooele
1 Uintah
I Utah
Waaatch ....
Washington .
W«bcr
Total in district and Territory.
WASHINGTON.
North Yakima.
ToUl.
Seattle
Douglaa ..
Kittitaas..
Okanogan
Yakima...
Chehalis...
Clallam
, Inland
, Jefferson . .
King
' Kitsap
' Mason
I Pierce
* San Juan . .
Skagit
; Snohomish.
Thurston..
' Whatcom..
Total....
Spokane Falls .
Adams
Lincoln . . .
Spokane . .
Stevens . . .
Whitman.
Total .
Surveyed
Und.
1
Unsurveyed i
land.
1
Total area.
Acre*.
Acres. \
Acres.
338,600
1,700,000 1
2,038,600
495,700
2,500,000 f
2,995,700
100,000
158,000
258.000
11,800
700,000 !
711,300
461,600
2,300,000 1
2,761.600
216,700
2,300.000 1
2, 516, 700
687.300
1,920,000 ;
2,507,300
710,600
1.600,000
2,210,600
379,800
1.610,000
1.969,300
1,108.800
2, 500, 000
3,608.800
52,200
600.000
552.200
224.500
1,380,000
1,604,600
292,000
7.000
299,000
3,200
130, 000
133,200
128,700
860,000
988.700
216, 100
1, 460, 000
1,676,100
223,100
1, 000, 000
1,223,100
779,600
2,500,000
3.279,600
158. 500
1,644,000 >
1. 802, 500
186,800
1,000,000
1.186,800
03.000
207,000 1
270,000
189, 500
1,000,000
1. 180, 500
12,000
300,000 i
312,000
7, 029, 100
29,176,000 !
36,206,100
973, 181
115, 200 1
1,088,361
296,810
1,036,800 '
1,333,610
1 284, 180
2,995.200
3.270,380
496,820
921,600
a U 417. 420
2,049,971
5,068.800
7,118,771
4,801
379,040
6 383,841
8,821
699,637 ,
703.468
120
. 120
1,608
710,096
711. 703
320
1,985,360
1,925,680
432
432
9,774
189.120
198,894
400
276,480
e 276, 880
1,920
5,411
1,920
820,053
832,364
880
838,340 ,
839,220
720
d720
4.673
1, 354, 880
1,350,553
34,880
7.199,905
7, 234. 785
192. 428
e 192, 428
231,642
83,520
316,162
56,180
161,280
217.460
311,793
1,497,600
1,809,303
27,800
/ 27, 800
810,843
1, 742, 400 •
2, 562, 743
5.580
71,000 '
i^ 76,581)
4,981
109,440
114,371
20,676
163,840
184, 516
216.046
65,020
281.966
23.529
256.000
279,529
17, 513
279,680
297, 19n
22,742
108, 560 .
131,302
Vancouver Chehalis
I Clarke
Cowlitz
I Klickitat
I Lewis
Skamania
I Pacific
a Total in North Yakima and Walla Walh» districts, 1,487,660 acres.
b Total in Seattle and Vancouver districts, 460,421 acres.
e Total in Seattle and Vancouver districts, 319.440 acres.
d Total in Seattle and Vancouver districts. 4,<?00 acres.
e Total in Spokane Falls and Walla WalU districts, 246,848 acres.
/Total in Spokane Falls and Walla Walla distrlcto, 95,640 aoros.
g See Seattle district.
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Statement by States^ TerritarieSf and land districts, etc. — Continued.
W ASHl SrGTON— Continued .
Lftod diitrtci.
coo-ty- ^T'i*^ ''"ilSd?"'
Total area.
Vancouver
1 Acret. Aer«9,
Piorco ' , 1,600 40,960
Thunton 3.280 ,
Aerei.
a42,560
0^280
39,700
4
Wahkiakum | 29.460 10,240
Total
1 346,357 1,105,640
1,450,997
"WftlU Walla
Adams ! 64,420 1
654,420
Asotin 1 98.240' 57,600
ColnmbU 25.140 166,620
Franklin 817,480 i
166,840
180,660
317,480
179,380
160,800
93,960
6 67,840
e 70, 340
Total
Total in Washington
Gsrfield 18,000 161,280
Klickitat 160,800
Walla Walla 92.960 ,
Whitman 67.840
Yakima 70,240
i 905,120 374,400
1,279,520
1 4,156,171 1 16,491,145
19,646,316
WISCONSIN.
Ashland
Ashland
d 50, 000
Bayfield
52,000
e 16, 000 :
65.000
/ 20, 000
p 20, 000
Burnett
Douglas -
Sawyer
Wasnbum
Total
222,000
Ean Claire
Barron
2,619 1
2,296 1
A 101,223 •
7, 032 ;
8,748 '
720
3,878 i
2,610
160
21,022
80 i
720 1
16, 147 ;
147 1
Bufli&lo
Burnett
Clark
Chippewa
Crawfoid
Dunn -.
Eau Claire
Grant
Jackson -
La Fayette
La Crosse
Monroe.
Pepin
Poik
9,675
t9.600
280
1.580
A 22, 175
40
Price
Richland
Sank
Sawyer
St. Croix
Taylor
i6,W0
1,350
750
A27,000
Trempealeau
Vernon
Washburn
Total
246,500
Kenasha
Florence
9,040
l;8,200
11,020
37,840
8,780
440
Forest
Langlade
Mannette
Oconto
Shawano
ToUl
66,320
a See Seattle district.
0 See Spokane Falls district
e See North Yakima district.
d Total in Ashland and Wansau districts, 65,000 acres.
e Total in Ashland and Ean CUire districts, 116,223 acres.
/ Total in Ashland and Eau Claire districts. 42.175 acres.
g Total in Ashland and Ean Claire districts, 47,000 acres.
A See Ashland district.
i Total in Ean Claire and Wansau districts, 17,100 acres.
J Total in Eau Claire and Wansau districts, 16,640 acres.
k Total in Menasha and Wausau districts, 38,200 acres.
1 Total In ICenasha and Wansau districts, 11.020 acres.
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Statement hy States j Territories ^ and land districts, etc.—Continued,
WISCONSIN— CoDtlnn©d.
Land district.
County.
Wauaau .
Total
Total in Wiacooain .
Adams
I Ashland...
I Forest
Jonean
Laoglade ..
, Lincoln —
Marathon..
Maiquette.
Oneina
! Portage —
Price
Shawano...
Taylor
Wanshara .
Wood
Sorrevcd
land.
Aere4.
7,600
a 5, 000
6 80,000
2,0OU
b 10. 000
50.000
1,500
2,000
150. 000
2.000
c7,500
1,000
c 10, 000
2,000
5,000
Unaurveyed x^tala«».
Acres.
Acres.
285,500
819.820
WYOMING.
Buffalo..
Converse .
j Crook ....
Fremont..
Johnson ..
Natrdna ..
Sheridan..
Weston...
Total.
Eranston . . .
Fremont
Sweetwater.
DinU
Total.
Cheyenne...
•I-
! Albany
I Carbon
I Con-verse ....
I Ftemont
I Laramie
Natrona
Sweetwater. .
Total
Total in Wyoming.,
(2 84,200
2, 065, 800
e 838, 600
4,065,000
4 55.000 I
1,345,300
2,620,100
11, 976, 500 / 575, 000 12, 561, 500
8,463,840 I
4,492,800 '
2,650,200 '
4, 480, 000
412, 160
4, 147, 200
77,943,840
^4,904,960
6,797.400
10,606,840 I 9,039,860 19.646,200
1, 452, 160
8,004,800
3, 646, 880
636,880
2. 922, 880
2, 873, 760
567,600
46.000
460,000
46,500
920, 000
23.000
322,000
1. 498, 160
8.464,800
i8, 593.880
7l,566,8S0
2,946,880
3.105,700
i 567, 600
14,994,860
87, 578, 100
1,817,500 16,812,800
11,431,860 48, 010, C
a See Ashland dlstriot.
b See Henash* district,
e See Baa Claire district.
dSee Cheyenne district.
« See Eranston and Cheyenne dibtriots.
/The nnsurreyed lands in Bnfhlo district were not stated by counties in the report ot the district
officers.
a See BaflUo and Cheyenne districts.
A Total in Svanston and Cheyenne districts, 5,462.460 acres.
i See Buflhlo district,
t See Buffalo and Bvanston districts.
K See Evanston district.
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RECAPITULATION OF VACANT LANDS IN THE PUBLIC-LAND STATES AND TERRI-
TORIES.
Sute or Territorv.
Surveyed
lana.
Alabama
Aiisona.
Arkansas
California.
Colorado
Florida
Idaho...'
Towa
Xansaa
Louisiana ....
Michigan
Minncflota
Mississippi ...
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada.
New Mexico...
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
Sontb Dakota.
UUh.
Unsnrveyed
land.
Washington
Wisconsin...
Wyoming . . .
Aeret.
1,106,060
11, 088, 626
4, 1102, 320
38. 760, 56*
34,364,550 j
2, 283. 626
3,938,277
2,000
766,791 .
1.243,460
832,707 .
2, 902, 034
1,407,480 .
1,161,463 ,
9,611,316 '
11,226,684 t.
27, 316. 167 I
39,660,806
14,318,400 '
22, 063 •
23. 878, 982
2. 043. 374
7, 029, 100
4, 155, 171 ,
819,320 ;.
37,678,200 '
Acres.
87,' 716,' 426*
15, 172, 164 I
5,639,896
3, 840, 800
43,019,013 i
3.000 !
" 'ii5,393 i
* 4'6ii.526 -
"'66," 196,312 I
"23," 488,' 873
16,699.520 !
16, 179, 000
a 3, 672, 640
14,894,246 l
8, 198, 124
29,176,000
15,491,145
' "ii,'43i, 860'
Total.
Aeret.
1, 105, 06»
48, 699. 062
4, 902, 82»
53. 922. 71S
39,994,446
5, 624. 426
46, 967. 290
5,000
765, 791
1,368.863
832, 707
6, 913, 564
1, 4Q7, 48»
1. 151. 463
64, 807, 627
11. 226, 584
60, 804. 640
56, 360, 326
30,497.400
3,604.698
38. 278, 228
]0,241,49S
36. 205, 100
19, 646, 316
819. 32(^
49, 010. 06O
In the United States 282,772.439 303,444,422 6 586,216,861
a The nnsarveyed lands in Oklahoma are in the Pablic Land Strip.
6 This aggregate is exclasive of Ohio, Indiiina, and Illinuis, in which, if any public land reniaini». it
consists or a few small isolated tracts ; it is exclusive of the Cherokee Strip, containing 8,044.644 acres.
and all other lands owned or claimed by the Indians in the Indian Territory west of the 96th degree of
longitude, contemplate<l to be made a part of the public domain bv the fourteenth section of the act of
March 2. 1RM9 (25 U. S. SUt., 1005), and it is also exclusive of Alaska, containing 577.390 square miles,
or 369,520,600 acres, of which not more than 1,000 acres have been entered under the mineral lawH.
GREAT SIOUX INDIAN EESERVATION.
The following circular, iDcluding a copy of the act of Congress, ap-
proved March 2, 1889, and proclamation of the President relating to
the '' Great Sioax Indian Eeservation " may be of interest to the genera)
pablic :
fRegisters and receivers of the United States land offices at Bismarck, K. Dak., Huron, Pierre,.
Chamberlain, and Rapid city, S. Dak., and O'Neill, Nebr., March 26, 1890.)
Yoo/attention is called to the provisions of an act of Congress approved March 2,
1689 (35 Stats., 888). entitled "An act to divide a portion of the reservation of the
Sioax nation of Inaians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the^re-
Unqnfshment of the Indian title to the remaindeT, and for other purposes,'^ a copy of
which is hereto attached.
The first six sections of said act set apart certain tracts for separate reservations,
and do not appear to call for further remark in this commnnication.
The seventn section provides for allotments to certain members of the Santee Sioux
tribe of Indians npon the reservation occupied hy them in Nebraska ; confirms all
allotments to said Indians heretofore made upon said reservation, and provides for
allotments, or payments in lieu thereof, to the members of the Flandreau band of
Sioux Indians, and does not appear to call for further remark.
The eiehth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth sections provide for the allotment
in severalty of the lands embraced in the separate reservations established by the
act, and for the purchase and disposal by the United States of lands embraced therein
at some future time, and do not appear to call for further remark.
The thirteenih section provides that any Indian receiving and entitled to rations
and annuities at either of the agencies mentioned in the act at the time the same
shall take effect, but residing upon any portion of said great reservation not in-
cluded in either of the separate reservations herein established, may, at his option.
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within a stated time, have the allotment to which he would he otherwise entitled
on one of said separate reservations upon the land where such Indian may then re-
side.
Yon are therefore directed to exorcise every care and precaution to prevent the en-
try or Aliug for any lands in said great reservation which are in the occupancy of
Indiaus entitled to allotments under the provisions of said act, which occupancy is to
be protected to the full extent of the rights granted to the Indians therein. The oc-
oupancy and possession of the Indians is regarded as sufficient notice of their rights
to all parties concerned. You will advise all parties intending to become settlers,
either as agriculturists or under the townsite laws, of the extent of the right<s of the
Indians and of the impossibility of their acquiring rights in conflict therewith, and
impressing on them the wrong and injustice of seeking to interfere with the Indians
in their rightful occupancy ot the lands, and that they can gain nothing thereby.
To protect the Indians as fully as possible from any wrong or imposition by which
they might be deprived of the benefit intended to be secured to them under the law,
whether it have the character of open violence or some form of trickery and fraud, in
the speciofls guise of mutual agreement for exchange of values, no purchase by white
persons of the settlements or improvements of the Indians will be recognized as hav-
ing any viilidity, and their right to take allotments of the land on which they reside,
at their option, will be recognized and enforced whenever claimed by them within
the period of one year prescribed in said section 13, notwithstanding any pretended
purchase of their improvements that may be set up against their, or any allegation
that may be made of their removal from the land and abandonment thereof in favor
of white claimants
No- entries or filings, or any settlements, so far as you can prevent them, will be
allowed upon tbat portion of said reservation which is described in the act .approved
March 28, 188*2 (22 Stats., p. :J6), until the Indian title is extinguished as provided by
4aid act, and when the Indian title is so extinguished all lands described in said act not
allotted thereunder '' shnll be open to settlement as provided in this act.'"
Section 14 provides for regulations whereby the use of water necessary for agricult-
ural purposes upon the separate reservations provided for by the act may be secured,
^n(\ does not appear to call tor further remark.
Section ir» ratifies and makes valid all allotments of land taken within or without
the limitM of any of the separate reservations established by this act, in conformity
with the provisions of the treaty with the great Sioux nation, concluded April 29,
18C8 (15 Slats., 635).
Section 16 provides that the acceptance of the act shall release the Indian title to
«aid great reservation, with the exceptions hereinbefore named, and also for certain
railroad rights, and does not appear to call for further remark.
Section 17 provides for schools, stock, and seeds for the Indians, punishment for
trading with the Indiaus, and appropriation and expenditure of a permanent fund for
the Indians, and does not appear to call for further remark in this communication.
Section 18 grants to religious societies, with certain limitations, any land in said
•great reservation occupied for religious purposes. Said tracts are therefore reserved
n'oni dispOHal under the provisions of this act.
Section 19 provides that the provisions of the said treaty concluded April 29, 1868,
not in conflict with the provisions of this act are continued in force, and section 20
provides for school houses for the Indians. Neither of these sections appears to call
for further remark.
Section 21 restores to the public domain the Great Sioux Reservation, with the ex-
ception of American island, which is donated to Chamberlain, S. Dak.; Farm island,
which is donated to Pierre, S. Dak. ; Niobrara island, which is donated to Niobrara,
Nebr. and the separate reservations described in said act, and provides for the dis-
posal of said restored lands to actual settlers only, under the provisions of the home-
-stead law, with certain mod ideations, and under the law relating totownsites. Pro-
vision is made that each settler shall pay for the land taken by him, in addition to the
fee and commissions on ordinary homesteads, $1.25 per acre for all lands disposed of
withih the tirst three years after the taking eifect of the act, and the sum of 75 cents
per acre for all lauds disposed of within the next two years following thereafter, and
50 cents per acrt' for the residue of the lands then undisposed of. Said additional
amount should not he collected when the original entry is made, but is required to be
paid when final proof is tendered.
The price which actual settlers are required to pay for said lands becomes fixed at
the date of original entry, and any subsequent settler of land so entered and after-
wards abandoned will be required to pay the same amount per acre as the settler who
made the first entry.
Your attention is directed to the general circular issued by this office January 1,
1889, pages 13 to 30 inclusive, 42 to 57 inclusive, and 86 to 90 inclusive, as containing
the homestead laws and official regulations thereunder. These laws and regulations
will control your action, but modified by the special provisions of the act of March 2,
1889 (25 Stats., 854). (See circular of March 8, 1889, 8 L. D., 314.)
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Thestatate provides for the disposal of these lands " to actaal settlers under the
homestead laws only f and, while providing that '* the rights of honorably discharged
Union soldiers and sailors in the late civil war as defined and described in sections
2304 and 2:i05 of the Revised Statutes (see pages 24, 25, and 26, of said circular of Jan-
nary 1, 1889) shall not be abridged," except as to the said additional payment, makes
no mention of sections 2306 and 2307 thereof^ nnder which soldiers and sailors, their
widows and oriiban children, are permitted, with regard to the public lands gener-
ally, to make additional entries, in certain cases, free from the reqtrirement of actual
settlement on the entered tract. (Seepages 26 and 27 of said circular.) it is there-
fore held that soldiers^'or sailors' additional entries can not he made on these late
under said sections 2306 and 2307 unless the party claiming will, in addition to the
proof required on pages 26 and 27 of said circular, make affidavit that the entry is
made for actual settlement and cultivation, according to section 2291, as modified by
sections 2304 and 2305 of the Revised Statutes ; and the prescribed proof of compliance
therewith will be required to be prodnced, and the additional pay»nent prescribed by
this act will be required to be made, before the issue of final certificate.
It is provided in the statute that section 2301 of the Revised Statutes shall not ap-
ply to these lands. (See pages 19 and 68 of said circular of January 1, 1889.) There-
fore, entries made thereon will not be subject to commutation under that section.
In allowing entries under the townsite laws ^ou will be governed by the
laws and regulations as contained in the circular of instructions relative to townsites
on public lands of July 9, 1^86.
You are instructed to report filings and entries upon said lands in a separate, dis-
tinct, and consecutive series, and on separate abstracts, commencing with R. &, R.
No. 1, in each series, and report and account for the money received on account thereof
in separate monthly and qnajrterly retuins.
Provision is alst) made in said section 21 of this act for the purchase by the govern-
ment of lands unsold at the end of ten years from the taking effect of the act, for the
reservation of highways around every section of said lands, and for the removal of
Indians from the islands named in the section ; but these do not appear to call for fur-
ther remark.
Section 22 provides for the disposition of the proceeds of sales of said lands, and does
.not appear to call for further remark.
Section 23 provides for entry, under the homestead, preemption, or townsite laws,
within ninety days after the taking effect of the act, by parties who, between Feb-
raary 27, lH8f), and April 17, 1885, entered upon or made settlements with intent to
enter the same, under said laws, upon certain lands of said great reservation therein
named ; but such settlers are required to comply with the laws regulating such entries,
and, as to homesteads, with the special provisions of the act, before obtaining title to
the lands, and pre-emptiou claimants are required to reside on their lands the same
length of time, before procuring title, as homestead claimants nnder this act.
You will therefore require each applicant under the provisions of this section to
show by affidavit, corroborated by two witnesses, that he is qualified to make entry
under said provisions, giving in full all the facts in connection with his alleged entry
or settlement between said dates.
Section 24 reserves sections 16 and 36 in every township of said lands for the use and
benefit of the public schools. You will therefore allow no entries or filings upon said
sections.
Section 25 appropriates money for the survey of said lands; section 26 provides that
all expenses for the survey, platting, and disposal of said lands shall be borne by the
United States; section 27 appropriates money to pay for ponies taken from the In-
dians; section 2--^ declares the method by which the act shall become effective; sec-
tion 29 appropriates money to be used in obtaining the ansent of he Indians to the
provisions of the act; and section 30 repeals all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with
the provisions of the act. None of these sections appear to call for further remark.
It is thought that the foregoing will be found sufficient for your guidance in any
cases that may ari8e, but should cases containing exceptional features arise you will
snbmit the same for special instructions.
Approved :
John W. Noble,
Seci'eiary.
[Public— No. 148.]
AN ACT to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux nation of Indiana in Dakota into sep-
arate reservations and to Af'cure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and tor
other purposes.
Be it enactedhy the Senate and House of Reprenentatir&i of the United Siateft of Amerioa
in Congress assembled, That the following tract of land, being a part of the great res-
ervation of the Sioux nation, in the Territory of Dakota, is hereby set apart for a
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permauent reservation for the Indians reoeivinfi; rations and annuities at the Pine
Ridge agency, in the Territory of Dakota, namely : Beginning at the intersection of
the one hundred and third meridian of longitude with the northern boundary of the
State of Nebraska ; thence north along said meridian to the sonth fork of the '
Cheyenne river, and down said stream to the mouth of Battle creek; thence due
east to White river ; thence down White river to the mouth of Black Pipe creek on
White river; thnnce due south to said north line of the State of Nebraska ; thence
west on said nor^h line to the place of beginning. Also the following tract of land
situate in the State of Nebraska, namely : Beginning at a point on the boundary line
. between the State of Nebraska and theTerritory of Dakota where the range line be-
tween ranges forty-four and forty -five west of "the sixth principal meridian, in the
Territory of Dakota, intersects said boundary line ; thence east Hlong said boundary
line five miles; thence due south five miles ; thence due west ten miles; thence due
north to said boundary line ; thence due east along said boundary line to the place of
beginning : Provided, That the said tract of laud in the State of Nebraska shall be
reserved, by Executive order, only so long as it may be needed for the use and pro-
tection of the Indians receiving rations and annuities at the Pine Ridge agency.
Sbc. 2 That the following tract of land, being a part of the said great reservation
of the Sioux nation, in the Territory of Dakota, is hereby set apart for a permanent
reservation for the Indians receiving rations and annuities at the Rosebud agency,
in said Territory of Dakota, namely : Commencing in the middle of the main channel
of the Missouri river at the intersection of the south line of Brule county; thence
down said middle of the main channel of said river to the intersection of the ninety-
ninth degree of west longitnde.from Greenwich ; thence due south to the forty-third
parallel of latitude; thence west along said parallel to a point due south from the
mouth of Black Pipe creek; thence due north to the month of Black'Pipe creek;
thence down White river to a point intersecting the west line of Gregory county
extended north ; thence south on said extended west line of Gregory county to the
intersection of the south line of Brule county extended west; thence due east on said
south line of Brule county extended to the'point of beginning in the Missouri river,
including entirely within said reservation all islands, if any, in said river.
Sec. *X That the following tract of land, being a part of the said great reservation
of the Sioux nation, in the Territory of Dakota, is hereby set apart for a permanent
reservation for the Indians receiving rations and annuities at the Standing Rock
agency, in the said Territory of Dakota, namely; Beginning at a point in the center
of the main channel of the Missouri river, opposite the mouth of Cannon Ball river;
thence down said center of the main channel to a point ten miles north of the mouth
of the Moreau river, including also within said reservation all islands, if any, in said
river; thence due west to the one hundred and second degree of west longitude from
Greenwich ; thence north along said meridian to it^ intersection with the south branch
of Cannon Ball river, also known as Cedar creek ; thence down said south branch
of Cannon Ball river to its intersection with the main Cannon Ball river, and down
said main Cannon Ball river to the center of the main channel of the Missouri river
at the place of beginning.
Sec. 4. That the following tract of land, being a part of the said great reserva-
tion of the Sioux nation, in the Territory of Dakota, is hereby set apart for a perma-
nent reservation for the Indians receiving rations and annuities at the Cheyenne
river agency, in the said Territory of Dakota, namely; Beginning at a point m the
center of the main channel of the Missouri river ten miles north of the month of the
Moreau river, said point being the southeastern corner of the Standing Rock reeer-
vation; thence down said center of the main channel of the Missouri river, indading
also entirely within said reservation all islands, if any, in said river, to a point oppo-
site the mouth of the Cheyenne river; thence west to said Che;j;renne river, ana np
the same to its intersection with the one hundred and second meridian of longitude ;
thence north along said meridian to its intersection with a line dne west from a point
in the Missouri river ten miles north of the month of the Moreau river; thence dne
east to the place of beginning.
Sec. 5, That the foUowing tract of land, being a part of the said great reserva-
tion of the Sionx nation, in the Territory of Dakota, is hereby set apart for a perma-
nent reservation for the Indians receiving rations and annuities at the Lower Brule
agency, in said Territory of Dakota, namely: Beginning on the Missouri river at
Old Fort George ; thence running due west to the western boundary of Presho county;
thence running south on said western boundary to the forty-fourth degree of latitude ;
thence on said forty-fourth degree of latitude to western boundary of town^^hip num-
ber seventy- two; thence south on said township western line to an intersecting line
running due west from Fort Lookout: thence eastwardly on said line to the center
of the main channel of the Missouri river at Fort Lookout; thence north in the
center of the main channel of the said river to the original starting point.
Sec. 6. That the following tract of land, being a part of the great reservation of the
Sioux nation, in the Territory of Dakota, is hereby set apart for a permanent reserva-
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tion for the Indians receiving rations and annuities at the Crow Creek agency, in
said Territory of Dakota, namely : The whole of township one hundred and six, range
seventy ; township one hundred and seven, range seventy -one j township one hundred
and eight, range seventy-one ; township one hundred and eight, range seventy-two ;
township one hundred and nine, range seventy-two, and the south half of township
one hundred and nine, range seventy -one, and all except sections one, two, three,
four, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve of township one hundred and seven, range seventy,
and such parts as lie on the east or left hank of the Missouri river, of the following
townships, namely : Township one hundred and six, range seventy-one ; township
one hundred and seven, range seventy-two; township one hundred and eight, range •
seventy-three ; township one hundred and eight, range seventy-four ; township one
hundred and eight, range seventy-five ; township one hundred and eight, range
seventy-six; township one hundred and nine, range seventy-three; township one
hundred and nine, range seventy -four; south half of township one hundred and nine,
range seventy-fiVe, and township one hundred and seven, range seventy-three; also
the west half of towi^ship one bnndred and six, range sixty-nine, and sections six-
teen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty- one, twenty-eight, twenty-nine,
thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, and thirty-three, of township one hundre<l and seven,
range sixty- nine.
Sec. 7. That each member of the Santee Sioux tribe of Indians now occupying a
reservation in the State of Nebraska not having already taken allotments shall be
entitled to allotmeots upon said reserve in Nebraska as follows: To each head of a
family, one-quarter of a section ; to each single person over eighteen years of age,
one-eighth of a section ; to each orphan child under eighteen years, one-eighth of a
■ section ; to each other person under eighteen years of age now living, one-sixteenth
of a section ; with title thereto, in accordance with the provisions of article six of
the treaty concluded April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and the
agreement with said Santee Sioux approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-seven, and rights under the same in all other respects conforming
to this act. And said Santee Sioux shall be entitled to all other benefits under this
act in the same manner and with the same conditions as if they were residents upon
said Sioux Reservation, receiving rations at one of the agencies herein named : Pro-
vidtdf That all allotments heretofore made to said Santee Sioux in Nebraska are here-
by ratified and confirmed; and each member of the Flandreau band of Sioux Indians
is hereby authorized to take allotments on the Qreat Sioux Reservation, or in lieu
therefor shall be paid at the rate of one dollar per acre for the land to which they
would be entitled, to be paid out of the proceeds of lands relinquished under this
act, which shall be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior ; and
said Flandreau band of Sionx Indians is in all other respects entitled to the benefits
of this act the same as if receiving rations and annuities at any of the agencies afore-
said.
Sec. 8. That the President is hereby aathorlzed and required, whenever in his
opinion any reservation of such Indians, or any part thereof, is advantageous for
agricultural or gra^ng purposes, and the progress in civilization of the Indians re-
ceiving rations on either or any of said reservations shall be' such as to encourage the
belief that an allotment in severalty to such Indians, or any of them, would be for
the best interest of said IndianSi to cause said reservation, or so much thereof as is
necessary, to be surveyed, or resurveyed, and to allot the lands in said reservation in
severaltv to the Indians located thereon as aforesaid, in quantities as follows : To each
head of a family, three hundred and twenty acres ; to each single person over
eighteen years of age, one-fourth of a section ; to each orphan child under eighteen
years of age, one-fourth of a section ; and to each other person under eighteen j^ears
now living, or who may be born prior to the date of the order of the President direct-
ing an allotmemt of the lands embraced in any reservation^ one-eighth of a section.
In cane there is not sufiQcient land in either of said reservations to allot lands to each
individual of the classes above named in quantities as above provided, the lands em-
braced in such reservation or reservations shall be allotted to ea6h individual of each
said classes pro rata in accordance with the provisions of this act : Provided, That
w^here the lands on any reservation are mainly valuable for grazing^ purposes, an addi-
tional allotment of such grazing lands, in quantities as above provided, shall be made
to each individual ; or in case any two or more Indians who may be entitled to allot-
ments shall so agree^ the President may assign the grazing^ lands to which they may
be entitled to them m one tract, and to be held and used in common.
Sec. 9. That all allotments set apart under the provisions of this act shall be
selected by the Indians, heads of families selecting for their minor children, and
the agents shall select for each orphan child, and in such manner as to embrace the im-
provements of the Indians making the selection. Where the improvements of two
or more Indians have been made on the same legal subdivision ot land, unless they
shall otherwise agree, a provisional line may be run dividing said lauds between
them, and the amount to which each is entitled shall be equalized in the assignment
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of the remainder of the land to which they are entitled under this act : Providtd,
That if any one entitled to au allotment shall fail to make a selection within ^y^
years after the President ^all direct that allotments may he made on a particular
reservation, the Secretary of the Interior may direct the afent of such tribe or band,
if such there be, and if there be no agent, then a special agent appointed for that
purpose, to make a selection for such Indian, which selection shall be allotted as in
cases where selections are made by the Indians, and patents shall issue in like man-
ner : Provided, That these sections as to the allotments shall not be compulsory with-
out the consent of the majority of the adult members of the tribe, except that the
^allotments shall be made as provided for the orphans.
Skc. 10. That the allotments provided for in this act shall be made by special
agents appointed l)y the President for such purpose, and the agents in charge of
the respective reservations on which the allotments are directed to be made, under
Nucb rules and rcgiilatious as the Secretary of the Interior may from time to time
prescribe, and shall be certitied b^siich agent«to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
in duplicate, one copy to be retained in the Indian OflSce and the other to be trans-
mitted to the Secretary of the Interior for his action, and to be deposited in the Gen-
eral Land Otlice.
Sec. 11. That upon the approval of the allotments provided for in this act by the
Secretary of the Interior, he shall cause patents to issue therefor in the name of
allottees, which patents shall bo of the legal effect, and declare that the United
States does and will hold the lands thus allotted for the period of twenty -five years,
in trust, for the solo use and benefit of the Indian to whom such .-illotment shall have
been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the State
or Territory where such land is located, and that at the expiration of said period the
United States will convey the same by patent to said Indian, or his heirs, as afore-
said, in fee, dischaiged of said trust and free of all charge or incumbrance whatso-
ever, and patents shall issue accordingly. And each and every allottee under this
act shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges and be subject to all the provisions
of section six of the act approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, entitled **An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians
on the various reservations, and to extend the pnpt43ction of the laws of the United
States and the Territories over the Indians and for other purposes." Provided^ That
the President of the United States may in any case, in his discretion, extend the
period by a term not exceeding ten years j and if any lease or conveyance shall be
made of the lands set apart and allotted as herein provided, or any contract made
touching the same, before the expiration of the time above mentioned, such lease or
convevance or contract shall be absolutely null and void : Provided, furtlicr^ That the
law oi descent and partition in force in the State or Territory where the lands may
be situated shall apply thereto after patents therefor have been executed and de-
livered. Each of the patents aforesaid shall be recorded in the General LandOfhce,
and afterward delivered, free of charge, to the allottee entitled thereto.
Sec. 12. That at anytime after lands have been allotted to all the Indians of any
tribe as herein provided, or sooner, if in the opinion of the President it shall be for the
best interests of said triUe, it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Interior to ne^-
tiate with such Indian tribe for the purchase and release by said tribe, in conformity
with the treaty or statute under which such reservation is held, of snch portions of its
reservation not allotted as such tribe shall, from time to time, consent to sell, on
such terms and conditions as shall be considered just and equitable l^etween
the United States and said tribe of Imlians, which purchase shall not be completed
until ratified by Congress: Provided, hmveref\ That ail lands adapted to agricnlture,
with or without irrigation, so sold or released to the United States by any Indian
tribe, shall bo held by the United States for the sole purpose of securing homes to
actual settlers, and shall be disposed of by the United States to actual and bona fide
settlers only in tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one person ,
on such terms as Congress shall prescribe, subject to grants which Congress may make
in aid of education : And provided, further. That no patents shall issue therefor except
to the person so taking the same as and for a homestead, or bis heirs, and after the
expiration of five years' occupancy thereof as such homestead; and any ounveyance
of said lands so taken as a homestead, or any contract touching the same, or lien
thereon, created prior to the date of such patent, shall be null and void. And the
sums agreed to be paid by the United States as purchase money for any portion of
any such reservation shall he held in the Treasury of the United States for the sole
use of the tribe or tribes of Indians to whom such reservation belouged ; and the same,
with interest thereon at five per centum per annum, shall be at all times subject to
appropriation by Congress for the education and civilization of snch tribe or tribes of
Indians, or the members thereof. The patents aforesaid shall be recorded in the
General Land Office, and afterward delivered, free of charge, to the allottee entitled
thereto.
Sec. 13. That any Indian receiving and entitled to rations and anualties at either
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of the agencies luentioued in this act at the time the same shall take effect. but*re-
slding upon any portion of said great reservation not included in either of tne sepa-
rate reservations herein established, may, at his option, within one year from the
time when this act shall take effect, and within one year after he has been notified of
his said right of option in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall direct by
recording his election with the proper agent at the agency to which he belongs, have
the allotment to which he would be otherwise entitled on one of said separate reser-
vations upon the land where such Indian may then reside, such allotuieutin all other
respects to conform to the allotments hereinbefore provided. Each member of the
Pouca tribe of Indians now occupying a part of the old Ponca Reservation, within
the limits of the said Great Sioux Reservation, shall be entitled to allotments upon '
said old Ponca Reservation as follows: To each head of a family, three hundred and
twenty acres; to each single person over eighteen years of age, one-fourth of a sec-
tion ; to each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one-fourth of a section ; and
to each other person under eighteen years of age now livinc:, one-eighth of a section^
with a title thereto and rights under the same in all other respects conforming to this
act. And said Poncas shall be entitled to all other benetits under thiH act in the same
manner and with the same conditions as if they were part of the Sioux nation re-
ceiving ratiouH at one of the agencies herein named. When allotments to the Ponca
tribe of Indians and to such other Indians as allotments are provided for by this act
shall have been made upon that portion of said reservation which is described in the
act entitled '^An act to extend the northern boundary of the State of Nebraska, '' ap-
proved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hnndred and eighty-two, the President shall^
in pursuance of said act, declare that the Indian title is extinguished to all lands de-
scribed in said act not so allotted hereunder, and thereupon all of said land not so
allotted and included in said act of March twenty-eighth, eight>een hundred and eighty-
two, shall be open to settlement as provided in this act : Provided^ That the allot-
ments to Ponca and other Indians authorized by this act to be made upon the land
described in the said act entitled ^'An act to extend the northern boundary of the State
of Nebraska " shall be made within six months from the time this act shall take effect.
Sec. 14. That in cases where the use of water for irrigation is necessary to render
the lauds within any Indian reservation created by this act available for agricultural
purposes, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to prescribe
such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to secure a just and equal dis-
tribution thereof among the Indians residing upon any such Indian reservation created
by this act ; and no other appropriation or grant of water by any riparian proprietor
shall be authorized or permitted to the damage of any other riparian proprietor.
Skc. 15. That if any Indian has, under and in conformity with the provisions of the
treaty with the great Sioux nation concluded April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-eight, and proclaimed by the President February twenty-fourth, eighteen
hundred and sixty- nine, or any existing law, taken allotments of land within or with-
out the limits of any of the separate reservations established by this act, such allot-
ments are hereby ratified and made valid, and such Indian is entitled to a patent therefor
in conformity with the provisions of said treaty and existing law and of the provisions
of this act in relation to patents for individual allotments. •
Skc. 16. That the acceptance of this act by the Indians in manner and form as re-
quired by the said treaty concluded between the different bands of the Sioux nation
of Indians and the United States, April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-
eight, and proclaimed by the President February twenty- fourth, eighteen hnndred
and sixty-nine, as hereinafter provided, shall be taken and held to be a release of all
title, on the part of the Indians receiving rations and annuities on each of the said
separate reservations, to the lands described in each of the other separate reserva-
tions so created, and shall be held to confirm in the Indians entitled to receive rations
at each of said separate reservations, reiqieotively, to their separate and exclusive
use and benefit, all the title and interest of every name and nature secured therein to
the different bands of the Sioux nation by said treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight. This release shall not affect the title of any individual In-
dian to his separate ulotment on land not included in any of said separate reserva-
tions provided for in this act, which title is hereby confirmed, nor any agreement
heretofore made with the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad Company or
the Dakota Central Railroad Company for a right 'of way through said reservation,
and for any lands acquired by any such agreement to be used in connection therewith^
except as hereinafter provided ; but the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway
Company and the Dakota Central Railroad Company shall, respectively, have the
right to take and nse, prior to any white person and to any corporation, the right of
way provided for in said agreements, with not to exceed twenty acres of land in ad-
dition to the right of way, for stations for every ten miles of road ; and said companies
shall also, respectively, have the right to take and nse for right of way, side-track,
depot, and station privileges, machine-shop, freight-house, round-house, and yard
facilities, prior to any white person and to any corporation or association, so much
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of the two separate sections of land embraced in said agreements; also, the former
company so much of the one hundred and eighty-eight acres, and the latter company
so much of the seventy-five acres, on the east side of the Miasonri river, likewise em-
braced in said agreements, as the Secretary of the Interior shall decide to have been
agreed upon ana paid for by said railroad, and to be reasonably necessary upon each
side of said river for approaches to the bridge of each of said' companies to be con-
structed across the river, for right of way, side-track, depot and station privileges,
machine-shop, freight-house, round-house, and yard facilities, and no more: ProvQed,
That the said railway companies shall have made the payments accordiug to the
terms of said agreements for each mile of right of way and each acre of land for rail-
way purposes, which said companies take and use under the provisions of this act,
and shall satisfy the Secretary of the Interior to that eflfect : Provided, further j That
no part of the lands herein authorized to be taken shall be sold or conveyed except by
way of sale of. or mortgage of the railway itself. Nor shall any of said lands be
used directly or indirecuy for townsite purposes, it being the intention hereof that
said lands shall be hold for general railway uses and purposes only, including stock
yards, warehouses, elevators, terminal and other facilities of and Vor said railways ;
but nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any such railroad com-
pany from building upon such lands houses for the accommodation or residence of
their employes, or leasing grounds contiguous to its tracks for warehouse or elevator
purposes connected with said railways: And j^rovided, further j That said payments
shall be made and said conditions performed within six' months after this act shall
take eflfect: And provided, further^ That said railway companies and each of them
shall, within nine montlis after this act takes elfect, definitely locate their respective
lines of road, including all station grounds and terminals across and upon the lands
of said reservation designated in said agreements, and shall also, within the said
period of nine months, hie with the Secretary of the Interior a map of such definite
location, specifying clearly the line of road, the several station grounds and the
amount of laud required for railway purposes, as herein specified, of the said separate
sections of land and said tracts of one hundred and eighty-eight acres and seventy-
five acres; and the Secretary of the Interior shall, within three months after the
filing of such map, designate the particular portions of said sections and of said tracts
of land which the said railway companies, respectively, may take and hold under tha
provisions of this act for railway purposes. And the said railway companies, and
each of them, shall, within three years after this act takes effect, construct, complete,
and put in operation their said lines of road; and in case the said lines of road are
not definitely located and maps of location filed within the periods hereinbefore pro*
vided, or in case the said lines of road are not constructed, completed, and put in
operation within the time herein provided, then, and in either case, the lands granted
for right of way, station grounds, or other railway purposes, as in this act provided,
shall, without any further act or ceremony, be declared by prdclamation of the Presi-
dent forfeited, and shall, without entrv or further action on the part of the United
States, revert to the United States and be subject to entry under the other provisions
of this act ; and whenever such forfeiture occurs the Secretary of the Interior shall
ascertain the fact and give due notice thereof to the local land oflacers, and there-
upon the lands so forfeited shall be open to homestead entry under the provisions of
this act.
Sec. 17. That it is hereby enacted that the seventh article of the said treaty of
April twenty-ninth, «>ighteen hundred and sixty-eight, securing to said Indians the
benefits of education, subject to such modifications as Congress shall deem most effect-
ive to secure to said Indians equivalent benefits of such education, shall continue
in force for twentv years from and after the time this act shall take effect ; and the
Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to purchase, from time to
time, for the use of said Indians, such and so many American breeding cows of good
quality, not exceeding twenty-five thousand in nu'.uber, and buUsofliKe quality, not
exceeding one thousand in number, as in his Judgment can be under regulations fur-
nished by him, oared for and preserved, with their increase, by said Indians : PrO'
videdf That each head of familv, or single person over the age of eighteen years, who
shall have or may hereafter take his or her allotment of land in severalty, shall be
provided with two milch cows, one pair of oxen, with yoke and chain, or two mares
and one set of harness in lieu of said oxen, yoke, wd chain, as the Secretary of the
Interior may deem advisable, and they shall a^so receive one piow, one wagon, one
harrow, one hoe, one ax, and one pitchfork, all suitable to the work they may have
to do, and also fifty dollars in cash ; to be expended under the direction of the Sec-
retary of the Interior in aiding such Indians to erect a house and other buildings
suitable for residence or the improvement of his allotment; no sales, barters, or bar-
gains shall be made by any person other than said Indians with each other, of any
of the personal property nereiub«-fore provided for, and any violation of this pro-
vision shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and punished by fine not exceeding one hun-
dred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of
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the court : That for two years the uecessHry seeds shall be provided to plant five acres
of ground into different crops, if ho much can be used, and provided that in purchase
of such seed preference shall be given to Indians who may have raised the same for
sale, and so much money as shall be necessary for this purpose is hereby appropriated
out of any mouey in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and in addition
thereto there shall be set apart> out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, the sum of three millions of dollars, which said sum shall be
deposited in the Treasury of thelJnited States to the credit of the Sioux nation of
Indians as a permanent fund, the interest of whicli, at five per centum per annum,
shall be appropriated, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to the use
of the Indians receiving rations and annuities upon the reservations created by this
act, in proportion to the numbers that shall so receive rations and annuities at the
time this act takes effect, as follows : One-half of said interest shall be so expended
for the promotion of industrial and other suitable education among said Indians, and
the other half thereof in such manner and for such purposes, iucluding reasonable
cash payments per capita, as, in the judgment of said Secretary, shall, from time to
time, most contribute to the advancement of said Indians in civilization and self-sup-
port ; and the Santee Sioux, the Flandreau Sioux, and the Ponca Indians shall be
included in the benefits of said permanent fund, as provided in sections seven and
thirteen of this act: Promdtdy That after the government has been reimbursed for
the money expended for said Indians under the provisions of this act, tbe Secretary
of the Interior may, in his discretion, expend, in addition to the interest of the per-
manent fund, not to exceed ten per centum per annum of the principal of said fund,
in the employment of farmers and in the purchase of agricultural implements, teams,
seeds, including reasonable cash payments per capita, and other articles necessary to
assist them in agricultural pursuits; and he shall report to Congress in detail each
year his doings hereunder. And at the end of fifty years from the passage of this act,
said fand shall be expended for the purpose of promoting education, civilization, and
self-support among said Indians, or otherwise distributed among them as Congress
shall from time to time thereafter determine.
Sec. 18. That if any land in said Great Sioux Reservation is now occnnied and used
by any religious society for the purpose of missionary or educational worK among said
Indians, whether situate outside of or within the lines of any reservation constituted
by this act, or if any such land isso occupied upon the Santee Sioux Reservation, in Ne-
braska, the exclusive occupation and use of said land, not exceeding one hundred and
sixty acres in any onetract, ishereby, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior,
granted to any such society so long as the same shall be occupied and used by such
society for educational and missionary work among said Indians; and the Secretary
of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to give to such religious society pat-
ent of such tract of land .to the legal effect aforesaid ; and for the purpose of such ed-
ucational or missionary work any such society may purchase, upon any of the
reservations herein created, any land not exceeding in any one tract one hundred and
sixty acres, not interfering with the title in severalty of any Indian, and with the
approval of aibd upon such terms, not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents an
acre, as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. And the Santee Normal
Training School may, in like manner, purchase for such educational ormissionary work
on the Santee Reservation, in addition to the foregoing, in such location and quantity,
not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres, as shall be approved by the Secretary
of the Interior.
Skc. 19. That all the provisions of the said treaty with the different bands of the
Sioux nation of Indians concluded April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-
eight, and the agreement with the same approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-seven, not in conflict with the provisions and requireAients of
this act, are hereby continued in force according to their tenor and limitation, any-
thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 20. That the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be erected not less than
thirty school-houses, and more, if found necessary, on the different reservations, at
such points as he shall think for the best interest of tbe Indians, but at such distance
only as will enable as many as possible attending schools to return home nights, as
white children do attending district schools : And providtdf That any white children
residing in the neighborhood are entitled to attend the said school on such terms as
the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
Sec. 21. That all the lands in the Great Sioux Reservation outside of the separate
reservations herein described are hereby restored to the public domain, except Amer-
ican island, Farm island, and Niobrara island, and shall be disposed of by the
United States to actual settlers ouly, under the provisions of the homestead law (ex-
cept section two thousand three hundred and one thereof) and under the law relating
to townsites: Promded, That each settler, under and in accordance with tbe provis-
ions of said homestead acts, shall pay to the United States, for the land so taken by
him, in addition to tbe fees provided by law, the sum of one dollar atd twenty five
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cents per acre for all lands disposed of within the first three years after the taking
effect of this act, and the sum of seventy-five cents per acre for all lands disposed of
within the next two years following thereafter, and fiftv cents per acre for the resl-
dne of the lands then undisposed of, and shall be entitled to a patent therefor accord-
ing to said homestead laws, and arber the fnll payment of said sams: but tbe rights
of nonorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors in the late civil war, as denned
and described in sections twenty-three hundred and fonr and twenty-three hundred
and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall not. be abridged, except
as to said snms: Promded, That all lands herein opened to settlement under this act
remaining undisposed of at the end of ten years from the taking effect of this act shall
be taken and accept«^d by the United States and paid for b^ said United States at
fifty cents per acre, which amount shall be added to and credited to said Indians as
part of their permanent fund, and said lands shall thereafter be part of the public
aomain of the United States, to be dinposed of under the honientead laws of the
United States, and the provisions of this act ; and any conveyance of said lands so
taken as a homestead, or any contract touching the same, or lien thereon, created
prior to the date of final entry, shall be null and void : Pravidedy That there shall be
reserved public highways four rods wide around every section of land allotted, or
opened to settlement by this act, the section lines being the center of said highways;
but no deduction shall be made in the amount to be paid for each quarter-section or
land by reanon of such reservation. But if the said highway shall be vacated by any
competent authority the title to the respective strips shall inure to the then owner
of the tract of which it formed a part by the original survey : And provided, further.
That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to affect the right of Con*
gress or of the government of Dakota to establish public highways, or to grant to
railroad companies the right of way through said lands, or to exclude the said lands,
or any thereof, from the operation of the general laws of the United States now in
force granting to railway companies the right of way and depot grounds over and upon
the public lands. American island, an island in the Missouri river, near Cham-
berlain, in the Territory of Dakota, and now a part of the Sioux Reservation, is
hereby donated to the said city of Chamberlain : Provided^ further, That said city of
Chamoerlain shall formally accept the same within one year from the passage of this
act, upon the express condition that the same shall be preserved and used for all time
entire as a public park, and for no other purpose, to which all persons shall have free
access ; and said city shall have authority to adopt all proper rules and regulations for
the improvement and care of said park ; and upon the failure of any of said conditions
the said island shall revert to the United States, to be disposed of by future legislation
only. Farm island, an island in the Missouri river near Pierre, in tbe Territory of
Dakota, and now a part of the Sionx Reservation, is hereby donated to the said city of
Pierre : Provided, further, That said city of Pierre shall formaUy accept the same within
one year from the passage of this act, upon the express condition that the same shall
he preserved and used for all time entire as a public park, and for no other purpose, to
which all persons shall have free access ; and said city shall have authority to adopt
all proper rules and regulations for the improvement and care of said pilrk ; and upon
the failure of any of said conditions the said island shall, revert to the United States,
to be disposed of by future legislation only. Niobrara islaud, an island in the Nio-
brara river, near Niobrara, and now apart of the Sioux Reservation, is hereby donated
to the said city of Niobrara : Provided, further, That the said city of Niobrara shall for-
mally acrept the same within one year from the passage of this act, upon the express
condition that tbe same s' all be preserved and used for all time entire as a pnblic park,
and for no other purpose, to which all persons shall have free access; :ind said city
shall have authority to adopt all proper rules and regulations for the improvement and
care of said park; and upon the failure of any of s:iid conditions the said island shall
revert to the United States, to be disposed of by future legislation only : And provided,
further. That if any full or mixed blood Indian of the Sioux nation shall have lo'^ated
upon Farm island, American iHland, or Niobrara island before the date (if the paitsage
01 this act, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, within three months
from the time this act shall have taken effect, to cause all improvements made by any
such Indian so located upon either of said islands, and all damage that may accrue to
him by a removal therefrom, to be appraist^d, and upon the payment of the sum so
determined, within six months after notict» thereof by the city to which the island is
herein donated to such Indian, said Indian shall be required to remove from said
island, and shall be entitled to select instead of such location his allotment according
to the provisions of this act upon any of the reservations herein established, or upon
any land open to settlement by this act not already located upon.
Sec. 22. That all money accruing from the disposal of lands in conformity with this
act shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States and be applied solely as fol-
lows : First, to the reimbursement of the United States for all necessary actual expend-
itures contemplated and provided for under the provisions of this act, and the crea-
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tion of the permanent fand hereinbefore provided ; and after saoh reimbnrsement to
the increase of said permanent fand for the purposes hereinbefore provided.
Sec. 23. That all persons who, between the twenty Reventh day of Febrnary, eighteen
hundred and eighty-five, and the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and
eighty-five, in good faith, entered upon or made settlements with intent to enter the
same under the homestead or pre-emption laws of the United States upon any part of
the Great Sioux Reservation lying east of the Missouri river, and known as the Crow
Creek and Winnebago Reservation, which, by the President's proclamation of date
February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, was declared to be open
to settlement, and not included in the new reservation established by section six of
this act, and who, being otherwise legally entitled to make such entries, located or
attempted to locate thereon homestead, pre-emption, or towns! te claims, by actual
settlement and improvementof any portion of such lands, shall, for a period of ninety
days after the proclamation of the President required to be made by this act, have a
right to re-enter upon said claims and procure title thereto under the homestead or
pre-emption laws of the United States^ and complete the same as required therein,
and their said claims shall, for such time, have a preference over later entries; and
when tbev shall have in other respects shown themselves entitled and shall have com-
plied with the law regulating such entries, and, as to homesteads, with the special
provisions of this act, they shall be entitled to have said lands, and patents therefor
shall be issued as in like cases : Providedt That pre-emption claimants shall reside on
their lands the same length of time before procnring[ title as homestead claimants
under this act. The price to be paid for townsite entrie-M shall be such as is required
by law in other cases, and shall be paid into the general fund provided for by this act.
Sec. *M, That sections sixteen and thirty-six of each township of the lands open to
settlement under the provisions of this act, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, are hereby
reserve<l for the use and benefit of the public schools, as provided by the act organiz-
ing the Territory of Dakota ; and whether surveyed or unsurveyed said sections shall
not be subject to claim, settlement, or entry under the provision of this act or any of
the land laws of the United States : Provided, however, That the United States shall pay
to said Indians, ont of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the
sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for all lands reserved under the pro-
visions of this section.
Sec. :^. That there is hereby appropriated the sum of one hundred thousand dollars,
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as
mav be necessary, to be applied and used towards surveying the lands herein described
as being open for settlement, said sum to be immediately available; which sum shalk
not be deducted from the proceeds of lands disposed of under this act.
Sec. 26. That all expenses for the surveying, platting, and disposal of the lands
open to settlement under this act shall be borne by the Unit-ed States, and not deducted
from the proceeds of eaid lands.
Sec. 27. That the sum of twenty-eight thousand two hundred dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, be and hereby is appropriated ont of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to euable the Secretary of the Interior to pay
to such individual Indians of tlie Red Cloud and Red Leaf bands of Sioux as he shall
ascertain to have been deprived l)y the aatbority of the United States of ponies in
the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, at the rate of forty dollars for each pony ;
and he is hereby authorized to employ such agent or agents as he may deem uecessary
in ascertaining such facts as will enable him to carry out this provision, and to pay
them therefor such sums as shall be deemed by him fair and Just compensation : Pro-
vided, That the sura paid to each individnal Indian under this provision shall be taken
and accepted by such Indian in full compensation for all loss sustained by such Indian
in consequence of the taking from him of ponies as aforcHaid ; And provided, further ,
That if any Indian entitled to such compensulion shall have deceased, the sum to
which such Indian would be entitled shall be paid to his heirs-at law, according to
the laws of the Territory of Dakota.
Sec. 2^, That this act shall take effect only upon the acceptance thereof and con-
sent thereto by the dilferent bands of the Sioux nation of Indians, in manner and
form -prescribed by the twelfth article of the treaty between the United States And
said Sioux Indians concluded April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
V hich said acceptance and consent shall be made known by proclamation by the
President of the United States, upon satisfactory proof presented to him that the
same has been obtained in the manner and form required by said twelfth article of
said treaty; which proof shall be presented to him within one year from the passage
of this act ; and upon failure of such proof and proclamation this act becomes of no
efiect and null and void.
Skc. 29. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, which sum shall be expended, under the direction of the Secre-
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tary of the Interior, for procaring tfae assent of the Sioux Indians to this act provided
in section twenty-seven.
Ssc. 30. That all act« and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act
are hereby repealed.
Approved March 2, 1889.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
\Vh«rea8 it is provided in the act of CongresH, approved March second, eighteen
hundred and eighty-nine, entitled '*An act to divide a portion of the reservation of
the Sioux nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the
relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes," *' that
this act shall take eii'ect only apon the acceptance thereof and cons<rnt thereto by
the different bands of the Sioux nation of ludiauH, in mannei and form pn scribed
by the twelfth article of the treaty between the United States and said Sioux Indians
concluded April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, which said accept-
ance and consent shall be made known by proclamation by the President of the
United States, upon satisfactory proof presented to him that the same has been ob-
tained in the manner and form required by said twelfth article of said treaty ; which
proof shall be presented to him within one year from the passage of this act ; and
upon failure of such proof and proclamation this act becomes of no effect and null
and void," and
Whereas sati^factory proof has bet;n presented to me that the acceptance of and
consent to the provisions of the said act by the different bands of the Sioux nation
of Indians have been obtained in manner and form as therein required :
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, by virtue of
the power in me vested, do hereby make known and proclaim the acceptance of said
act I y the different bands of the Sioux nation of Indians, and the consent thereto by
them as required bv the act, and said act is hereby declared to be in full force and
effect, subject to all the provisions, conditions, limitations and restrictions therein
contained.
All persons will take notice of the provisions of said act, and of the conditions,
limitations and restrictions therein contained, and be governed accordingly.
I furthermore notify all persons to particularly observe that by said act certain
tracts or portions of the great reservation of the Sioux nation, in the Territory of
Dakota, as desoribed by metes and bounds, are set apart as separate and permanent
reservations for the Indians receiving rations and annuities at the respective agencies
therein named ;
That any Indian receiving and entitled to rations and annnities at either of the
agencies mentioned in this act at the time the same shall take effect, bnt residing
upon any portion of said great reservation not included in either of the separate
reservations herein established, may at his option, within one year from the time
when this act shall take effect, and within one year after he has been notified of his
said right of option in suc^h manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall direct, by
recording his election with the proper agent at the agency to which he belongs, have
the allotment to which he would be otherwise entitled on one of said separate reserva-
tions upon the land where such Indian may then reside;
That each member of the Ponca tribe of Indians now occupying a part of the old
Ponca Reservation, within the limits of the said Great Sioux Reservation, shall be en-
titled to allotments upon said old Ponca Reservation, in quantities as therein set forth,
and that when allotments to the Ponca tribe ot Indians, and to such other Indians as
allotments are provided for by this act, shall have been made upon that portion of
said reservation which is described in the act entitled *'An act to extend the northern
. boundary of the Stat« of Nebraska," approved March twenty-eight, eighteen hundred
and eighty-two, the President shall, in pursuance ot said act, declare that the Indian
title is extinguished to all lands described in said act not so allotted hereunder, and
tlf^reupon all of said land not so allotted and included in said act of March twenty-
eight, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, shall be open to settlement as provided in
this act;
That protection is guaranteed to such Indians as may have taken allotments either
within or without the said separate reservations under the provisions of the treaty
with the great Sioux nation, concluded April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and
sixty eight ; and that provision is made in said act for the release of all title on the
part of said Indians receiving rations and annuities on each separate reservation to
the lands described in each of the other separate reservations, and to confirm in the
Indians entitled to receive rations at each of said separate reservations, respectively,
to their separate and exclusive nse and benefit, all the title and interest of every name
and nature secured to the different bauds of the Sioux nation by said treaty of April
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twenty-Diotb, eighteen huudred and nixty-ei^ht ; and that said release shall not affect
the title of any individual Indian to his separate allolment of land not included in any
of said separate reservations, nor any agreement heretofort^ made with the Chicago,
Milwankee and Saint Panl Railroad Company or the Dakota Central Railroad Com-
pany respecting certain lands for right of way, station grounds, etc., regarding which
certain prior rights and privileges are reserved to and for the use of said railroad com-
panies, respectively, upon the terms and conditions set forth in said act ;
That it is therein provided that if any land in said Great Sioux Reservation is oc-
cupied and used by any religious society at the date of said act for the purpose of
missionary or educational work among the Indians, whether situate outside of or
within the limits of any of tha separate reservations, the same, not exceeding one
hundred and sixty acres in any oae tract, shall be granted to said society for the pur-
poses and upou the terms and conditions therein named, and
Subject to all the conditions and limitations in said act contnined, it is therein
proviaed that all the lands in the GreatSioux Reservation outsideof the separate res-
ervations described in s»iid act, except American island. Farm island, and Niobrara
island, regarding which islands special provisions are therein made, and sections
sixteen and thirtj-six in each township thereof (which are reserved for school pur-
poses) shall be disposed of by the United States, upon the terms, at the price, and in
the manner therein set forth, to actual settlersonly, under the provisions of the home-
stead law (except section two thousand three huudred and one thereof) and under the
law relating to town sites ;
That section twenty-three of said act provides '* that all persons who, between the
twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and the bev-
enteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in good faith, entered
upon or made settlements with intent to enter the same under the homestead or
pre-emption laws of the United States upnn any part of the Great Sioux Reserva-
tion lying east of the Missouri river, and known as the Crow Creek and Winnebago
Reservation, which, by the President's proclamation of date February twenty-sev-
enth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, was declared to be open to settlement, and
not included in the new reservation established by section six of this act, and who,
being otherwise legally entitled to make such entries, located or attempted to locate
thereou homesieati, pre-emption, or townsite claims by actual settlement and im-
provement of any portion of such lands, shall, for a period of ninety days after the
proclamation of the President required to be made by this act, have a right to re-
enter upon said claims and procure title thereto under the homestead or preemption
laws of the United States, and complete the same as required therein, and their said
claims shall, for such time, have a preference over later entries ; and when tbe,\ shall
have in other respects shown themselves entitled and sha'l have complied with the
law regulating such entries, and as to homesteads, with the special provisions of this
act, they shall be entitled to have said/ lands, and patents therefor shall be issued
as in like cases : Provided. That pre-emption claimants shall reside on their lands the
same length of time before procuring title as homestead claimants under this act.
The price to be paid for townsite entries shall be such as is required by law in pther
cases, and shall be paid into the general fund provided for by tnis act.''
It is furthermore hereby made known that there has been and is hereby reserved
from entry or settlement that tract of land now occupied by the agency and school
buildings at the Lower Brul^ agency, to wit :
The west half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-four ; the east half of the
southeast quarter of section twenty-three ; the west half of the northwest quarter of
section twenty-five; the east half of the northeast quarter of section twenty-six, and
the northwest fractional quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-six ; all
in township one hundred and four north of range seventy-two, west of the fifth prin-
cipal meridian;
That there is also reserved as aforesaid the following described tract within which
the Cheyenne River Agency, school and certain other buildidgs are located, to wit :
Commencing at a point in the center of the main channel of the Missouri river oppo-
site Deep creek, about three miles south of Cheyenne river; thence due west five
and one-naif miles; thence due north to Cheyenne river; thence down said river to
the center of the main channel thereof to a point in the center of the Missouri river
due east or opposite the mouth of said Cheyenne river; th«^nce down the center of
the main channel of the Missoum river to the place of beginning;
That in pursuance of the provisions contained in section one of said act the tract
of land situate in the State of Nebraska and described in said act as follows, to wit:
"Beginning at a point on the boundary line between the State of Nebraska and the
Territory of Dakota, where the range line between ranges forty-four and forty-iive
west of the sixth principal meridian, in the Territory of Dakota, intersects said boun-
dary line; thence enst along said bonndary line five miles; thence due south five miles;
thence due west ten miles; thence due north to said boundary line; thence due east
along said boundary line to the place of beginning," same is continued in a state of
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reservation bo long as it ma^ be needed for tbe use and protection of the Indians
receiving rations and annuities at the Pine Ridge agency.
Warning is hereby also expressly given to all persons not to enter or make settle-
ment upon any of the tracts of land specially reserved by the terms of said act, or by
this proclamation, or any portion of any tracts of laud to which any individual mem-
ber of either of the bands of the Great Sioux nation or the Ponca tribe of Indians
shall have a preference right under tbe provisions of said act ; and further, to in no
wise interfere with the occupancy of any of said tracts by any of said Indians, or in
any manner to disturb, molest, or prevent the peaceful possession of said tracts by
them.
The surveys required to be made of the lands to be restored to the pablic domain
under the provisions of the said act, and as in this proclamation set forth will be
commenced and executed as early as possible.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be afBxed.
Done at the City of Washington this tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and of the Independence of the United States
the one hundred and fourteenth.
[SEAL.] Benj. Harrison.
By the President :
Jamb:s G. Blaink,
Secretary of State.
CEDED LANDS OP THE SIOUX RESERVATlt)N.
[CommiAsioner Groff to registers and receivers at Pierre, Chamberlain, and Huron, S. Dak., and O'Neill,
Nebr., March 3, 1890.]
It has been represented to this department that there are persons who contemplate
impositions on the Indians now residing npon the ceded lands of the Sioux reserva-
tion lying in yonr districts, and entitled at their option to take allotments of the
lands where they reside, under section 13 of the act of March 2, 1889 (2o Stats., 888),
by inducing the Indians to sell out to them, and thereafter appropriating to them-
selves the lands on which the Indians reside as settlers thereon under the provisions
of said act. I desire, therefore, to call your attention to this njatter, and to say to
you that it is the dnty and intention of this department to protect the Indians as
fully as possible from any wrong or imposition by which they might be deprived of
the benelit intended to be secured to them under the law, whether it have the char-
acter of open violence or some form of trickery and fraud in the specious guise of
mutual agreement for exchange of values. In pursuance of this pnrpose, no pur-
chase, by whit« persons, of the settlements or improveraentft of tbe Indians will be
recognized as having any validity, and their right to take allotments of the lands on
which they reside at their option will be recognized and enforced whenever claimed
by them within the period of one^ear prescribed in said section 13, notwithstanding
any pretended purchase of their improvements that may be set up against them, or
any allegation that may be made of their removal from the land and abandonment
thereof in favor of white claimants. The department will expect the careful, intelli-
gent, and efficient co-operation of all its employes in this purpose. Yon are to this
end directed to make yourselves acquainted, as far as possible, with the facts con-
nected with the residences of the Indians on the lands in question, and otherwise
prepare yourselves to extend protection to them in the discharge of yonr duties against
any who niay entertain designs against them.
You will take all means in your power to communicate the substance of these in-
structions to ail persons concerned, that none may be in ignorance on the subject.
You will endeavor to prevent any filings or entries being made in contravention of
the rights of the Indians, and any filings or entries that may be made will be treated
as subject to the Indian right to take allotments as heretofore indicated.
ABANDONED MILITARY RESERVATIONS.
The following report, containing information in regard to the aban-
doned military reservations, may be of some interest:
["ommiAsioner Groff to Secretary Noble, Washington, February 26, 1890.]
I have the honor to return herewith Senate resolution, dated December 19, 1889,
asking for information an to the Abandoned military reservations relinqnished to the
department by the War Department nnder the act of July 5, 1>^84 (23 Stats., 103), and
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any act snbsequont thereto, referred to this office on December 20, 1889, by Aseistant
StMsretary BuBsey, for report in dnpUcate ; and in reply to inclose two btateinents, in
dnplirate, marked respectively A and 6, which afford the desired information, as far
as has been ascertained from the records of this office, except as to tlie reason '* why
the lands in snob reservations are not surveyed, snbdivided, appraised, and sold, and
what appropriation is needed to survey said lands that the same may be disposed of
as provided by law," in regard to which you are advised as follows :
Since Jaunary 20, 1887, no additional instructions have been received from the de-
partment authorizing the survey of the abandoned military reservations which have,
subsequent to that dat-e, been transferred to the custody of the department for dis-
posal under the act of July 5, 1884.
The entire approprifttion of 1*^,000 Tper act approved March 3, 1885, 23 Stats., 499)
for the survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations was exhausted
in oitlering the surveys specifically authorized by departmental letter of January 20,
1887.
The only reason known to this office wliy all of the lauds embraced in the aban-
doned and relinquished military reservations, referred to in the Senate resolution,
have not been surve>'ed, snbdivided, appraised, and sold, is lack of funds out of which
to pay the necessary expenses incident to compliance with the provisions of the act
of July 5, 1884.
An estimate of $8,000 for this purpose has been included iti the estimates for the
next fiscal year, but this sum was fixed upon with reference U} expenses likely to be
incurred during the fiscal year. It would probably be advisable to have an appropri-
ation of $'20,000 if the intention is to proceed with the work to completion without
having to wait for a further appropriation.
I have to state that the delay in making this report has been caused by the neces-
sity of procuring information from the War Department as to the improvements on
the several reservations.
A. — Lisi of military reservationgj or pariB thereof , relinquished by the War Departnient to
the Interior Department under the provieions of the aot of Congreee approved July 5,
1884 (23 SfaU., 103).
Name.
Whipple barracks (timber reserve),
Gamp OrJttenden, Ariz
Gamp Goodwin, Aria
Dateof relin- ,
qnishment. <
Area in
acres.
Jaly 22, 1884
...do
...do
GampOrant, Ariz
Fort Verde (Gardea reserve), Ariz.
Fort Bid well(portloii).Cal
Gamp Cady, Gal
Camo Independence (post reserve),
Camn Independenoe (hay reserve),
Gamn Independence (wood reserve),
....do
....do
Feb. 18.1886
July 22,1884
...do.
do .
...do.
...do.
Fort Tama, Gal
Fort Lyon (old), Colo | do .
FortLyoli (new), Colo
Pagosa springs (Old Fort Lewis),
Colo.
Pike*s peak, Odo
Gantonmenton Uncompahgre (por*
tion), Olo.
Gamp on White river, Colo
Fort Randall (portion), Dak
Nov. 25, 1889
Jaly 22, 1884
Jan. 12,1889
July 22, 1884
....do
....do
720.00
3,278.08
5, 780. 00
2,031.70
3, 000. 00
123.26
1,662.00
120.20
2,530.18
2,560.00
5,214.00
I 38,000.00
*6,874.00
21,838.08
8. 192. 00
*4,000.00
40,960.00
24.603.63
102,400.00
81,920.00
Improvements.
FortRice,Dak i do
Fort Slsseton (formerly Fort Wads- Apr. 22, 1889
worth). Dak.
Dragoon harraoks, L. H.. Fla Nov. 18, 1886 I 1. 15
Old powder-hoQse lot, Fla Mar. 18, 1886 I 10. 29
* Estimated.
No improvements appear to have been
transferred.
One hollding, valned at fl50. One
building, valae not known.
I No improvements appear to have been
' transferred.
Do.
Do.
Six stmotnres, valued at $1,950 (pre-
sumed to be private property).
It was reported in 1870 that there were
twelve structures; present condition
not known.
No improvements appear to have been
transferred.
Do.
Do.
Not known, but tract is reserved for
Indian uses.
No improvements appear to have been
transferred.
Improvements not yet reported by
War Department.
No improvements appear to have been
transferred.
Do.
Do.
Twenty-one structures in all, valued
at $5,000, if sold with the land.
No improvements appear to have been
transferred.
Do.
Eif^ht brick, 6 stone, 5 firamo and 3 log
I build in jTs, and board wallcs, all in
Kood condition.
; Tract has been disposed of.
I Do.
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A.— Li«( of military reservati^Sj or parts thereof relinquished^ eto.-TContinaed.
Name.
Fort Oceur d' Alene (winter pastur-
age), Idaho.
GampThree Forks, Idaho
Fort I>odKe (remainder), Kans
Fort Hays, Kans
Fort Wallace, Kans
Baton Bonge barracks, Ia
Ten reservations on the Gulf coast,
Louisiana, as follows :
Kesenration near the eastern
mouth of Bayou La Fourche.
Reservation near the west«m
month of Bayou La Fourche.
Reservation on Bay plat
Beservatlon uear the western
entrance to Caminada bay.
Reservation near the Pass, at
the eastern end of Onuid
Terre island.
Reservation near the mouth of
Quatre Iteyou paas.
Reservation at llastian bav
Reservation near Bastian nay,
comprising part of sees. 22,
28, and 26, and all of sees. 27
and 35, T.21S.,R. 28 E.
Reservation near Bastian bay,
comprising part of sees. 4And
5 and all of sees. 0, 7, aU6 8,
T. 22 S.. K. 29 E.
Reservation near Bastian bay,
comprising part of sees. 14
and 15 and all of sees. 22, 28,
and2l. T.21S.,R.27E.
Fort Sullivan, Me
Bois Blanc island, Mich
FortWilkins,Miqh
Date of relin-
quishment.
Apr. 27, 1886
July 22, 1884
J an. 42, 1885
Oct. 21,1889
July 22, 1884
Sept. 6,1884
Sept. 28, 1886
...do
...do
...do
....do.
....do..
...do.
....do.
....do.
...do.
Island in Missouri river. Mo .
Fort ElllB, Mont
Fort Hartsuff. Xebr .
...do
July 26, 1886
July 22, 1884
Jan. 6,1887
July 22, 1884
Mar. 2b; ISM
Oct. 11, 1886
Fort MoDermit (hay reserve), Nev.. Deo. 1,1886
Fort McDermit (post reserve),Nev.. July 17,1889
Fort MoPh9rson, Nebr
Gamp Sheridan, Nebr
Fort Sedgwick, Gol. and Nebr.
Garlln.Nev
Fort Halleck, Nev
July 22, 1884
— do
...do
Fort Butler, N.Mex.
Fort Craig. N. Mex . .
FortMcRae,N.Mex
Fort Klamath (post reserve), Ore>
gon.
Fort Klamath (hay reserve), Ore-
gon.
Fort Cameron, Utah ,
Fort Crittenden, XJtoh
Bush Lake valley, Utah
Fort Thornburgh, Utah
Fort Colville, Wash ...
Fort Steilaooom, Wash.
July 24,
Mar. 3,
July 22,
May 4,
1884
1885
1884
1886
... do..
Jnly 2,
July 22,
....do ..
...do..
I Feb. 26, 1886
1885
1884
I
July 22. 1884
Area in
acres.
Improvements.
640. 00 No improvements appear to have bera
transferred.
4. 800. 00 ; Do.
12,000.00 Forty-one structures in all, valued at
$20,000, if sold with the land.
7, 600. 00 Forty building^ valued at$10,0S0 ; one
bridge, valued at $200.
8,926.00 Barracks, quarters, etc.. valued at
$15,000. if sold with the land.
44. 17 Disposed of.
*720.00
*700. 00
100.00
487. 98
*324.00
347.46
892.46
1,217.86
1, 601. 82
829.77
12.60
9,199.48
148.85
64.70
82,116.10
8,25L41
19, 500. 00
18,225.00
40,960.00
920.00
10,900.93
6,400.00'
3,974.40
76,800.00
24, 895. 00
2,560.00
1, 200. 00
2.135.00
23. 378. 00
94, 550. 00
5,131.47
21,851.00
1, 070. 00
280.00
No improvements appear to have been
transferred.
Do.
Do.
Do.
t
* Estimated.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Nineteen structures in all, value noi
known.
No improvements appear to have been
transferred.
Twenty-four structures in all, valua
not known.
No improvements appear to have been
transferred.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Twenty structures in aU, value not
known.
K o improvements appear to hare been
transferred.
It was reported in 1879 that there were
25 structures upon this reservation.
Present value and condition not
known.
No improvements appear to have been
transferred.
Twenty -two structures In all, value not
known.
Tract is disposed of.
Twenty -five structures in all, value not
known.
No improvements appear to have been
transferred.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Nine structures in all ; $600 have been
offered for them.
Quarters for Ave officers and four com-
panies, one hospital and two store-
nouses, value not known.
Improvements appear to have been
donated t4) Washington prior to
transfer*
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A. — Liit of military reservatione, or parts thereof , relinquishedf etc. — Contiimed.
Name.
Fort Bridxer (ooal reserve), Wyo. . .
Fort Fetterman (hay reaerre), Wyo.
Fort Fetterman (poet reaerve),
Wyo.
Fort Fetterman (new wood reaerve),
"Wyo.
FortFetterman (old wood reeerre) ,
Wyo.
Fort Fred Steele (poet reserve,)
Wyo.
Fort Fred Steele (wood reserve,)
Wvo.
Fert'lf oKinney (portion), Wyo . . . .
Fort Sanders, Wyo ,
Dateofrelin-
qnishment.
Area in
acres.
Jaly 22, 1884
99.17
....do
...do
2,620.91
86, 495. 66
....do
1,262.76
...do
4,706.2S
Aug. 9,1886
22,269.65
....do
2,568.64
Jan. 10,1889
Sept 6,1884
*640.00
10,342.00
* Estimated.
Improvements.
No improvements appear to have bees
transferred.
Do.
A doiibl<$ set of ofiBcers* quarters, bar-
racks, sheds, stables, j^ard-honse,
store-houses, hospital, etc, valae not
known.
No improvements appear to have been
transferred.
Do.
Forty-two straotares in all, vaXae not
known.
No improvements appear to have been
transferred.
Do.
Do.
lAste of reservations f or parts thereof, relinauished by the War Department to the Interior
Department under the provisions of the act oj August IB, l%t) (11 Stats, j 87).
[Said act was repealed by the aot of July 5, 1884, and the reservations are, by departmental deeision
of If ay 10, 1887 (5 L. D., 682), to be disposed of under the provisions of the latter act.]
Name.
Fort Brooke, Fla .
Fort Jupiter, Fla
St. Angnatine (hospital lot), Fla. . . .
81 AngustineXblacksmith-shopIot),
Fla.
Date of relin-
qoishment.
Jan. 4, 1888.
Mar. 16, 1880.
Oct 15,1883.
...do
Area in
acres.
148.11
9,08 8
0.1619
0.12786
Improvements.
No improvements appear to have
been transferred.
Do.
Do.
Do.
There has been bat one reservation, or part thereof, relinqaished by
the War Department to the Department of the Interior under any act
subsequent to the aot of July 5, 1884, viz :
Name.
Date of relin- Area in
qnishment. acres.
Improvements.
Fort Douglass (portion) Utah
1
Apr.l7.1885.j 151.81
Nose.
Said portion of this reservation was relinquished under the act of
January 21, 1885 (23 Stats., 284), which allowed Oharles Popper ninety
days in which to make entry of the tract relinquished. Popper made
entry for the tract June 17, 1885.
B — Statement showing ihe condition of each of the reservations named in statement A^
Whipple barraoks (timber reserve), Ariz. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Camp Crittenden, Ariz. : Surveyed, but returns of survey not as yet examined in
the field, and therefore not yet approved.
Camp Goodwin, Ariz. : Surveyed, but returns of survey not as yet examined in the
field, and therefore not yet approved.
Camp Grant, Ariz.: Surveyed, but returns of survey not as yet e'camined in the
field, and therefore not yet approved,
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Fort Verde (garden reserve), Ariz. : Surveyed, but returns of survey not as yet ex-
amined in the tield, and therefore not yet approved.
Fort Bid well (portion), Cal. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Camp Cady, Cal. : Survey, as originally authorized "by the departmeut, January
20, 1887, was ordered through the United States surveyor-general, but subsequently
anspended by reason of apparent exhaustion of appropriation. Under date of May
13, 18^, the surveyor-general was authorized to accept the proposal of W. H. Carl-
ton to execute said survey, but no contract has as yet been received at this office.
Camp Independence (post reserve), Cal.: Surveyed. Entry made for this tract
under the provisions of the act. Said entry has been contested and the case is now
pending before this office.
Camp Independence (hay reserve), Cal. : One hundred and sixty acres of this
tract have been entered under the provisions of the act; the remaiuder, 2,370.18
acres, is surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Camp Independence (wood reserve), Cal. : Survey as originally authorized by the
department, January 20, 1887, was ordered through the United StateH surveyor- gen-
eral, but subHequently suspended by reason of apparent exhaustion of appropriation.
Under date of May 13, 18^, the surveyor-general was authorized to accept the pro-
posal of W. H. Carlton to execute said survey, but no contract has as yet been re-
ceived at this office.
Fort Yuma, Cal. : Reserved for Indian uses by executive order of January 9, 1884.
This reservation was placed under the control of this department on July*22, 1884,
for disposal under the act of July 5, 1884 ; but under date of March 26, 1887, Secre-
tary Lamar directed that the executive order of January 9, 1884, be regarded as still
in force.
Fort Lyon (old), Colo. : Surveyed. About 7,100 acres have been entered under the
provisions of the act. The remainder. 30,900 acres, is ready for appraisal.
Fort Lyon (new), Colo. : No survey nas as ;et been ordered by the department.
Pagosa Springs (old Fort Lewis), Colo. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Pike's peak, Colo. : Unsurveyed. No survey as yet authorized by the department.
Cantonment on Unoompahgre (portion), Colo. : Thistiact was originally within the
Ute Indian Reservation, and by departmental decision of Januarv 3, 1885 (3 L. D.,
296), is being disposed of as other *' Ute lands" under the act of June 15, 1880 (21
Stat., 199). ^ ^
Camp on White river, Colo. : This tract was originally within the Ute Indian Res-
ervation, aod, bv departmental decision of January 3, 1885 (3 L. D., 296), is being
disposed of as other *'Ute lands" under the act of June 15, 1880 (21 Stats., 199).
Fort Randall (portion), Dak. : Surveyed. About 11,162 acres have been entered
under the provisions of the act. The remainder, 13,341 acres, is now ready for ap-
praisal.
Fort Rice, Dak. : Surveyed. Returns of survey examined in the field and unfa-
vorably reported upon by Special Agent Bannister September 3, 1888. Re-examined
by Special Agent Fawkner, and report submitted under date of September 18, 1889.
Said report not yet acted upon.
Fort Sisseton (formerly Fort Wadsworth), Dak. : Unsurvejed. Survey not as yet
authorized by the Department.
Dragoon Barracks L. H., Fla. : Appraised and sold.
Old powder- house lot, Fla. : Appraised and sold.
Fort C<Bur d'Alene (winter pasturage), Idaho : This tract appears to have l>een erro-
neously located on the official plats, and the surveyor-general of Idaho will be di-
rected, as soon as practicable, to furnish corrected plats showing the true location of
said abandoned reservation. No steps can be taken for its disposal until this is done.
Camp Three Forks, Idaho: Survey was authorized by departmental letter under
date of January 20, 1887, but not yet ordered, owing to exhaustion of appropriation
of March 3. 1885 (2.S State., 499), for survey, etc., of abandoned militarv reservations.
Fort Dodge (remainder), Kans. : Surveyed. All of this tract, except 1,200 acres,
is within the limits of the *' Osage Indian trust lands,'' and under date of July 9,
1886, the district officers at Garden citv, Kans., were directed to allow entries of said
** Osage Indian trust lands." a« provided by the act of May 28, 1880 (21 Stats., 143),
with the exception of tracts upon which buildings erected by the government for
miliXary purposes are located, which latter tracts were found to be lots 3, 5, 6, and 7,
sec. 3,T.27 S.,R.24 W. By act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stats., 1012), authority was
given to sell and convey to the State of Kansas the said lots, and on June 13, 1889,
the same were purchased by the State.
The tract of 1,200 acres above mentioned is ready for disposal.
Fort Hays, Kans. : Under recent departmental instructions further action on said
reservation has been suspended to await Congressional action regarding disposal of
the lands.
Fort Wallace, Kans. : By act of October 19, 1888 (25 Stats., 612), the following
provisions were made for the disposition of this tract, viz : Sec. 1 provides that a cer-
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tain tract be reserved for the townsite of Wallace. Entry thereof has been made
and patented. Sec. 2 authorizes the Union Pacific Railroad Company to purchase
a certain traet for machine shops. Application for this purchase has been made and
the local offlrers directed to allow the same. Sec. 3 authorizes the Wallace water-
works to purchase a 40-acre tract for its use. This has not yet been dune. Sec. 4
grants 40 acres U* the town for cemetery purposes. Sec. 5 provides for the ap-
praisal and sale of the tract covered by the old Fort Wallace and the buildings
thereon. The appraisal has been lately made, hut not yet acted upon by this office.
Sec. 6 provides that the remainder of said reservation shall be disposed of under
the homestead laws. No entries have yet been allowed.
Baton Rouge barracks, La. : By Act of July 12» 1K86 (24 Scats., 144), the Secretary of
the Interior was authorized 1o transf«rthe buildings on, and a portion of, said reserva-
tion to the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanicai College, and
the remainder of said reservation to the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway
Company. Transfer made July 31, 1H86.
Ten reservations on the Gulf coast, Louisiana : Partly surveyed and partly uusur-
veyed. Survey authorized by departmental letter of January 20, 1887. No survey
ordered by reason of there being no United States surveyor- general for district at
date of authorization, and subsequent exhaustion of appropriation of March 3, 1H85
(23 Stats., 499), for survey, etc., of abandoned military reservations.
Fort Sullivan, Me. : Unsurveyed. Survey not as yet authorized by the depart-
ment.
Bois Blanc island, Mich.: Surveyed. 619.63 acres were within a private claim at
the time the reservation was made. 405.55 acres have been disposed of by appraisal
and sale under the provisions of the act. 5.083.93 acres have been disposed of to the
State as swamp lands by departmental decibion of February 25. 1889 (8 L. D.,309).
674.26 acres were decided as being covered by the school grant to the State, by de-
partmental decision of June 5, 1889 (6 L. D., 560). The remainder, 2, 416.06 acres, has
been appraised and offered, but not sold, and is now, by the terms of the act, subject
to re-offering.
Fort Wilkms, Mich. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Island in Missouri river, Missouri : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Fort Ellis, Mont. : Surveyed. Said reservation was declared by executive order
of February 15, 1868. Enlarged March 1, 1H70. and further enlarged, by the addition
of 16,32U acres, November 25, 1873. The land added by the executive order of No-
vember 25, 1873, is within the granted limits of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com-
pany, and the said company's rights, having attached prior to the reservation for
military purposes, were not impaired thereby, but merely placed in abeyance. The
even-numbered sections in said tract of 16,320 acres and the remaining 15,840 acres
are now ready for appraisal.
Fort Hartsuff, Nebr. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Fort Mcpherson, Nebr. : Survey was anthorized by departmental letter dated Jan-
uary 20, 1887, but not yet ordered, owing to exhaustion of appropriation of March 3,
1885 (23 Stats.. 499), for survey, etc., of abandoned military reservations.
Camp Sheridan, Nebr. : Surveyed. By inadvertence of local officers several filings
and entries were allowed upon said reservation, aggregating 7,072.52 acres. These
were confirmed by the act of October 12, 1888 (25 Stats., 1201). The remainder,
11,153 acres, is ready for appraisal.
Fort Sedgwick, Colo, and Nebr. : Said reservation is within the granted limits of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and the said company's rights to the odd-num-
bered sections, having attached prior to the reservation for military purposes, were
not impaired thereby, but merely placed in abeyance. The even-numbered sections
are reaidy for appraisal.
Carlin, Nev. : Unsurveyed. No survey as yet authorized by the department.
Fort Halleck, Nev. : Unsurveyed. Returns of survey of said reservation were re-
ceived with surveyor-general's letter of November 30, 1888, but were rejected because
of failure of the surveyor to comply with the terms of the contract. Under date of
December 20, 1889, the United Statis surveyor-general for Nevada was instructed to
award to a competent and reliable deputy a new contract for the survey of said res-
ervation.
Fort McDerniitt (hay reserve), Nev. : Unsurveyed. Returns of survey of said
reservation were received with surveyor- general's letter of November 30, 1888, but
were rejected because of failure of the surveyor to comply with the terms of the con-
tract. Under date of December 20, 188^, the United States surveyor- general for
Nevada was instructed to award to a competent and reliable deputy a new contract
for the survey of said reservation.
Fort McDermitt (post reserve), Nev. : Unsurveyed. No survey as yet authorized
by the department.
Fort Butler, N. Mex. : Surveyed. Said reservation is situate mostly within the
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confirmed and surveyed priyate land ^rant Pablo MoDtoya, and also covers a small
part of Baca location No. U. The remainder, 2,765.18, is ready for appraisal.
Fort Craig, Nt Mex. : Under contract for survey. No returns as yet received at this
office.
Fort McRae, N. Mex. : Said reservation falls entirely within the patented private
land grant Armendaris No. 3.3, and was not excepted in the patent.
Fort Klamath (post reserve), Oregon: Unsurveyed. The greater part of said res-
ervation is within the Klamath Indian Reservation and revjerts to the said .Indians.
Survey of the remainder, 210 acres, not as yet authorized by the department.
lort Klamath (hay reserve), Oregon : About 120 acres of said reservation is within
the Klamath Indian Reservation and reverts to the said Indians. Survey of the
remainder, 2,015 acres, not as yet authorized by the department.
Fort Cameron, Utah : Under contract for survey. No returns as yet received at
this office.
Fort Crittenden, Utah : Under contract for survey. No returns as yet received at
this office.
Rush Lake valley, Utah : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Fort Thornburgh, Utah : Under contract for survey. No returns as yet received at
this office.
Fort Colville, Wash. : Surveyed. Eighty acres of said reservation have been en-
tered under the provisions of the act. The remainder, 990 acres, is ready for ap-
praisal.
Fort Steilacoom, Wash. : Surveyed. 71.93 acres of said reservation have been
entered under the provisions of the act. The remainder, 217.07 acres, is ready for
disposal.
Fort Bridger (coal reserve), Wyo. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Fort Fetterman (hay reserve), Wyo. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Fort Fetterman (post reserve), Wyo. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Fort Fetterman (new wood reserve), Wyo. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Fort Fetterman (old wood reserve), Wyo. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Fort Fred Steele (post reserve), Wyo. : Surveyed. Said reservation is within the
limits of the grant to the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and the said company's
rights to the odd-numbered sections, having attached prior to the reservation for
military purposes, were not impaired thereby, but merely placed in abeyance. The
even-numbered sections are ready for appraisal. Under date of November 9. 1886,
the Secretary of War requested that the cemetery lot, shown on the official plat of
survey in theSE.^ SE. i. Sec. 23, T. 21 N., R. 85 W., containing 0.50 acres, be ex-
cepted from sale or transfer, and on November 20, 188(i, Assistant Secretary Hawkins
directed that said request be respected.
Fort Fred Steele (wood reserve), Wyo. : But 1,283.64 acres of said reservation have
been surveyed. The remainder, 1,280 acres, falls within unsurveyed townships and
will be surveyed when said townships are surveyed. The surveyed portion is ready
for appraisal.
Fort McKinney (portion), Wyo.: By executive orderof January 10, 1889, the eastern
boundary of said reservation was withdrawn one- fourth of a mile westward. A con-
tract for the survey of the lands embraced in said strip has been approved bv this of-
fice.
Fort Sanders, Wyo. : Surveyed. Said reservation is within the granted limits of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company. A small portion of the reservation was reserved
prior to the attachment of the said company's rights, but the rights of the company
to the odd-numbered sections in the remainder of said reservation, having attached
prior to said reservation, were not impaired thereby, but merely placed in abeyance.
The even-numbered sections in said remainder, and the portion first named, are ready
for appraisal. By act of May 28, 1888 (25 Stats., 1.58), the Territory of Wyoming was
authorized to select and enter 640 acres within the limits of this reservation, to be
used for the establishment of a fish-hatchery.
Fort Brooke, Fla. : No survey or appraisal of said reservation has been made and
no portion of the same disposed of, an investigation ordered by this office May 25,
1889, by direction of the Secretary under date of May 17, 1889, being now in progress
at the Gainesville office, to determine the rights of some twenty-nine claimants.
Fort Jupiter, Fla. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
St. Augustine (hospital lot), Fla. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
St. Aogastine (blacksmith-shop lot), Fla. : Surveyed and ready for appraisal.
Fort Douglass (portion), Utah : Disposed of under the provisions of the act author-
izing its relinquishment.
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CIRCULARS AND INSTRUCTIONS.
HOMESTEADS.
Hamestead entry Settlement before survey — InstruetionB,
The right to make homestead entry under the act of May 14, 1880, acquired by a settler who diet prior
to sarvey may be exercined by his devisee.
The case of Baxton v. Traver cited ajid distingaished.
[Secretary Noble to the Commissioner of i^he General Land Office, October 4, 1889. J
I am iu receipt of your communication of the 20th ultimo, calling attention to the
decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Buxton v, Traver
(130 U. S.,2II2), which yon say is interpreted by some as announcing a doctrine inoon-
siHtent with the practice of your office following the decision of the department in
the case of Tobias Beckner (6 L. D., 134), and other decisions, allow inK parties as
heirs or devisees of homestead settlers the benefit, of section 2269 of the Revised Stat-
utes, and of the act of May 14, 1860 (21 Stat., 140), and requeuting '^ to be instrncted
(1) as to whether there is any Inconsistency between the decisions of the department
m reference to the subject and said decision of the Supreme Court ; and (2) as to
whether there should be any change in the course of this office as above indicated in
dealing with this class of oases/'
The case of Tobias Beckner recognized the right of a person, as devisee of a settler
whose settlement was made and who died prior to Hurve^, to make homestead entry
of the tract settled upon by his devisor, and this rnliag is not inconsistent with the
decision of the Supieme Conrt in the case of Buxton r. Traver. The rule in the case
of Beckner will be followed by yonr office.
Homestead entry — Minor heirs — Instrudions,
On the death of a homesteader, leaving adnlt and minor heirs, the title, under sections 2391 and 2292
of the Bevised Statutes, inures to the minors to the exolusion of the adnlt hell's.
[Secretary Noble to the Commissioner of the Oeneral Land Offloe, May 0, 1890.]
Upon the receipt of yours of the 2d ultimo, in regard to sections 2291 and 2292,
Revised Statutes, I referred the subject to the assistant attorney-general assigned to
this department, and herewith transmit a copy of his replv, in which he expresses
the opinion that the practice which has so long prevailed in tne Land Office, under the
two recited sections, should not be changed. In this conclusion I concur, and you will
therefore proceed nuder these two provisions of the law as heretofore.
OPINION.
[Assistant Attorney-General Shields to the Secretary of the Interior, May 3, 1800.]
I am iu receipt, by your reference, of a letter, dated April 2, 1890, from the Com-
missioner of the General Land Office, which I am requested to examine and give an
opinion on the matters involved therein.
The Commissioner invites attention to the first portion of section 2291 and the
whole section of 2292 of the Revised Statutes, relating to homesteads, which are as
follows .
"Sec. 2291. No certificate, however, shall be given, or patent issued therefor, until
the expiration of five years from the date of such entry ; and if at the expiration of
such time, or at any time within two years thereafter, the person making such entry;
or if he be dead, his widow ; or in case of her death, his heirs or devisee ; or in case
of a widow making such entry, her heirs or devisee, iu case of her death, proves by
two credible witnesses that he, she, or they have resided upon or cultivated the same
for the term of five years immediately succeeding the time of filing the affidavit, and
makes affidavit that no part of such land has been alienated, except as provided in
section twenty-two hundred and eighty-ei^ht, and that he, she, or they will bear
true allegiance to the government of the United States; then, in such case, he, she,
or they, if at that time citizens of the United States, shall be entitled to a patent, as
in other cases provided by law.
"Sec. 2292. In case of the death of both father and mother, leaving an infant
child or children under twenty -one years of age, the right and fee shall inure to the
benefit of such infant child or children ; and the executor, administrator, or guardian
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may, at any time within two years after the death of the sarviying parent, and in
accordance with the laws of the State in which such children, for the time being
have their domicile, sell the land for the benefit of such infants, bnt for no other
purpose ; and the purchaser shall acqnire the absolute title by the purchase, and be
entitled to a patent from the United States on the payment of the office fees and the
■um of money above specified/'
The Commissioner observes that the first of these sections, as quoted, provides a
means whereby the heirs of a deceased homestead entryman may acquire title to the
entered land without distinction as to age, and that the second section nn»vides a
means by which the homestead may inure to the benefit of the infant child or chil-
dren, without the issue of patent to such child or children and without requiring
continued residence or improvements upon the land.
He states that it has been the practice of his office, in cases where there are both
adult and miuor heirs, to hold that the title inures to the latter to the exclusion of
the former. This practice his law clerks deem to be wrong, and think that section
2292 ** was intended to apply in oases where iufaut heirs only were found." It is not
very clear whether the Commissioner means to express his own opinion on the ques-
tion, or whether he merely recites, in his letter, the views and arguments of his law
clerks thereon. He concludes, however, by saying :
" In view of the practice of this office haying l>een of long duration to exclude
adult heirs, I would respectfully submit the question for your decision for the future
action of this office in such cases, respectfully requesting a reply at your earliest
convenience."
I have but little difficulty in forming an opinion upon the question submitted, as
the language of the sections referred to is plain and clear to my mind.
Section ^^1 declares, in substance, that in case of the death of a homestead entry-
man before full compliance with the requirements of the law, the final certificate^ to
be followed by patent, at the designated time, and upon proper compliance with the
prescribed conditions, shall be issued to (1) his widow, if he leave one, if not, then,
(2) to his heirs or devisee. No distinction is here made as between adult and minor
heirs.
Section 2292 qualifies the general provision of the preceding section, and says that
in the case of the death of both parents, '* leaving infant children the right and fee
shall inure to the benefit of such infant child or children."
This language i.s direct and explicit, leaving in my mind little room for doubt as
to its meaning. Under section 2S&1 the heirs, if of age, are entitled to the land in
equal shares. But, if there be an infant child or children, section 2292 gives the en-
tire right and fee to them alone. Against this view, it is urged that it works an in-
justice to the adult heirs, who, equally with the minors, should share in the estate
of the parent. This might haye been a forcible argument against the wisdom of en-
acting such a law, but the law having been enacted this department has no right to
question its wisdom. When it is remembered that the adult heirs can procure public
lauds for themselves and in their own names bv compliance with the land laws, and
that miuor heirs can not do so, the reason for the distinction is manifest.
Congress seems to have marked out a difierent rule for homesteads from that estab-
lished in regard to pre-emptions. As to the latter section 2269 of the Revised Stat-
utes provides that in case of the death of a pre-einptiou claimant, before entry, it
shall be made in the name of the heirs, and patent shall issue to tbem : no distinction
on account of age is mentioned. But in the legislation in relation to homesteads, not
only has Congress adopted section 2292 as to ordinary homesteads, bnt by section
2307 it has followed the same policy in regard to soldiers' homesteads, and there con-
ferred the right of a deceased soldier, first upon his widow, if unmarried, and, in
case of her marriage or death, then *'upon his miuor orphan children," and none
others. It. may be safely assumed from this that Congress was of tlie opiniou that it
was not unwise to i)rotect infant orphan children, even to the entire exclusion of the
adults.
It is farther urged in the Commissioner's letter that the constrnction which has
heretofore prevailed renders sections 2291 and 2292 ^Mnharmouious and incompati-
ble ; " but it is not shown wherein, and I fail to see that they are necessarily so.
These sections were both originally included in section 2 of the act of June 21, 1886
(14 Stat.,t>6). Section 2291 of the Revised Statutes was the first proviso of section 2
of said act, and ^ectiou 2292 of the Revised Statutes was the secoud proviso of the
same section and act — a proviso upon a proviso, a special exception carved out of the
former provisions of the act.
In the construction of statutes it is a well settled rule that general words or pro-
visions are to be restrained by particular words in a subsequent clause in the same
statute, even though the particular iutention is incompatible with the general inten-
tion. (D warns, ILO.) A proviso is somethiug engrafted upon a preceding enactment
and is legitimately used tor the purpose of taking special cases out of the general
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enactments, and providing 'specially for them. And, even where the proviso is repug-
nant to the parview of the act, the proviso will prevail. (/&., 118.)
" And so, where there are in an act specific provisions relating to a particular sub-
ject, they must govern, as against general provisions in other parts of the statute, al-
though the latter, standing alone, would he broad enough to include the subject to
which the more particular provisions relate. (Endlich on Statutes, *i86.)''
The intention of Congress as conveyed by the language of the two sections is clearly
as indicated. I am therefore of the opinion that toe practice which has so long pre-
vailed in the Land Office, under the two recited sections of the Revised Statu tes,
should not be changed.
TIMBER OULTrRE.
Timber culture entry — Final proof — [natructione.
In oompnting the period of onltivAtloii reqnired in timber onltoie final proof, the rule should govern
which WM in force et the time the entry wae made.
In eniriee made under the ruling that prevailed prior to the circular of June 27, 1887, the time allowed
hv the statute for the preparation of the land and planting of the trees may be computed as a part
of the eight years of cultivation required by the statute : but under entries made aiier the ch^nire
of ruling, as announced in said circular, the period of cultivation should be oomputed flrom the
time when the full acreage of trees, seeds, or cuttings was planted.
The case of Henry Hooper modified.
[Secretary Noble to Acting Commissioner Stone, July 10, 1889.]
In reply to yours of the 10th instant suggesting a change of rule in timber culture
cases I herewith transmit to you a copy of an opinion of the First Assistant Secretary,
which I have examined and approved, whereby it will appear to yon that no change
of the rule is necessary. The rule requires that the eight years of cultivation must be
computed from the time the required acreage of trees, seeds, or cuttings are planted.
But if the entry was made under ralings of the department in force when the appli-
cation was made that ruling should be allowed to stand and control the case. Until
a rule is changed it has all the force of law, and acts done under it while it is in force
must be regaraed as legal. It will thus appear that the hnrdships complained of by
you are avoided by the construction of the rule formerly existing, or are rather to be
attributed to the statute itself, over which this department has no control. It is de-
sirable to be liberal, as I have often instructed yon, in all these matters pertaining to
the Land Office ; but this must not go to the extent of disobeying the statute.
OPINION.
[ Assistant Secretary Chandler to the Secretary of the Interior.]
I have had occasion to give this timber-culture act some consideration, and, in
order to properly express my views, it will be necessary to call your attention to some
parts thereof.
The act is that of June 14, 1878, (20 Stat., 113) and that part thereof necessary for
your consideration in section 1 reads as follows:
''That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of
twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his
declaration of intention to become such, as required b}' the naturalizatiou laws of
the United States, who shall plant j protect^ and ktep in healthy ^ growing condition for
eight yeare ten acres of tiuiber on any quarter section of any of the public lands of
the United States, or five acres of any legal subdivision of eighty acres, or two and a
half acres on any legal subdivision of forty acres or Ivna, shall be entitled to a patent
for the whole of said quarter section, or of snch legal subdivision of eighty or forty
acres, or fractional subdivision of less than forty acres, as the case may be, at the
expiration of said eight years on making proof, etc."
Section 2 prescribes the form of theamdavit, the amount to be paid upon the filing of
the affidavit, the numbnr of acres to be broken and plowed thenrst, second, aud third
years ; and then provides ** that no final certificate shall be given, or patent issued
for the land so ent< red until the expiration of eight years from the date of entry; and
if at the expiration of sueh timSy or at any time within five years thereafter ^ the person
making sucn entry, or, if he or she be dead, his or her heirs, or legal representatives,
shall prove by two creditable witnesses that he, or she, or they have planted, and
for not leea than eight years^ have cultivated and protected such quantity and character of
trees as aforesaid, and not less than 2700 trees were planted on each acre, and at the
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time of making sach proof that there shall then be growing at least 675 liying and
thrifty trees to each acre, they shall receive a patent to snch tract, etc."
In construing these provisions the department in the case of Benjamin F. Lake (2
L. D., 309) held the preparation of land and planting of trees are acts of cnltivatton,
and the time actually so employed should be computed as a part of the eight years
reqnired in the timber-culture cases, quoting from the circular of instructions issued
by Commissioner MacFarland to registers and receivers, dated February 1, 1882 (1 L.
D., 63^), and holding that one half the trees must have actually been growing for Aye
years, and the remaining half for four years to conform to the terms of the act; and
that, on the theory that in the second section of the act it is provided that ** the party
making an entry of a quarter nection under the provisions of this act shall be re-
quired to break or plow five acres covered thereby the first year, five acres the second
year, and to cultivate to crop or otherwise the five acres broken or plowed the first
year ; the third year he or she shall cultivate to crop or otherwise the five acres broken
the second year, and to plant in timber, heeds, or cuttings the five acres first broken
or plowed, and to cultivate and put in crop the remaining five acres, and the fourth
year to plant in timber, seeds, or cuttings the remaining five acres," this would
within the eight years keep the first planting growing five years, and the second
plantinjT four years; and in the case of Charles £. Patterson (3 L. D., 260) this
same rule and doctrine was followed, as it is likewise recognized in the case of Peter
Cbristofferson (3 L. D., 329). This rule was followed by the department from that
time up until June ^7, 1887, when Commissioner Sparks, by circular of that date to
registers and receivers (6L. D.,280), directed: ** lu computing the period of cultiva-
tion, the time runs from the date when the total number of trees, seeds, or cuttings
required by the act are planted.''
Following this circular is the case of Henry Hooper (6 L. D., 624), in which are re-
viewed all these decisions heretofore cited, and in construing the act, the following
conclusions are reached : 4
The eight years of cultivation required under the timber-culture law must be com-
puted from the time the required acreage of trees, seeds, or cuttings is planted; and
this constrnction was followed and adopted in the case of Charles N. Smith (7 L. D.,
231), and also in the case of John N. Lindback, decided July 1, l8-<9 (not reported).
I am fully satisfied that these later decisions which are complained of in this letter
are the correct exposition of the law, for the first section of the act requires the ap-
plicant to ** plant, protect, and keep in a healthy, growing condition for eight years
iQ acres of timber." Clearly, this language imports and requires this area to be grow-
ing during this period, as trees could not be kept in a healthy, growing condition that
were not planted and in existence.
Turning to section 2, this conclusion eains strength by the proviso '* that he, or
she, or they have planted, and for not less than eight years have cultivated and
protected, snch (inantity and character of trees as aforesaid." It can not be disputed
that ^' snch quantity" refers to the 10 acres mentioned in section 1, which requires
that 10 acres be cultivated and protected for the full period of eight years ; and this
is borne out by the further proviso that, if the entry is not completed at the expira-
tion of eight years, five years thereafter is given the applicant within which to com-
plete the same, so that the entryman really has thirteen years, if he chooses to avail
himself thereof, within which to comply with the law. I have no doubt, if he plants
the required area the first year, that then the entry may be made within eight years
thereafter, but I am fully satisfied that H was the intent and purpose of Congress to
require the claimant to cultivate the trees for eight years, deeming that at the end of
that period the young timber would be able to protect itself without further cultivation.
While all this is true, yet it seems to me that, inasmuch «s the department, from the
time of the passage of the bill up to the circular of the date of June 27, 1887, erro-
neously construed the true spirit and intent of the act, and in pursuance thereof, nn-
merous entries have been made under the law as thus promulgated, amounting to some
twenty- five hundred or more, that such entries should be protected under the con-
strnction thus given the act, giving such construction all the force and effect of law.
Were it not so, great wrong and inconvenience would result.
In this character of entries it has been repeatedly held that, if the entry is made
under rulings of this department in force when the application is made, it should be
allowed to stand. Until a rule is changed it has all the force of law, and acts done
under it while it is in force must be regarded as legal. James Spencer, (6 L. D.,
217) ; Miner t;. Marriott ei al. (2 L. D., 709); David B. Dole (3L. D., 214) ; Henry W.
Fuss (5 L. D., 167) ; Allen v. Cooley (5 L. D., 261) ; Kelly v. Halvorson (6 L. D., 225).
Believing that justice would be subserved by following the rule of the department
in force at the time these entries were made, I think the case of Henry Hooper (6 L.
D., 624), referred to, should be so far modified as to hold that all entries made under
the act, as construed from February 1, 1882, up to June 27, 1887, should pass to
patent ; and that all entries made after the auDonncement of that doctrine shoald be
governed and controlled by the principles therein enunciated. To do this, fully,
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fairly, and equitably protects the interest of those who acted under the old regime,
and only requires those who have made timber-culture entries since the law has been
correctly stated, as I believe, to comply with its plain provisions and fairly observe
its spirit and intent.
Circular— Timber-culture final proof,
[Commiesioner Groft to registers and receivers, December 8, 1889.]
The requirement of circular of June '27« approved July 12, 1887 (6 L. D., 260), as to
publication of notice of intention to make final proof on timber- culture entries, will
not be insisted on in cases where the original entry was made prior to September 15,
t887. All entries made prior to this date will be ^judicated in accordance with in-
stmctions in force prior to the promulgation of said circular approved July 12, 1887.
Approved :
Geo. Chandler,
Acting Secretary.
DBSERT ENTRIES.
Desert entry — Final proof-^IneiruoHonB.
Under desert entries made prior to the circnUr regiiUtions of June 27, 1887, the final proof will be
held snffioient if in oompllanoe with the regulatioos in foroe at the time the initial entry was made.
[Aotlnfc Secretary Chandler to Acting Commissioner Stone, AninxstlS, 1880.)
Upon a reconsideration of the question submitted by your oommnnication of the 17th
ultimo, inquiring whether persons who had made entry under the desert-land act
prior to the issuanoe of the circular of June 27, 1H87 (5 L. D., 708), but who have of-
fered proof thereon since that date, shall be required, in making snch proof, to com-
ply with the provisions of said circular, or whether their proof shall be deemed suf-
ficient in case it complies with the regulations existing at the time when the entries
were made, I am of the opinion that said rule should not be applied to such oases.
It seems to me that to require the entryman to attend in person at the local office at
the time of making final proof would be to impose additional burdens that were not
required by the rules and regulations of the department when said entry was made.
I tnerefore concur in your suggestion that all original entries made prior to the isaa-
ance of said circulaa of June 27. 1887, should be adjudicated according to the regu-
lations then existing. The decision of July 33, 1889, is therefore hereby reyokeSl.
Circulat^-Final proof-^Desert entry.
[Commissioner Oroff to registers and receivers, December 8, 1880. J
The requirement of circular approved June 27, 1887, (5 L. D., 708), as to publica-
tion of notice of intention to make final proof in desert land entries, will not be insisted
on in cases where the original entry was made prior to August 1, 1887. All entries
made prior to that date will be adjudicated in acoordauoe with instraotions in foro«
prior to the promulgation of said circular approved June 27, 1887.
Approved :
Geo. Chandler,
Acting Secretary.
TIMBER AND STONE.
Timber and etone act — Final proof— Inetructume.
▲n application to purchase under the act of Jane 3. 1878. does not effect a segregation of the land cov-
ered thereby.
The publication of intention to purchase under said act prevents the land from beinR entered by
another pending consideration thereof ; but until said application is finally allowed the applicant
han no right to or control over the land covered thereby.
The departmentid regulation requiring the submission of proof within ninety days from date of Uie
published notice may be wulved where the pressure of business In the local office requires snob
action.
[Acting Secretary Chandler to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, August 22, 1889.]
From your letter of the 19th instant, inclosing draught of a proponed letter to the
local officers at Seattle, Wash. Ty., it appears that certain irregularities in final proof
proceedings under the timber and stone act of June 3, 1878 (20 Slat., ^), have occurred
at said land office.
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The third section of said act provides:
**That upon the filing of said statement, as provided in the second section of this
act, the register of the land office shall post a notice of such application, emhracing
a description of the land hy legal suhdi visions, in his office, for a period of sixty days,
and shall furnish the applicant a copy of the same for puhlication, at the expense of
snch applicant, in a newspaper published nearest the location of the premises, for a
like period of time ; and alter the expiration of the said sixty days, if no adverse claim
shall have been filed, the person desiring to purchase shall furnish to the register of
the land office satisfactory evidence," etc.
On May 1, 1880, your office issued a circular under this act (2 C. L. L., 14r)ti>, wherein
it was said :
'^ It has come to the knowledge of this office that many persons have taken the
Ereliuiiuary steps above indicated up to the point of making proof and payment, but
ave failed in the last essential particular. In effect they withdraw the land from
market on your records by making the application, sworn stateinenr, and publication,
and then denude the land of its timber, the tract becomes valueless, and entry is not
made.
" It is clear that proof and payment should be made within a reasonable time after
the expiration, of sixty days from date of first publication of the notice of applica-
tion.
^^ You are therefore instructed to notify each claimant under said act that he is
required to make the necessary proof and payment within ninety days from date of
his original application. Should the claimant fail to me^t this requirement within
the period named, you will write the word 'canceled' on his application, giving
date thereof, and noting the same on your records."
This requirement that proof and payment should be made within ninety days from
date of the applicatiou was not carried into the general circulars of October 1, 1880,
and March 1, 1884 ; but in the circular approved by the department July 16, 1887 (6
L. D., 114), it was said :
**The published notice required by the third section of the act must state the time
and place when, and name the officer before whom, the party intends to offer proof,
which must be after the expiration of the sixty davs of publication i«nd before ninety
days from the date of the published notice. Where proof is not made before the
expiration of said ninety days the register and receiver will cancel the filing upon
their records and notify this office accordingly, as prescribed by instructions of May
1, 1880."
This requirement was carried into the general circular of January 1, 1889 (see
page 40), and is now a subsisting regulation adopted by your office and approved by
the department. •
It appears, however, that at the Seattle office a large number of cases are suspended
where the proof was made after the expiration of the said ninety days ; and that some
thirteen hundred applications are pending wherein the dates for making proof are
set for periods in the future, the latest as far off as February 21, 1891, and that this
condition of affairs arises from the inability of the local office, under the pressure of
other business and the large number of these applications, to apply the ninety-day
rnle.
Yon call attention to the fact that under existing regulations the date of the no-
tice and the date of making proof are placed under the control of the register, and,
if the latter is fixed for a period more than ninety days after the former, the register
is responsible therefor and not the applicant.
Taking this view of the case, and finding no statutory inhibition against such
course, you propose to waive the ninety-day requirement so far as it afiects pending
proofs and applications at the Seattle office, and direct that in the future due care
shall be taken to have the date of making proof fixed at a period as near to the date
of the original application as the pressure of business will admit, but not necessarily
within ninety days.
This course of procedure meets with the approval of the department, and the in-
ability of this local office to carry into execution the requirement under considera-
tion snggcsts the advisability of revoking it outright.
The reason for the circular of May 1, 1880, is not sound. An application to pur-
chnse under the act of June 3, 1H78, does not operate as a aegregatiou of the land
covered thereby. (Smith v. Martin, 2 L. D., 33:{; Capprise v. White, 4 L. J)., 176;
Henry A. Frederick, 8 L. D., 414.) It is true that, as ruled in the Frederick case,
the publication of intention to purchase would prevent the land from being entered
by another pending consideration of snch application, but until the final allowaDce
of said application the applicant has no right to or control over the land covered
thereby.
Again, nnder the circulars issued prior to that of July 16, 1887, there was no re-
quirement that the notice should specify the exact date when the proof would be
made. The proof was to be made some time after the sixty days and o^ore the ninety
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days. Now, under present regulations, the notice must name the date when the
proof will be made, and the day for such act must be selected by the register, who
18 limited in bis choice to some day afUr the sixty days and before the ninety days.
The impracticability of this requirement is well illustrated by the condition of busi-
ness in the Seattle office.
Under these considerations I have to request that you will please report to the
department upon the advisability of striking out the ninety>day requirement from
the regulations now in force; and that, if this course seems advisable to you, you
will prepare and submit to the department an appropriate amendment to said regu-
lations, whereby it will be within the power and discretion of the local office to fix
tlie date of making these proofs at such a time, after due publication of notice, as
the business of such office may permit.
CIHCULAR.
[Acting CommiMioner Stone to the registers and recelTers in California, Oregon, Nevada^ and Wash-
ington Territory, Septembers, 1689.]
By circular of May 1, 1880 (C. L. O. 7, p. 52), under the timber and stone act of
June 3, 1878 (20 stat., 89), this office instructed the registers and receivers of the
proper district land offices that claimants under said act would be required, after the
proper publication for sixl^ days, as prescribed in the act, to make the necessary
proof and payment witbin ninety days from date of their original applications, and
that in default of the proof an(l payment at the expiration of the ninety days the
applications would be canceled. It appears that up to that date there had been no
regulation for restricting the claimant as to the time within which he should.make
proof and payment for the land, and it was deemed proper by said circular to fix a
reasonable limit therefor. By subsequent circular of July 16, 1887 ((5 L. D., 114),
this regulation was renewed, with lulded regulations, by which the registers and
receivers were directed that in the notice to bd furnished by the register to the appli-
cant for publication the time and place for making proof and payment should be
specified. The regulations of the latter circular were reproduced in the general cir-
cular of this office of January 1, 1H89.
Cases having arisen in the Seattle, Wash. T., land district, in which it was found
impracticable, from the pressure of business under the various laws for the disposal
of the public lands, for the district land officers to properly consider and act upon all
the cases arising under the said act within the period of ninety days, as prescribed,
the matter was submitted for the consideration of the Secretary of the Interior, and
an expression of his views elicited, as per letter from the Acting Secretary to this
office of the 22d ultimo. Concurring with the views therein expressed, I am ojf
opinion that the ninety days' regulation referred to should not be longer continued,
and it is hereby dispensed with. The registers will hereafter fix the date for making
proof and payment in the notices furnished by them, in this class of cases, at a
reasonable time after due publication, having due regard to the exigencies of busi-
ness at their respective offices.
Approved :
Geo. Chandler,
Acting Secretary of the Interior.
MISCELLANEOCTS.
Rules to be observed in passing on final proofs.
Department of the Interior,
General Land Office,
Washington, D. C, July 17, 1889.
Rules 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the circular of February 19, 1887, approved February 21, 1887
are hereby modified to read as follows, viz :
(1) Final proofs in all cases where the same are required by the general land laws
or regulations of the department must be taken in accordance with the published
notice ; provided, however, that such testimony may be taken within ten days fol-
lowing, the time advertised in cases where accident or unavoidable delays have pre-
vented the applicant or his witnesses from making such proof on the day specified.
(Section 7 of tne act of March 2, 1849, 25 Statutes, 854).
(2) Where final proof or any part thereof has not been taken on the day advertised.
or within ten days thereafter, under the exception and as required in rule 1| you will
direct new advertisement to be made ; and if no protest or objection is then filed, the
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proof theretofore submitted, if in coiuplianoe with the law in other respects, may be
accepted.
(3) If the testimony of either claimant or witness is taken at a different place than
that advertisedi you will require new advertisement for the proof to be taken at suoh
place as you may deem advisable ; and if no protest or objection is then filed, the
proof theretofore submitted, if regular in all other respects, may be accepted without
further testimony. a
(4) W'heu a witness not named in the advertisement is substituted for an adver-
tised witness, unless two of the advertised witnesses testify, require new advertise-
ment of the nauitih of the witnesses who do testify at such time and place as you may
direct; and if no protest or objection is then filed, the proof theretofore submitted, if
satisfactory in all other respects, may be accepted.
(5) Where final proof is taken before an officer not named in the advertisement, it
mav beaccept(»d it otherwise sufficient, provided that the proof is taken at the time
and place designated in the printed notice, or within ten days thereafter under the
exceptions provided in rule 1 ; and provided, further, that both the officer adver-
tised to take such pioof and the officer taking the same shall officially certify that
no protest was at any time filed before him against the claimant's entr^.
(6) The certification of the declaration to become a citizen of the United States, or
other evidence necessary to establish citizenship, should be received only when made
under the hand and seal of the cl^rk of the court in which such papers appear of
record. But where it is shown that the iudicial record has been lost or destroyed,
theproof of such citizenship may be established by the rules governing the intro<luc-
tion of secondary evidence.
(7) When proof is made before the register or receiver and the final certificate
does not bear the date of the proof, and the record contains no reason therefor, re-
qnire of the register and receiver an explanation thereof; and if the delay was caused
by a failure to tender the money or other consideration at the time of making the
proof, require additional evidence to show that the claimant had not, at the date of
the certificate, transferred the land, -which evidence may consist of the claimant's
affidavit taken before some officer authorized to administer oaths.
(y) When proof is made before any other officer than the register or receiver,
allow a reasonable time for a prompt transmission of the papeis to the district laud
office, and if any longer interval is shown between date of proof and date of certifi-
cate (if proof is otherwise sufficient and the record contains no reason for the delay),
require of the register and receiver an explanation thereof; and if such delay was
caused by the fault of the claimant, require the same additional evidence as pre-
scribed under rule 7.
(9) Where the final proof has been accepted by the local office prior to the promul-
gation of said circular of February 19, 1887, if in all other respects aatiafactory, ex-
cept that it was not taken as advertised, the cases may be submitted to the board of
equitable adjudication for its consideration.
Nothing herein shall be construed to affect proofs taken under and conforming to
prior rules and regulations.
W. M. Stonb,
Acting Commi»9ion€r,
Approved July 17, 1889 :
John W. Noble,
Secretary,
I Aoting CommiMioner Stone to registers and receivers. United States district land offices, September,
19, 1889.]
In addition to and explanatory of the circular issued by this office on the 8th of
March last (8 L. D., 314}, in regard to the act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat., 854), for
your information and the information of settlers who apply for leave of absence from
the tracts covered by their several settlements, under the third section of said act,
and other parties interested, it is hereby directed that any settler so applying shall
submit with his application to the register and receiver of the proper land office bis
affidavit, corroborated by the affidavits of disinterested witnesses, setting forth the
following facts, viz :
(1) The character and date of the entry, date of establishing residence upon land,
and what improvement* have been made thereon by the applicant.
(2) How much of the land has been cultivated by the applicant, and for what
period of time.
(3) In case of failure or injury to crop, what crops have failed or been injured or
destroyed, to what extent, and the cause thereof.
(4) In case of sickness, what disease or injury, an«' to what extent claimant is
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} prevented thereby from continuing upon the land ; and, if practicable, a certificate
rom a reliable physician sbonld be fnrniphed. ^
(5) In caHe of '* other unavoidable casaalty," the character, cause, and extent of
sooh casaalty, and its effect upon the land or the claimant.
(6) In each case full particulars upon which intelligent action may be based by
the register and receiver.
(7) The dates from which and to which leave of absence is asked.
The foregoing is not to be understood as imposing restrietions upon settlers over
and above what the statute contains, or to modify the conditions therein prescribed
for the enjoyment of the right, but merely to indicate what facts should be set forth
in the required affidavits, leaving with rlie regJHters and receivers of the several dis-
trict offices the duty of making application of the law to the particular cases pre-
sented, subject, of oonrso, to the supervisory authority of the department.
Approved :
John VV. Xobi.r,
Secretary of the Interior.
iComniiMJoiier Grofl to relators and receivers, United States land ofiioes, Febrnftry 18, 1800.}
Where parties apply to make entries under section 2306, United States Revised
Statutes, claiming, by virtue of service in the army or navy of the United States
during the late civil war, and of having made a homestead entry for less than 160
acres prior to the 22d of June, 1874, and the right claimed is not certified by this
office, after examination, under circular of May 17, 1877, and the certificate presented
to you in support of the claim, I have to direct that, before taking final action on the
claim, you forward the papers to this office for examination in connection with the
official records, after making the notations on your records necessary to show the
pendency of the application, and the consequent segregation of the land, so as to
prevent any adverse appropriation before the application is finally acted upon, and
await instructions before taking any further action in the case.
FINAL PROOF AND PAYMENT.
[To register and receiver, Huron, S. Dak., Febraary 26, 1890.]
I have received the register's letter of the I8th instant, in which he asks eertain
qaeetions, which are stated below, with my answers, as follows, viz :
(1) " If claimants fail to pay for proof on day of filing same, must it be rejected,
and if rejectetl by the register and receiver have they the right and power to open
it np and pass to record, after a compliance with the law at a subsequent date with-
out orders or authority from the Commissioner T'
Answer. I refer you, in reply, to paragraph 19, on page 45, of circular of January
1, 1889, prescribing a rule on the suoject, which is established by the authority of the
head of the department and obligatory npon this office and all subordinates, and
which forbids registers and receivers to accept or receive proof without proper pay-
ment. Should proof be offered without such payment, but after proper notice, and
without protest or objection, and be rejected by you, in obedience to the rule referred
to, and .suould it be subsequently again submitted, with tender of the proper pay-
ment within a reasonable time, accompanied with an affidavit of explanation, show-
ing a good reason for the failure to tender the money at first, sufficient to satisfy the
register and receiver of the good faith of the claimant, and showing that he has con-
tinued to reside upon the land, and that he has not alienated or agreed to alienate
the same, up to the date of the offer of the money, I am of opinion that they may
accept the proof and money, permitting the entry to go to record, without awaiting
prior orders of authority from this office. In such cases, however, all the papers
therfsin should be transmitted to me, in a special report, for consideration.
(-1) " In case a proof is rejected for any sufficient cause, have the register and re-
ceiver the power to open it np, cure the same, and pass to record f
Answer. If the proof is refected for any cause not affecting the good faith of the
claimant, or his actual compliance with the legal conditions, and is subsequently
again presented with a supplemental showing sufficient to cnre or remove the defect
and to satisfy the register and receiver that the entry may be properly allowed, I am
of the opinion that they may accept it without interposing technical delays or ob-
jections, under the same conditions stated in answer to the first question.
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[Order to chiefs of divisions.]
Department of the Interior,
General Land Office,
Washington, D. C, April 2, 1890.
In view of the provisions of the act of Congress, approved October 2, 1888 (U. 8.
Stats., 25, p. 526), and to afibrd time for more careful consideration of the points in-
volved in tne constractiou thereof, it is hereby directed that until further orders no
final entries within what are known as the arid regions of the United States shall
be approved, in which the inception of the right was subsequent to October 2, 1888.
Lewis A. Groff.
Department of the Interior,
General Land Office,
Washington, 1). C, Ajnil 10, 1890.
The following rules are hereby established, with the concurrence of the Secretary
of the Interior and Attorney-General, as additional to the regulations in accordance
with which suspended claims are decided under sections 2450 to 2457, Revised
Statutes, as amended by the act of Congress of February 27, 1877, viz:
31. All pre-emption, homestead, commutation of homestead, and timber-culture en-
tries, in which final proof has been made, and in which compliance with one or more
legal requirements wit,h reference to the final proof notice or in other respects does
not appear in the papers, because of the neglect or inattention of the district land
officers in allowing the fiual proof and payment to be made notwithstanding such
defect, but where, in fact, notice was given, and in which no adverse claim appears,
and the existing testimony shows a Rubstantial, bona fide compliance with tne law
as to residence and improvements in pre-emption, homestead, and commutation of
homestead entries, or as to the required planting, cultivating, and protecting of the
timber in timber- culture entries, or where such facts were satisfactorily shown to the
district land officers by proof which was lost in transmission to the General Land
Office, and can not now be renewed by reason of the death of witnesses, or other
cause. • •
32. All homestead and timber-culture entries in which the party has shown good
faith and a substantial compliance with the legal requirements of residence and cul-
tivation of the land in homestead entries, or the required planting, cultivating, and
protecting of the timber in timber-culture entries, but in which the party did not.
through ignorance of the law, declare his intention to become a citizen of the United
States until after he had made his entry, or, in homestead entries, did not from like
cause perfect citizenship until after the making of final proof, aud in which there is
no adverse claim.
33. All homestead and timber-culture entries in which good faith appears and a
substantial compliance with law, and in which there is no adverse claim, but in
which full compliance with law was not effected, or final proof made within the period
prescribed, or residence established on the land in homestead entries within the
time fixed therefor by statute, or official regulation based therern, aud in which such
failure was caused by ignorance of the law, by accident or mistake, by'sickness of
the party or his family, or by any other obstacle which he could not control.
Lewis A. Groff,
Commimoner of the General Land Office,
We concur in the foregoing additional rules.
John W. Noble,
Secretary of the Interior.
W. H. H. Miller,
Attorney- General.
April 24, 1890.
[GommiissioDer Groff to regiaters and receivers, United States land offlcea, June 25, 1890.1
Your attention is called to the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act
to amend section twenty-two hundred and ninety-four of the Revised Statutes of the
United Siates, and for'other purposes,'^ approved May 26, 1890, a co])y of whicbia
hereto attached.
The second paragraph refers to the preliminary affidavits, no affidavits, however,
being required when a pre-emption declaratory statement is filed.
Under its provisions said affidavits, when the applicant is prevented by reason of
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distance, bodily infirmity, or olber good cause from personal attendance at the local
land office, whether be is residing on the laud or noti may be made before the clerk of
a court of record for the county in which the land is situated, or any commissioner of
the United States circuit court having Jurisdiction over the oounty in which the land
is situated.
The third paragraph refers to final proofs and affidavits required to be made und<^r
the homestead, pre-emption, timber-culture, and desert-land laws, and provides that
said proofs and affidavits may be made before any commissioner of the United States
circuit court having jurisdiction over the county in which the lands are situated, or
before the judge or clerk (not necessarily the clerk in the absence of the judge) of
any court of record of the county or parish in which the lands are situated.
The remaining paragraphs relate to the fees which may be charged by officers other
than the local officers before whom proofs may be made, but do not affect the laws
governing the fees which may be charged by the local officers.
Approved :
JoHtr W. Noble,
Secretary.
(Public— No. 132.]
AN ACT to Amend section twenty- two hundred and ninety-four of the Revised Statates of the United
Statee. and for other purpoeea.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Mouse of Repreeenlativea of the United States of
America in Congress assembledf That section twenty-two hnndred and ninety-four of
the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so that it will read as fol-
lows:
Sec. 2294. In any case in which the applicant for the benefit of the homestead, pre-
emption, timber culture, or desert-land law is prevented, by reason of distance, bodily
infirmity, or other good cause, from personal attendance at the district land office, he
or she may make the affidavit required by law before any commissioner of the United
States circuit court or the clerk of a court of record for the county in which the land
is situated, and transmit the same, with the fee and commission, to the register and
receiver.
That the proof of settlement, residence, occupation, cultivation, irrigation, or re-
clamation, the affidavit of non-alienation, the oath of allegiance, and all other affi-
davits required to be made under the homestead, pre-emption, timber-culture, and
desert-land laws, may be made before any commissioner of the United States circuit
court, or before the jiidge or clerk of any court of record of the county or parish in
which the lands are situated ; and the proof, affidavit, aud oath, when so made and
duly subscribed, shall have the same force aud effect as if made before the register
and receiver, when transmitted to them, with the fee and commission allowed and
required by law. That if any witness making such proof, or any applicant making
any such affidavit or oath, shall knowingly, willfully, and corruptly swear falsely to
any material matter contained in said proofs, affidavits, or oaths, he shall be deemed
guilty of perjury, and shall be liable to the same pains and penalty as if he had sworn
falsely before the register. That the fees for entries and for final proofs, when made
before any other officer than the register and receiver, shall be as follows :
For each affidavit, twenty-five cents. .
For each deposition of claimant or witness, when not prepared by the officer, twenty-
five cents.
For each deposition of claimant or witness prepared by the officer, one dollar.
Any officer demanding or receiving a greater sum for such service shall be guilty of
a- misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, bhall be punished for each offense by a fine not
exceeding one hundred dollars.
Approved May 26, 1890.
ARID LANDS.
[To register and reoeiver. Independence, Cal., Angost 29, 1889.]
Filings allowed for lands that may be selected as sites for reservoirs, ditches, or
oanals, or lands susceptible of irrigation thereby, will be at the risk of the parties
filing, under the act of October 2, 1888, and circular of August 5, 1889.
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FINAL PROOF NOTICES.
[To register and reoeiver, Los Angeles, Cal., May 9, 1890. 1
The act of March 3, 1879, reqaires that such notices (fiaal proof) shall be pablished
in a newspaper to be designated by the register as nearest th^ land, • • • xf ap-
plication 18 made to publish snch notices by any newspaper that yon do not consider
Dona fide, and having an actual and legitimate circulation, you can require affldavita
from the publishers to establish the facts, aud if then iu doubt the matter should be
referred to thia office for instruction.
ITo register and receiver, Neligh, Xebr., May 22. 1800.]
In relation to the publication of final -proof notices iu a newspaper at Amelia, Nebr.,
I have to refer you to the circular instructions of this office of July 'M, 1884, in which
yon are required to satisfy yourselves as ro the character and bona fides of the paper
in which the notices should be published.
Proper affidavits to establish the facts desired should be called for, and if glaring
and inexcusable blunders are made in the description of the lands or other particn-
lars, whereby the notice should require to be republished, causing inconvenience and
delay to the settler, your action in refusing to give notices to such papers would be
sustained by this office.
Bnt prior to taking such action you will submit full and specific proof, supported
by affidavits if advisable, and ask for specific instructions. The law in relation to
these publications should be your guide, and only in cases where the plain purpose of
the law is not subserved to the full extent required should there be any question in
the matter.
(1) Additional entry aet of March 'i 1889. — The rule of approximation which governa
in original entries also governs in additional entries under the act of March 2, 1889.
, An applicant under said act is required to pay for any excess of area over 160 aorea
contained in both the original and additional entry. (To the register aud reoeiver,
Huron, Dak., September 23, 1889.)
(2) Meandered stream. — A homestead entry should not be allowed to embrace land
on both sides of a meandered stream. (To register and receiver, Guthrie, Ind.T.^
December 4, 1889.)
(3) Widow of a Boldier who fiHl a homestead declaratory statement,— The widow of a
soldier who had filed a homestead declaratory statement may make homestead entry
of the tract covered thereby, subject to compliance with section 2291, United States
Bevised Statutes. (To George B. Cock^ M. D., Canton, Ohio, December 6, 1889.)
(4) Married woman act of March 2, 18*^. — A married woman can not make a home-
stead entry under the act of March 2, 1889. (To register and receiver, Chadron, Nebr.,
April 2, 1890.)
(5) Agent — soldier's homestead declaratory statement. — One person may act as agent for
several claimants, but if any unfair advantage is attempted by such agent, it rests in
the discretion of the local officers to guard against any snch wrongful attempts by
any means consistent with the statutory rights of the parties. (To register and re-
ceiver, Wausau, Wis., April 29, 1890.)
NEW LAND DISTRICTS, CHANGES IN BOUNDARIES, ETC
Ko, 928. — Notice of change of boundaries of the Lamed land district, in the State ofKaneas,
Notice is hereby given that the President of the United States, by executive order
dated August 2, 1889, has, pursuant to law, directed that all that portion of the former
Wichita land district, in Kansas, which was consolidated with the Topeka land dis-
trict by executive order of February 19, 1889, except the counties of Butler and Cow-
ley, in said district, be and the same are hereby transferred from the Topeka land dis-
trict to the Larned land district, in the State of Kannas.
Further notice of the precise time when the land officers at Larued will be in readi-
ness to receive applications for the lands hereby transferred will be given by the reg-
ister and receiver by publication.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington this 3d day of August, A. D. 1889.
By the President :
W. M. Stone,
Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office.
No. ii29.— 'Notice of the transfer of certain townships from the Independence to the Stook^
ton land district^ in the State of California.
Notice is hereby given that the President of the United States, by executive order
dated the 27th day of September, 1889, has directed, under the provisious of section
1^253, Revised Statutes, that townships 1, 2, 3, and 4, soutli of range 22 east. Mount
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Diablo B. and M., now inoladed in the Independenoe land district, in the State of
Calii'omia^ be and the same are hereby transferred to and included in the StocktoD
land district, in said State.
The register and receiver at Independence will give further notice by publication
of the precise date when they will turn over to the officers at Stockton all the records
for the land transferred.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington this 1st day of October, A. D. 1B89»
By the President :
Lewis A. Groff,
Commisaioner of the General Land Office.
No. 930, — Notice of the ohange of boundaries of certain land diatricte, in the States of North
Dakota and South Dakota.
Notice is hereby given that the President bi the United States, by executive order
dated December 3, 1889, has, pursuant to law, directed that certain changes be made
in the boundaries of land districts, as follows :
All the lands embraced in townships 129 north of ranges 47 to 66 west, inclusive,
now constituting a part of the Aberdeen and Watertowu land districts, are hereby
transferred and attached to the F^argo land district', in the State of North Dakota^
and all the lands embraced in township 129 north of ranges from and including range
67 west, to the Missouri river, now constituting a part of the Aberdeen land district,
are hereby transferred and attached to the Bismarck laud district, in the State of
North Dakota.
Further notice of the precise time when the changes herein directed will be carried
into effect will be given by the laud officers of the Fargo and Bismarck land districts
respectively.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington this 6th day of December, A. D»
1889.
By the President :
Lewis A. Groff.
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Notice of the establishment of boundaries of land distriotSf and the location of offices thereof
in the State of South Dakota; also of the transfer of certain lands to the Dakota land
district, in Nebraska. •
Notice is hereby given that the President of the United States, by executive order
dated February 10, 1890, has, pursuant to law, directed that the boundaries of certain
land districts in the State or South Dakota be changed and established, and the
offices located as follows :
It is hereby ordered, to subserve the public interests, that the boundaries of the
Black Hills land district, created by executive erder dated March 10, 1877, pursuant
to the provisions of section 2343 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, the
office of Haid district being now located at Rapid city, by executive order dated De-
oember 13, 1888, in the State of South Dakota, be changed and extended so as to
include all that portion of the State of South Dakota west of the one hundred and
second meridian of longitude and south of the seventh standard parallel north ex-
tended.
Second.— That the boundaries of the district named iit the first section of the act
entitled '*An act to create three additional land districts in the Territory of Dakota,''
approved March 3, 1883, be changed and established as follows :
Beginning at a point on the southern boundary of the State of South Dakota, at the
southeast corner of the Black Hills laud district as defined above; thence north on
the eastern boundary line of said land district to a point where the line of the secoud
standard parallel north, when extended west ftom the Missouri river, intersects said
eastern boundary of the Black Hills land district; thence east on said standard
parallel to the east bank of the Missouri river; thence following the bank of said
river down to a point where the second standard parallel intersects said river, at a
point in range 73 west ; thence east on said parallel to the northeast corner of town-
ship 108 north, range 6H west; thence south between townships 67 and 68 west to the
southeast corner of township 106 north, range 68 west; thence east on the line be-
tween townships 105 and 106 north to the northeast corner of township 105 north,
range 67 west ; thence south on the line between ranges 66 and 67 west to the base-
line between townships 100 and 101 north ; thence west on said base-line to the Mis-
souri river; thence along the same southeasterly to the forty-third parallel ; thence
orosRing the Missouri river and running due west to the place of beginning ; to be
known as the Chamberlain land district, and the land office in the said district shall
be located at the town of Chamberlain, in Brnl^ county, S. Dak.
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Third. — ^That the bouDdaries of the district established by the second section of the
said act of March 3, 1883, last aforesaid, be changed and established as follows :
BeginninfT at a point on the north bank of the Missonri river in township 109
north, where the. range line between ranges 73 and 74 west intersects the same : thence
running north on the line between ranges 73 and 74 west to the third standard par-
allel norlh ; thence west to the east boundary of the Fort Snlly military rostirva-
tion ; thence southeast to the southeast corner of said reservation ; thence west along
the southern boundary of said reservation to the Missonri river; thence np the east
bank of said river to the fifth standard parallel ; thence west along the line of said
fifth standard parallel, when extended, to the one hundred and second meridian ;
thence south along said meridian to the northern boundary of the laud district as
last above described ; thence along said north boundary line of said last-named land
district to the place of beginning; to be known as the Pierre land district, and the
land ofUce in said district shall be located at the town of Pierre, in Hughes county,^
S. Dak.
Fourth, — That the boundaries of the land district which was created by an act of
Congress approved March 23, 1882, entitled "An act to create* two additional land
districts, and to change the boundaries of the Watertown land district, in the Terri-
tory of Dakota" (Stats., vol. 22, pp. 33 and 34), the office of said district being located
at Hurou by executive order dated April 4, 1882, and now called the Huron land dis-
trict, be changed by omitting therefrom the following :
Beginning at a point on the MisMouri River where the township line between ranges
73 ancr74 west, in township 109, intersects said river; thence north on the. line be-
tween ranges 73 and 74 west to the third -standard parallel ; thence west on said par-
allel to the eastern boundary of Fort Sully military reservation ; thence southeast to
the southeast corner of said reservation ; thence west on the south boundary of said
reservation to the Missouri river; and thence down the east bank of said river to the
point of beginning, which last-described land has been added to the Pierre land dis-
trict.
Fifth. — That the boundaries of the Sioux Falls land district, office now located at
Mitchell, as fixed by the second section of execntive order dated April 5, 1879 (order
No. 850), as changed by the act of Congress approved March 2:1, 1882, entitled **An act
to create two additional land districts and to change the boundaries of the Water-
town land district, in the Territory of Dakota" (Stats., vol. 22, pp. 34 and 35), be
changed by omitting therefrom the following:
Beginning at a point where the base line between townships 100 and 101 north in-
tersects the east bank of the Missouri river; thence east*to the range lino between
ranges 6H and 67 west; thence north on said range line to the northeast comer of
township 105 north, range 67 west ; thence west on the township line between town-
ships 105 and 106 north to the northeast corner of township 105 north, range 68 west:
thence north on the township line between ranges 67 and 68 west to the second
Btatidard parallel; thence west on said parallel to the Missouri river; and thence
south along the east bank of said river to the place of beginning, which last-de-
scribed land has been a<lded to the Chamberlain land district.
Sixth, — That the boundaries of the land district in the State of Nebraska originally
established by that act of Congress entitled ''An act to establish three additional
land districts in the I'erritory of Nebra«ka, approved March 3, lt£7, and therein
called the Dakota land district," and the office whereof is now located at the town of
O'Neill, Holt county, Nebr., be changed and established so as to include therein ail
that territory lyiug south of the forty-third parallel of north latitude and east of the
Keyapaha river and west of the main channel of the Missouri river, being all that
territory heretofore included in the Sioux Indian Reservation south of said forty-third
parallel of north latitude.
Further notice of the precise time when the offices of the respective districts will be
in readiness to open the same and to receive applications for the lands will be given
by the registers and receivers by publication.
Given under my hand at the citv of Washington this 11th dav of Febmarv, A. D.
1890.
By the President :
Lewis A. Groff,
Commi$8ioner of the General Land Office.
No. 932,^Notioe of the estahlishmeni of three additional land diatricte in the State of Colo-
radOj and of the location of the offices of said districts.
Notice is hereby given that by an act of Congress approved February 6, 1890, ** all
that portion of the State of Colorado bounded and described as follows : Commencing
at the northeast corner of the State of Colorado; thence west along the north
boundary line of said State to a point at the intersection of said line with the west
line of range 59 west; thence south along said west line of said range to its inter-
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flection with the first corrected line north in said State <•£ Colorado; thence east
along said first corrected line north to the eastern boundary line of said State of Colo-
rado; thence north alon^ir the eastern boundary line of said I^tate to the place of be-
ginning, be and is hereby constitn^d a new land district, to be called the Sterling
land district.
** Sec. 2. That all that portion of the State of Colorado bounded and described as
follows: Beginning at the point where the first corrected line north in the said
titate intersects the eastern boundary line thereof; thence west alone said corrected
line north to its intersection with the seventh guide meridian west in Naid State ;
thence south along said seventh guide meridian to the point of its intersection with
the first corrected line south in said State; thence east along said first corrected line
to the point of its intersection with the eastern boundary line of said State ; thence
north along said eastern boundary line of said State to the place of beginning, be and
is hereby coi stituted a new land district, to be called the Akron land district.
" Sec. 3. That all that portion of the State of Colorado lying east of the seventh
guide meridian west, south of the first corrected line south, and north of the third
corrected line south, be and is constituted a new laud district.^'
Under -the provisions of section 4, of the act above named, the President of the
United States^ by executive order dated th^ 4th day of March, ItUO, has directed
that the land office for the Sterling land district, created by the first section of the
act, shall be located at Sterling; that the land office for the Akron land district,
created by the second section of the act, shall be located at Akron ; and the office for
the district created by the third section of the act shall be located ut Hugo, and the
district shall be known as the Hugo district.
Fnrther notice of the precise date when the laud offices for the districts as above
named will be opened for the transaction of public business will be giveu by the reg-
isters and receivers thereof by publication.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington this 6th day of March, A. D. 1890.
By the President :
Lewib a. Gboff,
Conimi88ionej\ of the General Land Office.
Xo. 333. — Notice of the eatahJishment of tivo additional land dtBtricti* in the State of
Montana.
•
Notice is hereby giveu that by au act of Congress approved April 1, 1890, *'all
that portion of the State of Montana bounded and described as follows: ConiLienc-
ing at a point on the southern boundary of the State where the line between ranges
14 and 15 west of the Montana principal meridian intersects said boundary, and run-
ning north along said line to the northern boundary line of the State; thence with
said boundary line to the northwest corner of the State ; thence southwardly along '
the boundary line between Montana and Idaho to the place of beginning, be and
the same is hereby constituted a new land district, to be called Missoula land dis-
trict of the State of Montana, and the land office for said district shall be located at
the town of Missoula,
*' Sec. 2. That all that portion of the State of Montana commencing at that point
on the first standard parallel north, where the range line between townships 27 and
28 east of the principal meridian intersects the same ; thence running north along said
range line to the southern bank of the Missouri River; thence westerly along said
river to the point where the range line between ranges 12 and 13 east of the principal
meridian iutersects said river ; thence south along said range line between ranges 12
and 13 east to the first standard parallel north, and thence east along said standard
parallel to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, .constituted a new land
district, to be called the Judith laud district, in the State of Montana, and the laud
office for said district shall be located at the town of Lewiston.
Further notice of the precise dace when the land offices at Missoula and Lewiston
will be opened for the transaction of public business will be given by the registers
and receivers thereof by publication. •
Given under my hand at the city of Washington the Uth day of April, A. D. 1890.
By the President :
Lewis A. Groff.
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
^0.934. — Notice of the eBtdbliahment of two additional land districts in the State of Ne*
hraska.
Notice is hereby given that by an act of Congress approved April 16,1890, ^'all
that portion of the State of Nebraska bounded and described as follows: Commeuc-
ing at a point where the fifth guide meridian west of the sixth principal meridian
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intersects the line between townships 26 and 27 north ; thence east along said line to
the northeast corner of township 26 north of range 21 west; thence sonth to the
fifth standard parallel north ; thence east along said standard parallel to the second
guide meridian west ; thence south to the fourtl^tandard parallel north ; thence west
to the southwest; corner of township 17 north of range 27 west ; thence north to the
northeast corner of township 18 north of range 28 west ; thence west to the fifth
guide meridian west, and thence north along said fifth guide meridian west to the
place of beginning, be and the same is hereby constituted a new land district, to be
called the Broken Bow land district, the land office for which shall be located at
Broken Bow, in the State of Nebraska.
"S' c. 2. That all that portion of the State of Nebraska bounded and described as
follows: Commencing at a point where the line between townships 27 and 28 north
intersects the western boundary of the State ; thence east along said township line
to the northeast corner of township 27 north of range 41 west; thence south to the
southeast corner of township 19 north, of range 41 west, thence west to the south-
west corner of township 19 north of range 45 west, all of the sixth principal meridian:
thence north to the fifth standard parallel north ; thence west along said fifth standard
parallel north to the western boundary of the State, and thence along said bonndary
line to place of beginning, be and the same is hereby constituted a new land district,
to be called the Alliance land district, the land office for which district shall be locatea
at Alliance, in the State of Nebraska.''
Further notice of the precise date when the land offices at Broken Bow and Alliance
will be opened for the transaction of public business will be given by the registers
and receivers thereof by publication.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington this 25th day of April, A. D. 1890.
By the President :
LEWI8 A. Groff,
CommUeioner of the G^eral Land Office,
No, 9H5 — Notice of the removal of the land offi^sefrom Shusta to Redding^ in the State of
California.
Notice is hereby given that the President of the United States, by executive order
dated the 13th day of May, 1890, has, pursnant to law, directed that the office for the
sale of public lavas now located at Shasta, in the State of California, be removed to
and located at the town of Redding, in said State.
Further notiee of the precise date when the land office will be closed at Shasta pre-
paratory to removul and re-opening the same at Redding will be given by the register
and receiver of the district, by publication.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington this 15th day of May, A. D. 1800.
By the President :
Lbwis a. Groff,
Commiisioner of the General Land Office.
No. ^27.— Notice of the eatablishment of two additional land dietrtcte in the State of
Washington,
Notice is hereby given that by an act of Conifress approved May 16, 1890, all that
portion of the State of Washington bounded and described as follows : Commencing
at a point on the western coast of the State of Washington where the line between
townships 14 and 15 north of the base line intersects said coast ; thence east along
said line between townships 14 and 15 to the summit of the Cascade range of mount-
ains; thence north along the summit of eaid range to a point where the fifth stand-
ard parallel, if projected, would intersect said range ; thence west along said fifth
standard parallel to the Willamette principal meridian ; thence north along said
meri<1ian to the northeast corner of township 24 north of range 1 west; thence west
along the line between towuHhips 24 and 25, when extended, to the Pacific Ocean ;
thence south along the western coast of the State to the place of beginning, be and
the same is hereby constituted a new land district, to be called the Chehalis land
district, in the State of Washington, and the land office for the said district shall be
located at the city of Ol^mpia.
Sec. 2. That all that portion of the State of WaMhiogton beginning at a point
on thu northern boundary of the State wht^re the Columbia guide meridian, when
projected, will intersect the said northern boundary of the State ; thence west along
said northern boundary to a point where the same intersects the summit of the Cas-
cade range of mountains ; thence south along the summit of said Cascade range to a
point where the fifth standard parallel north, when projected, will intersect said
range; thence east along said fifth standard parallel to the intersection thereof with
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the Colambia guide meridian between ranges 30 and 31 east; thence north folio w-
ing Maid gnide meridau to the place of beginning, be and the same is hereby consti-
tuted a new land district, to be cailed the Columbia land district in the State of
Washin^^ou, and the land office for said district shall be located at the town of
Water viUe.
Further notice of the precise date when the laud ottices at Olynipia and Water ville
will be opened for the transaction of public business will be given by the registers
and receivers thereof by publication.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington the 27th day of May, A. D. 1890.
By the President :
W. M. Stonb,
JsfUtant Cammi$8ionfr of the General Land Office.
No, 92^,^Notiee of the eetahliehment of three new land diatriote in the Territory of Wyo^
ming.
Notice is hereby given that by an act of Congress approved April 23, 1890, all the
public landsin the Territory of Wyoming bounded and described as follows: Begin-
ning at a point on the eastern boundary* of the said Territory where the tenth stand-
ard parallel north intersects the same ; thence running west aloug said tenth standard
parallel north to the southeast corner of township 41 north, range 75 west; thence
north on the line between ranges 74 and 75 west to the northern l^undary line of the
said Territory ; thence east along haid northern boundary line to the northeast cor-
ner of the said Territory ; thence south along the said eastern boundary line of the
said TeiTitury to the place of beginning, shall constitute a new land district, and the
land office of the said district shall be located at such place in said district as the
President may direct.
Sbo. 2. That all the public lauds of the Territory of Wyoming bounded and de-
scribed as follows: Beginning at a point on the northern boundary of the said Terri-
tory where the twelfth guide meridian will, wben exteudcil, intersect with the same ;
thence south along said guide meridian to the eleveuth standard parallel north ;
thence east along said parallel to the eleventh auxiliary meridian ; thence south along
said meridian, when extended, to the seventh staudard parallel north; thence west
along said seventh standard parallel to the southwest comer of township 29 north,
range 104 west, of the sixth principal meridian ; thence north along said liue between
ranges 104 and 105 west to the ninth standard parallel north, when extended ; thence
along said parallel, when extended, to the western boundary of the said Territory ;
thence north aloug said western boundary to the northern boundary of the said Terri-
tory; thence east along said northern boundary to the place of beginning, shall con-
stitute a new land district, and the land office of the said district shall be located at
such place in the said district as the President may direct.
8kc. 3. That all the public lands in the Territory of Wyoming boanded and de-
scribed as follows: Beginning at a point on the eastern boundary of the said Territory
where the tenth standard parallel north intersects the same ; thence running west along
the said tenth standard parallel north to the eleventh auxiliary meridian: thence
south along said meridian, when extended, to the seventh st-aodard parallel north ;
thence east along the said seventh standard parallel to the southeast comer of town-
ship 29 north, range 71 west ; thence north on the line between ranges 70 and 71 west
to the southeast corner of township 31 north, range 71 west ; thence east along the
line between townships 30 and 31 north to the eastern boundary line of the said Terri-
tory to the place of beginning, shall constitute a new land district, and the land office
of the said district shall be located at snch place in said district as the President may
direct.
And by executive order dated June 3, 1890, the President of the United States has,
pursuant to law, directed that the land district created by the first section of the act
shall be known as the Crook land district, and the office thereof located at Sundance ;
that the district created by the second section of the act shall be known as the Shoshone
land district, and the office thereof be located atLandfr, and that the district created by
the third section of the act shall be known as the Pfatte land district, the otHce
thereof to be locat^'.d at Douglas.
Further notice of the precise date when the laud offices at Suudance, Lander, and
Doughis will be opened for the transaction of public business will be given by rhe
registers and receivers thereof by publication.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington the 7th day of June, A. D. 1890.
By the PreHident :
W. M. Stonk,
Acting Commiaeioner of the General Land Office,
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No. 93Q -Xoiiee of the eMtahlishment of a land district in the public land strip, Oklahoma
Territory f and location of the land office for the same.
Notice is hereby given that by an act of Congress approved May 2, 1890, "that
portion of the Territory of Oklahoma heretofore known as the public land strip is
hereby declared a public land district,* and the President of the United States is
hereby empowered to locate a land office in said district at such place as he shall
select, and to appoint, in conformity with existing law, a register and receiver of
said land office/'
And by execntive order dated June 3, 1890, in conformity with the law, the Presi-
dent has designated the town of Butfalo. in said Territory, as the place of location of
the land office of the district.
Further notice of the precise date when the land office at Buffalo will be opened
for the transaction of public business will be given by the register and receiver of the
district by publication.
Given under mv hand at the city of Washington the 7th day of June, A. D. 1890.
By the President :
W. M. Stone,
Acting (Jommiesioner of the General Land Office.
No. 9A0.—Notioe of the estahUshment of an additional land disUHct in the Territory of
Oklahoma,
Notice is hereby given that under the provisions of section 19 of an act of Congress
approved May 2, l&O, to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Okla-
homa, authority is given to the President of the United States, whenever he shall
deem it necessary, to '* establish another additional land district within said Terri-
tory and to locate a land office therein, '' and by executive order dat«;d June 6, 1890.
the President has, pursuant to law, directed that all that portion of the two land
districts in said Territory, offices therefor being now located at Guthrie and King-
fisher, lying south of the lines between townships 13 and 14 north, be constituted
a new land district, to be designated as the Oklahoma City land district, and the
office therefor located at Oklahoma.
Further notice of the precise date when the office at Oklahoma will be opened for
the transaction of public business will be given by the register and receiver of the
district by publication.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington the 11th day of June, A. D., 1890.
By the President :
Lbwis a. Groff,
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
List of existing local land offices June 30, 1890.
Name of office.
HuBtavllle ....
Moutgooaery ..
Sitka
Pre«oott
Tac«on
CamdoD
Dardanelle ....
Harrison
LitUeRock ...
Humboldt
Independeoce .
Los AiiKoles...
MarysTille
Roddini?
Saoramento . .
San Francisco-
Stockton
Susanyille
Viaalla
Akron
Central City...
Del Norte
Denver
State or Territory.
I Date of act
!o"JdS?rtho7>-teo'oj--
iKingthees- *°K*
' tablishnient.
Alabama...
...do
Alaska...,
Arisona....
...do
Arkansas.
...do
...do
...do
California..
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
.. do
...do
...do
Colorado...
...do
...do
...do
Mar. 8,1807
Jaly]0.188«
May 17, 1884
Nov. 3,1868
Apr. 22, 1881
Jan. 10, 1871
July 14, 1870
Jalv 14, 1870
Feb. 17. 1818
Mar. 29. 1858
Apr. 22, 18^6
June 12,1869
Mar. 3,1853
May 13, 1890
Joly 26, 1866
Jan. 16, 1857
Mar. 29. 1858
Feb, 10. 1871
Mar. 29. 1858
Feb. 6,1890
July 26, 1866
June 20, 1874
June 4.1864
Joly 27,1810
6Jan. 1, 1884
Feb. 1, 1885
Oct 1. 1870
July 1, 1881
Mar. 20, 1871
May ai, 1871
Fel^ 27,1871
Sept. 1,1821
July 24,1858
Mar. 22, 1887
Sept 22, 1869
Apr 27.1858
July 15,1890
Not. 4^1867
Nov. 8,1857
July 1,1868
Mar. 2.1871
July 10,1858
Aug. 1,1890
Mar. 24,1868
Mar. 22,1875
Aojr. 15, 1864
(a) Where date of opening is not known, date of first entry at that office is given.
(6) About.
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Li9t of existing local land offices June 30, 1890 — CootiDocd.
Name of offloe.
Darango
Glen wood Springs
OnnnisoD
Hugo
Lamar
Leadville
Montrose
Paeblo
Sterlinjr
6aini>ayiUe
Blackfoot
Bois^City
CcBorcVAlene
Hailey
LewUton
DeaMoinea
Bnffftlo
Gattarie
Klngflaher
Oklahoma City
Garden City
Kirwin :
Lamed
Oberlin
Salina
Topeka
WaKeeney
Natchitochea
New Orleans
Graylinfr
Karaaeite
Crookaton
Dnlutb
MazafaaU
StCloud.
Taylor's Falls
Jaokaon
Boonville
IrontoD
Sprlnf^eld
Boseinan
HeleB*
Lewiatown (Judith district)
MileaOity
Miaauula
Alliance
Bloominffton
Broken Bow
Chadron.
Grand Island
Lincoln
HcCook
NeliKh
North Platte
O'NefU
Sidney
Talentlne
Carson City
Enrplu
Fol«onj
LasCrnces
Roswell
Santa F6
Bismarck
Devil'sLake
FarKo
Grand Forka
La Grande
Lakeview
OrOKonCity
Barux
Roaehnrsh
The Dallea .
State or Territory.
Date of act
or executive
order author-
izing the efi-
tablishment.
Colorado
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
..do
...do
Florida
Idaho
...do
...do
...do
.. do
Iowa
Oklahoma Territory .
...do
...do
...do
Kanaas
...do
...do
...do
.. do
.. do
...do
Louiaiana
...do
Michigan
.. do
Minnesota
do.
do.
do .
do.
Apr. 20, 1882
July 3,1884
Oct 20,1882
Feb e, 1890
Aug. 4,1886
Apr. 5,1879
Jan. 4,1888
May 27, 1870
Feb. 6,1890
June 8,1872
Sept 3,1886
July 26. 1866
Jnlv li, 1884
Jan. 24. 1883
July 26, mW
Aug. 2,1852
May
Mar.
Mar.
May
Mar.
Miaaissippi....
Missouri
.. do
..do
Montana.
...do
...do
...do
...do
Nebraska
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
..do
...do
...do
Nevada
...do
New Mexico...
..do
...do
...do
North Dakota. .
... do
...do
...do
Oregon
"do."
do.
do.
do.
2, 1800
3,1889
3,1880
2.1890
.1, 1F81
Nov. 6,1874
June 20. 1874
May 24. 1880
Mar. 20, 1871
July 24, 1881
July 8, 1879
July 7,1838
Mar. 3.1811
Feb. 7,1888
Mar. 19. 1857
Apr. 29, 1878
Mar. 27, 1862
Feb 21,1889
Feb. 23,1858
Ang.21,186]
June 23, 1836
May 18, 1857
May 20, 1861
June 26, 1834
Juno 20, 1874
M«r. 2,1867
Apr. 1,1890
Apr. 30. 1880
Apr. 1, 18U0
Apr. 16, 1890
July 1,1874
Apr. 16, 189U
May 3,1886
Aug. 12, 1869
July 7,1868
June 19, 1882
June 28, 1881
Apr. 22, 1872
Apr. 7,1888
May 3, 18f6
June 19, 1882
July 2,1862
Mar. 31, 1873
Dec. 18,1388
Mar. 10, 1883
Mar. 1,1889
May 24, 1858
Apr. 24, 1874
Mar. 3,1883
Dec. 29. 1873
Jttn. 21.1880
July 3.1806
June 6, 1877
Aug. 24, 1864
June 1,1889
Sept 15, 1859
Jan. 11,1875
Date of open-
ing, a
Oct 21,188 2
Nov. 10,1884
Apr. 2.1883
Jan. 8, 1887
July 1, 1879
Sept. 1,1888
Jan. 16,1871
ib)
Apr. 30, 1873
Nov. 16,18§6
Jan. 18,1868
Dec. 21,1885
July 16.1888
Sept. 26^ 1871
Jan. 28,1868
ib)
Apr. 22,188»
Apr. 23.1889
Sept 1,1890
Oct 1, 1888
I Jan. 4,1876
I Feb. 20, 1875
, Aug. 1.1881
' May 1, 1871
I Sept 10.1861
Oct 20,1879
I Oct 12, 1838
oJan. 1,1812
Apr. 16,1888
July 14.1857
May 5, 1879
Jan. 15,1868
Mar. 1, 1889
Apr. 29. 1858
Oct 1, 1861
July 25. 1836
Aug. 1.1857
July 8,1861
Oct. 4, 1838
Oct. 5. 1874
Apr. 27, 1867
ib)
Oct. 9. 1880
July 1,1890
I Sept 10, 1874
July 7, 1890
July 1, 1887
Deo. 6, 1869
Sept 7,1868
June 16, 1883
July 17.1888
Apr. 17,1873
July 16,1888
July 1, 1887
July 2,1883
Mar. 1.1864
May 6, 1873
Aug. 12, 1889
Apr. 2M888
Dec. 9, 1889
Nov. 24, 1858
Oct 12, 1874
Aug. 24, 1883
Sept 1,1874
Apr. 20,1880
Nov. 15,1867
I Aug. 6,187T
Jan. 1. 1855
; Sept 2, 188»
Jan.
June
(a) Where date of opening la not known, date of first entry made at that office is given.
(b) Not yet opened.
(e) About.
3,1860
i, 1875
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List of existing local land offices June 30, 1890'Continaed.
Name of office.
Aberdeen
Chamberlain . . .
Haron
HltcheU
Piore
BapidCity
Watertown
Tankton
Salt Lake City .
VoTth Yakima .
Olympia
Seattfe
Spokane Falla..
vaDOonver
Walla WalU...
WaterriUa
Aahland
Baa Claire
Menaaha
Wausan
BaifiUo
Cheyenne
' Douglas
Evaaston
Lander
Sundance
State or Territory.
Date of act |
o";dra^a"tr-'^*<-fopen.
iEinK the cs- ^^- *
tabliahraent. ,
South DakoU Mar. 23,1882
...do ; Feb. 10,1890
...do Mar.23,1882
...do July 14,1880
...do Feb. 10,1890
... do Deo. 13,1888
...do Apr. 5,1879
...do May 21,1872
UUh July 18,1888
Wasbington Apr. 11,1885
...do May 16,1880
...do June27, 1887
...do June 23, 1883
...do May 16.1880
...do Mar. 8.1871
...do May 16,1890
Wiaoonsin Sept.28,1886
do Mar. 3,1867
do July 14,1852
...do
Wyomiug
...do
...do ....
..do.-...
...do....
...do
June 19, 1872
Mar. 3,1887
Feb. 5,1870
Apr 23, 1890
Aug. 9,1876
Apr. 23, 1890
Apr. 3,1890
Oct 2,1882
Apr. 3.1800
Oct. 9,1882
Jan. 3, 1881
May 12,1800
Jan. 15,1880
May 1. 1880
July 24,187S
Not. 1,1868
24.1886
1.1800
3,1887
1,1888
S.1801
17,1871
ib)
Not. 13,1880
July 1,1857
Sept. 1,1862
Aog. 19,1872
May 1. 1888
Aug. 10.1870
(6)
Aug. 13,1877
(b)
(6)
Apr.
Oct.
Dec
Oct
July
July
(a) Where date o' opening is not known, date of flrat entry at that oflioe ia given.
(b) Not yet opened.
Note. —Br aot of July 31, 1876, the land offices in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois were abolished ; and by
act of Maron 8, 1877, the racaat tracts of public land in Ohio, Indiana, and Dlinois are made subject
(0 entry and location at the aeneral Land Office, Washington, D. C.
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D— PKIVATB LAND CLAIMS DIVISION.
This divisioD has charge of all claims which had their origin in some
form of concession from a foreign government before the acquisition by
the United States of the territory in which they are located, and are
embraced within the purchases of Louisiana and Florida, the former
by the treaty of April 30, 1803, with France, and the latter by the treaty
of February 22, 1819, with Spain, and the cession made by Mexico by
the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the subsequent Gadsden pur-
chase.
The rights 'Of claimants to property acquired from the former govern-
ments when they exercised sovereignty over the regions of country in
which their respective claims are situated are recognized and protected
by the treaties of acquisition referred to. After the confirmation of
this class of claims under the various laws passed by Congress for as-
certaining their validity, their proper location by a United States sur-
vey and patenting come within the supervision of this division. It also
has charge of the examination, location, and patenting of donation claims
in the State of Oregon and the Territories of Washington, New Mexico,
and Arizona ; and of Indian lands, both reservations and allotments,
and the issuing of scrip in satisfaction of confirmed claims where the
title to suQh claims has been ac^udicated by the Supreme Court of the
United States under the act of Congress of June 22, 1860, and certifi-
cates of location or scrip decreed by said court ; also, of the examination
and authentication of other scrip issued for like purpose underact June
2, 1858, and the examination and patenting of New Madrid locations,
act February 17, 1815, and other matters in the service similar to the
foregoing.
The labors of this division will be largely increased when the provis-
ions for allotment of lands in severalty to Indians, under the act ap-
proved February 8, 1887, are more fully carried into effect.
WOBK PEBFOBMED.
During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, the principal work per-
formed in the division was as follows :
California priTate land claims patented 1
Oreffon and Waahington donation pateuts 24
Indiana, Louisiana, Florida, and Arlcansas private land claims patented 28
Indian claims patented 354
Entries with certificates of location finally approYed 147
Claims in New Mexico under act of July 22, 1854, reported to Congress 1
Claims in Louisiana satisfied with scrip, act of June 2, 1858 29
The indemnity scrip issued in lieu of the above twenty -nine unlo-
cated Louisiana' private land claims amounted to 16,272.87 acres.
The total number of letters received in this division of the office dur-
ing the fiscal year was 1,155 and the total number written was 1,187.
Of cases examined some have been passed for patenting, while others
have been suspended on account of imperfections and are now subjects
of correspondence.
9405 L 0 ^11 161
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Of the cases decided some are now on appeal, or awaitiug the expira-
tion of the time within which appeal may betaken or motions for review.
Regarding the condition of the work in this division at toe beginning
of the carreut year the following statement is submitted:
California cases docketed and uot fiually adjudicated 14
CoDfirmed New Mexico and Arizona private land claims not finally adjudicated. 27
Oregon, Washinj^ton, New Mexico, and Arizona donations reported and not fi-
nally adjudicated 117
Scrip cases, act of June 2, lr$58, reported and awaiting action 59
Imperfect claims reported under act of June 22, I860, and supplemental legisla-
tion, to be reported to Congress by this office 2
Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, etc., oases awaitini; action 2,935
Claims within limits of Las Animas grant in Colorado in wnich awards were
made by the register and receiver at Pueblo, under act of February 25, 1869,
not adjudicated 3
Claims within limits of Las Animas grant in Colorado, rejected by the register
and receiver under act of February 25, lb69, on file, exclusive of one disposed
of in lri74 and one withdrawn 24
Scrip locations pending : ^4
Indian allotments not patented '. 109
The following is among the decisions, reports, and recommendations
since last annual report :
THB PBRALTA CLAIM.
[To the sarveyor-general for Arisona, February SO, 1890. J
I have recently examined with care the papers and correspondence before this office
in the matter of the claim set n^ by James A. Reavis and wife to a body of land in
your district, which claim is predicated upon an alleged grant to one Don Miguel de
Peralta by Spanish authority in the eighteenth century, the treaty between this
Government and Mexico, signed at Guadalupe Hidalgo, February 2, 184^, and whatever
laws and regulations Congress has since provided for making operative the terms of
said treaty respecting private rights of property in lands within the ceded Territory.
Considerable correspondence nas been had in the past few years upon certain
phases of this case, which again demands attention under the following circum-
stances, namely: On September 24 last the Acting Commissioner of this Office ad-
dressed a letter to yon in relation to papers, maps, etc., in your office connected with
this ** Reavis claim," copies of which parties might wish to obtain, and yon were in-
structed *^ that whatever copies or papers or records of any kind are made out in regard
to the matter must be transmitted through this office and not sent or delivered to the
parties direct.'^
Incidentally you were requested to report '' the exact condition of said grant as
shown by papers and records in your office, and all the information you can obtain in
regard to it/'
Tlfis call for information was not intended as a direction to yon to immediately
make up the record, complete or incomplete, from the evidence before you with a
view to the submission of the same to Congrt^ss; neither was it intended that any
steps whatever should be taken which would clothe the case with any additional
dignity or cause alarm to the inhabitants of Arizona Territory whose interests might
seem to be menaced.
Were this a case which, prima facie, involved some legal or equitable rights and
ought therefore to be laid before Congress for its action, the consideration of it in
your office should have been exhaustive and the record prepared in as complete
a manner as possible, after full investigation, before your report and recommendation
were submitted ; but the correspondence had in this matter shows that there is no
fund available for more thoroughly investigating and exposing this alleged claim.
Yon have, it is represented, no means of obtaining and perpetuating additional
evidence of the visionary character of this so-called grant; and you state that '* the
furnishing of triplicate copies of the papers on file here to accompany the report is a
tremendous undertaking, and will be next to imposs ble within a reasonable time; "
* ^ * " that you require a Spanish copyist for Spanish documents," more clerks,
etc.
It is evident from the foregoing that the matter is uot in a condition to be laid l^e-
fore Congress, even if the law were mandatory upon the land department to pursue
that course when fictitious claims are presented to the surveyor-general ; which I do
not believe to be either the meaning or intent of the law upon the subject.
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If it is sasoeptible of such iDterpretation the entire Territory of Arizona might pos-
siblv be placed in reservation at the will of a few persons who might choose to assert
dnbioos or entirely unfounded claims to the soil under grants from former govern-
ments, '^ a result repngnant to public policy and destructive of public and private
riffhts/' as was set fortn by a former Commissioner of this office.
You report this as an attempt at a ffigantic fraud oppn the government and noth-
ing more; and in this connection I call attention to office letter addrfSS«Ml to you on
the same subject, May 2, 18d5, in which the Commissioner used the following lan-
guage: ** The essential foundation of a recognizable claim under the laws of Spain
and the treaties and laws of the Uniti^d States does not appear in this case. It is
my opinion that the futile work in which you have been engaged for a year and a
half m the direction of investigating an alleged claim which, fiom your own state-
ment of its uncorroborated character, has not been placed before you in a condition
to be entitled to consideration should forthwith be discontinued.''
** The onlv eifeot of your action and proceedings has been t<i needlessly alarm citi-
zens in lawnil and peaceful possession of homes and property upon the soil, to threaten
with insecurity private titles in towns and cities, to imperil valuable mining inter-
ests, and to intimidate settlements upon public lands."
Sincethat time claimants have sought in many ways to strengthen their case be-
fore the surveyor-general for Arizona; nevertheless, by the letter from which the
above extract is made, fhrther proceedings in your office touching this so-called
^'Peralta grant" were practically inhibited; and this interdiction has never been
officiallv removed so far as shown by the records here.
A full discussion of the various points raised by you, leading to the conclusion
that here is no valid claim which this government is forced to respect, is deemed un-
necessary, unless required of me in the future by higher authority.
Three principal questions present themselves for consideration :
(1) Was there ever a grant to one " Teralta/' in the manner, and for the lands, as
alleged f
(2) If there was such a grant, can the lines of the concession be laid down on the
earth's surface with such certainty as to avoid interference with the legal rights of
others?
(3) Supposing such a claim once existing, and in a condition to be recognized and
enforced under the laws of Spain and Mexico, are there now any heirs or successors in
interest of the original grantee who can be identified, and whose claims demand
recognition under treaty stipulations f
A negative answer to the last question would render a further consideration of the
others superfluous.
A claim must have a claimant — in other words, private land claims presented to'
Congress, set up for recognition by that body under specific laws, must havn a party
or parties behind them in whom all the rights involved are centered ; otherwise, such
claims are clothed with uncertainty, become vague, end in tradition, and all rights
under them are lost.
They escheat, and in many cases have escheated, to the crown before the change of
sovereignty. Originally good titles, under French and Spanish grants, have fre-
quently been lost on account of '' vagueness in description.''
They have been pronounced ''void for uncertainty," etc., as will be seen by the
decisionp of the courts in Louisiana, Florida, and Missouri cases, and others.
But here is an unfounded claim involving millions of acres presented to your office,
and the only authority for harboring it at all is contained in the act of July 15« 1870,
(16 Stat., p. 304), which provides that the surveyor-general of Arizona shall, '' under
such instructions as may be gi ven by the Secretary of the Interior, »••»*» ascer-
tain and report upon the origin, nature, character, and extent of claims to lands in
said Territory under the laws, usages, and customs of Spain and Mexico," etc.
Yon have ascertained the facts in this case to your own satisfaction (and I am folly
convinced that your conclusions are correct), and you report that there is no claim
under the '' laws, usages, and customs of Spain and Mexico :" and, furthermore, that
the present petitioners have no connection with the alleged grantee.
Mr. Keavis at first based his alleged rights upon purchases from certain individi^als ;
but that chain of title through mesne conveyances he has voluntarily abandoned, it
seems, as untenable ; and now it rests entirely on the title of his wife as the lineal
descendant and only living heir of that Peralta to whom a king of Spain is said to
have given a principality.
Is tnis claim of consanguinity and descent set up for Mrs. Reavis a verity which
could be established to the satisfaction of a court t
It does not so appear from the proofs submitted, which are of too dubious a charac-
ter to warrant such a conclusion. Her heirship is not proven, even allowing the
papers produced to be genuine.
Suspicion suiTounds this case as presented at every step from its inception to the
present time. The papers claimed as ancient documents, and exhibited as the muni-
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164 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
ments of title (some of which papers it is alleged were found b^ Mr. Reavis amonsst
the posthamons effects of one Dr. Willing, under whom he originally asserted this
claim by mesne conveyance ) are made up of shreds and patches, full of inconsisten-
cies and anachronisms and utterly unworthy of faith or credit.
The correct use of the Spanish language is represented as having been ignored by
persons high in civil and ecclesiastical authority, even by royalty itself, and that
the most reprehensible frauds have been attempted in this case by some one, at some
time, I have no doubt.
I agree with you and with the views of my predecessor, hereinbefore quoted, that
'Hhe essential foundation of a recognizable claim under the laws of Spain and .the
treaties and laws of the United States does not appear in this case.''
The most material ingredient — a claimant, prima facie entitled^is also lacking ;
leaving no one to invoke the aid of the act of 1870, even if the claim was founded in
fact.
In the absence of a grant and a grantee, the mere assertion of the one or the other
can invest no right and impose no duty.
Entertaining these views in the premises, I return, herewith, the papers received
with your said letter of October 13, 1889, and direct you to strike the case from your
docket and notify Mr. Reavis of the action, allowing the usual time for an appeal
to the Secrt^tary of the Interior, under the rules of practice.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this communication and its inclosures.
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E— SUEVBYING DIVISTOK
The work performed in this division dnring the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1890^ was as follows :
Letters:
Letters on hand unanswered Jaly 1, 1889 68
Letters received daring the year 3,990
Letters written durin>( the year 3,595
Letters disposed of dnring the year 3,943
Letters remaining on hand July 1, 1890 115
Pages of press copy, nearly all type-written 5,644
Pages of record copied 980
Copies of field notes :
Pa^es of field notes copied for official and individual use 1, 313
Surveying returns :
Plats and corresponding transcripts of field notes of surveys of public lands
and private land claims pending on July 1, 1889 353
Number of same received during the year 314
Disposed of during the year 444
Remaining on hand July 1, 1890 223
Beports of examinations of surveys :
Special agents reports on field work of surveys pending July 1, 1889 10
Reports received during the year Ill
Reports acted upon and disposed of dnring the year 113
Remaining on hand July 1, 1890 8
Surveying contracts :
Contracts pending July 1, 1889 ". 9
Contracts received dnring the year 1 123
Special instrnotions (in lieu of contracts) received during the year 20
Contracts acted upon dnring the year 130
Special instructions acted upon during the year 20
Contracts pending July 1, 1890
RELINQUISHED MILITARY RESERVATIONS.
Under aathority of act of Congress approved Jnly 5, 1884, the Presi-
dent has ordered that the following described military reservations be»
placed nnder the control of the Secretary of the Interior for disposal
under the provisions of said act :
BeserTations.
Date of
order.
BemftrkB.
I
Bois Blanc isl«id,Hioh July 22, 1884
Fort Batler, N. Hex I — do
GMDpCady.Cal '....do
Fort Crittenden (Camp Floyd), Utah a
Canp Crittenden, Alls
Cool BeeerTadonjWyo
Fort Fetterman, WTO
Camp Goodwin, Azu
Old Camp Oranti Aria
Fort Hartmiil^ N ebr
Camp Independence. Cal
Island in State of Miaeonri
Fort Baadall, Dak (part east of riTer)6
FMt Bice, Dak.a
Aeret.
0, 199. 48
1,602.00
94,650.00
8, 27a 08
100.00
45,097.12
6,700.00
2,081.70
3,251.41
6,210.18
54.70
25,000.00
102,400.00
a Estimated.
Surveyed.
Do.
Sarvey aathorised.
Sarveys pending.
Sorveyea.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Partly sarreyed.
Surveyed.
Da
Do.
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Beaervations.
Rjuh Lake Talley, Utah
Fort Sedgwiok, Colo, and Nebr.
Camp Sheridan, Nebr ■
Fort Steilacoom« Wash.
CampThree Forks, Idaho
Fort Verde garden tract Aris
Timber ReserratioD, Arts
Fort Wllkina, Mich
Fort Wailaoe,KanB a..
Old Fort Lyon, Colo
Pagoaa Springe (old Fort Lewie). Colo. .
Camp on White river, Colo
Fort Thombargb, Utoh
Cantonment on uncompahgre (part of),
Colo.a.
FortMcRae,N.Mex
FortYnma,Cal .
Fort SnlliTan, Me .
Fort Sanders, Wyo
Baton Rouge* Barracks, La
Fort Dodge, Kans....
Part of Fort Bidwell,CaI
Fort Craig, N.Mex
Fort Cameron, Utah
Old powder-house lot, Fla
Dragoon barracks, LH.,Fla.'.
Ten reserrations in Louisiana on the
Gulf coast, near the mouth of Bayou
La Foorche, on bay plat, near Cami-
nada bay, Ptss Bast, Grand Terre
island, (fnatre Bayou pass, and Bas-
tianbay.
Fort EUls. Mont :
Fort McPherson, Nebr
FortHalleck,Nev
Fort MoDennit hay resenration, Nev. .
Fort Cdville, Wash
Fort Fred Steele, Wyo
Carlin.Nev
Fort Sisseton. Dak
Fort McDermit, Nev '.
Pike's Peak Signal St»tion,Colo
Old Camp Harney, Oregon
Fort Lvon. Colo
Fort Hays, Kans
Point Roberts, Wash
Fort Laramie Post, Wyo., and wood
and timber reserve.
Date of
order.
Area.
July 22, 1884
.'.'.'do'.','/.",
... do
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
.do ,.
.do.
Sept e.1884
... do
Jan. 12,1885
Feb. 18,1885
Mar. 3,1885
July 2,1885
Mar. 18, 1886
Nov. 18, 1886
Sept. 28, 1886
July 26, 1886
Jan. 5,1886
Oct. 11,1886
Dec. 1,1886
Feb. 26, 1887
Aug. 9,1886
Mar. 20, 1888
Apr. 22, 1888
July 17, 1880
Jan. 12,1880
Jan. 8,1880
Nov. 2M880
Got. 22.1880
June 28, 1888
May 28^ 1890
AereM.
3,371.28
40,960.00
18,226.00
280.00
4,800.00
8,000.00
720.00
148.85
8,926.00
38,000.00
22, 471. 77
40,960.00
21,851.00
4,000.00
5,266.66
19,842.00
44.17
14,66L00
120.00
24,805.00
23,878.00
10.20
1.15
82, 116. 10
10,500.00
10, 000. 08
6.400.00
1, 070. 00
% 260. 65
020.00
78, 400. 00
3, 074. 40
8,102.00
317. 65
6,865.00
7, 600. ( 0
2,345.00
74,240.00
Semsrks.
a Estimated.
Surveyed.
Da
Do.
Do.
Unsurveved.
Snrveyea.
Do.
Do.
Da
Da
Do.
Da
Being surveyed.
Surveyed.
Entirely within private landTcIalm
which has been patented.
The executive order, January 0,
1884, transferred control of thia
reserve to the Interior Depart*
ment for Indian uses.
Area not known ; no knowledge of
survey.
Surveyed.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Surveyed; sold August 16, 1886.
Surveyed.
Partly surveyed.
Surveyed.
Partly surveyed.
Being surveyed.
Do.
Partly surveyed.
Surveyed.
Do:
Unsnrveyed.
Being surveyed.
Unsnrveyed.
Surveyetl.
Unsnrveyed.
Un<(urveved.
Surveyed.
Unsnrveyed.
6 About.
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167
MILITARY RESERVATIONS.
Schedule showing the names and hcaiions of existing military reservations in the pablU^land
States and Territories, and the area as far as hnoum or estimated tcith reference to execu-
tive orders or authority other than the Executive by which the reservations wore establishedf
enlarged, or reduced. For reservations relinquished under act of July 5, 1884, see list pre-
ceding this schedule.
Kame and looation Cft reaerratilim.
Aim in
acres.
Bate of exeoattve order or other
authority and remarks.
ALABAMA.
At entrance to Mobile bay. the amall ialanda be-
tween the north point of Dauphin island and
Cedar Point, Grant, Heron, Tower, and other
islands, (a) and so mach of Cedar point as lies
in fractional sections 25 and 20, T. B S., R. 2 W.:
Cedarpoint
Fort Gaines, on eastern end of Dauphin isl-
and.
Fort Morgan, in T. 0 a, R.1B
ALABAMA AKD MIfl8U6IPPI.
All that part of Cat island owned by the jj^vern-
ment : all of Ship island, Round, Hurricane,
and Dog islands; the west and east ends of
Horn and Petit Bois Blanc islands. Area (in-
cluding Dog and Hurricane islands) estimated
at 100 acres.
Total in Alabama and Mississippi as fair as
known.
ABIZONA TKBBITORT.
Camp Bowie, near Chiricahua moontains
Camp Grant (new), in Ts. &» 9, and 10 S., Rs. 23
and 24 E.
Camp Mojave, on Colorado river :
Post
Hay and wood
Camp McDowell extends 10 miles along river
Verde and 2 miles on each side of the rWer.
Fort Verde, partly in T. 18 N., R., 5 E. :
Post
Fort Whipple, in T.UN.,R. 2 E
Camp LoweU, in Ts. 13 and 14 S., Rs. 14, 15, and
16 E.
Camp Apache, within the limits of the White
Mountain Indian Reservation.
Fort Thomas, mostly in T. 4 S., R.23 E
Fort Huachnca, in southern Arizona, adjacent to
Babac'omari private land claims.
Total in Arizona as fkr as known
ABKANSAS.
Quarry resei-vation for stone for public buildings
at Little Rock arsenal, viz: S. ^ of sec. 25 and
N. ^ of y. ^ of sec. 30, all on right bank of Ar-
kansas river.
Hot Springs, Ark
Fort Smith National Cemetery.in sea 17, T. 8 N.,
R.82W.
Total in Arkansas
CALIFOBNIA.
Angel island, in San Francisco bay
a Area of island not known.
29(LS0
(6)
ib)
6,716.56
7,018.05
28,040.00
42,341.00
5,582.00)
0,114.813
24,750.15
0,298.99
1,780.00
51, 861. 36
7,421.14
10,487.00
(6)
185,121.25
260.96
6.76
14.81
202.58
(a)
Executive order, February 0, 1842.
Lands conveyed to the United States
by decree of chancery in January,
itos.
Secretary of War, September 10, 1842.
Executive order, August 30, 1847.
. This does not include Round Island ,
which was previously reserved for
naval purposes.
Executive orders. March 30, 1870, and
November 27, 1877.
Executive order, April 17, 1876.
Executive order, March 30, 1870.
Executive order, April 12, 1867.
Executive orders, March 30, 1870, and
August 17, 187&
Executive orders, August 81, 1869,
and October 19, 1875. Act of Con-
gress approved June 22, 1874 (Stats,
lap. 201).
Executive orders, October 26, 1876, and
May 15, 1886.
Executive order, February 1, 1877.
Executive order. May 18, 1877.
Executive orders, October 29, 1881,
and May 14, 1883.
Commissioner of General Laud Office,
April 11, 1839.
Act of Congress, April 20, 1832, and
executive order, November 17, 1880.
Executive orders, May 22, 1871, and
December 3, 1870.
Executive orders, November 6, 1850,
and April 20, 1860,
k Area not Imown.
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168 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Schedule of military reeervaHofie, with area, date, 0tc.~CoDtinaed.
Name and location of reaeryation.
Area in
Date of •zeoatiTO order or other
aathorlty and remarks.
CAUFORinA— oontinaed.
Aloatraz iBland in San FranoUco Bay .
Drum barraoka, at Wilmington, Cal . . . .
Benicia barracks and arsenal, in Ts. 2 and 3 N.,
Bs.2and3 W.
Fort Bidwell, in T. 46 y., Rs. 15 and 16 B., Mount
Diablo meridian :
Poet
Wood reserve in sees. 1 and 12, T. 46 N., B.
15 E.
Deadroan's island, beinR lot 1, sec. 19, *£. 5 S., B.
13 W., San Bernardino meridian.
Camp Gaston, in T. 8 N., R. 6 E., of Humboldt
meridian, within Hoopa Valley Indian Besei-
vation.
Fort Hill or Monterey, at Monterey
Island callMl Bed Bock, Golden Book, or Molate,
in sec. 17, T. 1 N., B. 5 W., Mount Diablo me-
ridian.
Presidio military reserve, Fort Point, on San
Francisco Bay.
Point San Jos6 (originally included within the
Presidio Beserve No. 1).
Point Loma (San DIcko), at San Diego harbor :
'* To include that portion of the peninsula ly-
ing on west side of entrance to the harbor
which shall be included between the southern-
most point of the peninsula (Punto de Loma)
and a line drawn across said peninsula ttom
the harbor to the ocean at a distance of 14 miles
above Punta de Gnisanas."
San Pedro bay, in T. 6 S., Bs. 13 and 14 W., S. B.
M. This tract of land was originally a public
reservation by cession fh>m Mexioo under
treaty of Guacialupe Hidalgo, concluded Feb-
ruary 2. 1848.
San Soiito bay point: From southern boundary
of San Soiito bay, a line parallel to the channel
of entrance to the Paoifto.
Three Brothers, Three Sisters, and Marine isl-
ands, in entrance to the San Pablo bay.
Yeroa Buena Island (Camp Beynold8),in Ssn
Francisco bay.
Mount Whitney : All of T. 15 S., R 84 E. ; T. 16
S.. B. 34 E. ; T. 16 S., B.36 E.; sees. 19 to 86,
inclusive, of T. 15 S., B. 35 E. ; sees. 19^, 29,
30, 31, and 82, T. 16 S., B. 86 B., Mount Diablo
meridian.
Total in California..
COLORADO.
Fort Lewis, in Ts. 34 and 85 V., Bs. 10, 11, and 12
W. of New Mexico principal meridian.
Cantonment on the Unoompahgre river, now
called Fort Crawford.
Total in Colorado..
DAKOTA.
Fort Abraham Lincoln, on west bank of Missouri
rivftr, indndinir Sibley island.
Fort Buford, in Montana and Dakota, on Yellow-
stone and Missouri rivers.
55.00
844.90
Executive ordei^ November 6, 1850.
Deeded to the united States by pri-
vate parties.
Executive order, October 10, 1868.
Deed by private persons in 1849.
2, 441 . 45 Executive orders, October 19, 1 to, Oc-
tober 4, 1870, and February 7, 1885.
Executive order, February 7, 1871.
Executive order, March 15, 1872.
Executive order, April 2, 1869.
Executive order, November 28, 1886.
Secretary of Interior, March 2, 1858 ;
executive order, October 21, 1882.^
Executive orders, November 6^ 1850,
and December 31, 1851 ; act of Con-
gress, May 9, 1876 (Stats. 19, p. 52).
Executive orders, November 6, 1^,
and Decembe.' 31, 1851 ; act of Con-
gress, July 1, 1870 (Stats. 16. p. 186).
Executive order, February 26, 1852.
640.00
2.00
46L50
7.52
1,479.94
7.«>
ib)
(c)
(d)
(b)
e8i 480.00
90,000.20
30,720.00
4,293.25
35,013.25
ib)
/ 676, 000. 00
Executive order, September 14. 1888.
Executive order, November 6, 1850.
Executive order, October 25, 1867.
Executive orders, November 6, 1850,
and October 12, 1866.
President's order, September 20, 1883.
a Unsurveyed.
b Area not known.
e Area not stated.
d Unsurveyed; area not known.
Executive order, January 27, 1882.
Opinion of Secretary of War No-
vember 18, 1882', executive orders,
March 12, 1884, and July 6, 1884.
Executive orders. February 11, 1873,
and December 17, 1875.
Executive order, A agust 18, 1868. Ex-
ecutive order, dated January 17,
1888, mrdifled the southern bound-
ary of the Fort Buford reservation,
in Montana and Dakota, as defined
bv executive order of August 18,
1868, by withdrawing the same
northward so as to exclude certain
surveyed lands in Montana.
e About
/ Whole ares^
Digitized by VjOOQIC
SURVEYS. 169
Sdkeduls of miUiiurj/ reaervaiianBy with area, date, 0<o.— Continued.
Kune and looatUm of reaeiTfttkm.
Area in
Date of ezeoatlTe order or other
authority and remarka.
DAKOTA— KMmtinned.
Fort Pemhina, aeoe. 18. 17, 18, and fraotlonal see.
15,T.163N..E,5l W.
Fort Stevenson, on both sides of Ifisaoorl river,
partly in T. 147 N., & 84 W.
Fort Sally, on Miasonri river, 20 miles below the
mouth of the Cheyenne river.
Fort Totten, mostly within the Devil's Lake In-
dian Reservation, but Including aU the islands
in Devirs lake.
Fort Meade;
Post reserve, in Ts. 6 and 6 N., B. 4 E., Black
Hills meridian.
Timber reservation, as follows: Sees. 10, 80,
31, &J seo. 18 and W. 4 of sec. 28, T. 6 N.,
B.6 E.; E.i of secs.24 and 25 and SE.^
of sec 18, t. 5 N., B. 4 B.. Black Uills
meridian.
Fort Bandall, west of Missouri river
Total in Dakota as fkr as known or esti-
mated.
FLORIDA.
North end of Amelia island (Fort Clinch), frac-
tional sec. 8, T. 3 N., R. 28 E. : fractional sec.
11 and loto 1 and 2 of sec 14, T. 3 K., R. 28 E.
Fort McBee, near Pensacola, in T. 8 S., B. 81 W. :
" All the public land, within 1 mile of the fort
on Foster's bank."
North key. in Ts. 15 and 16 S.,B12E ,
Snake key, in T. 16 8..B13E
MnUetkey.inT. 83S.,B.16E
At Charlotte harbor: ** The south end of Gaspa-
rilla island for a distance of 2. miles from its
southern extremity, in T. 48 S., B 20 B» and
the north end of Boca Grandn or Cayo Costa
island for a length of 2 miles from its northern
extremity, " in T.43 S., B 20 B.. and T. 44 S.,
Rs.20and21E.
Dry Tortugas (including Fort JeiferaoD )
Egmont island, at entrance to Tampa Bay, in T.
38 S..B15E.
Flsgg island, in St George's Pound
Matanzas inlet or fort. In sec 14, T. 0 S., B 30 E . .
Fort Barrancas, in T. 3 S.,B 30 W
(«)
(c)
Fort Pickens, all of Santa Bosa island
At St Andrew's sound : * * The tongue or neok of
land called Crooked island, east of the several
entrances along the coast'*
At St Augustine the following-named tracts:
1. Site of Fort Marion and adjacent lands.
5. Spanish governor's house lot
6. Treasury lot ,
8. St Francis barracks and grounds
0. MttlUry hospital lot
10. Powder-house lot ,
a Estimated. b Present area not known.
1,800.08
048,000.00
028^800.00
(»)
7,840.00
8,844.88
71,000.00
"736]888.9r
418.44
(c)
160.48
52.17^
842.29
2,143.88
(c)
b 392.77
(«)
(«)
(«)
(e)
Executive order, October 4, 1870.
Executive order, June 80. 1868. Post
and reservation turned over to In-
terior Department for school pur-
poses AngUAt 7, 1888.
Executive orders, December 10.1869,
and January 17, 1877. By the latter
order that part west of the east
bank of the Missouri Biver end
within the Sioax Indian Beserva-
tion was left out
Established by executive orders Jan-
nary 11, 187U, and October 7,1873;
reduced by general orders. War
Department No. 17, AuRUSt 28,
1878, and Nc 49. July 6, 1883. by au-
thority of Secretary of war ; execu-
tive Older February 10, 1881, corrects
the description of reservation in
reference to certain islands in Dev-
il's Ukc
Executive order, December 18, 1878.
Executive order, April 18, 1881. Ex-
ecutive order, September 16, 1889,
enlarging the wood and timber res-
ervation as per boundaries described
in letter of Secretary of War, dated
September 14, 1889.
Executive orders, June 14, 1860, and
July 22. 1884.
Declared by executive order, Febru-
ary 9, 1842. Lot 2 of sec 14, pat-
ented to D. L. Ynlee, September 5,
1853.
Executive order, February 9, 1842.
Executive order, March 3,1840. Or-
der of Secretarv of War, March 23,
1849. OriginaUy reserved as a part
of Cedar Kevs. although Mullet Key
is not one of uie Cedar Kevs, but is
at the entrance of Tampa Bay.
Secretary of War. March 28, IsA ; ex-
ecutive order, November 17, 1882.
Executive order, September 17. 1845.
Secretary of War, March 23, 1849; ex-
ecutive order, November 17. 1882.
Secretary of War. March 23, 1840; ex-
ecutive order, November 17. 1882.
Secretary of War, March 23, 1849.
It falls within the naval reservation
declared by executive order, Jan-
uary 10, 1838, and it is said to have
been declsred February 9, 1842.
Land deeded to the United States May
28, 1828. Executive order, Julv2, 1888.
Secretary of War. March 28, 1849.
Secretary of War, October 12, 1P88
and March 23, 1849.
e Area not known.
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170 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Schedule of miWarif reiervatione, with area, date^ etc. — Continned.
Kame mmI locality of reservaflon.
FLOBiDA—oontiiiaod.
At St. Joseph's bay : "The whole neok or penin-
sula fonulnfc the bay of St. Joseph from Its
northern extremity or point St. Joseph to its
oonneotion with tne main land at the eastern
shore of the bay, Incladlng Cape San Bias," in
T.»8..R.llW.,SiidTs.?,8,M3 i>8..Rri»W.
St. Mark's
Tract reserved
to it.
r Fort St. Mark's and adjacent
All the pablio lands between the fort and Third
street, in the town of St. Mark's. .
Santa Rosa sound : "So ranch of the noint oppo-
site to and east of the east end of Santa Rosa
isl^d as Ues in T. 2 S.. R. 22 W."
Santa Rosa island : Reserves all that portion of
Santa Rosa island which was formerly a naval
reserve, and relinquished to the Department
of the Interior February 25, 1880: the same at-
tached to and made a part of Fort Pickens
military reservation, ana embracing the entire
area of Santa Rosa island.
Key West, or Thompson's island
Key West shoals, S. W. point of Kev West . . . .
Haulover canal, 1,000 feet each sicie fh>m the
center in sec 20, T. 20 S., R. 36 E.
Total in Florida as far as known or estimated.
IDAHO.
Fort Bols6, in Bols^ valley, one-half mile fh>m
BOI06 city.
Fort Hall, witnin the Fort Hall Indian Reserva-
tion, in T. 3 X., R. 88 £.
Fort Lapwai, within Nez Perc6 Indian Reserve,
inT.36N., R.4W.
Fort Sherman (late CcBur d' Alene) :
Post reserve, in T. 50 N., R.4W
Winterjtastnre reserve, in Ts. 50 and 51 N..
R.4 W., as surveyed.
Winter-pasture reserve, as declared, in Ts. 60
and 51 N.. R. 4 and 5 W.
Total in Idaho.
Fort ArmstrouK (Rot^k Island), in fractional T.
18 N., Rs. I and 2 W., fourth principal merid-
ian.
Total in Illinois
IKDIAX TBBRITORT
Council Grove : For use of Fort Reno, in T. 12 N.
R4W.,I.M.
Oklahoma
Total in Indian Territory'.
Area In
acres.
8,851.21
(a)
i.7S
(«)
5,95&20
Unsurveyed.
(a)
(a)
(6)
14, 124. 60
638.00
646.50
640.00
501.851
640.00
640.00
3,705.85
e 760. 00
d750.00
5,760.00
160.00
5.020.00
Date of executive order or other
authority and remarks.
Seers' ary of War, March 33, 1840, be-
sides what had been sold p Jor to
date of order.
Secretary of War, March 28, 1840.
By decree of superior court middle
dUtrict of Florida. Jnne 80, 1888,
out of the limits of land claimed
under Forbes's purchase.
Section 2, act of rongress March 3,
1833 (4 Stat. p. 664). and executive
order dated January 38, 1852.
Exfcutive order, February 0, 1842.
Executive order of July 2, 1888.
Land said to have been deeded to the
United States. Key covered by pri-
vate land claim confirmed by Con-
Cress in 1828. (See act of July 82,
1876. 10 Stat, p. 06.)
Executive order, September 17, 184S.
Executive order, August 20, le86.
Executive order, April 0, 1878.
Executive order. October 12, 1870.
Executive orderrt, April 23, 1864, and
Jnne 15, 1871.
Request of Secretary of War, October
0, 1877. Executive order, dated
April 22, 1880.
Request of Secretary of War, March
2, 1825, and September 11, 1836. By
act of Congress approveit June 27.
1866 (14 Stat, p. 75), certain small
islands were added to the reserve,
and right of way was sranted to
the Rock Island Railroao^Company.
Act of April 2. 1844 (6 Stat. p. 008),
allowed George Davenport to enter
the SEi sec. 25^ T. 16 N., R. 2 W.
Executive order of April 10, 1880, re-
iterated executive order of Decem-
ber 26, 1885.
BxecntiTe order of April 0, 1880.
a Area not known. 6 Area not calculated. e Approximate present area. d A bout.
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SUHVBY8.
Schedule of military reaervatlana, with area, date, ate.— Continued.
171
Vame and looatlon of leiierTatlon.
Are»iii
acres.
Date of ei^ecutiye order or other
. antboiity and ivmarks.
Fort Leavenworth, on vent bank of MIsaoar)
liver, lnT.8S.,&32E.
Fort Riley, in Te. 11 and 12 S., Ka. 5 and 6 E.
Total in
Battery Bienvenne, in T. 12 a, R. 13 B., eaat of
river : *' The public lands 1,200 yards each way
from the fort?'
Fort Livingston, on west end of Gtand Terre
ialand.
Fort Jackson, sec. 50. T. 20 8., R. 30 E., south-
east district west of Mississippi river.
Fort Pike, consisting of* * the puollcland within
1,200 yards of Fort Pike.
Fort St Philip, sec. 11. T. 19 S.,R.17 E., south-
east district, east of river.
Tower Dnpres : "All tbepoblic land within 1,200
Janls of the fort," in T. 13 S., R. 14 E., eaat of
Eissiseippi river.
Fort Maoomb^ on Pass Chef Mentenr : "All the
pablic land within 1,200 yards from the fort."
Proctor's landing, on Lake Borgne
United States barracks and land adjoining and
above same, near New Orleans, on left oank
Mississippi river, about 3 miles above city.
Baton Rouge arsenal, adjoining Baton Rouge ....
Total in Louisiana as fw as known or es-
timated.
MICHIOAH.
First area between south boandaries of claims
Xos. 95 and 96 and north bonndary of canal
grant, in T. 47 N., R. 1 E. ; second area between
north line of Canal atreet and south boundary
canal grant, shown in diagram, with order.
Fort Mackinac (or Mackinaw), on the island of
Mackinac
St Mary's Falls Canal reserve, in sec. 6, T. 47
N.. R. 1 E.
Improvement of -Hay Lake channel, St, Mary's
river, lots 5 and 8, sec. 2, and lot 8, sec. 3, T.
452J.,R2E.
The nnsnrveyed islands in sees. 9 ani 10, T. 47
X.,R.1B.
Fort Wayne, near dty of Detroit.
Total In Michigan as far as known,
a About b Present area.
a2,750.00
619,809.22
22,649.22
(«)
120.16
740.97
5mL12
(d)
(c)
a92.00
id)
(e)
1,616.25
(d)
(0)
9.41
146.00
id)
ley
Exeoutive order. OctoberlO, 1864. Di-
minished by direction of Secretary
of the Interior in 1861. See also act
of July 27, 1868 (15 Stat., p. 238) ;
Joint resolation February 9, 1871 (16
Stat, p. 594) { act of Ji;ly 20, 1868 (16
Stot.p.392).
Executive order. May 5, 1855. Re-
duced in area under Joint resolution
of July 26, 1«^) (14 Stat, p. 367), and
order of President thereunder of
July 19, 1867. Further reduced
under act of March 2, 1867 (14 Stat. .
p. 573).
Executive order, February 9, 1842.
Purchased by United States in Janu-
ary/1884.
Executive order, February 9, 1842.
Exeoutive order, February 9, 1842.
All the land has been patented to
the State as swamp except sec. 19
of T. 10 8.,R. 15 E.. southeast dis-
trict, east of river and south of
Great Rigolet Area of leserve in
sec. 19 not known.
Executive order, February 9, 1842.
Executive order, February 9, 1842.
Lands found to be covered by a
private land claim.
Executive order, February 9, 1842.
Purchased March 15^ 1856.
Purchased by United States Decem-
ber 11, 1833. and May 17, 1848.
Purchased in 1814.
Executive order, May 9, 1885.
Ifever declared by executive order.
Portion of reserve set apart as a
park by act of March 3, 1875 (18
Stat, p. 517) ; other parts granted
t« individuals by act of March 1,
1879 (20 Stat., p. 326).
Executive order, June 10, 1883.
Executive order, October 30, 1884.
Executive order, October 12,1889.
Reserves islands Xos. 1, 2. 3, and 4,
in sec. 6, T. 47 X., R. 1 E., for use in
connection with improvement of St.
Mary's River, at Hay Lake chan-
nel, 132.50 acres.
Secretary of the Interior, September
6, 1885. Executive order, September
22,168&
Land deeded to the United States
June 3, 1842, and April 15, 1844.
288.81
e Area not krown.
d Area not stated.
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172 REPORT OF COM&flSSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Schedule of military reeervaiions, with area, date, ete, — CoDtinned.
Name and location of reaei^ation.
Area in
acrea.
Dat^ of ezeoutiva order or other
anthority and remarka.
FoTt Sneilinif. at janotion of Miasisaippi and
Mioneeota rivers.
R<s8er ration on St. Lonis River, in Minneaota, lot
1, aec. 20, T. 49 N.. R. 13 W.
Total in Miniteaola, except Fort SnelUng ..
MISSOURI.
Grand Tower rock, in Misaiaalppi river, which,
if aarveyed, woald be In sec. 20, T. 34 N., B. U
E., of fifth principal meridian.
Fort Leavenworth, on east bank of Misaonri
river, in Ta. 53 and 53 N., R 36 W., of fifth
principal meridian.
Total in Misaonri aa far aa known or esti-
mated.
MOHTAKA.
CampBaker. inT.llN., R.4E
Fort Baford, in Montana and Dakota. (See un-
der Dakota foi particnlara.)
FortShaw. ioT.iON., Rs.2and8'W
Fort Keogb, at month of Tongne river
Fort Aaainniboine, moatly between the Milk and
Miasonri rivers, and within the reaervation
for the Groa Ventre, Plegan, and other Indians.
Fort Missonla :
Original reserve, sec. 81, T. 18 N., R 10 W
Additional reserve, S. i NE. i and SE. k sec
25, T. 13 N., R. 20 W., the S. k KB. i, 8. k
N W. i, SB. i of SE. i NB. i of SW Jt, and
W. I of 8W. i sec. 80, T. 13 N., R, 19 W.
Timber reserve on nnanrveyed land
Fort Maginnis, in Ts. 16 and 17 K., Rs. 20 and
21 E.
Fort Cnster post reservation, 6 miles sqaare, in
seca 1 and 2 S., Rs. 83 and 34 E.
National cemetery of Custer's battle-field, 6i0
acres.
Limestone reservation, near Old Fort C. F.
Smith, 9,227.20 acres.
Total in Montana as far as known or esti-
mated.
NXBRABKA.
Fort McPherson national cemetery
Camp Robinson, on White river, at mouth of
Spring creek:
Post reserve
Timber reserve, 4 sqnaro miles
a Present area not known. b Area
(a)
7.32
(b)
01,000.00
1,000.00
2,400.00
e82,000.00
d 57. 810. 00
9704,000.00
640.00
560.23
1,577.41
d 31, 000. 00
23.040.00
640.00
2,297.20
855|703.84
107.00
18,800.00
10,240.00
not given.
Reservation made at the request of
Secretary of War, Jaly 18, 1838, and
Secretary of Treasury, July 16, 1889.
President's orders, dated May 35,
1853, and November 16, 1853. Act
of Congress approved August 26.
1852 (10 State., p. 36), and order of
Secretary of War thereunder, dated
March 13, 1854. Joint resolution of
Congress approved May 7, 1870 (16
Stats., p. 876). Reduction approved
by Secretary of War, January 1,
Eiecntive order, March 13, 1854.
Execntlve order, February 24, 1871.
«
Executive order, June 21, 1888. Por-
tion of reserve released by Secretary
of War. Ma? oh LI 841. Present re-
serve is in R. 86 W.
Executive order, May 16, 1871.
Executive order, Januair 11. 1870,
Executive order, March 14, 1878. Gen-
eral Orders No. 6, headquarters De-
partment of Dakota. February 18.
1880, describes the ferry or bridge .
site on east bank of river.
Executive orders, March 4, 1880,
June 16, 1882, and May 2, 1888. Ex-
ecutive order, dated May 2, 1888.
modified military reservations of
Fort Assinniboine, per executive
order of June 10, 1881, so as to em-
brace within ite boundariea. a post
reservation, a hay reservation, and
a coal-field reservation.
Executive order, February 10, 1877.
Executive order, August 5,- 1878.
Executive order, June 10, 1879.
Executive orders, April 8, 1881, and
April 14, 1882.
ExecutivH order, December 7, 1886.
Thirteen Indian families residing on
post reservation not to be disturbed.
Executive orders, October 13, 1873,
and January 5, 1887.
Execntire orders, November 14, 1876,
and June 28, 1870.
Executive order, November 4 1S7J.
e Estimated. d About.
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SURVEYS.
Schedule of military reaervationSf with area^ date, etc, — Continued.
173
JStutM and location of reservation.
Area in
acres.
Bate of executive order or other
authority and remarks.
NBBRAflKA— continned.
Fort Sidney :
Sidney barracks post reserve, sec 32, T. 14
N.,K.49W.
Timber and wood reserre, sees. 6 and 18, T.
17 N., R. 52 W., and sees. 12, 14, and 24, T.
17 N.. B. M W.
FortNiobraia:
Post reserve : Sees. 26 and 35 of T. 84 N.,
sees. 2, 3. 10, 11, T. 33 N., and all that part
of sees. 22, 23, 27, 33. and 84 of T. 84 K., and
of sees. 4, 5, 8, 9, T. 33 N., lyinfc on the right
(south and eai*t) bank of tiie Niobrara
river, all in R.27 W. of the sixth principal
meriaian.
Wood and timber reserve : All thst part of
T. 84 N., B. 27 W., not already embraced
within tiie existlns reservation, excepting
sees. 16 and 36 (school sections) ; the KE.l
of NE. I Kec. 28; the NW. i of NW. i and
lots 2 and 3 of sec. 27 ; the NE. i of S W. |,
the W. 4 of SW. }, nnd lot 8 of sec. 22 ; tiie
£. i of SE. I and S. h of NE. k of sec. 25 :
the E. i of N W. i, the E. | of SW. h sua
E. I
lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 ol sec. 31, and the N
sec. 83.
In T.34 17.,B.26 W..all of sees. 5^ 6, 7. 8. 17,
18, 29, 31, and 82 ; all of sec. 19, except lots
2, 3, 4, and 5 ; all of sec. 20, except the K. 1
of SE. I and lots 6, 6, 7. and 8, and all of
sec. 30, except the E | of N W. i, and lots 1
and 2. In T.39N.,R.26 W.,all of seos.5,
6, 7, and 8. In T. 83 N., R. 27 W., all of
sees. 1 snd 12.
(To the above was added the E. i of SB. i
and S. I of KE. i, se«% 25l T. 84N., B. 87 W..
and at the same time there was excluded
* the W.i of SE-i andS. i of SW. k of sec
80, of the same township and range)
Total in Nebraska..
XBW MEXICO.
Fort Bayard, in T. 17 &.BS. 12 and 18 W ^..
Fort Cummings, in Ts. 21 and 22 S., Bs. 7and 8 W.
Fort Marcy, 1^ Santa F6
Fort Stanton, within former limits of Hescalero
Apache Indian Beservation.
Fort Sumner post cemetery, situated in NB. i
sec 15, and NW. i sec. 14, T. 2 N., B. 26 E. :
These two subdivisions contain
Fort Union falls within the confirmed private
land grant Mora:
Post and timber reserve
Fort Wingate, in Ta. 13, 14, and 16 N., Bs. 15, 16,
and 17 W.
Total in New Mexico
Fort Klamath, in T. 38 S.. B 7i E. :
Post reserve, in sees. 22, 28, ^ and 27
Hav reserve, in sees. 3, 4, 9, 10, 15, 16, 21, and 22. .
Sand island, in sees. 14, 23, and 24, T. 9 N., B. 11 W.
Point Adams (Fort Stevens), in T. 10 N., B. 10
W. ; fractional sees. 5 and 6, and N. i sees. 7, 8,
and 9.
640.00
8,195.85
6,194.84
28,817.48
61,994.68
8,840.00
28,040.00
al7.77
10,840.00
820.00
66,880.00
83,200.00
192,531.77
Executive order. May 14, 1874.
Executive order, May 81, 1880.
Executive order, December 10, 1879.
Executive order, June 6, 1881.
ExeentiTS order, April 29, 1884.
Bxeoutive order of April 19, 1869.
Executive orders, April 29; 1870, and
November 9, 1880.
Executiye order. August 28. 1868.
Originally 12 miles square, by execu-
tlveorderofMayl2, 186I*. Bednced
under act of May 21.1872, to a tract
8 miles long and 2 miles wide, 1 mile
fk-om each bank of the river Bonlto.
Executive order. May 28, 1871.
ExecutiTe order, October 9, 1868.
Executive orders, February 18, 1870,
and March 26, 1881.
a 1,000. 00 ;
2, 135. 08 { Executive order, April 6, 1869.
192. 07 I Executive order, An^^nst 29, 1868.
1,250.11
Executive order, Febraary 26, 1852.
A donation claim covers some 400
acres of the reservation.
a About.
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174 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Schedule of military reservations, with area, date, etc. — ContiDiied.
Name and location of reservation.
ORBOON— continued.
For improvement of Gooa bay and harbor: Lots
1, 2. 3, and the SW. ^ of KW. ief sec 2, and lots
1 and 2 and SE. ^ of NS. i of sec. 3, T.W S., R.
14 W.
North side of Tillamook head, fractional SW. i
fieo. 29, lots 1 and 2 of sec 80, and lots 1. 2, 8,
and 4 of sec. 81, T. 6 K.. R. 10 W.
Total in Oregon ,
UTAH.
Fort Boashu,inTs.lN.andlS.,R.lE
Kesenration for water snpply for Fort Douglas.
Fort Dv Ghesne, In T.2 S., R. 1 E.. Uintah me-
ridian within the Uintah Indian Keservatlon.
Total in Utah.
WABHDIGTOIf.
Fort Angeles and EdlsHook, in Ta. 30 and 31 N.,
Rs.5and6W.
Canoe island, off east coast of Shaw Island
Cape Disappointment, including Fort Canby,
nactional section 0 (except lot 4 reserved for
light-house purposes), and part of fractional
sections 4 and 6, T. 9 N., R. 11 W.
Southwest part of Lopes island, including Bunch
island and Whale rocks.
Northwest part of Lopes island, extending from
Flat point to Upright point. These reserves
are in Ts. 84, 35, 36 24., R. 2 W.
At Nee-ah harbor, straits Juan de Faca:
1. We-addah island
2. Tract east side of harbor ,
8. Tract west side of harbor
At Narrows of Puget sound :
1. South end of Vashons island
2. On north side of Oig harbor
All in Ts.21 and 22 K, R.2 E.
Point RobertA, in sees. 1, 2, 8, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12 of T.
40 N.. R. 8 W.
San Juan island:
Southeast point of island, including Goose
island and Rocky peninsula, in T. 34 N.,
R.2 y*.
Northeast point of island, including Reid
rock (in sees. 1. 2. 11, 12, and 13, T. 35 N.,
R3 W.).
Shaw island :
Westend of island, mostly in T. 86 N.,11. 2 W.
Eastern reserve on island, mostly in T. 86
N E 2 W"
Fort Three Tree'point, in T. 9 N., R 7 W
Fort Townsend, in sees. 21, 22, 27, 28-33 of T.30
N. R 1 W
FortVanoouver,inT.2N., R,1E
a Area not known.
Are&in
acres.
174.27
827.65
6,079.68
2, 88a 19
1,920.00
8,840.00
Date of executive order or other
authority and remarks.
8,148.19
(a)
43.10
536u20
609.80
634.
60$
&20.00
5400.00
6400.00
633.60
639.00
2,434.65'
640.00
50&33
515. 30 1
694. 90 >
640.00
621.97
689.54
Executive order, July 14, 1884. Ex-
ecutive order, Novomber 13, 1889,
reserves part of sees. 8, 4, ana
9, aud parts of 10 and 15; sees. 16,
17, and 20, and parts of sees. 21. 22,
27, and 28 ; sees. 29 and 31, and part
of 32; S4*c. 33 and part of 84, all in T.
24 S . R. 13 W. : parts of sees. 4 and
6: sec 6: parts of sees. 7, 18, and
19, T. 25 N., R. 13 W. ; sees. 12, 13,
and 23, and parts of 24, 25. and 26,
T.25S., BS.14 W.
Executive ordur, November 4, 1885.
Executive order, September 3. 1867.
Act of Congress, May 16, 1874 (18
Stats., p. 46), gave 20 acres for ceme-
tery for Salt Lake religious bodies ;
act of January 21, 1885 (Stats. 23, p.
285), reduced reserve 151.81 acres.
Act March 3,1887 (24 Stats., 478),
added to reserve for water supply.
Executive order, September 1, 1887.
Executive orders, July 19, 1862. and
March 10, 1863.
Executive order, July 2, 1875.
Executive order, February 26, 1868.
Executive order, July '2, 1875.
V
Executive order, June 9, 1868. A part
of these lands declared reserved
were disposed of prior to date of
order reserving same, viz: NW. i
of SW. J and lot 3, sec. 1, T. 21 N..
R.2 B^ lot 5 and NB. | of SE. i
sec. 2,T.2l N.,R2 E.. and SW. i
of S W. i of see. 33, T. 22 N., R. 2 B.
Executive order, September 13, 1869,
at suggestion of Commissioner of
General Land Office.
Executive order, July 2, 1875. Exec-
utive orders dated March 2 and
May 20, 1889, amonded executive
order of July 2, 1875, confining the
military reservation on San Juan
island to certain lots and subdivls-
ions in sees. 7 and 8, in T. 34 N.,
Rs. 2 and 3 W. ; making an aggre-
gate of 640 a^res.
Executive order, July 2, 1875.
Executive order July 31, 1865.
Executive order, January 29, 1850.
Order of Secretary of War, October
29, 1853. Executive order, January
6, 1878 {-M, of an acre was granted
to Cathoue mission).
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Schedule of military reeervations, with area, date, etc. — Continned.
175
etc.-
Kame mnd location of reMrration.
WASHiKGTOK— oontinned.
Fort WallA Walla^ part of the poat reserve re-
maintBg unaold.
Fort Spokane, on Spokane river ,
Area in
acres.
BeaerTationa aa follows at twenty-five dtiforent
points where the title should be foond to be in
the United States, via:
1 . On north side of New Bnnfceness harbor,
embraising all the peninaula to its Junc-
tion with the maiuUnd,in T.81 N., B.
4W.
2. Sonth side of New Donsenesa harbor, in
T.31N., Ra.3and4 W.
8. On west side ot entrance to Waahingion
harbor, in T. 80 N., R. 8 W.
4. East side of entrance toWashington har-
bor. T. 80 M., R. 8 W.
5. ChaHampoint,T.30K., B.2M'
0. Opposite ChaUam point,inT.80K.,Bal
and2 W.
7. Protection island, in Ta 80 and 31 N., B.
2W.
& Opposite Protection island, in T.80N.,
9. Yanconver point, in Ts. 29 and 30 N., B.
2W. •
10. Point Wilson, in T.81 N.,B.1W
11. Point Hudson, in T. 30 N., B. 1 W
^ 12. Admimlty head, in T. 31 K., B. 1 B . . ..
13. Harrowstone point, in T. 80 K., B. 1 E.
andl W.
14. North of entrance to Deception pass, in-
clading two islands in the pass, In T. 84
N., B. 1 E.
15. Sonth of entrance to the pass, in T. 84 N.,
B.2B.
16. Two islands east of Deception paas, in T.
34 N. B. 2 E.
17. Tahipi^t,iB T.28N.JB.1B ,
18. Hood's head, in T. 28 N., B. 1 E
19. Foulweathur pointy in T. 28 N., B. 1 and
2 E. r ^
20. Doable bluffs, fhictiona] sees. 26u~ 27, 28.
and lots 4 and 5, sec. 22 of T. 29 N.. B. 2 B.
21. Puint Defiance, in T. 21 N., B. 2 E
619.67
840.00
258.63
628.00
614.00
688.00
614.00
687.00
624.25
608.00
464.00
28, 23, snd 24. Three tracts on west side of
Puget's sound, in T. 21 N.,B.2 E
25. Whidbey's isUnd, most northerly point
in T. 34 N.. B. 1 and 2 B.
Goose island, situate in the Htraitof San Juan
de Faca. off the southeastern point of San
Juan island, in the SE. h of the NE. i of sec.
8, T. 24 N., B. 2 W.
Total in Washington Territory.
Stone quarry, fhiotional sees. 25, 26, and 86, T.
28N.,B.26B.
wroMuto.
Fort Brid^r, in Ta 15 and 16 N., B. 116W....
Fort D. A. Bassell, adjoining city of Cheyenne,
inT. 14N., B.e7W.
Wood reserve for Forts Sanders, D . A. Bus-
selL and Cheyenne depot, seoa 20, 28, 80,
3VT. 15N., It. 71W.
Fort Fred. Steele Nationad Cemetery «..
450.00
50U.OO
560.00
680.00
140.00
615.25
614.25
602.20
626.26
63L00
5576.00
637.00
635.00
606.00
Date of executive order or other
authority and remarks.
22, 259. 24
1,046.10
10,240.00
4,512.00
02,540.64
a About.
Executive order. May 13, 1889. Hay
and timber reserve granted away
or sold.
Order of Secretary of Interior, June
24, 1881 ; executive order, January
12, 1882; executive order, Novem-
ber 17, 1887.
Executive order, SeplaBBber22, 1866.
All disposed of before order issued.
Do.
Executive order, September 22, 1886.
This order declared reservations of
610 acres each where the title to the
lands should be found in the United
States, but upon final designation
of the reservation by the war De-
partment the areas were reduced
oelow 640 acres, as per this table.
Quite a number of legal subdivis-
ions within the limits designated
were found to have been disposed of
prior to date of order, which reduces
the area reserved below the figures
here stated. Exact reserved area
not oalcnlated.
See preceding remarks.
Executive order, January 9, 1889.
Bequest of Secretary of War and or-
der of Secretary of the Treasury,
September 1, 1837.
Executive order, May 21, 1858. Belo-
cated and reduced under act of Feb-
ruary 24, 1871 (16 Stat., p. 430).
Executive order, June 28, 1869.
Executive orders, November 4, 1879,
and February 25, 1880.
Secretary of War, November 19, 1886.
Area not known.
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176 REPORT OP COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Schedule of military reservations, tpitk area, date, elc, — Continaed.
Name and location of reservation.
WTOMIKG— continaed.
Fort Waahakie within the Shoshone Indian Res-
ervation.
Fort McKinney, post reserve and wood and tim-
ber reserve, in Ts. 50 and 51, N., Hs. 82 and 83 W.
Depot McKicney,lnT.i4N.,B.78 W
Total to Wyoming
Total area of military reservations in the
public-land States and Territories, as far
as known or estimated.
Area in
acres.
al,M5.00
26,60a00
840.00
44, 937. 84
2, 276, OOfi. 41
Date of executive order or other
authority and remarks.
Executive order, May 21, 1887.
Executive orders, July 2, 1878, and
Febraary SL 1880.
Executive order, July 2, 1879. Execu-
tive order dated January 10, 1890,
withdrawing the eastern boundary
of the reservation one-fourth of a
mile Irestward, as per terms of the
order.
a About.
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179
Tabular statement ehowing the number of acree of public Zancf* surveyed in the following
land States and Territories up to June 30, 1889, during the past fiscal year, and the total
of the public lands surveyed up to June 20, 1690 ; also the total area of the public domain
remaining unsurveyed toithin the same.
Land States sniX
Territoriet.
AreM of pnblio luids
in States and Terri-
tories.
In acres.
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
lUinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
Ohio
Oregon
Wisconsin
Washington .....
Alaska ,
Arizona
Dakotae ,
Idaho ,
IndlanT
New Mexico.....
Utah
Wyoming* ,
Pablic Land Strip d
Total
82.462.115
83, 410, 003
100, 902, 640
66,880,000
37. 931, 520
35,466,093
21, 637, 760
35. 228, 800
51, 770. 240
28,731.000
36.128,640
58,450,840
30, 179, 840
41,836,931
92, 016, 640
47. 077. 359
71,737,600
25,581.976
60. 975. 360
84.511.860
44,796,160
360, 629, 6U0
72. 906, 240
96,596,480
65.228.160,
40. 481. 600;
77. 568. 6401
54,064,6401
62.645.120
3.672.640'
In
square
miles.
Number of acres of public lands surveyed.
Up to
June 30,
Under con
tracts made
prior to
June 30,
1880. and
not hereto*
fore report-
ed beoaose
accepted
since June
80, 1889.
I
50.722
62,203
157, 801
104, 500
60.268
55,414
88,809
55.045
80,801
44; 893
66.4511
83,631
47,156
65,370
143. 776
73,558
112,090
89,972
05,274
53.924
09,904
577, 390
113. 916
150,032
80,294
03,253
121.201
84,476
97,883
5,738
402,
410.
027.
950.
828,
465,
637.
228.
770,
067,
128.
332.
179,
836.
642.
989,
816.
681.
414.
511,
642,
115
063
613
546
076
093
760
800
240
762
640
827
840
931
860
039
602
976
361
860
904
152,285.76
858.203.73
2,519.83
135^247.37
620,161.42
23, 039. 51
408,857.33
64.902.24
5 21.82
163.901.04
Under
oontrscts
made for
the fiscal
year end-
In g June
80.1890.
9.745l65
115,253.99
a 15. 73
9.607.92
14.347.751,
49. 947, 790
10.657.740
27.019.099
48. 401, 170
18. 160. 107
47, 162, 911
597,748.27
929,992.35
22,14&58
178. 488. 73
570,525.50
1.815.504,147 2 830,725001,021,984 4,233.900.10228,725.78988.084,075
19.198.22
i6,"22i.'95
Total np
to June 80,
1800.
ToUl area of
public and
Indian land
remaining on-
surveyea. in-
cluding the
area of pri>
Tate land
claims sur^
veyed up to
June 80. 1890.
58.698.05
32.462.115
83, 410, 063!
72.180.6441
60, 424, 003
30, 880, 59G
35, 465, 093|
21, 637, 760
35,228,8001
51, 770, 2401
27,067.7621
36.128.6401
42,477.682
SO, 179, 840
41, 836. 931
20. 263. 021'
47,012,070
33,225,459
25, 581, 976
40,498,461
84,511.300
21, 823. 027
14.945.499
50.877,782
10,679,888
27, 010, 009
48,038,311
13,780,088
47, 162, 911
28,802,990
7,455.997
7.100,025
1.003,328
'io.'e82.'i68
71, 753, 619
65,280
38,512,141
20,476,699
22, 073, 133
3(>0. 529. 600
57, 960, 741
45.718.698
44,548.271
13, 462, 501
28, 930,-329
40, 828. 007
15, 482, 209
8,072,040
S829, 419,471
a This area appears to have been counted in former reports of surveys in the State of Michigan, and
is therefore not added in this column.
5 Counted in former reports of snrveys in the State of Wisconsin, and hence not added in thla
colnmn.
e The figures given for Dakota embrace the whole area comprising the former Territory of Dakota
(now the^Utes of North Dakota and South Dakota). By act of Congress approved April 10, 1890.
North Dakota and South Dakota were made separate surveying districts, bat the office of United
States survevor-general of North Dakota was not opened until after the dose of the fiscal year.
d By act of Congress approved May 2, 1800, the Public Land Strip wss made a part of Oklahoma Ter-
ritory, but as the act provides that *'any other lands within the Indian Territory, not embraced within
these Doundaries, shall hereafter become a part of the Territory of Oklahoma whenever the Indian na-
tion or tribe owning such lands shall signify to the President of the United States in legal manner its
assent that such lands shall so become a part of said Territory of Oklahoma, and the President shall
thereupon make proclamation to that eflSeot." etc., the area of the Public Land Strip is reported as here-
tofore.
e This estimate is of a rery general nature, and affords no index to the disposable volume of land
remaining, nor the amount available for asrioultural purposes. It includes Indian and other public
reseivations, unsurveyed private land claims, as well as snrveved private land claims, in the district
of Arizona. California, Colorado, and New Mexico ; the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections reserved for
common schools; unsurveyed lands embraced in railroad, swamp land, and other grants; the great
mountain areas ; the areas of unsurveyed rivers and lakes ; and large areas wholly unproductive and
unavailable for ordinary purposes. The volume of land in the unsurveyed portion of the public do-
main suitable for homes and subject to settlement under the laws of the United States is of compara-
tively small proportions.
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F.— RAILROAD DIVISIOK
The following is a tabulated statement of the work performed in this
division :
Applications pending July 1,1889 4,438
Applications receiycSl during year 2,191
6,629
Decisions in favor of applicants 448
Decisions against applicants 1,861
Applications referred to other divisions 126
2,435
Applications pending July 1, 1890 4, 194
Entries pending July 1, 1889 3,921
Entries received during year 1,470
5,391
Entries closed as to railroad and referred to other divisions 1, 259
Entries canceled during year 268
kilrc
1,527
Entries pending July 1, 1890 3,864
Letters pending July 1, 1889 234
Letters received during year 5,954
6,188
Letters answered during year 3,834
Letters requiring no answer 937
Letters referred to other divisions 450
5.221
Letters remaining unanswered July 1, 1890 967
Railroad selections, in acres, canceled during year 56, 246. 63
Letters written during year 8,486, covering 15,480 pages of press-copy. Certified
copies furnished 212, costing $669.16.
The lar^e number of applications pending is, in a measure, due to the
fact that the principles involved in a number of the cases are similar
to those involved in cases pending before the Secretary of the Interior
upon motion for review.
A good part of the work of this division can not be shown in a tabu-
lated statement, viz: Answers to personal inquiries made by the attor-
neys representing the railroads, and others interested in claims made
to lands within the limits of the grants to such roads ; also, the exhi-
bition of maps tiled by the companies, diagrams showing the limits of
the grants projected thereon, and the papers filed by the companies re-
lating or appertaining to the grants.
A great many such inquiries are made, and to answer the same often
necessitates a thorough search of the records and flies, and, that the
person may fully understand, an explanation is necessary, thus consum-
ing considerable time, of which no record is made.
180
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RAILROADS. 181
For the information of other divisions, such search and explanation
are often necessary.
To answer a simple inquiry as to the status of a particular tract re-
quires an extended examination ; for it must first be ascertained whether
it is within the limits of the grant, and if so what limit, granted «or in-
demnity ; if granted, the date of the attachment of the rights of the
road under the grant in that immediate vicinity; and whether the
reconls show, or allegation is made of, a claim sufficient, under the terms
of exception from the grant, to defeat the grant.
The following are office letters submitting adjustments :
[St. Loais, Iron Mountain and Sonthom (ArkansM), August 18, 1888.}
In compliance with directioDS contained in department circular of November 22,
1887, issned under the act of Congress approved March 3. ISiT (24 8fcat.,556), I have
artjufited the grant to the State of Arkansas by act of February 9, 1853 (10 Stat., 155),
as revived and extended by the act of Jnly iSSj, 1866 (14 Stat., 33-1), for the Cairo and
Fnlton, now St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad Company.
1 have also prepared lists of lands which appear from the records to have been er-
roneously approved and patented onder said grant, and submitted copies thereof to
the land commissioner of the comjiany, accompanied by a letter calling upon him to
show cause why proper steps should not bo taken by this department to recover said
lands, in accordance with the requirements of the act of March 3, 1887, aforesaid.
The land commissioner has tiled his reply, and I herewith submit tlie case for your
consideration and action.
Since the receipt of the reply of the land commissioner the lists have been re-exam-
ined and corrected where error was found as alleged, in accordance with the facts as
found on the records and given in the paper herewith, marked No. 1.
The other papers submitted are as follows :
A. — Statement showing the adjustment of the grant, from which it appears that a
deficitaicy of 628,006.70 acres exists.
B.— Lists of lands erroneously certified to the State, these having been disposed of
prior to the date the right of the company attached (which was August 11, 1855, in
the 6-mile limits July 28, 1866, in the 11-mile limits), and date of selection in the 15
and 20 mile limits.
C. — Lists of lands within the 6-mile limits of the grant which were covered by pre-
emption filings at date of definite location of the road.
D. — List of lands within the 6 and 11 mile limits which were covered at date of
definite location, or certification, by cash entries since canceled.
E.-'List of lands erroneously conveyed to the company, being tracts in even-num-
bered sections outside the 6-mile limits and in odd sections within the 6-mile limits.
F. — Reply of the land commissioner to the call to show cause.
List B, which contained 2,i:M.82 acres, embraces entries which were made prior to
the time the company's right attached and which have never been canceled. As cor-
rected and revised it contains 1,814,82 acres.
List C embraces pre-emption filings upon lands within the 6-mile limits of the
company's grant, which were of record and uncanceled at the date of the definite
location of the road. These tilings were all on "offered" lands, and all, excepting
those of Louisa Boone and James Allen, had expired by limitation of law prior to the
time the company's right attached.
Mrs. Boone filed her declaratory statement October 2, 1854, but as the date of
.alleged settlement is not given on the tract-book, and tbe abstract of filings for that
mouth can not be found, it is impossible to say whether her claim had expired
August 11, 1855, or not.
In the case of James Allen, D. S. No. 409, filed December 19, alleging settlement
December 9, 1854, his claim was prima facie valid at the date of tbe definite location
of the road, and excepted the tract covered by it from the grant. (Malone vs. Union
Pacific Railway Corrvpany, 15 Copp, 90.) At the date of the certification to the
company, however, July 13, 1857, said filing had expired, and, underttie practice then
obtaining, the certification was made.
List D embraces lands which w^re covered by entries made prior to the definite
location of the road, and remaining intact at that time, but subsequently canceled.
List £ embraces lands in odd-nnmbered sections within the 6-mile limit:s, and even-
numbered sections ontside said limits, and were erroneously certified for the reason
that the company took no odd section within the 6-mile limits and no even section
ontside thereof. This list originally contained 1,003.08 acres, but the correction re-
duced the amount 400 acres, leaving 603.08 acres.
As the lands embraced in lists B, D, and £, as now presented, were erroneonsly
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approved and patented for the reasons given, I am of opinion that the act of March
3, lUb7, makes \l the duty of the department to take the necessary steps to recover
title to them.
As to the lands embraced in list C it is clear ft*om the record that the pre-emption fil-
ings covering them,ezcepting those of Boone and A11en,had expired prior to the definite
locatiop of the company's road, and as to that of Boone it is not determined -whether
it had expired or not. And although the claimants, if still on the lands, would be
protectea in their rights, it is the opinion of this office that the department is not
called upon to take any action looking to their recovery at this time.
As beiore stated, the tract covered hy the filing of Allen was, under department
decision in the Malone case, excepted from the company's grant. It was therefore
erroneously certified under said grant, and I am of opinion, tnat the proper steps to
recover it should be taken.
The status of each tract, as it ap{>ears upon the records, b fully given under the
head of remarks in the list containing it.
[Cedar Rapids and Miasonri River (Iowa), November 17, 3888.1
In compliance with directions contained in department circular of November 2,
1887, issued under the act of Congress approved March 3, 1887 (24 Stat., 556), I have
adjusted the grants to the State of Iowa by acts of May 15, 1856, and June 2, ldt>4,
for the Iowa Central Air Line, afterwards the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Rail-
road Company.
The right under the grants to the odd-numbered sections within the 6-mile limits
of the original line from a point near Cedar Rapids to the Missouri river attached
October 13, 1856 ; to the odd and even sections outside said 6-mile limits and within 15
of the original line, and within 20 miles of the modified line, it attached on selection,
the latter being indemnity lands. (Railroad Company ra. Herring, 110 IT. S., 27.)
The present owner of the grant is the Iowa Railroad Land Company.
The grant bv the original act was of every alternate section of land desi^ated by
odd numbers for 6 sections in width on each side of the road, with a provision for in-
demnity for lands lost within the primary limits, to be taken within an additional
' territory not more than 15 miles from the line of the road.
The act of 1864 allowed the company to change the uncompleted portion of its
road, and granted, for the use of the changed or modified line, the same lands and
the same amount of lands per mile as was granted by the original act ; and directed
the Secretary of the Interior, after said modified line had been established and a map
thereof filed in this office, to reserve and cause to be conveyed to the company, within
15 miles of the original main line of the road, an amount of land equal to that
anthorized to be granted by the act of 1856. And if the amount of lands per mile
granted, or intended to be granted, by the original act, should not be found within 15
miles of the original line, then selections along the mocMfied line and within 20 miles
thereof were authorized.
The act of 1856 did not grant any specific number of acres or sections per mile, but
was a grant in place of eveij alternate odd section for six sections in width on each
side of the road. The act of 1864 made a grant for the company of the same lands and
the same amount of lands per mile as were granted by the original act.
The length of the modified line of the road from the town of Cedar Rapids to the
western terminus is 271.6 miles, and the Supreme Court of the United States has de-
cided that the quantity of the grant shall be measured by the length of such line.
(Railroad Company vt. Herring et al. 10 U. S., 27.)
Neither this company, nor the Iowa Central Air Line Company, to which the grant
was originally made, built any road east of Cedar Rapids, a road from Clinton to
Cedar Rapids having been built by private enterprise ; and the court in the Herring
case (8upra) held that the company, having failed to build the road east of Cedar
Raplos and having been relieved from its construction at its own request, is not en-
titled to any land therefor. In other words, that the companv is not entitled to lands
for a road which it never built, and was never to bnild. It follows, I think, that the
company has no grant east of Cedar Rapids.
At the date of the approval of the act of 1864, which auth9rized the company to
change the uncompleted portion of its road, it had built to the town of Nevada,
100 miles west of Cedar Rapids.
I have therefore adjusted the grant by dividing it into two sections ^' east of
Nevada'' and '' west of Nevada,'' and have prepared four difierent statements for con-
sideration.
Exhibit A is an adjustment upon the theory that the company takes under the
original grant from Cedar Rapids as far as the road was constructed at the date of
the act of 1864, and that the only additional ri^ht given the company under the
latter act for this portion was to satisfy deficiencies within the grant in place by re-
sorting to the even-numbered sections within the 6-mile limits, and both even and
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odd within tlie 15-mile limita; and if there was still a doficienoy, to resort to thd
even and odd sections along the modified line within 20 miles thereof. Under this
statement, there have been excess approvals to the company of 57,570.24 acres.
Exhibit B is a statement based upon the same theory for that part of the road be-
tween Cedar Kapids and Nevada, as exhibit A ; but for that portion west' of Nevada
six sections per mile of constructed road have been allowed. Under this statement,
there have been excess approvals of 5,til4.20 acres.
Exhibit C is an adjustment upon the theory that the company is entitled to six full
sections per mile of constructed road west of Cedar Rapids, and, if that theory be
correct, there would still be due the company 9,512.43 acres.
Exhibit D shows an adjustment upon the same theory for that part of the road
between Cedar Rapids and Nevada, as exhibit A, and for the balance, or the modi-
fied line under the act of 1864, 171.60 miles, for the same amount of lands per mile as
was 'granted by the act of 1856. If this statement is correct, there has been approved
to the company 14,943.32 acres of land in excess of the quantity it is entitled to.
This result is reached by taking the whole area of the grant by the act of 1856,
975,681.33 acres, which is the area of all the odd-numbered sections within 6 miles of
the original line of the road, dividing it by 257.70, the length in miles of said line,
and multiplying the product by 171.60, the length in miles of the modified line under
the act of 1864.
Exhibit E shows an adjustment upon the theory that tHe grant should be adjusted
as a whole from Cedar Rapids to the western terminus, 271.6 miles, and the company
is entitled to the same amount of laud 'per mile therefor as was granted by the act
of 1856. The amount of lauds per mile granted by said act was 3,786.80 acres,
and this multiplied by the number of miles of road constructed west of Cedar Rap-
ids gives 1,028,494.88 as the number of acres to which the company is entitled.
As there have been approved under the grants 1,033,431.57 acres, the company
under this adjustment would have received 4,936.69 acres excess.
In the opinion of this office, this latt^^r is the correct adjustment. The company
claims six full sections ^er mile for road constructed, but, if it had been the intention
of Congress to make such a grant, it would have been easy to express it, and the
language of the granting clause would have .been unnecessary and confusing. If,
however, it was the purpose of Congress to ^ive the same amount of lands per mile
for the modified line as was granted for the original line, the language is appropriate
and unambiguous.
The supreme court of the State of Iowa in Railroad Company vs. Herring (52 Iowa,
687), and again in Railroad Company rs. Jewell (61 Iowa, 410), decided that the
quantity of the grant was to be measured by the length of the road constructed ;
that the length of the road constructed was 271.6 mile, and that the company was
entitled under the act of 1864 to the granted lands for that number of miles.
The Supreme Court of the United State b concurred in this view in the case of Her-
ring (supra) on appeal by the company. TllO U. S. 27).
I have also prepared lists of the lands which appear from the records to have been
erroneously certified under the grants, and submitted copies t hereof to the president
of the Iowa Railroad Land Company, the present owner, accompanied by a letter
calling upon him to show cause why the proper steps should not be taken by this
department to recover the title^ in accordance with the requirements of the act of
March 3, 1887, aforesaid.
Copies of the lists of land submitted to the company are herewith transmitted, and
are described as follows :
List A 1 embraces lands covered by entries which w«'re either made prior to, and
were extant upon the records at, the time the company's right attached, or were au-
thorized or confirmed by this office or department.
List B 1 embraces lands which have been approved to the State as swamp.
List C 1 embraces lands within the 6-mile limits which were cover*>d by unexpired
pre-emption filings at the date of the definite location of the road.
List D I embraces lands lying east of the terminal at Cedar Rapids.
These lists contain 7,824.52 acres, and in the event of their recovery would wipe
out the excess approvals to the company and leave a balance due it of 2,887.83 acres.
I also inclose the answer by the attorneys for the company, Messrs. Curtis and
Bnrdett, to the rule to show cause, marked E.
The status of each tract, as it appears upon the records, is fully given in the list
containing it, and as it is shown that the lauds were erroneously certified to the com-
pany, it is believed by this office to be the duty of the department, pursuaut to the
requirements of the act of March 3, 1887, to take the proper steps to recover the title.
^Babnqno and Pacific (Iowa), September 23, 1889.]
In compliance with instructions contained in department circular of November 2,
1887, issued under the act of Congress approved March 3, 1887 (24 Stat. 556), I have
adjusted the grant of the State of Iowa by act of May 15, 1856, (11 Stat. 9), to aid in
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the construct ion of a railroad from the city of Dubuque therein **to a point on the
MisHouri river near Sioux city, with a branch from tlie month of the Tete Des Morta
to the nearest point on said road." Said grant "was of every alternate section of land
designated by odd numbers for six sections in width on each side of the road, with a
provision for indemnity for losses within the 6-mile limits to be taken from an addi-
tional territory not more than 15 miles from the road line.
The right under the grant uttached in the 6-mile or granted limits Octoberl3, 1856,
the date of the filing in this office the map showing the definite location of the road.
The right to indemnity attached upon selection. By act of June 2, 1864, Congress
authorized the change of the line of the road between Fort Dodge and Sioux city,
but Hpecially provided that the change should not impair the right to, nor change the
location of, the grant.
The present owners of the grant are the Iowa Railroad Land Company, successor in
interest of the Iowa Falls and Sioux City Railroad Company, one of the grantees of
the State, and the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad Company.
The grant was of every alternate odd-numbered section of land within specified
limits, and was therefore a gram in place. The area of the odd-numbered sections
within the 6- mile or granted limits of* the main line, which is the area of the grant
for such line, is 1,207,145.51 acres. There have been certified under this part of the
grant, M granted lands, 455,992.01 acrps, and as indemnity, 699,174.74 acres, which
with 153.95 acres in the granted limits T^cant and subject to selections, aggregate
1,155,'J20.70 acres, leaving a balance of 51,824.81 acres due as indemnity on the main
line.
The area of the grant for the Tete Des Morts branch is 21,142.95 acres. Only 40
acres have been certified for said branch, leaving a balance of idemnity due therefor
of 21, 102.95 acres.
Lists of the lands which, under the present rulings of the department, would ap-
pear to have been erroneously certified for the company, were prepared, and the pres-
ent owners, under the grant,'through the local office at Des Moines, furnished copiea
thereof, and called upon to show cause why the proper steps should not be taken by
the government to recover the title, in accordance with the requirements of the act
of March 3, 1887, aforesaid.
Answers to the rule to show cause have been submitted by W. J. McKuight, president
for the Dubuque and Sioux City Company, for that company, and by Curtis and
Burdett of this city, attorneys for the Iowa Railroad Land Company,* successor in
interest to the Iowa Falls and Sioux City Company. These answers allege, among
other reasons for a dismissal of the rule against the companies, that nearly all the
lauds have been disposed of by them by deeds of conveyance.
Copies of the lists of lands submitted to the companies are herewith transmitted,
and sire described as follows:
List A embraces lands within the 6-mile limits of the grant which were covered
by unexpired pre-emption filings at the date of the definite location of the road.
List B embraces lands within the 6-mile limits which were covered by pre-emption
entries of record at the date of said definite location, but subsequently canceled.
Also one tract In the 15-mile or indemnity limits which was covered by a warrant
location at the date of the certification under the grant.
The filings on the lands in list A, none of which were carried into entry, were
allowed under instructions from this office directing that entries should be permitted
until definite location, but the Attorney-General in his opinion of December 19, 1856
(1 Lester, 551, p. 513), declared that the road was definitely located '* when the nec-
essary determinative lines shall be fixed upon the face of the earth."
Tlje line of the road in q^uestion was so fixed between July, 18r)5, and August 14,
1^56, and in nearly every instance before the alleged date of settlement.
The department accepted that opinion, and this office was governed thereby until
the Supreme Court decision in Van Wyck r*. Kncvals (106 U. S. 3i)0), after which the
date of the filing of the map of definite location, October 13, 18.">6, was held to be the
time the company's right attached. It follows, therefore, that at thedateof the cer-
tification of December 27, lb5^, that certification was in accordance with existing
rulings.
All the lands in sec. 17, T. 89 N., R. 27 W., embraced in list B, were covered at the
dato of the grant by warrant locations, and these locations were of record and un-
canceled until after the filing of the map of definite location. There is, however, no
claimant adverse to the company, to any part of said section, known to this office.
The only tract in the 6-mile limit of list B, which is now claimed adversely to the
company, is the E. 4 NW. i, sec. 3, T. 90 N., R. 46 W.. which is claimed by Ursul©
Karley. under homestead final c^?^tificat« 171 Sioiix City series, in the name of Ed-
ward Karley, patent»*d July 20, 1872. This tract was certifiel to the company April
7, l'*()3, but, under the preseat ru lings of the department, was excepted from the
railn^ad grant l>v location with warrant 283i9, made September 9, 1850, and can-
celed May 12j 18:9.
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The S. i SW. i of sec. 21, T. 88 N., R. 17 W., list B, is witLiu the IS-niile limits of
the grant, and was certified thereunder December 27, 1853. The records show that
John Hodgdon applied to locate this tract January 4, 185G, and that, through an
error in description, the local officers gave the range as 19. This was corrected on
July 23, 185rt, by authority of Conmiissioner'a letter of July 16, 1858, and patent is-
8ue<l upon the location July 16, l^j60, warrant 11219, 80 acres, act of 1855.
Yonr predecessor on Febrnary 6, 1889, in the case of the Atlantic and Pacific Rail-
road Company (9 L.* D. 165), wherein similar questions were involved, concluded
that the United States had no just grounds for instituting suits for the recovery of
the lands, holding that the only probable cousequence of such litigation would be
uncertainty^ depreciation of values for a time, and distress to numerous citizens.
This oiUce is of opinion, in view of said decision and the facts in the case, that the
rnle against the company should be dissolved, as to all the lands involved, except-
ing the S. i SW. i of sec. 21, T. 88 N., R. 17 W., and the E. i NW. i of sec. 3, T. 90
N., R. 4(! W. The records show that the claim of Hodgdon to the former was initi-
ated prior to the date of the railroad grant, and was perfected prior to the certifica-
tion thereunder ; and the company do not allege a disposal thereof. The latter is
shown, under the ruling of the Supreme Court in the Van Wyck case {9upra), to have
been excepted from the railroad grant. Karley made entry of the land in 1866, and
patent issued thereon July 20, 1872. The company alleges sale of this tract on Feb-
ruary 12, 1878, twelve years after Karley made his entry, and six years after the issue
of tiie patent thereon. Both the company and its alleged purchaser, Anton Brehm,
must therefore have been aware of the patent to Karley. The letters of Mrs. Kar-
ley, herewith, state that she has been ousted from her home.
1 am of opinion that the proper steps should be taken to recover these two tracts.
The following papers are herewith submitted :
Copies of the lists of lands erroneously certified, marked A and B.
Adjustment of the grant, marked C.
Copy of office letter of March 17, 18^8, directing the local officers at Des Moines to
show cansp, marked D.
Copy of a similar letter, marked E.
Letter from local office dat»»d November 20, 188S, marked F.
Reply of Curtis and Burdett to rule to show cause, marked G.
Letter from local office with reply of McKnight, marked H.
Three letters from Ursnle Karley', with translations, marked K.
Abstract of title of K. i NW. J of sec. 3, T. 90 N., R. 46 W., marked L.
[Chicaj;o, St. Pnnl, Minneapolis and Omaha (AYisoonsin), October 30, 1889.]
In the matter of the adjustment of the grant for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minne-
apolis and Omaha Railway Company, successor of the North WiHconsin Railway'
Company, under the acts of June 3, 1856 (11 Stat., 20), and May 5, 1864 (13 Stat., 66),
1 have the honor to present herein an adjustment in accordance with the several de-
cisions of the department, in which allowance has been made for nil reconveyances
and for the claim on acconnt of the overlap between the main and branch lines, not
allowed in the former adjustment.
MAIN LINE.
Acre?.
Area of grant 857, 279. '26
Moieties to be deducted : Acres.
Wisconsin Central 18,57.J.86
West Wisconsin 12,004.76
Branch line 21,425.73
52, 004 . 35
Net area of grant HOf), 274. 91
Approved in granted limits, deducting award to farm mort-
K'age 497,39».3'i
Approved west of terminal at Hudson 160.00
Approved to other roads not entitled 7()5. 96
Vacant and subject to grant 501.^0
Selected subject to grant 4,337.86
503,165.00
Lost to grant 302,1(»9.91
Approved as indemnity, including 9,250.90 acres approve«l Octolwr 11,
1889, but suspended as to 6,213.15 acres 2>^6,866.32
Due as indemnity 15,243.59
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BRANCH UNE.
Aorea.
Area of grant 537, I5;2.47
Moieties to be deducted :
Aores.
Wisconsin Central 32,79»2.75
Mainline .• 21,425.73
54,218.48
Net area of grant 482,93:^.99
Approved in granted limits, deducting award to farm mort-
gage 374,559.48
Selected and subject to grant 3,443.63
378,003.11
Lost to grant ^ 104,930.88
Approved as indemnity, including 14,828.25 aores approved October 11,
1889, but suspended as to 2,399. 48 acres 89,267.77
Due as indemnity 15,66:). 11
In the adjustment the item '^ selected and subject to the K^ant" contains 2,'-37.6S
aores on the main line and 3,149.92 acres on the branch line, which are in the common
10-mile limit with the grant for the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company.
In the matter of this conflict, it has been held that the Omaha Company is entitled
to a moiety of the lands.
The adjustment shows that, within said limit, the Omaha Company lacks the
amounts above stated, in order to make its approvals equal to one-half the common
area.
The Wisconsin Central Railroad Company, under the departmental decision of Octo
her 7, 1887 (6 L. D., 195), is not entitled to any of the lauds so situated, but must
take indemnity therefor; and, further, said company has executed a waiver in favor
of the Omaha Company ; hence, there can be no ouestion as between the companie8,
and I recommend the approval of list 13, herewith submitted, for 7,603.:)7 acres.
In this connection I desire to call attention to the fact that the Omaha Compauy
has selected about all the odd-numbered sections within said limit; and as the allow-
ance above made fully satisfies its claim, I recommend that the remaining selections
within said limit, by said company, be canceled.
The adjustment shows that to satisfy the main line (charging the company with all
approvals made) requires 15,193.59 acres, and the branch line 15,613.11 acres.
I have endeavored to find such amounts within the indemnity limits free from con-
flicts with the primary limits of the grant for the Northern Pacitio Railroad Company,
but find.it impossible, and therefore submit list 14, for 21,sl0.69 acres, being lands
free from such conflict, and list 15, for 9,0b3.91 acres, within the conflict.
The lands in conflict are also within the primary limits of the grant for the Wis-
consin Central Railroad Company, and opposite unconstruoted road.
In this particular they have a different status from the lands included in lists H, 9,
and 12, approved by you October 11, 1889, and subsequently suspended by your letter
of October 22, 1889.
They are all within the 15-mile limit of the grant for the Omaha Compauy under
the act of June 3, 1856.
Should the lists herewith submitted be approved the grant is satisfied.
There are pending in this office a great many applications f^r lands within the in-
demnity limits of the grant for the Omaha Company (which will not be needed in
satisfaction of the grant for said company) and within the primary limits of the
grants for the Wisconsin Central and the Northern Pacific Railroad companies.
The status is therefore the same as that of the tracts included in list 15, except
that they will not be needed in satisfaction of the grant for the Omaha Company,
and are within the 15 and 20 mile limits of the grant for said company.
Letters of inquiry in relation to said applications and many making inquiry as to
when such lauds shall be restored to entry are daily received, and I have therefore
to request an early determination of the respective rights within said conflict, that
such lands as you may determine may at the earliest possible date be restored to
entry.
[Little Kock and Fort Smith (ArkansM), November 12, 1889.]
1 have the honor to submit herewith a readjustment of the grant to the State of
Arkansas to aid in the construction of the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad, being
a branch of the Cairo and Fnlton railroad. The original grant was by the act of
February 9, 1853, and was of every alternate secti6n of land designated by even num-
bers for six sections in width on each side of said road and branches, with a provision
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for iDdemnity for losses within tbo primary or j^ranted limits, to be taken within an
additional territory, not fnrther than 15 Aiiles from the line of the road. This grant
having lapsed, and no road having been conbtrncted, Congress, by -act of J my 28,
l^^^, revived and extended it so as to include all the odd- numbered sectioQs ''lying
along the outer line of the lands heretofore granted and within 5 miles on each side
thereof,'' with certain exceptions ; but provided that the additional grant, when added
to that revived, shoald not exceed ten sections per mile of railroad.
In 1881, this oCBce, after a thorough examination of the grant for the Little Rock
and Fort Smith railroad, prepared an adjustment of the same, and on June 27 of that
year submitted a sTatement thereof to the department, ace mpanied by two lists of
lands for approval for patent under the grant, aggregating 140,287.37 acres, 140,'^83.66
acres having been found to be due thereunder. They were approved and returned to
this office January 9, lt^82, bat fnrther action upon them was suspended by informal
request of Secretary Kirk wood, dated January 13, ensuing. The Judiciary Committee
of the House of Representatives having reported that, m its opinion, no reason ex-
isted wby patents should not Issne to the company for land earned by the construc-
tion of its road, Secretary Teller, on the 10th of May, 1882, called the attention of the
office to the matter, and stated he could see no objection to patenting the lands em-
braced in said lists. A thorough re-examination of the lists was thereupon made,
and by office letter of May 31, 1882, the attention of the department was called to
certain expired pre-emption filings which were still of record, and instructions asked
as to whetner the tracts covered by them should be excluded from the patent. On
June 23, 1882, the Secretary replied that the act of June 21, 1866 (14 Stats., 66), ob-
literated idl previous pre-emptions; that the settlements and filings referred to had
no statutory force ; and that the tracts covered by them should not be omitted from
the patent to the companv. The lists, aggregating 139,853.62 acres, were thereupon,
on July 13, 1882, patented. This'left a balance due the company of 430.06 acres.
A large quantity of lands in excess of the amount due the company having been
selected under its grant, this office on February 19, 18H3, having previously called
the attention of the department to the fact, addressed a letter to the Secretary sug-
gesting that all such lands, as well as the lands which had been reserved t-o satisfy
the grant, be restored to settlement and entry, and asking instructions in the premises.
The Secretary haviuf^- concurred in these views, the local officers at Little Rock,
Dardanelles, and Harrison, the districts wherein the grant is situated, were directed
to restore to entry, after toirty days' public notice, all the vacant land in their dis-
tricts theretofore reserved under the grant, and also all lands selected by the com-
Sany and not needed in satisfaction otsaid grant. Said selections were canceled, and
escriptive lists of the selected lands were furnished the local officers.
It having been discovered that 470.25 acres of land had been twice patented to the
company, and the company having executed relinquishments for certined or patented
lands to the amount of 392.18 acres, which had been erroneously conveyed to it,l,272.73
acres were reserved for the satisfaction of the grant. ,
On November 15, 1884, a list containing 1,192.73 acres was submitted to the Secretary
for approval, and the same was approved November 18, and patent issued therefor
December 1 ensuing. The account with the company was thus settled, with the ex-
ception of 80 acres.
This adinstment and settlement has not been disputed by the company.
The riffht under the act of 1853 attached to the vacant even-numbered sections in
the 6 mile limits August 13, 1855, and, under the act of 1866, to the vacant odd-num-
bered sections within the additional 5-mile limits May 13, 1867, the date the Sec-
retary of the Interior ^led in his office and in the office of the secretary of state of
Arkansas the certificate as to the reorganization of the board of directors by the com-
pany, as required by the 3d section of said act.
Tne readjustment, which shows an excess of lands conveyed to the company of
5,224.06 acres, was prepared under the act of March 3, 1887.
On September 13, 1888, the land commissioner of the company was, through the
local office at Little Rock, called on to show cause in writing why proper steps should
not be taken by this department to recover to the United States, 'in accordance with
the requirements of said act, the title to certain lands, lists of which, marked A, B,
and C, were furnished.
List A embraced lands which were disposed of prior to or were covered, at the time
the right of the company attached, by entries of record, which defeated the grant.
List B embraced lands which were selected as swamp prior to the time the com-
pany's right attached, or have been approved to the State as swamp under the act of
September 28, 1850 ; and
List C contained a tract which was covered, at the date the company's right attached,
by an uncanceled pre-emption filing.
The company, in due time, by its attorney, filed its answer to the rule to show
cause, and therein contended that, the grant having been adjusted prior to the act of
1887, there was no authority in said act for its readjustment ; that said act could be
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applied to those ^ants only which had not been adjusted. The attorneys then pro*
ceed to treat each tract separately.
The position of the coiiipauy that thero is no authority fonnd in the act of March
3, 1887, for a readjustment of the grant is, I tbiiik, well taken ; the grant was thor-
oughly examined and finally adjast-ed, the adjustment was accepted by the company ;
and. without express legislative authority, this department can not disturb it. See
decision of the department of February 6, 1889, in the case of the Atlantic and Pa-
cific Railroad Company (8 L. D., 165). It is not thought necessary, tLerefore, to fol-
low the company in its argument, treating each tract separately.
The papers submitted are as follows:
Copies of Coramissiouer's letters to Secretary of June 27, 1881, May 31, 1882, Feb-
ruary 19, 18H3, and November 1.5, 1884, marked I, 2, 3, and 4, respectively.
Copy of office letter to T. M. Gibson, calling upon him to show cause, marked 5.
Reply of the company, marked 6.
Copies of the lists A, B, and C, above referred to.
Sheet showing the adjastm^'ut of the grant, marked D.
[Missonri, Kansas and Texas (Kansas), November 18. 1880.1
I have the honor to herewith submit, as directed by your letter of June 21, 1889, an
adjuHtiiient of the grant for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company, under
the .lots of March 3, 1863, and July 26, 1866, in accordance with the present rulings
" of the department.
StaiemenL
Acres.
Total area of grant : 1,134,79L08
Deduct on account of moieties :
Acres.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 37,161.14
Leaven worth, Lawrence and Galveston 90, 898. 74
128,059.88
Net nrea of grant 1,006,731.20
Approved in granted limits 1 122, 656. 53
Approved to Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston within
clear limits 1,663.36
124,319.89
Loss to grant 882,411.31
Approved asindemnity^ 494,072.38
Due as indemnity .' 388,338.93
In the former adjustment deduction was made on account of prior grants for rail-
roads, Indian reservations, and selections on account of grants to the State for in-
ternal improvements, etc. These deductions, nnder departmental decision in the
matter of the adjustment of the grant for the Omaha Company (6 L. D., 195), are
erroneous, and in the a<ljustment now presented indemnity has been allowed for such
l0R.«»Pfl.
It will be seen that the company is charged with 1,663.36 acres approved by the
State for the Leavenworrh, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company. This arises
from the fact that of the lands approved to the State September 25, 1872, jointly.
3,3*26.72 acres are within the primary limits of the grant for the Missouri, Kansas ana
Ti-^xas Railroad Company, free from conflict, audit was error to approve them jointly
with the Lea veu worth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company, and under date
of May 30, 1876, Messrs. Britton «fe Gray, as attorneys for the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad Company, requested that they be patented to the last named road;
and accompanying the request is a papersigned by the duly qualified receiver for the
Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company, wherein he recites the fact
of the erroneous certification and the necessity of a new certification to the Missouri,
Kansas and Texa* Railroad Company.
This ofllce requested the State to execute a quitclaim to the lands that they might
be properly certified ; but refusal was made for the reason that the State had pat-
ented the lands to the companies as certified by this office. No further action ap-
pears to have been taken by this office, but it is presumed that the matter has been
setth*d between the companies.
Under the adjustment by my predecessor (Mr. Sparks), submitted in his letter of
July 21, 1887 (copy inclosed^ in which the limits, as establishid at the time of the
location of the road, were changed for reasons therein set forth, the whole area of
the grant was found to be 1,121,784.18 acres, and by the change 21,421.99 acres, for-
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merly within the iDdemnity limits and patented as such, are shown to be outside of
sach limit. *
In returning this adjustment attention was called to the exclusion of said amount
of lands by the change in limits, and, as stated, '^an inspection of the maps shows
that many tracts which lay outside of the indemnity limits under the orieinaJ adjust-
ment now fall within such limits. The amount of lands in this condition is not
stated. The net result of the change of limits^ therefore, can not be ascertained from
the record."
Attention was also called to the statement in said adjustment that '^ there have
been approved to the company in granted limits 117,556.06 acres, of which 21,523.6di
acres were erroneously patented, such land having been excepted from the grant by
grants for other roads,'' and it is not kno^n by what grants said amount was
excepted from the grant in question.
(1) TUB RESULT OF TIIB CHANGE OF UMITS.
Under the former adjustment more than 21,421.99 acres were excluded from the
icdemnity limits, but of the amount excluded 21,421.99 acres had been patented to
the company.
Within the indemnity limits the company took both odd and even sections, and
the diagrams show that the change in the indemnity limits is muoh more than in the
granted or primary limits.
The indemnity withdraw'als for said company have been revoked, and a chanee
could not affect disposals, heretofore made, of land which by the change would be
Included in said limit.
A contrast of the primary or granted limits gives as follows :
AcreB.
Gross area under present adjustment 1,134,791.08
Gross area under former adjustment 1,121,784.18
Result of change affects granted limits 13,006.90
Amount excluded from indemnity limits 21,421.99
Amount affected by change of limits 34,428.89
In the former adjustment a change was made not only in the limits of the grant
for the road under consideration, but on all roads coming in conflict therewith the
limits were changed as far as the conflict extended. In this connection I would state
that upon petitions in behalf of Odell F. Wiard, Andrew J. Curran, and William H.
Irwin, seeking to change the limits of the grant for the Kansas Pacitic Railway Com-
Sany, as shown by the diagrams on file in this office, recommendation was made under
ate of June 1, 1889, that no change be made in the limits ; but as yet no action has
been taken upon said matter by the department.
(2) AS TO LANDS SHOWN TO HAVE BEEN ERRONEOUSLY PATENTED.
The following is taken from the adjustmeit now submitted, hence the amounts
will differ from those under the former adjustment, due to the change in limits:
From Emporia southward, in the conflict with the grant for the Atchison; Tdpeka
and Santa F6 Railroad Company, the grant is of eveu date, while north of this point
the grant for Che latter company is the prior grant ; and upon establishing a terminal
at this point to separate the grants it is found that the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railroad Company received patents for 6,845.62 acres north of said terminal. Until
the adjustment submitted by Mr. Sparks no terminal was ever established, but the
line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 railroad seems to have been the dividing
line recognized at the time the lands were patented.
In the conflict between said companies the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Company received patents for 12.653.92 acres as indemnity of lands situated within
the primary limits of the grant of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F^ Railroad Com-
pany ; and in the conflict with the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Rail-
road Company, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Company received patents
for 6,315.93 acres as indemnity, which are shown to be within the primary limits of
the grant for the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Company.
In the adjustment herewith submitted the company is charged with receiving these
lands, but as it is clearly shown that, as the adjustment stands, the company is en-
titled to more land than could be found within its liniits, a further consideration of
the matter as affects the adjustment is unnecessary.
An exaiuinatiou shows a further class of erroneous approvals not reported in the
former adjustment, f, «., that patents have issued to this companj'^ for about 3,000
acres where it is shown, on account of claims of record, the lands were not subject to
the company's grant.
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«
As to these tracts a rnle will be served upoo the company to show cause why pro-
ceeding! sboald not be instituted with a view to the recovery of .the lands, as eon-
teiiiplated by the act of March 3, 18ti7.
Ah thA company has seleotioas pending for about 7,000 acres, and is desirous of
receiving patents therefor if so directed, lists of the same will be prepared for your
approval, that patents may issue thereon. Such lists are not submitted herewith, as
the former adjustmeut, showing an excess of 293,431.55 acres, has not been formally
set aside.
As the matter of the change of limits is presented in this adjustment, and as it will
afiect all adjustments to be made, an early determination of the matter is requested.
In this connection I have to call attention to office letter of October 31, 1887, pre-
senting for consideration, in connection with the adjustment of the grant for this
company, a statement in relation to lands embraced in the reservation eitablished by
treaty of January 15, 1838 (7 Stat., 550), for the New Tork Indians, and patented -to
this and other companies.
This was not considered in returning the papers, and the letter of October 31, 1887,
is herewith inclosed.
[Atkinson, Topekaand Santa Fd (EaoBas), Deoember 20, 1889.]
I have the honor to herewith submit, as directed by your letter of November 14, 1889,
an adjustment of the grant for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F^ Railroad Company,
under the act of March 3, l^iGQ, in accordance with the present rulings of the depart-
ment.
Statement. Acres.
Total area of grant 2,921, 138.38
Deduct moiety on account of grant for Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway Company 37,161.14
Net area of grant 2,883,977.24
Acretf.
Approved in granted limits 2,022,515.00
Erroneously approved to Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway Company within limits of Atchison, Topeka
and Santa F^ Railrbad Companv 19,499.56
Vacant 80.00
2,042,094.56
Loss to grant 841,882.68
Approved as indemnity 912,217.53
Excess 70,334.85
In explanation of the charge for lands erroneously approved to the Missouri, Kan*
sas and Texas Railway Company within the limits of the grant for the road under
consideration, I have to submit the following :
From Emporia southward, in the conflict of these two grants, they are of even
date, while north of this point the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F^ Railroad Company
has the prior grant, and upon establishing a terminal to separate the grftots, it is
found that the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company received patents for
6,845.62 acres north of said terminal.
Until the adjustment of the grant for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
Company no terminal was ever established, but the line of the road of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa F^ Railroad Company seems to have been recognized as the divid-
ing line.
It further appears that the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company received
patents for 12,653.92 acres, as indemnity, of land situated within the primary limits
of the grant for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 Railroad Company.
It will be seen that the patenting of the lands in both of these items to the Mis-
souri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company was error, and it is believed that the
same are recoverable by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 Railroad Company, and
hence they are charged to them in the a^ustment herein presented.
In submitting the adjustment of the grant for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railway Company attention was called to these items, and also to the fact that said
company was charged in the adjustment with receiving. the same; but, as stated
therein, as it is clearly shown that said company is entitled to more land than could
be found within its limits, further consideration of the matter as affects the adjust-
ment of said road was unnecessary.
In the present case a different state of facts is presented ; for, excluding the charge
of these items, an excess remains, and a consideration of the matter becomes neces-
sary before a Anal adjustment can be made.
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It also appears that 80 acres have been approved for the benefit of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa F^ Railroad Company where it is shown that on account of claims
of record, the lands were not snbject to the company's grant.
Shonld the company reconvey the same, or upon their recovery by suit, a deduction
should be made of said amount from the excess shown.
I have advised the attorney for the company of the state of the adjustment herein
presented.
Should it be desired, a list can be prepared of the lands embracing the exces8.
The papers, with your letter of November 14, 1809, are herewith returned.
[ft. Panlf Minneapolis and Manitoba, and St.Paal and Northern Paclflo (Minnesota), Jannary 25,
1880.]
I have the honor to submit herewith an acUastmeut of the grant to the State of
Minnesota, made by the acts of March 3, 1857 (11 Stat., 195) : March 3, 1865 (13 Stat.,
526) ; and March 3, 1871 (16 Stat., 588), in aid of a railroad *^from Stillwater, by way
of St. Paul and St. Anthony, to a point between the foot of Big Stone lake and the
mouth of Sioux Wood river, with a branch via St. Cloud and Crow Wing, to the nav-
igable waters of the Red river of the North,"- In accordance with departmental
Vision of February 26, 1889 (8 L. D., 255), holding that said grant is, in effect, an
entirety and indivisible.
Statement, •
Acrea.
Whole aiea of grant 3,741,681.33
Deductions :
Acres.
On account of moieties 21,654.05
On account of prior grants 53,133.06 74,787.11
Net area of grant 3,666,894.22
Approved in granted limits 2,129,390.45
Vacailt in granted limits 2,577.27
Selected in granted limits 71,977.80
Vacant, except expired filings 28,800.65
Relinquished under State act of March 1, 1677 14, 856. 62
Patented to Northern Pacific railroad within granted
limits of St. Vincent extension 29,146.69 2,276,749,48
1,390,144.74
Approved as indemnity 1,321,073.94
Due as indemnity 69,070.80
The adjustment discloses the foUowins confliicts, the area of which is given, and
the items upon which the deductions are based :
Mainline.
6 with 6 Minnesota Valley
« with e Minnesota Central
e with 6 Minnesota Valley and Minnesota Central
6 with 6 Brainard Branch and Minnesota Valley
6 with e Brainard Branch and Minnesota Central
6 with 6 Brainard Branch and Minnesota Valley and Minnesota
Central
10 with 6 Brainard Branch
10 with 6 Minnesoto Central
10 with 6 Minnesota Valley
10 with lOMinnesou Central
10 with 10 Minnesota Valley
10 with 6 Lake Superior and Mississippi
10 with 6 Minnesota Central and Minnesota Valley
Total St. Vincent Extension .
10 with 20 Northern Paciflo Railroad
10 with withdrawal on general rente, Northern Pacific Railroad
Brainard Branch: 10 with 20 Northern Pacific
Amounts
in
conflict.
2,715.01
4,205.48
23,347.00
3,503,17
103,88
2,873.75
18,245.54
8,725.89
10,405.10
400.00
4,810.87
7.048.58
7,990.90
Moieties
deducted.
Prior
grant.
*1,357.60
* 2, 102. 74
1 15, 505. 28
1 1. 187. 72
:54.40
* 1, 180. 87
18.245.54
8, 725. 89
10,405.19
* 200. 00
21,054.05
260.031.85 I
217,275.74 i
80.601.43 .
4, 819. 37
7.940.68
7,990.99
53,183.06
Total I 503,499.02 I
* One-half.
f Two-thirds.
: One-third.
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The deduction on account of prior grants is made under section 3 of the act of
March 3, 18(>5 (13 Stat., 526), which provides *Hhat any lauds which may have been
granted to the Territory or State of Miuuesota for the purpose of aiding in the con-
struction of any railroad, which lands may be located within the limits of this exten-
sion of said grant or grants, shall be deducted from the full quantity of lands hereby
granted," etc.
In further explanation of the adjustment, I have to report that since the depart-
mental decision of May 13, 1873, in the matter of the conflict between the St. Vincent
extension of the St. Panl and Pacific and the Northern Pacific Railroad companies,
the uniform decision of this office and the department has been to hold that the
rights of the first- mentioned company are superior within the conflict; hence, this ad-
justment has proceeded in accordance with said holding! and this grant is charged
with lands patented to the latter company within the conflict.
I am aware that there is now pending in the United States Supreme Court a case
between said companies, involving not only the lands in conflict upon the final loca-
tion of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, but also those within the limits of the
withdrawal on general route ; also, that the decision of the court below is in favor of
the Northern Pacific Railioad Company. '
Should said decision be affirmed, it will therefore materiallv afiect the adjustmeut
herein presented, but from data prepared the change can easily be made.
An explanation is necessary as to the charge of lands which have been relinquished
by the governor under the act of the State legislature approved March 1, 1877.
This act authorizes the eovemor to execute a relinquishment in favor of all bona
fide settlers upon any of the lands granted to said company who were actual settlers
on March 1, 1877.
These persons settled after Ihe definite location of the road, and in the acts of
Congress making the grant there is no provision allowing indemnity for such losses;
hence, the charge is made that the company mav not receive indemnity for the same.
In this adjustment every possible charge is made that the rights of the government
may be fully protected in tne event of any change of rulings.
It will be seen that, under this adjustment, the State is yet entitled to 69,070.80
acres.
I have prepared two lists, on account of the construction of that portion of the
road from Watab to Brainerd.
The St. Panl and Northern Pacific Railroad Company, formerly the Western Rail-
road Company, is the grantee of the State for this portion of the road.
Indemnity list No. 10 includes 56,667.10 acres, which are shown by the records to
be free from all conflict, except that several of the tracts (aggregating 7(>5.79 acres)
are covered by old expired filings, under which no one is asserting claim, and they
are listed, in view of departmental decision in the case of Allers r9. Northern Pacific
Railroad Company (9 L. D., 45'2).
Indemnity list No. 11 includes 10,435.48 acres within the conflict with the North-
ern Pacific Railroa<l Company.
These lands are within the 15-mile limits under the » act of 1857 and the primary
limits of the grant for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. They have been con-
tinuously withdrawn since 1858, and hence were reserved lauds both at the date of
the grant and definite location of the Northern Pacific railroad.
The condition presented is similar to that of the conflict between the Omaha and
Wisconsin Central Railroad companies, wherein it was held by the department that
the reservation within the 6 and 15 mile limits for the first-meutioued company servefl
to except the tracts from the grant for the latter company (see departmental de-
cision of October 7, 18-:^, in the matter of the adjustmeut of grant for Chicago, St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company, 6 L. D., 195.)
These lists aggregate 67, 102..58 acres.
In the grant for this company no exception is made on account of minerals ; and,
further, the mineral laws are not applicable to the State of Minnesota. For these
reasons specific proof as to the non-mineral character of the land has not been re-
quired.
Rules will be served uuder the act of March 3, 1H':^7, as to lands shown by the ad-
justment to have been erroneously certified.
[Alabama and Florida (Alabama), February 20, 1890. Florida and Alabama (Florida).
I have the honor to submit adjustment of the grants made by the act of May 17,
1856(11 Stat., 15), to the States of Alabama and Florida, to aid in the construction
of railroads from " Pen.sacola to the State lino of Alabama in the direction of Mont-
gomery," and from '' Montgomery to the boundary line between Florida and Ala-
bama, in the direction of Pensacola, to connect with the road from Pensacola to said
line." It appears that these grants were conferred by the States upon the Alabama
and Florida Railroad Company of Florida and the Alabama and Florida Railroad
Company of Alabama.
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The«e roads were bailt from Pensacola, Fla., to Flomatou, Ala., and fVom Mont-
gomery to FlomatoDi Ala., and within the time limited in the act making thefiprants.
Both of the roads are now operated by the Lonisville and Nashville Railroad Com-
pany, bat said road is not, as far as known to this office, interested in the land grants.
Adjustments have been prepared of these grants with the following results :
From Pensacola to the State line of Alabama in the direction of Montgomery.
Acres.
Whole area of grant « 159,185.09
Deduct moiety on account of conflict with grant for Pensacola and Geor-
gia Railroad Company made by same act 11,242.38
Net area of grant 147,942.81
Acres.
Approved in granted limits 86, 761. 48
Vacant in granted limits 139.60^ 86,901.08
Net loss to grant , 61,041.73
Approved as indemnity .' 79,9^)0.49
Excess in approvals 18,888.76
From Montgomery to the boundary line between Florida and Alabama,
Acres. '
Whole area of grant 439,972.58
Acres.
Approved in granted limits 150,924.46
Vacantln granted limits 2,969.35 153,893.81
Lost to grant 286,078.77
Approved as indemnity 243,511.63
Dae as indemnity 42,567.14
It will be seen that there has been an excess in approvals on account of the grant
for the road in the State of Florida.
The granted lands on account of the grant for this road were certified to the State
August 28, 1857, and the indemnity lands August 28, 1858.
Slnoe the last-mentioned date, there have been no lands certified on account of this
grant, nor does any claim appear to have been asserted to further lands.
It does not appear that any formal adjustment was ever submitted of this grant,
but, on account of the lapse of time since approval of lands under the grant, it is
doubtfnl if it can now be treated as unadjusted, with a view to recovery of the exo^'ss
under the act of March 3, 1887.
Should you so direct, the excess can be easily identified as, there being but one
date of approval of the indemnity lands, those farthest from the lands granted, or
granted limits, would constitute the excess.
• The portion of the road in Alabama is shown to be deficit, but from the adjustment
it appean that a number of the tracts certified on account of the grant were covered
by uncanceled pre-emption filings at the date of the definite location of the road,
and, as to these, a rule was served to show cause within thirty days why the same
should not be reconveyed, in accordance with the provisions of the act of March 3,
1887.
Answer has been duly filed, and will be considered and submitted to the depart-
ment at an early date.
Lands were approved on account of the road in Alabama January 24, 1888, and
there can be no doubt but that the grant was unadjusted March 3, 1867.
[Vicksbarg, Shreyeport and Pacific (Hiaaissippi), February 2«, 1890.J
In compliance with instmctions contained in department circular of November 2,
1887, issued under the act of Congress approvsd March 3, 1887 (24 Stat., 556), I have
adjusted the grant to the State of Louisiana by act of June 3, 1856, to aid in the con-
struction of a railroad from the Texas line, in the State of Louisiana, west of the
town of Greenwood, via Qreenwood, Shreveport, and Monroe, to a point on the Mis-
sissippi river opposite Vicksburg. Said grant was of every alternate section of land
designated by the odd numbers for six sections in width on each side of the road,
with a provision for indemnity for losses within 6 miles of the line of the road, or the
grant in place, to be taken within an additional territory not more than 15 miles
f^om the road line.
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The riffht under the grant attached in the 6-mile granted limits March 27, 1857, the
date of the filing in this office by the company of the map showing the definite loca-
tion of its road. The right to indemnity attached npon selection.
The present owner of the grant is the Vicksbnrg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad
Company, successor to the vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Company, by purchase
under a decree of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The grant was of every alternate section of land within specified limits, and was
therefore a grant in place. The area of the odd-numbered sections within the 6-
mile or granted4imits, which is the area or amount of the grant, is 699,220.90 acres.
There have been certified under the grant, as granted lands, 98,643.72 acres, and
as indemnity 254,138.17 acres; which, with 7,4 »3.71 acres in the granted limits
vacant and subject to selection, and 333.10 acres disposed of after the definite location
of the road, aggregate 360,518.70 acres, leaving a balance due as indemnity under
the grant of 338,7^.20 acres.
List's of lands marked A and B, which, under the present rulings of the department,
would appear to have been erroneously certified for the company, have been prepared,
and the present owners under, the grant, through their representative in this city, M.
D. Brainard, esq., were, on March 12, 1888, furnished copies thereof, and called upon
to show cause why the proper steps should not be taken by the government to re-
cover title in accordance with the requirements of the act of March 3, 1887, aforesaid.
The call was made upon Mr. Brainard as attorney for the Yioksburg, Shreveport and
Texas Railroad Company. In his answer to the rule, he stated that no such company
was then in existence, and while he made answer, he did not accept the notice as
binding upon the company he represented. He was thereupon requested to return
the lists, which having been done, a second notice was served, addtessed to him as
attorney for the Yioksburg, Shreveport and J*acific Railroad Company. Nothing fur-
ther has been heard from him in the matter.
Mr. Brainard, in his answer, states that nearly all the lands in list A belong to the
class of lands known as offered lands; that claimants for such lands were required by
law to make proof and payment therefor within one year from date of settlement, and
that nearly all the filings on said lands had expired before the definite location of
the company's road. This is true : all the lands in said list, excepting those em-
braced in townships 16 and 17 north, range 2 east, are of the class known aa offered
lands, and the filing upon them had expired at the time the right of the company
attacned by the definite location of its road.
The company claims that these expired filings were no bar to the attachment of
the railroad right, and I am constrained to agree therewith, unless the pre-emptors
continued to reside upon and claim the land, which is not shown nor claimed in the
£ resent case. (Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Company, 8 L. D., 546 ; Caldwell v§,
[issouri, Kansas and Texas Company, 8 L. D., 570.) I recommend that the rule
against the company be dismissed as to these tracts. As to the tracts in townships 16
and 17 north, range 2 east, which were not offered lands, the filings thereon, under
the rulings of the department, had not expired, and would except the tracts in said
townships and range from the operation of the railroad grant. (Milliman vs. South-
ern Pacific Railway Company, 5 L. D., 553.)
None^f the pre-emptors, nor any other parties, are now asserting any claim to the
land, and as I do not know of an v decision of the Supreme Court determining this point,
I prefer to make no recommendation as to these tracts, but to leave the determina-.
tion as to the action, if any, to be taken concerning them to the discretion of the
department.
As to the lands in list B, covered by the entries of Deek, Murray db Harris, I do not
think this department is called upon to take any steps to recover the title from the
company. Tnese lands are within the indemnity limits of the companv's grant, and
were withdrawn in 1856. The entries, which are of the private cash class, were not
made until 1858, and while they were made prior to the certification for the company,
they were of reserved lands.
As to the lands covered by the entries of Thomas O. Raines, cash No. 10851 ; Abel
T. Norwood, Wt. No. 28945; John M. Fenley, cash No. 9291, and Lewis Watson, cash
No. 3580, 1 am of opinion the companv should be required to reconvey. These entries
were made long prior to the railroad grant, and while patents have issued thereon,
the certification to the company acts as a cloud upon the title, and should be cleared
away.
I submit herewith the following papers :
A. — List of lands within the 6-mile limits of the grant which were covered by un-
canceled pre-emption filings at the date of the definite location of the road.
B. — List of lands which were disposed of prior to the time the right of the company
attached. The status of each tract is given in the list opposite it under the head of
remarks.
C— Sheet showing the a^ustment of the grant.
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D.— Copy of office letter of Maroh 12, 1888, calliDg upon the company to 8li<fW
canse.
£. — Copy of office letter of May 12, 1888, calling npon company to show cause.
F. — Answer of M. D. Brainard, esq., acting for the company.
[St. Paul And Dulath (Minnesota), Febraary 26, 1890.]
I have the honor to submit herewith an adjustment of the grant made by the acts
of May 5, 1864 m Stat., 64), and July 13, 1866 (14 Stat., 93}, to the State of Minne-
sota, to aid in the construction of a railroad from '^ St. Paul, Minnesota, to the head
of Lake Superior.'^
Statement,
^OFM.
Whole area 934,d35.92
Acres.
Approved to company in granted limits 356, 640. 12
Vacant and subject to grant 489.49
357,129.61
Lost to grant 577,706.31
Approved in 20-mile limit 291,820.09
Approved in 3a-mile limit 179,469.60
471,289.69
Due as indemnity 106,416.62
This ffrant was conferred by the State upon the Lake Superior and Mississippi
Railroad Company, the present owners being the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad
Company.
The entire road was built in time, and extends from St. Paul to Duluth, in said State.
Twenty-three and a half miles of this road, extending from Northern Pacific Junc-
tion to I)uluth, is owned and operated Jointly with tbe Northern Pacific Railroad
Companv.
The adjustment disclosed that a number of tracts were erroneously certified on ac*
count of this grant, the same having been covered by homestead and pre-emption
claims at the date of the attachment of rights under the grant.
As to these tracts, a rule will be served npon the oompaujr to show cause why re-
conveyance should not be made in accordance with the provisions of the act of Maroh
U| lo87.
This company has selections pending amounting to 2,291.91 acres, and lists have
been prepared embraoing 527.82 acres, which will be snbmitted for approval upon
compliance bv the company with the requirement of a specific showing as to the
non-mineral character of each legal subdivision selected.
The remainder of tbe lands selected can not at this time be listed, for the reason
that conflicts appear of record; but said conflicts will be disposed of at tbe earliest
possible date.
[Sonthern Minnesota Extension (Minnesota), February 26, 1880.] ^
1 have the honor to submit herein an adjustment of the erant «nade by the act of
July 4, 18^ .(14 Stat., 87), to the State of Minnesota, to aia in the construction of a
railroad from ** Houston, Minn., to the western boundary of the State.''
Statement
Acres.
Whole area of grant 1,604.635.23
Acres.
Approved in granted limits 186,2K7.74
Vacant in granted limits 201.08
Selected in granted limits 4*^4.91
186, 913. 73
Net loss to grant 1,417,721.50
Appproved as indemnity 264,8:<4.47
Due as indemnity i,152,H87.03
The State conferred the grant ulpon the Sontbern Minnesota Railroatl Company,
which company constmcted the road from Houston to Winneliago City, 149.35 mileS|
within the required time.
By act of March 3, 1878, the State legislature conferred the grant appertaining
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to the ancoDipleted portion of the line of road upon the Southern Minnesota Rail*
way Extensiou Company, which company built from Winnebago city to Airlie, on
the western boundary of the State, 130.02 miles, after the required time.
The entire road is now owned and operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railway Company.
The adjustment snows that a number of tracts were erroneously certified or patented
under this grant on account of filings and entries of record at the date of definite
location, and role will be served npon the company to show cause why the same
should not be reconveyed to the United States, in accordance with the provisions of
the act of March 3, 1887. Indemnity selections are pending on account of this grant
amounting to 4,723.56 acres. These selections were made prior to the requirement
of specification of losses as a basis for the indemnity selections, and no such speci-
fication has since been filed ; but, as the adjustment shows the grant to be deficient
more than 1,000,000 acres, I deem it unnecessary to insist upon such requirement in
this case.
The grant for this company contains no exception on account of minerals, nor are
the mineral laws applicable to Minnesota; hence a specific showing as to the non-
mineral character of the land has not beeu required.
Of the selections pending two lists have been prepared, as follows:
List No. 3, embracing 1,560 acres, and list No. 4, embracing 330.86 acres.
The records show old, expired, uncanceled filings upon the lauds embraced in list
No. 4. but as no one is asserting claim under said filings, they are listed under the
decision in the case of Allen vs. Northern Pacific Railroad Company (9 L. D., 452).
List No. 3 embraces land free from confiict.
With the exception of two tracts the lands listed for approval are all opposite road
constructed out of time and would not be submitted, but in forwarding the adjust-
ment I deem it advisable to present as far as possible a full settlement of the grant.
The remaining tracts selected are omitted on aooount of conflicts.
The rights of the company under such selections will be adjudicated at an early
date.
[Chicago and Northwestern ( Wisoonain), Febraary 26, 1890. ]
I have the honor to submit herein an adjustment of the grant made by the act of
June 3, 1856 (11 Stat., 20), to the State of Wisconsin, to aid in the oonstruotion of a
railroad from ** Fond du Lac, on Lake Winnebago, northward to the State line.''
Statement,
Acres.
Whole area of grant 560,623.93
Approved in granted limits 220, 159.82
Loss to grant 340,464.11
Approved as indemnity 334,945.56
Due as indemnity 5,518.55
This grant was conferred by the State upon the Chicago, St. Paul and Fond do Lac
Railroad Company, and by purchase under foreclosure of mortgage it became vested
in the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company.
On November 30, 1857, a map was filed showing the location from Fond dn Lac to
the Michigan State line in T. 41 N., R. 14 E., a distance of about 167 miles.
By joint resolution approved April 25, 1862 (12 Stat., 618) a relocation of the road
was authorized, but no change was made in the location ot the land grant.
Under said resolution the road was constructed from Fond du Lac, via Appleton^
to the Michigan State line, near the mouth of the Menominee river, 116 miles.
It will be seen that the located line, under the act of 1856, is more than 50 miles
longer than the constructed road; but the act of March 3, 1869 (15 Stat., 307) au-
thorized the company to select its lands along the full extent of its road as originally
located.
The adjustment shows that there is yet due on account of the grant 5,516.55 acres ;
but the /company is not asserting claim to any further lands, and it is doubtful if any
remain within the limits subject to selection.
The last list approved ^as on May 9, 1877 ; hence ten years had elapsed at the date
of the passage or the act of March 3, 1887 (24 Stat., 556), providing for the adjust-
ment of railroad land grants " heretofore unadjusted. '^
The adjustment disclosed that the following tracts, approved within the primary
. limits, were covered by uncanceled pre-emption filings at the date of definite location
(November 30, 1857), and a rule was served upon the company, allowing the usual
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time to show oanse in writing before this office why prooeedings should not be insti-
tated, as contemplated by the act of March 3, 1887, for the recovery of the same, viz :
NE. i NW. i & NW. i NE. i, sec. 3. T. 25 N., R. 15 E. Oflfered D. S. 14406»
George Frazer, Oct. 15 and November 12, 1856.
Lots 2 and 3 and SW. i S£. i, sec. 11, T. 25 N., R. 15 £. Offered D. S. 12996, Z.
Poller, Jan. 1 and 4, 1856.
SE. i SW. i, sec. 13, T. 25 N., R. 15 E. Offered D. 8. 10097, M. Fitzgetald, .
Oct. 25 and Nov. 1, 1853.
SW. i NW. i & NW. i SW J, sec. 23, T. 25 N., R. 15 E. Offered D. 8. 13080, I.
P. Dnrfey, Jan. 15 and 28, 1856. Offered D. S. 12921, Abel Webster. Nov. 27
and Deo. 4, 1855. Lots 5, 6, and 7, sec. 23, T. 25 N., R. 15 £. Offered D.
S. 14502, William £. Mills, Dec. 1 and 1, 1856.
W. i NE. h sec. 35, T. 25 N., R. 15 £. IJnoffered D. S. 1443, R. Lambert, Jaly
15 and 15, 1863.
Land offered Oct. 10, 1853.
Lot 1, sec. 1, T.26 N., R. 15 £. Offered D. S. 10272, James Smith, Jan. 6 and
21, 1H54. Offered D. S. 14378, Lyman Dodge, Oct. 31 and Nov. 8, laV).
SE. i, SW. i,8eo. 15, T. 26 N., R. 15 E. Offered D. S. 15318, Gottlieb Wurl,
Apr. 5 and 6, 1858.
N. i SE. i and SE. i NE. i, sec. 27, T. 26 N., R. 15 E. Offered D. S. 15366, John
Leda, Apr. 7 and 10, 1858.
NW. i SW. i and E. i SW. i, sec. 1, T. 27 N., R. 15 E. Offered D. 8. 13332,
Alex Cowin, Mar. 25 and Apr. 7, 1856. Offered D. 8. 14545, Elias Murray,
Nov. 26 and Dec. 15, 1856.
NE. i, sec. 3. T. 27 N., R. 15 E. Unoffered D. 8. 2395, Louis P. Boillier, Nov. 1
and Dec. 6, 1856.
NW. i NW. i. sec. 3, T. 27 N., R. 15 E. Unoffered D. 8. 1943, L. Cardish, Deo.
23, 1854, and Feb. 2, 1856.
8E. i, sec. 3, T. 27 N., R. 15 E. Unoffered D. Sr 1842, Seymour Bopra, Sept. 13
and 19 1855
8. i NW. i and NW. i SE. J, sec. 9, T. 27 N., R. 15 E. Unoffered D. 8. 2242,
Horton Daly, June 30 and July 1, 1856.
SE. i NW. i and SW. i NE. i, sec. 9, T. 27 N., R. 15 E. Unoffered D. 8. 2201,
Isban Conn, May 23 and 27, 1856.
NW. h sec. 9, T. 27 N., R. 15 E. Unoffered D. S. 2199, Jno. Burton, May 10 and
27, 1856.
NW. i SE. i, sec. 15, T. 27 N., R. 15 E. Unoffered D. 8. 1786, I. I. Patton,
June 9 and 12, 1855.
NE. i NE. i, sec. 21, T. 27 N., R. 15 E. Unoffered D. 8. 1749, John Badgley,
May 7 and 12, 1855. Unoffered D. S. 2285, James McCurdy, Aug. 15 and
Sept. 2, 1856.
8E. i SB. i, sec. 23, T. 27 N., R. 15 E. Unoffered D. S. 1757, N. Brooke, May
12 and 18, 1855. Unoffered D. 8. 1943, P. Kinney, Feb. 5 and 8, 1856.
NW. i SE. i, sec. 33, T. 27 N., R. 15 E. Unoffered D. S. 1559, Henry C. Weed,
Apr. 10 and 18, 1854.
8. i SE. i and NE. i SE. i, sec. 3, T. 23 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 10785, 8.
Mitchell, Aug. 26 and Sept. 12, 1854.
SW. i SW. i, E. i SW. i, and SW. i SE. i, sec. 3,T. 23 N.,R. 16 E. Offered
D. 8.13561, T. L Snell. May 1 and 12, 1856.
N. i SE. i, sec. 7, T. 23 N., ¥• 16 £. Offered D. 8. 10871, Edward Taylor, Sept.
25 and 26, 1854.
SE. i SE. i, sec. 9, T. 23 N., R. 16 £. Offered D. 8. 14304^, William B. Ras-
kins, Oct. 15 and 23, 1856.
Lots 5 and 6, sec. 17, T. 23 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. 8. 14388, Daniel Morris,
Nov. 5 and 10, 1856.
NE. i NE. i, sec. 19, T. 23 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. 8. 10904, Charles P. Riggs,
Sept. 28 and 30, 1854.
W. i SE. i, and SE. i SE. i, sec. 25, T. 24 N., R. 16 £. Offered D. S. 8748, A. D.
Clark, Jan. 1 and 28. 1851.
SW. i 8W.,8eo. 29, T. 24 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. 8. 12759, Andrew Farrand,
Oct. 5 and 30, 1855.
SW. i NW. i and E. i NW. i, sec. 31, T. 24 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. 8. 2403,
Andrew Ferrand, Dec. 2 and 15, 1850.
NW. i SW. i, sec. 15, T. 25 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. 8. 10702, T. Spindler, Aug.
14 and 18, 1854.
. NW. i, sec. 1, T. 26 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. 8. 14467, Albert Danks, Nov. 13 and
2o, 1856; offered D. S. 15349, Charles McGee, Apr. 5 and 7, 1858.
W. i SE. i, sec. 3, T. 26 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. 8. 11971, R. Holyoke, May 21
and 26, 1855; offered D. 8. 14471, L. M. Merringer, Nov. 16 and 25, 1856.
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S. i NW. i and NW. i NW. i, sec. 5, T. 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 14321,
David Morris, Oct. 24 and 25, 1856.
SE. i, sec. 5, T. 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 14256, Lyman Hachins, 0<^. 2 and
14, 1856.
SW. \, seo. 5, T. 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 14279, Eben Evans, Oct. 18 and
20,1856.
NE. i, sec. 7, T. 27 N.,R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 14216, James Monahau, Oct. 2
and 6, 1856.
SE. i, sec. 7, T. 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 14230, Patrick L. Mnllen, Oct. 2
and 8, 1856.
NW. i, sec. 17, T. 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 14215, James McCall, Oct. 2
and 6, 1856 ; offered D. S. 15321, Anthony Hoeffel, Apr. 5 and 6, 1858.
NW. i NE. i, seo. 19, Ti 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 13293, David Maxfield,
Mar. 14 and 28, 1856.
NE. i NW. i, W. i NE. J. and NW. J SE. i, sec. 19, T. 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered
D, S. 13898, 1. N. Richmond, Jnly 24 and Aug. 2, 1856.
NE. i SE. i and SE. i NE. J, sec. 19, T. 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 13933,
Charles Phillips, Jnly 24 and Ang. 8, 1856.
NE. J NW. i, W. 4 NE. i, and NW. f SE. i, sec. 19, T. 27 N., R 16 E. Offered
D. S. 15335, John Stokes, Apr. 5 and 6, 1858.
NE. i SE. i, sec. 19, T. 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 15355, John Gains, Apr. 5
and 9, 1858.
NE. i SE. i, sec. 19, T. 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 15356, WiUiam Johnson,
Apr. 5 and 9, 1858.
Lots 2 and 3, seo. 21, T. 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 14438, Harriet Wilkes,
Nov. 11 and 17, ia56.
E. i NW., sec. 29, T. 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 11996, F. Robertoon, May 28
and Jane 1, 1855.
SE. i SE. i, sec. 29, T. 27 N., R. 16 E. Offered D. S. 12888. Daniel Olmstead,
Nov. 21 and 23, 1855 ; offered D. S. 13139, Gny Muun, Feb. 11 and 19, 1856.
S. i NW. i, seo. 29, T. 24 N., R. 17 E. Offered D. S. 14587, Gilbert Greely, Deo.
20, 1856. and July 12, IH57.
SE. i NW. h 8©o. 31, T. 30 N., R. 17 E. Unoffered D. S. 2126, Andrew Morri-
scm, Mar. 17 and 26, 1856.
The above-described tracts were all approved to the State on accoant of said grant,
Jnly 2, 1859.
The company duly responded, and its answer is forwarded herewith.
Accompanying the answer is a tabulated statement, showing that the company has
disposed of all of said lands, and giving the names of the purcnasers, and the dates
of the sales.
The answer urges lack of authority to disturb the adjudications made more than
thirty years ago, and further specifically denies that any of said pre-emption claims
had any legal foundation, either in fact or in law, and offers to prove that all of
them were either illegally initiated, or were in fact abandoned before the definite
location of the road, and insists, in case proceedings are contemplated, that hearings
be ordered before final action is taken against the respondent.
Seven of the filings upon offered lands were made after definite location, and con-
sequently would not serve to except the tracts covered thereby from the operation
of the grant.
Of the remaining offered filings, all but three hi^ expired at the date of definite -
location, viz :
D. S. 14502, Wm. E. Mills, for lots 5, 6 and 7, sec. 23, T. 25 N., R. 15 E.
D. S. 14545, Elias Murray, for NW. i SW. i and E. i SW. i, sec. 1, T. 27 N., R.
D. S. 14587, Gilbert Greeley, for S. i NW. i, sec. 29, T. 24 N., R. 17 E.
I should therefore recommend that the rule be dissolved as to the tracts covered
by offered filings, except in the cases mentioned.
There being no law limiting the time within which proof should be made in the
case of a filing upon unoffered land until the passage of the act of July 14, 1870 (16
Stat., 279), such filings can not be held.to have expired until the expiration of the
time limited in the Joint resolution of March 3,lH71 (ul. 601), which extended the
time limited bv the act of July 14, 1870. (Malone V8» Union Pacific Railway Com-
pany. 7 L.D., 13.)
The filings upon unoffered lands must therefore be treated as an appropriation
existing at the date of definite location, and while some, and perhaps all, may have
been abandoned prior to this date, yet there is nothing of record to show that such
is the case.
The ofler of the company to make a showing, if afforded an opportunity, I do not
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think osu be entertaiuerl, for the lands, having been certitied, are beyond the jaris-
diction of this department.
If soeh olaims are to be considered as making a case of prima facie exceptanoe,
the certification mnst be treated as erroneoas ; and this being so the demand mnst
follow as a oonsequeuoe of the adjustment act.
As held in the case of the Winona and St. Peter Railroad Company (9 L. D., 649),
** the law seems to impose npon me the duty of making a demand, in accordance
with the proYisions of the act of 1887, for the reconveyance to the United States of
the lands found, under the views herein expressed, to have been erroneously certi-
fied."
The showing offered by the company mig^ht be made in court in the event of suit,
but for the above reasons, with the exception before mentioned, I must recommend
that the rule remain in force, and that the demand be made as provided for.
[Alabama and Chattanooga (Alabama), Febraary 27, 1880.]
Among the {grants made by the act of June 3, 1856 (11 Stat., 17), to the State of
Alabama, to aid in the construction of certain railroads, were the following : ** From
Gadsden to connect with the Georgia and Tennessee and Tennessee line of railroads,
through Chattooga. Wills, and Lookout valleys," and '^ from near Gadsden to
some point on the Alabama and Mississippi State Une, in the direction of the Mobile
and Ohio irailroad."
The portion of the first-mentioned grant, from Gadsden through Chattooga val- -
ley to the Georgia State line, was conferred by the State upon the Coosa and Chat-
tooga Railroad Company, but no present claimant of the grant is known to this
o£Qce.
The road, as located, is 37.5 miles ; but there is no evidence of the completion of
any portion of the same, and the grant should be forfeited for breach of condition in
the matter of construction.
From Gadsden, through Wills and Lookout valleys, to Waubatchie, Tenn., was con-
ferred upon the Wills Valley Railroad Company, the present owner being the Alabama
and Chattanooga Railroad Company.
The grant from near Gadsden to some point on the Alabama and Mississippi State
line, in the direction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, was conferred by the State
upon the Northeast and Southwest Railroad Company, tne Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad Company being the present owner of this grant also.
As located and constructed, these two grants make a continuous line irom the Mis-
sissippi State line, near Meridian, to Waubatchie, Tenn., a distance of 272 miles ; but '
the company received lands in Alabama only.
It appears that these two roads have been erroneously treated by this office in
former years (when certifying the lands), as one, and in adjusting the grants sepa-
rately an excess is shown dpon the Wills Valley portion, or that east of Gadsden.
The facts relative to this excess are set forth in office letter of December 19, 1888,
forwarding the answer of the company to the rule laid under the act of March 3, 1887
(24 Stat., 556), to recover the same.
The only selections pending, on account of either of these grants, are such as havo
been excluded iirom the selection lists in preparing clear lists for approval, and
amount to about 9,000 acres.
The majority of these are opposite the Wills Valley portion of the road, and, if free
of conflict, could not (\f the grants are to be treated as separate) be listed for ap-
proval on account of tne excess in approvals heretofore made opposite the same.
Herewith is appended a statement of the adjustment of these grants, separately.
KA8T OF GADSDEN.
fVilU Valley Bailroad {now Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company).
Acres.
Whole area of grant 201,888.01
Deduct on account of contemporaneous grants 33, 315. 98
Net area of grant 168,572.03
Acres.
Approved in 6-mile limits 114,211.87
Vacant and subject to grant 519.86
114,731.73
Net loss to grant 53,840.30
Approved as indemnity 125,894.58
Excess approval 72,0.54.28
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WEST OF GADSDEN.
Northeast and Southwest Railroad Company {noiv Alabama and Chattanooga Bailroad).
Acres.
Whole ares 715,659.37
Deduct on accoant of contemporaneous grants 51. 537. 78
Net area of grant...' 664,121.59
Acres.
Approved in 6-mile limits 139,836.47
Approved to other roads 358. 67
Vacant and selected 681.58 .
140,876.72
Net loss to grant 523,244.87
Approved as indemnity 237,584.05
Due as indemnity - 285,660.82
[Chicago, Milwaakee and St. Paul (Iowa). May 10, 1880.]
In compliance with instructions contained in departmental circular of November
2, 1887, issued under the act of March 3, 1887 (24 Stat., 556), I have adjusted the
graut to the State of Iowa by act of May 12, 1864 (13 Stat., 72), to aid in the con-
struction of a railroad from a point at or near the foot of Main street, South Mc-
Gregor, in a westerly direction to an intersection, in O'Brien county, with a road
from Sioux city to the south line of the State of Minnesota, for which a grant was
made by the same act. The jprant was of every alternate section of land designated
by odd numbers for ten sections in width on each side of the road, with a provision
for indemnity for losses within the grant in place, to be taken from the public lands
nearest the tiers of granted sections, and not more than 20 miles from the line of the
road.
The State accepted the grant April 20, 1866, and the road has been completed and
accepted by the department. See decision of Secretary Schurz of April 9, 1880.
The line of the road was definitely located from McGregor to sea 12, T. 95 N., R.
35 W., August 30, 1864 ; fVom the latter point to sec. 18, T. 96 N., R. Z^ W.. January
27, 1869 ; and from theuce to a connection jeith the Sioux City and St. Paul railroad
at Sheldon, In O'Brien County, as required by the granting act, September 2, 1869.
The present owner nnder the grant is the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
Company.
The grant was of every alternate section of land designated by odd nnmbers within
prescribed limits, and was therefore a grant in place. The origiual grantee of the
State was the McGregor Western Railroad Company, and said company built the
road from McGregor to Calmar ; but that company having failed to perform the con-
ditions prescribed by the granting act, the State, on February 27, 1868, as authorized
by the Congressional grant (fourth section), resumed the grant, and on March 31
ensuing conferred it upon the McGregor and Sioux City Company ; but provided
that the ^ant should not be so construed as to embrace any lands tor or on account
of any railroad already built; and the act required as a condition of the grant that
the company should procure and file with the secretary of the Stato of Iowa a full,
absolute, and effective waiver, release, and surrender of all claim, right, or interest,
or any pret<ended claim, right, or interest, by the McGregor Western Company, its
successors or assigns, in or to any lands nnder the act of May 12, 1864, for or on account
of any railroad already built.
The waiver, release, and surrender, as aforesaid, were subsequently obtained by the
McGregor and Sioux City, afterwards the McGregor and Missouri River, Company,
and filed as required.
The present owner of the grant, under an act of the Stat« legislature approved
February 27, 1878, became owner by purchase from the McGregor Western Company
of that portion of the road between McGregor and Calmar. Certain transportation
over this part of the road for the quartermaster's department of the army having
been performed, the quartormaster-general demanded a rebate from the charges, on*
the ground that the road was a land-grant road. The company denied that it was
a land-grant road, and the matter having been presented to the Attorney-General
he, on July 14. 1871 (13 Atty. Gen., 445\ delivered an opinion that the road between
McGregor andf Calmar was not a land-grant road.
The area of the gi'ant, that is of the odd-numbered sections within the 20-mile
limits, between McGregor and Calmar, is 238,832.89 acres, and the area of that por-
tion thereof between Calmar and Sheldon, the western terr?inns, is 1,315,964.26 acres.
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The grant is deoreased by a moiety of the lands lying within the common 10-miie
limits of this road and the Sioux City and St. Paul road, wbioh is 35,667.04 acres. As-
suming that the company is not entitled to any land east of Calmar, the net area of the
grant would be 1,280,297.22 acres. There have been patented to the company within
the granted limits 170,115.12 acres ; awarded to company by the court in its contest
with the Sioux City and St. Paul Company, 5d,340.94 acres ; vacant and subject to the
grant, 2,074.18 acres; selected by the company, 459..')0 acres; and declaratory stat|e-
ments on land otherwise vacant, 4,182.78 acres; making 235,172.32 acres, and leaving
a net loss to the grant within the granted limits of 1,045,124.90 acres.
Within the indemnity limit-s there have been patented to the company 153,724.89
acr^B^nd awarded to it by the court in the contest aforesaid 21,094.46 acres, making
174,899.85 acres, and leaving a balance due the company as indemnity of 870,225.55
acres.
As to the lands which are charged vacant and subject to the grant, it is probable
that the acreage given is not now correct, as this adjustment was made up some time
ajgo ; but it is not thought necessary to make a re-examination of the grant at this
time, as it will not affect the question under consideration, there being so large a de-
ficiency in the company's grant
A list of the lands which, under the present rulings of the department, would appear
to have been excepted from the company's grant, and therefore erroneously patented,
was prepared and sent to H.6 . Haugau. land commissioner of the company, accom-
panied by a letter dated February 16, 1889, calling upon him to show cause in writing
within thii-ty days why proper steps should not be taken by the government to re-
cover the title in accordance with the requirements of the act of March 3, 1887.
Answer to the rule was made by John W. Cary, general counsel for the company,
and therein, after giving other reasons why the rule should be dismissed, he states
that all of the lands which have not been reconveyed to the State have been sold and
conveyed to other persons. ^
A copy of the list of lands submitted to the company is inclosed herewith, marked
A.
It will be observed that the most of these lands are held to have been erroneously
patented to the company for the reason that they were, at the time of the definite loca-
tion of the road, covered by unadjudicated swamp selections, and were thereby ex-
cepted from the grant.
This is a department ruling, and this office has no knowledge of any ruling by the
Supreme Court of the United States determining this question. As the act of March
3, 1887, requires that these grants must be adjusted in accordance with the decisions
of the Supreme Court, this office prefers to express no opinion as to whethej: steps
should be taken for the recovery of said lands, but prefers to leave the question to
the determination of. the department.
As to the tmcts covered by pre-emption filings, the records show that they were
offered some four years before the company's right attached and all the filings had
expired by limitation prior thereto. As there are no adverse claimants for the lands
I do i;ot think it incumbent upon thd government to take any steps looking to the
recovery of title thereto.
As to the tracts covered by homestead entries of record, and uncanceled at the date
of the definite location of the road, it is the opinion of this office that it is the duty of
this department to take the proper steps for their recovery.
The papers submitted are as follows :
Ljst of lands erroneously certified, marked A.
Sheet showing the adjustment of iihe grant, marked B.
Copy of office letter of February lo, iSnd^ calling upon the land commissioner of the
company to show cause, etc., marked C.
Reply of the general attorney of the company, marked D.
[CooB Bay military wajcon-road, Janaary 13,1888.]
As directed by department circular of November 22 last, I have adjusted the grant
for the Coos Bay wagon-road in Oregon, and herewith submit the same for your con-
sideration and action.
By act of Congress approved March 3, 1869, there was granted to the State of
Oregon, ''to 'aid in the construction of a military wagon-road from the navigable
waters of Coos bay to Rosebnrg, alternate sections of public lands designated by odd
numbers, to the extent of three sections in width on each side of said road," and the
fourth section of said act provided for indemnity for losses withiu the 3 mile limits, to
be taken within an additional territory not more than 6 miles from the line of the road.
The fifth section of the act prescribed the conditions upon which the granted lands
were to be disposed of, and provided that the amount of lands granted should uut ex-
ceed three sections per mile for each mile of road actually constnicted.
The act of June 18, 1874 (18 Stat., 80), provided for the issue of patents for the lands
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to which the State was entitled nnder the grant of 1869 to the wafon-road oompanyv
as a corporation to which the State had transferred its interests therein.
The governor of Oregon, on Septemher 19, lb72» certified to the construction of the
completed road from Coos bay to Rosebnrg, a distance of 62 miles and 41 chains.
The whole area of the grant, as determined by careful examination, is 99,819.35
acres.
There have been certified and patented under the grant, in the 3 mile limits, 59,869.91
acres, and 6,169.34 acres in said limits remain vacant and subject to selection and
Eatent, making 66,039.25 acres apparently subject to the grant within the primary
mits.
There have been certified and patented to the company, as indemnity lands,
44,139.30 acres, making in all 110,178.55 acres, or an apparent excess of 10,359.20 acres
over the amount the company is entitled to.
Of the certified lauds, however, 30,044.46 acres are within the primary or granted
limits of the prior grant to the Oregon Central, now Oregon and California Railroad
Company, by act of July 25, 1866, and were certified under a department ruling that
prior definite location by the wagon road company gave prior right to the land. The
Sapreme Court of the United States has since deoid^ that said ruling was erroneous,
and that priority of date of the act of Congress, and not priority of location of the
line of the road, gave priority of right. (M., K. &^ T. R. R. Co. V8, Kans. Pac. R. R.
Co., 97 U. S., 501 ; St. Paul & S. C. K. R. Co. vs. Winona & St. Peter Co., 112 U. 8.,
729.}
Of this 30,044.46 acres, 19,835.43 acres are within the primary limits of the wagon
road grant, and are particularly described in list herewith, marked ''List No. 1 ;"
and 10,209.03 acres are within the secondary or indemnity limits of the wagon mad
grant, and particularly described in list inclosed, marked ''List No. 2.'^
Again, there have been certified and patented for the wagon road company 1,099.59
acres outside the limits of its grant, which are embraced in list herewith, marked
"List No. 3;'' and these lands, with those mentioned above as being within the
granted limits of the Oregon and California road, aggregate 31,144.05 acres, which
must, in the opinion of this office, be surrendered by or recovered from the company;
and if so surrendered, or recovered, there would be a deficiency of 20,748.85 acres due
the company.
As to the lands in list No. 3, which are outside the limits of the grant to the com-
pany, I would respectfully recommend that proper steps be taken to recover them by
suit.
I do not think the government is called upon to take any action looking to the
recovery of the lands embraced in lists 1 and 2 aforesaid.
The president of the wagon-road company has been called on to reconvey the
1,099.59 acres contained in said list 3, and has replied in a letter dated July 13 last
that he is unable to do so for the reason that the company has sold them. A copy of
naid letter is inclosed herewith, marked A.
RIGHT OF WAY TO RAILROADS.
The whole oamber of railroad companies claiming the right of way
over the pablic lands, under the general right of way act approved
March 3, 1875, or special act, is 360, of which the articles of incorpora-
tion filed by thirty-six companies were approved daring the last year.
Of the maps of location' Qled by these companies daring the last
year, it was necessary to return a large number for failure on the part
of the companies to strictly conform to the prescribed forms of certifl-
cat*i and affidavit required to be attached to such maps, thus greatly
increasing the work of the division incident to this branch.
It has come to the attention of this office that, in one instance, a log-
ging company secured the approvals of its articles of incorporation and
maps of location, and used timber from the public lands for the con-
structipn of its road, which was operated merely for the transportation
of the company's logs and freight, and not intended as a common car-
rier, as contemplated by the act of March 3, 1875, under which the right
of way was claimed; and, upon the opinion of the Attorney-General,
under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, steps have been
taken to secure the revocation of such approvals.
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Bight of way granted to railt^y companies in certain Statee and Ten*itones.
[* IndloatM that the company was organised during the paat year.]
Name of company.
Statee and Territoriea. i Date of law.
Aberdeen, Fergnt Falls and Pierre R. B
Arisona Mineral Belt B. R '
Arisona Karrow Qange and Tncaon, Globe and i
Northern R. R.
Ariaona and Nevada R. R. and Kavigation Co
Arizona Northern Ry !
Arizona and Sonth Raatern RR*
Arizona Southern R.R |
Arkansas Valley and New Mexico I
Ark ansae Valley Ry
Aspen Short Line Ry i
Baker'aPark and Lower Animas R. R i
Bamesrille and MoorheadRy j
Bear Botte and DeadwoodRy |
Beaver Valley R. B. Co
Belllnjrham Bay Ry. and Navigation Co
Big Horn Southern B. B i
BfUings, Clarke's Fork and Cooke City B. B i
Blnj^ham, Caflon and Camp Floyd I
Black HUla Central B.B. Co." •
Black Hills and Fort Pierre B. B
Black Hills B.R. Co. No. 1
Black Hilla and Wyoming B. B
Bine Mountain and Columbia Biver B. B
Bodie and Benton By. and Commercial
BodieRy. and Lumber Co
Boulder. Left Hand and Middle Park B. B. and Tel.
Co.
Bridal YeU Lumbering B. R.Co.*
Burlington and Colorado R. R
Burlington, Kansas and Southwestern, now Southern
Kansas Ry.
California Central Ry
California Short Line By
California Southern B.K
California Southern Extension R. R
Cafion City and San Juan Ry
Canyon Creek R.R. Co
Cafion de Agua R.R
Carbon Cutt Off Ry
Carson and Colorado R.R
Carson and Colorado R. R., second and third division
Cascade Coal and Lumber Co
Caaseltou Bi-anch R.R.C0
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls and North Western Ry.
No. 1.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls and North Western No. 2. .
Central City. Desdwood and Bast em R. R
Central Pacific, now California and Oregon
Cheyenne and Burlington B.R
DakoU Mar. 3,1875
Arisona do
— do ■ — do
do — do
do do
do do
... do , do
Colorado do
...do Jone22,1874
...do Mar. 3, 1875
do do
Minnesota do
DakoU do
Kansas 1 — do
Washington do
Montana ' do
— do I — do
Utah I do
Dakota ....do
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do ...do
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Oregon do
California ,....do
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Colorado do
Oregon do .
Colorado do .
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Ckeyenneand Northern Ry
Chicago and Dakota Ry...1
Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Ry
Chicago. Kansas and Western R.R
Chicago, Milwaukee and St, Paul Ry
Chicago and North Western Ry., successor to Meno-
minee River Ry.
Chicago, Hock Island and Colorado Ry.
Chicago, St. Panl, Minneapolis and Omaha Ry. No. 1. .
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Ry. No. 2 . .
Chicooa Canon Ry. Ca *
Cfaoctow Coal and Ry. Co.*
Clifton and Lordsburff Ry
Cliiion and Southern Pacific Ry
CcBur d' Alene Ry. and Navigation Co
Colorado CenUal R. R
Colorado Central R.R.of Wyoming
Colorado Midland Rv
Colorado and New Mexico R.R
Colorado ^Northern Ry
Colorado Ry
Colorado River and Silver District R. R
Colorado Soot h Western Ry. Co
Colorado and Utah Ry.Oo
Colorado Utah and PacifieRv.*
Colorado Western R. R. of California ,
California do
Utah i....do .
Califomia do .
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Colorado , — do .
Idaho do .
Colorado do.
Wtoming do .
Calitomla and Nevada. . , — do .
Nevadlk do .
Oregon do .
Dakota do .
Iowa do.
Minnesota do.
Dakota - do.
Califomia do.
Colorado and Wyom- do .
ing.
Wyoming do .
Dakota • do.
Kansas *. do .
— do do .
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Michigan — do .
Colorado • do.
Dakota do.
Wisconsin do .
Colorado do.
Kansas do .
New Mexico do.
Arizona do .
Idaho do.
Colorado ..do.
Wyoming do .
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Eight of way granted to railway oompaniea in certain* States and Territories — Continued.
[* Indicates that the company was organized dnring the past year.]
Xaroe of company.
States and Territories. ' Date of law. S
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Colorado and Wyoming R. R * Colorado i Mar. 8, 1875
Columbia and Palouse R.E ' Washington do
Columbia and Paget Sound R. R |.-..do ! .. do
Cortez and Dolores Valley R. R ; Colorado .....do
Current River R R Co Missouri I — do
DakoU Central Ry DakoU .; .-do
Dakota Grand Trunk Ry do • June 1,1872
Dakota and Great Southern Ry '....do Mar. 3,1875
Dakota Midland R.R., now EUendale and Wahpe- 1 — do ; — do
ton. I I
Dakota R. R of Dakota i....do |.
DakoU Southern R R I... .do !.
Deadwood Central R R. Co ' — do
Deadwood and Red Water Valley R R , do I.
Doming, Sierre Madra and Pacific R. R , >' New M^oo
DeDTor and Canon City Ry • -^ ' ^
Denver, LeadvlUe and Gunnison Ry.*
Denver and Middle Pork Ry. and Mining Co ....
Denver and New Orleans IBLR
do.
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Denver and Rio Grande Ry
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ver and Rio Grande Ry.
Denver and Rio Grande western Ry i Colorado and Utah
Denver, Rollins ville and Western R R Colorado
Denver, Salt Lake and Western R R do
Denver and Santa F6 Ry t ..1 do
Denver Short Line Ry. * do
Denver Southern Ry ' do
Denver, South Park and Leadville do
Denver, South Park and Pacific RR do
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth RR
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Denver, Western and Pacific R v
Denver, Yellowstone and Pacific Ry
DeMort Railway Co
Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette, nowDnlut)i, South
Shore and Atlantic Rv.
Drummoudand Phillipsbnrg R. R
Doluth and Iron Range R.R
Dniuth and Manitoba R.R
Duluth, Pierre and Black Hilla R R
Duhith, Superior and Michigan Ry., now Duluth, Michigan . .
South Shore and Atlantic Ry.
Duluth, Watertown and Pacific Ry Dakota .
Dnnseith and Southeastern R. R do. ...
Durango, Cortez and SaltLakeRR. , Colorado...
Durango Railway Co do
Durango. Rico and Northern Ry. * | do
Eastern Railway of Minnesota Minnesota
Eastern Wvoming R.R i Wyoming.
Echo and Park City R.R I Utah
Elk Mountain ^y.Oo i Colorado
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ico.
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Eureka and Pali8ndeR.R Nevada do .
Eureka Springs Ry i Arkansas do .
EvHnston and Montana R.R ; Wyoming > do .
Fairliaven and Southern R.R* Washington ,... do .
Fareo, Larlmore and Northern Ry ' Dakota do
Fargo and Southern Ry do do .
Far^oand South vrestem RR i do do .
Fanners Rt. Navigation and Steamship Portage Co . Washington do .
Floiida Southern Ry i Florida do .
Fun-atCity and Sioux City R.R.* Dakota do .
Forest City and Watertown R.R ....do do .
Fremont, Elkhom and Missouri Valley R.R Nebraska ....do .
Oeorgetown, Breckenridge and Leadville Ry Colorado .. do.
Georgetown, Silver Creek and Chicago Lakes Ry* do do .
Grand Island and Northern Wyoming R.R , Wyoming do .
Grand Inland and Wyoming Central R. R Nebraska do .
Grand Vallev Railway Co Colorado | do.
Grays Peak. Snake River and LeadvilleRR do vdo .
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{* Indicates that the company was orgaoised daring the past year.]
Xame of company.
Great SonthernR.R
(rreeley, Bear River and Pacific R. B
Greeley, Grand Raver and Gonnison R. R .
Greeley. Salt Lake and Pacific Ry .
Grpeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Ry., Wyoming
Helena, Boulder Valley and Butte R. R
Helena and Jefferson County R. R
Helena and Northern Ry.Co
Helena and Red Moantain R. R
Hermosa Hiil City and Western R.R
Idaho Cen iral Ry. Co
Idaho. CLearwater and Montana Transportation Co..
Iron Rivfrr Ry.Co
Jacksonville, Pensaoola and Mobile R. R
Jacksonville, St Augustine and Halifax River Ry . . .
James River Valley R. R
Jamestown and Northern Ry
Jamestown and Northern Ry. Extension Go. "
Kansas Central R R Co
Kansas City, Fort Smith and Southern Ry. *
Kansas City, Springfield and Memphis R. R
La Jara, Pagosa Springs and Western R. R.*
La Plata R. a Co.* ^
Laramie, North Parke and Pacific R. R. and TeL Co.
Lincoln and Black flUls R. R
Lincoln, Denver and Colorado Ry
Little Book Cliff Ry.Co.''
Little Rock and Hot Springs Rv
Little Rook Junction Ry
London. South Park and Leadville R. R
Lonsmont, Middle Park and Pacific N. G. Ry
LoaUville, New Orleans and Texas Ry
Louisiana Western R. R. Co
Hanitoa and Pike's Peak Ry*
Maricopa and Phcenix RR
MenomineeRy
Menominee River R.R., now Chicago and North
Western Ry.
Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Ry
Milwaukee and Northern R.R
Minneapolis, Sault Sto. Marie and Atlantic Ry
Minneapolis and St. Clond R.R
Minnesota and Dakota Ry
Missonla and Bitter Root Valley R. R
Missouri and Arkansas R.R
Missouri. Arkansas and Southern Ry
Missouri River, North Platte and Denver Ry*
Mobile, Jackson and E:an8a8 City R.R.
Monamh Pass, Gunnison and Dolores Ry
Montana Ry
Montana Central Ry
Mt. Carbon, Gunnison and Lake City R. R
Natchea, Red River and Texas R.R
Nebraska and Colorado R. R
Kehraska snd Western Ry
Nevada, Cnlifomia and Oregon Ry
Nevada Central Ry
Nevada Midknd R. R
Nevada Southern Ry. , first division
New Mexican R. R
New Mexico and Arizona R. R
New Mexico and Southern Pacific R. R
New Orleans and Noi theastem Ry
Northern Pacific and Cascade R.'R
Northern Pacific, Fersus and Black Hills R. R
Northern Pacific, La Monrie and Missouri River R. R
Northern Pacific and Montana R.R
North Park and Grand River R.R
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Oakley and Colby Ry
Ogden and Cache Valley Ry. Co*
Ogden and Wyon:ing Ry
Omaha and Elkhom Valley Rv
(hDaha,Niobraraand Black Hills R.R
Omaha and Republican Valley R. R
Ontonagon ancf Brule River li. R.
Ordway, Bismarck fkuH Northwestern Ry., now
known as Ab« rdeen, Bismarck and Northwestern
Kv.Co.
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Montana do .
Missouri do .
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Nebraska do .
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Sight of way granted to railway oompaniea in certain States and Territories. — Continaed,
[* Indicates that the oompaoy was organised daring the past year.]
Name of company.
Oregon Railway Extension Co
Oregon Railway and Navigation Co
Ore)£on Short Line Ry
Oregon and Wanhington Territory R. R
Oroville and Beckworth R. R
Oxford and Kansas R. R
Pensacolaand Lonisville R. R
Pensacolaand Mobile R.R
People's Ry. Co. of America
Pike's Peak Ry . and Improvement Co
Palatkaand Indian River Ry
Platte Valley and Sweetwater Ry *
Pleasant Valley Branch Utah Central
Port Discovery Quillayoute and Olympia R. R*
Portland, Lower Colnmbia and Eastern Washington
R.R.*
Prescott and Arizona Central Ry
Princeton and Western Ry
Piospeot Hill Co
Pueblo and Arkansas Vally R. R
Pneblo,GanniBonandPaolfloR.R.4.
Pueblo and Salt Lake Ry., now merged in Pueblo and
Arkansas Valley R. R-
Pueblo and Silver Cliff Ry
Pueblo and State Line R. R
Paget Sound and ChehalisR.R..
Pnget Sound and Gray's Harbor R. R. and Trans. Co .
Pnuet Sound, Skagit and Eastern Ry
Puyallup Vnlley Ry
R«pid City, Harney's Peak and Southwestern R. R*.
Red River and Lake of the Woods Ry
Republican Valley R. R
Republican Valley and Wyoming R.R
Rio Grande Junction Ry*
Rio Uraiide, Mexico and Pacific R. R *.
States and Territories.
Rio Grande Soatheiu R. R*.
Rio Grande Western Ry,, suocessora to Denver and
Kio Grande Western Ry.*
Road Cafion R. R Co *
Rooky Fork and Cooke City Ry
'Rocky Mountain R. R .
Rosebnrgand Port Orford R. R
Sanborn. CpoperHiwu and Turtle Mount R. R
Salmon Creek R. R. Co
San KranciHOo and Oregon Shore R. R
San Joaquin and Mount Diablo R.R
SanJuatiuin Valley and Tosemlte R.R
San Pablo and Tulare Extension R R
San Pete Valley R. R
Salt Lake and Eastern Railroad Co*
Salt Lake and Eastern Ry ,
Salt Lake and Fort Douelass R. R
Salt Lake, Nevada and California Ry
Salt Lake aud Park City Ry
Salt Lake Valley and Eastern Ry
S»lt Ukeand WesternRy
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SatsopRR.Co
SsAttle, Lake Shore and Eastern Ry
Seattle and WestCoast Ry
Seattle and Walla Walla R. R
Sevier Valley Ry
Shingle Springs and Plaoerville R. R
Sierra Valley and Mohawk R. R ,
SiherCliffby
Silver City, Doming and Pacific R.R
Silver Springs, Ooala and Gulf R. R
Siiverion R. R. Co
Snohomish, Sky humish and Palouse Ry. and Trans.
Co.*
South Dakota Western R.R*
South Pacific Coast R.R
Southern Kansas Rv
Southern Kansas and Panhandle R.R
Soutbem Kansas and Western R.R
Southern Pacific R.R of Arlsona
Southern Pacific R.R. of California
Oregon Mar. 3,1876
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California , do
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Alabama ! Mar. 8,1875
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Bight of waff granted to railway companies in certain States and Territories -^Continueil.
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Name of compaoy.
States sad Territories.
Date of ]aw.
Sontheni Paoiflo R. R. of New Mexico.
Spanish Range Ry
Springfleld and Memphis R. R
Springilf Id and Soatbem Ry
Spokane Falls and Idaho R. R
Spokane Falls and Northern ^y
Spokane and Palonst^Ry
State Line and DenTer Ry. Co .
St. Angnstlne and South Beach Ry j
St.Cloadand Lake Traverse Ry
St Louis. Wichita and WestomRy '
St. Psol, Black Hills and Pacific Ry. ;
St. Paul and Dakota R. R., now Worthington and ;
Sionz Falls.
St. Paul Minneapolis and Manitoba Ry I
St. Paul snd Northern Pacific Ry. Co. *
St. Paul and Sioux City Ry
St.yrainR.R.Co '
Summit Conn ty R. R. , now Echo and Park City |
Sommlt County Ry. and Trans. Co., now Wyoming,
Salt Lake and California.
Taooma, Sllensbnrg and Concnlly R. R '
Tacoma, Ortlog ana Southeastern R.R i
Texas, SanU K6 and Northern R. R <
The Aspinand Western Ry
The Central Washington B. B
The Trinidad and Denver R.R |
The Utah Ry
Travare and Jamestown R. R
Tucson and Gulf of California R. R.
Uinta Coal R.R. Co.
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Idaho
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Union Pacific, Lincoln and Colorado Ry.*
Union River Logging R. R
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Union Pacific
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Utah and Wyoming B.B
Utah and Wyoming By
Utah and Wyoming Central
Walla WaUa and Ainsworth B. B .
Walla Walla and Columbia BiverB.B
Wasatch Iron and Coal Co
Wasatch and Jordan Vallev B. R
Washington and Idaho R. B
Washington Dalles B. B
Watertown and Lake Nampeeka By
Welch Mills and Centervillo R. R
West Florida and MobUe B. B
Wet Mountain Valley B. B
Wichita and Westem B.B
Willamette Vaney and Coast B.B
Willmar and Sioux Falls By
Winona, Alma and Northern By
Winters and Ukiah By
Wisconsin Central B.B
Wisconsin and Michigan R.R
Wisconsin, Sault Ste. Marie and Mackinac By.
Worthington and Sioux Falls B. B
Wyoming Central By
Wyoming and Eastern By
Wyoming Midland By Co
Wyoming, Montana and Pacific B.B
Wyoming Southern B. B. Co*
Wyoming and Westem By*
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CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS.
As to coDStruction of land ^rant railroads 40 miles have been re-
ported for the fiscal year. The aggref^ate of construction to date as re-
ported is 18,070.71 miles, distribated as follows :
States and Territories.
Miles.
states and Territories.
Alabama 901.43
A rkansas 602. 24
Arizona I 383.00
California 1,067.91
Colorado 298.60
Dakota I 410.98
Florida 792.62
Idaho - 90.00
Illinois 707.00 ,1
Indiana 241.35
Iowa 1,547.64
Kansas 1 1,485.65 !
Lonisiana 530.00 i
Michigan , 1.045.01
Minnesota...
Mississippi ..
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico .
Oregon
Utah
Washington .
Wisconsin . . .
Wyoming
Miles.
2,144.11
384.00
625.75
781.00
768.52
446.00
167.00
425.80
225.00
537.60
973.50
600.00
Total.
18,070.71
CERTIFICATION OP LANDS.
During the fiscal year there were certified and patented for railroad
purposes 363,862.15 acres, a decrease as compared with the previous
year of 61,183.87 acres.
No certifications or patents were made for canals or wagon-roads.
Eighteen railroad patents, coTering 108 pages of record, were issued.
The lists of selections awaiting examination or action at the close of
the fiscal year covered 29,776,955.76 acres. The selections pending of
railroads and wagon-roads are as follows :
Name of road.
Alabama and Chattanooga
Atlantic and Pacific in Misaoari.
Atlantic and Pacific in Arkansas
Atlantic and Pacific in Ariaona..
Atlantic and Pacific in New Mexico
Bnrliogton and Missouri Biver in
Iowa
Cedar Rapids and Misaoari River. .
Central Branch Union Pacific
Central Pacific in California
Central Pacific in Nevada
Central Pacific in Utah
Central Pifcifio (formerly Western).
Central Pacific, Oregon Division
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific . .
Chicago and Northwestern in Mich-
igan
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha •
Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul in
Iowa
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapoliii and
Omuia (formerly West Wiscon*
sin)
Oabngne and Sioux City
Des JMoines Valley
Flint and Pere Marquette
Farm Mortgage Land Company
Florida Railway and Navigation
Company
Grand Rapids and Indiana
Hlastings and Dakota
Iowa Falls and Sioux City
Memphis and Little Rock
Mobile and Montgomery
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Northern Pacific in Minnesota
Northern Pacific in Wisconsin
Northern Pacific in Dakota
10,857.2S I
2,402.60
5.166.29 i
1,825,534.66 I
886.216.30 I
89.09 '
2,101.07
4.810.17 I
386.429.32 \\
116,532.37 J
218.720.33 ;
5,749.34 I
424,012.26 !
595.57 I
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79.99 .
197.30 ,
466.62 {
358,670.63 '
81.66 I
7,162.86 I.
73.64 ;
31,192.24
1,688.44
6,556.28 , 1
486.426.56
8,632.05 i
7,039,037.16 i
Name of road.
Acrea.
Northern Pacific in Montana
Northern Pacific in Idaho
4,606,543.61
123, 161. 91
Northern Pacific in Washington. ..
New Orleans apd 'Psciflc.
7.256.220.02
416,098.47
267 667. 19
Oregon and California
895,004.21
Oregon Central
52, lis. 00
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern in Arkansas
3,388.49
1, 046. 14
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern in Missouri
St Paul, Minneapolis and Mani-
toba, main line
176,515.59
149. 078. 38
1,414.13
St. Paul. Minneapolis and Mani-
toba, St. Vincent Extension
St. Paul and Sioux
Sioux City and Pacific
1, 937. 79
SLPanl and Dnloth
627.82
South*)m Minnesota Extension.
Now the Chicago, Milwaukee and
StPaul
1,850.86
Southern Pacific, main line
Southern Pacific, branch line ..:...
Union Pacific in Nebraska
809,281.45
458,791.40
139,425.39
107,778.09
Union Pacific in Utah
Union Pacific in Wyoming
Union Pacific Kansas division
Union Pacific in Colorado
Vicksburg, Shreveportand Pacific.
Vioksburg and Meridian
1, 916. 11
1.616,289.70
80.088.12
10,887.14
L 296. 42
Winona and St. Peter
1. 141. 90
Wisconsin Central
68.S06.U
St.PaiU and Northern Pacific
Selma. Rome and Dalton , « . t ,
160.420.56
4,069.47
Total pending June 30, 1800
Total wagon-road, June 30, 1890
20.471.700.00
3U6.246.67
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9405 L O 14
Acres.
51,420.17
160.00
188,371.48
68,0TO.85
1.816.17
806,248.07
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Statement exhibiting land conceseione, eie. — Continned.
219
BBCAPITULATIOK.
States.
BAILBOADS.
jQlinoiB
Misniiisippi .
Alitbama....
Florida
LonlftiAiui ...
ArkanMui...
UisMrari....
Iowa
Miohiffan...
Wiaoonnin ..
KiDoeaota ..
KaosM
Total to States
Total to corporationa .
Total railroad irranta
Dodnot amount of land deolared forfeited by Congress .
Net total of grants.
WAOOir-BOADB.
Wisoonnin .
Michigan ..
Oregon ....
Total wagon-road grants..
Railroad g< ants
Total wagon-roads and railroad grants .
Certifled or pat-
ented for toe
year endine Jane
30, 1880.
Aoru,
80.00
"24,'7i6.*87
2i,875.87
338, 088. 28
368,863.16
Certifled or pat-
ented up TO
June 80, 1890.
Acre;
% 595, 068. 00
0S5,15&70
2,081,7811.69
1,764,412.08
1,078,406.47
S, 620, 073. 16
1,896.429.87
4, 7U9, 519. 69
3,229.010.84
3, 685, 127. 22
8,206,714.31
4, 637, 49a 67
87. 682, 176. 56
13.795,788.06
61,377.958.61
1,887. to
61,379,346.21
302, 080. 96
221.013.36
1,268,786 68
1,782,730.88
61,379.346.21
63,162,077.04
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220 REPORT OF COMMIS8IOKEB OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
In the annual report for tbe year ending Jane 30, 1888, pages 232 to
241, will be found a statement showing the date of filing of maps of
location by land-grant railroad companies and the dates of withdrawals
of lands made thereon. But one such map since that report has been
filed, viz: Main line of the Southern Pacific railroad, about 20 miles
westward from Huron, in the State pf California, withdrawal upon which
was ordered by letter of April 15, 1890, addressed to the local officers
at Visalia.
Statemmt exhihiting land oanoestiona by acts of Congress to States for eanal purposes flrom
the year 1824 to June 30, lo90.
Ittdinna
00
Do
Do
Do
• Do
Do
Ohio
Do
Dob(Beo.8)...
Do
Do
Do
Do. (te& 6)
Do. (sec. 8)...
minois .
Do..
Witconiin .
Do
Do
Do.
Michigan .
Do....
Do....
Do....
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
lUr.S6,lR24
Mar. a, 1827
May 29, 1830
F«h. 27,1841
Auk. 98, 1842
Mar. 8.1846
May 9,1848
Mar. 2,1827
Jane 30, 1634
Aair. 81, 18.'>2
Mar. 2,1855
May 24,1828
Apr. 2. IfrH)
May 24,1828
Aug. 81, 1852
Mar. 2,1827
Aug. 3,1854
JnDe18. 1838
Apr. 10, 1866
Mar. 1,1872
Mar. 7,1874
Aug. 26, 1862
Mar. 3, 1»65
July 3.186tt
Apr. 10, 1869
Mar. 2,1871
Mar. 27, 1872
Mar. 3,1873
Jaly 3.1866
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e
•
«
Sr
£
^
4
47
4
238
4
416
6
414
6
M2
6
781
9
219
4
286
4
716
10
143
10
634
4
805
4
893
4
806
10
143
4
284
10
341
6
246
14
30
17
32
18
20
10
35
13
610
14
81
16
65
16
699
17
44
17
627
14
80
Wabash and Erie .
1,457, 806. «•
> Wabash and Erie
Aot oonfirmlng oanal selections under acts of
1827 aod 1828 in the State of Ohia
I Miami and Dayton
General oanal parpo«es
Provision for setf lenient of daim of Ohio for
canal lands under acts of 1827 and 1828.
) Canal to connect the waters of the Dlinois
S river with those of Lake Michigan.
Milwankeeand Rock River
BreakwMter and Harbor Ship-Canal
Act extending the time for completion of
canal to Apr 1 10, lt^4.
Act extending tbe time for completion of
canal to April 10, 1876.
St. Mary's Ship-canal
Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship-Canal
— do
Rpsolntion extending the time for comple-
tion of canal to Mxroh 3, 1871.
Ro<4olatlon extending the time for completion
of canal to March 3, 1872.
Act exiending the time for completion of
cannl to March 3, 1873.
Act extending the time for completion of
canal to December 1, 1873.
Lac La Bolle Ship-Caoal
234«24«.7t
29.652.60
250.866.48
24,219.88
796,680.1ft
113,848.28
266,686.00
888,826L00
600.000.00
1.100,861.09
290,915.00
125,431.00
9u0,000.00
325.431.00
750,000.00
200.000.00
200, 000. 00
100.000.00
li250i^0OO.0O
RECAPITULATION.
Indiana 1,4OT.366.06
Ohio 1,100.361.00
WiacoDsin 825,43LO0
Michigan 1.250,000.00
Uinoia 290,915.00
Total quantity granted and certified 4,424,073.06
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Statement $Ki>wii^ number ofaores oertified under river-improvement grants.
SUtM.
Bate of laws.
1
1
Kame of river.
Total nnm*
berof aoree
f^rantedand
oertifled.
Alabama
Wiaoonaiii
May 23,1828
Aug. 8,1846
Mar. 2,1849
AufT. 8,1854
Mar. 8.1855
Jnne 9,1858
Mar. 12, 1867
Ang. 8,1846
4
9
9
10
10
11
15
9
290
88
852
845
724
313
20
77
rior.
' Fox and Wi8<M>nfiiB
400,016.19
688,802.48
322.892.18
(Joint TMomooii)
(Joint nMolution)
Iowa
Dee Moinea, below the Baoooon Fork (a). . . . .
1,406,210.80
a For lands above Baoooon Fork, see raUroad table " Des Moines Valley.'
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G.— PKBEMPTION DIVISION.
In addition to the work growing out of the administration of the gen-
eral laws grantiug pre-emption rights, and for the disposition of those
public lands known as the OsHge Indian trnst and diminished reserve
lands in Kansas, the Ute Indian lands in Colorado, and the 8ioux In-
dian lands in the Dakotas and in Minnesota, the duties appertaining
to the allowance of entries, and the surveying, platting, appraisement,
and Sfile of land under the several townsite laws form not an incon-
siderable portion of the work of this division, involving as they do, in
addition to the above, the ordering of hearings between the townsite
claimants and settlers under the agricultural laws, the deciding of such
contests, and many of the contests that arise between the town-lot
claimants. The plats and tract-books of town-lots are kept in this
>di vision. The special townsite laws applicable to the Territory of Okla-
homa were passed by Congress during the past year, and the necessary
work ii) drawing the several instructions thereunder, as well as passing
upon the construction of these special townsite laws, has been unusually
heavy. Particular attention is called to the following special town-
site circulars of instruction. While the principal part of the work of
this division is the examination of entries allowed by the local officers;
the amendments of filings and entries and the review of all appeals
from the decisions of the local officers adverse to parties oftering
proofs or adverse to applications to make pre emption filings is an
Important branch of the work.
The beginning of the year ending June 30, 1890, found from three
to four years' accumujation of work, owing to the fact that the clerical
force of the division had been seriously crippled by the transfer of
many of the experienced clerks to other divisions, leaving their places
either unfilled or partially filled by inexperienced female clerks or
male clerks of very low grade.
Owing to the vast accumulation of entries not reached for action and
the many thousand cases which were suspended under the narrow and
technical rules of 'the ''board of review" (which board was happily
discontinued by the order of July 6, 1889), the correspondence during
the past year has been very heavy. It became necessary, therefore, to
direct the work with the view to relieve as speedily as possible the over,
burdened suspended files and.^'to reduce the surplus" of accumulated
cases, in a measure at least, so as to get abreast of the work. The great
progress made toward that end will be shown by the following:
statement of work performed by the pre-emption division during the year ending June
30, 18ri0.
Casea pending June 30, 188i) *.... 88,754
Caaes received during the year *24, 0^
Disposed of daring the year : 112, 702
Approved for patent "48,526
Canceled or referred to other divisions , 270
48,79t>
Pending July 1, 1890 63,966
* Nnmber disposed of during year ending June 30, 1889, 14,753.
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£xainioed and saspeiided 2,692
Notexamin©d 61,274
63,966
£ntries subjected to preliminary examiDation and suspension daring the
year A 7,117
Letters received during the year 16,592
Ltftters answered 5,H90
Letters filed, requiring no answers 8,644
Letters referred to other divisions 3,665
18,199
Undisposed of /. 393
Letters written during the year 16,097
Townsite entries received ^ 12
Townsite entries approved 13
Hearings ordered 27
Contests decided , , 1 53
Town-lot entries approved 361
The following table shows the namber of all pre-emption entries by
classes in each State and Territory pending in division *^ G " on Jane
30, 1890:
Sns.
pendod.
Not ex-
amined.
1
1
Osage entries— Kansas
189
14,225 1
Alabama
4
38
9
1«3
2M
37
26
122
176
^riflona
ArkanfUkA
69 1
Califomia
4,913 1
11,781
127
Colorado
Florida
Idaho
431
Tpdiai^fi
ll
Iowa
Kftpsas
Loaistana
Hichijran
2
440
6
6
66
2
39
11»120 1'
41 .,
513
Minneaota
Missonri
664 ,
15
I Montana
Nebi-aska
Nevada
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oregon
Utah
South Dakota
Washington
Wiaconoin ...* t.
Wyoming ,
Sas-
pended.
64
482
1
111
109
105
29
803
47
2
336
Not ex-
amined.
365
9,193
2,593
Total not acted upon.
1,208
1,825
202
1,613
1,316
249^
814
47,049
61, 274
In Osage (Kansas) entries there are —
Fall entries, not examined 7, 9J54
Partial payments 6,271
14,225
OKLAHOMA T0WN8ITE8.
RegulaUoM provided hy the Secretary of the Interior for the guidance of trvsieee in the exe
cution of their trust.
Department of the Interior,
Waehington, D. C, June 18, 1890.
To the Truetees of TownHtes in the United States land districts,
Oklahoma Territory:
By virtne of the authority vested in me by an act of Congress approved May 14,
1890, entitled ''An act to provide for townsite entries of lands in what is known as
'Oklahoma,' and for other purposes,'' I have prepared the folIowiDg rales and regula-
tions for your observance and direction in the execution of the trust thereby created:
1. In the performance of your duties you will bear in mind the provisions of sections
V^ and 13 of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1889 (25 Stats., 1004), by virtne
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of which the Indian title to said ** Oklahoma" was extinguished and the lands therein
made a part of the public domaio, and special attention is directed to that- part of the
President's proclamation of March 23 following, opening a portion of the Territory
of Oklahoma to settlement, which reads: " Warning is hereby again expressly giren
that no person eutering apon aud occupying said lands before said hunr of twelre
o'clock, DOOD, of the twenty-second day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred aud eighty-
nine, hereinbefore fixed, will ever be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire
any rights thereto, aud that the officers of the United States will be required to
strictly enforce the provision of the act of Congress to the above effect."
No person who went into said Territory in violation of said proclamation will be
allotted any portion of a townsite, and you will recognize no claim fi.led by such per-
son in making your allotments.
3. As soon as you are officially advised by the Secretar^*^ of the Interior of the town-
site, or townsites, which >ou are to euter as trustees, and have qnali6ed before an
officer having a seal and duly authorized to administer oaths, by taking and sab-
scribing the following oath, or affirmation :
*' I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have no interest either directly or indirectly
in the tc»wn site of , or any part or parcel thereof; that I will faithfully
discbarge the duties of my office, and execute the trust imposed n^on me with fidelity ;
that 1 will impartially hear, try, and determine all controversies submitted to me
fairly and justly, according to the law and the evidence free from bias, favoritism, prej-
udice, or personal influence of any kind or character whatever. So help me God.
(Or, if by affirmation, * under the pains and penalties of perjury.')" — you will proceed
to discharge the duties imposed on you by law and these rules aud regulations. Your
several boards are, as required by the statute, composed of three trustees. Your sev*
eral comniisbions have denignated your respective boards, and each board will act as
a separate body as to the particular town site to which it is assigned.
3. All applications heretofore filed in the proper land office will be prosecuted to
final iitsne in your names as provided in section 6 of act under which you are appointed.
In case you find a contest orcoutroversv pending between a homestead entryman and
th^ occupants of the townsite to which you are assigned, involving the title to
any portion of the laud occupied for townsite purposes, yon will at once, as a board,
and before takinir any other step or proceeding, make a])plication at the local office
in the district where the townsite is situate to intervene and be made parties to the
proceeding, and thereupon the case will be made «p«cia< and disposed of as expeditiously
as the transaction of public business will permit, as no entry can be completed until
after the contests are disposed of. Publication of intention to make prooi mnst be for
^\e days, and the proof of publication may be as in ordinary cases. The proof shall
relate to actual occupancy of the land for the purposes of trade and business, namber
of inhabitants, and extent and value of town improvements.
4. The entry is to be made by you as trustees as near as may be conformably to section
' 2387 of the Revised Statutes and in trust for the use and benefit of the occupants of
of the townsite according to their respective interests and at the minimum price,
$1.25 per acre. No provision is made in the act for the payment of the entry fees and
the price of the land, and as the entry mnst be made before the townsite can be allot-
ted, you may call upon the occupants thereof to furnish the requisite amount to
pay the government for said lat d, keeping an accurate account thereof, and giving
your receipt therefor, and when realized from assessment and allotment, you wiH
refund the same, taking evidence thereof, to be filed with your report in the manner
hereinafter directed.
5. Section 1 of said act of May 14, requires me to provide rules and regulations for
the survey of the land occupied for townsite purposes into streets, alleys squares,
blocks, and lots, or to approve such survey as may already have been made by the
inhabitants thereof, and section .5 of said act makes the provisions of sections 4, 5, 6,
and 7 of the act of the legislature of the State of Kansas entitled ''An act relating
to townsites," approved March 2, 186H, so far as applicable, a part thereof.
Section 4 of the Kansas act adopted requires yon to oause an actual survey of the
townsite to be made, conforming as near as may be to the original survey of such
town, desit^nating on such plat the lots or squares on which improvements ar • stand-
ing, together with the value of the same and the name of the owner or owners
thereof; hence, if you deem it advisable to survey the townsite assigned you, yon
will observe this rule in connection with the first proviso of section 22 of Oklahoma
Territorial bill, approved May 2, 1890; but if the townsite has already been sur-
veyed by the inhabitants thereof, and you are satisfied that the same is correct and
in harmony with the spirit of the act under which you are appointed, yon may
approve and adopt such survey, making the designation on the plat thereof as re-
quired by s^iid section 4 so far as the same is applicable under said act act of May 14.
6. In any event, vou will, as soon as you definitely fix the survey, cause to be des-
ignated, on each of said plats, the lots and blocks occupied, together with the value
of the same, with the name of the owner or owners thereof; you will also designate
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all sqaares, parks, and tracts reserved for pabiic ase, or sites for public buildings, and
all lots occupied by any religious organization which are subject to disposal under
the provisions of said act. The desi^natiou of an owner on such map shall be tem-
porary until final decision of record m relation thereto, and shall in no case betaken
or held as in any sense or to any degree a conclusion or judgment by the board as to
the true ownership in any contested case coming before it.
7. You will observe that no townsite can embrace any greater number of legal sub-
divisions than are *' covered by actual occupancy for the pur noses of trade and busi-
ness," and in no case can it exceed 1,:^ acres ; hence, in makiug your survey of the
land *' into streets, alleys, squares, blocks, and lots/' or the approval of such survey
as may have been made by the inhabitants of the townsite, when you deem the same
sufficient, you will deter'nine the area thereof by legal subdivisions so occupied for
such purposes.
S. As soon as the survey and plat are completed as aforesaid, you will cause to be
published, in some newspaper printed in the county in which said town is situated, a
notice that such survey has been completed, notifying all persons concerned or inter-
ested in such townsite that on the designated day you will proceed to set off to per-
sons entitled to the same, according to their respective interests, the lots, blocks, or
grounds to which each occupant thereof shall be entitled undnr tne provisions of said
act. Such publication shall be made at least fifteen days prior to the day set apart
by you to make such division and allotment. Proof of such publication shall be evi-
denced by the affidavit of the publisher of the newspaper lu which such notice is
prints, accompanied by a printed copy of such notice.
9. After such publication shall have been duly made, you will proceed on the day
designated in the notice, except in contest cases which shall be disposed of in the
manner hereinafter provided, to set apart to the persons entitled to receive the same
the lots, blocks, and grounds to which each party or company shall be entitled ac-
cording to their respective interests, including in the portion or portions set apart to
each person or company of persons the improvements belonging thereto; and in so
doing you will observe that section 2 of saia act of May 14, 1890, provides that any
certificate or other paner evidence of claim duly issued by the authority recognized
for such purpose by tne people residing upon any town site subject to entry, shall
be taken as evidence of the occupancy by the holder thereof of the lot or lots therein
described, except where there is an adverse claim to said property such certificate
shall only be prima facie evidence of the claim of occupancy of the holder. But any
person holding any such certificate who went into said Territory prior to the hour of
12 o'clock, noon, on the 22d day of April, 1889, Id violation of said proclamation, shall
not be held to have acquired any rights thereunder.
10. When the survey is finally completed it will be certified to by you in quadru-
plicate as follows :
** We, the undersigned, trnst^'cs ef the townsite of , Oklahoma Terri-
sry. hereby certify that we have examined the survey of said townsite and approve
the foregoing plat thereof as strictly conformable to said survey in accordance with
the act of Congress approved May 14, 1890, and our official instructions.''
One of said plats shall be filed in the land office in the district where the townsite
is located, one in the office of the register of deeds in the county in which the town-
site is situate, one in the office of the Commissioner of the General Laud Office, and
one retained in your custody for your own use.
11. Whenever you fiud two or more inhabitants claiming the same lot, block, or
parcel of land, you will proceed to hear and determine the controversy, fixing a time
and place for the hearing of the respective claims of the interested parties, giving
each teu days notice thereof, aud a fair opportunity to present their interests in ac-
cordance with the principles of law and equity applicable to the case, observing as
far as practicable the rules prescribed for contest before registers and receivers of the
local offices ; you will administer oaths to the witnesses, observe the rules of evidence
as near as may be in making your iuvestigatious, and at the close of the case, or as
soon thereafter as your duties will permit, render your decision in writing.
If the notice herein provided for can not be personally served upon the party there-
in named within three days from its date, such service may be made by a printed
notice published for ten days in a newspaper in the town or city in which the lot to
be affected thereby is situated ; or, if there is none published in such town, then said
notice may be printed in any newspaper in the county, or if there is none published
in the county, then in one printed in the Territory. The proof of such notice to be
filed with the record, and may be made as provided in these rules and regulations in
other cases. The proceedings in these contests should be abbreviated in time and
words, or your work may not be completed within the limits of any reasonable period
of time or expense.
12. Any person feeling aggrieved by your iudgmeut may, within ten days after
notice thereof, appeal to the Commissioner of the General Land Office under the rules
(except as to time), as provided for appeals from the opinions of registers and receivers ;
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and if either party is diasatlsfied with the oonclasions of said Commissioner in the
case, he may still fnrther prosecute an appeal within ten days from notice thereof to
the Secretary of the Interior upon lilce terms and conditions and nnder the same rales
that appeids are now regulated by and taken in adversary prooeedinss from the
Commissioner to the Secretary except as modified by the time within which the appeal
is to be taken. Sach cases will be made special by the Commissioner and the Sec-
retary and determined as speedily as the public business of the department will per-
mit, but no contest for particular lots, blocks, or grounds shall delay the allotment
of tnose not in controversy.
13. All costs in such proceedings will be governed by the rules now applicable to
contestii before the local land offices.
14. After setting apart such lots, blocks, squares, or gronnds, and upon a valuation
of the same, as hereinbefore provided for, you will proceed to determine and assess
upon such lots and blocks, according to their value, ^uch rate and sum as will be nec-
essary to pay for the lands embraced in such townsite, costs of survey, conveyance
of lots, and other necessary expenses, including compenRation of trustees, as provided
for in ^id act, and in so doing you will take into conHideration —
First. The |10,000 appropriated by said act of >fay 14, 1B90, and such further sum
as may be appropriated by CongrcAS, before said aHsessment is made, for the purpose
of carrying into effect the terms of said act, which is to be refunded to the Treasury
of the United States ; but of course only so much thereof as it will be necessary to nse.
Second. The money expended for enteriuc; the land.
Third. The costs of survey and platting the townsite.
Fourth. The expenses incident to making the conveyances.
Fifth. The compensation of yourselves as trustees.
Sixth. The compensation of your clerk.
Seventh. The necessary traveling expenses of yourselves and clerk.
Eighth. All necessary expenses incident to the expeditious execution of your trust.
More than one assessment may be made, if necessary to effect the purposes of the
act of Congress.
15. From each board the Secretary of the Interior will designate a chairman and a
secretary. The secretary shall keep the minutes and a record of your proceedings,
and an accurate account of all money received and paid out, taking and filing proper
vouchers therefor in the manner hereinafter provided ; he shall also be the disbursing
officer of the board, shall receive and pay out all moneys provided for in said act,
subject to the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior; and he shall, before en-
tering upon duty, take the official oath, and also enter into a bond to the United
States in the i>enal sum of $10,000 for the faithful discharge of his dnties, both as now
Ereecribed and famished from the department of the Interior. The money in the
ands of the disbursing officer shall at ail times be subject to the control and order of
the Secretary ot the Interior, and the sum appropriated by Congress which is to be
refunded to the Treasury of the United States shall be paid over to the Treasnrer
thereof at saoh times, in snch sums, and in snch manner as the Secretary of the Interior
may direct.
16. There shall be a clerk for each board, who shall also be a stenographer, if availa-
ble, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, who shall do all the clerical and
stenographio, work of the board and secretary thereto, and, under its control and
direcfion, subject to the general supervision of the Secretary of the Interior.
17. The minutes of each day's proceedings shall be completed and written out in
ordinary handwriting, or type-written, and duly signed by the chairman and secre-
tary, before the next day's business shall be begun, and shall not thereafter be changed
except by a further record, stating accnrately the changes intended and ordered, and
the reasons therefor. This is not intended to include the testimony or other than
actual decisions, orders, and proceedings of the board.
18. All payments of money by the inhabitants of the townsite for lots and blocks
shall be in cash, and made onlv to the disbursing officer, who shall receipt therefor In
duplicate, one to be given to the party making the payment and the otner to lie for-
warded to the Commissioner of tne General Land Office, and said officer shalf charge
himself with each payment on his books of accounts, and he shall deposit all sums re-
ceived by him at least once a week, and, when practicable, daily, in some bank des-
ignated by the board, and he shall pay the same out only on his checks countersigned
by the chairman of the board of which he is secretary, which checks, after they are
honored, shall be filed with his accounts as vouchers.
19. Upon the payment to the disbursing officer of all sums assessed by you upon
any lot, block, or parcel of land by the person entitled thereto, and not before, you
will proceed to execute him a deed therefor pursuant to the terms of said act. All
conveyances made by you shall be acknowledged before an officer duly authorized in
said Territory to take acknowledgments of deeds. The form of deed and acknowl*
edgment will be forwarded you. .
^. All lota occupied by any religious organization will, open the payment of the
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auessmeuts thereon, be conveyed by yon to it directly, or in trust tor the use and
benefit of the same, at its option.
21. Yon will ascertain and transmit to the Secretary of the Interior a statement
showing separately —
First. All lots not disposed of nnder the provisions of said act which are subject to
be sold under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the
municipal government of the town or city controlling the townsite which you are
directed to allot. '
Second. Such part thereof as may be reserved for public use as sites for public
buildings.
Third. For the purpose of public paries.
22. You will be allowed |10 per day for each day's service when you are actually'
engaged and employed in the performance of your duties as such trustee, your nec-
essary traveling expenses, and |3 per day for your subsistence. But these sums may
be reduced in either board at the will of the Secretary of the Interior if he deems it
for any cause necessary.
23. The clerk of the board, when not a clerk already in government employment and
assigned to the board for duty, will be allowed as compensation for his services at the
rate of |100 a month; he will also be allowed his actual necessary traveling expenses.
All expenses of members of the board and the clerk shall be reported to and adjusted
by the Commissioner of the General Land Office at the end of each week after you
commence executing conveyances for the lots and blocks on the townsite; before
that, monthly on the first day of the month.
24. The account of alKyour expenses and expenditure, together with a record of
your proceedings, which, with your oath of office, and all papers filed with you, the
records in each case, and all evidence of your official acts, except conveyances, you
will file in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to become a part
of the records therein.
25. Where any one occupying and filing for a homestead obtains a patent for a
townsite under section 22 of the Oklahoma Territorial act, approved May 2, 1890,
such townsite will not be affected by the provisions nnder which you are appointed,
and yon can not act in any such case.
Yon will correspond with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and only
through him with the Secretary, so that a complete record thereby may be kept in
the Land Office.
It is believed that the foregoing resnlationa, together with oopiee of the laws re-
ferred to therein, and copies of the rules and regnfations furnished registers and re-
ceivers in contested oases and appeals will be roand snffloieni for the proper deter-
miuation of all cases which may arise ; but should unforeseen difflcalties present
themselves, yon will submit the same tor special instructions.
In view of the fact that the expenses incident to the allotment of townsites by
the provisions of this act are necessarily burdensome to those interested therein, yon
will be expected to proceed as expeditiously as is consistent with a due regard to the
proper performance of your duties in disposing of the trust herein imposed upon you.
It is hoped that yon will, from a sense of duty, relieve as much as possible the in-
habitants of the townsites nnder your control from unnecessary delays, fees, and ex-
penses.
Very respectfully,
John W. Noble,
Secretary,
DlEPARTMXNT OF THX INTERIOR,
* Washington, D, C, July 10, 1890.
To (he Trueteee of Towntitee in the United States land dUtriets,
Oklahoma Territory :
To remove any doubts that may exist nnder regulations dated June 18, 1890, as to
how the costs of contests are to be paid, yon are hereby instructed that your first
dnt^, as stated in section 10 and the last clause of section 13, is to proceed on the day
designated iu the notice published to set apart, except in contest cases, the lots,
blocks, and grounds, with the improvements, respectively, to each person or com-
pany entitled thereto. You will at this point, and before proceeding to contests,
make assessment on all the lots embraced m the townsite, so that each shall bear its
fair proportion of all the expenses mentioned iu section 15, and no farther assess-
ments shall be made on uncontested lots that may be required to meet expenses re-
sulting from contests as to other property. You will then, and not before, proceed
to dispose of the contested cases, and yon will require each claimant to deposit with
the disbursing offioer of the board each morning, asum sufficient to cover and pay all
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oosts and expenses on enoh proceedings for the day, inclading the Hems mentioned
in regulation numbered 15, because by section fi of the act of Congress, under which
you are to proceed, all disbursements from the appropriation made must be refanded
to the Treasury of the United States. At the close of the contests, on appeal or other-
wise, the sum deposited by the successful party shall be restored to him subject to
the rules in such oases ; but that deposited by the losing party shall be retained and
accounted for by the disbursing officer of the board.
Very respectfully, •
John W. Nobue,
Secretary,
Jlegulationa to be observed in the exeoution of the provisions of the second proviso of the iwenty-
neoond section of the *^Aot to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Okta-
ftowio," c<c., approred May 2, 1890.
Department of the Interior,
General Land Office;
Washingtony D. C, July 18, 1«M).
To the Registers and Receivers of theUniled States land offices,
Oklahoma Territory :
All applications to commute homestead entries, or nortions thereof, to cash entriea
at the rate of $10 per acre, for the purpose named in tne twenty-second section of the
act above cited, will be made througn your respective offices and addressed to the
Secretaiy of the Interior, in accordance with the following regulations :
1. Entries under said section must be made according to the le^al subdivisions of
the land, and no application for a less quantity than is embraced in a legal subdivis-
ion, or for land involved in any contest, will be received by you.
2. A party desiring to found* a city or town upon land embrac ed in his homestead
should present his application (Form 4-001) at the local land office of the district in
which his land is situated, and, if his application and the status of his homestead en-
try are found to be in accord with the foregoing requirements, you will so advise him
and allow him two months within which to prepare and file ^ith yon triplicate plats
of the survey of the land applied for, duly verified by the oaths of himself ana the
surveyor.
3. Such plats must state the name of the city or town, describe the exterior bounda-
ries thereof according to the lines of public surveys, exhibit the streets, squares,
blocks, lots, and alleys, and must specifically set forth the size of the same, with meas-
urements and area of each municipal subdivision ; and, if the survey was made sub-
sequent to May 2, 1890, the plats must also show that the provisions of the first proviso
of the section of the act under consideration have been complied with, viz, the setting
apart of '^ reservations for parks (of substantially equal area if more than one park)
and for schools and other public purposes, embracing in the aggregate not less than
ten nor more than twenty acres."
4. Upon receipt of the plats you will transmit the same to this office fur examina-
tion and the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, together with the application
to make entry and your joint report as to the status of the laud applied for. Should
the plats be approved, one of them will be retained in this office and the other two
returned to you with directions t<o notify the applicant of their approval, and that he
will be allowed three months within which to make the proof hereinafter prescribe<l,
and to perfect his entry of the legal subdivision, or subdivisions, applied for, exclusive
of the portions reserved for parKS, schools, and other public purposes (which are to
be patented, as a gift to the town when organized ab a municipality, for the specific
purposes for which they were reserved), by tendering the pu^shase price of that por-
tion of the land actually entered. One of the approved plats returned to you will be
retained in your office and the other delivered to the applicant to be placed on record
and file in the office of the recorder of the county in which the town is situated.
5. Notice of intention to make cash entry as above contemplated shall be the same
in all respects as is required of a claimant in making final homestead proof, and the
entry when made will be given the current number of the series of commuted or cash
entries provided for in the twenty-first section of the above-cited Territorial act.
Proof in accordance with the published notice, consisting of the testimony of the
claimant and two witnesses, must be furnished relating—
First, To the strict observance of the warning contained in the President's procla-
mation of March 23, 1889, if the land applied for is within that portion of the Territory
of Oklahoma opened to settlement thereby. Should the land be located in a portion
of the Territory which may hereafter become open to settlement by operation of law,
or a proolamatiou of the President, it will be necessary for the claimant to show that
he has strictly obserred tlie spirit and letter of the provisions under which settlement
in said portiou became permissible.
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Seoond, The claimant's citizenBhip and qualifications in all other respects an a
homesteader, the same as in making final homestead or oommated proof under the
act relating to the Seminole lands, approved March 2, 1889, and the Territorial act
amendatory thereof, approved May 2, 1890.
Third, Dne compliance with all the requirements of the homestead law, by the
claimant, no to the date of commntlug to cash entry.
Fourth, The foregoing to be accompanied by the usual proof of notice by publica-
tion, together with the certificate of the register and receiver showing that the dupli-
cate homes ead receipt has been presented to them and canceled in respect to the land
purchased for townsite purposes, and the certificate of the county recorder to the
«ffi»ct that a plat of the town, bearing the approval of the Secretary of the Interior,
has been mada of record and placed on file in his office.
6. After notice has been given an applicant that his homestead is free from contests,
and is not in conflict with any other entry, and pending the preparation and approval
of the town plats, you will neither accept any affidavit of contest nor order any hear-
ing involving the land applied for ; and after the approval of the plats no contest
initiated as such and looking to the defeat of the proposed cash entry will be enter-
tained by this office.
7. Parties appearing at the time and place of making proof and protesting against
the allowance of the cash entry, simply as objectors' or friends of the government,
will be heard, permitted to cross-examine the claimant and his witnesses without
additional cost to the claimant, and their complaints and the facts developed will be
doly considered by you, and such action taken as you may deem proper, except that
you will order no hearing in any such case. Should a protestant desire to carry his
action into a contest, between which proceedings there exists a clear distinction (see
McCracken v. Porter, 3 L.D.,399, and Martin v. Barker, 6 L.D.,763), he will be re-
quired to file with you a sworn and corroborated statement of his grounds of action,
and that the contest is not initiated for the purpose of harassing the claimant and
extorting money from him under 4 compromise, but in good faitn to prosecute the
same to a final determination, which statement you will transmit with the claimant's
proof; and if the allegations therein contained are considered sufficient by this office
to warrant the ordering of a hearing, you will be so advised, and a hearing will be
ordered upon compliance by the contestant with the condition that he shall deposit
with yoo a sufficient sum to cover the cost thereof.
8. Notice of your actions or decisions in all matters affecting an entry, or an ap-
plication to enter, under the foregoing instructions, and the proof thereof, shall be
thesa • • ^ - • • ^' ....
such I
Within 1
the api>ellee, who will be allowed ten days from such service within which to file his
brief and ar^ment. Appeals from the conclusions of this office lie to the Secretary
of the Interior, subject to the foregoing restrictions as to time, the same as in other
matters of like charaoter.
Respectfully,
Lewis A. Gboff,
Commiuioner.
Approved :
John W. Noblx,
Seereiwry,
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H— CONTEST DIVISION.
In connection with the report of the transactions of the Contest Di-
vision for the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1890, which is herewith sub-
mitted, the chief of the division desires to call particular attention to
the contest cases in which there is no appeal from the decision of the
local land officers.
The u amber of sach cases awaiting action in this division on July 1,
1889, was 4,961, and the number received daring the year ending June
30, 1800, is 6,599, making a total of 11,560 ; 7,374 of them have been
disposed of daring the year ending June 30, 1890 ; leaving a balance
of 4,186 on hand and not acted upon at the last-mentioned date.
Strenuous efforts- have been made to examine and close these cases
more rapidly, but it has been found simply impracticable to do so with
the number of clerks available for that purpose.
It is believed, however, that a proper remedy for this disadvantage
may be found in the adoption of a different method of procedure from
that now in vogue ; and it is noted with satisfaction that the head of
the department has already proposed for the consideration of the Com-
missioner an amendment to rule 48 of the rules of Practice, which
will, if carried out, greatly relieve the situation.
Experience has shown that, of the whole number of unappealed con-
test cases transmitted to this office, less than 5 per cent, are made the
subjects of after inquiry by the losing parties, while complaints of persons
who have successfully prosecuted cases before the local offices are be-
ing constantly received, because of the delay in passing upon their
cases here.
In view of these facts, it is hoped that the proposed amendment of
rule 48, or something similar, will be consummated at the earliest
practicable moment.
If this be done, not only will the number of unappealed cases to be
examined here be greatly diminished, but the time now taken up in
answering letters of inquiry could be utilized in the prosecution of
more profitable work.
Comment on this subject might be greatly extended, but, as. the
needed measure of relief seems near at hand, it is not considered nec-
essary.
Annual report of work for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1690.
Nnmber of clerks - 35
GONTBST CA8B8.
Appeals and other oases in volying decisions as to facts (dooket
oases) on hand July 1, 1889 3,224
Received during the year 1,032
4,856
Closed during the year 1,057
Referred to other diyisions 39
1,096 3,160
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Cases in which there is no appeal on hand at last report 4, 961
Receiyed during the year 6,589
11.560
Examined and closed 7..218
Referred to other diyisions 156
7,374 4,186
Total number contests i>ending 7,346
Other cases examined and decided 3,285
Docket oases examined and decided 1,375
Entries canceled 5,578
Inyolved in pending contests :
Entries 7,346
Acres 1,175,360
LBTTER6.
(Including letters of transmittal.)
On hand at last report 12,018
Received during the year 18,548
30,566
Answered 15,127
Filed 6,196
Referred 1,013
22,336
Balance on hand 8,230
Letters written during the year 16,267
No. of certified copies furnished 66
Cost of same t.t264.93
APPEALS.
(From decisions of R. &, R. not inyolving the facts of oases.)
On hand, July 1, 1889 46
Receiyed during the year 563
609
Examined and decided .'. : 572
Referred to other diyisions 16
>^ 588
Balance on hand 21
(From decisions of Commissioner.)
Onhand July 1, 1889 100
Received during the year 756
856
Transmitted to Hon. Secretary 631
Referred to other diyisions 2
633
Balance on hand 2*23
HOTIOKS FOB BBVDBW, BBBBARINO, AND CBRTIORABI.
Onhand July 1, 1889 6
Received during the year 249
255
Acted on 240
Referred to other diyisions 10
250
Balance on hand 5
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▲PFLICATI0K8 TO C0NTB8T.
ODhftnd July 1, 1889 110
Received during the ye&r 605
715
Allowed and hearing ordered 404
Denied 201
Referred to other diyisiona 52
657
Balance on hand 58
Decisions of the Secretary promulgated daring the year 470
Pages of type- writing done dnrinff the year 22,848
Pages of letter-press copy-book filled during the year 28, 000
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K.—D1VISION OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL GRANTS.
This division has charge of the reservation for school purposes, and
the following grants in the public land States and Territories, inclading
contests: Swamp land and swamp land indemnity, school and school
indemnity, internal improvement, agricultnral college, semiuary and
aniversity, penitentiary, pnblic building, and saline.
The following is a summary of the more important work done by this
division :
Iietten pendiDff July 1, 1889 488
Letters received dnring the year 4, 055
Total 4,543
Lietters answered, filed, and referred 4, 107
Number not acted on 436
Otber letters written I,2fl0
List of swamp and school lands prepared for approval 73
Certified copies of lists prepared and transmitted to governors of the several
States and to local officers 110
Patents exeoated 42
Pages of patent record covered 105
Nomber of contested cases decided 55
Tracts upon which claims for swamp land indemnity have been adjusted upon
testimony submitted 660
Tracts examined with plats and field notes of sorvey to determine their char-
acter 4,645
Certified copies prepared for individuals 23
Entries and locations held for cancellation for conflict with claims under the
swamp grant <. 47
Claims under railroad grants held for rejection for conflict with claims under
the swamp grant • 8
Claims under swamp grant held for rejection 97
Hearings ordered to determine character of land claimed as swamp 68
Swampland indemnity certificates issued 4
Contests pendinff June 30, 1889 14
Contests received during the year 80
Contests disposed of during the year 55
Number not acted on 39
Selections by the several States and Territories ander the various
grants (other than the swamp grant) were approved during the year, as
sliown by the accompanying table, to the amount of 539,779.84 acres.
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JVUmfter of acres in State and Territorial aeleoHons under various grants approved during
the fiscal year.
State or Territory.
School
indemnity.
Internal
improYo*
ment.
University.
AjEriooltn-
ral
college.
Seminary.
PnbUo
BnUd-
Ings.
Total.
AlAbftmii
1,650.03
36,890.14
1,650.93
ArlxoDft -...
86,890.14
Calitomia
8,881.12
5,612.78
1,220.82
18,891.61
1,154.07
820.78
17, 189. 62
Colorado....
18.38L51
Florida
77.85
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77.85
Loniffiana . ......
63,621.49
1,015.96
63,621.41^
MillII4MMttt^
l,OI5L9ft
MiBBonri
5,348.86
5,848.86
Nevada
349.422.26
349,422.26
80.00
WaahinKton
80.00
46,091.84
Wyominx
46,09L34
Total
422,940.81
6.690.58
81.712.41
24,961.18
1,154.07
820.78
589,779.84
GRANTS IN AID OF EDUCATION AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
The foUowiDg work has been done in the adjustment of grants of
lands other than those of swamp lands to States and Territories daring
the past fiscal year:
Alabama. — In the final adjustment of the grant of 46,080 acres for
university purposes, selections aggregating 1,650.93 acres were ap-
proved, leaving a deficit in the quantity to which the State is entitled
under the grant of 131.54 acres, which has been satisfied to the extent
of 121.67 acres by a selection which is now pending.
Ariaona, — One list of selections under the university grant of Febru-
ary 18, 1881, embracing 36,890.14 acres was approved. The grant be-
ing of 46,080 acres, and al^ the valid selections having been approved,
there remains to be selected 9,159.86 acres thereunder.
California, — Five lists of school indemnity selections were prepared,
embracing 8,881.12 acres, and were approved at various dates by the
Secretary of the Interior.
The adjustment of the internal-improvement grant of 500,000 acres
to this State has been long delayed, owing to the mixed condition in
which it was found many years ago, and the inadequacy of the cleri-
cal force. Eecently, however, a determined effort was made to reach
a conclusion as to its exact condition, and during the year selections
of 5,612.73 acres were approved, and by letter to the governor of
California, dated April 12, 1890, that officer was advised that there had
been approved in satisfaction of said grant, exclusive of 632.69 acres
erroneously charged to said grant, which had been selected under ihe
grant of seventy-two sections for a seminary of learning under the pro-
visions of section 12 of the act of March 3, 1853 (10 Stat., 244), and
which was, by the letter referred tx), transferred to the latter grant,
498,265.60 acres, leaving a remaining deficit in the internaMmprove-
ment grant of 1,734.40 acres, which amount the State was authorized
to select. Applications to select the amount of the deficit have been
filed, but have not yet been accepted.
By the transfer to the seminary grant of the amount erroneously
charged to the internal-improvement grant above referred to, the
former grant was practically closed, the entire amount certified in sat-
isfaction thereof being 45,976.23 acres, leaving a deficit of 103.77 acres
only. Four clear lists under the seminary grant, aggregating 1,154.07
acres, were approved.
The grant to the State for an agricultural college has been closed out.
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except as to 280.18 acres, 223.31 acres of which are involved in con-
tests which have arisen on accoant of the claims of certain parties
ander the homestead and pre emption statutes. A decision has been
rendered by this office awarding the land to the iState subject to appeal,
the time for which has not yet expired. Two clear lists of selections
under this grant, embracing 1,220.82 acree, were approved.
One list, embracing 320.78 acres, was approved for public buildings.
The total amount which the State has received umler this grant
(6,i00 acres) is 5,099.08 acres, leaving a deficit of 1,300.92 acres.
Colorado. — Considerable work on the school grant was performed dur-
ing the year, but work has been suspended awaiting a decision by the
head of the department on the question of whether the selected tracts
are as contiguous as they should be to the ascertained losses or deficien-
cies used as the bases of selection under the terms of the granting act.
Two lists of selections under the agricultural college grant of 90,000
acres, embracing 18,391.51 acres, were approved. The selections ap-
proved under this grant aggregate 87,947.26 acres ; the selections pend-
ing aggregate 1,005.05 acres. The State is entitled to select not less than
1,047.69 acres.
Dakota. — A list of university selections made for the former Territory
of Dakota has been prepared. The selections are all in the new State
of South Dakota, and should it be finally decided that all these lauds
belong to this State under the fourteenth section of the act of March 2^
1889, by which seventy-two sections are granted for university purposes
to each of the two Dakotas, the approval of this list will nearly satisfy
the grant to said State. In that event North Dakota would be entitled
to select the full quantity for university purposes within the boundaries
of that State.
Florida. — During the year a list was prepared and approved of land
claimed under the internal-improvement grant. This list covers a tract
of 77.85 acres, the selection of which was foutid valid, but until latterly
the approval of it was not found feasible, because the State had received
by approval over the quantity of 500,000 acres granted. A conveyance
of selections shown by the later surveys to be outside of the State,
amounting to 2,401.26 acres, having been secured from the proper State
authorities, it became practicable to pass title to the State to the afore-
said tract of 77.85 acres. The State is still entitled to select 2,161.06
acres under this grant.
Idaho. — It was stated in the last annual report that a balance of
18,938.99 acres remained to be selected under the grant of 46,080 acres
for university imrposes, made by the act of February 18, 1881. Since
then further selections have been made under said grant, and a list em-
bracing sixty-three and a half sections out of the seventy-two sections
granted is in course of preparation for the approval of the President.
Loumana, — Four lists of school indemnity selections, aggregating
63,621.49 acres, were approved. The work of adjusting the entire grant
to the State of school indemnity is fast nearing completion.
Minnesota. — Une list of school indemnity selections, containing
1,015.95 acres, was approved. No further progress has been made in
the adjustment of the selections mentioned in last report as pending
and partly examined.
Missonri, — By approval of a list of 5,348.86 acres under the agricult-
ural-college grant of 330,000 acres, the quantity passed to the State
thereunder was made to amount to 329,972.51 acres, thus practically
closing the grant.
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Montana, — The deficit in approvals under the university grant is
S53.30 acres.
Nevada. — Three lists of selections under the grant of 2,000,000 acres
made by the act of June 16, 1880, for school purposes, in place of the sec-
tions numbered 16 and 36, theretofore granted totbe State for schools, ag-
gregating 349,422.25 acres, were approved. The total amount embrsiced
in certifications of lists approved under this grant is 709,066.09 acres.
Adding to this amount 9,228.36 acres, to which the State obtained title
as school indepfinity under the original grant to the State for schools,
and the total area of all the land obtained by it as school indemnity is
718,294.45 acres, leaving a balance due under the grant of 1,281,705.55
acres. This grant is in addition to a small quantity of land in sec-
tions numbered 16 and 36, sold or disposed of by the State prior to its
date, the title to which was confirmed to the State or its grantees by
the first section thereof.
At the beginning of the present fiscal year a list of 116,986.68 acres
of selections under this grant was before the Secretary for his ap-
proval, and lists of selections thereunder are now in course of prep-
aration, embracing lauds in the Garsou and Eureka districts, which
will probably aggregate 250,000 or 300,000 acres. This, taking the
lesser amount estimated with the list now before the Secretary, will
give to that State by approval during the present fiscal year, over
360,000 acres, »nd then the grant will be more than half satisfied.
Oregon, — A large quantity of land has been selected as school in-
demnity, but the selections have been held in abeyance awaiting a
conclusion on certain questions afiecting the validity thereof, which,
having recently been reached favorably to the State, it is contem-
plated to continue the work of making up clear lists for approval.
Washington. — During the year title to 80 acres was passed to the
State for university purposes under the original reservation there-
for made by the act of July 17, 1854, and the act of March 14, 1864,
supplementary thereto. The total amount granted to the new State
for university purposes is seventy-two sections. Title was passed to it
for 24,022.02 acres under the act of 1864, and therefore it was entitled
at the end of the fiscal year to obtain by approval the additional
ijuantity of 22,057.98 acres under this grant. During the year, how-
ever, three clear lists of selections under this grant, aggregating
20,819.19 acres, were prepared for approval, and since the end of the
year, to wit, on July 2, 1890, they received the approval of the honor-
able Secretary. The deficit is now 1,238.79 acres, which is about two-
thirds covered by pending selections.
Wyoming. — ^The grant of seventy two sections of land to this Terri-
tory for university purposes made by the act of February 18,1881, was
satisfied by approval by the President of a list of selections thereunder,
embracing seventy-two entire sections, aggregating 46,091.34 acres. '
Under the grants to States and Territories for schools, universities,
agricultural colleges, internal improvements, and penitentiaries, and the
grant of salines, there were pending at the beginning of the year selec-
tions covering 1,978,472.88 acres, exclusive of 320 acres selected by
California for public buildings, which have not been borne on the
reports. Adding to the above quantity the selections received during
the fiscal year, and deducting those canceled and approved during said
pel iod, and there remain pending at its close selections aggregating
1,518,755.90 acres, a decrease of 459,716.98 acres in one year.
It is hoped to make a similar showing next year, but the admission of
new States will have the effect to increase vastly the work of this branch
of the division.
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SECRETARrS DECISIONS RELATIVE TO THE ADJUSTMENT OF SWAMP
LAND CLAIMS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR.
POWBSHIKK COUNTY, IOWA.
Stcamp-land indemnity, — Id determiniag the character of laud claimed under the
swamp-land grant, the sworn testimony of competent witnesses should not be ignored
oD a superficial examination in the field made by a special agent.
The act of 1850, granted not only snch lands as might strictly come under the de-
scription ''swamp lands," but also such as were so '* wet" as to be rendered thereby
unfit for cultivation. (9 L. D., 124 ; July 19, 1889.)
STATE OF OREGON (ON REVIEW).
The application to review departmental decision of december 27, 1888 (7 L. D.,.
572), revoking, canceling, and setting aside approved swamp laud list No. 5, Lake,
view, Oregon, was denied by Secretary Noble, September 16,1889. (9 L. D., 360.)
I
NITA V, STATE OF WISCONSIN.
Field notes of survey, — In adjusting the swamp grant on field notes of survey where
the intersections of the lines of swamp lands with those of the public survey alone are
given, snch intersections may be connected by straight lines to determine the char-
acter of the legal subdivisions.
The decision of a commission, mutually agreed upon between the ffovernment and
the State, that a certain tract is swamp land, will not prevent the department irom.
reviewing such decision, or considering other evidence, in finally determining the true
character of said land.
The burden of proof is upon the State when the field notes of survey do not, prima
facie, show the land to be of the character granted.
To establish the claim of the State it must show that the greater part of the par>
ticnlar subdivision is subject to the grant. (9 L. D. 3d5 ; September 20, 1889.)
STATE OF ALABAMA.
FUAd notes, — The correctness of an official report as to what is shown by the field
notes of survey will be presumed, in the absence of competent evidence to the contrary..
In the aclJDstment of the swamp grant on field notes of survey made before the
date of said grant, the State is not entitled to lands returned as swamp and over-
flowed without all the descriptive words in the grant, or words clearly of like import.
(9 L. D., 458 ; October 5, 18o9.)
STATE OF ILLINOIS (CASS COUNTY).
Swamp-land indemnity. — An adverse finding and report by a special asent of the
government is not conclusive against the State, in the absence of final testimony
submitted by the State. (10 L. D., 22; January 14, 1890.)
DOX V. STATE OF WISCONSIN.
Field notes, — The fact that the returns do not show the land to be of the character
granted is not conclusive as against the State even though the field notes of survey
nave been adopted as the basis of adjustment.
The decision of a commission, appointed by the State and the General Land Office,,
as to the character of a tract of land, is subject to review, aitd does not preclude the
Department from resorting to other evidence in order to reach a satisfactory conclu-
sion.
An entry made in good faith, but found to embrace a tract of swamp land, may
stand intact as to the remainder, or be canceled with the right to repayment. (10>
L. D. :i9 ; January 15, 1890.)
ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN, AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY V. STATE OF ARKANSAS.
Ad of Mareh 3, 1857. — Swamp selections of vacant unappropriated lands, reported
to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, prior to the act of March 3, 1857,
were confirmed t6 the state by the provisions of said act. (10 L. D., 45; January 20,
ISUO.)
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STATB OF ILLINOIS (OHAMPAIGN COUNTY).
Indemnity under acts of March % lb&5, and March 3, 1857.~The claim of the State
ahoald not be rejected on the report of a special agent, but if the faotfi set forth
therein are euffloleDt to Justify a doubt as to the correctness of the proof submitted,
a further investigation should be ordered.
When the State has submitted proof, in accordance with the regulations then in
force, the General Laud Office should render judgment thereon, if the proof is raf-
ficient to clearly show the character of the land ; but if such proof is insufficient, or
other facts in the case suggest doubts as to the correctness thereof, then a further in-
vestigation may be directed.
In adjusting the claim of the State to indemnity, the character of all tracts npon
which proof is submitted should be determined, but separate lists should be made of
tracts sold for cash, and those located with land waxTants or scrip. (10 L. D., 121 ;
February 8, 1890.)
STATE OF ARKANSAS V. FORBES ET AL.
Confirmatory act of March 3, 1857. — Swamp selections made and reported to the
General Land Office prior to the act of March 3, 1857, were confirmed by said act irre-
spective of the character of the land, if it was at that date vacant and unappropri-
ated. (10 L. D., 163 ; February 17, 1890.)
fiTATE OF ARKANSAS V, ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY COM-
PANY.
Bailroad grant^Swamp land certification.— Where title to a tract of land has passed
to the State under the railroad grant, no action should be taken by the department
looking toward the issuance of patent to the State for the same land under the swamp
|(rant.
On a reconveyance by the State of lands erroneously certified thereto, the land
department has authority to make new title under the proper law. (10 L. D., 165 ;
February 14, 1890.)
CALLANAN ET AL. V, CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY COMPANY.
Swamp grant^Indian lands, — The grant of swamp lands to the State of Ipwa is a
ffrant inpreBentif and the fee of all swamp and overflowed land within her borders at
the date of the act passed to the State subject to the right of Indian occopancy, and
such right being extinguished, the right of possession attached to the fee eo inetanUy
and without further grant. (10 L. D., 285 ; March 4, 1890.)
BOYD V, STATE OF OREGON.
Charader of land, — The grant of swamp lands to the State included such landa as
were from their wet and swampy condition not susceptible to cultivation without
artificial drainage. (10 L. D., 315 ; March 14, 1890.)
MOYLAN v. STATE OF OREGON.
Periodxoal overflow, — Periodical overflow that subsides in time for cultivation does
not render the land subject to the swamp grant. (10 L. D., 321 ; March 15, 18J0.)
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
Act of March ^^ 1857. — fiepaymait.— If patent has issued to individual grantees for
lands that are in fact subject to 'the swamp grant, the remedy of the State is in the
courts.
Swamp lands included within the alternate sections reserved to the United States
from the grant to the State for railroad purposes did not pass under the subsequent
act of September 2^, 1«50.
Lands thus excepted from the swamp grant were not confirmed by the act of
March 3, 1857.
If the State sells a tract of land claimed by it under the swamp grant, and it sab-
sequently appears that said land was not included within said grant, the bolder of
such title has no claim against the United States for repayment: (10 L. D.. 393;
April 2, 189U.)
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STATE OF OHIO. (ON BBVIEW.)
Indemnity act of March 3, 1857. — The swamp lands inolnded within the alternate
(sections reserved to the United States from the grant to the State for oanal purposes
did not pass under the subsequent grant of swamp lands, and no indemnity can be
allowed therefor.
Lands thus excepted from the swamp grant are not within the confirmatory pro-
visions of the act of March 3, 1857, as said act does not enlarge the original- grant,
but as to said grant only confirms selections of land granted thereunder. (10 L. D.,
394; April 2, 1890.)
STATE OF ILLINOIS.
Act of March 3, 1857.— Following the decisions rendered in the two preceding cases,
the claim of the State of Illinois to certain lands under the swamp grant is rejected.
(10 L. D., 398 ; April 2, 1890.)
STATE OF ILLINOIS. (DOUGLAS COUNTY.)
Cash {ndomniijr*— Section 2482 of the Revised Statutes does not provide for cash
indemuitv where swamp lands have been located by warrant or scrip. (10 L. D.,
446; April 12,1890.)
SECRETARY'S DECISIONS RELATIVE TO EDUCATIONAL AND INTERNAL
IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.
• I.— SURVEYS.
(1) Fixing tittc^The sniyey in the field attaches the title of the State to granted
sections, the vesting of title not being postponed until filing of the plat. (Odillon
Marceau, 9 L. D., 554.)
(2) Mineral land, — ^The discovery of mineral in a school section after attachment
of the State's title by snrvey does not divert that title. (Abraham L. Miner, 9 L.D. ,
408.;
(3) When indemnity maw he BeUeted, — If the exterior lines of a township are sur-
veyed so as to ascertain the fact and amount of loss of school land, indemnity may
be selected although the township is not subdivided. (State of Oregon, 10 L. D.,
498.)
(4) Seleetian before surveg. — ^A selection made before survey of the basis is voida-
ble, but not void, and becomes valid, in the absence of au intervening claim, when
a snrvey is made showing loss of school land. (Harvey vs. California, 10 L. D.,
217. J
(5) So an internal improvement selection of unsurveyed land is validated by re-
newal of the application to select after snrvey. (Id.)
U.— USB OF RESBRVED LAND.
(6) JPV^r cemetery pwrpoeee. — ^The department can not authorize the use for cemetery
purposes of land reserved for schools. (Sidney Clark, 9 L. D., 333.)
UI.— PRIVATE CLAIMS.
(7) Passage under school ^raitte.— Land in a private claim suh judice at date of the
school grant becomes subject thereto upon final rejection of the claim. (Isham M.
Barnard, 9 L. D., 553.)
(8) Indemnity for.— 'The State of Louisiana is entitled to indemnity for school sec-
tions included in confirmed private claims. (State of Louisiana, 9 L. D., 157.)
iy.-*SELECnON,
(9) IniUati^s right.— The State has no right to any specific tract as indemnity prior
to its selection thereof. (California v. Sevoy, 9 L. D., 139.)
(10) Limitation of time.— The provision in the act of March 3, 1875, requiring the
State of Colorado to make her selections of salt springs within two years after ad-
mission to the Union, is directory only and not mandatory ; and the grant is not
forfeited by failure on the part of the State to select within the time limited. (State
of Colorado, 10 L. D., 2SS.)
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(11) Efect of. — A peDrting unapproved selection does not bar the State from claim-
ing the basis tract in place. (Isham M. Barnard. 9 L. D., 553.)
(12) Is a bar to entry. (Alice C. Whetstone, 10 L. D., '^GS.)
(1.3) Though invalid, reserves the land from an executive withdrawal for the bene-
lit of a railroad company. (Railroad v. Clime, 10 L. D., 31.)
(14) Second aeUetion.—A second selection upon one basis is invalid; but in the ab-
sence of an adverse claim to the later selection it uiay be cured by relinquishment of
the former. (L. B. Rinehart, 10 L. D., 303.)
(15) Adjustment of tndemntty.— Selections must be balanced against specific loflses,
so that each township shall receive indemnity to the area of its proper deficit.
(State of Oregon, 10 L. D., 498.)
(16) Territorial ttwit'erMfy.— Territorial university selections under the act of Feb-
ruary 18, 1881, until approval, are subject to the control of the Department, and may
be set aside to avoid hardship upon innocent settlers. (George Hoge, 9 L. D., 232.)
v.— DOUBLE MINIMUM LANDS.
(17) Uitivei-fdty selecHona. — On January- 4, 1890, this office submitted for approval a
list of nnivernity selections made by the Territory of Arizona under the act of Feb-
ruary 18, lb81, and askin|( attention to the fact that some of said selections were of
lands held at double minimum price, recommended approval thereof notwithstanding
that fact. The list was approved by the Secretary of the Interior on Janaary 8,
1890, and by the President on January 11, 1890. This action is understood to overrule
the holding of this office that double minimum land can not be taken in satisfaction
of the Territorial universitv grant, announced in a letter to the register and receiver
at Lewiston, Idaho, November 17, 1888. (See last annual report, p. 172.)
VI. — ^APPROVAL.
(18) Passes title, — Approval of State selections, where issue of patents is not pro-
vided for, passes title from the United States, and the Department can not cancel
approved selections or dispose of the land. (Hendy vs. Compton, 9 L. D., 106 ; Cali-
fornia V. Boddy, 9 L. D., 636).
VII.— RIGHTS OP 8KTTLKRS.
(19) Under act of February 22. 1889.— The act of February 22, 1889, provhtine for
the admission of the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montaniii, and WahOing-
ton, deprives settlers upon school sections in said States before survey thereof of the
benefits of section, 2275 Revised Statutes, and the land in such cases is subject to the-
school grant irrespective of settlements made before survey. (Secretary Noble to the
Commissioner of the General Laud Office, February 20, 1890, not reported.)
(20) Selected land. — ^The fact that land selected by the State had been occupied be-
fore or at the date of survey or of selection can not be urged to defeat the selection
except by the original settler. (Alice C. Whetstone, 10 L. D., 263.)
(21) Settltment before survey. —-The light of the State to school sections is vested
upon survey in the field ; and one who settled between the time of actual survey and
the filing of the plat can not claim against the State. (Odillon Marceau, 9 L. D..
554.)
(22) Ejten t of exception from granU-^K setllement before survey upon part of a school
section does not except the entire section from the grant or reservation, but only the
portion occupied. (Gonzales vs. Town-site of Flagstaff, 10 L. D., 348.)
(23) .^franaonm^n^^If a settler before survey upon a school section abandon his
holding, a settler subsequent to the survey or other third party can not set up the
fact of prior settlement to defeat the grant or reservation. (Abraham L. Miner, 9 L.
D., 408; Gonzales vs. Town-site of Flagstaff, 10 L. D., 348; Michael Dermody, 10 L.
D., 419.)
VIII.— ACT OF MARCH 1, 1877.
(24) Scope o/.— This act confirms an approved selection which would otherwise be
invalid, because made in lieu of school land not included in the final survey of a Mex-
ican grant. (State of California, 9 L. D., 208.)
(25) It protects purchases made after as well as before the date of the act. (Hen-
dy V. Compton, 9 L. D., 106.)
(26) Innocent purclkoser. — A mere applicant to purchase is not an innocent purchaser
for valuable consideration withiu the meaning of the act. (Id.)
(27) Constructive notice.— Official notice to the State of the invalidity and cancella-
tion of a selection is sufficient to preclude a purchaser from the State from claiming
the character of an innocent purchaser. {Id.)
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IX.~€ONTBST8 AOAIK8T SELEOTIONS.
(88) Speccificatian of errors. — The presumption is in favor of the validity of selec-
tions. Persons attacking them mnst specify the element of invalidity relied upon,
and support their allegations by reference to matters of record or by properly pre-
sented evidence. The General Land Office is not bound to pass upon general allegations
of invalidity. (Alexander Allen , not reported).
COMMISSIONER'S RULINGS RELATIVE TO EDUCATIONAL AND INTERNAL
IMPROVEMENT GRANTS.
The following are new rulings made by this office daring the past
year npon questions arising in the adjustment of State and Territorial
grants.
I.— LAKD SUBJECT TO THE SCHOOL GRANT.
(1) SeUotion hosed upon erroneous survey. — ^Where indemnity bad been selected for
a eobool section represeinted to be under water, and a resnrvey showed the presence
of land in that section, the selection of indemnity barred the State from claiming the
newly-disoovered land under the school grant, and such land is subject to entry under
the laws of the United States. And though the resnrvey so increased the area of the
township as to entitle the State to additional school land, the right to additional
land does not attach to the newly-discovered land in the school sections, but is a
float, to be satisfied by selection. (To register and receiver, Lakeview, Oregon, Oc-
tober 29, 1889.)
(2) Unsurveyed land, — The right of the State or Territory utSder the school grant
does not attach before survey; and hence unsurveyed land, though supposed to be
part of a school section, can not be leased so as to Justify the lessee in inclosing it or
otherwise maintaining exclusive occupation against settlers. (To Almeda Hilton,
August 9, 1889.)
(3) Islands, — An island in the Wabash River, lying between land granted to the
State on one bank and land granted to Indian reservees on the other, has passed from
the United States under one grant or the other, and the present ownership of such an
island is a question of private riparian right which this office has no authority to de-
termine. (To the auditor of Indiana, August 8, 1889.;
(4) An island in the Missouri River within the exterior boundaries of a school
section passes to the State under the school grant. (To R. B. Oaples, January ir>,
1890.)
II.— RBSERVATIOKS.
(5) Indemnity for school lands in Indian reservation, — The State of Oregon i8|entitled
to select indemnity for school sections in permanent Indian reservations. (To register
and receiver, Oregon City, Oregon, September 24, 1889.)
(6) Military reservations. — While in general, sections 16 and ^6 in abandoned mili-
tary reservations are subject to the school grant, as held in the case of George Tim-
mermanu (7 L. D.,548), yet where buildings situated on such sections have been sold
prior to dissolntion of the reservation, the purchasers of such buildings are entitled
to claim the subdivisions npon which they stand upon paying the appraised value
as prescribed by the act of July 5, 1884, the preference right allowed to such pur-
chasers by said act being superior to the claim of the State. (To register and re-
ceiver, Cheyenne, Wyo., June 5, 1890.)
III.— MINERAL LAND.
(7) Indomniiy for,^Vnder the act of February 22, 1889, the States of North Dakota.
South Dakota, Montana, and Washington are entitled to claim indemnity for mineral
land in school sections ; and certain selections In lieu of such laud made by the Ter-
ritory of Washington, and held for cancellation as unauthorized under the law then
existing, are held to be validated by the act of Febrnary 22, 1889. (To register and
receiver, Seattle, Wash., March 29, 1890.)
IV.— SELECTION OF DOUBLE MINIMUM.
(8) For double minimum lost, — Double minimum indemnity may be selected for lost
land held at double minimum price ; and this whether the basis was enhanced in
Erice before or after survey, overruling the holding in the case of B. W. Coiner (15 C.
I. O., 274). (To register and receiver, Seattle, Wash., March 29, 1890.)
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242 REPORT OF COMMrSSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
v.— REQUISITES OF VALID SELECTIONS.
(9) ContiguUy. — Under the school grant to Colorado, which requires the ffranted
lands to be sold for not less than |2. 50 per acre, the collateral requirement that in*
demnity shall be found *' as contiguous as may be " to the place of loss, is not to be
construed as restricting selections to the lands absolutely nearest, but to the nearest
lands salable at $2.50 per acre (To register and receiver, Pueblo, Colo., August 16,
1889. )
(10) Excessive aelecHons.—A selection in excess of the basis assigned made prior to
the circular of July 23, 1885 (4 L. D., 79), can not be objected to on account of the
excess, if the aj2:gregate of selections in the list or the series of lists does not exceed
the aggregate of bases. (To register and receiver, Seattle, Wash., July 3, 18o9»)
(irj Even under the circular of July 23, 1885, an inconsiderable excess does not
ip validate the selection. (To register and receiver, Seattle, Wash., July 3, 1839.)
(12) The selection of indemnity in excess of the actual deficit in any township can
not operate to defeat the title of the State to school land in yilace. (To register and
receiver, Seattle, Wash., August 19, 1889.)
VI.-— RELINQUISHMENT OF SELECTIONS.
(13) Not allowed, — Relinquishment of lands selected will not be allowed merely be-
cause other lands more desirable have since become subject to selection. (To F. O.
Sawin, July 31, 1889.)
VII. — TRESPASS ON SCHOOL LAND.
(14) Taking of 8/oiie»— The taking of stone from a school section in Oklahoma is
trespass and will render the offender liable to criminal prosecution and also to suit
for the value of material taken. (To T. C. Rico, August 8, 1889.)
VIII.— RIGHTS UNDER SELECTIONS.
(15) Entries upon selected land.— The local officers have no power to admit cntnes
upon selected land, though they may consider the selection invalid. Applications to
enter must be denied, and objections to the«ralidity of the selection maybe urged
upon appeal to this office. (To register and receiver, Seattle, Wash., February 6,
1890.)
(16) Expired filings.— 'Where laud is selected upon which filings have been made
#nd have expired, the makers of such filings should be called upon to show cause
why the land should not be conveyed to the State. (To register and receiver, Lake-
view, Oregon, October 21, 18S9.)
(17) Adjoining farm and additional entries.— One claiming the right to make an
adjoining farm or additional entry can not claim the benefit of the third section of
the act of May 14, 1880, so as to defeat a State selection made prior to his application
to enter. (To register and receiver, Montgomery, Ala., June 30, 1890.)
IX.— PURCHASE UNDER ACT OF JUNE 15, 18=0.
(18) One whose entry upon a school section has been canceled for illegality can not
defeat the grant or reservation in favor of schools by an eiitry and purchase under
the act of June 15, 1880. (To register and receiver, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 9,
1890. )
X.— TRANSFER UNDER SECTION 2288, REVISED STATUTES.
(19) A transfer made by an entrynian before final proof to a school or college for
the purpose of sale would vitiate his claim and not inure to the benefit of the grantee.
''The section is understood to authorize the dedication of such portion of the land as
is necessary for the site of a church or a school -house, or for actual burial of the dead;
and transfer for the purpose of endowing a corporation would doubtless be considered
evideiieo of bad faith." (To James Murray, February 11, 1890).
XI.-COXTESTS AGAINiJT SELECTIONS.
(20) Serrice^of notice. — When contests are instituted against State selections, notice
must be served upon the proper representatives of the State. (To register and re-
ceiver, Seattle, Wash., August 14, 1889.)
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XII— PONCA INDIAN RESERVATJON.
ORRAT SIOUX RK8ERVATI0N— SCHOOL LANDS.
Thesixteentb and thirty-sixth sections in tiie country in Dakota opened to entry
by the act of March 2, 18d9, are granted for schools, and the title to saoh sections
within the existing reservations for tiie Sioux Indians will inare to the States for
schools if, upon cession of the unallotted lands and extingnishmeut of the* Indian
title, they shall be found excepted from allotment.
In the Ponca Reserve, which formed a part of the Great Sioux Reservation, and is
included in the country to be taken from Dakota and annexed to Nebraska, there is
no grant of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in place to the State of Nebraska,
but upon extinguishment of the Indian title the State will become entitled to school
indemnity, and it may then select it in the usnal manner. (To Mr. John Steen, com-
missioner of public lands and buildings. State of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr., May 21,
1890.)
I have considered your communication of the *^th of last February, with reference
to theisixteenth aud thirty-sixth sections in that portion of the Ponca Indian Reserva-
tion contemplated to be added to the State of Nebraska by the act of March 2S, lSri2
(22 Stat«., 35), and the act of March 2, l**89 (25 Stat., 888), and also with reference to
the question whether the State, when the annexation of said tra^t shall have been
finally consummated, will be entitled to indemnity for schools in the event that a de-
cision be reached that said numbered sections therein have been otherwise disposed
of by Congress.
Responding to that portion of your inquiry respecting the progress of the surveys
in said tract, I would state that the eastern portion has been surveyed and the west-
ern portion is under contract for survey, and in the eastern part a few allotment snr-
veys have been made for the Indians. The matter of the snrveyH need not be dwflt
upon in connection with4he condition of the tract with reference to the school grant
to the State of Nebraska.
The act of 1«82 provides that " when the Indinn title to the lands thus described
shall be extinguished the jurisdiction over said lands shall be, and hereby is, crded
to the State of Nebraska, and subject to all the conditions and limitations provided
in the act of Congress admitting Nebraska into the Union, and the northern bound-
ary of the State shall be extended to said forty-third parallel as fully aud effectually
as if said lands had been included in thJbonndaries of said State at the time of its
•Amission to the Union ; " and it is also therein ]»rovided th.it the act, " so far as juris-
diction is concerned, shall not take effect until the President shall, by proclamation,
declare that the Indian title to said lands has been extinguished." This propositiou
was assented to and accepted, in conformity with the act by which it was made, by
the legislature (»f the State of Nebraska, on May 2*3. »1882 (Laws of Nebraska, 1882,
extra session, 56).
The act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat., 88^), among other things provides for the estab-
lishment of defined Indian reservations to be carved out of the Great Reservation of
the Sioux Nation in the Territory of Dakota, within which allotments of lands are to
be ntade to the Indians in severalty, after which the vacant lands are to be held by
the United States (see section 12) for the sole purpose of securing homes to actual set-
tlers **on such terms as Congress shall prescribe, subject to orrants which Congress
may make in aid of education," and all the lands in the Great Sioux Reservation
outside of the separate reservations carved out as aforesaid, are by this act declared
restored to the public domain, with certain exceptions, and made subject to home-
stead appropriation (section 21), except sections IH and 36 (see section 24), which
are reservetl, for schools, whether surveyed or unsnrveyed.
It will be observed that no special reservation of the sixteenfli and thirty-sixth
sections for schools in the existing separate reservations tor the Sionx Indians is made
by this act, the matter of the disposition of the remaining lands upon extinguishment
of the Indian title having been reserved for separate legislation. Undoubtedly Con-
gress intended, in framing the bill, that all the lands in these reservations should
first be made subject-to allotment to the Indians, and then upon a cession of the re-
maining lands, as in the act provided, it would be for (Jongress to say what disposal
should be made of the vacant lands, including the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections,
in the absence of any previous legislation looking thereto ; but Congress had, prior
to the approval of the act of March 2, 1889, expressed the will of that body as to these
sections in the tenth section of the act of Febrnary 22, 1889 (25 Stat., 676), admitting
four States into the Union, including North Dakota and South Dakota, as follows:
"That the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections embraced in permanent reservations
for national purposes shall not, at any time, be subject to the grants nor to the in-
demnity provisions of this act, nor shall any lands embraced in Indian, military, or
other reservations of any character be subject to the grant-s or to the indemnity pro-
visions of this act until the reservation shall have been extingnished and such lands
be restored to and become a part of the public domain.''
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244 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
The sixteenth and thirty-sixth sectious, therefore, in the country in Dakota opened
to entry by the act of March 2, 1889, are granted for schools, and the title to such
sections within the existing reservations for the Sioux Indians will innre to the States
for schools, if upon cession of the unallotted lands and extinguishment of the Indian
title they shall be found excepted from allotment.
The country to be annexed to Nebraska includes the Ponca Indian Reservation
within larger exterior boundaries, and has been a part of the Great Sioux Indian Res-
ervation..
I have elaborated somewhat the question of the status of the school sections in the
Great Sioux Indian Reservation in Dakota, in order to show that the express reserva-
tion of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections for schools by the tweuty-ionrth section
of the act of March 2, 1''89, relates exclusively to the land:} thereby opened to settle-
ment and entry. The language is, " that sections 16 and 36 of each township of the
lands open to settlement under the provisions of this act, whether surveyed or unsor-
veyed, are hereby reserved for tbe use and benefit of the public -schools," etc. The
act refers to the lands open te settlement, and not those to be opened in the future
under section V2 thereof, nor the Ponca Reservation which forms in part the subject
of the legislation Ci>utaiued in section 13 thereof, and consequently it has no applica-
tion to tbe latter, the disposal of which is provided for in the section last above men-
tioned as follows :
** Each member of the Ponca tribe of Indians now occupying ap^irt of the old Ponca
Reservation, within the limits of the said Great Sioux Reservation, shall be entitled to
allotments upon said old Ponca Reservation as follows : To each head of a family, 320
acres; to each single person over eighteen years of age, one-fourth of a section ; to
^ch orphan child under eighteen years of age, one- fourth of a section ; and to each
other person under eighteen years of age now living, one-eighth of a section, with
title thereto and rights under the same, in all other respects conforming to this act.
And said Poncas shall be entitled to all other benefits under this act in the same man-
ner and with the same conditions as if they were a part of the Sioux Nation receiving
rations at one of the agencies herein named. When allotments to the Ponca tribe of
Indians and to such other Indians as allotments are provided for by this act shall have
been made upon that portion of said reservation which is described in the act entitled
* An act to extend the northern boundary' of the State of Nebraska,' approved March
28, lUd2, the President shall, in pursuance of said act, declare that the Indian title is
extinguished to all lands described in said act not so allotted hereunder: and there-
upon all of said land not so allotted and included in said act of March 28, 18^, shall
be open to settlement as provided in this act : Provided, That the allotments to Pone*
and other Indians authori2ed by this act to be made upon the land described in the
said act entitled ' An act to extend the northern boundary of the State of Nebraska,
Iball be made within six months from the time this act shall take efiect.''
This legislation is in harmony with that regarding the subsisting Indian reserva-
tions in Dakota, in not interposing a bar to the allotment of the sixteenth and thirty-
sixth sections to the Indians. The reservation is small, and it may take nearly all
the good land therein to satisfy the claims of the Indians, and this consideration
may have intiuenced Congress in adopting this legislation. It is clear, too, that upon
the extiu^uisbmentof the Indian title, '^ all of said land not so allotted • • • and
included in said act of March 28, 1882, shall be open to settlement as provided in this
act." There is no exception to this ])rovision ; it embraces all the land not allotted,
including the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, if any shall remain. There is,
therefore, no grant of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in the Ponca Indian
reservation in place to the State of Nebraska for schools.
The next question to be considered is whether, upon tbe annexation of this tract of
country to Nebraska, and the extension of the jurisdiction of the State oyer it aa by
law provided, the State will be entitled to other lauds for schools inlieii of the six-
teenth and thirty-sixth sections within it. The answer to this question is found in
the language of the act of 1882, above quoted. The cession of the country to
Nebrai^ka is made '* subject t-o all the conditions and limitations provided in the act
admitting Nebraska into the Union." And the northern boundary of the State is ex-
tended so as to include it '* as fully and effectually as if said lands had been included
in the boundaries of said Stat£ at the time of its admission to the Union." This tract
is therefore to be treated as if it had been a part of Nebraska ever since admission of
the State to the Union so far as the conditions and limitations of the act enabling the
State to be so admitted are concerned. (See act of April 19, 1864, 13 Stat., 47.) One
of the conditions accepted by the State, as it was offered by the United States, was
(see seventh section of this act) that sections 16 and 36 in every township, *'and
when such sections have been sold or otherwise disposed of by any act of Congress,
other lands equivalent thereto, • • • shall be, and are hereby, granted to said
State for the support of common schools." It matters not that the grantee only
now conies into existence; the tract is made a part of Nebraska as effectually as if it
originally formed a part of tbe State, and hence participates in the donations of
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lands for varions jiurposes made by the act of admission. Congress has provided
that all the lands in the Ponca reservation are to be disposed of otherwise than for
schools, and the townships, in order to be placed on a footing witli the other town-
ships in the State as the acts of 1882 and 1889 contemplate, will, upon proclamation
by the President of the extingaishment of the Ijidian title, be entitled to school in-
demnity, and the State may then select it in the prescribed manner.
SWAMP LANDS. . •
Statement exhilnting the qtutntity of land selected far the several States under acts of Con-
gress approved March 2, 1849, and September 28, 1850 {section 2479, Rtvised Statutes)^
and March 12, 1860 (section 2490, Revised Statutes), up to and ending June 30, 1890.
Third
quarter.
1889.
1890.
Tear ending
June 30, 1800.
Acres.
Total since
date of grant.
Statee.
Fourth
quarter.
First
quarter.
Second
quarter.
Acres.
AUbf^mft ....r....
Acres,
Acres.
Acres.
Acres.
531, 355. 60
Arlrsneiia .
8. 665, 210. 10
Gallforoia
1, 883, 665. 00
noridA
850.89
ii9.62
070.51
22.222,430 60
inipoW , .
3. 081, 784. 10
Indiana
;:;;:;::::::::::::::
1, 377, 727. 70
Iowa
4, 667, 050. 38
LonlaUina fact of 1849)
182.28
182.28
11,214,006.32
554, 460. 61
7,203,150.28
4,394.663.12
3, 602, 863. 30
Loutolana (act of 1850)
Jfiohiffan
Minnenota
9,848.35
5,410.18
15,253.63
HiMlMippI
MiKSouri..
4,843,6^.34
116, 766. 28
Ohio
2,380.96
479.26
2.810.21
410, 671. 86
Wisconsin
4, 567, 123. 87
Total
2,830.96
1,880.14
9,843.35
5,712.68
18, 216. 53
80,218,410.21
Statement exhibiting the quantity of land approved to the several States under acts of Cm*
gress approved March 2, 1849, and September 28, 1850 (Mc^n 2479, Revised Statutes), and
March 12, 1860 (section 2490, Revised Statutes), up to and ending June 30, 1890.
1880.
1800.
Year endinir
June30, 1800.
States.
Third
qnarter.
Fourth
quarter.
First
quarter.
Seoond
qnarter.
Acres.
date of crant.
Alabama :
Acres.
Acres.
Acres.
Acres.
Acres.
414,310.31
7, 671. 101. 21
Arkansas
160.00
2,810.80
83,040.15
160.00
8,073.02
50,000.66
40.00
California
Florida
i 760. 00
20,820.40
2,022.72
1,480.00
^2S(b.02
1,758,602.80
16,877,810.64
1.493,718.25
1,26M07.87
983,562.00
8,708.688.48
257,604.08
6,728,922.91
3,051,692.46
8,325,437.77
4,496,816.49
26. 660. 71
nUnolB
40.00
Indiana
Iowa
160.00
280.00
440.00
£onialana (act of 1849)
Louisiana (act of 1860)
Miohiww . .T. . . ..!!!. .i:.;;
Hinnesota
MIm^W Ippf .....
406.54
406w64
MiasoSi..... ::.:.....;.:.. .
Ohio
Oregon
0,058.64
25,007.78
17,005.52
806.33
4,011.15
40,865.85
17.005.52
248,993.85
3,348,132.99
Wisoonsin
^
Totol
46,078.00.
66^402.74
3,627.68
10,002.07
126^990.49
59.100,462.67
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Skitement exhibiting the quantity of land patented to the several States under the acts of
Congress approved September 28, IH50 {section 2479, Revised Statutes)y and March 12,
1860 (section 2490, Revised Statutes) ^ and also the quantity certified to the State of Lou-
isiana under act of March 2, 1849, up to and ending June 30, 1890.
1880.
1800.
Year ending
June 30, 1800.
Total since
date of grant.
3l»te8.
Thinl
quarter.
Fourth
quarter.
First 1 Second
quarter, quarter.
Acres. ' Acres.
AlftbAmft , rxr.r,
Aeres,
9M.42
2,156.38
Aertt.
Acres.
090.42
3,483.02
4, 062. 00
Acres.
0411,180.26
ArkftDsas
1, 326. 64
8,042.00
38, 810. 17
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120.00
14,150.60 1
7 617, 709. 36
California
1. 460. 4110. 2S
Florida
en.oi
53, 505. 76 616- 1 U- 72fi. 71
IlliDois
' 40. 00
40.00
cl, 455, 641. 46
Ind iana
dl. 257, 863. 05
Iowa
411.18
80.00
86.'o6 1 ii3.65
685.13
el, 183, 020. 33
Louisiana (act of 1849)
8, 708, 588. 53
Louisiana (act of 1850)
2,048.17
2,048.17
/228, 120. 40
1^5,667,304.64
2,800,502.81
3, 260, 153. 20
Miohif^an
Minnesota
40.66
45.56
406.54
85.56
406.54
3,082.28
Mississippi
Missoiirl..
3.222.28
80.00
680.00
A3, 416, 53L 27
Ohio
25, 640. 71
Oregon
215.84
32,083.68 2,035.70
2,077.87
36,085.22
2, 077. 87
140,082.80
i 3, 332, 900. 51
Wisconsin
Total
7,622.11
44.2fa71
61,237.60 , 6,203.38
100,351.80
67,200,824.40
a 1,008.64 acres of this is contained in indemnity imtents under act of March 2, 1856.
b 56,864.85 acres of this is contained in indemnity patents under act of March 2, 1855.
0 2,800.07 acres of this is contained in indemnity patents under act of March 2, 1855.
d 4.880.20 acres of this is c(intained in indemnity patents under act of March 2, 1856.
e 821,505 23 acres of this is contained in indemnity patents nnder act of March 2, 1855.
/ 2,048.17 acres of this is contained in indemnity patents under act of March 2, 1856.
a 18,083.03 acres of this is contained in indemnity patents under act of March 2, 1856.
A 74,517.05 acres of this is contained in indemni^ patents under act of March 2, 1865.
i 105,047.00 acres of this is contained in indemnity patents under act of March 2, 1855.
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L.— DRAUGHTING DIVISION.
In this division is performed all the draughting required by the Gen-
eral Land Office, and the platting of snrveys and calculation of areas
of public lands when required. It has the custody of all official field-
notes of surveys of the public domain, and plats and maps (including
photo-lithographic copies) relating thereto. Maps of the United States
and of States and Territories are compiled in this division from official
surveys. Maps, diagrams, copies of plats, and tracings are prepared
and constructed for individuals and for departmental and other official
purposes.
In reference to the work done during the fiscal year ending June 30,
1890, the following is reported, viz:
The map of the United States was revised and corrected, sad an edi-
tion of 14,000 copies is now being printed.
Maps of Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Sioux
Indian Eeservation, and Territ>ory of Oklahoma, were compiled, and
tracings for publication made of Mississippi, North Dakota, South Da-
kota, Nebraska, Sioux Indian Reservation, and State of Washington.
The Mississippi and Nebraska maps are now in the publishers' hands.
The maps of California, Missouri, Indian Territory, and Kansas are
in process of compilation.
Tracings for maps of California and Territory of Oklahoma are being
made.
Two hundred and ninety-seven, railroad maps have been examined
and reported upon.
Six hundred and seventy- three railroad maps have been prepared with
land-district designations.
One hundred and ninety-one certified copies of maps, plats, and
diagrams have been constructed and fees collected to the amount of
$669.35.
For office use there were four hundred and eighty-two maps and
tracings made or prepared.
Forty- one copies of plats on drawing paper have been constructed for
local land offices.
Seven thousand eight hundred photo-lithographic copies of plats
have been sent to applicants, and fees received to the amount of
$2,300.16.
Three thousand five hundred and ninety-six photolithographic cop-
ies of plats have been verified, certified, an(t sent to surveyor-generals^
registers, and receivers, and State officers.
One hundred and ninety-seven volumes of field-notes harve been pre-
pared for binding and properly indexed, of which number sixty-eight
volumes have been bound and placed in the files.
Seventy-nine volumes of plats of surveys have been arranged, in-
dexed, and bound.
Plats of new surveys to the number of five hundred and ninety-nine
have been examined, entered upon the working diagrams, and filed for
reference.
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Six handred and forty -niue letters were received, and four hundred
and fifty- seven letters were written.
Under a contract for photo-lithographing worn, defaced, and needed
plats, five hundred and sixty-five tracings were examined and sent to
the contractor. Of these, there have been returned four hundred and
sixty-five, with fifteen paper copies of each, in all six thousand nine
hundred and seventy-five copies of plats.
The work of properly filing and labeling the seven hundred thousand
photo-lithographic plats in the custody of this division has been in
progress during the year, or since September 1, 1889, and now very
nearly completed.
A great amount of miscellaneous work not classified, such as com-
putation of areas, explanations referable to lines of surveys, and the
correct reading of plats has constituted a very considerable part of the
labor of this division.
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M.— DIVISION OP ACCOUNTS.
The chief of this division reports that when, on the 16th of July, 1889,
he was appointed chief and assnmed the duties thereof, he found a
great accumulation of official work in arrears, which was greatly due
to mistaken methods and practices which obtained in the division, and
which, in his judgment, obstructed rather than facilitated the transac-
tion of business; that he found that much valuable time consumed in
counting ^^ testimony " in final proof cases, six clerks being engaged on
this work <' guarding" against (as styled by the late administration^
gross irregularities, which, in his opinion, were improbable or impossi-
ble. Thus a number of clerks were employed on duties which in no man-
ner hastened the disposition of pressing business. This unnecessary
and useless practice was discarded and the clerks placed upon more
important work.
Six clerks were engaged on the adjustment of the accounts of re-
ceivers and disbursing agents (one hundred and seven offices), which,
accounts were adjusted quarterly. Placing three of the best account-
ants on this work, all the work of adjustment of these accounts was
given them and they were able, without special eflorr, to keep the
work up to date. But since the recent decision of the Attorney Gen-
eral, dated May 12, lb90, requiring the adjustment of the ^^ accounts
of disbursing agents and others," monthly, the chief is of opinion that
this will require three additional accountants to his present force. Al-
though the order above referred to will necessitate the rendition of
three times as many accounts as heretofore he is satisfied that with six
first-class accountants he will be able to keep tfiis work up to date.
He expresses the opinion that the greatest trouble this office encoun-
ters in the adjustment of accounts of receivers and disbursing agents, is
in obtaining " warrants" from the Treasury Department upon which
credit can be given receivers and disbursing agents for moneys depos-
ited by them. It is uAually from sixty to ninety days after a deposit
has been made before a warrant issues (only upon which credit can be
given). If this office were able to get these warrants promptly after a
deposit had been made, or if credit could be given upon certificates of
deposit, issued by the depository in which the money is placed, which
are immediately forwarded to this office, the office would be able to ad-
just all of the accounts of receivers and disbursing agents within ten
days after reaching this office. So that parties doing business with
and for the Government under this bureau would know the exact status
of their accounts within a short period of time, instead of waiting months
and sometimes years as they are now compelled to do under the present
method.
This is a matter of great importance and which, in his opinion, should
be given careful consideration to the effect that proper legislation may
be had and thus place the office upon a proper busincbs basis.
The Revised Statutes of the United States section 456, provide that —
All retarqs relative to the public lands shall be made to the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, and he shall have the power to audit all public accouuts rela-
tive to public lands.
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250 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
This statate is executed by tlie Oommissioaer through the division of
accounts, the duties of which embrace the atateoient, keeping, adjust-
ment, and auditing of all accounts relative to the public lauds between
the United States and the States, the CTaited States and the various
Indian tribes, and the United States and individuals; the examination
and docketing of all returns from the one hundred and seven local
land offices; the advancej of public funds to disbursing agents in the
public lands service; the compilation of tabular statements showing
the disposal of the public domain, involving an amount of work that
can not be estimated ; and the preparation of estimates for the neces-
sary expenses of the land service for each fiscal year.
The following is a summary of the work performed in the division
during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890 :
Letters received 21, 101
Letters written 15,537
Accounts adjusted and audited 5,564
Duplicate certificates of deposit received and recorded 1.602
These accounts, covering $17,087,634.12, show receipts and disburse-
ments, as follows :
RECBIPTS.
733 Quarterly accounts of receivers of public money |10, 186,754.00
27 Accounts of moneys collected on account of depredation on pub-
lic timber 16,585.00
760 Total receipts 10,200,339.00
DISBDRSSMBNTS.
1874 Quarterly accounts of receivers, acting as disbursing agents 939, 876. 00
265 Quarterly accounts of surveyors-general, acting as disbursing
agents 267,790.03
37 State fund accounts 66:{,693.00
794 Repayment aoooun ts for land erroneously sold 57, 845. 24
3 State swamp-land indemnity accounts 19. 242. 53
II Re-imbarsement aocounto, act March 3, 1887 2, 545. 25
143 Accounts of deputy surveyors 97, 463. 10
56 Indian accounts 4,592,048.00
1611 Miscellaneous accounts, including those of inspectors and special
agents, and contingent transportation and other accounts 246, 791. 97
4764 Total disbursements 6,887.295.12
The work of this division is entirely up to date with the exception of
the accounts of deputy surveyors. At the beginning of the fiscal year
1890 the adjustment of receivers' accounts was several months in ar-
rears ; the Stat« fund and Indian accounts were from one to seven years
in arrears. During the year just closed this \^ork has all been brought
up, so that in entering upon the new year, commencing July 1, we were
handling the current work as it came in.
The deputy surveyors' accounts are entirely independent of the dis-
bursing a<5Counts of surveyors-general,, all of which are adjusted to
date.
The repayment accounts for lands erroneously sold are promptly at-
tended to as the applications for repayment arrive in this office.
This division prepares all estimates of appropriations required for
the land service and also the reports relative to the expenditures of
moneys appropriated.
A report of the condition of all appropriations appertaining to the
surveying service, which shows the amount expended, the estimated
liabilities outstanding, and the balance on hand of each of thirty sepa-
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rate appropriatious, is prepared weekly for the Secretary of the Inte-
rior. These reports, with others required by various public officials,
now form au important branch of the work of this division, and entail
considerable lab^r upon the clerical force not heretofore required of
them.
The following tables are submitted, including a recapitulation of the
land business done in the several States and Territories during the past
fiscal year, together with other tables of importance in connection with
the sales and disposal of the public domain.
Statement $howing the amount deposited by individuals to cover the eo8t of office work in
connection with the survey of mineral lands in the following districts during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1890.
DiBtrict.
AlukA
▲rixoDa
ArkansM
Californift
Colorado
Dakota (South)
Idaho
Montana
Anioant
deposited .
8310.00
1,710.00
30.00
4,660.00
32, 804. 26
2, 430. 00
2, 637. 00
12,110.00
Nevada
New Mexico,
Oregon
Utah
WaahiDgton
Wyoming...
Total..
Amount
deposited.
11,970.00
1,600.00
415.00
6,063.00
1,486.00
90.00
60,264.2^
Statement skovnng the amount dmosited by railroads to cover the cost of field and office work
in connection with the survey of public lands in the following districtSj during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1890.
Amonnt deposited.
District
Field work.
•
Office work.
Aggregate.
n^llfArnU
--f -.
176.86
1,080.88
16, am. 10
4,314.74
|2Swl2
886l07
8,601.18
589.84
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Ti4nilriai>» . . . . r r.
2,816.40
Ml nmnOt# r . . t .. r r T T . -
17,608.20
TTtah
4,864.08
Total
21,827.58
3,451.71
84, 770. 24
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JS^timaies of appropfiations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892^
hy the General Land Office,
Detailed objeoto of ezpenditnre, and explanations.
Estimated
amount whiob
I . will be
' reaairedfor
eacn detailed
I ol\|ect of
erpenditure.
BALARIB8, OBITBBAL LAND OFFICS.
Commissioner, Oeneral Land Office (July 11, 1890; R.S.,p.7A, 8eo.446)...
Aasistant Commiasioner (Jnly 7, 1884, July 11, 1890; toL 28, p. 180, sec. 1) ..
Chief clerk (Jnlv 11, 1890 ; R. 8.^ p. 74, sec. 440)
Additional to ohiei clerk (submitted).
Two law clerks, at $2,200 each (Mar. 3, 1875, July 11,1890; vol. 18, p. 364,
seel)
Three inspectors of snrveyors-fceneral and district land offices, at |2, 000
each (Aug. 5, 1882, July 11, 1890; toI. 22. p. 247, sec. 1)
One additional inspector of sarveyors-jseneral and district land offices,
at $2. 000. (Submitted)
Kecor«ler (July 11^890 ; R. 8., p. 76, sec. 447) :
Three principal clerks at the salary indicated by the figures opposite the
names of the respective divisions:
Principal clerk, private land claims, 12, 000 (Jnly 11,1890; R.S.,p.76,
sec. '"'
Principal clerk, public lands, $2, 000 (July 11, 1890 ; R. 8., p. 76, sec. 448)
Principal clerk. Hurvevs, $2, OoO (July 11, 1890 ; R. 8., p. 76, sec. 449) ...
Sight chiefs of diTlsions. at $2, 000 each. (Appropriated ; July 1 1, 1890 . . ,
Two law examiners, at $2, 000 each (Jnly 31, 1886, July 11, 1890; vol. 24, p.
IM.secl) ,
Ten principal examiners of land claims and contests, at $2, 000 each (Jult
11, 1888, July 11,1890; vol. 26, p. 285, seel)
Thirty-t wo clerks of class four (July 1 1, 1 890)
Sixty -two clerks of clasN three (July 11,1800)
Serenty-two clerks of claas two. (8ame act)
Seventy%if[ht clerks of class one. (Same act)
Tire additional clerks of class one. (Submitted)
Flfly.aix clerks, at $1. 000 each (Aug. 5, 1882, July 11, 1890 ; vol. 22, p. 247,
aecl)
Ftre additional clerks, at $1, 000 each. (Submitted ,
Fifty -five copyists, at $900 each (July 11, 189') : R. 8., p. 27, sees. 167-9)
Ten additional copyists, at $900 each. (Submitted)
Two meosengers, at $840 each (Jnly 11,1890)
Nine assistant messen j^ers, at $720 each (July 11, 1890)
Six packers, at $720 each (July 11, 1890)
Twelve laborers, at $660 each (July 11,1890) ,
BXFBKSKS OP IHBPBCTOBS.
Per diem in lieu of subsistence of inspectors and of clerks detailed to in-
restif^ate fraudulent land entries. treApasaes on the public lands, and
cases of official misconduct; also of clerks detailed to examine the
books of, and assist in opening new, land offices. While travfling on
duty, at a rate to be fiked by the Secretary of the Interior, at not exceed-
inj; $3 pi-T day, and for actnal necessary expenses of transportation and
for other necessary expenses, (Appropriated; July 11,1890; vol 25,
p. 735, sec 1)
LIBRABT, OEKEBAL LAKD OFPICB.
Law books for the law library of the General Land Office. (Appropri-
ated; July 11, 1890; vol. 25, p. 735, sec. I)
MAPS OP THE UNITED STATES.
For connected and separate United States and other maps prepared in
the Oeneral Land Office, provided that one-half of said United States
maps shall be delivered to the House of Representatives and one- fourth
to the United States Senate for distribution. (Appropriated ; July 11,
1890; vol. 25, p. 786. sec. 1)
Total.
BUBVEYIKO PUBLIC LANDS.
For surveys and resnrveys of public lands, $400,000, at rates not ex-
eeedins $9 per linear mile for standard and meanaer lines; $7 for town-
ship and $5 for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the (Gen-
eral Land Office may allow for the survey of lands heavily timbered,
mountainous or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding
$18 per linear mile for standard and meander lines; $11 for township
and $7 for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the
$5,000
3,600
2,260
260
4,400
6.000
2,00(X
2,000
6,000
16,000
4,000
20,000
57,600
99,200
100,800
93,600
6,000
66,000
5,000
49,500
9,000
1,680
6,480
4,320
7,920
Amount
appropriated
for the
current fl seal
yefl^endins
«rnne80,1891.
!
12,500
500
15,000
696,600
$6,000
8,600
2,260
4,400
6,000
2,000
6.000
16,000
4,000
20,000
67,600
99,200
100,800
93,600
56,000
'40,' 600
1,680
6,480
4,820
7,920
10,000 ^
600
16,000
571,750
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Estimates of appropriations required for ike service of th^ fiscal year ending June 30, 1892,
etc. — Coutiuued.
Detailed objects of expenditure, and explanations.
Estimated
amount whiob
I will be
reanired for
I eaon detailed
I o1\jeot of
: expenditure.
8UUVBTIKO PUBLIC LANDS.
surveys tbe work ciin not be contrRCted for at tbese rates, compen-
sation for surveys and resnrveys may lie raa'le by the said Commis-
sioner at rates not exceeding $18 per linear mile for standard and
meander miles ; 916 for towuMhip and f 12 for section lines.
Provided, That in the State of washinfrton there may be allowed, with
the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey of lands
heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense nnuerf^rowth.
rates not exceeding $25 per linear mile for standard and meander lineii ;
$23 for township and $20 for section lines. (Appropriated; Au^. 30,
1890; R.S., p. 390. sec. 2223)
And of the sum hereby estimated not exceedintc $50, 000. may be ex-
pended for examinations of tbe public surveys in the several' survc^y-
iuK districts, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to
prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveyi*. and fur examina-
tion of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudu-
lent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fieldM, and timber districts.
and for making such other surveys or examiQations sh may be required
for identifications ot lande for purposes of evidence in any suit or pro-
ceedings in behalf of the United States.
Arizona. — For expenses attending the survey and examination of private
laud claims in Arizona, including the compeuAatiou of clerks aud trans-
lators and the expense of investigating c)aim». titles, and boundaries.
(Appropriated Aug. 30, 1890 fK.S. p. 390; vol.23, p. 211. sec. 2223
California. — For the survey of confirmed private laud claims in California,
at the rates prescribed by law, includingoffloeexpenses incident thereto.
(Appropriated, Auj:. 30.'l890 ; R. S. p. 390. vol. 2\ p. 240, »ec. 2223)
Louinana. — For original surveys, resurveys, 'and corrective surveys of
confirmed private land claims, (.\ppropriated Aug. 30, 1890; R. S. p.
390, vol. 24, p. 240. sec. 2223)
Neto Mexico.^FoT expenses attending the surNey and resurvey of con-
firmed private land clairas'($o,000), survnv and riosurvev of unconfirmed
private land claims ($20,000). (Appropifated Aug. 30, 1890 ; R. S. p. 390,
vol 26. p. 959, sec. 2223)
Note.— In explanation of the estimate for the survey of private land
claims in New Mexico, the following quotation im made from tnesurveyor-
general's letter submitting estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1892:
"I think it is generally realized by the officers of the Government and
by members of Congress, as well as by citizen-* generally, that the unset-
tled condition of land titJes in New Mexico should not be allowed to con- ,
tinuo. The first slep to attain the object of bringing ordi-r out of this con-
fusion must be careful surveys to determine the amount of land that should
be embraced in valid private land claim<4, to reconcile, njifarasposhible,
conflicting boundaries and to prepare maps showing tbe extent and posi-
tion of each claim. To do tuis in so vast a territory will require much
labor and a large expenditure of money, aud I am satisfied that in Justice
to the people of this Territory the it<'!ms asked for above, for surveys of
land grants, and for the clerical force of this olllce slionhl not be reduced.
As the matter now stands, I am in many cases unable U) recommend the
reservation of land for ancient and valid private land claims for the reason
that tbe description given in the documents by virtue of which colonies
were settled aud put in possession of lands in ditlerent parts ot the Terri-
tory, scores and even hundreds of years ago, are often simply statements
of natural objects which bound such claims on the difierent sides, and
these boundaries can not be determined in relation to the public surveys;
without a careful locatiou of the grant on the ground. And soin hundreds
of cases claimants under the United States land laws are coming iu con-
flict with the ancient inhabitants whose rights were guarantied by solemn
treaties of the nation. Entry men make filings upon their villages,
houses, and churches, and I know of no way of preventing thi.i confusion
except as suggested above. It has heretofore been impossible to do any-
thing, because the money for the requisite surveys has not been appro-
priated. The surveys are equally needed, whether, a land court bill is
enacted or not.''
ABANDONED MILITARY RR8RBVATI0NK.
For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned mili-
tary reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the In-
terior under the provibions of au act of (Congress approved July 6, 1884.
23 Stats., p. 103, sec. 2. (Appropriated Aug. 30, 1890 : vol. 23, p. 499 ; vol.
25,p. 950, sec. 1)
To pay salaries of cusUxlians of abandoned military reservations at not
exceeding $720 each per annum. (Appropriated Aug. 30, 1890 : vol. 25, p.
939, sec. 1) :
Total ,
Amount
appropriated
for the
onrrent flsoal
year ending
Jnjie 80, 1891.
$190,000
$426,000
009
000 I
000 '
5,000
2,000
26,000
3.000
8.000
18,000
8,000
2,000
465,000
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E$iimate$ of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 18d2,
f<c.~Coutinued.
Detailed objects of expenditnre, and explanations.
LIST OF ABANDOKBD MIUTABT RKSBRYATIOXS.
Estimated
amount which
will be
reqnired for
each detailed
ol(|eot of
expeiiditnre.
Amount
appropriated
for the
current fiscal
year ending
June 80,18».
1. Camp CrittendeD.
2. Port Bridwell, Cal.
3. Camp Cadv, CaL
4. Camp on White River, Col.
5. Pike's Ppalc, Colo, *
6. Fort Sissetnn, Dak. *
7. FortDodKe, Ksns.
Fort WallAce, Kans.
9. Fort Hays, Kans. t
10. Fort Ellis, Monr,
n. Fort WilkiDS, Mich.
12. Fort Halleck, Nev. t
13. Fort McDerniot, Nev. t
14. Fort Craiii:, K. Mex. *
15. Fort Klamath, Oreir.
16. Fort Thorn bur^, Utah.
17. Fort Colville, Wanh.
18. Fort Fred Steele, Wyo. t
10. Fort Fetterman, VVyo.
20. Fort Lvoii, Colo t
21. Fort M'sKinnis, Mont. *
22. Point Robt-rts MiliUry Reservation, Washington.
23. Fort I^raroic, Wyomlng.t
24. Ruin of Caaa Grande, Arizona, t
25. Dflroit, Michigan, arsenal grounds.t
On tlie reservations above referred to are buildings, ofHcers* quarters,
barracks, storehouses, corrals, hospitals, gvmnasinms, and other valu-
able improvements of such value that custodians are absolutely necessary.
PUBLIC LANDS.
SALARIES, OFFICR8 OF BURVSTORS-OBMBRAL.
Arizona :
Surveyor-general (July 11, 1890 ; R. S., p. 389, sec. 2210)
CIx-tVb in his oihce (July U, 1890; K S., p. 391, seo. 2226)
NoTB. — The estimate of $4,500 for clerk hire is submitted as necessary
for the prompt and proper transaction of official business.
California : |
Surveyor-jreneral (Julv 11,1890; R. S. , p. 389, sec. 2210)
Clerks in his office (July 11,1890; R. S. , p. 391, sec. 221^6)
•I
XoTB.— The estimate of $22,000 for clerk hire is made for the reason '
that that amount is necessary for the regular office work, including
$1:800 for keeper of Spanish archives.
Colorado :
Surveyor-general (July 11, 1890 ,- R. S., p. 389, sec. 2210) .
Clerks in his office (July 11, 1800; R. S., p. 391, sec. T
XoTR.— The estimate of $11, 900 for clerk hire is submitted as necessary
for the proper transaction of the public business anil the prompt per-
formauce of office work consequent upon the public surveys to be con-
trscte<l for during the year.
Florida:
Survevor-general (July 11, 1890 ; R. S., p. 388, sec. 2208)
Clerkrt in his * ffice (July 1 1, 1890 ; R. S., p. 391, sec. 2226)
XOTR.— The Nura of $3,000 for clerk hire is submitted as necessary for
the current work of the office.
Idaho: • '
Surve vor-gener.il (J nly 1 1. 1 890 ; R. S., p. 389, sec. 2210)
Clerks in his office (July 11, 1890 ; R. S., p. 391, sec 2226)
$2,500
4,500
2,750
22,000
2, 500
11, 900
1,800
3,000
2,500 i
4,800
$2, 500
3,000
2,750
10,000
2,500
6,000
1,800
1,800
2,500
2.000
NoTB.— Thf sura of $4,800 for clerk hire is submitted as necessary for
the curt^nt office work, indexing the plats and field-notes in the office and
preparation of dascriptive lists of comers, soil, etc., for the use of the
united Stat«s local laud offices as required by law.
* Cnafodians serving with pay.
t Custodians serving without pay. ^
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EsHmaies of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 18^
tfte.— Continued.
Detailed ol^jects of exp«Dditare« and explanations.
Bstimated
amonntwhioh
will be
required for
eacn detailed
object of
expenditure.
PUBLIC LANDS— Continued.
8ALASIR8, OPFICBBfl OF 8UBVBTORS-OBinCBA.L— COntinoed.
Loaisiana :
Sarveyoi^general (July 11, 1890 ; R. S., p. 888, see. 2208)
Clerks in his office (July 11, 1800 ; R. S., p. 301, sec. 2226)
XoTB.— The sum of $10,000 for clerk hire is submitted as necessary for
the transaction of current bnsiness, continainfi: the preparation of ex*
hibit of priyate land claims, preparation of patent plat in duplicate for
5800 confirmed private claims, reproductioo of worn and defective town-
ship plats, examination and researches to prepare confirmed claims for
surveys and locations, recording field-notes, and preservation and index-
ing records.
Minnesota:
Surveyor-general (July 11, 1800 ; R. S., p. 888, sec. 2208)
Clerks in his office (July 11, 1890; R.S.,p.301,sec.2226)
KoTB.— The estimate of $6,000 for clerk hire is submitted as necessary
for the transaction of current official business.
Hontana:
Surveyor-general (July 1 1. 1800 ; R. S.. p. 380, sec. 2210)
Clerks in his office (July 11, 1890 ;R.S., p. 881, sec. 2226)
KoTB.— The estimate of #15.000 for clerk hire is submitted as necessary
for the prompt and proper performance of official current business.
Nevada:
Surveyor-general ( Jnly 11, 1890 ; R. S., p. 888, sec. 2210) ,
Clerks in his office (July 11, 1890 ; R. S., p. 381, 2226)
NOTB.— The estimate of $4,000 for clerk hire is submitted as neeessary
for the proper performance of current official work.
New Mexico :
Surveyor-general ( Jaly 11, 1890 ; R S., p. 388, sec 2210)
Clerks in his office (July 11, 1890; R. S., p. 891, sec. 2226)
NOTB.— The estimate of $15,000 for dork hire is submitted as necessary
for the proper transaction of cuirent official work for bringing up arrears
of office work, and tho amonnUnciudes the sum of $2,000 to enable the
snrveyor-eeneral to preserve and enter upon the record the Spanish doc-
uments filed ai evidence of title. Mitn v of the papers are much worn and
defaced by long use, and repeated handling will sdm make them illegi-
ble. And there are many Spiini<4h documents on deposit that have never
been indexed, or examined. They should be carefully examined, and
those routing to land titles should be translate^ and recorded both in
Engllah and Spanish.
Korth Dakota:
Snrvevor-general (July 11, 1890) ^
Clerks In his office (July 11,1890; p. 891, sec. 2226) ,
NoTB.>-The estimate of $7,000 for clerk hire is submitted as necessary
for the performance of the regular office work.
Oregon :
Surveyor- senerai (j niy ii, levu j ic s., p. sets, sec. zarov) . .
Clerks in his office (July 11, 1880 ; R. S., p. 891, sec. 2226) .
KOTB.— The estimate of $4,500 is submitted as necessary for the per-
formance of current official work.
South Dakota:
Surveyor-general (Jnly 11,1890)
Clerks In his office (July 11, 1890; R. 8., p. 391, sec. 2226)
NOTB.— The estimate for $12,000 for clerk hire Is submitted as necessary
for the performance of the regular office work and to bring up arrears
of office work.
Utah:
Surveyor-general (Jnly 11, 1890 ; R S., p. 888, sea 2210)
Clerks In his office (JpJy 11, 1890; R.S.,p.391, sec 2226) ,
NOTB.— Of the sum of $9,000 auiimittiMl lor olnrlt hire, $i,000 is for the
regular office work and $5,000 to enable the surveyor-general to prepare
corrected maps of the several mining districts.
Amount
appropriated
for the
current, flaeal
year ending
dune 30, 1881.
$1,800
10,000
1,800
6,000
2,600
15b 000
1.800
4,000
$2,600
15,000
2,000
7,000
2,000
4,500
2,000
12,000
$1,800
6^000
1.880
1,000
1,600
7,006
1,»0
2,860
$1,680
8,000
2,000
6,000
2,000
8,000
2,000
7,500
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JBsiimates of appropt-iaiions required far the eervioe oflhefiecal near ending June 30, 1892,
ate. —Con tinned.
Detailed objects of expenditare, aod expUaatioiis.
Estimated
amount which
will be
required for
eacn detailed
object of
expenditare*.
PUBLIC LAND»-Gontinned.
BALAJUI8. OPFICI8 OP BUBVBTOBS-OKNBRAL— COntioaed.
Washington:
Surveyor- ffsneral (July 11, 1800 ,- R. 8., P- 888, sec. 2200) . .
Clerks in his office (Joly 11, 1800 ; R. S., p. 301, sec. 2226) .
Note.— The estimate of |\2,000 for clerk hire is submitted as necessary
for the performance of the regular office work, and the bringing up of )^
arrears of work. ^
Wyoming:
Surveyor-general (Joly 11, 1800 ; R S., p. 380, sec 2210)
Clerks in his office (July 11, 1880 ; R. &, p. 301, sec. 2226)
NoTB.— The estimate of $0,000 for clerk hire is submitted as necessary
for the proper transaction of the current office work '
Total
COBTINGBHT BXPBM6B8, OFFICES OF SUBVETOBS-GBMBBAL.
^rifona.— Bent of office for surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel,
books, stationery, and other incidental expenses (July 11, 1800 ; R. S., p.
80f,sec.2227)
09Hfomia.^FoT books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other incidental
expenses (July 11,1800; B. S., p. S»l, sec. 2227)
Colorado.^TiQnt of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery,
and otner incidental expenses (July 11, 1800; B. S., p. 801, sec. 2227)
Florida.— Rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery, and
other incidental expenses (July 11, 1880 ; R. S., p. 301. sec. 2227)
JdoAo.—Rent of office for surveyor- general, fuel, books, stationery, pay
of messenger, and other incidental expenses (Joly 11, 1800; R. S., p. 801,
sec. 2227)
LouUiana, — Fuel, books, stationery, pay of messenger, and other inci-
dental expenses (July 11, 1880; kd., p. 301, sec. 2227)
Minnetota. — Fnirl, books, stationery, printing, binding, and other inci-
dental expenses (July 11, 1800; R. S.,p. 391, sec. 2227)
Jlon<ana.~Kent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery,
pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses (July 11, 1800; R. S.,
p. 801, sec. 2227)
ifsroda.— Rent of office for surveyor-general, pay of messenger, fuel,
books, stationery, and other incidental expenses (July 11, 1800 ; R. S., p.
301, sec. 2227)
JITswifearieo.— Rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery,
and other incidental expenses (July 1 1, 1800 ; R. S., p. 301, sec. 2227)
Xorth Daifco&k— Rent of omco for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery,
and other incidental expenses (July 11, 1800 ; R. S., p. 301. sec. 2227)
Oregon. — Vuy of messenger, tae\, books, stationery, and other incidental
expenses (^uly 11, 1880; R. S. p. 381, sec. 2227)
South Doioto.— Rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stationery,
binding records, and other necessary expenses (July 11, 1880; R. S.,
p. 301, sec 2227)
Utah. — Rentof office for surveyor-general, pav of messenger, fuel, books,
stationery, and other incidental expenses (July 11, 1890 ; R. S., p. 301,
sec 2227).
TTasAtYMfon.— Rent of office for surveyor-general, fuel, books, stat^nery,
pay of messenger, and other incidental expenses (July 11, 1800 ; R. S.,
p. 301, sec 2227) ,
Wgoming.—Jtejit of office for surveyor-generaL fuel, books, stationery,
and other incidental expenses (July 11, 1800 ; R. S., p. 3U1, sec. 2227)
Total
COLLBCmiO TBB RBVBITUB FBOM PUBUC LAVDB.
Compensation of registers and receivers of local Und offices at not ex-
ceeding |3, 000 each : Provided. That the fees on homestead and timber-
culture entries shall be incluued in calculating the fees and commis-
sions of registers and receivers (see detailed statement in appendix,
marked Exhibit A.) (Appropriated, Aug. 30, 1880, R. S., p. 88i2, sees.
2237.2240)
NOTB.~The estimate submitted is based upou the actual earnings of reg«
isters and receivers, of fees and commissions collected and turned into
the Treasury by them during the fiscal year ended June 30.1800, except i
in the offices lately established. As no business has been done ih ctli i
9406 L O 17
02,500
12,000
Amount
appropriated
for the
current fiscal
year ending
ixam 80, 1801.
$2,500
7,500
1
2,500
0,000
i
2,500
3,000
1 186,650
1
107,260
1,500
1.500
2,000
2,000
4,000
1,500
1,000
1 KAA
1,000
1 KilA
1,200
1,000
3,000
31, 100
I
640,000
1,200
1,00(^
2,000
1,000
800
1,600
1,500
2,000
1,500
1.500
1,000
2,500
1,600
2,400
1.400
3,000
1,500
2.000
l.«0
22.400
550, OCO
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Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June'SO, 1692,
ete.— Con tinned.
Detailed objects of expenditore, and explanations.
£iitiinat«d
amoant which
I wUlbe
' required for
each detailed
object of
expenditure.
PUBLIC LAKDS— Continued.
COLLECTING TlIK REVENUE FROM PUBLIC LANDS— continued,
luate is based upon maximum compensation. During the >ear ended
Juno 30, 1890, the fees and commissions eai-necl by registers and receivers
(including homestead and timber-culture fees) amounted to $1,343,798.
The actual amount appropiiated for registers and receivers as salaries,
fees, and commissionH Was ^550,000, which if all expended will leave a I
net revenue t« the United States of $793,796
Contingent eseptnsei of land offices.— Vot clerk hire, rent, and other inci-
dental expeDSOH of the several land offices (Mar. 2, 1889, Aug. 30, 1890;
vol.25.p.fo8,80cl) 1240,000
Note— The sppropriation for the current fiscal year, amounting to
$155,000 (aud deficiency $28,000) in all $*b3,000, was entirely inadequate
to the needs of the service. This office was copipelled to refuse many i
applications for allowances of clerk hire, office rent, and other abso-
lutely necessary expenses from the various offices during the past year
owing to the limited appropriation. This office is now unable to ;:u-
thorize clerk hire, and office rent in very many cases where the public
business absolutely requires such allowanc-e, and in no instance have
fuel or lights been paid for by the United States. During the fiscal
year just ended, the registers and receivers were called upon for a
statement of the amount necessary to meet the incidental expenses of
their offices for the fiscal year 1891, a copy of which will be found in
appendix marked Exhibit B. and to properly provide for the expenses
of the offices (including the offices lately established) the amount asked
for will be necrasary.
Expenses of depositing public mon«y».— Expensee of depositing money
received from the di8i>osal of public lands (appropriated Aug. 30, 1890;
^. S., p. 713,sec.:«l7) 10,000
Depredations on pubUe timber.— To meet the expenses of protecting tim-
ber on the public hinds (Mar. 2. 1889; Aug. 30, 1890; vol.25, p. 968,
sec.l) 100,000
Protecting the public lands.— The protection of public lands from illegal
and fraudulent entry or appropriation (Mar. 2,1889; Aug. 30, IWO;
vol. 26. p. 968, sec. 1) -• 120.000
Expenses of hearings in land en«ri«#.— Expenses of hearings held by order
of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether
alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in
compliance with law (Mar. 2, 1889 ; Aug. 30, 1800 ; vol. 25, p. 959, sec. 1) . . 30, 000
Settlements of claims for swamp lands and swamp land indemnity.— SAitk-
rios and expen.ses of agents employed in a<l{usting claims for swamp i
lands, and for indemnity for swamp lands (Mar. 2. 1889; Aug. 3D, 1890: i
vol.25,.p. 959,8ec.l) 20,000
Provided, That atreuts and others employed under this aud the appro- I
priutious for "depredations on the public timber*' and " protecting '
public lands," while on duty, shall beallowrMl per dioni in lieu of subsist- j
ence at a rate not exceeding $3 per day and actual necessary expenses I
for transportation. i
Reproducing plats of survey, General Land OJflee.~To eniible the Com-
missioner oi the G-eneral Land Office to contiuue to reproduce worn
and defaced official plats of surveys on tile, and other plats constitut-
ing a part of the records of said office and to furnish local land offices
with I he same (Mar. 2, 1889 ; Aug. 30, 1890 ; vol. 25, [>, 959, sec. 1)
NoT«.— To reproduce the 30,000 old plats in this office, and to preserve
them from actual destruction, the amount asked for is ab.<)olutely neces-
sary. During the current year 7.800 copies of plats were sold, over
6;06o used in the local land offices, geological surveys, and other bureaus
of the G-ovemment. For those sold the Government received over
$2,3110.
Transcribers of records and piat#.— Furnishing transcripts of records and
plats to be expended under the <lir;'ction of the Swretary of the In-
terior (Mar. 2, 1&I9: Aug. 30. 1890; vol. 25, p. 930, sec. 1)
Grand total i 1,197,600
Amoimt
appropriated
for the '
current fiscal
year ending
ilnne 30, 1891.
$175, 000
10,000
100.000
120.000
30,000
20,000
25,000
12,500
12,500
1,020,000
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Exhibit A.
Statement of the earninas, amount paid registers and reoeiveraf and net revenue to the
United States /or the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
Kftme of office.
EamiDffs
, ofrej^s-
' ters and
reoeivera.
Alabama :
HanteviUe $8,040 f
Montgomery ' «,780
Arizona : |
Prescott . . .
TncBon —
Arkansas:
Camden ...
Dardanelle
Harrison . __ ,
LitUeRock ; 5.516J
California :
Humboldt | 5,2001
Independence 2, 228
Los Angeles i 0,757
Marrsville 3,720
Bedding (Shasts)t . 11,163
Sacramento' 0, 423
San Francisco — 11,410
Stockton 15,675
Susan ville 4,600
Visalia 11.073
Colorado: |
Akront
Central City 3,826)
DelNorte 5,844
Denrer i 20,018
Darango 4,106
Glennwood Springs' 7, 740
Gunnison i 2,483
Hugo X
Total
$14,770
<^i 000 { I 1 1 ai i;
5; 816 J 11' "5
5,7021
3, 667 I
7 362 f
22,227
85,176
5^570
4,230
4,866
14. 612 J
Lamar
Leadville
Montrose
Pneblo ..
Sterling:
Florida:
GainesTille 8,807
AUska :
Siika§ 136
Idaho :
Blackfoot ' 6.7791
BoisACitv 4,372'
CoBurd'Aiene j 2,687 V
3,970
5, 242 J
Uailey
LewLstown
Iowa :
Des Moines
KauAas:
Garden City ' 10,380
Kirwin 8,146
Lamed 1 6,322
Oberlin , 16, 670 V
Salina | 4,511
Topeka 1,614
Wa-Keeney ; 14,100
Louisiana :
Natchitoches .
New Orleans .
Michigan ;
Grayling
Marquette
Minnesota:
Crookston
Dnlnth
Marshall
Sl Cloud
Taylor's Falls
Mississippi :
Jackson
Missouri :
Boon ville
Ironton
Springfield
I
1,818
3, 792 )
7. 868 3 I
2,213>
7.090 51
11,353)
6.915
6,876>
7,668 1
l,478j
10,079
8,207)
4.687S
8, 744 S
10,079
16,588
* Office maximum. Closed for several months on account of change of officers.
t Office removed to Redding. I New office. ^ No fees and commissions attached to office.
_. ^_e
260 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP QENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Exhibit A—Continued.
Statement of the earnings, amount paid regiiters and reoeiverSf eto.— Continued.
Name of oflSce.
EamiiiKS
of regis*
ten and
recelTen.
Montana:
BoBeman
Helena
HUeaCity
Lewis ton*
MisBonla*
Nebraska :
Alliance
Broken Bow . . .
Bloomington...
Chadom
Grand Island ..
Lincoln
McGook
Neligh
North Platte...
O'NeU
Sidney
Valentine
Nevada :
Carson City ...
Eureka
New Mexico :
Polsom
LasCmces
Roswell
Santa FA
North Dakota:
Bismarck
Devil's Lake...
Fargo
Grand Forks...
Oregon:
Bums — '.
La Grande
Lakeview
Oregon City ...
Kosebnrg
The Dalles
Oklahoma:
Buffalo
Guthrie
Kingfisher
Oklahoma
South Dakota :
Aberdeen
Chanioerlaint .
Buron
Mitchell
Pierre t
Rapid City
Watertown ....
Yankton
Utah:
Salt Lake City .
Washington :
Noith Yakima .
Seattle
Spokane Falls..
Vancouver
Walla Walla...
39, 889 >
2,8e8>
Total
Amount
paid reg-
isters and
receivers.
$28,^9
4,810]
18,111
8,6871
1,912
11, 774 I
6.618r
24,0481
7.2«J|
10, 831
5, 976 J
1.81U
2,27lj
2,589)
6, 274 J
9,8541
6, 738 I
ll,56uf
7.186J
4.486
5,486
5.576.
29, 087 f
17,480
i,5U0
18,582}
18,034 5
Olympia *
Wat •"
ITaterville* .
Wisconsin :
Ashland
Ban Claire . . .
Menasha
Wansan
Wyoming :
Buffalo
Cheyenne
Branston . .c .
Doufflas*
Lander*
Sundance*...
9,3151
2,188
12,075
8,463
595
7.662
12,688
4, 876 J
18,112
8,0471
48, 760
17,817^
18,685
8, 154 J
4,778
4.164 1
1,606 1
a, 164 J
6,003]
7, 577
8.666!
93,027
1,082
13,478
85,808
66^514
:l6,oooj
6,000S
[ 2,863)
2,271J
6,6001
6,0^1
6,0001
6, 000 J
«.«• { i:Z\
57, 812
13, 112
m, 463
r 6,000
1,500
6,000
6, 000 I
595 f
6,000 1
6,0001
I 4,876j
Total.
Net rev-
enne to
United
States.
Amount
received
as home-
stead and
timber-
culture
fees.
$14,363
$13,846
Total
govern-
ment
fees.
Total
revQnue
to United
Statea.
^$1,500
645 >
460)
$9,605
68,810
4,082
13,478
24,000
82,047
12,000
89, 217 1 1
11,303
84,467
19,566
36,971 20,841
7,112
I
Total 1 864,348
13,612
17,246
r *.7781 I
I 4.1641
I 8,164j!
( 6,000)
< 6,000>
( 8.606)
13,612
15,666
95611
11,246
2,990
180
8.885
1,880
13,381
1,489
8.665
6,200
|{ JSl
I r 1, 195
1.466LI
956
1,930
f 4.260
J 4, 215 I
i 5,576f
I 4,460j
1,815
8,830
1,755
6,570
8.660
2, 220 J
$23,451
< 39, 475 \
( 29, 130 3
54,620
40
5,636 I
18,600 ;
98,887
4$
6,5S
29,808
19,760 i 64,217
68,605 88.171
34v960 66,7»1
r 6.1751
8,2601
7,2851
3.9851
490^
6.385
6,050
l,320j
4,480 4,480, 11,592
[3,9 ^
14, 060
71.463 i^ 6.160^1 31,630 102.1
4,460,
2. 870 J
1,580
;f WOl
l 1.090)
8.235]
8,145
720 !
( a.235^
8,285
6,100
3,285
864.848 I 628,846 628,846 335,603 { 479,450 ,479,450 814,1
* New office.
t New office. Onl
y one quarter's busine8^/-k/-vQTp
ACCOUNTS.
261
Exhibit B.
Statement of the amount estimated to he neoeasary to meet the expenses of the local land
offices for thejiseal year 1692.
Name of office.
Clerk
hire.
Office
rent.
Furni-
ture.
Fuel, etc.
Pos^
office Regis-
box t<ration.
rent. ,
Binding.
Total.
Alabama:
HontsTille
$000
3.900
f240
1
1
$60
$1,200
Montgomery
Arisona:
Prescott
300
4,200
600
j ! 50
660
Tooaon
2,100
1,350'
600
1,200
1,200
900
300
' IfiO
2,560
1,695
Arkansas:
Camden
800
200
180
200
$5, 40
1 100
Daidanelle
800
flarrifion
' . ,. sn
1,440
1,460
Little Rock
1
1 60
Callfomiik:
Hnmboldt
' 36
985
Indeoendenoe
240
600
300
360
15
255
5,046
500
' 2.600
1,555
4860
2.065
200
Los Angeles
MaTjevUle
4,200
$50
190
100
6 100
100
40
— f
2,100
1,000
4.200
1,800
Sacramento
860
100
50
5U
$46
San Francisco .
Stockton
280
15 ;
Snsanville
180
180
20' :::::— :
Yisalia
2,800
40
8 75
3,008
Colorado :
Akron*
Centra] City
240
15
256
DelKorte
900
6,600
1,200
2,400
250
1.500
300
40
..........
1,190
Denver
300
70
100
300
6 60
100
10
8,700
1,636
Dorango
Glen wood Springs.
Gunnison
700 100
3,400
800
310
HUEO*
••"
Lamar
3,000
100 ,
8.100
LeadvlUe
480
420
800
20 '
600
Montrose
'S?
100
100
1
620
Pueblo
7,200
7.627
Sterling*
Florida:
GainesyiUe
4,480
400
1,200
300
250
360
240
300
80C
.........
200
4,980
770
Idaho:
Blackfoot
100
! 20
Bois6Clty
Coenr d* Alene ....
50
; 100
1,710
240
Hailey
::;:::::::::::::: 25
825
Lewiaton .........
1 ' 26
825
Iowa:
Des Moines
600
8,900
?700
2,700
8,600
900
900
6,700
t
■ 80
660
Kansas:
Garden City
Kirwin
75
150
50
4,126
8,060
800
Lamed
35-
80
150
1 400
1 fi
2,886
Oberlin
700
800
600
150
860
126
4.906
f^liTlft
1,205
Topeka
............... ^
1,560
7,t-80
405
Wa.Keeney
Louisiana:
Katobltoohes
100
1 130
45
•— ^
New Orleans ...... .
3.000
250
8,250
Michigan: •
€hthyling
450
15
465
Marqn^tte
1,800
1.800
2,100
1.350
2.100
100
1,000
Minnesota:
Orookston
1 76
1,876
Dnlntb
360
860
860
120
480
250
175
800
360
600
75
180
75
: 100
1 00
2.710
Marshall
50
2.000
St Clond
100
100
6
2^660
Taylor's Palls
126
Mississippi:
Jackson ..........
4,500
. 150
100
100
6,180
410
Missouri:
BoonTille
10
Ironton
1 8
183
Springfield
Montana:
Bozeman
1,800
900
1,900
:: : J 50
2,150
6 20
6 46
1,286
2.546
Helena
* Not estimated; new office.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
262 REPORT^ OP COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OPFIOE.
Exhibit B— Continued.
Statmnent of the amount eatimated to he neoeasaryto nMet the expensea of the local land
offices for the fiscal year 1892 — Continued.
Xame of office.
Clerk
hire.
Office
rent.
$380
Furni-
ture.
Fuel, etc.
tin
Beflris.
tration.
Binding.
Total.
Montana:
Milea City
1
$26 ! $855
Lewiston*
1
Missonla*
; 1
Kebraska:
AQiance
$1,800
1,000
300
180
200 ' 2^aa>
Blooininffton
$30
1,210
Broken Bow *
Vvw
Chadron
1,800
1,800
300
480
$150
100 I $4'
iso $30 1 2.fiM
Orand Island
^^
Ijinooln . .
20 '
McCook
8.600
1,800
2,700
900
1,800
1.800
300
180
100 t 4-OfiO
Neliffh
75'
60
50
2.115
9 750
North Platte
O'Neil
:::::::::::::::: i: ::' :i: :: :::
100 '- - ' 1 OftO
Sidney
1
150
80
1.960
Valentine
Nevada:
Carson Citv
240
420
360
216
1
10 250
£nreka
420
New Mexico:
Foliioni .-T .r.--T
76
1
30 { 25
Las Graces
1,500
225
1,000
2,400
2,000
1,800
2,000
::::::;::i::::::;;
36 1 1 1,761
KoBwell
100 1 ' 325
Santa F6
50
1
50 1...". , 1,100
75! 2,775
40 2,340
300 2,400
125 17 ^ 2.592
North Dakota:
Bismarck
300
300
300
800
1
DevU'sLake
::;::::::i::::::::
Fargo
Grand Forks
Oklahoma:
BufEalo*
50
100
Gnthrie
8,600
3,300
.30
100
3,630
Xinfdlffher . .-r r - ...
Hi
so
Oklahoma*
1 1
Oregon :
Bams
1,200
1,200
900
2,600
1^800
1.800
2,700
2,000
4,600
1,000
2 400
2.400
6,000
900
4,600
1,800
300
180
m
50 1 25 • 1,575
60 1 1 1.643
60 1 1, 260
La Qrande
113
100
Lakeview
Oregon City
Roseburg
386
25 125 1 a^03«
26
1,826
1.987
3,382
8,075
5,105
2.500
The Dalles
. 100
600
50
12
12
25
50
60
150
150
50
30
n
125
25
South Dakota:
Aberdeen
Chamberlain . . - - .
115
Hnron
800
160
156
150
■•
Mitchell
160
80
75
Pierre
2.530
2.809
5,060
1,220
4.963
1,825
KapidCity
800
4
Watertown
Yankton
800
800
Utah:
Salt Lake City
Washington:
North Taklma
8
M
Olvmnia*.. ..
sSttfe ..::::::::::
5,600
8.700
2,100
2,000
300
110
100
50
50
50
86 6 146
Spokane Falls
Yancoavei
8.750
2.160
9 SSQ
;;:;::::::
Walla Walla
800
WaterviUe*
~*
Wisconsin :
Ashland
200
250
225
200
800
600
100
20
45
15
50
180
300
270
270
365
1,700
2.m
Ban Claire
Menasha
Waosan
160
1.200
2,100
Wyoming :
Boffalo
160
6*
Ch^iy^nnA
Douglas*
Eranston
600
336
67
75
60
i.m
Lander*
'Sundance*
!
1
Total
191,605
27,002
2.264
2,439
66 1 fi.A34 1 A£3 i m MS
1
* Not estimated ; new office.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS.
263
Statement of the hueineee traneaeted at ths looal land offices during the fiscal year ending
June 30. mO.
LAND OFFICE AT SITKA, ALASKA.
the aggregate by S
origlival entries.]
[The area in brackets is not included in the aggregate by States, having been acconnted for in the
rigliva*
Class of entry.
No.
7
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees. ' Amonnt
Sales of mineral lands
27'5- 31
11,207.50
Total cash sales
1 ' —
7
10
275. 81
L . 1 207- 50
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
$100.00 100.00
10.00 10.00
Hineral protestf>', adv^rqe claims ^
ToUl of all classes of entries and
amonnt received therefrom
'
1
18 275.31
no. 00 1,407.50
LAND OFFICE AT HUNTSVILLE. ALA.
Sales of land subject to preemption entry.
Additional payment
16
1
2
1,023.00
26.26
.02
284.62
16,617.41]
[520.47]
1
2,403.80
32.81
iSnppIementa]''pavraents
1.16
Excess payment* on homestead, timber-
coltare, and other entrien and locations. .
203
356.11
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Reviiied Statntet* !i4
8,278.07
600.11
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2, act Juno 15, 1880
6
Total cash sales
372
1,183
670
238
2,224.70
134,516.40
[65,851.70]
11, 672. 06
12,687.13
1, 688. 40
476 00
Original homestead entries
$3,367.13
1,683.40
0,320.00
Final homestead entries
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
47&00
1, 280. 68
1,280.68
Total of all classes of entries and
amount' received therefrom
2,368
136, 751. 10
6.060.62
11,076.68
27.700.8e
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver ...
6,000.00
17.00
Bxmnses of deDositinip
Incideatal expeoses...... ,..r ..,^,^^
1,302.7&
Total s
7, 410. 65
Digitized by
Google
264 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the bttMness transacted at the local land offioeSfeto, — Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT MONTGOMERY. ALA.
The ftrra in brackeU is not included in the aggregate by StAtes, having been accounted for in the
original entries.
Class of entry.
No.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Additional payments '
Excess pay men t« on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations. . |
Homestead entries commnted to cash un-
der section 2301, Bevised Statutes i
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2, act June 15, 1880 ,
Total (
39
4
seo
99
7
Original homestead ectiiea
Final homestead entries
State selections
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount reoeiTcd for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all daoses of entries and
amounts reoelTcd tliereftx)m
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiTer.
Expenses of depositing.
Inuid
sidental expenses .
Total
618
1,659
1,095
8
97
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
5,089.24 , I $0,361.81
122.44 1 163.13
575.56
14.647.13
708.90
a
458.84 I
[11.722.50]!
[622. 29] i.
5,670.02 I
181,129.06 '
[140, 296. 18]
443.37
•I-
8,372
187, 242. 45
$4,528.05
3,606.10
$12,830.00
6.65
194.00
1, 675. 99
8,034.15 I 14,625i54
22,446.53
17,87&06
3,506.10
5.55
104.00
1,675.90
45.106.22
6.000.00
26.60
3,004.60
0. 031. 20
LAND OFFICE AT PBESCOTT. ARIZ.
Sales of Isad subject to pre-emption entry.
Sales of mineral lands
Sales of town sites
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
, culture and other entries and locations..
Final entries under the desert-land act —
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2801, Reyised Statntea
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-onltnre
laws
Lands selected under grants to railroads..
Applications to purchase mineral lands . ..
Applications to purchase coal lands
Mineral protests, adrerse claims
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statement
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of an classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
Totol.
37 { 2,301.63
41 I
30 I
6,262.71
I [4,323.37]
4 , 696. 45
1,521 I 243,378.49
26 '
2
77 I
33.^00 I
268.75 ,.
16.00
386.00
40.00
3,042.00
260.00 !
60.00
20.00 '
231.00
3.00 I
147.66 '
1,769, 252.531.18 1
8,849.70
1, 750. 00
800.00
.06
37.46
400.24
6,837.76
718.00
258.75
56.00
3, 042. 00
260.00
60.00
20.00
231.00
3.00
147.66
607.75 4, 18a 66 10,634.17
6,000.00
47.45
677.64
6,626.60
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS. 265
Statement of the business transacted at the local land offi^e^j etc. — Continued.
LAKD OFFICE AT TUCSON, ARIZ.
(The area iu bracketB is not included in the aggregate by States, having bfen accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
Sales of land suUect to pre-emption entry.
Sales of mineral lands
Excess payments on homestead, timber*
culture, and other entries and locations. .
OrlgiDal entries under the desert-land act.
Final entries under the desert-land act
Homestead entries commuted to cash
under section 2301, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales .
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-cukure
laws 7>....
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
Lands entered with military bounty land
warrants -.
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
Mineral ]>rote0ts, adverse claims
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
No.
02
19
13
148
121
83
157 I
Oil
83|
1 I
1
15 |.
163 .'.
I
3 ,.
Acres.
13,380.00
231.86
13.62
62,587.53
[41, 678. 87]
[4,777.87J
426 ; 75,213.07
21,106.85
[13,743.351
11, 770. 63
1160.00]
40.00
Total of all classes of entries and
amounts received thereftom ....
Salaries, fees^ and commlsalons of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
Total.
041 . 108,230.45
Gommis-
siona.
Fees.
$795.41
551. 49
332.00
$1,365.00
755.00
. 4.00
1.00
150. Oxt
10.00
480.00
9.00
884.55
Amount.
1,67&90 3.667.55
$16,61&83
1,200.00
17.18
15,646.92
39,767.34
6, 170. 25
79,420.47
2, 160. 41
651.49
1, 087. 00
4.00
1.00
150.00
10.00
489.00
9.00
884.55
84,766.92
5, 627. 27
184.90
1,860.55
7, 572. 72
LAND OFFICE AT CAMDElf, ARK.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Sales of mineral lands
Additional payments
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
Homestead entries commuted to cash
unddr section 2801, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales .
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
State selections, school indemnity
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
Applications to purchase coal lands
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements'
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing.
Incidental expenses
Total
1 I
1 I
'I
14 <
80.00
19.67
[40.00]
LOO
173.62
[1,417.68]
92
984
830
87
1
1
11
274.20
108, 017. 16
140,404.66]
5,816.13
1,416
2, 723. 31
1,012.30 .
7.520.00
72.75
10.00
2.00
2^00
* 2.00
806.63
115, 007. 58 3. 735. 70 8. 4.35. 38
100.00
100.00
2L2.5
217. 11
1,772.10
2,210.46
10, 343. 81
1, 012. 39
72.75
10.00
2.00
22.00
2.00
806.68
14, 881. 54
0^701.92
.50
1,486.64
7, 138. 96
Digitized by VjOOQIC
266 REPORT OP COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
Statement of the hueineea traneaoied at the loofil land offioee, «/c.— Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT DAEDANELLE. ARK.
IThe area in brackets is not included in the asgreg^te by States, liaving been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
No.
Sales of land subject to preemption entry.
Additional payments
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered with military bounty land
warrants
State seleotlons
. Applications to nurchase coal lands
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
19
307 I
299 I
1 I
13 I
1
9 I
Total of an classes of entries and '
amount received therefrom i
650
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing ,
Incidental expenses
Total
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
80.00 I.
Fees.
30.34
[442. 32]
110.34
30, 425. 58
[30, 824. 52]
80.00
2, 06G. 09r
Amount.
$100. 00
&00
30.93
552.90
$833.46
85A.67
$2, 170. 00
32,695.92
2.00 1
26.00
2.00
18.00
2.00
904.59 I
1,688.03 I 3,124.59
697.83
3,003.46
854.57
2.00
26.00
2.00
18.00
2.00
904.69
5.510.45
3, 656. 52
27.60
275. 30
3, 959. 42
LAND OFFICE AT HARRISON, ARK.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry .
Sales of mineral lands
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2, act June 16, 1880
440. 53
484.08
205.16
[809.76]
[40.001
Total cash sales .
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands selected under grants to railroads. .
Applications to purchase mineral lands . .
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for' reducing testimony
to writing
Total of an classes of entries and
amount received therefVom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
Totol.
78
964
637 j
82 '
203 I
1, 079. 77
111.926.93 I
[82, 190. 84J
5, 166. 29
2,798.17 I
2, 054. 76
7.680.00
1.921 I 118,172.99
I
4,852.92
64.00
70.00
406.00
894.91
550.67
1, 845. lb
256.46
1,012.20
45.67
3,210.15
10,478.17
2,054.75
64.00
70.00
406.00
804.91
9,114.91 I 17,177.98
6,000.00
216.80
1,163.95
7, 380. 76
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS. 267
Statement of the husineaa transacted at the local land offices, etc. — Continued..
LAND OFFICE AT LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
[The are* in brackets is not inoladed in the agf(rejsate by States, having been acoonnted for in th&
original entries.]
Class of entry.
No.
Total cash sales .
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-cnlture
laws
State selections, indemnity school
Preemption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amoant received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Incidental expenses
Total.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry. |
Caah Bubsti t a tion
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2801, Revised Statutes
43
Acres.
120.00 .
[160.00]!
26L82 |.
[957.06]'.
Commis-
sions.
53
706
831
1
83
57
371.82
86,454.08
[86,611.291
80.00
13,820.47
1.821 i 100,225.82
$2,340.54
1,066.60
4.00
3, 411. 14
Fees.
Amount.
96,085 1
5.00 I
166.50
114.00 I
2.00
089.60
7, 862. 19
$150.00
20U. 00
335.47
1,196.32
1,681.79
8,425.54
1, 066. 60
9.00
166.50
114.00
2.00
989.69
12, 665. 12
^51&^8
1,280.20
6,746.43
LAND OFFICE AT HUMBOLDT, CAL.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Sales of timber and stone lands
65
61
6
10
10
9,267.48
8,292.08
1,842.05
44.86
[1,382.27J
11.584.83
20, 730. 10
3,560.00
55.4ft
Sales of mineral lands
Exeeaa payments on homestead, timber-
cultnre, and other entrioe and locations.
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2801, Revised Statutes
1,727.85
Total cash sales
152
105
• 51
5
1
61
162
18,945.87
15, 882. 35
87, 667. 7ft
1 626.50
1,025 00
Final homestead entries....
r7. 617. 651' ' 2flB. SO
'286.50
State selections indemnity sohool
667.87
12.00
10.00
610.00
456.00
l,8ia89
12.00
Applications to purchase mineral lands. . .
Applications to purchase timk»er and stone
10.00
610.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
466.00
1, 31S. 89
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
527
36.496.09
888.00
8,43L80
41, 977. 66.
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
6, 300. 01
88 10
Incidental expenses
251.30
Total
5, 639. 41
Digitized by VjOOQIC
268 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the business transaoM at the looal land offices^ etc. — Continned.
LAND OFFICE AT INDEPENDENCK, OAL.
]The area in brackets is not included in the aggregate by States, having been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
No.
Sales of land snblect to pre-emption entry
Sales of mineral lands
Supplemental payments
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
Original entries under the desert-land act.
Final entries under the desert-land act. . ..
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Berised Statutes
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Total cash sales .
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered nnder the timber-culture-
laws
lAnds entered with military bounty-land
warrants
Lands selected under grants to railroads. .
State selections, indemnity school
Applications to purchase mineral lands. . .
Applications to purchase coal lands
Mmeral protests, adverse claims
Pre-emption declaratory statemeots
Amoant received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amoant received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver ,
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
Total.
Ill
26
14
21
1
a
4
5
2
1
84
3, 047. 84
79.33
.^3
10.312.24
[11,610.36] .
1660.00] .
Amount.
$4.
218.50
406.60
12. 5S
.64
678.06
610.35
1,060.00
221
18,489.84 .
3,728.00 '
[2, 120. 00]
2,266.07
160.00
120.00
400.00
$168.00
105.00
84.00
1235.00
19, 87& 60
403.00
105.00
155.00 I 239.00
4.00
4.00
8.00
50.00
6.00
10.00
102.00
289.67 !
4.00
4.00
8.00
60.00
6.00
10.00
102.00
280.67
20,112.91
867.00
863.67
21, 097. 27
2,228.19
100.46
580.40
26,868.0
LAND OFFICE AT LOS ANGELES, CAL.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Sales of timber and stone lands
Sales of mioeral lands
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
Original entries under the desert-land act.
Final entries under the desert-land act. . . .
Homestead entries commuted to cash nn-
der section 2801, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered nnder the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-oulture laws .
Lands entered with militai^ bounty-land
warrants
Lands selected under grants to railroads. .
State selections, school indemnity
Indian allotments
Applications to purchase mineral lands. . .
Applications to purchase timber and stone
Mineral protests, adverse oiaims' .'.'.'.'.'. ".\.
Pre-empuon declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead deolara-
torv statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amoant received thereft<om ,
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver ,
Incidental expenses
Total.
411
426
147
168
8
4
25
11
1
18
2
296
12
1,685
31, 056. 80
2, 140. 89
8,247.46
[760.00]
77.03
6,810.28
[3, 638. 13]
[11,884.90]
42(782.46
60,658.53
[21,902.34]
20,711.86
[860.001
(160. 00]
320.00
3, 797. 52
801.29
147. 93
3.249.27
1,800.60
682.00
8,005.00
.860.00
18.00
12.00
60.00
22.00
44,044.62
6,84L97
6,166.10
1,289.04
8, 166w 12
3,6I&13
17, 680. 15
88,105.03
7,154.27
1,800.50
1.092.00
12.00
12.00
60.00
22.00
18a 00 I
220.00
20.00 ;
886.00
86.00
494.18
188,169.60
M8L77
7, 106. 13
180.00
220.00
20.00
88&00
86.00
404.13
04,672.08
6,000.00
8,050.50
0,050.50
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS. 269
statement of the buainesa transacted at the local land offices, etc, — Contlnaed.
LAfTD OFFICE AT MARYSVILLB, CAL.
{The area ia brackets is not inolnded in the agffregate by States, havhig been accounted for in the
original entries.j
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry . '
Sales of timber and stone lands
Sales of mineral lands
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
onltnre, Msd other entries and locations .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Bevlsed Statutes I
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries ,
Lands entered with military bounty*land
warrants
Applications to purchase minend lands . ..
Applications to purchase timber and stone
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of regis-
ter and receiver
Expenaes of deiMMiting
Incidental expenses
Total .
833
3,880.32
3,456.00 .
965.50 I.
[160.00JI \
330. 96 I j
[1,110.40]!.
8,044.87 ;.
10,044.32 I
[10,088.23]!
100.00 .
584.S
1
18, 840. 19 1, 080. 96
Fees.
Amount.
1666.00 ,
4.00
110.00
260.00
207.00
750.73
1,996.73
$5,800.62
8,647.72
2,620.00
629.24
1,309.25
18, 696. 8a
•1.161.02
684.94
. 4.oa
110. 0<^
260.00
207. M^
750.7a
21,674.52
3,729.06
21.75
340.00
8,990.80
LAND OFFICE AT SACRAMENTO. CAL.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Salea of timber and stone lands
Sales of mineral lands
Exoess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
Original entries under the desert-land act.
Final entries under the desert^land act —
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
State selections, indemnity school
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
Applications to purchase timber and stone
Mineral protests, adverse claims
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements !
Amount^eceived for reducing testimony
to writing
47
139
69
10
2
2
12
271
261
176
4
129,
142 I
5,858.12
18,066.99
3, 141. 13
[40.00]
56.16
76.59
[120. 00]
[1,740.36]
27,19a 99
36. 962. 44
[23, 395. 16]
560.00
1,698.54
1,292.21
2,416.00
Total of all classes of entries and i
amount received therefrom | 1, 057 1
Salaries, fees, and commissions of regis- I
ter and receiver j
Expenses of depositing
IncideDtal expenses
64,72L43
Total.
2,990.75
8.00
680.00
1.290.00
50.00
426.00
3.00
1,638.63
6, 610. 63
8.446.81
45, 167. 55
9.902.50
169.49
19.15
120.00
3.026.4&
66, 850. 9&
4, lia 54
1,292.21
8.00
680.00
1.290.00
50.00
426.00
3.00
1, 638. 63
76,362.3a
6,000.00
56.75
1,049.50
"106.25
Digitized by VjOOQIC
270 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the huniness transacted at the local land offioee^ etc* — Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
(The area in brackets is not Included in tlie aKgreKate by States, having been aocouhted for in the
orlj^lnal entries.]
Class of entry.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry .
Sales of timber and stone lands . I
Sales of nilnerallands
Excess payments oil homeatead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations. .
Homestead entries commuted to cash on- j
der section 2301, Revised Statutes |
No.
Acres.
402 I
110 I
6 I
47 '
127
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws '.
Lands entered with military bount3'-Iand
warrants
State selections, indemnity school
Applications to purohane mineral lands . .
Applications to purchase coal lands
56. 963. 19
18. 462. 24
414. 70
243. 37
ri8,488.67]
Commis-
sions.
Applications to purchase timber and stone
lands ;
Preemption declaratory statements i
^Idiers' and sailors' homestead declara- <
tory statements |
Amount received for reducing testimony I
to Writing
439
198 '
51 :
ll
36
^ <
2 ,.
9 ,.
110 I.
530 j.
71,083.50
64, 057. 84
129,310.23;
7, 390. 93
[40. OOJ
3, 279. 32
5, 182. 86
Fees.
Amount.
$72,804.84
33,655.72
1. 685. 00
462.77
23, 110. 78
$2, 532. 00
1, 24& 00
204.00 I
$4, 110. 00
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
475.00
4.00
130.00
68.00 .
20.00 i
27.00
1.100.00
1,617.00
9.00
825.78
I
131, 719. 11
6. 642. 00
1,248.00
679.00
4. OH
130.00
68.00
20.00
27.00
1, 100. 00
1,617. CO
9.00
825.78
2,113, 160,994.46 8.984.00
8. 385. 78
Salaries, fees, and oommissiona of register
and receiver
Incidental expenses
Total.
144, 088. S9
4,845.36
3, 321. 50
8,166.86
LAND OFFICE AT SHASTA, CAL.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry . | 77
Sales of timber and stone lands , 218
Salvs of mineral lands ■; 3
Excess payments on homestead, timber- ;
culture, and other entries and locations . 9 !
Original entries under the desert-iand act.i 1 '
Final entries under the desert-land act — 2
Homestead entries commuted to cash un- \
der section 2301, Revised Statutes 20 ; [2. 7«3 40]
9, 947. 41
33, 851. 27
06.12
32.58
120.00
1640. OOJ
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber -culture
laws
Lands entered with military bounty-land
warrants
Lands selected under grants to railroads. .
Indian allotments
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
Applications to purchase coal lands
Applications to purchase timber and stone
lands
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors* homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
209
174
34
8
14
2
4
2
218
217
41, 047. 38
30,968.40
126. 472. 85 J
4, 821. 18
320.00
2,097.22
320.00
1, 868. 42
1,699.66
136.00
18, 187. 04
84. 628. ro
295. to
67.54
60.00
1.440.00
5, 184. 23
1,975.00
290.00
12.00
26.07
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
1,208 j
82, 074. 18
Total.
40.00
6.00
2, 180. 00
651. 00
3.00
1,344,03
I
3,704.08
6, 5'>7. 10
109, 862. 01
3,843.42
1.699.66
426.00
12.00
26.07
40.00
6.00
* 2, 180. 00
65L00
3.00
1.344.03
120,098.19
5.578.80
271.85
2,042.90
7.898.55
Digitized by
Gcx)gle
ACCOUNTS. 271
Statemeni o/ tht husine9$ transaoted at th^ local land offlceSf etc. — Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT STOCKTON, CAL.
(The area in brackets is not included in the aggregate by States, having been accounted for in the
original entries.]
CladB of ent^y.
Seles of land sobjeot to pre-emption entry.
Sales of timber and stone lands
Sales of mineral lands
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301 , Revised Statutes
No.
129
MI
19
18
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
18,460.54 .
83,806.36 .
334.87 .
[210. 53]
60.85
[5. 062. 04] .
Total cash sales.
747 102,671.62
$888.11
607.68
168.00
$1,500.00
Original homestead entries 160 23,283.16
Final homestead entries * 120 [18,604.31]
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws I 42 5,833.35
Lands selected under grants to railroads . . 2 320. 00
State selections 2 425.28 i
Applications to purchase mineral lands 17
Applications to purchase limber and stone I
lands 541
Pre-emption declaratory statements | 246
Amount received for reducing testimony | |
to writing ; 1 1,752.04
Fees.
Amount.
$23, 086. 92
209, 515. 92
1,476.00
389.22
7, 747. 11
375.00
4.00
4.00
170.00 ,
5.410.00 I
738.00
242,164.17
2,388.11
697.68
543. 00
4.00
4.00
170.00
5.410.00
738.00
1, 762. 04
Total of all classes of entries and ,
amount received therefrom 1.876,
I 1 I
132.533.41 1,753.79 9,953.04 1 253,871.00
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver .
Expenses of depositing.
Incidental expenses
Total
6, 000. 00
262. 80
1,373.80
7, eaa. 60
LAND OFFICE AT SUSANVILLE, CAL.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry. {
Sales of timber and stone lands {
Sales of mineral lands
Sales of Lassen County desert lands
Supplemental payment
Excess payments on homestead, timber- {
culture, and other entries and locations . '
OrigiDHl entries under the deseit-land act.
Final entries under the desert-land act
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 230 1, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales .
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
l^ands entered under the timber- culture
laws
Applications to purchase mineral lamls ...
Applications to purchase timber and stone
lands
Lassen County desert filings
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
72
53
43
2
65
174
108
Total of all classes of entries and .
amount received therefrom . . . '
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
andteceiver
Ejipenses of depositing
Incid ental expenses
ToUl.
706
9,955.29 .
6,837.22. .
4&86 .
400.00 ,
3.46 ,.
12.73 ,
2,266.18 .
[3,809.24] .
[1,511.29]
19,523.74
10,660.01 I
[8,048.52]
4, 992. 96 I
403. 14
301.74 I
172.00
680.00
335.00
20.00
650.00
522. 00
324. 00
3.00
480.34
35.186.61
876.88 I 3,014.34
12, 494. 08
17, 093. 01
245.00
500.00
21.55
15.91
566.55
3, 809. 24
1. 889. 11
36, 634. 45
1,083.14
301.74
507. 00
20.00
050. 00
522.00
:i24. 00
3.00
480.34
40,525.67
4.608.86
192.50
206.65
5, 008. 01
Digitized by VjOOQIC
272 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the hnsineas traMOot&d at the local land offioee, eto.— Continaed.
LAIH) OFFICE AT VISALIA, CAL.
[The area in braoketa is not incladed in the ai^crregate by States, having been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class o( entry.
Sales of land sabject to pre-emption entry.
Sales of timber and stone lands
Bonus for preference rifi^ht to file
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
cnltnre, and other entries and locations.
QriKinal entries ander the desert-land act.
Final entries nnder the desert-land act . . .
Homestead entries commuted to cash under
secUon 2301, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-cultuie
laws
Indian allotments
Lands selected under i^ranta to railroads. .
Applications to purchase coal lands
ApplioationB to purchase timber and stone
lands
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
tovridng
No.
Acres.
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received thereftt>m
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing t
Incidental expenses
Total.
Commis-
sions.
I Amount.
165 I
100 I
2«,1»4.14 $43,a9L63
16,156.53 1 ' 40,388.86
1 31.00
46
10
27
104
24&73 I.
5, 807. 63 ; .
[18, 740. 00] .
f 16, 126. 20] I .
161
362
121
169
2
158
7
109
269
1,666
46,906.03 ;
54,886.41 I
[18,757.81]l
26,416.68 !
820.00 ..
24,97a61 .
$8,041.91
1,184.88
676b 00
1
152,607.78 1 4,902.79
I
431.88
2; 493. 82
14,060.90
29,793.18
$3,490.00
1.626.00 ;
180,590.77
6,63L91
1.184.88
2,801.00
816.00
21.00 I
1,090.00 '
807.00
21.00
1,203.20
816.00
2L09
1,090.00
887.00
2L0O
1,203.20
8,678.20 , 144.066L76
6,600.00
828.45
.1 2.800.66
9. 124. 11
LAND OFFICE AT CENTRAL CITY, COLO.
Sales of land subiectto pre-emption entry, i
Sales of mineral lands
Excess payments on homestead, timber- I
culture, and other entries and locations. . I
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries '
Final homestead entries i
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
School indemnity I
Applications to purchase mineral lands. . .
Mineral protests, adverse claims |
Pre-emntion declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory ststements I
Amount received for reducing testimony I
to writing
44 ,
153
206
6
8
112
16
119
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and eommlssions of register {
and receiver
Incidental expenses I .
561
Total.
6, 318. 64 I .
1,053.61 ,.
89.25 .
[680.00] .
7, 411. 50 .
8,236.75 '
[5.710.501J
720.00 '
1,319.45 ,.
33L00
525.00
20.00 '
45.00
16.00
1,120.00
150.00
867.00
3.00
294.06
17,687.70
590.47
8.148.29
5,442.50
49.05
650.00
14,489.84
856.00
239.38
65.00
l&OO
1, 190. 00
150.00
357.00
3.00
294. 0«
2,610.06 1 17,590.87
.1 3.885.31
207.00
i082.81
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS.
273
Statement of the husineu traneaoted at the looal land officee^ ete. — ContiDa<»d.
LAND OFFIOJB AT D£L NORTE, COLO.
(Xlie area In braoketa is not Inolnded in the aggregatA by Skates, having been aooonnted for in the
origioal entries]
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
SAles of land snbjeot to pre-emption entry.
S Ales of mineral lands
184
24
20
116
28,510.28
638.33
60.58
[18,260.45]
$35, 637. 85
2,452.50
75.78
caltQte, and other entries auU locations .
der seciiun 2301. Revised Statutes
22 825.57
Total cash sales
844
123
49
92
1
22
1
.A
4
28.210.20
18,680.19
[7,887.84]
13,826.06
160.00
60, 991. 65
• $700.50
277.60
868.00
$1,205.00
1, 905. 59
277.60
r»aiid8 entered nnder the timber-culture
laws
880.00
1 9Ak AA
-warrants . . ...
1
i.00 1 AA
Applications to purchase mineral lands. . .
A pplications to parohase coal lands
!M. ineral protests, adverse claims
220.00
' 8.00
10.00
220.00
3.00
in OA
Pr«-emption declaratory statements
Soldierd' and sailors' homestead deolara-
tery statements
396.00 ' 306.00
.•••••......
12.00 1 12.00
Amount received for redacing testimony
■to writinff
L6J8. 51 ' 1 633.51
Total of all classes of entiles and
amount received thereftx>m
760 1 61,877.35 ' 1,846.09
4,863.51
66.701.25
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
AD't receiver
1
5,844.42
92.25
1, 1.^1.70
Sxpenses of depositing
j
Incidental expenses. . T.
: 1 :": ■
■ ;
Total
7.088.37
LAND OFFICES AT DENVER, COLO.
Sales of land snbject te private entry
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Rent from Oovemment lots
Sales of mineral lands
Hales of coal lands
Sales of town sites
jBxcess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301 , Revised Statutes
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2, act June 15, 1880
Total cash sales .
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands en ered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
Lands entered with military bounty land
warrants
A pplications to narchase coal lands
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
towriting
1
1.115
1
1
1
179
514
1
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Incidental ezi>enses
ToUl.
1.813
319
811
21
2
37
1,064
31
5,336
160.00
174, 79& 13
10.32
160.00
160.00
493.71
[81,163.68]
[160.00]
175, 781. 16
187,874.03
[49, 486. 71]
130.703.84
[3. 000. 00]
330.00
8,880.25 I
2,773.00
3,364.00 I
400.00
238, 425. 41
186.00
5&00
8, 200. 00
400.00
792. 87
113,672.08
184.00
11,835.00
8,260.00
84.00 I
8.00
111.00
3,192.00
93.00
2,867.42 \
857. 264. 36
20,715.25
2, 773. 00
II, 624. 00
84.00
8.00
111.00
3. l\>-2. 00
93.00
2, 8«7. 42
484,678.63 I 15.017.25 25. 950. 42 \ SOS, "2^^. 03
.\ «,OO\).00
-\ e,4A7.ftT
-i ia,*57.87
9405 L o 8
Digitized by VjOOQIC
274 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
SUtemeat of the bminws transaoted at the local land oJHoeBf ete.— Coutioaed.
LAND OFFICE AT DURANGO. COLO.
[Che area in brackets in not inoladod in tUe as^zrescite bv States, having been aooounted for in the
orficlnal entries. ]
Clana of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Feea. ' Amount.
1
Sales of land Hnlnoct to pre-emption entry.
SalcH of luinoral laudH . .
67
9,478.80
669.30
18&88
11.36
[3.787.27]
$11,092.80
3,600.00
' 56
2
0
20
8, 777. 00
KzceM paymenu on homeetead. timber-
oiiltnre m ml other entriaa and locationA .
51.71
Homestead i*nti'iBS commoted tu cash nn-
der section 'MOl Revised Statutes
4.734.11
Total cash salea 4
160
75
43
U
10,373.34
11,120.10
[6.469.801
1,400.00
23,755.72
Original homeHtead entries. .. ...........
$423.00
243.00
41.00
$716.00
1, IS&OO
Final homestead entries
243.00
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Lands entered with military bounty land
warrants ... ..... .....................
100.00
144.00
1 1 120. M
iw
630.00
222.00
130.00
324.00
15.00
697.81
3.00
Applicaty>n9 to pnrchaae mineral lands. .
Anplications to purchase coal lands
63
74
13
lofl
630.00
222 00
130.00
Pre-emption deelaratory statements
824.00
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara- >
torv fitatements .... . . .
»
16 00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writinir . .............................
- 507.81
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
. 553
23,103.41
710.00
2,736.81
87,202.03
Salariea, ffcs. and commissions of register
and receiver
4,100.80
Sinenses of denosit inir ... ........... ..
6L25
Incidental exnenses
375l60
Total
i 543. 11
LAND OFFICE AT GLBNWOOD SPRINGS, COLO.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Sales of mineral lands
Sales of coal laifds
Excess payments on homestead, limber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
Homestead enti-ies commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Reviaed Statutes
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Iiands entered with military bounty land
warrants
Applications to purchase mineral lands. . .
Applications to purchase coal lands
Mineral prot«sts, adverse claims
Preemption declaratory statemraita
Amount received for reducing teatimony
to writing
187
1
112
104
44
379
Total of all claaaea of entries and
amount received therefrom I
952
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and reo<>iver I
Incidental expenses I
Total.
•I-
10, 514. 79
1,985.60
400.00
7.14
[2,038.65]
12, 907. 53
11.408.55
[3,827.7P]
3,761.42
160.00
28,287.50
427.87
143.54
116.00
715. or
245.00
4.00
1,120.00
812.00
440.00
1,137.00
072.70
687.41
i645.70
.1
13, 148 51
9.135w00
4,000.00
8.95
2,54&81
28,839.77
1.142.87
143.54
aOLOO
4.00
1.120.00
SHOO
440.00
1,187.00
072.70
84,108.88
0,000100
1.038 25
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS.
275
Statement of the bu»inet$ transacted at the local land officeej etc. — Oontinoed.
LA.KD OFFICE AT GUNKISON, COLO.
(The area in brackets ia not Included in the a^^jregate by States, having been acoonoted for in the
origlnid entries.]
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land snbieet to pre-emption entry.
Sales of mineral lands -
15
83
1
2,256.58
781.63
80.00
$2,821.70
8.305.00
Sal^ftt nf coal lands
1,600.00
Total cash aales
40
10
6
0
41
51
10
80
8,118.11
2,680.20
[060.00]
760.00
7,726.70
270.60
Oriirlnal homestead entries
$100.50
36.00
3&00
$170. 00
86.00
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
60.00
410.00
153.00
100.00
240.00
123.47
06.00
Applications to purchase mineral lands...
Applications to purchase coal lands
liiiieral protests, adTerse claims
410.00
158.00
100.00
Pre-empiion declaratory statements
Amount received for reduoing testimony
to writing
240.00
"
123.47
Total of all classes of entries and
amount s received therefrom
265
6,658.31 1 172.50
1,256.47
0.156.67
Salaries, feeK,4uid commisslors of register
and receiver
2,482.80
15.40
305.00
Incidental eznenses -
Total
2,803.20
LAND OFFICE AT LAMAR, COLO.
Sales of land snliject to pre-emption entry.
Kzcess payments on homestead, timber-
CTiItuTf, and other entries and locations . .
201
20
173
45,ir.07
46.76
[46,003.04]
57,208.01
60.01
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
34,141.12
Total cash sales
484
206
57
138
1
134
18
46,172.82
32,875.86
[0.008.28]
21,613.78
160.00
01,410 04
8,415.75
378.00
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
1,875.75
378.00
652.00
2,040.00
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
1,360.00
4.00
402.00
30.00
722.70
1,012.00
4.00
Lands entered with military bounty-land
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
402.00
80.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing............
722.70
Total of all classes of entries and
amounts received therefh>m
1,083
00,852.46
2,806.75
4,667.70
08.283.68
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
5,570.28
66.40
IncideDtal ezj^enses
2.884.62
Total
8,530.20
Digitized by VjOOQIC
276 REPORT OP COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the 1m»ine»$ transacted at the local land offieeSf e<o.— Continoed.
LAND OPPICB AT LBADVILLE, COLO.
(The area Id brackets Is not inoladed In the agf^regate by States, haviog been acooanted for In the
orlginu entries.]
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land snbiect to preemption entry
Sales of mineral lands
46
148
6^861.07
3,458.68
$8 563.80
14, 320. 00
SnDDlsmfintiLl Dftvmiiiit. ••.•• ... .... •••
5.00
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
onltnre, and otlier entries and locations -
6
8
17.40
[1,280.00]
21.77
Homestead entries commnted to cash
nnder section 2801, Revised Statutes ...
1,600.00
Total cash sales. ....................
207
88
84
6
124
18
120
8
10, 827. 16
5, 690. 65
[5,165.55]
800.00
24,510.57
582.50
Orlirinal homestead entries
$217.50
198.00
24.00
$366.00
198.00
Lands entered under the timber-coltnre
laws
55.00
79.00
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
Mineral protests, Rd^ersA claini^
1,240.00
180.00
860.00
9.00
620.01
1,240.00
180.00
Pre-emption declaratory statemento
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
360.00
9.00
Amount received for redncing testimony
to writing - -.-..
520.01
Total of all classes of entries and
amosnt received therefrom
650
16,817.81
489.50
2,729.01
27,679.08
Salaries, fees, and oommisslons of register
and receiver
4,238.09
Expenses of depositing
44.90
Tn«r^dental expenses ,■."--,.. ^ . ,, »,.....
495.05
Total
4,778.64
LAND OFFICE AT MONTBOSE, COLO.
Sales of land to preemption entry
Sales of mineral lands
17
43
2,675.68
704.28
3,844.60
8,275.00
Total cssh sales
60
21
2
1
48
38
12
340
8,879.91
8,231.24
[280.001
160.00
6, 619. 60
326.50
Oriflinal homestead en tries
12L50
10.50
i.00
206.00
Final homestead entries
10.50
Lands entered under the timber-calture
law
10.00
480.00
114.00
120.00
1,020.00
966.45
14.00
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
Applications to purchase coal lands
Mineral protests, adverse olaims
480.00
114.00
120.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
1, 020. 00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
966.45
Total of all classes of entriea and
amount received thereft^m
522
6,771.16
186.00
2,916.45
9,671.05
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
4,866.18
Expenses of depositing
*43.90
Incidental expenses
466.15
Total
5. 875. 23
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS. 277
statement of the huainess transacted at the local Uwd oficee, etc. — Continaed.
LAND OFFICE AT PUBBLO, COLO.
(The area in braoketa la not inolodod in the aggregate by States, having been aooonnted for in the
riginal entries. I
orig
Class of entry.
No.
1
466
0
82
46
124
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land snbjeot to private entry
Sales of land snMeot to pre-emption entry.
Sales of mineral ands
80.00
60,006.80
430.12
8,7ia84
175.08
[18,607.60]
0100.00
87,688.12
1,320.00
54,820.70
210. 47
Sales of coal lands
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and tocations..
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301 Revised Statutes
23,844.21
Total rash sales
678
460
167
312
1
3
18
401
2
627
0
74,300.03
60, 610. 34
[35,121.101
82,47L67
[80.00]
400.00
167,287.50
7,033.37
Orl;^nnl homestead entries
12, 613. 37
046.16
84&00
$4, 420. 00
Final homestead entries
045.16
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
2,056.00
4.00
10.00
130.00
2,003.00
4.00
Final entries under the timber-culture
Iaws
Lands entered with military bounty -land
warrants
...... ......
10.00
Applications to purchase minen^ lands —
Applications to pnrohase coal lands
Mineral protests, adverse claims
Pre-emption declaratory statements
t or V statements ........ . ......
130.00
1,473.00
20.00
1,881.00
27.00
2,314.60
1,478.00
20.00
1,881.00
37.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
2; 814. 60
;
Total of all olasses of entries and
amount received therefrom
2,663
176,70L84
i 406. 53
12,884.60
184,028.72
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
6,000.00
Incidental expenses
6,262.16
Total. i
11,862.16
i
LAND OFFICE AT GAINESVILLE. FLA.
Sales of land subject to private entry ^
Sales of land snbjeot to pre-emption entry.
Sales of abandoned militory reservations,
graduation entries
3
14
1
615
56
3
[510.87]
1,184.15
[280. 70J
68&35
510.87
1,480.21
60.00
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations..
707.20
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Homestead entries commoted to cash un-
der section 2. act June 16.1880
[6,100.861
[102.66]
7,750.63
206.83
1 .
Total cash sales
682
1,202
071
1
32
77
1,822.50
152, 007. 76
[126,020.07]
156.00
6,216.18
1
10,814.71
13. 000. 88
Original homestead entries ................
8,806.83
8,180.44
10, 185. 00
Final homestead entries
8,130.44
4.00
Lands entered with military bounty-land
warrants
4.00
62.00
154.00
425.57
Lands selected under grants to railroads..
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
62.00
154.00
425.57
Total of all olaases of entries and
3,076
150.201.44
6,046.27
10, 830. 57
28,500.66
and receiver ..'...
6.000.00
Expenses of depositing.
13.10
Incidental expenses. .T
8,704.43
Total
0,716.63
1
1
Digitized by VjOOQIC
278 EEPOKT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
StaieiMnt of the huainMt troMooted at the local land of^ce^ etc.— Contiuaed.
LAND OFFICE AT BLACKFOOT, IDAHO.
(The area In brackets is not included in the aggregate by States, having been accounted for in the
ori^al entries.]
Class of entry.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Townsites
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations..
Original entrios under the desert-land act.
Final entries under the desert-land act . .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales .
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber^culture
laws
Pre-emption declaratory statementa
Amoant received for reducing testimony
to writing
No.
32
197
48
27
224
222
133
1
188
Total of all classes of entrios and
amounts received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
ToUl.
1,163
Acres.
12,261.98
1.265.67
06.76
48,039.03
[ 7, 690. 12]
14.072.76]
Commis-
sions.
61,663.84
33,776.89
133,459.68]
18,444.57 I
180 00]
$1, 282. 50
1.302.00
632.00
Fees.
Amount.
$16,327.61
1,581.96
120.99
11. 969. 81
7,690.22
5. 090. 97
$2, 145. 00
1, 190. 00
4.00
504.00
1,25&84
41,771.46
3, 427. 50
1,302.00
1,722.00
4.00
564.00
1,258.84
113, 884. 80 I 3, 116. 50 6, 161. 84 i 60, 049. 80
6,000.00
93.40
607.57
6, 790. 97
LAND OFFICE AT BOIS£ CITY, IDAHO.
Bales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Sales of mineral lands
40
2
11
147
28
0
5, 026. 65
94.16
27.23
6,283.26
475. 00
culture, and oth<*r entries and locations. .
34.04
Original entries under the desert-land act.
56,684.85
( 10, i77. 78]
14, 171.35
Final entries under the desert-laud act
10,207.78
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
[ 1, 399. 66]
1
1. 749. 45
Total cash sales
237
134
90
101
2
1
132
61.832.79
19 054 52
1
82 920 88
I "
1, 919. 41
407.91
Final homestead entries
[13,* 274. 24] ilnUx 1 '...T'T'
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
14,225.99
[160.00]
1
404.00 1 O2IL0O
1, 829. 00
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
8.00
3.00
396.00
690.18
8.00
Applications to purchase coal lands
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
8.00
306.00
090.18
Total of all classes of entries and
amounts received therefrom
697
95,113.80
1,616.82
3,267.18
37. 794. 88
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
4,371.88
320.00
Incidental ex penses
Total
4.69L88
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS. 279
SiaUfMnt of the huaineas iranaaoted at the local land offices^ ^to.-- ^Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT CCBUR D'ALBNE, IDAHO.
[The area in braokeU U not included in the aggregate by States, having been accounted for in the
original entriee. 1
ClaM of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land subieot to preemption entry .
Salt^ft of inineral landH
14
28
4
10
1,900.25
396.95
4.41
[1,744.22]
$4,750.62
1,667.50
211 02
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
der section 2301 Revised Statutes
3 960 66
.
Total cash sales ...
51
52
14
S
1
4
27
2
65
1
2,30L61
7,820.75
(2,288.00]
320.00
[160.001
640.97
10, 689. 70
1,092.15
$592.15
168.00
8.00
$500.00
Pinal homestead entries
168 00
Lands entered under the timber-calture
laws
20.00
4.00
8.00
270. 00
20.00
195.00
3.00
207. 07
28 00
Lands entered with military bounty-land
warrantM - . - . _ ,
4 00
Lands selected under grants to railroads. .
Applications to purchase mineral lands. ..
8 00
270 00
20 00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers* and ssilors' homestead declara-
tory statements .... .... ...
195 00
3 00
Amount received for redacing testimony
to writing
207 07
Total of all classes of entries and
amounts received therefrom
219
11.083.33
768.15
1,227.07
12, 5S4. 92
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
anr) receiver
2, 688. 97
13.30
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
180.00
Total
:
2, 8»0. 27
i
LAND OFFICE AT HATLEY, IDAHO.
Saleh of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Sales of mineral lands
47
28
1
3
54
32
3
6,942.02
460.70
8,678.70
2,375.00
30 00
Ketcbum town lots
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
eultare, and other entries and location . .
13.87
9.789.t9
[4,745.12]
[480.00]
16.73
Original entries under the desert-land act.
2,487.22
4, 745. 12
Final entries under the desert -land act
Homestead entries commuted to cash
under section 2301, Revised Statutes
600.00
■
Total cash sales
168
96
81
36
2
26
4
84
17, 206. 18
18 932 77
Original homestead entries
14 015. 65
ft9o an
900 00
1,429.60
462 00
Fiual homestead entries
[12,190.30]' 462.00
4.519.42 144.00
1
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
295.(0
6.00
260.00
40.00
252. 00
877 60
439 00
Ketcbum town-lot filings
6 00
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
Mineral protests, adverse Alaimiff
:::.::::: :::l::::::::::::
260* 00
40 00
Pre-emption diMilaratory statements
to writing
262.00
877 50
Total of all classes of entries and
amounts received therefrom
497
85, 741. 25
1,135.60
2,630.50
22, 69a 77
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver. .. . ......................
3,969.66
14 30
Exnenses of deuositins
Incidental expenses
609.90
Total A
4, 693. 86
Digitized by VjOOQIC
280 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the buHneee traneaeted at ths looal land officeSj etc. — Continned.
LAND OFFICE AT LEWISTON, IDAHO.
[The area in bnokets U not included in the ftfffcr«g*te of StAtee, hftylng been acoonnted for in the
original entrioe.]
Class of entry.
JtJTo.
Acres.
Ck>mmis-
siona
Fees.
Amount
Sales of land snbieot to pre-emption entry.
Sslen of niin<^ral lands
160
1
12
83
21,771.68
16.27
80.74
[4,640.22]
$17 214.66
80.00
Ezceits payments on homestead timber,
culture, and oth*)r entries and locations. .
3&42
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Rerised Statutes
6,856.56
Total cash sales ..x..... x
206
119
146
28
19
248
1
21,817.69
17,008.79
[22,682.58]
2.841.98
[2.799.75]
83,188.64
1,737.81
864.20
Oriffnal homestead entries.
$687.81
864.20
112.00
$1, 100. 00
Final homestead entries
Lsnda entered under the timber-culture
Isws
205.00
76.00
729.00
8.00
1.156.62
817.00
Final entries under the timber-culture laws
76l00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements.
729.00
8.00
Amount receiTod for reducing testimony
to writing
1» 156. 63
Total of all classes of entries and
amounts received therefrom
761
41,668.46
1,614.01
3,269.62
38,073.27
Sslariefi, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
5,242.30
KxT>enft4^H of dftiMMiitincr ..
87.30
Incidental expenses
818.60
Total
1
5,648.29
LAND OFFICE AT DBS MOINES. IOWA.
Sales of iMud sulyeot to pre-emption entry.
Sales of cash substitution
6
2
5
320.00
[120. 00]
[484.26]
500.00
150.00
Homentesd entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2801, Revised Statutes
706.83
Totsl cash sales
13
15
10
27
11
1
1
7
390.00
1,153.77
[1,000.08]
1,899.98
40.00
40.00
1,356.33
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
42.80
60.00
loaoo
96.00
187.30
60.00
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
155.00
44.00
1.00
8 00
14.00
545.70
263.00
Final entries under the timber-culture laws.
44.19
Lands entered with Valentine serin
Lsndf selected under crants to railroads..
1.00
1.00
Pre em ption declaratory statements
Amount received fh>m reducing testimony
to writing
14.00
545.70
Total of aU classes of entries and
amounts received therefrom -
85
8.458.70
200.80
856.70
2,411.33
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver. ............................
1,817.89
1.65
Bzoenses of denositins
Incidental expenses
14LS5
Total
1,960.89
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS. 281
Statement of the bueineee trantacied at the local land offices, eto.^Cotttin&ed.
LAND OFFICE AT GAKDBN CITY, KANS.
(The area in bmoketa to not inolnded in the acgregate by States, haTins been aoooonted for in the
origmal entries.]
Claaa of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land sabject to pre-emption entry.
Sapplemental payments
269
2
45
275
41,962.49
$54,887.69
.18
Sxoess payments on homestead, timber-
9tiltiirt>, Rfifl othpr entries and locations. .
55.60
[43,425.84]
100.24
Homestead entries commated to cash un-
der section 2301, SoTised Statutes
54. 867. 49
Total cash sales
691
245
527
897
6
1
189
7
42,008.00
37,734.74
[88,311.27]
62,861.42
[800.001
160.00
109,355.60
3,656.13
2,981.40
5,538.00
20.00
Original homestead entries
$1,271.13
2,981.40
1,58a 00
'$2,385.00
3,950.00
20.00
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
Lands entered with military bounty-land
warrants
4.00
878.00
14.00
337.25
4.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
378.00
Soldient' at>d sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
14.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
837.25
1
Total of all classes of entriea and
amount receired therefrom
1,062
142,784.25
6, 840. 53
7,088.25
122,284.38
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and recelTor
6,000.00
4, 216. 41
Incidental expenses
'
Total
10,216.41
,
LAND OFFICE AT KIBWIN, KANS.
•
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
culture*, and other entries and locations.
149
20,568.44
86.47
[6,123.48]
[240.001
25.69&05
44.34
28
47
2
Homestead jentries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301 Revised Statutes
7, 854. 86
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2, act June 15,1880
475.00
Total cash sales
226
J.1
20, 503. 01
22,075.07
[54,S28.47]
21,384.47
[28,214.55]
84,071.75
Original homestead entries
509.77
1,469.47
632.00
1,420.00
2.019.77
1,469.47
2,017.00
776.00
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entriea under the timber-culture
laws
194
1,885.00
776.00
236.00
4.00
747.38
Pre-emption declaratory statements. .. ■ iik
236.00
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
2
4.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
lo writing
747.38
i
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
I
1,225 64,063.45
2,701.24
4, 568. 88
41,341.37
Salaries, fees, and oommissions of register
1
6.000.00
Expenses of depositing
44.25
Inmdental expenses
1,479.40
Total
7,523.65
Digitized by
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282 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Stalmnent of the huainesa transacted at the local land offices, etc. — Contiuned.
LAND OFFIQ^ AT LARNED, KANS.
[The area in braokeU is not included in the aggi-egkte by States, having been accounted for in the
/ origiuttl entries. J
Class of entry. No. | Acres.
1 1
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
caltare, and other entries and locations.
71
14
27
10,860.62
8.76
[8.385.531
$14,988.53
17.68
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes . . .
5,124.25
1
Total cash sales
112
10,360.88
13.437.08
[44,543.44]
20.501.88
[14,147.421
20, 130. 36
Original homestead entries
06
$503. 83 A860. 00
1 ^uaBst
Final homestead enti-ies
Lands entered under the timber-cnlture
laws
294
135
05
01
1,576.00
540.00
i 1.576.00
1,300.00 I 1.840.C0
380.00 1 380.00
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws •.
Pre-emption declaratory sUtements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
182.00 1 1^2.00
1
1,002.30 1 1,002.39
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received tlierefrom
833
44,808.84
2,610.83
3,734.30 1 26.474.58
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
6,000.00
2,064.45
Incidental expenses
.
Total
^, 064. 45
I
LAND OFFICE AT OBBRLIN, KANS.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
cultnre, and other entries and locations
Homestead entries commuted to cash un>
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Homestead eu tries commuted to cash
under section -2, act June 15, 1880
Total cash sales..
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
Lands entered ^th military bounty-land
warrants
Lands selected under grants to railroads..
Pre-emption declarator^' statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
855
58
272
1
686
883
702
521
73
\ '
1.479
806
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom : 4, 160
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register I
and receiver .
Expenses of depositiug .
Incidental expenses
Total.
53, 765. 07
83.50
[41,056.20]
[160.00]
53, 810. 66
50,220.57
1110,871.84]
81. 082. 18
[11,401.15]
( [160. OOJ }
> 160. 00 ; 3
236,583.87
1,768.72
8,117.46
2,084.00
431,706.18
6,070.18
68, 607. 04
107.80
64, 445. 25
382.00
8,740.00
6,145.00
202.00 '
8.00 '
2,067.20
612.00 '
14.00 I
1, 245. 65
123, 542. 09
5,S0&72
3.117.46
7.229.00
292.00
aoo
2,957.29
612.00
14.00
],24&65
14.013.94 1 144,526.21
0.000.0O
204.65
2,847.70
0, 052. 35
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS.
283
Siatemeni of the business transaeted at the looal land offices etc — Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT 8ALINA, KAN.
[ The ftrea in bisoketo is not inolndod ia the aggregate by Statea, haWng been aooonnted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amoant.
Sales of land enbjeot to pre-emption entry
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
caltnre, and other entries and locations.
Homestead entries commuted to cash nn-
der section 2301, Revised SUtates
Homestead entries commuted to cash an-
der section 2, act June 1ft, 1880
Total cash sales.
51 ;
8
16 :
2
5.811.43 ' 1 $10,882.89
17.81 1 25.41
[1,637.021 , 2,993.42
[320.00J ' ' 800.00
Orifl^inal homestead entries
Final homestead entnes
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amoant received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amount reoeived therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
Total
76
81
262
67
107
40
6,828.74 1 14,451.72
$635.00
9,650.53
[32.446.83]
7,806.88
118.144.80]
$411. 32
1,867.37
268.00
633
22.686.16
2.036.69
495.00
428.00
80.00
677.98
2,815.98
1, 046. 32
1,357.87
763.00
428.00
80.00
677.98
18, 804. 89
4. 610. 68
15.95
9;J3.95
5, 520. 63
LAND OFFICE AT TOPEKA. KAN8.
Sales of land suttjeotto pre-emption entry.
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations. .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the tlmber-cnlture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount reoelvedjfor reducing testimony
to writing
13
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
1, 000. 12
.86
[397.70]
1,800.98
986.29
[6.569.88]
1,496.89
[953. 45J
138
3,483.66
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expensee of depositing
Incidental expenses
Total.
81.31
238.86
44.00
1,650.15
2.15
J 994.25
70.00
100.00
28.00
76.00
4.00
95.79
814. 17 I
I
373.79
2,546.55
101.31
238.86
144.00
28.00
76.00
4.00
95.79
8, 234 51
1, 614. 47
5.25
917,65
• I 2,637.37
Digitized by VjOOQIC
284 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the husineee transacted at the local land offlceSf eto.— Continaed.
LAXD OFFICE AT WAKEKNEY, KANS.
the aggregate bj
origin Al entries.]
[The area in brackets is 'not inoladed in the aggregate by Statea, haTing been aoooonted for in the
• • ■ ' • s. J
Class of entry.
No.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amoont.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry,
cultnre, and other entries and locations.
310
51
243
2
46,922.21
9L32
[38,377.71]
[281.84]
$66,677.34
17a 77
Homestead entries comma ted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statates
51, 910. 88
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2, act June 15, 1880
325.26
Total cash sales.
006
541
384
619
65
3
1
142
345
11
47,013.63
79,645.61
[60,032.78]
97.202.11
[10,016.371
160.00
22,648.09
118,992.25
8,058.20
2,454.98
8,676.00
960.00
C^riginal homestead entries
$3,683.20
2,454.96
2.476.00
$5,275.00
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber- culture
laws *
6,100.00
260.00
U.00
1.00
282.00
680.00
22.00
839.51
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
Lands entered with military bounty land }
warrants >
Lands entered with surveyor-general
scrip
J..:
ILOO
5
1.00
Lands selected under grants to railroads . .
282.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements ««
690.00
22.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing «
839.51
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
2717
246,949.34
8,614.18
18,480.51
141,086.94
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
6,000.00
Expenses of depositing
179.00
Incidental expenses
5^ 832. 01
Total
12,011.01
LAND OFFICE AT NACHITOCHES, LA.
Additional payments
4
28
72
6
1
83.80
1,618.54
156.82
[796.89]
[39.90]
56.33
Sale of abandoned military reservation.
Fo rt Jessup
2,339.98
289.74
Ex ess paymenU on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2801, Revised Statutes
1,294.44
90.75
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section i', act June 15, 1880
Total cash sa!es
111
376
180
1.863.66
41,694.46
[19,914.75]
4.080.24
4,380.88
Original homestead entries
1,460.88
661.60
2,980.00
Final homestead entries
06L60
Amount received for rednclng testimony
10 writing
599.39
680.39
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
667
43, 54'?. 12
2.112.48
8,629.89
9,672.11
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver......
8,702.40
L80
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
898.80
Total
4.198.00
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS.
285
Statemeni of the hu9ine$8 tran$aot€d at the local land office$, etc, — ContiDaed.
LAND OFflCE AT NEW 0BLSAN8. LA.
[The area in bnokeU is not inoladed in the aggregate by States, having been aoconnted for in the
origiuu entries. J
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land subject to pre^mptioD entry.
12
472
38
7
629
940
689
2i
8
264
86
8
1,887.87
1,449.65
1*5,418.42]
[691.22]
92, 109. 81
1,87L83
6,727.78
774.62
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2801. Revised Statutes
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2, aot June 16. 1880
Total frSflh sales
3,187.62
118,000.20
[77,628.541
2,924.98
440.00
42,140.00
11,484.04
18,040.86
1,947.69
96.00
$8,100.00
11,230.36
1,947.69
311.00
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
216.00
Lands entered with military bounty-land
warrants
11.00 11.00
State selections
626b 75 ' 526.75
tory statements
70. 00 70. 00
6.00
440.35
6.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
440.35
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
2,837
166.642.66
5,083.96
9,469.10
26,027.09
Salariee, f eee, and commissions of register
and receiver
6,000.00
Incidental expenses
2,777.50
ToUl
8, 777. 60
1
LAND OFFICE AT QRAYLINO, MICH.
Sales of land safaject to private entry
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
der section 2301, Revised Stotutes
1
1
15
1.00
40 00
11,626.34]
15.00
60.00
2,027.74
Total cash sales
17
94
131
11
I
41.00
9,940.19
[16, 502. 07]
2,092.74
1,001.88
883.66
Oriflrinal homestead entries
281.88
388.66
720.00
Final homestead entries
Soldiers' and saUors' homestead dedara-
tory statements
22.00
2.00
48L94
22.00
2.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing 7
481.94
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received thereftt>m
254
9,990.19
666.63
1,225.94
3,984.21
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and reoel vpr ,.t -r....^.....-
2,218.81
3.80
Exmnisea of deuositinir ...................
Incidental eznenses.
465.60
Total
2,682.71
Digitized b\i
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286 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the btmneaa transiioted at Ike local land offices, etc — Coutinued.
LAND OFFICE AT MARQt7£TT£, MICH.
(The area in brackets is not inclnded In the agsre^ate by States, having been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land subject to private entry
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Sales of land at public auction
1
380
1
22
208
2.00
53.391.60
1.12
130.09
[30, 52a 491
$2.60
66,739.49
26.00
Excess payments on homestead, timber*
oiilt nre and other entries and locations . .
- 162.62
Homestead entries commuted to cash
nnder section 2301 Revised Statutes . .
38,160.62
Total cash sales
621
420
204
22
600
53,524.81
57,104.03
[27,080.831
2,080.00
106, 091. 23
Original homestead entries
$1,428.52
677.02
$8,770.00
5,198.52
Final homestead entries
677.02
Lands entered with military bonntyland
wiU'Tants . . ......... .. ..«>
67.00
1.200.00
L 616. 26
^.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for redncing testimony
to writinff
1,200.00
1 SIS 9it
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
],867 112,708.84
' 2.105.54
6,552.26
113,749.03
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
6,000.00
17.00
1, 314 52
Exnenses of denosltinflr ............ .....
Incidental eznenses
1
Total
7,33L52
LAND OFFICE AT CROOKSTON, MINN.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Additional navments.
129
2
29
17,604.23
[319. 70]
23,9I5.6«
399162
cnltare and other entries and locations.
129.64
Homestead entries commuted to cash
under section 2301, Revised Statutes
!
21 1 18.281.65]
4,502.07
Total cash sales
181 17. 704. 68
28,976.89
6,209.08
421
829
104
13
5
896
61,44«.51
[125,381.63]
15,435.61
[2,074.44]
785.00
2,239.06
4,074.20
416.00
3.970.00
Final homestead entries
4,074.20
1,406.00
62.00
T<ands entered under the timber-culture
laws
990.00
62.00
10.00
792.00
2,190.86
Final entries under the timber-culture
UwB
Lands selected under grants to railroads. .
Pre-emption declaratory stacemento
Amonnt received for reducing testimony
to writing
10.00
792 00
2,190.86
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefh)m
1,949
P5.37L80
6,729.26
8,004.86
43,710.51
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
6,0OQL0O
88.75
Expenses of depositing
Incidental exnenses.
1,850.30
Total
7,889lQ5
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ACCOUNTS.
287
statement of the bttHneseJraneacted at the local land offices^ e/c— Continned. *
LAND OFFICE AT DULtJTH. MINN.
[The area in brackets ia not ioclnded in the aggregate by States, having been accounted for in the
orij^al entries.]
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis- «
sions. '^®***
Amount.
Sales of iHnd subject to pre-emption entry.
Supplemental payments
232
4
28
101
34,060.56
235.48
147.74
[14,096.73]
$43,393.80
294.05
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other em rise and locations
234.85
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, fievised Statutes
48,405.64
Total cash ssles
866
876
45
2
490
34,438.73
47.840.09
[5,606.67]
(120.001
62, 828. 94
Original homestead Entries
$1,510.49
222.45
$3,286.00
4,795.49
222.45
Lands entered with military bounty-land
wprnwts . . . . r , ,
2.00
980.00
l,lia46
2.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
9S0. 00
1,118.46
Total of all classes of entries and
amount receired thert* ftom
1,278
82,274.42
1,782.94
5,885.46! 69,447.34
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
5, 01& 09
949.07
Incidental expenses
Total
6,864.16
LAND OFFICE AT MARSHALL. MINN.
Sales of land subject to private entry
Sales of land sulject to pre-emption entry.
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised SUtutes
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture laws.
Lands selected under grants to railroads ..
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received fur re<tncing testimony
to writing
75
146
290
161
211
2
63
280.00
8,566.44
14&83
[1, 722. 18]
8,994.77
16,967.68
[36,062.07]
17,963.62 ;
[28,103.20] .
844.54 .
720.18
1,613.00
604.00 i
1.106w00
Total or all classes of entries und
amount received therefVom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
928 I 38,270.51
2,987.18
Total.
1,886.00
844.00
400
106.00
872.07
650.00
6.182.80
239.66
2,902.73
9,975.19
1,825.18
1,613.00
1, 889. CO
844.00
4.00
106.00
872.07
4,166.07 17,078.44
6^876l49
13.85
1,496.76
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288 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the hueineaB transacted at the local land offices^ etc.— Continned.
[The area in brackets Is not incladed in the aggregate by States, having been aeoounted for in the
original entries.]
LAND OFFICE AT ST. CLOUD, MIKN.
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
siona.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land subject to private entry
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Exceas payments on homestead, timber-
cnltnre and other entries and locations.
2
24
20
7
2.10
2.260.90
70.91
[906.00]
13.68
4,178.56
149.29
Homestead entries commuted to cash un*
der seel ion 2801, Revised Statutes
1«666.50
Total cash sales .x..
800
428
74
30
1
202
2,838.91
44,531.08
[66,178.791
10,060.99
[4,884.99]
120.00
5,996.97
5 078L7O
Oriflrinftl homestead entries..........
$2,008.70
#2,486.52
296.00
01,076.00
Final homestead entries
2 486.S2
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
666.00
120.00
S.00
404.00
961.00
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
120 00
Lands selected under grants to railroads. .
Amount receired for reducing testimony
to writing
,,.,
2.00
401.00
1
1,135.88 1 1.135.88
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefh>m
1,148
57.045.98
4, 786. 22
5,40L88| 16,185u07
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
Aiiil i*AnAi vAr
6 000 OO
Bxnenses of denositinfr -
1
11.20
Incidental eznenses ..........«>.....
1,820.80
•"*"" 1
Total
j
7,832.00
1
LAND OFFICE AT TAYLOR'S FALLS, MINN.
Sales of land subiect to pre-emption entry.
Homestead entries comuuted to cash un-
.der section 2301, Revised Statutes
4
2
125.67
[240.00]
314. 18
600.00
Total cash sales
6
49
40
2
17
125.67
5 911. 15
914.18
288.90
162.28
395.00
638.00
Vinal homestead entries ..... ... .. .-.^.tt
162.28
Lands aeleoted under grants to railroads . .
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
2.60
84.00
163.65
S 60
34.00
163.65
* Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
114
6,049.18
401.18
605.15
1,910.51
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
l,47i».39
1.00
Bxnenses of denositinflr
TnmrlAntjfeil ATnAnoAA _. .
75.20
Total
1,554.50
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ACCOUNTS.
289
statement of the bmintM transacted at the local land ogicee, efc— Coutinued.
LAND OFFICE AT JACKSON, MISS.
I The area in brackets is uot iDcladed in the afreregate by Slates, baring been acoonnted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry. j No.
Supplemental payment 1
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
cnlture, and ot her entries and locat ions . . 594
Ilomesteud entries commuted to cash un- i
der section 230 1, Revised SUtntos 12
Homestead entries commoted to cash nn- ,
der section 2, act June 15. 1880 1
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Total cash sides .
I 008
Original homestead entries 2, 331
Final homestead entries i 300
State selections 181
Pre-emption declaratory statements • 1
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
[052.00]
013.33
11,471.71]
[40. 00]
018.33
282.853.00
[35,141.10]
30, 845. 45
Total of all classes of entries and
amoan t received therefrom ' 3. 421 814, 812. 88
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver '
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses \
ToUl.
$7,107.00
882.67
7, 089. 67
Fees.
Amount.
$815.00
1, 141. 90
1, 839, 77
44.0<i
$19, 630. 00 I
381. 40
2.00
049.58
3, 840. 07
20, 637. 00
882.67
361.40
2.00
049.58
20,642.08 32,373.22
0,000.00
10.16
3, 120. 35
9, 180. SO
LAND OFFICE AT BOONVILLE, MO.
Sales of land sul^ect to private entry
Sales of land snbject to pre-emption entry.
Excesa pay men to on homestead, tlmber-
ealtiire, and other entries and locations .
43 '
•^
7 !
3
2,314.10
150.82
41.88
1240.00]
I
2,892.04
190.02
52.29
Homestead entries commnted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
1
300 00
Total cash sales
56
820
209
11 ;
143 1
2, 51^ 81
8,440.95
3,141.04
516.42
Original homestead entries
32,110.70
120,698.59]
1,700.00
801. 04 ^ BAO M
Final homestead entries
615.42
^
StAire salActions
22.00
880.00
514.04
2'^ 00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amoant received for reducing testimony
to writing
280 00
514 01
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
™i
30,383.51
1,310.46
3,102.04
7,019.45
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
3,207.80
5 90
Expenses of depositing
297.36
1
1
Total
3, 510. 50
i 1
9405 L
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290 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the hueinese transacted at the local land offices, etc.— Continued,
LAND OFFICE AT IRONTON, MO.
[The area in brackets is not inoladed in the aggregate by States, haying been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry. No.
Acres.
4,383.17
140.38
90.09
[1,387.261
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land subject to private entry 80
Sales of land eubjeot to pre-emption entr v . i 1
Excess paymenU on homestead, tlmber-
caltnre, and other entries and locations . . 1 22
Homestead entries oommated to cash un- i
dAr sAfitinn 230 1 Revised Statntes IS
$5,478.97
175.48
113.61
1,734.07
Total cash salon ............. .....^t
118 1 4.Al.?.6d
7, SOL 13
467
336
1
14
108
48,944.68
[41,817.43]
120.00
2,103.32
$1,222.60
1,04a 60
$3,545.10
4, 767. 69
1.048.60
3.00
Lands entered with military bounty land
3.00
27.00
216.00
920.04
Stat-e selections, swamp indemnity
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
27.00
216.00
920.04
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
1,044
55,781.64
2,271.29
4,71L04
14.488.40
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver -
4,687.18
Exnenses of denositinff..
9.40
Incidental exnensc^s. ...,,-,T^,^-.-,,--.r
183.00
Total
4,770.58
1
LAND OFFICE AT SPRINOFIELD, MO.
Sales of land snhfect to private entry
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
76
8
1
33
0
1
3,378.54
504.07
[80.00J
165.20
[640.001
[4a 001
4,222.48
630.60
40.00
Exoess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations. .
der section 2301, Bevised Statntes
der MMstion 2. act June 15. 1880
280.94
1,050.00
88.00
Total OAoh sales
128
848
850
1
36
192
4,047.00
95.557.62
[106.234.00]
120.00
6|92&01
6^212.46
9,385.00
2,972.00
Oriffinal homestead entries
2,680.00
2,972.00
6,655.00
Lands entered with military bounty-land
warrants •• ......•..••.•.•••.•.
8.00
78.00
884.00
1.504.68
Lands selected under grants to railroads..
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
76.00
884.00
1,504.68
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
2.066
105,65L58
6^662.00
8,622.68
20.487.14
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver ........ ... .. .. . .
6L060.00
Exnenses of di^iMMitinfr-,.-r
1L50
lucidental exDonses .-r......
2; 168. 60
Xotal
8,18L10
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ACCOUNTS.
291
statement of the hutineea transacted at the local land offioest etc. — Continned.
LAND OFFICE AT BOZBMAN. MONT.
tThe area in braoketo is not included in the a^groKste by States, havlDg been aoooanted for in the
original entries.]
" 1 "
Class of entry. No.
Acres.
4,83L19
37.60
1,962.46
7.73
6.886.78
[9,926.77]
[640.001
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
1
Amount.
$11,427.98
195.00
39, 249. 20
19.36
2,543.39
10, 086. 77
1, 600.00
Sales of land snUect to pre-emption entry.
Sales of mineral lands
40
3
0
Sftlfifi of coal Iftndfl
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
fi
Original entries under the deseit land act. 28
Final entries nnder the desert land act 84
Homestead entries commuted to cash un<
df>i* Hoction 2301 Revised Sfcatntea 4
Total cash Bales ^ 'M
13,725.76
15,985.66
[13, 993. 15]
7,358.78
[820.00]
49, 109L 29
•
65,121.70
2, 213. 07
Original homestead entries
107
$1,193.07
1,047.65
212.00
$1, 020. 00
Fini^ homestead entries
91
53
2
307
6
SO
89
1,047.65
692.00
Lands entered nnder the timlier-oiilture
laws
480.00
8.00
614.00
60.00
90.00
267.00
662.43
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
&00
Lands selected nnder grants to railroads..
Applications to purchase mineral lands. .
Applications to purchase coal lands
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
614.00
60.00
90.00
267 00
662.43
Totsl of all classes of entries and
amount received thereftrom
811
86,179.48
2,452.72
8,201.43
70, 775. 85
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver ........
6,000.00
13.96
Incidental exnenses
455.28
Total.
6,469.28
LAND OFFICE AT HELENA, MONT.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry. soo
73,907.96
8,130.11
160.00
10L77
66,437.54
[36, 576. 18]
[11,01&911
100,146.79
29,607.50
1, 600 00
132.26
5^lMt nf miBArAJ lAnila - -.
288
Sales of colli lands
X
27
225
129
73
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
Original entries under the desert land act.
Final entries under the desert land act. . .
' 17.916.12
36,619.03
15,251.06
.Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301 Bevised Statutes
Tofjkl rftflh ailImi
1193
424
234
386
1
1
682
6
263
51
44
886
2
148,727.38
64.829.62
[35,999.891
54,577.98
[40.00]
160.00
93,148.35
749.24
2ul 272.75
3.067.83
1,788.75
1.544.00
4,120.00
7. 187. 33
1,788.75
5,069.00
4.00
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries nnder the timber-cultare
laws . .
8,625.00
400
4.00
1.162.00
Lands entered with military bounty land
warrants
4.00
Lands selected under grants to railroads. .
Indian allotments ... . ... -. ........■•
1, 162. 00
Applications to purchase mineral lands.. .
Applications to purchase coal Isuds
Mineml nrotests. adverse claims ..........
2,530.00
153 00
440.00
3,668.00
6.00
],60&08
2,530.00
153.00
440.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statementM
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
2, 65a 00
6.00
1,006.08
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
4068
362,192.57
6,400.08
16,608.08
228,280.86
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver. ..
6,000.00
Incidental expenses
2.741.81
Total
8.741.81
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292 REPOR't OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the btiHness trantauied at the local land offices^ etc, — Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT MILES CITY, MONT.
[The area in brackets la not included in tlie aggregate by States, baring been acooonted for in the
• original entries. J
Class of entry.
Sales of lands subject to pre-emption entry.
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
otilture, and other entries and locations.
Original entries under the desert land act.
Final entries under the desert land act
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Fiiul homeslead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Lands selected under grants to railroad . . .
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
Total.
No.
18
151
276
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amonnt.
1,572.87 ' 13,132.17
4.60'
480.00 I.
[80.00]!.
2,057.37 I.
4,420.85 !
[3,608.92]
2, 88a 44 I
24,087.98 I.
1260.30 I
. 271.01 I
72.00
t, 444.64 ,
603.91
$280.00
180.00
301.00
105.00
286.59
1, 152. 59
8.81
120.00
80.00
3,340.98
540.30
27L61
301.00
105.00
286.50
5.097.4»
2,388.20
11.80
396.40
2,7n.40
LAND OFFICE AT BLOOMINGTON, NEBB.
Sales of land sobject to pre-emption entry.
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
Homestead entries commuted to cash
under section 2301, Revised Statutes —
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture laws
Pre-emption declaratory statemt^nts
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory btatements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom ,
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
Total.
4,498.45
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ACCOUNTS. 293
statement of the bu»ine88 trantaoted at the local land offices, eic— Continued.
LAlfD 0FFK5E AT CHADRON. NBBB.
[The aren in brackets is not included in the aggregate by States, ^ying been aoooanted for in the
original entries.]
1
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
^
Pees.
Amount.
Sales of land snbjeot to pre-emption entry
Bxcess payments on homestead, timber-
caltnre, and other entries and locations.
Homestead entries commuted to cash
under section 2301, Revised Statutes ....
596 01 ^2.0A
$114, 065. 12
67
' 315
160.78
[49.467.68]
212. 15
61, 834. 58
Total cash nalen
977
721
91«421.81
111.744.92
176, 111. 85
Original homestead entries
$2,798.46 87.066.00
9,858.46
IMiiii 1 hnnipatjkiiH <kntripA
433 ; r6S.016.441
1,724.44
1,724.44
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
X«and8 entered with military bounty-land
422
67
6
655
14
66,484.62
C [480.00]
\ 2,6W.00
7.879.52
< [160.00]
I 160.00
1,688.00
\
4.180.00
7L0O
5,868.00
71.00
warrants
>
Lands entered with private land scrip
Sunreme court serin locations
{
8.00
1,310.00
2a 00
965.56
8.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
5
1, 810. OO
28.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing.
965.56
^
Total of all classes of entries and
3.819
280,210.77
6,205.90
13,627.56
195, 945. 81
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
6, 000. 00
laUvnAn HAM nfH Annul tJnir .. . . ..
891.04
Incidental exnenses .... .........
2,039.20
Total
8,430.24
LAND OFFICB AT GRAND ISLAND, NKBR.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry. 189
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
en I ture iUkd other entries and locatioufi- ^
26,050.06
78.43
[13,186.08]
34, 245. 02
121.70
Homestead entries commuted to cash
under section 2301. Revised Statutes OS
17,156.94
Total cash sales -
317
181
618
165
26,128.49
23,400.74
[03,66L00]
22,008.15
[21,428.80]
1
51,623.75
2, 252. 11
2,965.95
2.105.00
Oriflrinal homestead entries -^,,r-,,..
707. 11
2,965.9ft
660.00
1,545.00
Final homestead entries ...... - ^ t ,, . r - . r
Lands entered under the timber culture
IttWS
1,446.00
Final entries under the timber culture
laws
146
172
4
684.00 1 584.00
344.00 1 344.00
8.00 1 8.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
to writing
1,066.68 1,066.68
Total of all classes of entries and
amounts received therefrom
1,603
71,532.38
4.333.06
4,992.68
60,849.49
Salaries, flees, and commissions of register
and receiver
6, 000. CO
Bxpenses of depositing
76.35
Incodental exnenses
1, 808. 20
Total
'
7, 974. 65
1
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294 REPORT OP COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the hueinese traneaoied at the local land office, etc. — Con tinned.
LAND OFFICB AT LINCOLN. NEBR.
[The area in brackets is not Inclined in the agf^regate by States, haying been accounted for in the
^ original entries.]
Class ot entry.
Na
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
cnltnre, and other entries and locations -
7
2
2
650.66
2.44
[200.00]
01,308.86
&10
Homestead entries oomraated to cash un-
der section 2801, Kevised St»tutes
725.00
Total cash sales
11
13
48
12
40
4
662.10
1, 108. 80
[4,708.40]
837.86
[4,854.24]
2.120.95
112.48
222.02
113.00
IfiSOfV
Oriflriiial homestead entries.-
$47.43
222.02
4&00
M5.00
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Kinal entries under the timbAr.nnltn re lavs^
65.00
196.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount reoelyed for reducing testimony
to writing ... ......*.•...■.....•........
8.00 8.00
288.00 1 2A8.0II
•
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
182
2,60&26
318.85
622.00
3.070.30
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver , -rr,..
1. 012. 36
SxDenses of denoaitins
6.85
Incidental eznenses r.-,.
65.00
Total:
1, 083. 71
LAND OFFICB AT McCOOK. NEBR.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry .
culture and other entries and locations .
Homestead entries commuted to cash an*
der section 2301, Revised SUtutes
666
62
807
82,150.14
276.82
146,630.10]
102,687.60
68,287.73
'
Total <v"*h sales
925
442
606
477
83
1
535
8
82,425.96
66, 353. IS
161,320.48
.5,870.46
2,016.07
flu 563. UO
Original homestead entries
1. 670. 46
4.200.00
Final homestead entries
[70.843.64] 2.016.07
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
78,821.38
[5,269.80]
80.00
1,908.00
4, 655. 00
T74 n ft] ATit.rl AM Ti n <1 Ar t.h A H mHAr.nn1 hi r A t A wii.
132.00 1 132.00
Lands entered with military bounty-land
warrants -... r .,--,^,^,--
1
2.00 2.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors* homestead declara-
1,070.00 1,070.00
16. 00 16. 00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writinff .. ...
724.38 784.88
'*
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
2.027
■ '
222.680.46
5,603.63
10,790.88 1 177,732.80
6,000.00
Exnenses of deoosltins '
261.40
2,337.90
Incidental expenseft ' - - -
Total
I
8,589.30
\""
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ACCOUNTS. 2db
Statement of thebuHnese traneacted at the local land ofice^ efo.— Coutinued.
LAND OFFICE AT NELIOH. NBBR.
(The area in braoketa ia not inoladed in the aggregate by Statea. ^ving been acooonted for in the
original entries, j
Claas of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land sabject to pre-emptloD entry.
Ezceea payments on homestead tlmber-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
68
13
46
16,067.48
21.48
[6,98&49j
$18,821.80
26.81
8,735.62
Total cash sales
167
90
282
106
92
1
16.07&86
12,998.84
[83,164.23:
16,686.82
[18.268.381
160.00
27, 584. 23
$32&04
829.18
434.00
1880.00
1,168 40
829.18
Final homestead entries .,,,,,,,-,■,
Lands entered under the timber-cnltnre
laws
Final entries nnderthe timber^onl tnre la^vr* .
1,000.00
868.00
4.00
480.00
1,424,00
368.00
Lands entered with military boanty land-
warrants
4.00
215
0
d3n nn
statements
'
4.00 1 4 00
Amount received for redncing testimony
to writing *
967. 87 987. 78
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
896
43,824.02
1,681.22
1
8,628.78 1 32,789.28
Salaries, fees, and commissions ot register
and receiver » ,..»t
5.612 79
53.87
1,670.46
7,236.61
ExDenses of denositinir 1 »
1
Incidental expenses i
Total
LAND OFFICE AT NORTH FLATTB, NBBR.
Sales of Isnd subject to pre-emption entry
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and location* . .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2801, Revised Statntes
Total cash sales .
396
103
208
69,861.68
211. 17 I
[83,829.83]
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-cnltnre
laws
Final entries under the timber*oulturelaws .
Lands entered with military boanty land-
warrants
Lands selected nnder grants to rallxoads . . .
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declaratory
statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
707 I
785
876
683
63
1
2,601
670
18
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefirom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
6^304
ToUl.
81, 769. 82
412.99
45, 801. 20
69,672.79
121,810.79
[I88^82L63]
89,867.44
[9,750.01] .
80.00 '.
416,173.86 -.
4,62L14
6,901.04
2,882.00
687.00187
12,864.18
7,656.00
6,676.00 I
262.00
2.00 I
5,202.00 ;
1, 840. 00
36.00
60L90
127, 974. 02
12, 277. 14
5, 001. 04
8.007.00
252.00
2,00
5,202.00
1.340.00
36.00
801.90
90,964.90 161,703.10
6,000.00
219. 25
2,140.60
8.369.86
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296 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the busitiese transtusted at the local land office, etc, — ContiDued.
LAND OFFICE AT O'XEILL, NEBR.
[The area in brackets is not inolnded in the afrjn^vgate by States, baving been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Glass of entry.
Sale of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Excess paymeiits on nomestead, timber-
colture, and other entries and loca-
tions ,
Homestead entries oommated to cash un-
der section 2801, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries ander the timber-culture
laws
Pre-emption declaratof y statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therelVom
Salaries, foes, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing .
Incidental expenses
Total
No.
208
3*0
89
307
97
453
151
271
199
Acres.
29,904.84
32.86
[10, 345. 94)
29, 937. 70
13, 395. 15
1 69, 919. 34J
22, 611. 19
[39, 682. 181
Commis-
sions.
$335.61
1, 766. 00
604.00
Fees.
$885.00
1,450.00
1,084.00
398.00
2.00
Amount.
$37.38L12
41.15
12,932.44
1,479
65. 944. 04 2. 695. 61 j 4, 907. 23
=F
"I
50, 354.71
1.220.61
1,756.00
2,054.00
1,064.00
398.00
2.00
1. Oea 23
67, 957. 65
6,000,00
44.60
1.223.50
7,268.10
LAND OFFICE AT SIDNEY, NEBR.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries, and locations
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries ,
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws I
Lands entered with military bounty land- i
waiTants ,
Pre-emption declaratory statements •
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara- I
tory statements |
Amount received for reducing testimony i
to writing ■
247 ,
57!
119
37,985.60
261.26
[19,667.50]
423 38,196.86
606
308 I
362
2
3 I
326
78,971.18 1 2,688.55
.o ««^ .«, 2,309.65
[48,820.40]
56,908.82
[240.00]
280.00
1,448.00
Total of all classes of entries and | '
amount received therefrom ■ 1,935 i
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver.
174, 356. 86 ' 6, 446. 20
Expenses of depositing.
Incidental expenses
Total •.
4,975.00
3,500.00
8.00 I
9.00
652.00 ,
10.60 '
640.65,'
61. 172. 70
376.05
26,708.15
78,256.90
7,662.55
2,300.65
5,038.00
8.00
9.00
652.00
10.00
640.65
I
9.884.65 1 94,587.75
6,000.00
95.90
1,884.80
7,960.70
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS.
Statement of the hueiness transacted at the local land offioesj 6(<r.— Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT VALENTtNE, NBBR.
297
{The area in braoketti is not included in the aggregate by States, having been accounted for in tlie
original entries.]
Class of entrj-.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.!
Bzcess payments on homestead, timber-
cult a re, and other entries and locations .1
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
No.
172
53
70
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestetid entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
Lands entered with military bounty land-
warrants
Lands entered with private land scrip
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
Total.
295
241
473
288
2
3
225
Acres.
26,225.50
182.05
111,024.55]
26.407.55
37,286.06
[74,408.70]
45,394.20
[4, 787. 35]
320.00
480.00
1,657 I 100,837.00
I
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
$831.44
1,862.61
1,152.00
8,0416.05
r2,345.00
Amount.
$32, 781. 94
227.65
13, 780. 69
2,856.00 I
120.00 I
aoo\
450.00
1,381.87
7.069.87
46, 790. 28
3, 276. 44
1,862.61
4,007.00
120.00
8.00
450 00
1,28L87
57. 796. 20
5.975.28
91.29
1. 682. 32
7,748.)
LAND OFFICE AT CABSON CITY, NEV.
Sales of mineral lands
1R2.fM
830.00
Total cash sales
'
"
162.58
160.00
[360.00]
48»270.44
830.00
Original homestead envies
6.00
laoo
10.00
16.00
809
18.00
State selections
61&00
70.00
3.00
40.00
3.00
19.63
618.00
Applications to purchase mineral lands. . .
Applications to purchase coal lands
Mineral protests^ adverse claims
70.00
3.00
40.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
3.00
19. 63
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
837
48,598.02
24.00
768.63
1,617.63
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver a . . .
1,811.17
8.45
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
240.40
Total
3, 060. 02
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298 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the hM%n€$8 transacted at the local land offices, etc, — ContiDQed.
LAI^ OFFICE AT'BURBKA, NBV.
I The area in brackets 1« not included in the aitsregate by States, having been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
No.
AC- <'ri'-
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of mineral lands
26
7
370.14
2,960.00
01.805.00
790.00
Ori^al entries under the desert land act.
Total cash sales
88
3,830.14
480.00
04,863.37
2,685.00
Origiral homestead entries
8
410
37
124.00
030.00
State selections
820. 00 ffsa. no
Applications to purchase mineral lands. . .
Amonnt received for reducing testimony
to writing
870.00
2.88
370.00
2.88
Total of all classes of entries and
amonnt received therefrom
488
68,173.51
24.00
1,222.88
3,931.88
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
2,270.6a
14.40
420.00
Incidental expenses
Total
,
2.704.98
1
LAND OFFICE AT FOLSOK, N. MEX.
Sales of land subjell to pre-emption entry . .
45
10
6
5
6,751.47
81.50
040.19
!
8.438.86
i
39.42
Original entries under the desert land act.
der section 28C1, Revised Statutes
160.05
[800. OOJ
1.000.00
Total cash sales
06
87
10
84
1
99
1
7.423.16
13, 781. 46
9.638.8?
1,883.13
60 00
Original homestead entries
filfLIS
865.00
Final homestead entries
n 600.001' AA no
laws
5,183.84
80.00
136.00
830.00
2.00
297.00
8.00
880.63
466.00
Lands entered with military bounty land
warrants
2.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
297.00
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
torv statements
8.00
Amonnt received for reducing testimony
to writing
330.63
Total of all classes of entries and
amonnt received therefVom
298
26.418.46
714.18
1.827.63
12.180.59
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
2,539.50
Expenses of depositing
11.25
Incidental expenses
961.94
Total
_ _
3,512.69
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ACCOUNTS.
.299
Statetnent of the business irans€usted at the local land offices, etc, — CoDtinaed.
LAND OPFICB AT LAS CEUCES, N. MJSX.
(The area in biaoketa is not included in the anraffate by States, having been aoooonted for in the
orighiar entries.]
Class of entry.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Sales of mineral lands
Bxoess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations. .
^iginal entries under the desert-land act.
Final entries under the desert-land act —
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised SUtutes
No.
Acres.
61
72|
13 i
48
22
7,947.04
1,281.90
50.18
20,484.14
[5.959.71];.
[1,116.81]'.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Total cash sales .
r
Orii^nal homestead entries
Final homestead entries '
Lands entered under the timber-culture I
laws I
Lands entered with military bounty-land
warrants
Applications to purchase mineral lands. .
AppUoations to pu* chase coal lands
Mineral protests^ adverse claims
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers* and sailors* homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing ,
223
105
64
61
1
32
5
3
188
1
Total of all classes of entries and
amounts received therefrom
673
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register '
and receiver
Expenses of depositing j j
Incidental expenses
Total.
29, 725. 86
14, 830. 77
[8,794.85]
7,550.74
120.00
Amount.
$9,934.8»
j 6,645.00
I 7a 98
5. 108. 54
5,950.71
1,896.01
1660 69
885.12
204.00
$076.00
62,286.86 1,090.81
480.00
8.00
320.00
15.00
80.00
664.00
3.00
481.21
29.01&18
1,586.60
336.1^
684.00
3.00
320.00
1S.0»
30.00
564.00
3.00
481.21
2,871.21 32.989.15
4,096.3^
13. 70
1,258.90
6,368.95
LAND OFFICE AT ROSWELL. N. MEX.
Sales of land subiect to pre-emption entry.
Sales of mineral lands
8
3
66
4
1,283.73
49.51
34,340.96
[1,480.00]
i
1,604.66
255.00
Original entries under the desert-land act.
8,585.25
Final entries under the desert-land act
1, 480. 00
Total cash sales
81
23
1
73
1
5
2
88
65,674.19
3,666 58
11 924.91
Original homestead entries
lafl no
230.00
368.00
Filial homefftead ertrifm
[160.00] '"6.00
11 504.88 292 00
6 OO
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
79J( An
1, 017. 00
4.00
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
160.00 . . ^AA
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
60.00
6.00
264.00
29.16
50.00
Applications to purchase coal lands
Preemption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
■ to writing - - -r- r..r ,
6.00
264 00
29. 1&
Total of all classes of entries and
amounts received therefrom
274
60,846.66
436.00 1 1,308.15
13. 609. 00
and rwM^ivflT. --,-,,,.,.-
1,508.71
Incidental expenses
1
534.78
1 . ■
Total
1
1
2,103.49
1
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300 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the business transacted at the local land offices, etc. — Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT SANTA Vt, N. MEX.
he acgregato by S
ori^nalentrSoB.]
[The area in brackets is not inoladed in the acgr^Eate by States, having been acconnted for in th«
Class of entry.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Saleeof mineral lands
Sales of coal lands
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
coltnre, and other entries and locations.
OriiElnal entries under the desert-land act.
Final entries under the desert-land act
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der seotion^Ol, Revised SUtntes ...
Total cash sales. .
Orijciual homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Lands entered with military bounty-land
warrants
Lands selected under granto to railroads. .
Applications to purchase mineral lands.. .
Applications to purchase coal lands
Applications to purchase town sites
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
No.
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, foes, and commissions of register
and receiver
Exj^enses of depositing. .
Incidental expenses. . . . .
Total
117
174
72
2
2209
8
49
1
188
3
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
8,006L23 {.
154.52 I.
80.30 ,.
59.44 L
2,970.11 ;.
[320.00]!.
(9«0.00]i.
11,270.30 j
26,274.27 ■ $1,025.03
[11, 018. 68] I 489.60
4.736.06 • 132.00
320.00
853, 329. 75
$1,826.00
Amount.
$10,207.96
740.00
1,600.00
79.55
762.81
320.00
1, 400. 00
2866
394,92a8
1,696.63
306.00
8.00
4,418.00
80.00
147.00
3.00
564.00
9.00
678.32 i
15,110.34
2,660.03
439.60
437.00
8.00
4,418.00
M.OO
147.00
3.00
664.00
9.00
67&32
7,837.22 I 24,6M.09
5.274.25
13.25
1,898.67
6,596.1
LAND OFFICE AT BISMARCK, N. DAK.
Salt- s of land subject to pre-emption entry . ' 166 25, 902. 25
Excess payments on homesiead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations. 28 I 89.89
Homestead entriea commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes » 8 [1, 279. 47]
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Luuds enteretl under the timber-cultare
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture laws
Lands entered with military bounty-land
warrants
Lands selected under gTante to railroads..
Applications to nurohase coal lands
Pn^ emption declaratory etatementa
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara*
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
1
201 I
200 ;
497 I
229 I
8
2|
216
31
308 ,
25, 99L 64
31.442.10
[78, 823. 88]
35. 908. 10
[1, 280. 00]
200.00
34,606.20
Total of bU classes of entries and i
amount received therefh>m
1660
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register !
and receiver !
Expenses of depositing t
Incidental expenses j
Total.
128,04&04
1,204.00
3,743.31
916.00
1,985.00
5,863.81
1.
S, 275. 00
32.00
5.00
431.33
6.00
616.00
10.00 I
208.41 I
32,577.89
177.83
1, 599. 35
34, 354. 67
3,189.00
3,743.31
3,19L00
32.00
5.00
48LS3
6.00
616.00
10.00
1,203.41
6, 563. 74 I 46. 781. 82
I
6,000.00
2a 09
1,97&75
8,006.75
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS.
301
Statement of thu business iramacted at the local land offices^ etc, — Continued.,
LAND OFFICJB AT DEVIL'S LAKE, N. DAK.
[The area in brackeU is cot indoded in the a^fsregate of States, having been acooanted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry,
Sales of land snl^ect to pre-emption entry. '
Excess payments on homestead, timber- i
cnltnre, and other entries and locations.,
Homestead entries oommnted to cash i
under section 2301, Revised Statutes >
No.
485
26
72
Total cash sales .
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
lAnds entered with military bounty land
warrants
I.Ands entered with private land scrip . . .
Lands entered with valentine scrip
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' acd sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing I
383
208
153
Acres.
75, 291. 58
45.83
[11,457.07]
75, 337. 41
31. 668. 83
[24, 188. 15:
223 ! 34,702.69
.'{20. 00
820.00
40.00
Total of all ola-ses of entries and I i
amount received therefrom I 1 , 571 '
142, 388. 93
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
$04,114.66<
57.34
14, 321. 39
$792.10 r^ 026. 00..
604.94
892.00
2,289.04
2, 190. 00
8.00 I
108, 496. 39
2.817.10
604.94
3,082.oa
8.00
1.00
796.00 j
2.00 !
466.64
1.00
796.00
2.00
466.64
6,488.64; 116,271.07
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register |
and receiver :
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses . . '. I
ToUl.
.1.
6.000.00
61.00
2, 057. 00
8, 118. 00
LAND OFFICE AT FABGO, N. DAK.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Total cftsh sales
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the tiraber-oulture I
laws.
Lands entered with military bounty land I
warrants
Pre-emption derlar&tory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
118
24
178
245
729
822 j
28l
1
263
17,95&64
98.89
[5, 632. 82]
18, 057. 53
37, 768. 65
[lis, 970. 03]
50, 702. 85
[4, 383. 87 J
160.00
1, 587. 01
4, 821. 88
1,28&00
I
2, 385. 00 I
1
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
3, 190. 00 I
112.00
4.00 t
526.00 ;
6.00 *
1,525.55 I
26,97&81
203.24
7, 841. 03
1, 709 106, 679 03
Salaries, few, and commissions of register |
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
Total
7,696.89
84.023.0fr
3, 972. 01
4,821.88
4, 478. 00
112.00
4.0O
526.00
6.00
1,525.55
7,748.55 1 49,468.52
6,000.00
20.60
1, 879. 50
7, 006. 10-
Digitized by VjOOQIC
302 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the husineai transaoted at the hoal land offices, 0ta.— Continoed.
LAND OFFIGJS AT GRAND FORKS. N. DAK.
] The area in brackets is not inclnded in the aggregate by States, having been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Bxcess payments on homestead, timber*
cnltnre, and other entries and locations.
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries.
Final homestead entries —
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture laws.
Lands entered with private land scrip —
Lands entered with Sioux half-breed scrip.
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of regis-
ter and receiver
Bxpenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
Total.
8,124.85
LAND OFFICB AT GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA.
253
892.98
992.91
&00
Comnetitive bids
Total cash sales
258
272
892.93
022,978.42
[800.00]
907 01
Orifirinal homestead entries
15,674.87
20.00
39,476.00
5^049.37
20 00
Soldiers' and sailors' homeatead declara-
tory statements
54A00
1, 373. 52
544.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing . - r
1,373.52
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received thereflrom
4,668
623,87L35
16,694.37
41,302.52
57.983.90
ter and receiver
8,000.80
0135
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses .-.--r.-.,^
8,870180
Total
9.688.15
Digitized by
Google
ACCOUNTS.
303
Statmnent of the husiness transacted at the looal land offlcesy eto, — Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT KING FISHER, OKLAHOMA.
(The are* in brackets la not inoiaded in the asicregate by States, baring been acoonnted for in the
orifnnal entries. I
Class of entry.
Ho. i A<,r«. 1 C»»Si*"
' i
Fees.
Amount.
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
cnlture, and other entries and locations. .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301 Revised Statutes
246
3
914.60
[440.00]
$1,143.19
560.00
Total ^asb sales
248
3,000
1
5
167
914.60
458,905.22
[160. 00)
309.90
1,603.19
40,599.35
4.00
Ploal homestead entries
$11,469.35
4.00
$29,130.00
Indian allotments
tOTT statements
334.00
192.93
334.00
Amount reoived for redncinx testimony to
writlnc
199.93
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received thereflrom
8.421
460,129.72
11,478.35
29, 656. 93
42,823.47
Sahuriee, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
6,000.00
9.40
■.
Incidental eznenses
4,309.45
Total
10,311.85
LAND OFFICE AT BURNS, OREGON.
Sales of lands subject to pre-emption entry .
Sales of timber and stone lands
107
6
8
13
5
22
15,963.06
480.00
82.64
9.083.70
[475. 10]
[3,401.61]
J..J
19,968.80
1,200.00
28(28
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
Final entries nnder the desert land act. . .
620.95
475 10
der section 2801, Revised Sutntes
4,262.01
.
Total cash sal^s
160
181
67
68
2
5
1
176
1
18,649.48
20,060.90
[8,510.341
8,161.02
26,480.14
2,033.24
319.13
753.24
319.13
24a 00
1.;!80.00
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
635.00
20.00
50.00
10.00
528.00
3.00
1,142.45
783.00
Applications to purchase mineral lands. ..
20.00
60.00
Miners] nrotests. adverse claims .........
10 00
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
528.00
3.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
1 119 AK
1 "■
Xotal of an classes of entries and
506
46,771.46
1,320.37
3,668.46; 81,81&96
and receiver ,
4,486.54
108.60
Incidental expenses...'!
1.141.10
Total
.,*,,
6,780.14
Digitized by VjOOQIC
304 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LxVND OFFICE.
Statement of the husinefta traniocted at ike local laud offices, efc— CoDtinuod.
LAND OFFICE AT LA GRANDE, OREGON.
[The area in brackets la not included iu the aggregate by States, having been accoanted for in th«*
original entries. J
ClasAof enirj.
No.
Acre*.
Commis-
sions.
.Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
SaleH of timber and atone lands
Sa1«a of mineral lands
Sales of town-lots
ExoeHS payments on homestead, timber-
cultnre, and other entries and locations.
Origiuftl entries under tlie desert land act.
Kinsl entries under the desert land act —
Homestead entries coniniut4'd to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales .
Orlpinal homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Land:! entered under the timber- culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture •
laws
State selections, school indemnity
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
Applications to purchase coal lands ,
Applications to purchase timber and stone I
lands I
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara- |
tory statements
Amount received for reducing- testimony
to writing
232
53
30
6
3
29
34, 366. 24
6,741.22
37B.04 :
363 :
322
192
16
1
4
4 ;
53 ,
581
118.62
843.98
[534.59]
(4,319.291
$42,945.30
]«,853.05
1,347.50
18.00
149.83
211.00
534.59
6, 599. 12
42,43ai0 «7,«58.39
49,453.06 i fl,883.62
[30,473.02] 1.155.90
11,010.49 296.00
12,416.78]
80.00 I
$3,130.00
700.00
64,
2.
40.
12.
530.
1, 748.
9.
730.
Total of all classes of entries and I
amount received th^reflrom I
. Salaries, fees, and commiasions of register
and receiver | -
Incidental expenses
1,613
I I
102.081.65 1 8,837.52 1 6,960.80
6. 015. 62
1,155.90
996.00
64.00
2.00
40.00
12.00
530.00
1.743.00
9.00
730.80
77,956.71
5.486.41
1,353.40
Total.
6,839.81
LAND OFFICE AT LAKEVIEW. OREGON.
Sales of land subject to preemption entry. ■
Sales of timber and stone ibuds I
Excess payments on homestead, timber- i
rnlture, and other entries and Inoationsl
Original entries under the desert land act.!
Final entries under the desert laud act i
Homesteatl entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes I
111 I
25 I
12
9
9 i
29
16, 737. 27 I .
8.850.73 .
29.29 I.
1.605.91 I.
11,800.00] .
[4,473.53] .
20. 921. 56
9.626.82
Total cash sales .
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands enteied under the timber-culture
laws
Lands entered with military bounty land
warrants
Lands selected under grants to railroads . .
State selections, school indemnity
Applications to pnrehaMt mineial lands . . .
Pre-emption declarator^' statements
Amount received for reducing testimony^
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefiom
Salaries, foes, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expeusi'S of depositing
Incidental expenses ,
Total.
25 I
150 i
681
63,927.48] 1,165.18
250.00
450.00
897.27
8.534.27
36.61
401.46
l,«».Ou
.S, 591.90
195 1
22,223.22 i..
38, 378. 37
1,791.17
222.96
114
37
17,764.48 1
[5, 945. 17j
666.17
222.96
1,125.00
69 1
9. 677. 97 j
276.00
630.00
" 906.00
1 '
160.00 ;..
4.00
132.00
46.00
4 00
66
10.560.00 1..
132.00
24 1
3,541.81 |..
46.00
250.00
450.00
897.27
48,077.77
6,575.U
51.90
928.40
6,555.74
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS.
305
Statement of the business transacted at the local iand offices, etc, — CoDtinaed.
LAND OFFICB AT OREGON CITY, OREGON.
[The area In braoktfto is not Inoladed in the a^cgregate by States, haying been accoant«d for in the
original entries ]
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Sales of land Kubject to pre*eniption entry.
Sales of timber and stone landa
Additional payment
£xces8 pnynifnts on homeMtea'l, timber-
colturi-, aud other entries and locations.
IIonieHtGad tiitrieM corumuti d to cash un-
der SVC lion *J3ul, Uevlaed Statutes
332
808
1
71
58
Total cash Hales ' 1,270
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entrien '
Lands entered with military bounty land )
warrants 5
Lands entered under the donation act ... •
State seleoliond, Hchuol indemnity ,
Applications to purchane coal lands
Applications to purchase timber and stone
lauds
Pre-emption decUmtory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statementH I
Amount receiveii fur reducing testimony
to writing
48,751.08
125, 916. 29
391. 73
[8,666,51]
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
691
259
2
92
72
807 :
892 I
175,059.49 ;
102, 096. 20
(37, 649. 45]
[120.00]
440.00
477.98
14, 168. 52
I
$4,602.63
1.937.83
$6, 570. 00 !
14.00 I
15.00 '
180. 82 ;
216.00
8, 070. 00
2. 670. UO
3.00 I
2, 539. 76
889,121.32
11,172.63
1,937.83
14.00
16. CO
180.82
216. 00
8. 070. 00
2, 678. 00
3.00
2, 539. 76
Tot si of oil classes of entries and
amount received therefrom 4, 090
• 1
292,242.19 < 6,540.46
20, -284. 58
415,946.36
6, UOO. 00
70.50
1,577.34
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and rcceivv*r . . . . ...............
Eznensea of denositinir .... .......... .. .......
Incidental ex nenses
Total
7, 647. 84
LAND OFFICE AT ROSEBURG, OREGON.
Sales of land subject to private entry
1
[85.70]
14,877.56
107. 12
Sales of land subject topie-emptionentry. 113
21, 474. 94
128. 003. 16
300 00
Sales of timber and stone lands
332
Sales of mineral lands
2 1 100.00
83 119. 75
8 [1,146.93]
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
cnltur(\ and other entries and locations.
263.76
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
1, 433. 66
Total cash sales- -.-^^-r t^rr.
489 1 66, 298. 67
389 64,821.40
169 [24, 127. 47]
3 1 320.00
2 807.83
488 78,061.63
151 582 64
Original homestead entries
•
3.274.54
1,396.43
8,560.00
6,834.54
1, 396. 43
Final homestea<l enti ies •
Lands entered with military bounty land
warrants
12.00
10.00
975.00
7.00
10.00
12.00
4, 970. 00
1,869.00
15.00
847.88
IJ 00
Lands entered nndar the donation att
Lands selected under grants to railroads..
10 00
975 00
State seleciiona, school indemnity
4 635. 17
7 OU
Annlications to nurchajie mineral lands
1
10 00
Applications to purchase coal lands 4
Applications to purchase timberaud stone
Pre-emption declaratory statements 623
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory stitements 5
Amount received for reducing testimony ,
to writing
12 00
4, 97U. 00
1, 869. CO
15.00
647 83
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
2,674
200,441.60
4,670.97
12,287.83
168.541.44
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and Tf^r^Wer -
6,000.00
227 36
Expenses of depositing '.
Incidental expenses
912 10
Total
7.139.46
U4U5 L O-
-20
Digitized by VjOOQIC
306 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the buHneee transacted at the local land officeSy etc. — Continned.
LAND OFFICE AT THE DALLES, OREGON.
[The area in brackets is not Included in the agzregate by States, having been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
Sales of laud subject to pre-emption entry
Sales of timber and stone lands
Sales of abandoned military reservations,
town lots, (Fort Dalles)
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations. .
Original entHes under the desiM t-land act.
Humestvad entries commuted to cash iu-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
Total cash sales.
No.
138 I
5
Acre;.
Commis-
sions.
20, 981. 72
560.00
27
■|
Original homestead entries
Final homeHtead entries
Lands euteied under the timber-culture
Fin.il entries under the timber-cultnre
laws
Lands en tiered with military bounty land
warrants
Lands selected under grants to railroads. . ,
Applications to purchase coal lands I
A pplications to purchase timlier and stone I
lands , .• I
Pre-emption declaratory statements |
Amount received foi reducing teHtimon^' i
to writing I
102
130
211
106
12
1
2
1
8
218
72.07
200.00
[4,145.15]
Totfll of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and couimissiona of register
Hud receiver
Expenses of dt^poAitiug
Incideutal expenses
881
Total.
I
21,813.70
10,808.35 $748.60
133,608.83]; 1,275.00
14,864.80
[1,883.111
160.00 1.
320.00 .
424 00
Fees.
Amoant.
$26,227.27
1,400.00
W.00
00.13
5a 00
8.181.42
I
56, 967. 03 . 2, 447. 50 3, 578. 54
$1,255.00 I
065.00
4&00
-4.00
4.00
3.00
80.00
654.00
565.54
LAND OFFICE AT SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry .|
Sales of mineral lands |
Sales uf coal lands ,
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations |
Original entries under the dcs< r^land act.
Final entries under the desert-land act —
Homestt »'l entries commutea to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
02
82
8
22
307
143
22
Total cash sales.
Original homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the . timber-culture
laws
Final entries nnder the tlmbercnlture
laws
Lands selected nnder grants to railroads..
Applications to purchase mineral lands. . .
Applications to purchase coal lands
Mineral protests, adverse claims
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Incidental expenses
Total.
676
350
249
158
7
672
90
78
50
2,692
11,011.87
1, 245. 42
1, 160. 74
20.01
80,554.94
124, 895. 231
I
[3,176.99] .
93. 901 98
40, 206. 87 '
[35,232.60]
18,611.67 I
[720.00]
107, 474. 44
2, 270. 61
1,45L10
632.00
260,284.86
4,363.71
3, 215. 00 t
1,265.00*
28.00 '
1,343.00
900.00
284.00
500.00
1,086.00
1,684.42
33,038.82
2.003.50
1,275.00
1,389.00
48.00
4.00
4.00
3.00
80.00
664.00
5e6.U
39,064.86
4. 500. 00
39L00
680.00
5,219.00
6.
33,
21.
98L08
410lOO
194.80
81.07
979.60
938.73
4,821.24
96,806161
485.01
461.10
1.897.00
1.
28.00
343.00
900.00
284.00
086.00
684.42
10,265.42 110,416l74
0.000.00
8,40L40
9,401.40
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS. 307
Statement of the husinese traneacted at the loeal land offlcee, 0/c.— Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT ABERDEEN^, S. DAK.
{.The area in brackets is not included in the af;|j:regate by States, having been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
Ko.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Sapplemental payments
894
6
49
70
62,519.85
iao7
114.61
110,977.94]
$78,149.93
12.59
Ezc4>SA payments on homestead, timber-
cultnre and other entries and iooationa.
148.38
Homestead entries comranted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes ...
18,724.31
Total cash sales
519
258
516
368
62
552
5
62,644.5:^
40, 217. 60
[81.822.05]
57, 907. 77
[9. 915. 89]
C [160.00]
\ 160.00
92,030.21
8,545.66
2,052.57
5,107.00
248.00
Original homestead entries
11,005.66
2,052.57
1,472.00
$2,540.00
Final homent'^ad entries. . . - - . ,
Lands entered under the timber-cnlture
laws
3,635.00
248.00
8.00
1,104.00
10.00
67a 87
Final entriCH nnder the timber-culture laws
Lands entered with military bounty-land
}
8.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to wiitinGT ......... .....................
1, 104. 00
10.00
673.87
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefh)m
2,282
160, 929. 90
4,530.23 8,118.87
104,679.31
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver .. .. ...
6,000.00
41.40
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
1,962.30
Total
8,003.70
LAND OFFICE AT CHAMBERLAIN, 8. DAK.
ales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
5
720.00
900.00
Total cash sales
6
3
84
19
32
1
92
10
720.00
480.00
[5,387.101
2, 931. 08
[5, 116. 92]
900.00
Original homestead entries
1,230.00
136.00
76.00
8,075.00
4,805.00
136.00
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
185.00
128.00
2.00
184.00
20.00
89.02
261.00
Final entries under the timber-cnlture laws
128.00
Town-site filings
2.00
V re-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
184.00
20.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing ;
89.02
'
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received thereftrom
196
4,131.08
1,442,00
3,683.02
6,025.02
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
1, 500. 00
3.90
Expenses of depositing
Incidental exi/enses
760.10
Total
2, 264. 00
Digitized by VjOOQIC
308 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Staiement of the business transacted at the local land offlots, efo.— Continned.
LAND OFFICE AT HURON, S. DAK.
[The area in brackets is not included in the as^eicate by States, having been accounted for in the
orlglual entries. ]
Class of entry.
No.
I
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry . ' 147
Sapplemental payments I 3
Excess payments on homestead, timber- |
CDltnre, and other entries and locstions. 41
Homeatesd entries commuted to cash un- I
der section 2301. Kevisd Statutes ' 50
Total cash sales.
Orii;inal homestead entries i
Final homcBtead entries ,
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws I
Final entries under the timber-culture laws |
Lands entered with military bounty land- 1
warrants
Lands entered with private land scrip
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead dedara*
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony !
to writing I
241
230
970
491
91
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
21, 945. 06
L68
103.20
[7, 438. 431
22,050.03 I
37, 130. 13
[169,433.78]
76, 99a 16
[14, 503. 32J
80.00
160.00
Total of all classes of entries and |
amount received therefrom | 3, 277
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Incidental expenses •
Total.
136, 418. 32
1964. 02
4. 236. 48 I
I
1,964.00 I
7. 164. 50
$2,440.00 .
4,845.00 '
364.00
2.00
"**472."o6
14.00
2,321.22 '
t27, 431. 36
2.1»
129. U
9,298.08
36,860.f»
3.464.02
4.236.48
6, S09. 00
384.00
2.00
"""472." 00
14.00
2, 321. 22
10,458.22 54.483.40
6.000.00
5.(183.40
11,083.40
LAND OFFICE AT MITCHELL, S.DAK.
Sales of Und subject to pre-emption entry..
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301. Revist* d Statutes
115
28
39
1
16,658.73
14&61
[5,598.20]
160.00
20.823.43
185.78
6,997. 7&
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2, act June 15, 1880
188.00
Total cash sales '. ...
183
148
658
270
248
2
122
16, 807. 34
21,625.94
[101,638.631
41,184.12
[37,816.451
28 192.96
Original homestead entries . .
Final homestead entries
540.67
2, 540. 97
1,080.00
1,385.00
1.925.87
2 540.97
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
2, 600. 00
a IMO AO
Final entries under the timber-cnltuie
laws .•.....-■.••.......•..••... .. ..
992.00 fi09.IMl
Applications to purchase mineral lands. ..
Pre-emption declaratory statements
tory statements
20.00
244.00
2.00
1,479.51
20.00
244.00
1
3.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
1. 479. 51
1
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
1 !
1,632 < 79,617.40! 4.161.64
6,722.51
39. 077. U
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
'
8,00a 00
Expenses of depositing
1
20.00
Ineidentnl expenses .*rr ,
1
2,803.45
1
Total
1
8,914.05
1
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS. 309
Statement of the bueineee transacted at the local land office, etc. — Coatinned.
LAND OPFIC£ AT PISKRB, S. DAK.
(The area in braoketa la not Inoladed in the aggregate by Statea, baring been aocoonted for in the
original entries.]
Claea of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amounts.
Excess payments on homestead, timber*
cnlture, and other entries and locations.
*
684.31
19.41
[200.00]
$855.40
24.27
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2801. Revised Statutes
250.00
Total cash sales
9
14
703.72
480.00
[1,480.00]
1,103.09
1, 129. 67
Original homestead entriea
$166.06
36.00
28.00
$420.00
586.06
Final homestead entries....
86.00
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
70.00
28.00
119.60
98.00
Mineral protests, adverse claims
28.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to trriting
119. 60
'•
Total of all classes of entries and
amonu t received therefh>m
42
2,286.81
230.06
687.60
1.997.33
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
'
59176
Expenses of depositing
1
35
Incidental expenses ..
i
1 013.15
Total
..!....
1,608.26
1
LAND OFFICB AT RAPID CITY. S. DAK.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Sate nffnineral lands
808
43
60
52
47.236.31
905.45
115.76
[7,921.991
59. 045. 43
3.027.50
144.80
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culinre. and other entries and locations.
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
9, 902. 50
Total cash sales .......x..
458
384
121
820
12
10
5
32
1
3
509
4
48.257.52
52,016.87
[18,85L37]
49,157.43
[1,720.00]
1,600.00
960.00
72, 120. 23
Original homestead entries
1,800.58
472.66
1,276.00
8.285.00
4,585.58
472.66
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
3,100.00
48.00
40.00
4,876.00
46.00
Lantls entered with military bounty land
warrants
40.00
Lands entered with private land scrip
Applications to purchase mineral lands...
Applications to purchase coal lands
Mineral protects, adverse claims
320.00
2.00
30.00
1, 018. 00
8.00
704.29
320.00
2.00
30.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
i,oiaoo
8.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing.
704.29
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
1,804 151.990.82
8,049.24
8.655.29
83,724.76
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
6, 000. 00
JBxpenses of depositing
423.23
Incidental expenses. .7. ...................
1,465.15
Total
7,888.88
Digitized by VjOOQIC
310 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the hueinese iraneaoted at the local land office^ etc, — Contioued.
LAND OFFICE AT WATERTOWN. 8. DAK.
[The areA in brackets are not included In the aggregate by States, having been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sale of land snUect to pre-emption entry. .
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
caltnre, and other entries and locations. .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Bevieed Statutes
267
49
68
37,996.86
150.61
[10,445.11]
$47, 494. 52
191.44
18,256.87
Total wwh sales
384
276
1,028
366
203
13
2
390
88,146.96
88,896.69
1160.541.59]
54.555.38
[31. 307. 30]
( [320.00
) 1,760.00
160.00
60,942.38
3,659.60
4, 253 77
Original homestead entries
$1,089.60
4,253.77
1,464.00
$2,570.00
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws jt.
Final entries under tne timber-culture
laws
3,480.00
812.00
52.00
4.00
780.00
2.013.74
4.944.00
812.00
Lands entered with military bounty land \
warrants i
Lands entered with private land scrip ....
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing..
\
52.00
5
4.00
780.00
2,013.74
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received there(h>m
2,661
134,619.03
6,807.37
9,711.74
77.461.44
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
6,000.00
Expenses of depositing
40.25
T'l^T^dental expenses ..T
3,758.85
Xotal
0,799.10
LAND OFFICE AT YANKTON, S. DAK.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Excess payments on homestead. Umber-
culture, and other entries and locations . .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
62
14
24
7,476.99
48.11
[3,123.981
1
9 846.26
1
60 16
4,029.91
Total cash oalfNi
100
63
292
84
274
2
67
7,525.10
8,622.58
13,436.88
775.57
Original homestead entries
21S. 57
560.00
Final homestead entries -
[48,724.38] 1.000.62
1,090.62
Lands entered under the timbercnUure
laws
11,406.19.
[88,61L20J
336.00
760.00
1,096.00
1,096.00
Final entries under the timber-culture
laws
1 MM. 00
Application to purchase coal lands
Pre-emption declaratory statements
to writing. ...............
4.00 i 4.6o
114.00
994.42
114.09
994.42
ToUl of all classes of entries and
872
27,658.87
1
1.642.19 1 3,528.42
18,606.94
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver ., ,, ,. ,.,.
4.875.64
9.40
90&10
Exnenses of denositine
:;::::::::::
Tnmdental exTtenses -r ,
1
Total
1
5,793.14
1
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS.
bll
Statement of the busineaa tranaaoted at the local land officee, etc.— Con tinned. ^
LAND OFFICE AT KOBTH YAKIMA, WASH.
I The area In bncketo is not Incladed in the asgregate by States, having been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
Sales of land snlrjeot to pre-emption entry-
Sales of timber and stone lands
Sales of mineral lands
Bxcess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
Original entries under the desert-land act.
final entries under the desert-land act . .
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301. Revised Statates
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2, act of June 15, 1890 ,
Total cash sales .
Ori^al homestead entries
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the tlm ber-cnlture laws
Final entries under the timber-culture laws .
Lands selected under grants to railroads . .
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
Applications to purchase coal lands
Applications to purchase timber and stone
Minoral protests, adverse claims
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
Expenses of depositing
Incidental ex]»enses
Total.
No.
243
6
11
22
54
15
394
203
91
210
7
180
19
2
6
2
281
1,403
Acres.
87,855.48
960.00
195.68
227.06
11,339.35
1 2, 027. 50 J
[6,108.60]
[640. 00)
60, 077. 67
80,936.80
[14,050.42]
81,999.87
[716.581
28,837.82
141,851.06
Commis-
sions.
Fe<»s.
Amount
$1,642.12
915.00
840.00
3,397.12
153,002.08
2.400.00
978.36
335.43
5,649.30
2,347.60
9,221.78
I 800.00
)l, 960. 00
2,030.00
28.00
358.00
190.00
6.00
60.00
20.00
813.00
24.00
626.29
6,145.29
74, 734. 40
8, 602. 12
915.00
2, 870. 00
28.00
358.00
190.00
6.00
60.00
20.00
843.00
24.00
626.29
84. 276. 81
6,000.00
135.95
1,863.20
7, 999. 15
LAND OFFICE AT SEATTLE. WASH.
SaIas nf IaiiHa %iL nnbllc nnrtion
1,311
6
587
13
2
126
1
563
167,850.44
27.54
83,895.66
2,056.54
242, 781 49
273.12
207,180.49
^^^\ ^^_
82. 164. 40
HaIab e%f tnvm lAtn
100.00
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
686.04
920.53
2.90
[81,669.84]
120, 166. 27
2,609
1,628
948
8
2
2
52
588
1
44
1,702
13
254,017.12
207,434.45
[137,861.57]
280.00
181.43
603,48&80
Original homestead entries..-.
9,721.57
6,572.70
14,060.00
23.781.67
6,572.70
warrants
Lands selected under grants to railroads. .
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
Applications to purchase coal lands
Anplications to parohase timber and stone
10.00
LOO
20.00
166.00
5.830.00
10.00
1.00
20.00
156.00
5, 880. 00
OerrardflUngs
44.00
5, 106. 00
39.00
8,139.63
44.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead decUra-
5, 106. 00
39.00
Amount r«)ceived for reducing testimony
to writing
.....fa......
8,139.68
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
7,692
461,913.00
16,294.27
33,455.63
663,238.70
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
6,000.00
Incidental expenses
1
5. 627. 70
Total
11,627.70
Digitized by VjOOQIC
312 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the httsinees transacted at the local land offioee, etc, — Continaed.
LAND OFFICE AT SPOKANE FALLS, WASH.
[The area in brackets U not inelnded in the affgregate by States, having been accounted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
No.
Aores.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Salps of timber H-T^d stono lands - x x
182
30
46
46
24, 467. 83
2,702.72
136.84
[8,208.74]
147,062.71
6,766.81
Excess payments on homestea >, timber-
cult nre and other entries and locAtinnii
29i.80
Home8t<>ad entries commoted to cash un-
der section 2801, Bevised Statutes
14,012.45
Total cash sales.... >.
804
608
641
188
73
1
27
8
24
1
656
1
27, 805. 80
78,210.71
[84,17L061
20,803.60
[11, 330. 25]
80.60
4,272.22
60,024.77
0,807.80
Ori jrinsl homestead entries
^052.80
6,006.02
562.00
$4,855.00
Final homestcMd entries
6, OOf. 82
1,8^.00
202.00
Lands entered under the timber-culture
jaws
Final en tries under the timber-cnlturelawtt
1.305.00
202.00
1.00
63.00
80.00
240.00
1.00
1,668.00
3.00
1,638.56
Lands entei-ed with Valentine scrip
Lands selected under grants to railroads..
Applications to purchase mineral lands.. .
Applications to purchase timber and stone
laods .. :...
LOO
63.00
30.00
240.00
Valentine scrip flliugs
1.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
1,668.00
3.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
1,63&56
Tiital of all classes of entries and
amount received therefh>m
2,177
128,221.02
11,610.22
0,08&56
00,62L66
Salaries, f^es, and commissions of register
and recei\*er
6.000.00
Incidental expenses
8,865.60
Total
0,855.00
LAND OFFICE AT VANCOUVER, WASH.
Sales of land subject to private entry
Sales of land sulyect to pre-emption entry.
Sales of timber and stone lands ..--
6
171
822
1
8
38
60
878.02
22, 416. 65
47,867.11
18.20
^20.00
246.73
[7, 273. 40j
1.097.25
44 4U3.62
118.392L69
45.50
Sales of coal lands
4,800.90
465w50
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culiure, and other entries and locations.
...........
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
14 196^08
Total cash sales
581
400
810
11
1
1
1
1
78
322
614
1
71,235.71
65,042.31
[45,984.00]
1,274.84
[80.00]
[160.00]
6.22
160.78
183, 401. U
8,485.04
Original homestead entries
4.126.04
8, 043. 67
44.00
4,360.00
Fiual homestead entries
3,043.57
134.00
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws
00.00
4.00
4.00
1.00
Final entries under the timber-culture laws
4.00
Lan<ls entered with military bounty land-
warrants
4.00
Lands entered with Porterfleld scrip . ...
Lands entered with Indian allotments
1 00
ApplicHtions to purchase coal lands
Applications to purchase timber and stone
lands
237.00
3,220.00
1, 612. 00
3.00
1,793.29
237.00
3,220.00
1,542.00
8.00
Pr»»-emption declaratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tor v statements
Anio'nnt received for reducing testimony
to wiiting
1,793.29
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
2,331
138,618.86
7, 212. 61
11,254.29 1 201,868.01
Salsries. fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
6,000.00
130.50
1.428.90
Expenses of depositing.
Incidental expenses
Totnl
7,550l40
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS. 313
Statement of the huHness transacted at the local land offices^ afo.— Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT WALLA WALLA, WASH.
the aggregate by 1
original entries.]
[ The area in brackets is not tnolnded in the aggregate by States, baying been aocoanted for in the
Tlglnr' — "-^— "■
Class of entry.
Ko.
Acres.
Commls-
aiona.
Fees.
Amount
Sales ot land subject to pre-emption entry.
Sales of timber and stone lands. ...........
148
1
21
5
45
20,6U.56
160.00
lO&U
636.08
16,668.76]
$37, 704. 68
400.00
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture and other entries and locations.
220.10
Original entries onder the desert land act.
Homestead entries commuted to cash
nnder section 2301, Revised SUtntes....
817.64
10,447.87
Total cash sales
220
176
200
128
103
1
1
247
*
21, 414. 76
26,088.78
[82,634.10]
18,788.47
[14,767.61]
80.00
49, 090. 09
Oriirinal homestead entries
$1,607.13
1.907.75
612.00
$1,665.00
3,162.13
1, 907. 75
Lands entered under the timber-culture
ln^g
1,216.00
40&00
4.00
10.00
74L00
12.00
1,070.11
6,115.11
1,727.00
408.00
Final entries under the timber-culture laws
Lands (entered with military bounty land
warrants
4.00
Applications to purchase timber and stone
lands
10.00
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
741.00
12.00
Amount receired for reducing testimony
to writing
1,070.11
68,182.08
Tot*l of all classes of entries and
amounts received therefrom
1,088
66,816.96
3,926.88
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver. .r
6,000.00
ExpeDs«*s of defiositing
110.28
Incidental eznenses . . ........
1,033.99
Total
7, 150. 22
^ 1
LAND OFFICE AT ASHLAND, WIS.
Sales of land subject to private entry
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture and other entries and locations
26
93
6
67
27,138.80
9,900.72
29.72
[6,880.76]
33, 923. 64
20,448.55
71.94
Homestead entfies commuted to cash
under section 2301, Revised Statutes
15,308.87
Total rash sales
182
113
114
1
162
1
87,069.24
13, 456. 17
[16,761.77]
40.00
69,752.90
1.659.06
737.98
OriflriTiftl lioFnMitftM] f^ntrifMi.. .*. .
619. Od
737.98
940.00
Final homestead entries
Lands entered with Indian allotment ....
Pre-emption declaratory stai ements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
torv statements
324.00
2.00
699.89
324. 00
2.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
699.89
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
673
60, 664. 41
1, 357. 04
1,965.89
73, 075. 83
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
i
4, 778. 00
Incidental expenses
!
210. 16
1
Total ^
1
4, 988. 16
1
Digitized by VjOOQIC
314 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the busiuesa transacted at the heal land office, eto.— Coutinued.
LAND OFFICE AT BAU CLAIRE, WIS.
The area in brackets is not included in the BKgregate by States, having been accoanted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of lands subject to pre-emption entry
Excess paymenU on homestead, timber-
Homestead entries commuted to cash
under section 2301, Revised SUtntes ....
46
3
0
3,325.27
23.61
$5,106.60
29 39
[1,198.75]
1,498.44
Totftl rftflh «Al«a _
68
187
846
8,348.78
12, 601. 43
6,634.43
Original homestead entries >••
i424.46
$065.00
1. 389. 46
Final homestead entries
rsfi. 232. 561 1. 239. 31
1. '£0. 31
T^nrfa AnfArnd with Tndlan allntniATitA
2 120.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
4 521. m
7.00 I 7.00
136
_
276.00 ' 27A.ao
1,000.40
1 096.40
Total ot all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
685
16.602.01
1,657.77
2.888.40
10.630.60
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver. ....,., »..T-r
4. 163. 84
TimldAnf aI ATTiAnAAa ..
253.80
Total
4.419.14
LAND OFFICE AT MENASHA. WIS.
Sales of lands Mubfect to pre-emption entrv .
Homestead entries commuted to cash
nnder section 2301 Revised Statutes . . .
2
5
200.00
[375.10]
250.00
468 88
Total ca^h sales ..i..
7
87
86
23
200.00
8,895.26
[4,019.21]
718.88
97.71
100.49
290.00
387 71
Final homestead entries
100.49
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writins ... •• ... ..
46.00
247.43
46L00
247 43
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therBfh>m
103
4,096.26
198.20
683.43
1,600.51
and receiver.
1,506L01
196.00
Incidental expenses
Total
1 704 01
Digitized by
Google
ACCOUNTS. 315
Statement of the business transacted at the local land officeSj etc, — Continued.
LAND OFFICE AT WAUSAU, WIS.
[The area in brackets is not included ia the aegregate by States, having been ajooanted for in the
original entries.]
Class of entry.
Ko.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sale of land subject to pre-emption entry .
Bzcees payments on homestead, timber-
cnltare, and other entrioH and locations.
16
7
15
2
], 649. 00
54.52
[1,393.96]
r200.00]
$3,222.50
68.18
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2301, Revised Statutes
2,142.47
230.00
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2, act Jane 16, 1880
Total cash sales
40
146
184
1
79
1,603.62
15.288.73
in, 407. 041
140.00]
5. 663. 15
Original homestead entries.
$490.12
706u60
$1,090.00
1, 580. 12
706.60
TPtwal AiftH^ under the tlmber^oalture laws.
4.00
15&00
692.16
4.00
Pre-emption declaratory statements
towriting
158 00
692.16
Total of b\\ classes of entries and
460
16,837.26
1,106.72
1,944.16 i 8.804.03
8.164.14
1.65
100.00
**
Total
3,265.79
1
LAND OFFICE AT BUFFALO, WYO.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entiy.
Sales of mineral lands...
136
12
6
16
66
69
i5
20.726.49
1, 461. 96
944.21
29.40
18,126u47
[20,28L65]
[7,087.90]
25,907.16
8.665i00
9,442.10
36.79
Sales of ooal lands
calturot and other entries and locations. .
Final entries under the desert land act
8, 2«1. 62
20,231.65
8.935.87
Homestead entries commuted to cash an-
der section 2301. Bevised Statutes
Total cash salee
838
168
55
75
86^277.62
28,93L00
[8,777.87
11, 865. 07
71,499.69
2, 414. 50
830.00
1 fK>ji on
904.60
830.00
800.00
1,610.00
Final homestead entries
Lands entered under the timber-oulture
laws
725w00
Applications to purchase mineral lands —
Applications to purchase coal lands
Preemption declaratory statements
8
80.00 1 80.00
194
245
8
682.00 ' 582.00
736.00
^ 9.00
632.06
735.00
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory statements
9.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
towriting. :.
632.95
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
1,071
71,664.19
1,634.50
1
4,278.95' 77,308.14
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
j
6,000.00
1, 244. 40
Incidental exnenses
Total
7, 244. 40
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316 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Statement of the hueinees traneacted at the looal Innd offioes, etc, — Continned.
LAND OFFICE AT CHEYENNE, WYO.
(The area in brackets is not included in the agneirate by States, having been accounted for la the
originia entries.]
ICIass of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
Amount.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
fial(*B ot mineral lands ........
1
21
28
78
104
11
11,883.87
220.47
2,770.47
125.70
20,290.24
[38, 790. 78]
[1,757.76J
$16, 978. 68
603L45
Sales of roal lands
56,86L90
228L50
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture and other entries and locations
OriKlnal entries under the desert land act.
f*inal entries under the desert land act . . .
6.666.19
40. 710. 73
Homestead entries commuted to cash un-
der section 2801, Revised Statutes
2, 997. 19
Total cash sales
821
174
60
165
5
144
1
203
4
84. 780. 75
26,607.88
127, 026. 74
Orif^inal homestead entries
il. 365. 00
$1, 700. 00
3,065.00
Pinal httniestesd entries
18,910.10) 493.80
498.89
Lands entered noder the timber-culture
laws
22,660.96
620.00
1,445.00
50.00
432.00
10.00
609.00
12.00
2,066.00
60.00
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
A pplicattous to purchase coal lands
Mineral protests, adverse claims
432.00
10.00
Pre-emption decLiratory statements
Soldiers' and sailors' homestead declara-
tory stft tements
■■■"•
600.00
13.00
Amount received for reducing testimony
to "writing
444.90
lii. QO
............
Total of all classes of efitiles and
amount received therefrom
1.067
84.05&60
1
2,478.89 1 4.702.90
134.208.63
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver
6,000.00
lOLOO
Expenses of depositing
Incidental expenses
.
1.805.60
Total X
7,997.40
LAND OFFICE AT EVAN8T0N. WYO.
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
18
1
16
4
18
1
2.412.60
20.00
2,197.70
3.58
11,636.55
13.349.41]
[160. OOJ
1
3, 215. 75
50.00
Sales of coal lands
43,954.00
5.40
Excess payments on homestead, timber-
culture, and other entries and locations.
Orii^inal entries under the desert land act.
3,062.01
Final entries under the desert land act. . . .
8,349.41
200.00
Hon^estead entries commuted to cash
under section 2301. Revised Statutes
Total cash sales
90
45
28
81
2
31
56
16,170.43
6,976.89
[4,408.52]
4,387.81
53.836.57
817.75
Original homestead entries
877. 75 440- 00
Final homestead entries
185.45
194.00
185.45
Lands entered under the timber-culture
laws -
280.00
20.00
93.00
16a 00
620.93
404.00
Applications to purchase mineral lands . . .
Applications to purchase coal lands
Pre-emption declaratory statements
Amount received for reducing testimony
to writing
20.00
93.00
16&00
I
620.93
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
m
27,634.63
687.20
1,62L93
56, 145w 70
Salaries, fees, and commissions of register
and receiver -
3.665.81
88.15
Exi»enses of depositing
Incidental expenses
357.50
' ,
Total
,
4.056.5S
1
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ACCOUNTS.
317
Statement of the hueineas tranecMted in Statee of Ohio, IllinoiSf and Indiana during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
[The area In brackets is not included in the segregate by States, having been accounted for in the
origual entries.]
OHIO.
Class of entry.
No.
Acres.
Commis-
Rions.
Fees.
Amount*
Sales of land subject to pre-emption entry.
2
105.93
$132.4^
Total cash sales
2
1
105.03
80.00
132.41
Original homestead entries
$2.00 1 ' $5.00
7.00
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
3
185.03
1
139.41
ILLINOIS.
Original homestead entries -.
,
196.80
4.90
15.00 10 00
Total of all classes of entries and
amount received therefrom
2
196.30
i.90
1
15.00 ; 19.90
INDIANA.
Pre-emption declaratory statements
3
6.00
A rn
Total of all classes of entries and
amount rvceivcsd therefrom ,,
3
6.00
6. 0
.
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318 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Recapitulation by States and Territories of the disposal of the puhlic lands and abandoned
mUitary reservations during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1890, the areas, and iheamount
received therefrom, and the expenses eontiected therewith,
[The Areas of commated liomesteada, final homesteads, and final desert entries, and the area and amoant
of Indian land and other areas in brackets, are not included in the grand aggregate.]
Sales of lands subject to
private entry.
Sales of lands at public
auction.
Sales of land subject to pre-
emption entry,
States and Ten i-
toTies.
5
Acres.
Amount.
1
S
Acres.
i
5
a
Acres.
Amount.
Alabama .....*....
55
7,012.24
$8,766.61
Alaska
1
Arizona ......
104
10
1,243
2.321
14
349
14,020.84
720.53
174,540.08
356,429.44
1, 184. 15
47,903.38
19,468.63
900.67
CAlifornia
244. 469. 39
Colomdo .«..*••
2
3
240.00
619.87
$500.00
519.87
466,569.49
Florida
1,480.21
Idaho
62,254.75
riinois
j
Indiana ...
'
6
1,214
12
390
425
320.00
180, 371. 28
1,687.87
53,431.60
57,607.80
500.00
Kansas
1
242,441 G9
Louisiana
1
....
2,109.81
Michigan
Minnesota
2
4
3.66
282.10
17.50
652.63
1
1.12
$26.00
66,789.49
. 78,014.89
MiHsissinni
^litftdoiiri
199
10,075.87
12,595.04
u
550
2,516
801.27
80, 312. 02
374 223. 55
1,OOL50
M^mitUDA ...•••
114,706.94
Xebraska 1
481, 767. 57
Xevaila . . '
■
New Mexico .
171 23, 088. 47
981 150. 731. 82
2 106. 93
30, IPO. 89
Xortli Dakota. . - .
192. 143. 11
Ohio
1
132.41
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota . . .
1
85.70
107. 12
1,033 1 151,666.92
1,303 I 105,237.60
92 ; 11,011.87
2,055 272,100.46
157 ! 14,974.99
229 I 34.520.96
193,838.77
244, OMw 33
Utah
14,931.08
Washington
5
26
878.02
27,138.80
1, 097. 62
33. 923. 54
6 27.54
273.12
425,805.68
29, 027. 65
W^ vorainflf ........
1
46, 101. 60
' 1 1
ToUl
242
38,617.79
49,413.22
7
28.66
299.12
15,243
2,204,905.07 2,967,444.15
States andTerri
torles.
Alabama . .
Alaska —
Arizona . . .
Arkansas .
California .
Colorado . .
Florida....
Idaho
DliDois.....
Indiana ...
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana . .
Michigan ..
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri ...
Montana . .
Nebraska .
Nevada I
New Mexico
North Dakota...
Ohio !
Oklahoma '
Oregon 1,228
South Dakota...;
Utah I
Washington 946
Wisconsin j
Wyoming j
Sales of timber and stone
lands.
Acres.
Amount.
1,280 186, 07L 62 1 $465, 169. 05
Sales of mineral lands.
7
38
8
127
556
54
Acres.
275. 81
57*?. 26
463. 75
8, 670. 02
9, 732. 73
Amount.
$1, 297. 50
2,950.00
1, 445. 15
26,345.20
42,705.00
967. 08 4, 597. 50
Original entries under the
desert-land act.
Acres. Amount.
148 62,687.53 $15,64&92
74
24,892.92
308
114,513.07
8,872.70
28,61&38
241 8, 167. 71 29, 802. 50
36 . 532.72 > 2,725.00
83 I 1,489.02 7,540.00
254 73,794.32
20,579.61
7 I 2, 960. 00
140 58,886.39
790.00
14,61&65
188, 749l 50
471, 887. 62
135,076.49
335,079.99
11 478.04
48 905.46
82 1,245.42
12 213.88
1, 647. 50
3,027.50
6,410.00
1,028.80
29 I 4.733.70
1. 188. 43
307 80, 554. 94
69 111, 974. 43
21,979.80
5,906.84
16 1, 692. 42 4. 808. 46
178 144,958.26
12,999.82
Total. 3,454
509, 896. 61
1.272,136.66
1, 314 ,35, 396. 81 186. 825. 16
1,594 478,849.66
131.263.94
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ACCOUNTS.
319
Recapitulation by States and Territories of the disposal of ihepuhlio lands^ etc, — Coutlnned
[The area of oommated homesteads, final homesteads, and flaal desert entries, and the area and
araoont of Indian land and other areas in brackets, are not inoladed in the grand aggreKate.]
Homestead entries oom-
mnted under 2d sec-
tion act June 15, 1880.
States and Terri-
tories.
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkahsas
California
Colorado
Florida
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Mtssoort
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Orezon
South Dakota
Utah
Washington
Wisconsin ,
W3-oming
Final entries nnder the
deseit-land act
122
Acres.
41, 716. 83
33,'458.'62'
108 I 22,913.12
Amount.
$39,804.80
84,' 668.' 62
22, 643. 12
Homestead entries commuted
to cash under section 2361, ,
Revised Statutes.
! Acres.
Amount.
153 : 18,840.00
85 5,097.86
35 I 3,626.82
421 61,658.62
979 ,152,900.78
56 6, 199. 36
12, 336. 76
164
46, 582. 05 i 46, 785. 80
5 484.26
882 135,303.48
44 ' 6,214.81
32. 154. 83
, 20.247.16
1. 471. 71
2, 267. 26
11,658.91
196, 252. :4
144
12
27
77
,263
27
7,769.71 7,759.71
•I-
18
220
122,925.20
6. S70, 49
4,533.52
92.616.11
203. 715. 40
7. 760. 52
17,257.54
705.33
178, 189. 90
8,022.22
40. 188. 86
28,076.94
1. 839. 77
3, 084. 07
16. 851. 05
252. 853. 96
Acres. ' Amount.
13
2. 876. 81
34, 105. 78 I
3.796.01
43, 544. 82
1, 142. 76
40.00
160.00
192.66
1, 001. 84
731. 12
40.00
40.00
$1,309.01
45,67
184.00
206.82
1, 082. 26
874.37
44.00
38.00
17
143
115
2,800.69
24,' 895. 23
2,027.50
176
62,371.79
2, 809. 69
24,' 938." 73
2,347.50 !
64, 291. 79
3
173
.305
22
743
86
57
440.00 I
26. 153. 02 I
45. 705. 60
3, 176. 09
107, 018. as
0. 848. 67
9, 005. 65
Total 868 244,634.1^246,039.76 6.065 905,536.411,227,965.77 42 4,348.38 5,900.13
550.00
38.519.78
57. 45a 92
4,321.24
168,043.40
19,418.66
12, 132. 56
160.00
186.00
640.00
200.00
800.00
230. 00
States and Terri-
toriea.
Excesses on homestead,
timber -culture, and other
entries.
Suj
. ^5
pplemental and ad-
itionad payments.
Sales of towns ites.
1
Acres.
Amount.
1
Acres.
Amount.
"3
Acres.
Amount
Alabama
662
742.96
H931.67
7
149.61
$187. 10
Alaska
Arizona ... .. ....
15
184
194
288
615
62
13.87
660.44
1.116.20
882.27
638. 35
172.51
17.49
845.97
3.461.51
1,279.56
797.29
421.20
'
320.00
$800.00
Arkansas
3
6
i:66
3.46
29.25
34.10
Catlifornis
... '
Colorado
5.00
1 j 160.00
400.00
Florida
Idaho
3
1, 265. 57
1,581.96
IHiDOis
Indiana
1
Iowa ........••• •• .
.1
Kansas
205
644
22
101
594
62
40
488
292.91
1,606.47
130.09
467.43
913.33
297.21
113.99
1.270.68
476.29
2, 111. 67
162.62
753.44
2
4
.18
56.33
; 1
Louisiana
83.30
,
Michigan
'
Minnesota
6
235.43
652.00
80.00
694.27
815.00
40.00
....... ...1 ..........
Misaiaaippi
1,141.90
395.84
160.43
1, 829. 71
1
1
MisMuri
M'^ntana . • «.•...
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
46
103
150.12
287.88
192.95
505.17
North Dakota
Oliio
..........
Oklahoma
496
174
233
22
254
16
60
1,867.63
754.10
700.40
20.01
1, 404. 68
107.76
158.68
2,135.20
1,106.79
878.97
81.07
2,234.36
169.61
270.78
..........
Oregon...... ........
1
9
.89
1L76
.06
1
South Dakota
14.69
Utah
Washington
1
2.50
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Total
5,422
14,709.86
22, 311. 29
*1
484.94
1,879.40 j 6
1,745.57
2,781.96
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320 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Recapitulation by StaUs and TerritorieB of thediepoaal ofthepublio lands, eta, — Continued.
[The area of commuted homeateads, final homesteads, and final desert entries, and ihe area and
amoant of Indian land and other areas in brackets, are not included in the grand aggregate.]
Sales of town lots.
Sales of coal lands.
Cash substitution.
States and Territories.
1
Acres.
Amount
s
Acres.
Amount
I
Acres.
•
Amount.
Alabama
Alaska
Arkiinnas ..".»-...... -^x-,--
1
....
160.00
$200.00
Californla
j
Colorftdo .... .•..•••.....
39
4,547.22
$67,398.30
Florida
Idaho •
$30.00
Illinois
Iowa
2
120.00
150.00
Kansas .-
Louisiana .................
Michigan
Minn«iu>tft--x-ir.
Miasiasinni
Misaouii
Mont-ana
10
2,122.46
40, 849. 20
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico
2
80.00
1,600.00
North Dakota
Ohio
1 1" "
Oklahoma
1
Oregon
loaoo
1
South Dakota
Utah
8
16
1, 169. 74
2, 376. 64
23,194.80
Washington
100.00
36. 964. 40
Wisconsin
Wyoming
43
5.012.38 112.258.00
Total
5
1 22lfl. 00
118 16,108.34 1 282,264.70
3
280.00 1 fi.^ 00
** - 1
Competitive bids.
Sales of Lassen county
desert lands.
Rent of government
lots.
SUtes and Territories.
1
Acres.
Amount
s
Acres.
Amount
1
Acres.
Amount
Alabama
Alaska
Ariaiona
Arkansas
California
$31.00
400.00
ifiOOOO
Colorado
$135 OC
Florida
Idaho
Illinois
Tndiana .-r ,,...,,,
Iowa
....1 .......
Kansas
Louisiana - '
Michigan
... I
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
—
Monti^nA--. X , -
Nebraska
!
Nevada
New Mexico
. ...
North Dakota
1
Ohio
::.:.. .....i::. :.:::::::
Oklahoma
6.00
Oregon
1 ""
South Dakota
'
Utah
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
!
1
Total
86.00
3
400.00 1 KflA. nn
135.00
'
...
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ACCOUNTS.
321
Seci^itulaiion by States and Territories of the disposal of the public lands, etc. — Continued*
[Tbe area of comiiiat«d homesteads, floal homesteads, and final desert entries, and the area and
amount of Indian land and other areas in brackets, are not incladed in the grand aggregat*'.]
Graduation entries.
Abandoned military
reservations.
Total cash sales.
SUtea and Terri-
tories.
1
i
Acres.
Amonnt.
1
Acres.
Amount.
"S Acres.
Amount,
received.
Alabama
800
7
463
242
3,444
4.187
602
1,057
7. 904. 81
275.31
77, 515. 50
J,8:>5.72
39ri. 194.30
871.991.66
1,822.. 50
164,821.61
|34,11&60
1,297.50
85,25&28
e,000.2S
876,147.68
782,8^1.75
Alanka
1
Artsoua
Arkanf>as ......
California
Colorado
Florida
230.79
$60.00
10 hl4 71
Idaho
137,404.45
niioois
Indiana
Iowa .-
13
2,810
640
638
320.00
180, 664. 19
4, 991. 18
63,66.5.81
58,592.76
913.33
11,174.35
164. SlO.fiO
1,356.33
423.000.32
15,614.28
107.183.97
108 192 17
Elfinsaa !---
Lonl.oiana
Michigan
....
28
1, 618. 64
02,'330.08
Minnesota
680
608
301
1,336
Mifwisiiippi
..... .
3 840 67
Missouri
1
17.154.54
Montana
1
26: >, 7U5. 43
Kebmska
1
4, 217 S7fi. 404. 23
736. 4. ^l. 24
Nevada
::::::::::::;:::
1
^ 43
487
3.492.72
84 OOa 00
•t 515.00
Kt^w Mexloo
1
1
6">. 1592. 21
North Dakota
i
1
1,304 151,010.70
2 105. 93
501 1, 807. 53
2, 669 346, 382. 65
1, 894 ' 196. 855. 20
676 t 03, 991. 98
4,118 1 424,051.04
287 1 42,221.54
749 : 87,237.70
230 193 10
Oliio
,
132.41
2, 090. 20
Oklahoma
1
[
Oreieon
1
706, 200. 68
South Dakota
I
:::;:;. ::.i::::;::::.
SO.*). 612.41
UUb
95, S()6. 61
Washington
079, 7H9 17
Wisoiinsin
Wyoming
....
82. 709. 36
252, -.{03. 00
1
Total
1
230.79
CO.M
28
1,613.54 2,339.08 34,455 J3, 302, 846. 75
6.349,174.24
States and Terri-
tories.
Original entries of lands tinder the homestead laws. Final homestead entrien.
1
Alabama
Alaska
Arisona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
LonUiana
Michigan
MinnoHOtA
Mississippi
Missonri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico...
North DakoU .
Ohio
Oklshoma
Oregon
8oath Dakota..
Utah
Washington ...
Wisconsin
Wyoming
2,842
198
3,000
^132
2.280
1,202
626
2
Total
15
1,514
1,316
514
1,352
2.331
1,635
659
3,141
4
1
7,038
1,777
1,323
350
3,005
433
872
Acres.
315,645.46
27, 449. 66
337, 728. 70
310,141.36
350,907.01
162, 007. 76
91,676.60
196.30
1,153.77
222, 649. 89
159. 694. 66
67, 053. 22
175, 697. 01
2t<2,853.60
176,613.00
8.5, 246. 13
475,183.71
640.00
57,503 08
136.739.81
80.00
1,081.883.64
264.004.39
200.468.31
49, 206. 87
406, 557. 50
45, 185. 59
67,515.77
Commis-
sions.
Fees.
$7, 805. 18 ;$22, 170
1,128.41 '
8,695.48 I
14,946.91 I
15, 191. 42 j
3,805.83 I
3,756.37 :
4.90 '
-1-
1, 7ft0
23,455
20.000
22,105
10.185
5,880
15
Total fees i
and oom-
missions.
s
a
Acres.
$80,066.18 1,665
42.30
8,260.28
4,491.24
1,710.40
6.712.3:^
7,107.00
4, 703. 73
4. 520. 70
I 14,403.76
, 30^00
2,241.85
4, 481. 85
2.00
I 27, 043. 72
, 11,080.70
I 6,612.16
2,270.61 I
22, 048. 16 I
1.631.35 I
2, 647. 25
10, 244 !6, 531 678. 60
I
95
14,385
11, 120
4.490
11,830
19, 530
12.540
5. 4 .'O
30. 136
40
3.605
8,715
5
68.605
16,020
16, 275
8,216
26,800
3,285
3,650
2, 878. 41
32,150.48 I
34,046.01
37,386.42
13, 000. 83 ;
0,636.37
19.00
121
1.6U6
l,lSi4
730
971
552
137.80
22,664.28
15,611.24
6. 200. 40
18,542.33
26, 637. 00
17, 243. 73
0, 040. 70
44, 530. 76
70.00
5, 036. 155
13, 196. 86
7.00
95. 64& 72
28. 850. 70
22, 7i*7. 16
5, 485. 61
48, 9. a 16
4, 016. 35
6, 207. 26
10
2,505
719
336
1,627
300
1,404
352
4,207
4
147
1,803
188,224.80 360,401 554.715.80
6
925
3.628
240
2,108
680
143
205, 647. 83
' Comuiis-
Hiuns.
$5, 180. 50
18, 066. 72
100,121.30
166, 404. 60
113, 446, 57
12.5, 920. 37
83,844.80
1,000.03
302. 004. 51
07, 443. 20
42, 582. 40
227.609.76
86,141.10
167. 750. 02
53,691.06
651, 732. 07
360. 00
21. 573. 43
202, 753. 83
060.00
140, 308. 78
682, 728. 00
35,232.60
314,601.14
77, 470. 58
22,105.40
810.24
4. l>88. 31
8.701.11
6.244.08
3,130.44
3, Jl'i. 11
5)0.00
13,IU5.54
2, 6(H». 10
1, 0 0. 67
8,.'>-8.45
8H2. 57
4, r.HO. 02
3,108.01
20, 77H. 53
18.00
yUK 62
11,068.61
24.00
6, 307. 26
14, 819. 07
1.451. JO
18,444.04
2,778.38
1.000.34
9405 L O-
-21
28,080 4,060,502.77 142,007.18
Digitized by VjOOQIC
322 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
MeoapiMaHan hjf Statei and Terriiarie$ of the diapotal of the public 1and§, eto.~-ContiDned.
(The are* of oommnted homestaada, tntl homesteads and final deaert entriea» and the area and amonni
of Indian land and other areaa In brackets, are not inoladed in the grand aggregate.]
Original entriea ot lands nnder the timber-
onltare lawa.
States and Terri-
tories.
1
a
Acres.
Regtster.
and re-
ceiver's
Gov't
fees.
Total foes.
1
Acres.
Feea.
Alabama
Alaska
Arixona .,,-,,,-r-T
87
1
518
1.844
12,378.08
80.00
70.932.08
206,837.07
2,072
6,376
4,615
13,070
$1,143
6,687
18,446
1
$160.00
$A
Av^kansat ..
Califomia
4
28
400.06
8»0M.00
16
Colorado....:
88
jlorida
Idaho*.
300
40,851.96
1,200
2,686
8,836
22
8,089.76
88
Illinois
Tpdiana r.
::::::::::::::::: 1
Iowa
27
1.899.93
292.735.33
8,924.93
108
7,632
96
156
18,475
215
268
26,107
311
1 11
j 646
1,057.17
78^767.74
44
^■•nnas
2,184
liOnisianAr r ir
Hiohigau
Hinnesota
329
43.460.22
1,816
2.890
4.206
1 254*
84, 612. 63
1,016
Hississippi
Miaiioart
Ifontana
457
2,610
64,805.20
399,514.23
1,828
10,440
4,185
26,300
6.013
35.740
3
823
360.00 '
120,087.48;
12
Kebraska
8,282
XTeyada
New Mexico
North Dakota
Ohio
191
097
28,983.52
154.570.86
764
3,988
1.840
9.785
8.604
13,773
1
68
160.00 >
10,460.66
4
278
Oklahoma
!
Oregon
311 , 48,714.37
1,925 , 295,243.22
158. 18,611.57
4d7 72,456.68
1.244
7,696
632
1.948
2.830
18,676
1.265
4,640
4,074
26,371
1,897
6.588
28
922
»«'
1
4,209.89
188,991,08
720.00
118
South Dakota
Utah
8,688
28
Washington
Wisconsin
96.903.29
40.00
_
732
4
Wyoming
261 88,403.94
1.044
2.450
3,494
Total
11.936 1,787,403.14
47,736
113,825
161, 561
2,896
423.048.70
11.584
'
riea.
Lands entered with miUUry
boanty land warrants.
Lan
rion
da entered
itaral ooUe
with ag-
ge scrip.
Lands entered with
private bind scrip.
States and Territo
1
Acres.
Feea.
1
Acres.
Fees.
i
c
1
1
Acres.
Fees.
Alabama
Alaska
Ar1sona«-r-r
I 40.00
II 80 00
45! 4,230.52
9 I 1.320.00
11
2
162
33
4
4
Arkansas
Califomia
Colorado ...... «....••...
Florida
1
1
155.00
160.00
Id»ho
Illinois
Indiana
1
'
Jowa
IK^apnas . .......».t»..
7
3
22
2
600.00
440.00
2. OHO. 00
120.00
23
11
67
2
1
160.00
n
Loaiaiana
ICiohlgan
liindMota
Miaaiaaippi
MlHaouri
2
1
32
210.00
160.00
3.44U.U0
6
4
96
Montana
Nebraska
70 itasoBS
Nevada
•
New Mexico
4
5
620.00
680.00
13
17
North DakoU
6
480.00
Ohio
T:... ::.
' i
Oklahoma r
Oregon
0
26
1,080.00
3,600.00
34
102
Soath Dakota
i\ 1,280.66
4
Utah
Waahington
5
360.00! 18
Wiaconaln
1
Wyowiivg - T . . . ,
1 '
:::'i;^^.".".^^-l
I
, '
1 1
. ....
Total
176 1 19.084.32 , fiOfl
85
10, 279. Its
5
—
•
'
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACCOUNTS.
323
MeoapiUUation by SUfes and Ttrritoriei of ike diipi^al of the public lande, eto, — Coo tinned .
[The area of oommated homeeteada, final bomeateade and final detert entrlee, aod the area and
amoant of ladiaii land and other areas In bracketa. are not Ineloded in the gnuid agxregateb ]
selections.
SUte nnlTerdty
seleoUons.
SUtes and Territories.
1
Acres.
Fees.
1
Acres.
Fees.
1
Acres.
Fees.
Alabsma
2
82L70
14
1
12L67
«L66
Alaska
AriKona
138
60
8
Arkansas
1
21,216.60
8.087.80
1,819.46
265l26
122.00
16.00
Ciilifornia
Colorado
Florida
Idaho ■
Illinois 1
ludiana
**
Iowa
1
Kansas
,
IiOulHlMna
2<U
42.140.00
626.75
lilchiican
liinnenota
Ifisaissippi
]
L81
30.845.45
861.40
lilssouHT.
lioDtana
Nebraska
Rl
2i^6VHda
719
112,633.
$i.43i66
Kew Mexico
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oreuoo ...••
]
121
18.425.60
235.82
South Dakota
Utah
WsMhlnfirton
'Wisooosin
Wyoming
w"
Total
710
112,683.8]
1,43&00 '
122.306.00
1,58LS2
1
121.67
L66
Railroad selections.
Indian allotments.
Locations of Valentine
scrip.
States and Terri-
tories.
1
Acres.
Amount.
1
Acres.
Amount
1
s
Acres.
Amount.
Alabama
Alinka
•
Ariztina
1,521
82
201
243,87&40
6.106.20
81,813.85
$3,042.00
64.00
AU0.07
Arkansas
California
787.93
Coloiado
Florida
Idaho
Illinois
32
4
5, 216. 18
640.97
62.00
8.00
...
Indiana
Iowa
1
1,«21
40.00
250.231.96
2.0O
3,289.29
1
40.00
9L00
Kansas
Louisiana
Ifiohifnin
Ifinn sota
10
1,261.85
18.60
Mississippi
Mlsaonrl..
38
1,040
2,001
5, 926. 6i
166.345.62
416,173.35
78.00 ...
2, 077. 00 ' 6
Montana
740.24
Nebraska
5. 202. 00
4.418.00
431.38
Nevada
■**■■■ • " " •
New Mexico
2,2
00
3.53.829.75
84.506.2U
North Dakota
^216
1
40.00
LOO
Ohio
Oklahoma
**"K6
"88.941.63
1.111.' 00
5
309.90
Orejron
Sonth Dakota
ITtah
672
200
4
107.474.44
88.290.97
621. 80
1,813.00
412.00
7.00
Washinston
1
8
160.78
160.00
1
89L60
1.00
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Total
10,9A7 1.752.758.811
21. Oia. 10
20
2,1S7.85
8
lie «A
« AA
•
_
'
?*•
«i w
Digitized by VjOOQIC
324 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
JReoapitulation by States and Territories of the disposal of the public IoimU, etc, — Continoed.
IThe area of commated homesteads, final homesteadi. and final desert, entries, and the area and
amount of Indian land and other area in brackets, itre not included in the grand aKgregate.]
SUtes and Terri-
tories.
Locations of Sioux half*breed
scrip.
Locations of Porter-
field scrip.
Original swamp selec-
tions.
1
a
W
Acres.
Fees.
1
Acres. 1 Fees.
1
].] J..-..L..
1
1
Acres.
Fees.
Alabama
...1
AlaHka
::: i..:::;:::.
Arizona ...... . .....
Arkansas
California
Colorado ••••....•.•
Florida
970.61
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana ...... ......
Iowa ................
KanHas
Louisiana
isiss
Miohisan
1
MinnrtKntft
"r"*
16, 263. 53
MiBsistippi
1
Hissonrl
... 1
Montana
...J
Nebraska
1
Nevada ,
New Mexico
North Dakota
1
150.99
Ohio
Oiilahoma
Oreiron .......... ....
2,810.21
South Dakota
XTt*h
WaMhinfirton
5.22
$L00
Wisconsin
Wvomiuff
1
1
Total
1
150.90
1 6.22
1.00
15
19,216.53
Swamp indemnity selec-
tions.
Donation claims.
Locations supreme
court scrip.
States and Terri-
tories.
1
Aor.es.
Amount.
1
Acres.
Amount.
1
Acres.
Amonnt
Alabft'"*^ --
Alaska
. ......
......... .(..-. ....■■
Arizona
L . .
Arkansas
i
California
........
r ::.
Colorado i i i
■ 1
..........1.... .. ....
Florida 1 1 - -1
:..:::::.l::::::::::
Ir)aho
1 1
Illinois
I...' 1
1
Indiana
: ! 1
:;::i:;;:::::::::::::::::i::::
'
1
Kansas -
:::::::r:;:::::::::; ::
......
Louisiana
:;:::....::::.:::::.!::..::::::
Michifcan
,
Minnesota
'
— 1 '
MiflHissiDDi
.
...........
MiMHnqri
25 3,803.32' $49.66 |...| ^
Montana
Nebraska
i i 1
•
160.00
$8.00
Nevada j
1
1
New Mexico
North Dakota
Ohio 1
Oklnlioma
Orejion
SouthDakota ,
4 785. ei
$25.00
Utah 1
Washington !
.::.:;:;;::::
Wisconsin ;
./
Wyoming '
......
Total
25
3.M3.82
49.00
4
785.81
2&00
e
160.00
&00
Digitized by VjOOQIC
ACiCOUNTS.
325
BeoapitulaHan by States and Territories of the disposal o/thepublic lands, etc.— Contiwaed.
[ The sktetL of onmmated bomMteBds, final homesteadii, and final desert entries, and the area and
amoant of Indian land and other areas in brackets, are not included in the icrand afSK^gate.']
States and Terri-
tories.
Total misoellaneoas entries.
Pre-emption
filings.
filings.
Coal filings.
Entries.
Acri*s.
Amount
received.
No.
Fees.
No.
Fees.
No.
Fees.
Alabama
4,510
816.088.88
$36,260.32
335
1670
AlaMka
Arizona
1,929
4,773
4.0^9
4.402
2,2i«
1.504
283,246.13
364, 266. 59
42.5.451.29
6.59.8ftt.43
16^349.46
132.669.53
196.80
7,878.65
37, 479. 04
51. 035. 09
61,213.50
17,196w27
16, 865. 48
19. bO
240
280
2,071
3,103
77
712
720
660
6,213
9,309
161
2,136
4
8
25
66
$12
6
75
198
20
2
20
706
160
Arlcanitas
4
California
Colorado
60
2,888
Florida
IdHho
Illinois
1
3
2
6
Indiana
3
7
1,127
36
611
1,158
1
443
1,010
8,057
563
1.315
6
14
2,254
70
1.222
2,316
2
886
3,030
6,114
Iowa
65
a 192
2,327
b71
8,577
2,812
3,104
2,418
18,490
727
2,941
4.056
1
3, 133. 70
77.'>,877.18
205.381.87
69, 133. 22
236,672.61
313,699.05
186. 612. 33
317.308.19
1, 302, 830. 81
113,27:1.81
440. 336. 35
327, 167. 86
ft().0(l
497.30
67,404.11
19, 069. 18
7,328.07
32. 343. 28
27,880.97
21,910.75
21,154.71
109,656.29
1, 526. uO
13.816.47
38. 759. 80
7.00
95 672. 72
KunfMU) ...
29
3
1
68
6
2
IjoniMi;ina
Miohi^an
MinneHOta
Mi^SlHSi{•pl
Mitt^ouri
Mfinuna
Nftbrajika
2
fiS
6
106
" 16
18
81
'""i
66
8
248
Nevada
3 '
1.669 6
2.630 9
8
Kew Mexico
North Dakota
Ohio
168
6
OkUhoroa
7, 044 1, 082, 193 54
3, 739 419 761. Ul
439
7,920 ' 10
878
30
64
Ori'jcoii
40, 749 77 2. 640
67.771.23 ; 1,972
10,2i>4. 71 3«2
81
8
78
138
248
Sonih Dakota
Ulab ..
7,832
1,436
6,000
1, 121
776
600.591,53
175.292.88
512 870 75
45. 867. 39
95.910.71
3,944
l.flflfi
27
6-
234
Wanhington
WiMc<»n»in
75, 135. 10 3, 300 , 9, »00
7.705.73 1 402 1 804
27
1
7
. 81
2
21
399
Wyoming
10, 800. 69
504 1 1,612
869
1,167
Total
9,362,686.24
896,342.03
25,329
65, 164 712
>
1,571
1,645
4,927
Staten and Terri-
tories.
Lassen County
desert filings.
Town lo
No.
t filings.
Mineral appli-
cations.
Mineral pro-
testa.
Applications
for tnuber and
stone liindrt.
No.
Fees.
Fees.
No.
"■ 10
41
8
128
535
Fees.
No.
Fees.
No.
Fees.
AUbaroa
Alanka ...
'$160'
410
80
1,280
5,350
i'
3
8
115
■'$i6
30
80
1,160
Arizona
■i.*28i"
ArkHn<*as
California
174
$522
$12,610
Colorado
Florida
Idaho
2
$6
63
530
6
60
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
•
KansMs
Loiiiniana
Michigan
Miun«*8ota
MiAHiMHiiipi
MiSHOQll
Montana
269 : 2,590
U.
440
Nebraslsa I
1
Nevada 1
44 1 440 4
40
30
Npw Mexico i
46 450 8
N«Tt li Dakota i
Ohio ,.
Oklahoma i
Oregon 1 ...."... .
7
34
90
24
70 1
340 3
900 • 50
240 i 2
10
80
600
20
1,895
13,950
South Dakota - ' ...
Utah
Washington
941
9.410
Wisconsin ■
^Tvoroinff .
16
150
1
10
Total
174
622
2
6
1,293
12,930
241
2,410
8,617
86.170
Digitized by VjOOQIC
326 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Recapitulation hy States and Territories of the di^Msal of the public lands, etc. — Continued.
[The area of conimnted homeateads, final bomestoads and flnal deaert entries, and the area and
amount of Indian land and other areas in bracketa, are not included in the grand uggr^^^- 1
States and Terrl-
toriea.
Townslte
filings.
Hfasoar
Montana
Nebraska
NevHda
Kew Mexico . .
North Dakota .
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon —
South Dakota .
Utah ... ....
Washington...
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Fe€8,re-
ceived for
reducing
testimony
to writing,
etc.
$2, 850. 07
1, 032. 21
3, 60&. 82
10.0«7.44
10, 212. 41
425.67
4,190.21
545. 70
4,045.05
1.039.74
1,907.20
5,480.42
OiO.68
2,938.70
1, 952. 05
8, 567. 02
22.61
1, 519. 21
3,066.84
Valentine
scrip filings.
Girard scrip
filings.
Total mlAcel-
laneuus filings
and fe«)s.
<05
11
308
293
3|707
4,615
77
776
3
7
1,166
38
612
1,158
1
443
1,806
3.110
60
673
1,327
93,6L6.67
11U.00
2, 264. 21
4.245.82
31,137.44
28,607.41
879.57
6, 931. 21
6.00
559.70
7, 257. 96
1.115.74
3,221.20
7.796.42
651.58
3,824.76
8,204.05
14,787.02
508.51
3,874.21
6,319.84
1,666.46
6. 728. 65
8, 295. 67
1,684.42
13,167.88
2,729.88
1,698.78
46
Total.
101,604.04
46
♦45
4,134
2,040
6H0
4^473
2.444.45
28,046.65
12.671.6T
4.404.43
33,26*2.88
3.535.88
4,498.7«
33,061
225,354.04
States and Terri- ,
tories. !
Aggregate of all classes
of entries, area of lands disposed of,
and receipts tnm all sources.
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arlcansas
California
Colorndo
Florida
Idsho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa ,
Kansas
Louisiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi ....
Missoori
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Mexico ...
North Dakota.
Ohio
Okliihoma'
Oregon
South Dakota .
Utah
Washington ..
Wisconsin
Wyoming ....
Total 163,468
Acres.
6,735
823, 993. 64
18
275.31
2,700
860.761.63
6,308
866, 102. 31
11,240
820, 645. 59
13.204
931,876.09
2,978
160,171.05
3,337
297, 491. 14
2
8
196.30
85
3, 453. 70
11,658
956. 041. 37
3.005
210,373.05
2,121
122,699.03
5.415
294, 265. 87
3, 42L
314,612.38
8,848
197.816.68
5.160
481,816.70
20, 817
1, 678, 325. 04
820
116,706.52
4,101
524.429.35
6,687
478, 187. 56
3
186.98
7,984
1,084,001.07
10,542
.766.144.66
11,766
607, 446. 73
2,602
269,284.86
14,591
036.021.70
1,811
88.0»-8.03
2.421
183,157.41
.12, 666, 631. 90
Amount.
Salarif'S I Inciden-
and corn's tal
of K.andR. expenses.
$72,00.^58
1.407.50
05.401.0il
40.725.00
058.320.21
872,712.66
28, 500. 55
161, 201. 14
19.90
6.00
2, 412. 33
497,752.88
35, 699. 20
117,738.24
148,831.87
82,373.22
42, 890. 05
209.164.19
860,804.55
5,540.51
83, 382. 80
281,272.74
130. 41
100, 807 87
776. 906. 10
386, 055. 31
110.41.^74
1, 088, 137. 15
94,010.97
267. 662. 37
112.000.00 i $4,397.35 , 044. .*» J16.441.85
Expenses inciden c to the disposals of
public lands.
Expense
»f de.
Total
positing. |«»P«»»«-
11,527.27 I 2,438.19
20.874.07 4.10.'>.09
50, 200 27 I 14. H66. 71
48, 043. 13 i 18, eM. 80
6, UUO. 00
22,270.00
1. 817. 80
36, 125. 10
9, 792. 40
8,213.81
25,269.97
6,00U.00
13, 704. 48
14^ 36:}. 29
53, 810. 53
4,081.75
13.478.81
24,000.00
3.704.42
2,126.07
12,000.00
32.U47.89
36,970.40
0. 000. 00
80.000.00
13. 611. 90
15,665.81
141.35
18,351.57
8,176.30
1,78«.12
6, 192. 12
8, 120. 35
2,649.96
3, .532. 99
14,998.47
660.40
4.064.29
8.013.10
7,986.25
6.592.34
17. 844. 50
3.401.40
13,809.30
763.46
8, 407. 40
7,470,870.31 528,040.36 170,86L88 6.021.03 706.821.77
^1'
232.35 . 14,107.81
244.00 25.226.56
1.326.16 ,66,483.14
324.10 ; 67,904.03
12.10 0,716.62
208.30 24.605.27
1.65
449.10
1.80
20.80
64.30
IU.15
26.80
25.75
1,261.40
22.86
38.20
142.40
11.75
403.16
530.13
382.68
1.65
135.05
1.900.80
54.025.77
12, 070. 50
10,014.20
31.526.30
0. 130. 50
16.471.24
17,932.03
70.070.40
4.765.00
17.581.30
32,155.50
10,908.00
39.132.80
65,854.02
0.401. 40
44, 192L 07
14, 377. 10
19,208.85
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327
B0oapitnlaUan hy States and Terriiaries of the dispoBol of the puhlie lands, «to.— Contiuaed*
[The ana of oommuted homesteads, final homesteads and final desert entries, and the area and
amount of Indian laud and oiher areas in brackets, are not included in the grand aggregate. )
Sales of Indian lands.
Entries.
31
/Lores.
Amount
Alabama:
Hunts viUe
2,333.78
12,917.28
Colorado:
OIku wood Soriu ITS ............. ... .. ...............
289
19
184
84,665.49
1, 09L 72
25,-J82.40
89. 496.66
Gnnninon ■
8,045.06
Montrose .................. ..r. -,-,,t,. . ..,..r
44, 868. 6^
Total
442
61.059.61
142,409.75
Sioux Indian landi.
South Dakota:
Ch%mber1a1n T ,,,,,, ,-,-,,,.,^,,,^, .r-, ..,,,,,.,. --,-
326
89
17
18
48,732.06
6,03A43
872.02
1,454.36
253.66
Pieire
Watertown
i. 861. 76
Kinnesota :
Marshall
1,907.41
Total
400
57, 096. 87
4.022.61
Osage trust and diminished reserse,
Kansas:
Oarden Cltv
17
76
11
1.936.20
8, 667. 99
1, 116. 79
29,974.59
36,775.86
4,378.26
Lamed
Topeka
Total
104
11,763.98
71, 128. 06
Kansas:
Tooeka. .......... ^..........r. ...... ......... ....... .....r
2
M.11
207. 96
Topeka ......
8
888.85
1, 710. 71
Pawi^ee Indian lands.
Kebraska:
Grand Island ., r^.rr
15.040.68
I.I
Otoe and Missouria Indian lands.
Kebraska:
Lincoln
2,975.68
Omaha Indian lands.
Kebraska:
Keligh
48 732.34
12
2
8
Winn^ago Indian lande.
Kebraska:
O'KelU
467.77
572. 22
Umatilla Indian lands.
Oregon :
La Grande ............ ....
5.60
163.45
Uintah Indian lands.
UUh:
Salt Lake City
3. 34a 00
RECAPITULATIOK BY STATES AKD TERRITORIES.
Alabama
Ciilonwlo
Kansas
Minnesota ....
Kebmska
Oregon
South Dakota .
Utah
81 ,
442 ,
1U9 '
18 I
12 I
2 '
382, 56,612.51
8 163. 45
'2,833.78 I
61, 059. 61
12,193.04 '
1,454.36 ■•
457.77 '
$2,917.28
142,409.76
73, 046 78
1, 907. 41
67, 320. 22
5.50
2,115.41
3,340.00
ToUl.
1,004 1 133,305.42 203,062.30
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32H REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
BEPATMENTS.
' Kepayiueiiis of purchase moDey for lauds erroueouHly sold are made
nnder tbe followiug laws : Sections 2362 and 2363, United States Re-
vised Statutes, and the act of June 16, 1880 (21 Stat., p. 287). The act
of March 3, 1887 (24 Stat., 550) provides for reimbursements to actual
settlers and purchasers ot lands in the State of Nebraska and Kansas,
within the granted limits of the St. Jo and Denver City Railroad Gom>
pany.
The act of March 3, 1855, first clause general appropriation bill, au-
thorizes the return of overpayment on entries made under the gradua-
tion act of August 4, 1854.
Among the most important decisions that have beep rendered in the
past year are the following (Annie Knaggs, 9 L. D., 49 ; Peter F. Bing-
ham, 9 L. D., 259):
Vol. 10-102. Ex parte : Annie Knaggs. Bepayment of purchase money overpaid.
Department of the Intbriob,
WaBhingtoWf D. C, July 2, 1889.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Sir : I have considered the appeal of Annie Knaggs from your decision of January
28, 1888, declining to recommend the repayment of the purchase money overpaid on
Cheyenne, Wyo., final desert-land certificate No. 796.
The record shows that Annie Knaggs made desert land entry No. 2803, October 31,
1^85, upon lots 1, and 2 and N. i of 8W. i, Sec. 14, T. 14 N., R. (57 W., Cheyenne, Wyo.
TliiN tract contains 148.40 acres. At the date of the entry sh( made a payment of 25
cents per acre for said land, receiving a duplicate certificate therefor, and the balance
of ^l per acre was to be paid when she submitted final proof.
October 7, 1887, Kuaggs submitted final proof on said entry, and tendered the local
officers the huui of $148.40, being balance due on said entry at the rate of $1.25 per
acre. The receiver declined to accept proof and payment as tendered, in view of a
telegram received from your predecessor and which was as follows : ** On final desert
entries within railroad limits, whi-re parties paid 25 cents per acre on original entries,
collect $2.'.^r> per acre, so that the total payment will be $2.50 cents per acre.''
KnaggH' entry being upon land within railroad limits, the receiver refused to
socept final proof unless upon payment of $3:33.90, being the balance due at the rate
of ^2.b0 per acre. The applicant, therefore, paid under compulMion an excess of
$1^5.50, which Hhe did under protest, as appears from her own affidavit aud a letter of
tilt) local officers dated March 1, 1888.
November 11, 1887, Annie Knaggs made application for the repayment of tbe
aniouut overpaid on her final desert-land certificate, and on January 28, 1888, your
of lice denied her application.
From this action Knaggs duly appealed to the Department.
In your said decision you state '' that by reason of the claimant having made her
original entry prior to the issuance of said circular, she was entitled to pay $1 per
acre when she made final pr<'of. Although the claimant has overpaid $ll'<j.50, it is
not in the power of this office to refund the amount, as the law governing the return of
purchase money does not provide f- r repayment in a case of this character."
Section 2357 of the Revised Statutes (act of March 3, 1853, 10 Stat., 244), provides :
'*The price at which the public lands are ottered for sale shall be $1.25 an acre;
aud at every public sale the highest bidder, who makes payment as provided iu the pre>
oeding section, tihall be the purchaser; but uo land shall be sold either at public or
private sale for a less price than $1.25 an acre; and all the public lands which are
nereafter offered at public sale according to law and reniain unsold at the close of
auch sales shall he subject to be sold at private sale by entry at the land office at f 1.25
an acre, to be paid at the time of making wuch entry : Provided, That the price to be
paid for alternate reserved lands along the line of railroads within the limits granted
by any act of Cougress shall be $2.50 per acre."
It will be observed that in the above section no distinction is made as to the class or
character of public lands subject to double minimum price within railroad limits.
The act of March 3, 1877, provides for the sale of desert lauds in certain States and
Territories (amougst others iu the Territory of Wyoming, iu which the land in ouea-
tion is situated) to qualified persons upon their paying 25 cents an acre when making
entry and a balance of $1 an acre when submitting final proof.
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The act of March 3, 1B53, tixing the price of pnblic lands within railroad limits at
|2.50 an acre, was not repealed by the act of March .% 1877, fixing the price of desert
lands at f I.*<J5 an acre. Congress in the latter act did not refer to desert lands within
the limits of a railroad grant.
Statntes are repealed by express provisions of a snbseqnent law, or by necessary
implication, and in the latter case there niUKt be such a positive repugnancy between
the provisions of the old and the new law that they can not stand together or be con-
sistently reconciled. Kepeals by implication are not iavored in law, and are never
allowed but in cases where inconsistency and repugnancy are plain and unavoidable,
and it is a question of construction whether or not an act professing to repeal or
interfere with the provisions of a former law operates as a total, or partial, or tem-
porary repeal ; and if there are two acts seemingly repugnant, if there be no clause
of repeal in the latter, they shall, if possible, have such construction that the latter
may not be a repeal of the former by implication. (Potter's Darrais, 154, and cita-
tions.)
Besides, the department construes the desert-land law as fixing the price of desert
land within railroad limits at $2..^0 an acre.
Nor does this price seem to be excessive or unjust to the entryman, as the privilege
of purchasing an entire section instead of a quarter section, and of having thrtte
years in which to pay for the land instead of one year, would seem to compensate for
the trouble and expenrH* of conducting water upon the tract for the purpose of re-
•claiming the same. Neither can Knaggs complain of any want of equity in this mat-
ter, at she has only paid the government price for the .'and.
In Opinions of Attorneys-General, Vol. 4, p/2*29, it is said :
".In reference to cases of error ariMing oni> of miscalculations of the amounts to be
paid, I have had more difficulty. Money thus paid is never properly in the Treasury
of the United States. It is paid and received by mutual mistake; and as long as it
remains in the hands ot the receiving officer, I can perceive no good reason why, upon
the discovery of the error, h«' should not be authorized to correct it. After it has
found its way into the Treasury, however, like all other monev, it should be with-
drawn in strict fulfillment of the requirements of the law, which the administrative
power of the executive department of the government can not control.''
Ibid., 253, it was said :
'* Jt will not do for the department to refund money which has erroneously found
its way there, simply on the ground that it is just that it should be repaid, for the
reason that it would require the department to disregard a most wbolesoiite and sal-
utary restraint, upon the due and strict observance of which the most important in-
terests depend."
The power of repayment by the Secretary of the Interior is limited and defined by
statutes. The present legislatinn u]K)n the subject is as follows
Section 2362 of the Revised Statutes provides for repayment in cases where a tract
ofland "has been erroneously sold by the United States and can not be confirmed." The
act of June 16, 18^0, (21 Stat., 287) provides, that repayment may be made of fees
and conituissions and excess payments upon the locations of claims under section
230(1, where "said claims were after such location found to be fraudulent and void,
and the entries or locations maile thereon canceled," or where entries are "canceled for
conflict, or where from any cause the entry has been erroneously allowed and ain
not be confirmed," or where double minimum price has been paid for lands afterwards
found not to be within the limits of a railroad grant, the excess $1.25 per acre may
be returned.
It is clear that appellant's application is not authorized by any of the above pro-
visions, and, therefore, must be refused.
Your decision is accordingly affirmed, and the papers in the case are herewith re-
turned.
Very respect fully,
John W. Noble,
Seoretary,
Vol. 10-916. Peter F. Bingham.
Departmbnt of the Interior,
Jfaakingtont AugHSt 13, 188U.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Sir : I have considered the case of Peter F. Bingham, on his appeal from your of-
fice decision of July 11, 18^8, rejecting his application for the payment of the pur-
chase )»rice paid by him on his pre-emption cash entry for £. i NE. J, sec. 6, T, 15 8.,
It. 49 W., Pueblo, Colorado, land district.
Bingham filed his declaratory statement April 13, 1883, alleging settlement April 2,
188^3. He presented his final proof and was permitted to make cash entry of the said
land June 20, 1884.
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On October 26^ 18B6, yonr office having reached said entry for patent discovered
that claimaDt had advertised to make proof before the local office on Jane IH, 18d4,
but that instead of so doinx ^^^ papers showed that the testimony of witnesses had
been taken April 30, 1884, before John W. Williams, a notary public, at a county dis-
tant from the local office.
For that reason and because the final proof was not. sufficiently definite in regard
to the continuity of his residencn, his entry was, by your office letter ** G" of October
36, 1886, held for caucellation, but he was allowed uinety days in which to tile cor-
roborated affidavit showing definitely the time he resided'on the land duriug the six
mouths immediately precediug final proof; and he was also required to make republi-
cation and posting of notice.
Bingham, instead of attempting to make new proof, filed a relinqnishment of hia
said entry, and made application for repayment of the purchase mouey.
By your office letter of July 21, 1887, the said eutry was canceled upon said rjilin-
quishment, and it was stated that his application for repayment would be made the
subject of another letter.
By your office letter *'M" of July 11, 1888, Bingham's application for repayment
was rejected, the reason assigned being as follows :
'* If Bingham had complied with the law under which he made his entry, the gov-
ernment could and would have con Armed the same, but the laches were ou his part,
and in such cases the la>v does not provide for the return of the purchase money. The
application is therefore denied."
Although claimant's witnenses on final proof were sworn by a notary public at »
pointdistaut from the local office, claimjiut himself made affidavit before the reginter,
and he made not the slightest attempt at concealment of his conduct in regard- to
residence. In reply to the usual question in regard to the continuity of his residence,
he answered as follows:
*' I am a sheep-raiser, have 1,000 lambs and 3,700 old head. Owing to i^y business
I have been unable to live all the time on the place, sj that I have been olF and on
all the time since settlement. The place itself will not support my sheep more thaa
three months at a time, and I have had to take them elsewhere in order to keep the:n
properly and return agai i after the lanse of several months, when the grass has had
a chance to grow. That country is very barren and'.sandy, and the food for stock is
all the time, at the most, scarce. The grass is short and thin on the ground. The
ground is unfit for cultivation. I am a bona fide settler, and am desirous of comply*
mi; entirely with the law so far as it is possible so to do."
The claimant in his applioitiou for repayment states upon oath that as his resi*
dence 'or the six mouths next preceding his eutry had not been coutinuons he oould
not make new proof of residence; that heithen attempted to make coutin>«ou4 resi-
dence for six mouths upon the said land, but was unable to remain there on account
of sickness occasioned by drinking the water, whloh in that vicinity is unlit for iso,.
being strongly impregnated with alkali ; that his brother, who had a claim in the
immediate vicinity, lived thereon for about eighteen months, when he died froia
disease caused by drinking said water, and that ne is convinced a longer stay on his
claim would on said account been at the sacrifice of his life or health, aud that for
this reason he left the laud and relinqnished the same to the United States.
There being no concealment or attempt at fraud and the testimony on final proof
having been thought sufficient by the local officers, repayment should be made.
Oscar T. Roberta (8 L. D., 42.i); Samuel K. Paul (7 L. D.,474); George J. Ru^k-
rudge {Id,, 5()9).
Your decision is accordingly reversed, and the papers transmitted with yonr office
letter of October 10, 1888, are herewith returned.
Very respectfully,
Geo. Chanllrr,
First Aasiatant Secreiarg^
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N.— MINERAL DIVISION.
This division has charge of the following bastness :
(1) Mineral and coal entries.
(2) Contests between mineral claimants.
(3) All other contests coming before the ofiQce where the mineral
character of the land is involved.
(4) Qnasi-contests.
(5) Agricultural entries involving the mineral character of the land.
(6) Railroad lists referred to this division for examination, involving
the mineral character of th<^ land.
(7) Petitions for suit by the United States to set aside patents on
mining and coal claims, and on all mineral and coal lands which may
have been erroneously or fraudulently patented as agricultural land.
(8) Preparing certified copies of papers, plats, and records.
(9) Correspondence.
(10) Miscellaneous matters, «• g.^ relinquishments, and requests by
registers and receivers and surveyors-general for instructions, in all
matters relating to the disposal of mineral and coal lauds.
(11) The preparation and recording of all mineral and coal patents*
The average number of clerks in the division for the year has been
23+. The average for year ending June 30, 1889, was 20.
One thousand six hundred and thirty-one mineral and coal patents
have been issued, an increase of over 50 per cent, from the previoua
year.
Ninety-two contest cases were finally disposed of, as against 141 for
the previous year.
Two hundred and sixty-five contest cases were considered as against
two hundred and thirty-one for the previous year.
One thousand six hundred and forty-eight recent mineral entries were
examined, an increase of about 60 percent.
One thousand nine hundred and fifty -eight suspended entries were
reexamined, as against 1544, for the previous year.
The work on ex parte entries is in arrears about two and one-half
years. The work on contest cases is up to date.
The work on conni^cted diagrams is up to date.
Lists of railroad selections, involving 8,973,827.95 acres, remain sus-
pended, awaiting action by the Honorable Secretary of the Interior on
the question before him as to whether the companies shall be required
to furnish non-mineral afiidavits.
The following statement shows the quantity of lands sold and the
number of entries, filing, etc., made under the mining and coal land-
laws during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890 :
Mineral lands and mill sites sold acres.. 35,396.81
Coal lands sold do... 16,198.34
Total do... 51.595.15
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332 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
MiDeral eotriee made 1, 314
Mineral applications filed 1,293
Adverse claims filed 241
Coal entries made 118
Coal tilings made 1,645
Mineral contests received .^ 75
Qnasi-coutests received 1 127
The work done daring the fuscal year is shown as follows:
Mineral patents issaed, inclnding necessar;^ plats of surveys 1, 407
Lode, mill site, and placer claims included in the above patents 1,500
Coal i>atents issued 224
Mineral and coal patents recorded, including necessary plats of surveys .. l,63l
Pages of patent record made, including plats of survey 6,106
Mineral and coal entries approved bnt not patented ' 133
Recent mineral and coal entries examined 1,648
Old suspended mineral and coal entries re-examined 1, 958
Total mineral and coal entries examined or re-examined .'.... 3, 606
Agricultural cases and quasi-oontest cases, involving mineral questions,
examined 526
Con tost oases considered and decisions rendered subject to appeal 173
Contest cases considered and finally disposed of 92
Total number of contests considered 265
Railroad selections disposed of.... acred.. 6,618
Letters received and docketed 6,662
Letters written 5, 921
Pages of offlrial copy written 3, 253
Pagts of certified copy written 2,296
The 1,407 mineral and 224 coal land patents issued during the year,
the latter covering coal fields aggregating 33,773.72 acres, fall within
the States and Territories given in the table below.
states and Territoriea.
Coal land.
Area.
Mineral and
miUaitc.
▲liiHka
8
Arizona
25
CaliforDiH ••
6
127
880.00
10,464.90
lis
Colorado
801
Dakota
40
Idaho
4S
Montana
9
1,040.00
814
Nevada
27
New Mexico
3
100.00
20
Oregon •
10
Uthh
19
87
25
2,880.84
6,654.84
8,683.58
118
W a»h i npton
s
Wyoming
21
Total
2M
33,778.72
1,407
The condition of the work in the division at the close of the fiscal year
is as follows:
Mineral and coal entries, unexamined. 3,327
Mineral and coal entries examined and in the snspended files 2,244
Mineral contestH in tiles and not finally disposed of 154
Agricultural cases and qaasi-contest cases, invoiving mineral qnestions, nnex-
niniued 12
Ap^ricuU.ural cases and qnani-con test cases, involving mineral questions, exam-
ined and in snspemled files 136
(Lists of railroad selections, involving 8,973,827.95 acres, unexamined.)
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333
Mineral, mill site, and coal entries pending Jnly 1, 1889 5, 791
Mineral and mill site entries received daring the year 1,:U4
Goal entries received during the year •.... 118
Total..., 7,223
(In entries received are included all entries made.)
Mineral and mill site entries examined and patented during the year 1, 407
Coal entries examined and patented during the year 224
Mineral, mill site and coal entries canceled during the year 21
Total mineral and mill site entries pending June 30, Iti^O 5, 'iff7
Total coal entries pending June 30.. 1890 304
Mineral and coal entries for each State and Territory pending, exam-
ined and SQspended, and anexamined, June 30, 1890, are shown by the
following table:
Stotes and Territories.
£xamined and
sospended.
Unexamined.
Coal en-
tries.
2
Mineral
entries.
Coal en-
tries.
Mineral
entries.
Alabimft
1
AlAMkft
4
94
3
264
253
78
74
9
63
167
13
3
S
'l
405
1.550
150
212
121
203
Ar^zonAT..,..
ArkanMM
California
4
51
Culora 0
72
Idaho
Ifnntana ^... .^
20
19
Kera^ia
New Mexico
12
2
Orgeon
40
South DakoU
102
Utoh. X
9
13
29
245
Wasbineton
44
27
13
Wyomin|[
34
Total
140
2,104
164 3 im
RECAPITULATION.
Total coal entries
Total mineral entries.
Examined
and
suspended.
140
2,104
2,244
Unex-
amined.
Total.
164 I
3,163 I
304
5,267
I
3.827 1
Apical tnral and all entries not mineral and qnasi-contest cases, pending
Jnly 1, I8ri9
A j^i cultural cases received during the year
QaaNi-contest cases received during the year
Number finally disposed of during the year
Number pending not acted on June :iO, 1890
^57l
104
293
127
:n7
12
List of railroad selections pending July 1, 1889, involving acres. . 5, fAM, 207
List of railroad selections received during the year involving acres. . 3, 419, 238
Considered and disposed of.
8,980,445
6,616
Total pending June 30, 1890. 8,973,827
Mining applications pending Jnly 1, 18H9, per last report.
Mining applications made during the year
Total
2,947
1,293
4,240
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Mining applications (final proof not made) oanceled daring the year, esti-
mated '. 25
Mining applications in which final proof was made daring the year 1, 314
Total nnmber of mining applications disposed of daring the year (inolnd-
ing entries patented) 1,453
Balance pending Jane 30, 1890 (not reliable) 3,788
Coal filings made to Jaly 1, 1889 : 7,670
Coal filings made daring the year 1,645
Total 9.315
Contests pending Jul^ 1, 1889 ' 171
Nnmber received dnnng the year 75
Total 246
Nnmber finally disposed of daring the year 92
Number pending Jane 30) 1890 154
aSKKRAL STATEMENT.
Mineral, mill site, and coal entries examined during the year 3,606
Mineral and mill site applications (tinal proof not made) examined daring
the year (estimat-ed) 35
Mineral and mill site patents issued daring the year 1,407
Coal patents issued during the year 5S24
Contests considered during the year 265
Quasi-con tests and agricultural cases considered during the year 526
The force of this division consists of twenty-four employes, graded as
follows :
Chief of division t2,000
One principal examiner 2,000
One clerk, class 4 l,MO0
Four clerks, class 3 1,600
Three clerks, class 2 .^ 1,400
Eight clerks, class 1 1,200
Three clerks 1,000
One copyist 900
Two transcribers of plats and records 600
This force is not more than dnfficient to keep np the cnrrent work,
which is increasing. Some provision should be made for reaching the
cases now in the files anexamiiied.
The chief of the division recommends for this purpose that the force
be increased by seven competent examiners, two clerks, and two
copyists.
DECISIONS AND RULINGS UNDER THE MINERAL AND COAL LAND LAWS.
MINESAL LAND LAWS.
( 1 ) Corporation — Article$ of inoorporation. — The General Land Office keeps no record
of the incorporation of companies, and declines to retain them on its files for refer*
ence. (Acting Commissioner to F. J. Smith, Helena, Mont., Jnly ti, lti89, 16 C. L.
O., 110.)
(2) Adverte mining olain -ApplioaHon for patent-^Proper land office to fiU eamo, —
The proper land office in which to file an application for patent or an adverse claim
is the land office having jurisdiction of the land in Question at the time of filing.
(Acting Commissioner to register and receiver, Montrose. Colo.. July 18, IStiS,
16C. L. O., 110.)
(3) Segregation of mineral land—Non-eontiguaue agricultural traets, — ^Where a home-
stead entry covers contiguous tracts, and a segregation of a part thereof is made
necessary hy a subsequent discovery of mineru, the entry will stand intact as to the
agricultural tracte, though rendered non-con tignons by the segregation sorvev.
Secretary of the Interior to Acting Commissioner of the General Land Office, Joly
1889, 9 L. D., 143.)
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(4) Efect of judiofal proceedings— (Review), — A jnd^meot favorable to the applicant,
in jndicial proceedingti instituted by an adverse claitnant, is no bar to a bUDHequent
investigation ou bebalf of the Government to determine whether saiil applicant has
in fact complied with the law. (Secretar; of the Interior to Commissioner of the
Oeneral Land OfiBce, Argnst 2, 188!*. 10 L. D., 184.)
(5) Fire o/ay — Tiwber and stofie lands. — The presence of fire clay is no bar to entries
nnder the timber and stone law of June 3, 1878. (Assistant Commissioner to regis-
ter and receiver, Los Angeles, Cal., September liO, IH^. 16 C. L. O., 159.)
(6) Mill site under last olause of «eo^'ont^7, Revised Statutes, — A quartz mill or re-
duction works are the only improveuieuts on which a mill site entry may be based
under the last clause of section 2'S^i7 ot the Revised Statutes. (Secretary of the In-
terior to Commissioner of the General Land Office, October 5, 1889, 9 L. D., 460.)
(7) Deposit Jor office work, — A deposit of f320 tor office work in connection with an
application covering ten mineral locations and two mill sites is not an unreasonable
sum. (Commissioner to United States surveyor- general, Helena, Mont., January 6,
1890, 16C. L. 0.,*i9.)
(8) Deputy mineral surveyor acting as notary public — ^There is no objection to a dep-
uty mineral surveyor acting as notary public, except in cases where he is employed
in tht) CHpacity of surveyor. (ConimiHsioner o United States snrvevor-general,
Helena, Mont., January 20, 1890, 16 C. L. O., *.i09.)
(9) Hearing — Entry^Relocation.^The land department has authority to order a
hearing to determine whether there baH been duo compliance with the mining law,
though the charge is not made until after entry.
An original locator will not be heanl to question the validity of a relocation in a
proceeding instituted to determine whether said locator has complied with the law
m the matter of the annual statutory expenditures. (Secretary of the Interior to
CommisHionerof the General Laud Office, February 13, 1890, 10 L.D , 157.)
(10) R^sjudicata— Known lode — Fatrvt. — The Comnii-hioner oft he General Land Office
has no authority to reverse a decision c)f his predecessor that has become tinal. A
decision of the Secretary of the Interior is binding upon all subordinate officers of
the land department so long as it remains unchanged.
The limitations of the width of a lode within a placer claim by the provisions of
lection 2:i3:). Revibed Statutes, is only applicable where the claimant seeks a patent
for a vein or lode included within the boundaries of his placer claim, and has no appli-
cation for the lode claim, properly perfected by another, prior to the date of the appli-
cation for placer patent.
If it aiipears from the record that there is a lode claim within the boundaries of a
placer claim not owned by the placer applicant, such lode claim should be in it-s full
extent excepted from the placer patent.
If the record shows that there is no known lode or vein within the boundary of a
placer claim and patent regularly issues thereon, no subsequent application for a
lode claim within said placer should be received by the local office so long as said
placer patent remains outstanding and uncanceled in whole or in part.
The validity of a placer patent and its extent, as in conflict with an alleged known
lode or vein, are questions that can only be determined by judicial authority. (First
Assistant Secretary of the Interior to Commissioner of the General Land Office, Feb-
ruary 21, 1890, 10 L. D., 200.)
(11) Improvements— Separate locations. — While it is not required that, upon several
separate locations embraced in one entry, $500 must be expended upon each location,
the $50u-expenditnre should be so placed as to tend to the development of the entire
claim or each separate location embraced therein. (Assistant Commissioner to reg-
ister and receiver. Central city, Colo., February 27, 1890, 16 C. L. O., 280.)
(12) Patent — Jurisdiction— Date of record. — Th^ issuance of a patent, duly signed,
sealed, countersigned, and recorded, deprives the department of further jurisdiction
over the land or the title thereto.
The date of the patent must be tak«'n as the date of the record, and parol testimony
is not admissible to contradict the record. (Secretary of the Interior to Commis-
lioner of the General Land Office, March 22, 1890, 10 L. D., 343.)
(13) Phosphate lands in Florida — Noa- mineral affidavits, — Phosphate is classed by the
standard authorities as a non metalic mineral substance and product, and is tnere-
fore included in the class ** all valuable mineral deposits'^ mentioned in section 2319,
Revised Statutes, and as such is subject to disposal under the mining laws. (Com-
missioner to register and receiver, Gainsville, Fla., April 15, 1890. 17 C. L. O., 30.)
Non-mineral affidavits (Form 4-062), with the word phosphates inserted therein after
the word *' gravel" will be required in entries of Florida lands as in other States;
but this will not be extended so as to require the suspeiiRion of cases in which final
Eroof has been properly made and the entries are awaiting pat*-nt,the proceedings
aving been regular under the existing practice and the questions in the final proof as
to minerals properly answered. (Commissioner to register and receiver, Gainesville,
Fla., April 25, 1890, 17 C.L. 0 ., 51.)
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(14) Jgriailtural eJaim.— On iesiie joined between a mineral and agricultural claim-
aDt as to the character of the land returned as mineral the qaestion for determina-
tion is whethef^ as a present fact, the land is more valuable for the mineral it con-
tains than for agricnltural purposes. (First Assistant Secretary of the Interior to
Commissioner of the General Land Office, May 3, 1890, 10 L. D., 5:^.)
(15) Mining claim — Tottn site— Pale nt. — Under a mineral application for land partly
included within a prior townsite patent the claim must be restricted to the land not
in conflict. .
The proof in suqh a case must show the fliscovery of mineral within the limits of
the new survey and tire requisite expenditure on the claim as thus defined.
In the absence of an allegation or offer to prove that the land in conflict was of
known mineral character prior to the issuance of the townsite patent, the record
will not justify"" proceedings against said patent, or adverse to rights claimed theie-
nnder; but on due showing a hearing may be ordered to determine whether salt to
vacate the patent should be advised.
The issuance of patent terminates the jurisdiction of the department over the land
covered thereby, and such patent can be invalidated by judicial proceedings only.
A subsequent discovery of mineral can not affect the title as it passed at the time of
sale. (First Assistant Secretary Chandler to Acting Commissioner Stone, July 9, 1889,
9L. D., 83.)
COAL LAND LAWS.
(1) Two coal declaratory statements for the same tract — Hearing, — Where two declara-
tory statements under the coal laud law are filed for the same tract of land, a hearing
will not be ordered until one of the parties applies to purchase the land. (Acting
Commissioner to register and receiver Santa F^, N. Mex., July 23, 1889, 16 C. L.
0.,13r,.)
(2) Purchase price. — The status of coal land at date of proof and payment, with re-
spect to its distance from a completed railroad, determines the price thereof, irre<
spective of its status when the preference right of entry is initiated and acquired.
(Secretary of the Interior to Commissioner of the General Laud Office, April 11, 1890,
10 L. D.,422.)
(3) Second coal landfiling.—k second coal declaratory statement can not be tiled in
the absence of a valid reason ior abandoning the first. (First Assistant Secretary of
the Interior to Commissioner of the General Land Office, May 3, 1890, 10 L. D., r>'39.)
(4) Coal entry — Declaratory statement — Final proof, — Failure to file coal declaratory
statement within sixty days afterdate of actual possession, and make payment for
the land within one year from the expiration of the time allowed for such filiug, ren-
ders the land subject to the entry of another who has complied with the law.
A coal entry must be made in good faith and not for the benefit of another. (Sec-
retary of the Interior to Commis-sioner of the General Land Office, April 10, 1889, 10
L. D., 160.)
INSTRUCTIONS RELATIVE TO THE DISPOSITION OP MINERAL AND COAL LANDS
IN SECTIONS 18 AND 38 OP COLORADO.
f Commissioner to regiRter and receiver, DaraoKo, Colo., December 9, 1889.}
I am in receipt of your letter of the llth ultimo, asking for instructions relative to
the manner of proceeding where applications for patents are presented for mining
claims in sections 16 and !^ of Colorado, the same having been surveyed and the sur-
vey approved, there being notbing.on the to\vn.ship plat to designate whether said
sections 16 and 36 were known to be valuable for mineral at the time of the survey.
In reply you are advised that under the decisions of this office and the department
it is held that, where (in the State of Colorado) the survey was made and approved
prior to the admission of Colorado, sections 16 and :i6, known at the time of the ad-
mission to contain mineral, did not pass with the grant, and that where the survey
was approved subsequent to such admiHsion, and at the time of the approval of such
survey the lands in sections 16 and 36 were known to be mineral in character, the
same also did not pass to the Stale under its grant. (See in this connection case of
Townsite of Silver Clitt' r«. State of Colorado (Copp's L. O., vol. 6, p. \WZ) ; also letter
of the Htm. Secretary to Hon. James Craig, /6irf., page 45 )
The recent decision of the dei)artuient to the effect that the title of the State under
the school grant vests, if at all, at date of Burvey. and that if the land is in fact
mineral, though not then known ♦^ be such, the subsequent discovery of its mineral
character will not divest the title which has already passed (9 L. D., p. 40h), is in
harmony with the practice of this office in the adjudication of cases before it.
It would appear from your letter that, although T. 40 N., R. 11 W., N. M. M., was
not considered by you as having been returned as mineral, you allowed applications.
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for mioeral claims for tracts in section 36 thereof, where the locations were made sub-
sequent to the approval of said survey T October 13, 1882), and as appears from the
copy of the Rico News several of the notices of applications are now being pub-
lished.
Your action in receiviuf; said applications in section 36 in view of the statements
above was erroneous. Where applications for patent for lands in sections 16 and 36
surveyed subsequent to the admission of the State are presented for filing, you will
consult your records as to the return of the township or any of the particular sections
thereof by the surveyor- general, and if the same has not been returned as mineral you
will first determine (by consulting the notice of the location) whether the discovery of
the claim was made he/ore or after the approval of the survey. If the former, you
will give notice to the State authorities of the pendency of the application, and allow
them a reasonable time to show cause why the same should not be received and tiled.
If the latter, before receiving such application, you will require claimant to furdish
satisfactory evidence that the land was known to be mineral prior to or at the date of
the approval of the survey.
Such evidence being furnished, yon will then eive notice to the State #s above set
forth. If snch showing is not made, however, there is no authority under the law
for receiving such application.
In the latter case when said sections 16 and 36 have been returned as mineral by the
surveyor-general, you will proceed as hereinbefore directed in the cases where the
discovery was made prior to the approval of the survey.
In cases where the survey was made prior to the admission of the State you will
proceed as above and substitute the date of admission of the State for the date of the
survey.
If there are any applications pending in your office in which the State has not had
such notice, you will give notice before allowing entry.
Should the State object to thor filing of application or allowance of entry, you
should order a hearing to determine whether the land applied for was known to be
mineral prior to or at the date when it would pass to the State as above indicated.
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p.— SPECIAL SERVICE DIVISION.
The work performed in this division daring the fiscal year ending
Jane 30, 1890, is sammarized as follows :
Letters and reports received and registered 19,671
Letters and reports disposed of 18,462
Letters written 9,956
Pages of press-copy books 20,653
PROTECTION OP PUBLIC LANDS.
Daring the year sixty-one agents were employed in the investigation
of fraudulent land entries and otherwise protecting public lands from
illegal appropriation, the aggregate length of service being four hun-
dred and nineteen months and eighteen days, equivalent to the employ-
ment of thirty-four agents for the entire year and one agent for eleven
months and eighteen days.
The number of reports received from the special agents and acted
upon during the year is as follows :
Agents' reports pending Jnne 30, 1889 273
Agents/ reports received during the year 2,027
Total 2,300
Agents' reports acted upon during the year 1,785
Agents' reports pending Jnne 30, 1890 515
Two thousand six hundred and eighty-four cases were referred to the
special agents for investigation, hearings were ordered in 343 cases,
437 cases were held for cancellation, 538 were canceled, and 1,909 were
examined and passed.
Final action was taken in 5,938 cases, and there are now pending in
the division (June 30, 1890), 7,025 land cases.
There are 482 records of hearings awaiting action, and 448 registers'
and receivers' reports and miscellaneous letters awaiting answer.
During the year 16 reports of unlawful inclosures of public land were
received, involving, so far as ascertained, 115,455 acres. Saits were
recommended in 8 cases, and the fences were reported as haying been
removed in 9 cases.
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The following tables show in detail the amount of work performed
during the year, and the condition of the same June 30, 1890 :
Statement shotoing in detail the number of oasee reoeivedj acted upon during the year^ and
ptnding June 3(1, 1890.
Kind of cases.
c
1
§
1
i
i
s
1
be
6
ll
1
§
1
s
Is
si
I
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1
i
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4.
5
5
1
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a
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
H
w
^
225
297
o
6
o
04
w
Homestead entries
339
43
134
6
159
753
Comrantation cash entries.
273
39
27
27
849
11
20
377
Preemption cash entries..
884
184
188
115
981
2
48
98
948
Pre-emption filings
83
10
13
18
28
1
64
Timber-cnltnre entries
177
783
9
35
48
44
107
10
112
71
7
142
506
Timber-land entries
9
216
Desert-land entries
180
14
17
36
53
1
5
99
Pt ivate cash entries
9
20
36
6
1
58
Mineral entries
1
8
........
9
Coal entries
16
10
86
Coal filings
1
Townsites
2
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Totals
2,684
843
437
538
1,909
8
77
431
3,060
Awaiting final action.
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i
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i
1
^
1
f
1
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u
3'
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1
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1
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1
§
1
II
5
1
i
s
5
i
1
1
1
1
1
1
s
5
Homestead entries
176
676
305
70
1,225
2,382
277
1,434
1.226
66
242
120
25
453
1,175
51
77?
458
Pre-emption cash entries..
373
924
772
108
2,177
4,031
288
2,142
2,177
Pre-emption filings
16
36
62
2
115
187
38
m
115
Timber-cultore entries....
81
105
109
1
246
911
67
782
246
Timber-land entries
267
1,644
146
152
2.109
1.534
1.013
438
2,109
Desert^land entries
144
168
152
9
473
687
79
198
473
Private cash entries
4
28
2
4
38
97
59
38
Mineral entries
84
41
56
6
11
16
7
18
47
70
72
47
96
56
9
20
16
9
46
47
Coal entries
70
Coal filings
72
Townsites
2
2
Totals
1,076
8.852
1,701
396
7.025
11, 105
1,838
5,938
7,025
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Statement showing looatian and $tatiu of oa»e» acted upon during the gear and pending
June 30, 1890.
?
13
Awaiting final action.
1
1
1
1
II
§
1
i
States and Terri-
tories.
1
i
9
1
1
1
1
1
,
1
m
§
a
I
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a
1
i
Ij
e departmen
the coarts.
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a
1
M
1
1
J
s
i
5
31
2s
1
•a
S
i
II
<
5
1
i
1
Alabama
1
2
2
5
1
27
18
78
22 3
121
Artsona
11
1ft
31
80
30
2
47
20
12
61 4
100
Arkansas
0
8
1
6
61
8
58
14 4
79
California
935
38
39
37
118
15
218
325
1,932
816
180 i 134
2,571
588
Colorado i...
»0
40
97
92
169
5
660
60
1U
78
I*londa
1
8
I
204
2
8
......
4
7
4
3
26
1
1.126
7
62
""46*
18
89
2
31
26
20
'"*4
51
Idaho
125
Iowa
2
Kansas
17
11
44
276
23
144
15
285
Lonisiana
9
11
34
7
6
20
4
27
36
104
12
20
0
4
62
40
3
20
11
12
105
23
5
43
46
11
60
5
3
80
Michigan
33
MinnesoU
5
211
HlMissippi
Missouri 7.
1
15
16
1
......
16
1
5
6
12
4
1
4
60
1
6
67
347
10
■"82*
4
36
24
2
36
44
■*'*3'
3
16
Montana ....... .\ .
1
17
""29*
75
Nebraska
709
450
1
103
Nevada
1
49
1
34
1
46
11
210
1
100
I
Now Mexico
168
91
3
270
361
42
773
North Dakota
28
10
11
12
173
6
68
29
96
71
10
206
Oregon ...._
GO
61
5
48
12
61
9
26
26
403
""il
67
174
34
80
91
119
73
129
9
28
207
SoQthDakoU
356
Utah
1
4
8
^^
12
5
106
4
2
117
Washinjrton
417
46
60
6
60
2
336
45
460
144
40
680
Wisconsin
11
I
3
2
11
15
3
8
26
WTominit
88
2
3
6
29
2
36
76
74
97
6
253
ToUls
2.884
843
437
638
1,909
8
77
3,491
1,0^6
3,862
1.701
396
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StatemeHt $kowing the localian, area, and present eiaiue of unlawful inolosures of puhlio
lands.
1
1
Received.
Action taken.
States and Terri-
tories.
' PendiniE
jJnly 1.1889.
!
Sai
m
t reoom-
ended.
Area.
Fe
n
No.
1
Filed.
Facts laid
before
nee re-
loved.
Area.
No action
required.
United
States
attorney.
|No.
1
1 1
1
Area.
No.
1
1
Area.
No.
1
1
No.
a™.
No.
Area.
(a)
320
300
00
820
640
320
320
800
1
(a)
1
640
. .
na «^
1 3
620
3
1,050
2
640
1
300
1
(a)
1
640
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1,960
1,720
560
1,370
29,360
1,420
2,500
8,600
2,000
7U0
1
1,000
1
2.600
1
1.000
1
700
....
..
Colomlo *
1
i,720
550
•-
1
. . . .
10
60,780
1
1,000
*
5,670
1
1,000
"I"""
1
5.500
1
1
1
5,500
(a)
• 1
....{
Kansas \
t
2
5.500
....1 ... .
2
5.500
..
. ...
==
1 1
70
1
70
— —
..
1
1
I
1
1
1
600
12.000
500
550
240
6.000
Montana <
1
'
...
"
....
6
19.890
=
....
I--
1
1,120
1
1.120
1 -
f
1
1 1
1 1
, 1
1 1
1 1
600
600
3,900
11,500
1,300
3.800
1
1
1
1
1.000
700
215
(a)
1
600
600
1
1,000
J
3,800
1.300
700
216
Nevada *
....
■
1 '
« 1 21,700
1
1
1
1
1
1.915
102, 680
300
6,120
330
=
1
600
6 1 6.615 1
1,000
1
ill
1
...1.........
-■
1
1
1
300
5,120
120
1 1* 102, 580
New Mexico ....<
....
100
120
1.640
1 ...
—
1 2
700
7
110.190
3
5.540
1 102,580'....
I
Ofegnn . .
1
1
1.300
1
1
■ ■■
— 1— ^^^
1
(a) Signifies aieanot given.
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Statement ahowing the looation, area, and present status of unlawful indosures of puhlie
lands — Coutinned.
1
1
Action taken.
States and Terri-
tories.
Pending
July l.l589.
1
Reoeived.
Suit recom-
mended.
Filed.
Facts laid
before
Fence re-
moved.
No action
required.
United
States
attorney.
1-
1
1
1
1
1
▲r«a.
No.
Aroa.
No.
Area.
No.
Area.
1
No. Area.
No.
Area.
(«)
8,340
1,120
640
1
1,120
ITUh
1 1 640
...1
4
10,100
1
1,120
1 640
1
1
780
6U0
1
760
Washington n
2
1.380
1
780
1
1
11.300
88,000
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Wyoming <
1 i
2
49.300
.. r.... J... i 1
Grand total . .
39
161. 160
16
115.455
6
8,450
9 13,720
10 109,905
2 1.640
(a) Signifies area not given.
No inclosures of any map:iiita(le have been reported within the last
year, except one in New Mexico of 102,580 acres, in which no action was
taken ; the party maintaining the inclosure having color of title to the
land inclosed, and very few complaints have been received. With the
exception of a few inclosures where the title to the land inclosed is in
dispute or the question of the validity of the inclosure is being tried in
the courts, there are at present no inclosures of the public lands of any
considerable area.
TIMBER TRESPASS.
Fifty-five timber agents have been employed during the year for au
aggregate length of service of three hundred and fifty one months and
fourteen days, equivalent to 29 for one year and 1 for three months and
fourteen days.
Three hundred and ten (310) cases have been reported by special
agents during the year, involving public timber and the products there-
from to the value of $3,067,151.66 recoverable to the government.
The amount accepted under propositions of settlement is $12,692.42 ;
the amount paid in during the year on propositions of settlement ac-
cepted during previous years is $275.00; the amount received from
sales of timber and lumber is $4,552.40, and the amount recovered
through legal proceedings so far of record (the United States attorneys'
reports for a number of the districts not having been received up to
the date of preparing this report) is $83,420.50, making a total amount
recovered during the year on account of depredations upon the public
timber of $100,940.32, being $25,940.32 in excess of the appropriation
for this branch of the public service.
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In addition to the above result of work accomplished by the special
timber agents, they have during the year investigated and reported
upon a large number of fraudulent land entries.
On the Ist of July, 1890, as far as reported, there were shown to be
pending in the United States courts 282 civil suits for the recovery of
a total amount of $14,794,286.55 for the value of timber reported to have
been unlawfully cut Irom public lands, and 306 criminal prosecutions
for the act of cutting or removing timber in \iolation of law.
States and Territoriee in which legal proceedings were pending on the let day of July, 1H90,
for timber trespass upon the public lands, number of cases, and amounts involved.
Statea and Terrltoriea.
Number of
oiyll suits.
Amount sued
for.
Number of
criminal
suits.
Alalwma
2
15
28
0
$15,000.00
74,100.77
2,510,171.40
10,440.00
190
Arkansas
2
California
Idaho
If
Kansas
3
Louisiana
Michigan ,
53
1
50
3
i
5
04
20
24
3
3
282,100.85
4, 000. 00
128,887.60
5^184.00
495, 090. 00
10,043,400.00
274,649.75
72,038.79
228*514.51
14, 120. 00
35,033.88
9
Minnesota
30
Mississippi
23
Montana.. .. ........r ...............^ -r.........r.rr.
11
Nevada
New Mexico
Texas \
XJtah
2
Wisconsin
8
W vomincT -...-
Total
-
14,7»A,280.55
306
Note.— Reports for last half of fiscal year not received ftom United States attorneys for Alaska,
Arizona, southern California, Colorado, northern Florida, Indian Territory, western Michigan, Ne-
braska, North Dakota) Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and western Wisconsin.
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Statement showing the aaelgnment of special agents for the proteotion of publie timber,
suits instituted, amounts reooverdble, and amounts accepted
1
11
° o
No.
5
7
1
20
36
14
.!
Charaoter ofloss.
Stotes and Territoriea.
a s
M *
Feet.
284,4^9
6, 665, 30C
2, 000, 000
289. 706
2.268,951
2,086.400
21, 60u
82,168,085
1
No.
1
1
|l
No.
1
a
i
No.
2,500
i\
0 1
1
No.
s
No.
s
I
I
No.
Alabama
Cords.
Alaiika
16^200
1
1
AriBona -
1 1 , j
ArkanBAe
160
66
2,494
94.975
5.883
""i.'ooo
60,606 1
6.000,
75,500|
1 82.
California
300
Colorado
600
00,634 :::::: 1
Florida
Idaho
10,925
.::::::. ::..: ;;:::;::r;"':
Indian Ter
Xannaa ' . ..
.- _
Louisiana i. -i
1 ' .'
Michigan
1
37,235,658
27, 407, 639
6,760
1,500
1 1
Minnesota
353
1,353
38,615i 1
Mississippi
1 1
Missouri
:;;:;:::i ::::::::;::::i ""i
20
25. 574, 020
858
2.900
355. 400
Nobraslui
Nevada
1
7
400
1,850
1
:::::::r::::: ::::::
New Mexico
510, 000
■ 1
North Dakota
1 1
Oklahoma ,
6
4
14
3
18
11
30
39,700
1, 609, 063
480,876
300,000
9,506,807
921,807
6,660,063
20
5O0
113
241, 292
640
86,666
Oregon
South Dakota
7,936,000
225
.
36 660
Utah
1
50; 000;. .'.".''.
10,300 .. ..
Washington
4,500
297
Wisconsin
Wyoming
590,450
'
........
;
Total
a 310
166,016,124
7.940,480
369,673
12,101
819, 450
2,900
579, 249
«
• Includes all new cases investigated and reported npon by special agents and all old oases reinvestl*
gated or acted upor by them.
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number of cases inevstigated or acted upon, amount and value of timber involved therein ^
in compromiee, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
Eetimat
Recoverable to 1 »
the government. g
Legal proceedings.
Propositions
of compro-
mise ac-
cepted.
n
V
III
n.
CrimlnaL 1 Civil.
m
Stumpage.
~r
10 307
Amount of
fines im-
posed.
Number rec-
ommended.
Amount in-
volved.
il
1
^ Amount of
S fudgment
P rendered.
g
a
2
il
$58.10
tu
IB
♦321.00
56,101.80
$2, 074. 13
168, 263. 80
1
$3,588.25...
6
$56,1 61 .80
$28.00
2
2
11
6
41
7
1 2,000.00
460.70
6, 506. 70
02 000 00
i
1 1
(to. non on
4, 344. OOI 7 2
29, 693. 97 2
50.00 5 1,703.27
6
9
22,540.00, 5
21,900.97 3
1
t- 1 1
303.63
2,176.90
5,000.00
15.00
165.11
1,015.28
\ 56,951.75
M,'565.'57
511 410.14 A
' 3
15. 178. 24
39,'687.*i4
*'ii6,"i7i*64
?ii
?
.......'.' 1
489.38
0
12
7
7
6
25.00. .
. . 1 1 .
i"
1
2
445.00
13
1
6
2
1,136.83
9
,134 904 53
232, 892. 74
7
5.923.25; 6, 2,387.00
257.00 151 15,078.08
2 341 25 i
2
6
652.67
3,528.29
23
74, 126. 12
4.80
185.176.80| 25 68
57. 60 1 27
2,281.96
100.00
550.97
31
151
6,370.74 . . |- - -- - '
'::::"ii:::::;.:-
3
38, 980. 42
46i,478.i2| 12
110,994.23
12
1
2
«
i 2
2,866.66
6
10
5,200.00
1
5
1.436.00
15, 100. 00
2
7
15,100.00
1
1
1 535. 00
1,896.04
18,059.76
974, 177. 64
27. 650. 00
i6
1 1.058.76
1400,241.37
1 3, 037. 50
I ?i...^
126. OOJ 2
350.00....
8,049.28
29,*619.'44
^
"2
8.509.99
6
474.06
882.38
18
23
1
13
1
1 9, 727. 86
87,365.09 18...
4, 728. 46 ' 7
1 2,129.74
I
6
1, 176. 26
1,750.00
3
"2^
688.77
983.73
7,873.77
84, 622. 25
1
1 1
4, 900. 15
138. 55i 1
\'-'-'----
832,420.483,067,151.66 6125
62i)
cl8,475.49 rf85 359,683.63
68
64, 945. 01
«12. 602. 42
4, 552. 40
/244
b The criminal prosecutions in both Alabama and Missouri were mainly instituted upon information
filed by private parties.
eTheamoont of fines imposed and Judgments recovered are taken from the several United States
attorneys' reports to this office. Ko reports for the last half of the fiscal year have been received
from the United States attorneys for Alaska, Arizona, Southern California, Northern Florida, Indian
Territory, Western Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and
Western Wisconsin.
d Represents the number of suits specifically recommended by this office, and the amount sued for.
6 Five thousand three hundred and twenty -eight dollars and ninety cents of this nraount was for com-
promises under section 3460, United States Revised Statutes. Reports have not as yet been re-
ceived of all sums paid to receivers of public moneys.
/Includes all reports and communications of every description on h.'tnd July 1, 1800, upon which no
action whatever had been taken.
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346 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
RULINGS, RECOMMENDATIONS, ETC.
The following ruliugn, recommendations, etc., in regard to timber
depredations are referred to as being of especial interest :
(t) THE TAKING OF C1.A.Y, KTC, FROM MOMBvSTBAD CLAIMS FOR THE MAKING OF
BRICKS TO BR USED FOR BUILDING PURPOSES IN OKLAHOMA CITY, I. T.
I To Mr. O. H. Violet, Oklahoma city, I. T., July 18, 1889.]
I have before me yoars of May Hth last, asking whether earth for bricks and fael
with which to burn same can be taken from homstead claims in the Territorjr when
the bricks are to be used for buildings in Oklahoma city.
With reference to this matter I inclose copy of department circular of December
15, 1885, paragraph I of which provides that homestead and pre-emption claimants
are permitted to cut and remove from the land which they are clearing for cultiva-
tion enough timber for that purpose, or for buildings, fences, and other improve-
ments on the land entered.
This would prohibit the use of timber for fuel to burn brick for sale unless the
claimant intended to use the land from which the timber is taken for purposes of
agriculture, in which case he could bum the wood to make bricks*.
While there is no law permitting waste of material procured from pnblic lands,
yet, under the peculiar circumstances in which the citizens of Oklahoma are placed,
this office will interpose no objection to the use on homestead claims of a reasonable
amount of material (clay and fuel) in order to answer the necessities of the settler
and to supply others with bricks, pt'ovidedf no considerable portion of the laud in-
cluded in the homestead is 1 hereby rendered useless for agricultural purpoi^es, and
the timber used for burning the brick is obtained from land cleared for cultivation.
The question of the good faith of the claimant is, however, to be kept constantly
in view ; and no one not an actual bona fide settler under the settlement laws will be
allowed to take material from the public lauds for speculation and sale.
(2) TIMBER CUTTING OX CASH ENTRIES MADE ON UNIVERSITY SELECTIONS IN MINNE-
SOTA WHICH HAVE BERN RELINQUISHED AND CANCELED.
[To Special Timber Agent A. P. Naff, Augaat 19, 1889.1
I am in receipt of yours dated 24th ultimo replying to official letter June27, 1881), and
inclosing copy of letter to the local officers at Dnluth from the Commissioner, May 20,
1882, canceling certain selections of lands therein described, which lands, selected by
the State of Minnesota, December 12, 1872, were relinquished by the Governor of the
State November 26, 1881.
With reference to the Commissioner's letter of May 20, 1882, you state that the local
officers understood that the lands mentioned therein were thereby *' thrown back upon
the market as subject to private ooAh entry " and you ask if such is the correct inter-
pretation of the said letter.
In letter of June 27 last, referred to, you were informed that of the lands in town-
ships 54, 55, and 56, ranges 22 and 23, embraced in these selected lands, only a j>orfton
was embraced in the list transmitted to the local officers and offered for sale. The
selection of the particular subdivisions referred to by Mr. Jewett, who gave the infor-
mation of timber depredations thereon, were canceled by this office May 20, 1882,
and thereby restored to market under the settlement lawsj but the said lands have not
been offered at public sale since their cancellation, and consequently were not auhjeci
to cash entry. Cash entries of the said lands were therefore illegal and timber cutting
thereon is without authority of law.
(3) RELATIVE TO TAKING TIMBER FROM LAND COVERED BY HOMESTEAD ENTRIES
AND HAVING IT SAWED ON SHARES.
[To Mr. W. B. McSavln, Thornfleld, Mo , August 19, 1889. J
All cutting of timber on lands covered b.v unperfected homestead entries must be
subordinate to the cultivation of the land or improvement of the claim ; and conse-
quently, in every case the cultivation of the soil and improvements placed on the
land must keep even pace with the cutting and removal of the timber.
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The timber, which it is neeeasary to remove in preparing the land for cultivation,
and which may not be required for buildings, fences, or other improvements on the
land may be disposed of by the entryman in any manner which be deems advanta-
geous to himself, on the principle that the same would otherwise suffer useless waste.
But it is not allowable for him to go beyond the use of such '* surplus" timber
and cut indiscriminately over the land for the purpose of selling the same, even
though the proceeds therefrom should be applied 1o perfecting improvements on the
land.
Which principle is equally applicable in respect to indiscriminate cutting for the
purpose of exchanging timber for lumber — ^since the delivery of a portion of the tim-
ber to a saw-mill in payment for labor bestowed in converting the remaining portion
into lumber, would be virtually tne same as selling the timber for cash and nning
the proceeds to purchase lumber.
(4) SUGGESTING AN APPEAL IN THE CASE OF M. N. EDWARDS, COLORADO (ACT OF
JUNE 3, 1878, 20 STATS., 88). JUDGE HALLETT.
[To Special Timber Agent B. M. Prentiss, Augnst 21, 1880.]
I am in receipt of your letter of the 12th of June last, inclosing the decision rendered
by Judge Hallett in the case of the United States va. M. N. Edwards, which action
was brought to recover the value of certain timber alleged to have been unlawfully
taken from public lands in Colorado, under the act of June 3, 1878 (40 Stats., &H).
In this decision Judge Hallett, while admitting 'Hbat the character of tht^ land,
whether mineral or agricultural, is always, when contested, a matter of fact to be de-
cided on evidence rather than upon the classification in the land office,'* yet adds that
this matter of the character of the land '* is not altogether a question of finding valua-
ble ore or metal in the ground from which timber is taken."
The act in clear and unequivocal terms confines the taking of timber thereunder to
lands ** not subject to entry under existing laws of the United States, except for
mineral entry." The privileges are accordingly thereby confined to such lands as are
subject to mineral entry.
In respect to determining what lands are subject to mineral entry, attention is di-
rected to the fact that both the rulings and practice of this office allow only such
lands to be entered as mineral as are shown to have actual mineral deposits within
the exterior Hnfsof the claims. Hence, while it is plain that the mere classification of
lands as mineral, can by no means entitle them to be treated as mineral lands, and
privilege parties to take timber therefrom under this act, it appears equally clear that
the matter of the character of the lands i« a question of finding valuable ore or metal
in the immediate vicinity of the ground from which the timber is'taken.
It appears accordingly that the opinion rendered by Judge Hallett on this point is
not in accord with the established practice of this of^ce in the matter of determining
what lands are subject to mineral entry. In so holding, Judge Hallett has also taken
a view counter to the decision rendered on the same point by Judge Bach in the case
of the United States vs, Milo J. Legg, et aZ., Miles City, Mont., district court,
April term, 1887, (citation numbered 4 on p. 471) of the Land Office Report for 1887.)
It is held in said decision that the authority granted by said act to cut timber applies
exclusively to lands which are mineral in character and subject to mineral entr^ only.
The parties who cut or remove timber must prove by a preponderance* of evidence
that the lands from which same were cut are more valuable for mineral than for any
other purpose.
While holding as above cited, Jndge Hallett further deduces under that construc-
tion, as follows : '' Furthermore, the grant is of timber on lands subject to mineral
entry, and not subject to entry as agricultural lands, which means such as may be
taken for mining purposes, as distinguished from such SLshave been taken in that way."
Particular attention is drawn to the words which I have underlined above — since
the drift of same appears to be to define the discrimination made in the act in the
matter of lands, as being between mineral lands which have not been entered and
mineral lands which have been entered.
Whereas, the discrimination appears clearly to be intended to distinguish between
lauds subject to mineral entry only and those subject to entry under other existing
laws of the United States.
Which is the meaning heretofore ascribed to the wording of the act both in the
courts and in departmental rules and regulations defined thereunder bv virtue of
legislative antboritv, and which, consequently, have an inherent force of law.
Since, from the above, it seems thatJudgeHallett, has apparently deduced from the
wording of the act on this point an inference altogether original, and differing
widely from the construction placed thereon heretofore ; and that in so doing, he has
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gone directly ooanter to the views expressed by the coart in Montana, yon are di-
rected to call to the attention of the proper United States Attorney the decision of
Judge Bach, by laying before him this letter and suggest to him theadvisabilty of
talking the Edwards case up to the higher court. • * • (gee below, office raling
No. 10.)
(5) PROCBEDINQS TO ENJOIN PARTIK8 FROM CUTTING TIMBER FOR 6PBCULATIVB PUR-
POSE9 FROM LANDS COVERED BY CASH ENTRIES WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE FOR-
FEITED GRANT TO THE MARQUETTE, HOUGHTON AND ONTONAGON RAILROAD.
' [To the SeoreUry Nov. 2, 1880, in the oase of Tboniafl Nestor, Hiohiji^aii.]
From these papers it appears that Thomas Nestor, aforesaid, is cutting and removing
large quantities of timber from lands within the grant to tbn Marquet'e, Hougton and
Ontonagon Railroad, forfeited^by act of March 2, 1889, and that the said lands are now
also claimed under the homestead law by Mr. Crawford and othern, who, as stated by
Agent Wordeu, have located on the said lauds evidently in good faith, and have im-
proved Fame with the intention of making peimauent homes thereon.
It further appears that a number of these claimants have applied at the Marquette
land office to make entry of the said lands, but the entries were rejected by the
local officers, and the parties have appealed from this action to this office, where the
cases are now pending.
Agent Wordeu reports that Thouuis Nestor qlaims title to the timber under con-
sideration by purchase from the Michigan Land and IrouCompauy, purchasers of the
laud from the railroad company.
The act of March 2, lft?9, provides that where the original cash purchasers are
the present owners, their title under such purchasers shall be confirmed only so far
as the Secretary of the Interior shall be satistied that they have been purchased
without fraud, and in the belief that they were thereby obtaining valid title from
the United Stateb.
Also, provided that such cash entries or sales or any tract in such State selections
are not confirmed, upon which there were bona fide pre-emption or homestead claims
on the 1st day of May, 1888, arising or asserted by actual occupation of the land
under color of the laws of the United States.
I am of the opinion that until the titles to the cash entries within the limits of this
forfeited railroad grant have been passed upon by the proper officers and confirmed in
accordance with the provisions and restrictions of the act of Congress declaring the
forfeiture, and the Secretary of the Interior is *' satisfied'' that such pnrchase was
'' without fraud," etc., all persons should be eivjoined from cutting the timber solely
for Hpeculative purposes from such lands as are known to be in controversy between
cash entrymen and actual settlers under the homestead or pre-emption laws.
I, therefore, respectfully recommend that the accompanying papers be referred to
the honorable Attorney-General with the request that he, without delay, cause proper
action to be taken to prevent the further wholesale destruction of timber by Thomas
Nestor and all other parties on these lands pending the decision of this Office as to
the rights and titles therein involved.
(6) C8B BY BONA FIDE SETTLERS IN OKLAHOMA OF TIMBER ON TBRIR CLAIMS.
[To Special Agent J. C. Yatr.y, December 10, 1889.]
I transmit copy of letter from Mr. J. L. Mitch, of Edmund, Ind. T., who
wishes permission to purchase fence-posts from a neighbor who has timber on his
claim while he (Mitch) has none, and it appears that the neighbor refuses to supply
the fence- posts for fear of violating the law.
Yon will confer with Mr. Mitch and ascertain the name of the '* neighbor " referred
to. and you will endeavor to find out the facts iu this matter.
If, upon personal examination, you ascertain that the *' neighbor" is on his claim
with every indication of good faith, and wishes to sell the fence-posts to supply the
absolute necessities of other settlers in his vicinity and not merely as merchandise at
speculative prices, you will advise him that, while Department circular of December
15, 1885, restricts the sale of timber cut from homesteader pre-emption claims to the
9vrplu$ cut in clearing for cultivation and remaining overand above that needed for
necessary improvements on the land entered, yet, in view of the pecnliar necoMsities
and conditions of the settlers of the Oklahoma district, this Office will not interfere
with the disposal by him of small lots of timber cut from his claim for the iudividual use
of bona fida settlers who have not on their lands the timber necessary to the improve-
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roeot thereof. All parties tosoch traoeaotions mast, however, hold themselves ready
to prove that it was an ahsolute oeceBsity on the part of the parchaser, and that the
timber was not cat and removed indiaoriminately and aolelif for pecnntary gain.
(7) USE OF TIMBER ON LAND COVERED BY AN UNPERFECTED HOMESTEAD ENTRY
FOR THE PURPOSE OF BUILDING A SCHOOL- HOUSE.
[To Mr. Evan Qriffith?, Vera Craz, Mo., December 19, 1889.1
I am in receipt of y oar letter of the 2d instant iuqairing whether homesteaders have
the right to oat timber on their entries for the purpose of erecting a 8chool-hou.se.
In reply yon are advised that the right granted a settler in section rtiSS of the Re-
vised Statutes to alienate for school purposes a portion of the land covered by bin un-
perfected homestead entry would seem to extend to the standing timber thereon, in-
asmnch as the same, in virtue of being attached to the land, constitutes a part of the
realty.
• « • « • • •
(8) QUARRYING STONE ON A HOMESTEAD CLAIM FOR SPECULATION, AND HOW TO
ACQUIRE TITLE TO LAND HAVING A GRANITE QUARRY THEREON.
[To Special Timber Agent Joseph Denlaon, December 21, 1889.]
•
Your letter of the 13th ultimo is received, in which yon ask in substance if com-
plaint of trespass would lie against a settler who, finding a granite quarry on his
claim, should, prior to receiving full title from the Government to his claim, quarry
and dispose of the stone for speculative purposes, or lease snob privilege to other
parties, the removal of the stone not being necessary to the cultivatiou of the land.
And also asking if there is any law under which one can acquire title to stone quar-
ries of non-mineral character* located on agricultural public land, surveyed or unsur-
veyed, either in Washington or Idaho Territory.
in reply, you are advised that no stone, earth, or other material constituting any
part of the' realty in a settler's claim can be removed or disposed of, except for the
ocltial necessity of immediiitety cultivating or improving said claim, until title thereto
has passed from the Qovemmeut.
Any person who removes or disposes of, or causes to be removed or disposed of, any
stone or earth constituting the substance on a settler's claim for the sole purpose of
sale or speculation, or without being solely induced thereto by the actual purpose of
immediate cultivation or improvement of the land, renders himself liable to prosecu-
tion for waste or trespass.
In reply to your inquiry above noted respecting the manner of " acquiring title to
stone-quarries situated on agricultural land.'' you are advised thatif the land be more
valuable for the granite or stone oaarry than for it« agricultural character, it can not
be classed as ''agricultural laud.'^ Such land, if surveyed and situated in the State
of Washington, may be acquired under the timber an4 stone act of Juno 3, 1878.
Lands containing a valuable granite quarry are mineral. Section 2319, United States
Revised Statutes, declares all valuable mineral deposits in lands belongiug to the
United States and the lunds in which such dep sits are found, both surveyed and
uBsurveyed, to be free and open to exploration, occupation, and purchase by citizens
of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such.
Locators of mining claims so long as they comply with the law governing their
possession have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface,
included within the lines of their location ; and they may therefore work the granite
quarry and dispose of its products.
(9) CUTTING RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION TIMBER ON SQUATTER'S CLAIM LOCATED ON
UN8URVEYED LAND.
rTo Special Timber Agent W. J. Pemberton, Januarj' 25, 1890. J
• »•••«»
If the squatter upon unsur veyed public lands is there at the time of the filing of
the railroad company's map of definite location of their road through or adjacent to
the squatter's claim, taken in perfectly good faith under the pre-emption or home-
stead law for the actual purpose of making himself a permanent home thereon, and
acquiring and perfecting title to the land so soon as he can after survey thereof,
such settler has a possessory claim that gives him a superior right; and he is
entitled to such reasonable damages for right of way, or for any timber cut on hJH
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claim, %to., as may be determined upon by aj^reement, or in the courts. The govern-
meut, however, i9 not bound to protect him from trespass. • * * Section 3 of
the general right of way act of March 3, 1875, states that private lands and po$»$88orif
claims may be condemned in such manner as is provided by ''the legislature of the
proper Territory." Therefore, the settler sutfering from trespass by the railway
company may obtain redress from the local courts. Under section 3*249 of Miscel-
laneous Laws of Oregon, railway corporations may appropriate land, not exceeding
60 feet in width, for the Hue of their road, ** materiaU for construction timber excepted.^*
The only timber specified as allowable to be cut is ** any standine timber in danger
of falling upon its road, making compensation therefor as provided in this act for
lands taken for the use of the corporation."
* » * - - "
(10) IK PROSECUTIONS CNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 3, 1878 (20 STAT., 8S), THE BUR-
DEN OF PROOF LIES WITH THE DEFENDANT TO SHOW THAT THE LANDS ARE SUB-
JECT TO MINERAL ENTRY AND THAT THE TIMBER WAS TAKEN FOR THE PURPOSES
ALLOWED.
[To the United StAtee attorney for Colorado, January 27, 1990.]
Upon this point (the character of the lands) I inclose copy of a decision rendered
by Judge Bach in the case of the United States vs, Milo J. Legg et al., Miles city,
Mont., district court, April term, 1887, in which it is held as follows:
'^ Mineral lands are those which are chiefly valuable for the mineral (except coal)
which they contain and which are lyore valuable for the minerals therein contained
than they are as agricultural lands or for the timber growing thereon. Mineral lands
are not subject to entry under the general land laws of the United States, but can
only be located and ent-ered as mines and mining claims under the act of May 12,
187-^."
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^'In this case the burden of proving the character of the land from which this
timber was cut or taken by Ihe defendants rests upon the defendants, and unless the
defendants have proven by a preponderance of the evidence on that p->int that the
laud from which this timber was cut and taken is mineral land and subject t« entry
only as mineral lands, then they can not jnstify their entry on said land and the cut-
ting and carrying away of naid timber.
^' The authority granted by the act of June 3, 1H78, to cnt timber applies exclusively
to lands which are strictly mineral in character and subject lo mineral entry only.
The defendants must prove by a preponderance of evidence that such lands are more
valuable for the mineral than for aoy other purpose and that they are not suitable
for agricultural purposes or cnltivatiou or valuable solely for the timber therein.''
And again, in the case of the United States vs. O. A. Dod^e et al,, in the district
court, first judicial district, Nez Perces County, Idaho Territory, the charge to the
jury, filed December 30, 1886, reads as follows upon this point:
<' The defendants claim that the timber in question was cnt from mineral lands for
domestic and other lawful purposes, I instruct you that in actions of this kind when
a person is proven to have cut timber from the public domain the law holds him lia-
ble for the value of such timber unless he shows in defense that he cut the same under
such circumstances as authorized him to do so under the laws of the United States.
In this case the defendant olaima that the land is mineral lands.
** By mineral lands is meant such land as is morevalnable for mining than for agri-
cultural purposes and the burden of proving its mineral character devolves apon the
defendant. So also is the burden on the defendant of proving that he ont the same
for domestic or other lawful purpose."
In accordance with the above cited opinions, the burden of proving in cases sach
as these the character of the land f^om which timber is taken under the privileges
extended by the act of June 3, 1878 (^ Stat.. 88), rests npon the defendants. And
in like manner the burden of proving that a lawful use under the provisions of said
act has been made of the timber is npon the defendants.
It follows, accordingly, that the plaintiff has but to show that the specific amount
of timber or lumber in question was taken and used at the dates claimed by the de-
fendants. With these facts established, the responsibility of justifying both the
taking and using of the timber, is upon the defendants.
The act being one conferring benefits with certain stipulated provisos, all who
avail themselves of the privileges extended must stand prepared to show that their
acts are within the prescribed terms of the act granting such privileges.
In respect to determining what lands are subject to mineral entry, I wonld also
direct attention to the fact that both the rulings and practice of this office alio w only
such lauds t<o be entered as mineral as are shown to have actual mineral deposits
within the exterior lines of the claims. * * • (See above, office ruling No. 4.)
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REPORT OF THE SITRVETOR-OEHERAL OF ARIZONA.
United Statks Surveyor-General's Office,
lueson, Ariz.f July 19, 1690.
Complying with yonr circular letter dated April 23, 1890, I have the honor to hand
you my anntial report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
Oat of the apportionment of $5,000 for the surveying service in Arizona, contracts
to the extent of |l,000 only were let.
This limited amount of surveying arose from the restrictions in the matter of sur-
veys. The Land Office instructions of July 26, 1889, advised me that *^ by the terms
of the appropriation act^ the 8urveys*mus( be confined to iands adapted to agricult-
ure and lines of reservation."
This clause, as applied to this arid belt, as I understand it, practically limits surveys
to lands that can be artificially irrigated, or grows some agricultural product without
irrigation, and lands here are not usually Adapted to agriculture, except where so
situated as to be artificially irrigated. The great bulk of the land locations, however,
is located where the possibilitv of irrigation is exceedingly remote, and in many
oases only exists in the possibility of artesian water. Still this land serves the pur-
poses of homes, and wherever located ought to entitle the settlers to the same privi-
leges of surveys as are accorded those who have been more fortunate in IJieir selec-
tions.
It is a very common thing for homes to be established in Arizona on the plateaus
adjacent to mountain ranges, where a spring of water can be obrained for household
and other domestic purposes, which location may be convenient to some business in -
which the occupant is aotively employed, such as mining, etc.
These locations make very suitable and convenient homes, though the soil can not
be termed as agricultural, inasmuch as in many instances it is not even valuable for
^ass ; still that it is desirable as a home on account of some property interests of value
m its neighborhood which settles it up, ought to entitle occupants of such lauds to
the benefit of surveys.
The instructions as applied to Arizona ought to be very liberal, and left largely to
the discretion of the surveyor-genenol, whose knowledge of the peculiar characteris-
tics of the country will enablehim to place the surveys where the largest number of
persons will be benefited. The public interests are not subserved by depriving the
surveyor-general of discretion in the placing of these surveys, as of necessity a sur-
veyor-general must be acquainted with the wants of the people.
THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM FOR SURVEYS.
During my first term of office, on May 19, 1886, I received a letter from Commis-
sioner Sparks containing the following instructions: *' You are directed to execute
no more contracts with any deputv surveyors, payable from special deposits." * • ♦
This broad inbtrnction made the deposit system absolutely inoperative so far as
surveys went, though the law it«ell was in full force on the statute books, neverhav-
ing been repealed.
The deposit system, honestly administered, is of great utility in a country like
Arizona, and is well calculated to aid the settler. For instance, dniiiigihe outbreak
of the Apaches in 1885, some settlers on unsurveyed land were directly in the route
traveled by the hostiles in passing to and from the Sierra Madra mountains in
Mexico. By remaining on their locations, their lives were in constant danger from
the Indians, but, on account of the land being unsurveyed and having no titles to
their homes, they determined to remai^on their claims until a survey could be made,
and they could take the legal steps nectary to secure their rights ; otherwise their
absence might jeopardize their property. The^ applied to me in the most urgent
manner to hasten a survey, so they might be relieved from the dangerous position,
and when they learned that no funds were available to make the survey (Commis-
sioner Sparks having also suspended all work under the general appropriation for
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surveys), they at once offered to pay for the survey uuder the deposit system ; and
though the details of the case were plainly set forth to Commissioner Sparks, he re-
fused to allow the settlers to pay for the survey or make one for them, and they
were left to abandon their homes without titles, or remain at the peril of their lives.
In cases like this and in the general run of cases in Arizona, the system of surveys
provided for in section 2401, Revised Statutes, is highly desirable, and is of the great-
est possible advantage where there is but a very small amount of desirable land in a
township, and only two or three settlers, as they can get a survey and acquire title
to their homes, as well as the persons located on more desirable townships where set-
tlement is thick.
PRIVATE LAND GRANTS.
This branch of my work has received much of my attention. In October I re-
ported the Feral t a claim, for almost 5,000,000 acres of land, as a forgery and fraud
through and through, and recommended the prosecution of the fabricators of the
fraud.
The Commissioner ordered the claim stricken &om the docket, which order was
complied with. There are several private laud-grant clalma pending in this office
and undisposed of, and some before the Secretary of the Interior, on appeal, on
questions preliminary to their final investigation and report.
THE WESTERN BOUNDARY OF THE WHITE MOUNTAIN INDIAN RESERVATION.
The survey of the above line is of vast importance, inasmuch as it will determine
the locus of very valuable mines, passine as it does through one of the richest min-
eral belts in the country. A direct north and south line would make a more desirable
boundary than the present line, and could cut off valuable mines without doing the
slightest injury to the Indians.
In connection with this I desire to most earnestly renew my recommendation
that a straight east and west line be established for the south boundary, by executive
order, so run out as to out off the coal fields, which are reported to oe from 2 to 6
miles on the reservation.
If upon development these fields were found to be extensive and the coal of a good
quality, it would be the incentive for developing the resources of this Territory more
tnan anything that could be done. Cheap fuel is what is particularly needed in a
mining country, and Colorado owes much of its prosperity to this fact. A straight
east and west line, well defined with stone monuments, would be a more comprehen-
sive boundary for the Indians, and the land cut off is valueless to them, except for the
collection of mescal, from which they make liquor.
THE DESIRABILITY OF ARTESIAN WELLS.
The development and settlement of the government land in Arizona depends
largely on artesian water, and the best interests of the government will be sub-
served by encouraging the sinking of artesian wells.
THE DESERT-LAND ACT.
No legislation appertaining to lands that has yet occurred is productive of the same
beneficial results in Arizona as the '* desert-land act."
To this act can be attributed the desirable results thus far achieved in the Terri-
tory, and the vast tracts of barren wastes that have been made to bloom speaks a
volume for its beneficent effects. The continuance of this same system for the redemp-
tion of desert land will develop Arizona much more satisfactorily than the most pro-
nounced results that can possibly be hoped for under the government water-storaze
system, recently agitated in Congress. To no other part of the United States is the
desert act so peculiarly adapted as to New Mexico and Arizona.
TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEYS.
All topographical surveys conducted in Arizona, either for the special purpose of
artificial irrigation, or for general informa4;;on, could be much more economioally con-
ducted through the office of the surveyor-general than through any system created by
special legislation.
This machinery of government is already established and must be maintained, and
to add jurisdictiou over other surveys is simply to enlarge the volume of work, and
not to increase the expense to such an extent as would be the case in an entire inno-
vation.
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Besides this, it may be verv properly contended that the snrveyor-general is more
intimately acqaainted with the territory within his jnrisdiotion than a stranger conld
possibly be, and could accomplish desirable ends in the field with far less expense
than wonld be the case with a ^arty nnacqaainted with the Territory.
I have the honor to remain;
Rafael A. Johnson,
U, S, Surveyor-General for Arizona.
Commissioner of the General Land Office,
Waahingtonf D. C.
Work done during fteoal year on old oontraots.
No.
Deputy.
Date.
Amount.
10
W.0.8eoor
June 8.1680
June 18. 1880
$243.11
11
A.T.Coltoii
422.60
There were 7 township and 4 exterior plats made.
There were 160 miles 64 chains and 55 links sarveyed.
In the mineral diyision 40 claims were surveyed, 38 snryeys approved, 2 surveys are
still pending, and 152 plate were made.
Amount of deposits auring fiscal year, $1,560.
Amount appropriated to Arizona for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890| |5, 000.
List of contracts under same :
No.
Depaty.
Date.
Amount.
1(1
William IL Breakenrldse
Jane S, 1880
June 30, 1880
$500
15
iT^mf^w A.Tiir#rtini«a ,
000
Total
1.100
Amount appropriated bysot of Congress, dated March 2, 1889, for the survey of the
western boundary of the White Mountain Indian Reservation, (5, 000.
Contract under same :
No.
Deputy.
Date.
Amount.
lit
John C.Smith
Mayie,i880.
$3,000
There were no townships surveyed and no miles run.
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BEPORT OF THE SITBVETOR OEHEBAL OF CALIFORHIA.
Unitkd States Survkyor-Gkneral's Office,
San Francisco, July 26, 18d0.
Id compliance with circular letter E of April 23, 1890, 1 have the honor to submit, in
duplicate, the following annual report of the surveying operations in this district for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, with tabular statements as follows:
A. Statement of contracts entered into with deputy surveyors for surveys of public
and private land claims during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, and payable from
the appropriation for the surveys of public lands for that year.
B. Statement of contracts entered into with deputy surveyors for surveys of public
and private lands during the fiscal year ending June 30, li^O, and payable from spe-
cial deposits.
C. Stat4'ment of special deposits made by the Central Pacific Railroad Company
and its branches for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1>^.
D. Statement showing amount of appropriation for salaries, contingent expenses,
special deposits, and private land claims, for the oompeusation of clerks and draughts-
men for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LANDS.
Much trouble regarding the completion of the surveys of the public lands in this
State arises from tne fact of very large fraudulent surveys in former years, which
has caused the suspension of large tracts of government lands, embraced within one
hundred and sixty-three different townships, and the great number of settlers located
thereon anxious to perfect title to their homes, are thereby prevented from so doing.
Under the present instructions from the Commissioner no surveys can be made of
lands adjoining the suspended townships, and settlers upon those townships are thus
placed in the same dilemma as those within the suspended townships. I can but
call the attontion of the department and the Commissioner to this condition of things,
and to urgently recommend that the suits now pending against the parties making
the alleged fraudulent surveys be vigorously pressed, or otherwise disposed of, in
order that the townships suspended may, by re-surveys, be restored to the action of
the laws governing the disposal of public lands. The current surveys made during
the year have been generally of fragmentary townships, carrying but a small liability^
and much difficulty has been experienced in securing reliable surveyors to periorm
the work. While the minimum rate allowed by law for surveys is for such cases t'OO
small, the discretion of the Commissioner, allowing higher rates, generally favorably
exercised, has enabled one difficulty to be overcome. There is, however, still an-
other, which has operated ver^' much to the detriment of speedy surveys when re-
quired. In many cases almost as much work is required of the surveyor to establish
the initial point as to complete the entire survey. For this work (indispensably
necessary to an honest and correct survey), no compensation is allowed, and I re-
spectfully submit, as it is the desire of the department, and is also right and just to
tne settlers that just aiid thorough surveys should be made, that in all cases where
this work is done the department should allow proper compensation theri'for.
Another difficulty arises from the fact that great delay exists in the examination
of the surveys att^jr being completed, necessary before payment can be made therefor.
Some more speedy way of passing upon the surveys after completion should bo
adopted. I do not think the present method of awaiting nction by special agents is
conducive to the best interests of the govemmeat, but has a tendency to prevent the
securing of first-class deputies to perform the work. In my judgment the examination
of surveys in the field should be made under the direction and responsibility of the
surveyor-general, who should be held to a strict accounting for the faithful and
honest exercise of that prerogative given him by the law. If heavy bonds and a
reputation to maintain can not secure honest and intolligent service regarding the
surveys of the public lands, it does not spem to me that it can be secured by reiving
upon those whose direct interest is to magnify their duties and discoveries witnont
bonde<i responsibility and local reputation to maintain.
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Another suggeaTion occurs to me as being eminently proper in this connection. If
the present system of examination of the work in the neld by special ap^ents is to be
maintained, peremptory instrnctions should be issued requiring immediate attention
to the examination of tne survevs desired, and that their reports should be made at
once to the surveyor-general, who should then require the completion or correction
of the work that may be found defective in accordance with the terms of the con-
tract, the object being to have the work accomplished rather than the suspension of
the land from the operation of the land laws.
During the year there have been eighty-nine applications for the survey of public
lands: the contracts made will be found in the tabular statements.
The aggregate number of miles surveyed is 621 miles 11 chains and 70 links, as
follows :
Meridian and standard lines.
Township lines
Section and connecting lines. ,
Grant and meander lines
Miles.
11
84
409
115
Chains.
9
41
48
72
Embracing twenty-nine townships and parts of townships.
DRAUGHTING DEPARTMBNT.
The total number of maps made was 1,327, classified as follows: 146 pertaining to
the surveys of public lands, including 15 for the local land office at Los Angeles, the
originals of which were maide and approved previous to the year 1860 ; 12 pertaining
to the surveys of private grants and United States reservations ; 794 to mineral land
surveys ; 132 copies and reductions of maps for the use of special agents : 68 diagrams
for the use of deputy surveyors, and 125 maps and sketches of a miscellaneous ohar-
aot'er, including 2 maps showing the condition of the public-land surveys connecting
with the boundary line between California and Nevada.
The field notes of 107 mineral-land surveys and those of 30 subdi visional surveys of
townships were examined and the maps platted, 21 of the last named having been
finally approved and the triplicates filed iu the local land offices.
The draughting division also prepared the written special instrnctions to the dep-
uty surveyors for all the surveys executed and in progress of execution, besides keep-
ing up a continuous correspondence with those of the deputies comparatively inexpe-
rienced in their profession, who, being unprovided with the manual of surveying in-
structions, were constantly in need of advice in contending with unforeseen diffloulties
in completing their work in conformity with official requirements.
Five draugntsmen, including the principal, have been employed during the entire
fiscal year, and their time was fully occupied with the above-described work, and also
the care of the maps, many of which are daily sent to the lower floor for inspection ;
much time has also been expended in the preparation of a list of nnsurveyed public
lands lyiuff within the limits of the Southern Pacific Railroad reservation.
At this date there are in this office for examination and platting the field notes of
eighteen mineral land surveys and those of tract No. 2 (nearly completed) of the city
lands of Monterey. The field notes of twelve mineral-land surveys and those of seven
townships were returned for correction to the respebtive deputies. They are expected
back in a short time.
The work in prospect for the coming fiscal year, in addition to the current duties of
this division, some of which are before enumerated, will be of a very complicated na-
ture, notably that involved in the survey of T. 14 N, R 15 W., M. D. M., and the exam-
ination and maps of the subdivisions of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. Judging
firom past experiences and the present outlook, I am of the decided opinion that, the
present force being folly occupied and prospectively will be, any reduction of the
same would seriously cripple the work necessary to be completed.
This office now being provided with copies of the Manual of Surveying Instruotious
of January 1 last, it is to be hoped that much of the labor consequent upon an absence
of any manuals for the use of deputies in former years may now be lessened.
MINBRAL SURVKYS.
There have been received 123 applications for mineral surveys and 15 applications
for reports upon placer mines, under circnlar of September 23, 1882. Instrnctions
were issued to mineral deputies for the survey of 121 mining claims and for 11 exam-
inations and reports on placer mines.
The terms of all the late mineral deputies having expired with the term of my pred-
ecessor, R. P. Hammond, jr., on the 3tst of March last, there have been appointed
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sinoe tbat time twenty-nine deputy mineral snrveyoTs^ whose bonds have been ap-
proved, a list of whom is hereto annexed:
County.
Edward C. Uren Placer.
AdolphusC. Coalter... Calaveras.
James M. Gleaves Shasta.
John R. Tread well Alame<la.
William Bnrton El Dorado.
Charles £. Uren Nevada.
Henry L. Lowden Trinity.
Thomas M. Parsons San Bernardino.
Robert B. Symington . . . San Francisco.
AngnstQS T. Smith Ilnmboldt.
Wirt R. Macmurdo Kern.
William S. Graham Placer.
Frederick W'. Bradley.. Nevada.
Albert Lascy Calaveras.
James B. Meredith Placer.
Coanty.
Lemuel D. Davis Sierra.
Samuel E. Brackins Shasta.
William Schuld Plumas.
Alfred R. Street Los Angeles.
James M. Davidson Siskiyou.
William F. Englebright. ... Nevada.
Russell L. Dunn Placer.
Smith P. McKnight Inyo.
Carrol McTarnahan Tuolumne.
Arthur W. Keddie Plumas.
Arthur D. Gassaway Sierra.
James M Anderson El Dorado.
John G. McMillan Santa Clara.
Ora M. Enslow Butte.
There are also six appointed , whose bonds are now awaiting the action of the de-
partment, and there are fourteen applications for appointment now nnder considera-
tion.
There has been received from deposits for office work on mining claims the sum of
$4,690. There was also deposited for the survey of public lands the sum of |200, but
nothing for office work.
OFFICE WORK.
The clerical force of the office, since my assuming charge of the duties thereof on
April I, has been kept very busy. During the year there were received 4,288 letters
and documents, and there were sent from this office 3,690. A record containing a
memorandum of the contents of all letters received, properly indexed, so tbat refer-
ence is easily had to any matt«r relating to the same, is also kept in the offioe.
The copying of field not«s for the use of special agents and for the instruction
and guidance of deputies in the field is quite voluminous, and the duties connected
with the completion of the mineral surveys and the swamp-land cases and private
grants require much labor- of a careful and intelligent nature. The force now
employed is none too ^reat for the transaction of the volume of business passing
through the offioe, and is very satisfactory as regards those performing the work, u,
is to be hoped that it will not be necessary to decrease the number of persons now
employed, and that some way may be found by which it can be maintained, notwith-
standing the fact that the appropriation is much smaller than was recommended by
this office.
SWAMP AND OVRRFLOWKD LANDS.
Since June 30, 1889, seven cases have been examined, and the papers transmitted-
Ibi the consideration of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
There remain forty cases of land claimed by the State of California under the swamp-
land grant of September 28, 1850, which are pending investigation by this office as to
the character of the laud. There is also a large amount of land held suspended
firom entrv, owing to the fact that the State is not required to give the names of the
Sarties who have filed upon it for purpose of obtaining it through the State. The
tate is not careful enough in the designation of its representative, and this office, in
consequence, finds it difficult to reach such representative.
A law might be enacted, or circular instructions issued by the department, that
would enable the more expeditious disposition of these claims, if so framed as to re-
quire exact information as to the claimants under the State, and fixing a time within
which the investigation should be commenced, and requiring a deposit sufficient to
cover the expenses of the same at the time of the application for suspension, to be
estimated by the snrveyor-ffeneral.
There is evidently much land held suspended under the present practice, which is
detrimental to the interests of the United States.
A larffe amount of work has devolved upon the office in the segregation surveys of
swamp lands, upon the. request of the governor of the State, made in accordance with
section 2488, Revised Statutes. It requires the entire time of one clerk to attend to
the demands of this branch of the work in this office.
PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS.
There has been but one patent to private land claims received and delivered during
the year, that of the Rancho Cafiada de Los Baqueros.
In the matter of the resurvev of the east line of the Rancho Ansaymos y Sau Fe-
lipe, this office has not been able to proceed, owing to the failure of the settlement
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agreed upon beiog carried out. The settlers are anxious for the adjustment of the
matter as speedily as possible.
A deputy is at work making the survey of the part of the Napa rancho confirmed
to O. H. Frank, and his report will be received hoqd.
The resurvey of tract No. 2 of the city lands of Monterey has been completed, and
the plats and field notes are undergoing preparation for transmission for patent.
The survey of H. I. Willey, United States deputy surveyor of the Bueua Vista
rancho, was received and duly forwarded and rejected by the Commissioner, and a
new survey ordered.
The resurvey by Deputy P. P. DandrWge of the Rancho Las Pulgas was received
and forwarded to the department for action.
A report on the Rancho Punta de la Laguna was made in accordance with the re-
quest of the Commissioner, as called for by the House of Representatives in April.
The resurvey by Deputy George H. Turner of the Bnri Buri was transmitted and
approved.
No retnrijshave been received from the deputy who hasthe contract tor subdividing
the Hoopa Valley ludian Reservation, in Humboldt county, but they are expected
soon.
A large correspondence has been entailed by numerous inquiries in regard 'o these
private land claims, and the desire of settlers on adjacent lands of other private laud
claims to have resurveys made of the lines.
SPANISH ARCHIVE DEPARTMENT.
In reference to this department, which is a very important one in connection with
this office, I would state that upon the records therein rests the title to a large por-
tion of the lands in the State, as well as containing in itself a full account of the early
settlement of the State, and all matters of public interest from which a complete
history could be compiled. It appears to be in a satisfactory condition.
Reference to the former reports show that the department must be fully advised of
the past work performed and of the work outlined for the future, and for that reason
I will condense the somewhat leu^tby report made to me by the officer in charge
The work has been great and laborious, tnmslating and indexing nine hundred and
fifty-nine expedienles or records of proceediuirs, with all the titlo papers filed in the
eight hundred and thirteen cases presented for confirmatiou, and including as well
copies and translations of the books of register of titles Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 ; books of
records of possessions Nos. 5, 6, and 7 have been completed, and the originals care-
fully preserved. The volume entitled Miscellaneous Documents and Transfers that
shows the chain of title from the original grantees to^the parties who presented any
individual claim to the board of land commissioners^ for confirmation, is now com-
plete.
All original title papers and all other documents that in any way relate to the tracts
of land referred to in the pi tition of the applicant have been segregated, so that
whoever examines the transcripts will find ttie procee<lings that were had upon the
petition of any individual f )r a specified tract of land up to the date of the presen-
tation of the claim to the land commissioners. The completed work contains 18,200
pages of writing, in 2t> large volumes, each indexed, and 2 volumes containing G23
tracings of original maps or disenSs. The work of compilation of the 302 volumes of
Spanish archives has likewise been completed during the past fiscal yean and the
work now being performed is that of classifying and assorting the innumerable sub-
jects, after recording and indexing in chronological and proper order. The abstracts
and translations of which the index will be composed have been made by oaiefnl
study from 280,639 pages of Spanish manuscript contained in these ancient archives,
and it is expected that during the next three or four years the government will have
in its archives the most complete, descriptive, and interesting index of public records
that has ever been made of Spanish archives.
The index will be arranged alphabetically and chronologically, with proper side
references, in such a way that any one desiring to know a certain fact contained in the
volumes will at once find what he wants in English, often reading in the index itself
the exact words that were used by the writer of the document one hundred years ago.
The volumes embracing a great variety of subjects have been arranged differently,
to facilitate reference, and are numbered from 1 to 302, the former way of indexing
being absolutely unintelligible.
There are in this department patents for Spanish grants which have not been called
for, as follows, and upon which the sum of $2,262.33 is due :
1. Corral de Tierra to Tiburcio Vasquez, January 6, IB73.
2. Part of Napa to J. P. Thompson, June 3, 1880.
3. Paso de Bartolo to Joaquina Sepulveda, March 17, 1881.
4. El Alisal to heirs of W. E. P. Hartwell, February 15, 1882.
5. Canada de Negates to .1. M. Aguilar, May 19, 1882.
6. C Nogales to Ma. de Jesus Garcia, June 29, 1882.
7. Canada del Corte de Madera to Fbnrn et a/., June 13, 1882.
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8. Lot in Mission Dolores to C. Valenciay December 16, 1882.
9. Las Cauaritas to Ferdinand Vassaalt, December 18, 1882.
10. S. Jacinto y Potrero to beirs of M. Pedrovena, January 9, 1883.
11. Additional pueblo lands to city of San Francisco, March 6, 1887.
I have tbe honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Wm. H. Pratt,
U, S, Surveyor- General for Cal\fomxa,
Hon. Commissioner General Land Office,
Wa9h%ngtont D. C.
kn-^Statement of oontraots entered into by ike United States surveyor-general for CaU-
fornia with deputy surveyors for the survey of public lands during the flsoal year end-
ing June 30, 1890, and payable out of the public appropriation for that year.
Name of deputy.
JohnGilcreet
Do
JohnH. Qarber
Z.B.6taart
Do
W.H.HaU
P. T.Newberry (No. 65)
John H. Oarber
H.G.Wheeler (No. 66)
ICA. Nurse (No. 67)...
Date of
contract.
Location of field work.
i Amount
i Meridian, j of con-
I traot.
1889.
Aug. 3
Oct
4
Sept.
3
Oct.
18
1890.
3 miles section lines and 3 mUes i M.D. H.| $86.00
township lines, to complete the ;
survey of T. 16 S., B. 1 W. ♦ 1
To complete the sui-vey of T. 16 8., M. D. M.
R.1E.* : }
2 miles section lines, to complete ' M. D. M.I
the surrey of T. 24 8., R. 9 E. '
I mile section line, to complete the I S. B. M. i
surwyof T.1S.,B.4W.*
June 7 ' Corrective survey of T. 1 8., R. 4
W.*
1889.
Oct. 28 .
Dec. 24
Dec. 3
Jan. 14
Jan. 29
S. B. M. I
8. B. M.
1 mile section line and 3 miles
ranch lines, to complete the sur-
vey of T. 8 N., R. 32 W. ♦ |
Complete the segregation survey of ! M. D. M.
T. 23 8., Rs. 20, 21. and 22 £., T. 21
S.. Rs. 21 and 22 E. I
Resnrvey of city lands of Mon> I
terey as ordereo hv the Secretary I
of the Interior in Department I
decision of October 4, 1887. *
J. G. Shepard .
D.F.Spur ....
Cave J. Couts (No. 66)
Cave J. Couts (No. 68).
•Cave J. Couts (No. 69)
Addison M. Powell
(No. 70).
Cave J. Couts (No. 71).
Frank J. Baker..
! —
Mar.
11
Feb.
18
June
12
Apr.
23
Apr.
23
June
3
May
22
June
17
Complete the surveys of T. 9 8., R.
2 W.; T. 10 8., R. 1 W. ; Ts. 12
and 13 8., R. 2 E. f
1 mile township line and 14 miles
section lines, to complete the sur-
vey of T.9N.,R.2 W.
12 miles section lines, to complete
the Murvey of T. 8 8., R. 23 E. *
2^ miles township lines, 8 miles
section lines, to complete the sur-
vey of T. 12 N., R. 11 W.*
Complete the surveys of T.9 S.,
R.2 W.; T.10 8.,R.1W.; Ts.12
and 13 8., R. 2 E.
Complete the surveys of T. 7 S., R. 4
W. ; T. 11 S., R. 2W. ; T. 11 8., R,
IW.
8^ miles township linen, 16 miles
section lines, and 4 miles grant
connections, to complete the sur>
vey of sections 10, 10, and 29, T. 6
B.,R.6W.
2 miles township lines, 2 miles sec-
tion lines, 5 miles ranch lines, to
complete the survey of T. 9 N., R. i
83 W.
Complete the surveys of public i
landsiQT.9S.,R. 4 W.; T.9S.. I
R.5W.
Examination survey of certain lines ■
in or between Ts. 29 and 30 8., Rs. '
33 and 34 E.* ,
8. B. M. I
M.D.M.j
M.D.M.
M.D.M.
S. B. M.
S. B. M.
8. B. M.
S. B. M.
M.D.M.
14.00
6.00
86.00
32.00
632.00
300.00
441.50
109.00
84.00
48.60
441.50
576.50
226.50
60.00
812.60
350.00
Returned
amount.
187.64
40.81
* Special instruotioas. tCancellod as per honorable Commissioner's letter E, June 80, 1800.
I hereby certify that the foregoing in a correct statement.
[UAL. J Wtf. H. Pratt,
United States Sureeyor-Oeneral for Califomi^
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CALIFOBNIA.
361
B. — Skitement of oontraote entered into hy the United States eurveyor-general for CaUfor-
Ilia with deputy eurveyors for the survey of public lands during the fiscal year ending
June 30. 1890, aii<2 payable from special deposits made in conformity vfith the act of
March 3, 1871.
Nam« of depaty.
Dftteof
oontntot.
Looation of field work.
Meridian.
Amoant
of COB*
tract
Name of depoeitor.
R.A.DoaB(yo.65).
1889.
July 26
R. A. Doss (No. 56).
Albert Lasoy (No. 57).
N. C. Howard (Ko. SO).
Aug. 28
Sept. 14
Oct 15
W.H.HaU :, I Oct. 28
I
John B. Tread well (No.
63).
&H. Rice (No. 60) .
Thomas Bingham (No.
64).
Nov. 8
Oct. 15
1890.
Jan. 17
5 miles standard lines
and 8 miles section
lines, to complete the
snrveylnT. 8 8., R. 1
W.
22} miles township lines
and 62} miles section
lines, to complete the
snrrey in T. 9 N., R.
28 W.
25 miles section lines, to
complete the survey in
T.10N.,R23 W.
15 miles township lines,
f6 miles section lines,
and 1} miles connection
lines, to complete the
I survey in T. 14 N., R.
15 W.
6 miles township lines
and 12 miles section
iines, to complete the
snrvey in T. 18 N., R.
10 W.
1 mile ranch line and 1}
miles section lines, to
complete the sarrey in
T.ON, R.32W.
4 miles ranch lines and 5
miles section lines, to
complete the snrvey in
T.10N.,R.32W.*
2 miles standard lines,
5 miles township lines,
and 26 miles section
lines, to complete the
survey in T. 11 N., R.
8W.
18 miles section lines, to
complete the snrvey in
T. 15 N , R. 18 W.
li miles standard lines, 4
miles township lines, 15
miles section lines, and
2 miles ranch lines (re-
survey), to complete
the surveys in T. 25 S.,
R.6B.
4 miles township lines,
27 miles section lines,
and 18 miles ranch lines
(resurvey), to complete
the surveys in T. 25 S.,
R.7B.
S. B«M
aB. M.
S. B. M.
$160.00
1, 076. 00
E. J. ToUaa.
RM. Morris.
Frank Williams.
M.D. M., 700.00
M.D.M.
S.B.M.
S.B.M.
M.D.M.
M.D.M.
M.D.M.
M.D.M.
Charles M. Conit-
wrieht; I
H. Moore.
280.00 \ William Bird.
I
James MoFarland.
70.00 S.B.Hyer.
890. 00 W. A. Lampley.
180. 00 James B. Davis.
John MoCormic.
700. 00 James Magaire.
* Special instmotions.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is correct.
[«EAL.l
Wm. H. Pbatt,
UniUd Statst Surveyor- Qtn^ral /or (Mif^mia,
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pedal deposits made by the Central Paeifto Railroad
hranehea during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
C« — Statement of special deposits made by the Central Pairifto Railroad Company and it9
or
No. of
certifl-
oate.
74
140
257
""•^o^l"" ! Depositor. | ^^^.^^^ | | j Land district, i Limit.
posit.
Sept. 21, 1880
Not. 26,1889
Jane 3,1890
W.H.Mil]8.l
do.,,
.do ...
and
19
Califoniia
Oregon.
...do : ! 18
C.P.R.R I 29
Shasta I Indemnity
— do ] do
Sacramento...!
Offioe
work.
$1.80
21.66
1.68
Sur-
rey.
$6.40
64.97
49»
I hereby certify that the above is a fall, true, and correct statement
■Wm. H. Pratt.
United State$ Surveywr-Oeneral/or Oalsfomia.
D.—The United States in account with W, H, Pratt, United States surveyor-general^ dis-
trict of California, under bond, dated March 17, 1890, for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1890.
Date.
1889.
Sept. 30
l>w. 81
1890.
Mar. 31
Jone 30
June 30
1889.
Sept. 30
Dec 31
1890.
Mar. 81
Jnne SO
June 30
Sept. 30
Dec. 81
1890.
Mar. 31
June 30
Jnne 80
Disbarsements.
I
Salary fwnd.
First qnarter...
Second qnarter.
Third qnarter
Foarth qnarter ,
Balance refunded per cer-
tiflcate of deposit No. 35.
Contingent expense.
First qiiart<«r...
Seoona quarter .
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
Balance refunded per cer-
tificate of deposit No. 85.
Special depotits by individu-
ait.
First quarter ...
Second quarter .
Third quarter
Fourth quarter
Balance refonded per cer
tificate of deposit No. 35.
Amonnt.
$3,080.10
8.19&55
3, 197. 60
3, 197. 50
79.35
Date.
I 1889.
1 July 1
12,760.00 I
261.62
257.82
231.60
1, 258. 74
.42
2,000.00
4,08&38
4,037.96
3,955.40
3, 763. 76
2,154.42
1889.
July 1
1889.
Jaly 1
Deposits.
Amount.
Salary of United States snr-
Tcyor-jceneraL
$10,006.00
2.750.00
12.760.60
Apportionment, district of
9,000.00
2,000.00
Apportionment, district of
California.
18,000.00
18, 000. 00
18.000.00
RECAPITULATION.
First quarter
Second quarter
Third quarter...:
Fourth qnarter
Balance refunded per certificate of
deposit No. 35.
$7,399.98
7. 491. 33
7, 404. 61
8, 219. 99
2. 234. 19
1889.
July
1 I Apportionment, district of
I California.
32,750.00
$32,760.00
83.750.00
I hereby certify that the above is a full, true, and correct statement.
Wm. H. Pratt,
UniUd States Swrwyor-GenertU/er (Mifsmia.
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REPORT OF THE SURVEYOR OEHERAL OF COLORADO.
United States Surveyor-Qbneral's Office,
Denver, Colo., July 17, 1890.
I have the honor to submit, in daplioate. the annual report of this office relative to
the surveying service, together with the following tabular statements, which show
fally the extent and scope of the surveying service of this district for tne fiscal year
ending June 30, 1890.
A. — Statement of contracts entered into by the United States surveyor-general for
Colorado, with deputy surveyors, for the survey of pablio lands, during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1890.
B. — Statement of plats and transcripts made of surveys of public lands and ap-
proved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
C— Statement of descriptive lists or condensed field notes of public surveys sent,
to the United States land oflices in Colorado during the fiscal year ending June 30,
1890.
D. — Statement of surveys of mines and mill sites in Colorado during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1890.
£.— Statement of mineral surveys, original and amended, ordered in fiscal year
ending June 30, 1890.
F. — Statement of amended plats and surveys ordered by General Land Office
during the fiscal year ending Jupe 30, 1890.
G.~Statement of persons employed in office of surveyor-general of Colorado during
fiscal year ending June 30, 1^90.
H.— Statement of following accounis for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890 :
Regular appropriation for salaries of surveyor-general and clerks.
Regular appropriation for contingent expenses.
Regular appropriation for inspection of surveys.
Special deposits made by individuals.
I.— Statement of deputy mineral surveyors on active duty in the field.
Respectfully submitted,
£. C. HUUPHRBT,
U. S» Surveyor- General Jar Colorado^
Hon. Commissioner General Land Office,
fVaehington, D. O.
A. — Statement ofeontraota entered into by the United States surveyor-general for Colorado ,.
with deputy surveyors, for the survey of publio lands, during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1890.
[Payable out of regular appropriadon for the year ending Jane 30, 1800.]
Date of
eontraot.
1880.
Jnne 22
June 20
Jane 28
July 0
Name of depaty.
Chas. Keemle*
B. F.Clark....
A. F. Tremaine
P. Charchfleld
Ang. 6 Blair Barwell.
Character and location of field work.
Snbdivli>lonal lines, T. 3j», N. B. 8 W. , New Mexican prin-
oipal meridian.
Bast and west boondariea and aabdlviaion lines, T. 2
S., R. 04 W., sixth principal meridian.
Survey of sees. 1. 2, 11, 12, 13. 14, 23, 2i. 25, and ft«otional
36, T. 32 S., R. 60 W., sixth principal meridian.
West and north exterior lines, Ts. 7 and 8 S., Rs. 04
and 05 W.; exterior lines, T. 6 8., Rs. 04 and 05, and
soath exterior lines Ts. 6 and 7 8., R. 08, and snbdi-
▼isional lines of Ts. 6 and 7 S., Re. 04, K. and OS W.
of sixth principal meridian ; and meander lines on
both sides of Grand Hver in T. 7 S., Rs. 04, 06, and
06, and in T. 6 S., R. 04 W. of the sixth principal
meridian,
Lines of the Fr. Chabrand ranch in T. 34 N., R. 10 W.,
New Mexican principal meridian.
Canceled; now contract June 1890.
Estimated
amount.
LOO
884.00
120.00
2,300.00.
30.00
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A — Statement of eantraot9 entered into by the United States surveyor-general for Colorado 9
with deputy surveyors ^ etc, — Cod t in ned .
Date of
contraot
188B.
Aug. 39
Oct 21
KoT. 4
KoT. 16
Hot. 18
KoT. 98
06OL S7
1880.
Veb. 7
Hat. 4
Mftr. 23
Mftf 0
Namo of deputy.
W.J.Pine.
Edward S. Snell.
W.J. Pine.
Frank P. Monroe.
B.F.GIlark
F.P. ICoDroe
....do
James Dyson.
W.J. Fine
W.H.Bradt.
W. H. Holmes .
May 18 Xdwaid & SnaU .
Character and location of field work.
Bstlmated
anomi't.
8,860.00
WestexteriorIine,T8.4»,40.47,and48N.,R.8W.;aoutb < $1,888.00
and north exterior lines, T. 4T N., B. 3 W.j west and •
north exterior lines. Ts. 45, 48, and 47 N., R. 4 W.; {
Kew Mexican principal meridian, and sabdivisional '
lines of valley portions of Ts. 47 and 48 N., R. 8 W., ,
and Ts. 48 and 47 N., K. 4 W., New Mexican prind-
pal meridian. 1
North and west exterior lines, Ts. 2 and 8 S., R. 88 W.; I L 660. 00
west and north exterior lines, Ts. 2, 8, and 4 S., R. 87
W., and the sabdi visional lines of west halves of Ts.
3 and 8. S., R. 86 W., and snhdi visional lines of Ts. 2
and 3 S., R.87 W., sixth principal meridian.
Exterior and snhdivisional lines of the snrveyahle poT>
tions of Ts. 48, 50. and 51 N.. R. 3 W.. Ts. 46, 48, 40, 50,
and 51, K., R. 3 W., Ts. 46, 48, 40, and 60 N., R. 4 W.,
Ts. 47, 48. 40, and 50 N., R. 5 W. of the New Mexican
principal meridian, and Ts. 16 8., R. 87 W. of the '
sixth principal meridian.
Survey of vfOfey portions of T. 4 S.. R. 92 W., sixth 250.00
principal meridian. '
Survey of sabdivisional lines of Ts. 1 and 3 S.. R. 00 | 1. 800. 00
and 01 W., sixth principal meridian. >
Resnrvey of exterior and snhdivisional lines of the val- , 600. 00
ley Dortions of Ts. 0 and 10 S., R. 88 W., sixth prin- )
oipal meridian. I
Survey sees. 6, 7. 8, 17, 18, 10. 90. 21, and 87 to ML in- 1 360.00
elusive, in T. 6 S., R. 80 W., sixth principal meridian.
Amended survey townsite of Rico, (special deposit)
Survey of snrveyahle portions in Ts. 18, 14, and 15 S., 09&00
R. 80 W. of the sixth principal meridian.
Survey of metes and bounds of claims in T. 7 S., B. 89
W. of the sixth principal meridian, settled upon prior
to suspension August 17, 188. (Additional appropria-
tion.)
Sorvey by metes and bounds of claims in Ts. 8 and 4 S., 330. 00
R. 78 W., and Ts. 2 and 3 S., R. 79 W., sixth principal
meridian, and ties of sach olHims to comers of the
resurvev of said townships.
Survey of north and south exterior Unes and subdiris- ;
ion of survey able portions of T. 4 S., Rs. 87 and 88 ,
W. of the sixth principal meridian. I
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B. — PlaU and transcripU made of surveys during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890,
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Mete* and boands of claims filed
on prior to saapenaion:
T.88., IL86W
T.8S., R.87W
T.9S.,R.86W
T.8S..R.8eW
T.7S.,;R.87W
T.78.,R.88W
T.108., R. 85W
T.88.. R. 87 W
E. andW. exteriors fhiotlonal
T. 34N., R.lfl W.
W. exteriors fhtotlonal T. 84 N.,
R. 17 W,
8. and W. exteriors T. 35 N., R.
17 W.
8. and W. exteriors T, 85 N., R.
18 W
8. and W. exteriors T. 35 N., R.
)9 W.
8. and W. exteriors T. 36 N., R.
17 W.
8. and W. exteriors T. 86 N., R.
18 W.
8. and W. exteriors T. 86 N., R.
19 W.
N. exteriors T. 36 N., R. 17 W . . ,
N. exteriors T. 86 N., R. 18 W. . .
N. exteriors T. 37 N., R. 19 W . .
N. and 8. exteriors fractional T.
35N.,R.20W.
N.exteilor firaotional T.86 N.,
R. 20 \7
N. exterior fractional T. 87 N.,
R.20W.
Subdivision fractional T. 34 N.,
R. 16 W.
Subdivision fractional T. 84 N.,
R.17 W.
Subdivision T. 35 N., R. 17 W. . .
Subdivision T. 36 N., R. 17 W . . .
Subdivision T. 35 N., R. 18 W. ..
Subdivision T. 36 N., R. IR W . . .
Subdivision T. 37 N., R. 18 W...
Subdivision T. 35 N.. R. 10 W. . .
Subdivision T. 36 N., R. 19 W. . .
Subdivision T. 37 N., R. 19 W . .
Subdivision fractional T. 35 N.,
R.20W.
Subdivision fractional T.86K.,
R.20W.
Sub«livision fractional T. 37 N«.
R. 20 W.
Exteriors T. 47 N., R. 6 W
Exteriors T.48N.. K.6 W
Exteriors T.47 N.,R.7 W
Subdivision T. 47 N., R. 6 W. . . .
Subdivision T. 48 N., R. 6 W . . .
Subdivision T. 47 N., R. 7 W . . .
E. and W. exteriors T. 49 N., R.
6 'W
E. and W. exteriors T. 50 N., R.
6 W.
E. and W. exteriors T. 49 N., R.
7 W.
B. and W. exteriors T. 50 N., R.
7 W.
E. exteriors T. 61 N., R. 6 W. . . .
E. exteriors T. 51 N., R. 7 W. . . .
Subdivision T. 50 N., R. 6 W . . .
SubrtiviHion T. 51 K.. R. 6 W . - .
Subdivision T. 50 ST.. R 7 W . . .
Subdivision T. 51 N., R. 7 W . . .
Subdivision T. 15 8., R. 91 W. . .
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contract.
1889.
May 17*
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B. — Plaii and iranscripts made of surveys during the fiscal year ending June 30
18t)0— Continued.
Description.
E., W. and N. exteriors W. ^T.
2 S^ K. 86 W.
B., W. «nd N. exteriors W. i T.
3 S. R. 86 W
W. and N. exteriors T. S S., R. 87
W.
W. and N. exteriors T. 8 S., B. 87
W.
W. and N. exteriors T. 4S., B. 87
W.
SabdlTision W. | T. 2 &, B. 86
W.
Snbdirision W. i T. 8 S., B. 86
W.
SubdiWsion T. 2 S., B. 87 W . . .
Subdivision T. 8 S., B. 87 W. . . .
W. and N. exteriors T. 7 S., B.
04 W.
W. and N. exteriors T. 8 S., B.
WW.
W. and N. exteriors T. 7 S., B.
05 W
W. and K. exteriors T. 8 B., B.
06 W.
W. exteriors T. 6 a, B. 04 W. ..
W. exteriors T. 6 8. JBL 06 W. . .
K. and S. exteriors T. 7 S., B.
06 W.
Snbdi vision T. 6 S., B. 04 W. . ..
Subdlviaion T. 7 S.,B.04 W....
SabdivisiOD T. 6 S., B. 05 W . . . .
Sabdiviaion T. 7 S.. B. 05 W....
Subdivision T. 6 S., B. 06 W. . . .
Subdivision T. 7 &, B. 06 W. ...
Survey seotiODS 1, 2, 11, 12, 18,
li. 23, 24, 25. and fractional 86,
T. 32S..B.60W.
E.. W. and N. exteriors T. 2 8.,
B.04W.
Sabdiviaion T. 2 S., B. 04 W. . ..
E. and S. exteriors T. 44 N., B.
18 W
Subdivision T. 44 N., B. 18 W . . .
Subdivision T. 46 N., B. 10 W . . .
Subdivision T. 47 N., B. 10 W. . .
Subdivision T. 48 N., B. 10 W. . .
Claims in T. 8 S., B.88 W. ...
Subdivision T. 4 S., B. 02 W .
Amended townsite Bioo . . .
Amended townsite Aspen.
Claim of Cbabrandin T. 84 K.,
B.10W.
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1880.
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1800.
•Feb. 7
1880.
May 6
By whom surveyed.
Edward S. Snell
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W.J. Fine
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Leonard Cntahaw
Frank P. Monroe
James Dyson...
Frank D. Hone .
Blair Bnrwell.
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1880.
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367
C. — Tran$cript of field notes of public surveys sent to the United States land offices from
the office of the United States surveyor •general for Colorado during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1890.
DelKorM....
Central City .
Pneblo.
Garfield..
Denver .
Subdivisions of T. 28 8., K. 70 W .- 6th .
Subdivisions of T. 27 S.,R 78 W 6th .
Subdivisions of T. 28 S., R. 73 W 6th
Subdivisions of T.1N.,K. 76 W 6th .
Subdivisions of T. 2 N.,R. 75 W | 6th.
8ubdivisionsofT.4S.,R.«2W 6th .
Subdivisions of T. 6 S.,R. 82 W 6th .
Subdivisions of T. 81 S.. B. 68 W 6th .
Subdivisions of T. 11 S.,K. 69 W ' Oth .
Subdivisions of T. 30 S., R. 60 W 6th.
Subdivisions of T. 31 8., B. 60 W 6th,
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions ol T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
I Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
SubdiviHionsofT.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
SublirisionsofT.
Subdivisions Of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T..
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
Subdivisions of T.
25S.,B.78W 6th .
26S.,R.78W 6th.
24S.,B.73 W 6th .
23S.,B.73 W 6th .
25SmR.48 W 6th .
36S.,R.48 W , 6th .
27S..R.48W ' 6th .
28S^Il.48W I 6th
29S.,R.48W ! 6th
81S,R.<8W 6th
38S.,R.48W 6th
84S.,R.48W 6th
13 8.,R.46W 6th
U8.,R.46W 6th
16S.,R.46W 6th
I N,R.04W
8N.,R.94W
4N.,R.04W
6N.,R.04 W.
6N.,R94 W
0N..RO4W
10N.,R.04W
1».,R.05W
4N..R.95W
6N..R.O0W
2KmR.88W
10N.,R.88W
11N..R.83W
6 8mR.83W
78., R.83 W
88.,R88 W
OS., R.83 W
10S.,R.83W
II S.,R.88 W
6S.,K.84W
7S..R.84W
8 8.,R.04W
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6th.
6th.
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Subdivisions of T. 6 S.,R. 86 W 0th.,
Subdivisions of T.7S.,K8e W 0th..
Subdivisions of T. 5 S..ja. 87 W 0th
Snbdivlsionsof T.6S.,R.49W 0th..
Subdivisions of T. 7 8., R.49W 6th.
Subdivisions of T.«S.,R.40W 0th.
Subdivisions of T. OS., R.4» W 0th..
Subdivisions of T. 10 8., R. 49 W 6th.
SubdivislonsofT.il 8, R. 49 W 6th..
Subdivisions of T. 10S.,R.60 W ' 6tb
Subdivisions of T. 118., R. 60 W 6th.
Subdivisions of T. 7 8., R. 61 W - 6th..
Subdivisions of T. 8 S., R. 61 W eth .
Subdivisions of T. 0 8., R. 84 W . .
Subdivisions of T. 11 8., R. 84 W .
Subdivisions of T. 6 8., R 85 W . . .
Subdivisions of T. 7 8., R. 85 W . . .
Subdivisions of T. 8 8., R. 85 W. . ,
Subdivisions of T. 9 8., R. 86 W. . .
Subdivisions of T. 10 8.. R. 85 W.
Subdivisions of T. 4 8., R. 86 W. . .
Subdivisions of T. 6 8., R. 86 W . . ,
Feb. 2, 1874
June li. 1883
Sept. 22, 1882
Dec. 10,1881
Do.
Sept 6.18^1
Apr. 17, 1888
July 28.1881
Jan. 14,1884
July 21, 1809
July 17,1882
July 28,1881
June 14, 1884
July 21,1882
July 1.1882
July 21, 1882
Aug. 13, 1881
Nov. 8,1880
Jan. 19.1881
Dec. 6,1880
Do.
Jsn. 19,1881
Do.
Dec. 18,1880
Do.
Feb. 2,1881
Dec 18,1881
.)an. 10,1880
June 29, 1886
Aue. 12, 1884
Apr. 26,1881
Do.
Apr. 18. 1881
Do.
Sept. 8, 1888
Aug. 12, 1884
Apr. 20, 1881
Oct 7. 1881
Julj^ 11, 1881
1881
1P81
1882
1881
1881
^£0!
Oct 7,
Do.
Do.
Do.
Oct 29,
June 2,
Oct 7.
Do.
Oct 20,
Oct. 26, 1887
Oct 7. 1881
Juoe 2, 1882
Oct 7, 1881
Do.
Oct 29, 1881
Oct 25, 1887
Oct 29, 1881
Oct 26. 1887
June 16, 1881
Oct 25, 1887
July 13, 1882
July 11, 1887
July 18, 1882
July 11. 1887
Auz. 4, 1882
Do.
July 11,1887
July 29,1881
June 28, 1881
May 9, 1881
Do!
Kay 22,1881
May 9. 1881
Jan. 29,1881
June 2?, 1881
May 9.1881
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868 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
C. — Tranacripi of field notes of public Burvens, etc^Continned.
IiMid office.
DttiTei.
Desoription.
Principal I
meridUn.
SnbdiTitions of T. 0 S., R. 51 W . .
SubdiviBiona of T. 10 S.. R. 61 W .
Subdivisions of T. 7 S., R. 57 W . .
Subdivisionn of T. 1 §., R. 07 W . .
Subdivisions of T 2 S., R. 07 W . .
So bdi visions of T. 8 S., R 67 W . .
Sabdivisions of T. 4 S., R. 67 W . .
Sabdiviaions of T. 5 S., R. 67 W . .
tubdlvisions of T. 6 S., R. 67 W . .
nbdi visions of T. 7 8., R. 67 W . .
Sabdivisions of T. 8 S., R. 67 W . .
Subdivisions of T. 9 S., R 67 W . .
Sabdivisions of T. 10 S , R 67 W .
Sabdivisions of T. » S., R. 65 W .
Subdivisions of T. 10 S., R. 65 W .
Sabdivisions uf T. 3 8., R. 66 W .
Sabdivisions of T. 4 S., R. 66 W . .
Subdivisions of T. 5 S.. R 66 W .
Sabdivisions of T. 6 S., R. 66 W . .
Subdivistons of T. 7 8.. R. 66 W ..
Subdivisions of T. 8 S., R.66 W...
Subdivisions of T. 9 8., R. 66 W. ..
Subdivisions of T. 10 S., R. 66 W. .
Subdivisions of T. 6 8., R.UW...
Subdivixions of T. 7 S., R.i4 W...
Subdiyisions of T. 8 S., K. 44 W . . .
Subdivisions of T. 9 8., R. 44 W . . .
Subdivisions of T.IO S.. R. 44 W..
Subdivisions of T. 6 S., R. 46 W...
SubdiviaiODS of T.7 S.. R. 46 W...
Sabdivisions of T.8 S., R.46 W.
Subdivisions of T. 9 S., R. 46 W.
Subdivi6ions of T. 1 8.,
Subdivisions of T. 2 S..
Sul>diviaionsofT.3S.,
Subdivisions ufT. 4 S.,
Sabdivisions of T. 5 8., R. 68 W.
Subdivisions of T. 6 S., R. 68 W .
Subdivisions of T. 7 S., R. 68 W.
Subdivisions of T. 8 S., R. 68 W.
, R.68W.
,R.68 W.
, R68'W.
,R.68W.
Subdivisions of T. 10 8., R. 68 W.
Subdivisions of T. 8 S., R. 69 W. .
Subdivisions of T. 4 8., R. 69 W..
Subdivisions of T. 9 S, R, 69 W. .
Subdivinions of T. 1 S., R. 69 W. .
Sabdivisions of T. 2 S. R 69 W..
Subdivisions of T. 5 S., R. 69 W. .
Subdivisions ot T.7 S., R.69 W..
Subdivisions of T. 2 S., R. 74 W . . .
Subdivisions of T. 4 N., R. 61 W. . .
Subdivisions uf T. 5 N., R 61 W . . .
Subdivisions of T. 9 N.,R. 51 W....
Subdivisions of T. 11 N.. R61 W.,
Subdivisions of T.12 N..R.61 W..
Subdivisions of T. 8 N., R. 6<» W . ,
I Subdivisions of T. 12 N.. R. 60 W..
Subdivisions of T.6 N., R.«2 W. .,
Subdivisions of T. 1 N.. R.66 W . ..
I Subdivisions of T. 2 N., R. 66 W. ..
Subdivisions of T. 3 N., R 66 W. ..
Sabdivisions of T. 4 N.. R. 66 W. ..
I Subdivisions of T. 5 N., R. 66 W. . .
SubdiviMons of T.6 N., R.66 W .,
. Subdivisions of T. 1 N., R.67 W. ..
Subilivisions of T. 2 N., R 67 W. .,
Subdivisions of T. 6 N., R. 67 W . . .
Subdivisions of T.6N.,B.67 W...
Subdivisions of T. 1 N.. R. 68 W. . .
Subdivisions of T. 3 N., R 68 W. . .
Subdivisions of T.4 N., R.68 W. ..
Subdivisions of T. 3 K, R 69 W. . .
SulMlivisIons of T. 4 N., R 69 W. ..
Subdivisions of T. 7 N., R. 71 W. ..
Subdivisions of T. 8 N., R. 71 W. . .
Subdivisions of T. 6 N ., R. 74 W . . .
Subdivisioos of T. 8 N., R. 74 W. . .
Subdivisions of T. 9 N.. R. 74 W. . .
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Date of con-
tract.
May 9,1881
Aufc. 21. 1871
Jaly 10,186$
.t)o.
Aug. 10, 1804
Aug. 18) 1M2
Aug. 10, 1864
Mav 80,1866
Da
May 81,1866
Do.
Ang. 2.1867
May 24,1866
Do.
June 20. 1R67
^"fL^^* 1864
Aug. 20, 1865
Do!
May S4.18B6
Jan. '9.1882
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Jan. 11,1880
May 9.1881
Do.
Jan. 9 1881
May 30,1866
Aos. 18,1862
Da
Jnly 8,1862
May 80.1866
Do.
Jan. S, 1874
May 30,1866
Mar. 34.1873
Feb, 7. 1878
Dea 34.1872
July 6, 1862
Sii>t. 1,1879
Aug. 10, 1864
May 30.1866
Apr. 14,1864
Mar. 81, 1866
Dec. 11.1872
July 11.1882
Mav 14, 1881
Aug. 8, 1870
Deo. 20,1880
Do.
Dea 27.1880
June 2.1875
Sept. 20, 1869
July 10, 1863
Auff. 10. 1865
Do'.
Aug. JO,] MM
July 10, 1863
Aafl^ 10, 1864
Do'.
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Do.
Da
Do.
Dea 17,1881
Aug. 4.1881
June 14, 1882
Da
Sept 29, 1881
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C.—Tran$cHpt ofJUld notes ofpuhUe aurvegB, «te.-~OontinnecL
DflBTer.
LMdTiUe.
DelNorto.
OentralOity...
9405
Sabdiyislona
SubdlTisiona
SabdlvUions
SabdivlMona
SubdiTlsioiM
SnbdlvisioDS
SnbdiTialons
Habdiriaiona
SiibdiTialima
SubdiTialona
Subdivlaiona
8ab.*iTlaioiia
SubdlTlaloDa
SnbdivlMluna
Sabdiviaiona
Subdiviaiona
Snbdiviaiona
Sabdiviaiona
Sobdivisiona
Subitiviaiona
SubdiviMiona
SnlMliviiiiona
Siibdiviaiooa
Subdiviaiona
Sabdiviaiona
Sabdiviaiona
of T.10K..B.74W.
of T.«N.,B.76W..
of T.7N.,R.76 W..
of T.8K.,R.76W..
of T.9N..R.76W .
of T.10K.,R.75 W.
of T.12.V..R.76 W.
ofT.7K.,k76W..
ofT.8N..R.7e W..
ofT.»N..R.76W..
ofT4K.,R.77W..
ofT.»K.,R.77W..
ofT.«N..R.77W..
ofT.8N.,R.77W..
ofT.9N..R.77 W..
ofT.10N.,E.77W.
ofT.7N.,R.78 W .
ofT.8N.,R.78W..
of T. 10 N., R. 78 W .
ofT.llN.,R.78 W.
ofT.6N..E.7»W..
ofT.eN..R.7«W..
ofT.7N.,R.79 W..
ofT.»N.,R.79 W..
ofT.llK.,R.79 W.
ofT.2S..B.79W...
Sabdiviaiona of T. 3 S., & 79 W. .
Sabdiviaiona of T. 6 8.. B. 79 W. .
SabdlvlHions of T. 6 N., &. 80 W .
SabdiTiaiona of T. 1 S., R. 80 W. .
Sabdiviaiona of T. 2 &, & 80 W. .
Sabdiviaiona of T. 8 S., R 80 W. . .
Su>>dlviaioua of T. 5 S, R. 80 W. . .
Sabdiviaiona of T. 8 S.T R. 81 W. . .
Sabdiviaiona of T. 9 S., K. 81 W . . .
SubdiTiaioDa of T. 7 N., R 81 W . .
Subdiviaiona of T. 8 N., R. 81 W ..
SiibdiviHiooa of T. 9 N., R 81 W . .
SaMiriBlona of T. 11 N., R 81 W .
Sobdiviaiooa of T. 6 N., R 82 W . .
Sabdiviaiona of T. 7 N., R 83 W .
SubdtviHiona of T. 8 N., R 83 W ..
Sobdi^taiona of T. 9 N., R 82 W ..
Sabiliviaiona of T. 10 N., R 82 W .
Subdiviaiona of T. 11 N.. R 82 W .
Subdiviaiona of T. 4 S., R 45 W . ..
Sabdiviaiona of T. 7 a, R45 W...
Sabdivialooa of T. 8 S , R 45 W . ..
Sabdiviaiona of T. 9 S^ R 45 W . . .
Sabiliviaiona of T. 10 S , & 45 W. .
Subdiviaiona of T. 4 N., R 45 W. .
Sabdivialima of T. 9 N., R. 45 W . .
Sabiliviaiona of T. 10 N., R 45 V .
Sabdiviaiona of T. 5 S.. R 46 W . . .
Subdiviaiona of T. 10 S.. R 40 W. .
Sabiliviaiona of T. 6 S.. R. 82 W. . .
Snbdivihiona of T. 7 S., R. 82 W . . .
Sabdiviaiona of T. 8 S., R 82 W . . .
Sobdivisioua of T. 9 S.. R. 82 W. . .
Sabilivisiona of T. 10 S., R.82 W .
Sabdiviaiona of T. 11 S.. R 82 W .
Sabdiviaiona of T. 12 S., R 82 W .
Bxteriora of T 28 S . R 70 W
Exteriora of T 27 S., R 73 W .
Sxteriora of T. 88 S., R. 78 W .
Exteriora of T. 1 N., R 75 W .
Exteriora of T. 2 N., R. 75 W .
LO ^24
Prinoipia
DateofooB.
merldiaii.
tract.
6th
Jane 87, 1891
6th
Jane 14, 1888
6ih
Do.
6th
Do.
6th
Jane 27. 1881
6ih
6th
Jolv 2011881
6th
Jane 14. 1898
6th
Do.
6th
Jane 17, 1888
«th
Ang. 11,1888
6th
July 11, 1888
6th
Nov. 4,1881
6th
July 29, 1881
6th
Nov. 29,1881
6th
Do.
aih
Oct. 29,1881
6th
Joly 29, 1881
6th
Nov. 29,1881
6th
Do.
6th
Oct. 28,1881
6th
Nov. 4.1881
6th
July 8.1880
8lh
Sept. 29, 1879
July 29,1881
6th
6th
Aug. 17. 1881
Oct. 26.1^87
6th
AUE. 17, 1881
Oct. 86,1887
6th
Aug. 17, 1881
6th
Nov. 4,1881
6th
Aag. 13, 1880
Oct; 28,1887
6th
Aug. 17. 1881
Oct 26,1887
6th
0th
Ans. 17, 1881
6th
June 2,1888
6th
Do.
6th
6th
July 8,1881
Cth
Apr. 22, 1879
May 14,1881
6th
6(h
June 22,1881
8th
Oct. 29,1881
6th
June 22, 1881
6th
May 14,1881
tfth
Da
6lh
Jaly 14, 1881
6th
Feb. 10.1881
«th
Jan. 9,1888
6th
Do.
6th
Sept. 29,1881
eth
Do.
6th
Nov. 17. 1880
6th
Nov 6,1889
6th
Do.
6th
Feb. 10,1881
6ih
§^ri;iss
0th
6th
Do.
6th
Do.
6th
June 8.1888
6th
May 8.1888
6th
June 2,1882
6th
Da
6th
Jane 18, 1869
Oct. 18,1869
6th
July 1,1878
July 18,1878
Jane 14, 1888
6th
Jane 16,1871
Jaly 13. 1878
Sept. 22, 1888
6th ,..
May 21.1878
Dea 10,1881
May 9.1881
Jane 21, 1869
6th
May 9.1881
Dec. 10.1881
Ang. 18.1880
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C.-^Transeript ofJUld note$ of public mrvey; etc.— Continned.
Lsnd office.
CentialGity.
Pneblo..
Garileld .
DeaoriptloD.
Exteriors of T.4 S., R.82 W .
Exteriors of T. 5 S., R. 82 W .
Exteriors of T. 81 8.. R. 68 W . .
Exteriors of T. 11 S., R. OQ W. . .
Exteriors of T. 80 S., R. 60 W.
Exteriors of T. 81 8., R. 60 W .
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
26 8., R 73 W .
26 8., R.78W.
24 8., R. 78 W .
Exteriors of T. 28 S.. R. 73 W .
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
25 8., R. 48 W .
26 8., R. 48 W .
27 8., R. 48 W .
28 8., R 48 W .
Exteriors of T. 28 8.. R. 48 W .
Exteriors of T. 81 8., R. 48 W .
Exterion of T. 83 S.. R. 48 W .
Exteriors of T. 84 8., R. 48 W .
Exteriors of T. 18 8.. R. 46 W .
Exteriors of T. 14 8., R 46 W .
Exteriors of T. 16 8., R. 46 W .
Exteriors of T. 1 N., R. M W..
Exteriors of T. 3 N., R. 04 W .
Exteriors of T. 4 D., R. 84 W.
Exteriors of T. 5 N., R. 04 W.
Exteriors of T. 6 N., R. 04 W. .
Exteriors of T. 0 N., R. 04 W. . .
Exteriors of T. 10 N., R. 04 W.
Exteriors of T. 1 X., R 05 W...
Exteriors of T. 4 K., R. 05 W . .
Exteriors of T. 5 N., R. 06 W. .
Exteriors of T. 2 N., R. 88 W. .
Exteriors of T. 10 N.. R 88 W .
Exteriors of T. U N., R. 88 W.
Exteriors of T. 6 8.. R 88 W. . .
Exteriors of T. 7 S., R. 88 W ,
Exteriors of T. 8 8., R. 83 W . . .
Exteriors of T. 9 8., R 83 W. . .
Exteriors of T. 10 S., R. 83 W.
1 Princip*!
Date of COD-
1 meridian.
i
tract
6th
July 26,1880
June 7,1883
Joly 27.1881
June 18. 1881
6th
May 6. 1870
Joly 22, 1880
Jnne 13, 1881
6th
Jnly 24. 1868
Jnly 28, 1881
6th
July 21,1860
Jnne 21, 1887
eth
Jnne 18,1860
Jan. 14. 1884
6th
Jnne 18, 1860
Jnly 24, 1860
July 28, 1881
6th
Jane 20, 1881
Jnly 1.1882
eth
Oct. 7, lb81
Joly 21, 1882
6th
Oct. 18, 1881
Jnne 20, 1881
July 21, 1882
6th
July 81. 1878
Auff. 17, 1870
Auk. 13. 1881
6th
Jnly 7,1878
May 26, 1871
6th
Au^. 0, 1888
Jnly 7.1878
6th
Ang. 0. 1880
July 7.1873
6th
AUR. 0. 1880
Aug. 8. 1880
Jnly 7, 1873
6th
Aug. 9,1880
July 7. 1873
6th
6th
Mai 6. 1870
6th
Do.
6th
6th
JnlT 1,1872
eth
Apr. 22. 1870
Jnly 1.1872
6th
Sept. 8.1883
Aug. 7,1884
June 20, 1886
July 13, 1883
6th
6th
A«g^7.I8.»
July 30. 1873
6th
t)o.
Apr. 26, 1881
6th
JulylO, 1877
Apr. 26. 1881
6th
Jnly 10, 1877
6th
Jnly22, 1878
6th
Jan. 28, 1883
Jan. 13. 188S
8ept 8,18X3
6th
Aug. 7, 1884
Jnly 30. 1873
6th
Apr. 26, 1881
Jnly 80. 1878
6th
Jnly 26, 1880
6th
May 14, 1881
6th
JnlirU. 1881
6th
Kay S, 1879
Jnne 8, 1881
Jnly 26, 1880
6th
Jnne 8, 1881
6th
Jnne 8,1881
Jnly 26,1880
6th
Jnne 8,1881
Jnly 26.1880
6th
June 8.1881
Jnly 26,1880
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COLORADO.
C. — I^ansoript ofJUld notei ofpublie nurvejf$, eto. — Continoed.^
371
Land office.
Garfield .
Denver.
Deseriptioii.
Exterion of T.
Exteriors of T,
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriurs of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of E.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
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US.,B.88W.
.68..R.84W.
7&,R.84W..
8S..K.84W..
0&,R.84W.,
U8.,B.84W
6S..B.86W..
7 8.,R86W..
88.,It.WW..
08.,K.85W..
10S..B.86W.
i8.,E.86W.
6S.,B.MW..
0S.,B.88W.
7^..Il.8eW..
6S.,R.87W.
6S,B.40W.
78.,B.40W..
88.,B40W..
9S.,B.4BW..
10 a, It. 40 W.
I18.,R.49W.
10S..&50W.
11 8., B. SOW.
7SmK.61W..
8 S., R. 51 W. .
0 8., K 51 W. .
10 8..B.51W,
7S.,B.57W..
1S.,E.67W..
2 8.,R.«7W..
38.,R07W..
4S..R.67W..
6S..R67W..
6S.,R.67W.,
78..K.67W..
88.,B.e7W..
08.,H.«7 W..
10 8.,B.67W.
0SmR.65W..
10S.,B.66W.
8 8., B 60 W. .
48.,R.66W..
Principal
meridian.
0th
Oth
0th
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oih
Oth
Oih
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Oth
Dateof oom-
traot
Juve ^1880
JnljT 20, 1880
Kay e,187»
Jaly 20^ 1S80
Do.
Do.
Do.
Jime 2,188a
Jnly 20,1881
Joly 20,1880
Da
Do.
Da
Oct. 20^189
July 13,1887
Jaly 20. 1880
July 11, 1887
Jaly h,im
Jaly 26. 18$
Juno R, 1881
July 26, 1880
June 8,1881
July 26. 188D
July 11,1887
Oct 20,1882
Jane 2,188)
May 12.1873
Jane 12. 18^
Jaly 28,1880
June 22,18^
July 28. 1880
Jane 12, IfSO
JuW 28, 1880
Aag. io, 1870
Jane 12, 18S^
Aag. 10,187V
Joly 2H, 188)
Aa^ 12, 187D
Aug. 10, 1870
Auk. 12, 1873)
28,1880
''V
Do.
Aug. 12, 1870
Jnly 28,188D
Auff. 12, 1870
Oct. 1,1801
8eiit 24. 1801
Jane 11, 1869
Oct 1.180S
Sept 24, 180t
Oct 1, 1801
8ept 24, 1861
Oct 1. 1861
8ept 24, 1861
Aag. 12,1861
Oct 20,1804
Aug. 12, 1861
Oct 20,181(4
Da
Da
Da
Aag. 12, 1801
Jane 21, 18^
Aag. 2,l8g
Aug. 12, im
Oct 20,180i
Aug. 12. 1801
Oct 20,1884
Sept 24, 1801
Oct l,180t
8ept24,108l
Oct. l^lMl
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S72 BEPOBT OF GOMMISSIONEB OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
C— 2VaMoHp< oJfM notrn ofpvbUe Mtrv^ff, aio.— Continued.
DMoriptton.
Dftteofoon-
tract.
Bxterion of T.5 8.,B.0d W...
Exteriors of T. 6 8., B. 06 W. .
Exterior* of T.7 8.,B.66 W..
Exteriors of T. 8 3., R. 06 W. .
Exteriors of T. 0 S., R. 06 W .
Exteriors of T. 10 8., B. 00 W.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
ExteriA>rs of T
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
0S.«B.44W..
7 8.,B.44W..
8S.,B.44W..
0S..It.44W..
10S.,B.44W.
0 8..R.40W..
7 8.,R.*6W..
8S.,R.40 W..
OS.. R.46 W..
18.,B.08W..
Exteriors of T. 2 8., B. 08 W. . .
Exteriors of T. 3 8., R. 68 W. . .
Exteriors of T. 4 8., B. 08 W..
Exteriors of T. 6 8., R. 08 W.,
Exteriors of T. 0 8., B. 68 W..
Exteriors of T. 7 8., R. 88 W. .
Exteriors of T. 8 8., R. 08 W..
Exteriors of T. 10 8., B. 08 W..
Exteriors of T. 8 8^ B. 60 W.
Exteriors of T. 4 8., R. 09 W.
Exteriors of T. 0 8., R. 00 W.
Exteriors of T. 1 8., R. 00 W.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
2 8., R. oew..
6 8.,R. 09W..
7 8., R. 09W..
28.. R.74W..
4 N., R. 51 W .
5 N.. R. 61 W .
9 N., R. 61 W .
11 N., R. 61 W .
12 N., R. 61 W .
8N., R.80W..
12N., R.OOW.
6N., R.02W..
1N..R.00W..
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0th .
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Oth.
Oth.
Oth.
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Oth .
Oth.
Oth .
Oth .
Aug. 1,1001
Oct. 20,1804
Aog. 12, IKOl
Oot. 20,1884
Do.
Do.
Do.
Ang. 12, 1801
May 12. 1878
July 28.1H80
Jnoe 19, 1880
July 2&18H0
June 12. 1880
July 28. 18^
Jane 12. 1880
July 28, 1880
June 12. 1880
July 28. 18H0
June 12. 1880
June 12, 18M
H»v 12.1873
Jane 12, 1880
Do.
Do.
Jane 11. 1850
8«pt. 24, 1881
Out. 1, 1801
8ept. 24. 1861
Got. 1, 1861
8. pt. 24, li>01
Oct. 1. 1881
Snpt. 24, 1801
Oct. 1. 1801
Sept. 24. 1801
Oct. 1. 1801
12,1801
20,1804
12 1801
20.1804
3. 187L
0,1871
8,1H71
20.1804
, _„ 13,1870
Jnly 21,1>'60
Oct. 13.1870
Aac. 2,1807
Jane 21. 1K07
July 0, 1871
Jnly 8,1871
Oct. 1, 1881
July 0 1871
July 21. 1809
Uot. 13.1K70
Jane II.I80O
Oct. 1, 1801
4,1803
l.lfl01
<1808
1, IHOl
Aug.
Oct.
Aag.
Oft:
July
July
Jaly
Oct.
Oct,.
Jaly
Oct.
July
Oet.
Aag. IS, 1801
Jnly 8, 1871
Oct. 20,1804
Aug. 10,1808
Jane 21. 1800
May 12.1873
June 1, 1871
Do.
Aag. 8,1870
Aug. 0,1808
Aug. 8, 1870
Aug.
Aag.
Aug.
Aug.
Aug.
4.1808
5.18^0
O^IWB
4.1880
4.1808
8ept. 24,1800
Jalv 4. 1808
Sept. 24, 1/<01
Jane 11,1880
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COLOHADO. 37$
C-^Tranwripi ofJMd notes ofpubUo ewrveya, etc^Continned.
liMidoffloe.
Banyar .
DeMriptlon.
Bxterionof T. 2N., B. M W ,
BxterioTs of T. 8 K., B. M W ,
Szteriora of T. 4 N., B. 06 W
Bzterion of T. 6 N., B. 06 W
Exterioi-i of T. 6 N., B. 86 W
Exteriors of T. 1 N.. B. 07 W
Exteriors of T. 8 N., B. 07 W
Exteriors of T. 6 N., B. 07 W
Exteriors of T. 6 K , B. 07 W
Exteriors of T. 1 N., B. 08 W. .
Exteriors of T.8 X., B.88 W.
Exteriors of T. 4 N.. B. 08 W .
Exteriors of T. 8 N., B. 08 W.
Exteriors of T. 4 2f., B 08 W.
Exteriors of T. 7 K.. B. 71 W.
Exteriors of T. 8 K., B. 71 W.
Exteriors of T.ON., B.74 W.
Exteriors of T. 8 N., B. 74 W.
Bxteriora of T. 0 N., B. 74 W .
Exteriors of T. 10 N., B. 74 W
Exteriors of T.6K., B.75 W.
Exteriors of T.7N., B.75W.
Exteriors of T.8 K., B. 75 W.
Exteriors of T. 8 N., B. 75 W .
Exteriors of T. 10 N., B. 75 W^,
Exterinw of T. 12 N.. B 75 W
Exteriors of T. 7 |r., B. 70 W^..
Exteriors of T. 8 N.. B. 70 W.
Exteriors of T. 8 N., B. 70 W. .
Exteriors of T.4 N., B.77 W..
Exteriors of T. 5 N., B. 77 W..
Exteriors of T. 0 N^ B. 77 W. .
Exteriors of T.8 N., B.77 W..
Exteriors of T. 8 K., B. 77 W . .
Exteriors of T. 10 N., B. 77 W
Exteriors of T. 7 N., B. 78 W . .
Exteriors of T. 8 N., B 78 W. .
Exteriors of T. 10 S., B. 78 W.
Exteriors of T. U N., B 78 W.
Exteriors of T. 5 N., B. 78 W. .
Exteriors of T. 6 N., B.78 W. .
Exteriors of T. 7 N., B. 70 W .
Exteriors of T. 8 N., B. 79 W . .
Exteriors of T. 11 N., B. 78 W.
Exteriors of T. 2 S.. B. 78 W. ..
PriDOiiMl
meridisn.
0th.
0th.
0th.
0th.
0th.
0th .
0th.
Ofh.
0th .
0th.
0th.
0th.
0th.
0th .
0th.
Oth.
0th.
Oth .
Oth .
Oth .
Oth.
Oth .
Oth.
Oth.
Oth.
Oth.
Oth.
Date of oon.
traol
Sept. 24,
Jn^
_^-, 24,1801
July 4,180»
Do.
Sept 8,1801
July 4pl80
Sept. aaflfi
Jnlj MOSO
Jnnell,18»
Joly 4pl8S
Sept
July
8,1801
4.180>
Oth.
Oth.
Oth .
Oth .
Oth .
Oth .
Oth .
Oth .
Oth .
Oth.
Oth .
Oth.
Oth.
Oth .
Oth.
Oth .
Oth .
Jnly 4, ion
Jane 11, 18b6
July 4.186a
Sept 8,18^
July 4, 1888
Sept 8,1801
Jane 28, 1881
May 24,1K81
Jnoe 28, 1881
Apr. 10,1877
Joly 11, 1877
Jnne 28, IffSl
Juoe 14, 1881
Jane 28, 1881
Jiilf^22, 1879
Do.
June 28, 1881
June 14, 1882
Jane 20, 1881
July 22, 18$
June 28, 1881
Jnly 22,1878
Do.'
Jnne 20, 1881
July 28,18^
Joly 22,18TO
Feh. 28, m
Jnne SO, 1881
Jnne 22, 1878
Auff. 11, IRSa
Aug. 18, 1880
May 9, 1881
Aug. 30, 1881
May 0. 1881
Jnly 11.1882
July 28. 188l>
Do.
Do.
Jnly 22, 1878
June 28. 1881
Nov. 18^ 1871
June 28. 1881
Muv 12,1872
July 22. 1872
July 28,1880
July 22,1878
July 28, 188^
Aufir 2a 1^8
June 28, 1881
Nov. 13, 1872
May 12,1872
Jnne 38, 1881
June V2, 1881
July 28,1880
Do.
July 28,1880
Aug. 28,1872
Jnly 22, 187$
Jnne 28, 1881
Anff. 28,1878
May 5,1872
Digitized by VjOOQIC
874 BEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
C.—Transoripi of field notes of public 8urve^9f eto. — Continued
Land office.
Descriptioii.
Priooipal
meridian.
Date of con-
tract.
Denvvr.
LeadTtlle.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
Exteriors of T.
8 8., R. TOW...
• 8.,R.7»W..
6K.,R SOW.
ld..B.80W...
2 8., R. SOW.
8a,B.80 W.
58., B. SOW.
Exteriors of T. 8 8., R. 81 W.
Exteriors of T. 0 8.. R 81 W. .
Exteriors of T. 7 N., R. 81 W .
ExteriOTs of T. 8 N., R 81 W .
Exteriors of T. 0 K., B. 81 W. .
Exteriors of T. 11 N., R 81 W .
Exteriors of T. 6 N., B 82 W .
Exteriors of T. 7 N.. R 82 W .
Exteriors of T.8 K., R 82 W .
Exteriors of T. 0 N., B 82 W .
Exteriors of T.IO N.,B 82 W .
Exteriors of T. 11 N.. B. 82 W .
. Exteriors of T. 4 8., R 45 W. ..
: Exteriors of T. 7 8., R. 45 W. ..
I Exteriors of T. 8 S., B. 45 W. .
Exteriors of T. 9 8., R 45 W. .
Exteriors of T. 10 8., R. 45 W.
Exteriors of T.4 N.. R.45 W ..
Exteriors of T. 0 N.. R.45 W . ..
Exteriors of T. 10 N., R. 45 W .
' Exteriors of T.5S.,R.46W ...
' Exteriors of T. 10 8., R. 46 W...
Exteriors of T. 6 8., R 82 W. ...
Exteriors ot T. 7 S., R. 82 W. . ,
Exteriors of T. 8 8., R. 82 W. ..
Exieriom of T. 0 8., B 82 W. . .
j Exteriors of T. 10 S., R. 82 W.
Exteriors of T. 11 8., R. 82 W.
Exteriors of T. 12 8., R 82 W..
6Ch.
6th .
6tli.
6th.
6th .
6th.
6th .
6th .
6th .
6th.
6th.
6th .
6tli .
6th .
6th.
6th.
6th .
6th .
6th
6th.
6th .
6th.
6th .
6th.
6th.
6th .
6th.
6th .
6th .
6th .
0th.
6th .
6th .
6th .
6th.
6th.
Mar 5,1879
Ang. 6,1868
Jane 22, 1881
June 28, 1880
May 5.1879
Jane 21, 1h67
May 6,1871
Da
Ang. 6,1868
Jane
Nov.
8,1881
4,1880
Jane 2,1882
Jane 8,1881
Aag. 7,1878
I June 2, 1882
Jane 22, 1881
July 28. lf«0
June 12, 1888
Jane 22, 1881
Nov. 13. 1870
July 28, 1880
Jane 12, 1882
July 22, 1878
Nov. 13, 1879
July 22,1878
May 14,1881
Nov. 18. 1879
Jone 22, 1881
July 30, 1873
June 22, 1881
Oct 29,1881
May 14,1881
Nov. 13, 1881
June,22, 1881
Nov. 18, 1879
May 14,1881
July 11.1881
May 14.1881
May 12, 1878
June 12. 1880
Do.
Do.
Do.
July 28, 1878
May 12,1878
June 28, 1872
Do.
Hay 12,1873
Jane 12, 1880
Jone 8,1881
Mai- 5.1879
Jane 8,1881
Do.
Do.
Do.
July 26. 1880
June 2, 1?82
July 26, 1880
July 2, 1882
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COLORADO.
375
D.^SUitement of surveys of mines and mill sites in Colorado during the fiscal year ending
June 30) 1890, made in vonformity with the act of Congress approved Mag 10, 1872.
•p.
proval.
Survey
No.
Nftme of claim.
County.
188a
July 2
2
2
«
6
6
6
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
12
12
12
13
13
13
15
10
15
15
lA
13
15 j
16
16
19
19 I
19 I
19
19
20
20
20 I
22
22 I
22 I
28 I
23
24
2i
24
25
27
27
30
31
31
81
81
31
81
81 I
31 'i
81 I
81 I
31
81 '
81 I
1 I
1 I
1
1 '
1 •
1 I
Aug.
5020
5920
5020
5702
5708
*581l
5811
5H11
5811
5811
5811
5904
6806
5066
5886
5806
5866
6866
6866
5866
5863
5601
5601
5745
5745
5745
5854
5854
5854
5854
5834
5854
5a'S4
5887
5897
6736
5871
5871
5871
5871
*58I4
5814
5680
5660
5909
5820
5491
5491
5491
5491
5010
5821
5545
5911
5012
5013
5003
5698
5608
5698
5698
5098
5698
5698
5698
5698
5698
5698
5698
5698
5868
5704
57114
67fl4
5704
5704
Hard Cash, lode
Hard Cash No. 2» lode
Hard Cash No. 8, lode
Hary B,lode
M.W.,lode
Dariinc, lode
Bald EasHlode
Am> rit:an Bagle, lode .*
Goldeo Baffle, lode
Spread Eagle, lode
Bald Barfe, mill site
Pride of the Weet,lode
General Bntler.lode
Monitor, lode
Muldoon, lode
Grey Eagle, lode
Kan8aB,lode
Merrimack, lode
Sherman, lode
Free and Easy, lode
Seonrity, lode
Wanhakie, lode 4,
Taylor Iron, lode
St. Lawrence, lode
Pelican, lo e
Hard Lnck,lode
Netiie,lode
Mofloow.lode
BareffMt, lode
Snow Shoe, lode
Nestor.lode
Tnnnetlode
Brook, lode
Wellington, lode
Iron Duke, lode
Spar,placer
Silver Crest, lode
RevennOflode
Pyrenttes, lode
Hal. Sayr., lode
Recluse. lode
Reel QHe, mill site
Ohio Belle, lode
Ella D, lode
Snowfllake, lode
Col. Sellers, lode
Little Johnnie, lode
SaDset,lode
Jai'kson's Best, lode
Black Prince, lode
SanUp,lode
Golden Sheen, lode
Scran ton, lode
B4«ll,Iode
Smuggler, lode
Laura, lode
Hnmboldt, lode ^
Bess, lode
Comet No. l,lode
Comet, lode
Hill Side, rode
Abbv.lode
Old Joe, lode
Golden Gate, lode
A No l.lode
Lizzie Moore, lode
O K.,lode
Comet No. 2, lode
Comet No. 3, lode
Comet No. 4, lode
Defiance, lode
Wine Patch, placer
Little Morean,lode
Queen of the Forest, lode
Triangle, lode
Emperor, lode •
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Summit.
Da
Da
Do.
Da
Do.
Do.
Da
Gilpin.
Gannison.
Do.
Summit.
Do.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Do.
Gilpin.
Rio Grande.
Pitkin.
Do.
Da
Do.
Bonlder.
Da
Clear Creek.
Dolores.
Da
Boulder.
Gunnison.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Dolores.
Boulder.
Rio Grande.
Dolores.
Do.
Do.
Eagle.
Summit.
Da
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Bonlder.
Summit.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
*AaiidB.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
37rt REPORT OP COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OPPICE.
B. ^Statement of surveys of nines and mill sites in Colorado, 0<c.~Continned.
Bate of
proval.
188Q.
Aug. 1
8
8
5
6
5
5
6
6
0
6
6
8
8
8
8
8
8
9
9
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
U
14
14
14
15
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
17
17
17
17
17
17
17
10
19
20
20
22
22
22
22
22
22
23
23
23
23
23
23
27
27
27
27
28
28
30
Survey
No.
6704
6704
5870
5915
5892
5815
5638
6638
6938
5938
5605
5826
5021
5921
5021
5921
5921
6941
6016
5000
6000
5976
5806
5806
5806
5806
5702
6702
6702
5835
6917
5023
5872
5872
5588
5672
5972
5271
5886
5776
5739
5789
5739
5890
58!i0
5937 ;
5881 I
5942 !
5942 I
5042 I
5942
5812 I
5780 I
5948 '
5057
5894 i
5894 I
5945
5945
5945 ,
5945 '
6682 I
5682 I
5947
5914
6924
5924
5924
5908
6679
5889
5956
5882
5062
Nameof olalm.
Elephant, lode
Frederick the Great, lode .
Perhaps, lode
Vancouver, lode
Geyser; placer
Na1> b,lode
T.lode
Arkansayer, lode
Eaneas City, lode
Silver Wave, lode
Dolomite No. 1, lode
Dolomite No. 2, lode
Copper, lode
Tony, placer
Vulcan, lode
Venus, lode
Cyclops, lode
Stanmiin,Iode
Capidflode
Amnterdam.Iode
Bnterprlse, lode
ly,iode ..
Judy.
Little Mary, lode .
Nifcht watch, lode.
Humphrey, )ode .
Fulton, lode
Fnlton Extension, lode
Comstook. lode
Victor, lode
Consort, lode
Atlantic, lode
Accident, lode \.
Kitchen, lode
Ontario, lode
Leonora, lode
Wolverine, lode
Lake View, lode
Colorado, lode
Wyoming, lode
Liitle Link, lode
Maimie No. 2, lode
Iron Crest, placer
Little Chie( lode
Half-Moon, lode
Seven-Thirty. lode
RaiE^od Ed^e, lode :
Iron Mask, lode
Clinton, lode
Keystone, lode
Anna B, lode
Aspen, lode
New York, lode
Cleveland, lode
Maggie Mc , lode
Fori'st Queen.lode
Carbonate, lode
Monte Christo, lode
K.C.lodo
General Grant, lode
Jumbo, lode
HooRier Girl, lode
A ntumn, lode '. .
Stoneb ack, lode
S.D.,lode
Q. D.,lode.
Dove's Nest, lode
Joplin, lode
Silent Queen, lode .
Silent King, lode .
North Star, lode.
La X, lode
Cnplul Prize, lode .....
Ln/erne, lode
Lackawanna, lode .....
Empire, lode
Golden Age, lode
Amalinim Thief,Jode
Mabel, lode
County.
Summit
Do.
Gunnison.
Boulder.
Gunnison. '
Fremont.
Gunnison.
Do.
Do.
Chaffee.
Do.
Do.
San Juan.
Boulder.
Las Animas.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Gunnison.
Dolores.
Pitkin.
Do.
Dolores.
Clear Creek.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Summit.
Do.
Da
Pitkin.
Dolores.
l)o.
Gunnison.
Do.
Park.
Do.
Do.
Lake.
Pitkin.
Pitkin and Gnnnisaik
Summit.
Do.
Do.
Garfield.
Do.
Boulder.
Custer.
Gunnison.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Easrle.
Pitkin.
Gunninon.
Clear Creek
Ouray.
Do.
HinMlale.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Lake.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Pitkin.
Gilpin.
Do!
Pitkin.
Gilpin.
Park.
Do.
Do.
Doloies.
Boulder.
Pitkin.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
COLOBADO. 377
D. — SUitement o/turvejfs ofmktei and mill Hte$ in Cdorado, eto.~ContiDned.
Date of
PZOTAL
Surrey
No.
im.
Ang. 80
6027
80
6978
80
0073
Sept 8
5063
6083
5088
6082
6082
5082
6082
•6059
5060
6044
6787
5787
5000
6006
60«i6
5788
5788
6788
5788
5556
12
5269
18
6007
18
002U
18
0«20
18
0020
18
0020
18
0020
18
6R44
U
6087
14
6018
14
6683
16
6077
10
6080
10
5056
10
60ft8
10
6808
10
5806
10
5898
10
6888
10
6898
10
• 5f)98
10
5898
10
5898
10
5898
10
5898
16
5898
16
5898
16
5698
16
5898
16
5808
16
5898
16
5898
16
5M)8
16
5898
16
5898
16
5898
16
6898
16
5898
16
5808
16
5808
16
5898
16
5898
16
5898
16
5898
16
5898
16
5898
16
5898
16
5898
16
5898
16
5808
16
5898
16
5898
16
6898
16
5808
NKmeofclAlm.
HfTmit. lode
Coloi ado. lode
LeoDie. Imle
Grace Darling, lode.
AdTance, lode
Argo,l«ide
Top, lode .
Mountain Boy, lode
Mountain Boy No.2, lode ,
Mountain Boy No.8, lode
Ophir,lo(lA
Ophir, mill aite
J.MrN..lode
Wm.Penn.lode
Spruce, 1o«fe
MomiDf; Star, lode
Kin(t,lode
GniflinK Star, lode
Hndaon,Iode
Champion, lode
Leual tender,lode
Fairview, lode
Sarsfield. lode
North Stor.lode
No. 2. loHe in Metropolitan Tunnel.
Wood land, lode
Forrester, lode
GoDdwilllode ,
Little An<iy, lode -...
Black Swan, lode
Denver, lode
Japan, lode.,
Lillle Lanfcton, lode
Jack Adam, lode
Iron Crone, lode
DfW Drop, lode
Silver Thistle, lode
Gardner, lode
Road Side No. 1. lode
Road Side No. 2, lode
Road Side No. 3, lode
Road Side No. 4, lode
Road Side No. 5. lode
Road Sidf Na 6. lode
South Bast Side. lode
EAst Side No. 1, lode
Elk Horn, lode ,
Apex No. 2, lode
North Side No. 1, lode
Apex, lode
Ap«*x No.S.lode
Carriboo, lode
Summit, lode
Sunnyside No. 2, lode
Snnnyside No. 3, lode
Crown Point No. 1. lode
Crown Point No. 2, lode
Crown Point No. 3, li»de
Crown Point No. 4, lode
Crown Point No. 5. lode.....
Crown Point No. 6, lode
Sunnyside No. l,lode
Suun.vsidi* No. ^ lode
Napoleon ,lode
Napoleon No. 2, lode
South Side No. 1, lode
South Side No. 3, lode
South Side No. 4, lode
South Side No. 5. lode
South Side No. 6, lode
West Wing,lode
Olev.lode
Hidden Tn^aanre , lode
Jumbo, lode
SmugeW, lode
Mountain Star, lode
Silver Spray, lode
County.
San Miguel.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Ik).
Do.
Hinsdale.
Do.
Pitkin.
Ouray.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Summit.
Boulder.
Cl**ar Creek
Lake.
Do.
Do.
D<i.
Do.
Park.
San Miguel.
Park.
Pitkin.
Gilpin.
GnnDiaOn.
Gilpin.
Qnnuison.
I>o.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Dow
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do. .
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do,
Do.
Do.
*AandB.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
378 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
!>. -^Statement o/survejfB ofmme$ tmd miU «ilef in Col&radOt etc. — Continaed.
Date of
Surrrey
»P-,
proval.
1889.
Sept 16
5698
16
5898
16
6898
16
5898
16
68i)8
16
5896
16
6898
16
5886
18
5971
18
6546
18
5887
19
5930
19
6968
19
6968
20
5882
20
5931
23
5967
23
5855
24
5H77
24
*5724
24
•6724
24
6027
26
5943
26
5943
26
6943
26
5943
86
5943
26
5943
26
6107
26
6107
26
6107
26
5996
26
6076
26
6076
26
6076
27
6068
27
5956
27
5955
27
5439
27
5440
27
5960
27
6960
27
5060
27
5000
27
5960
2K
6007
28
6007
28
6007
28
6007
28
6043
28
5850
89
6026
80
5965
30
5964
Oct 1
0066
2
5966
2
5966
2
59tl6
2
5966
2
5966
2
5966
2
5922
2
5922
2
5922
2
59i2
2
5922
2
5922
2
5022
2
5922
2
5922
2
6004
2
♦6018
2
6018
2
58»3
2
6010
2
6010
8
5993
NameofclAim.
Inm ClAd,lode ,
8»mpaoQ No. 4, lode ,
8ampM>n No. 3, lode
SMnpaon No. 2, lode ,
Smddmii No. 1, lode ,
Deldnrlta No. 1, lode
Deldorita No. 2. lode
Deldoritm No. 8, lode
GnDd Vi<>w,lode
Omega, Ifide
Larayette,lode
Omega No. 2, lode
Walliioe.lode
Mab,lode
Emma^ lode
Dome, lode
Queen, lode
Faszle, lode ,
JiiniatM, lorle ,
OM Hiekor V Jaeksoo, lode ,
Old Hickory Jaokaon, mill-site
Logan, plaoer ,
Lisde Y.. lode ,
GrafT, lode
Ooodallode
Campfleld. lode
Schalljode
Oillraore, l(ide
EhiUyVarden.lode
Little NoUle, lode
Sitting B>ill, lode
Tontine, lode
EiirvkH. lode
Little Bertie, lode
Fulton, lode
Allmnv, lode
Silver Dollar, lode ,
MatchleHB. lode
Sidd en Treasore, lode
Amina,lode
Belcher, Io<le
Euclid, lode
H<»nt);oroery.lode
Little Beth, lode
Korbeator Boy, lode
Cliff, lode
Decatar.lode
Phil Sheridan, lode
U.S. Grant, lode.
Annie Hayford.lode
Little Chief, lode
SvifM,lnde
Alabftraft. lode
Wanhineton, lode
Silver Tip, lode
Silver Dollar, lode
Silver WtHlge lode
Silver Queen, lode
Silver King, lode
Silver Star, lode
Wyandotte, lode
Pink Spur, lode ,
Arcadia, lode
Jay Eye See, lode
Superior, lode
Side Line, lode ,
Patti,lode
Neileon, lode ,
( )ooiden iHt lode
()rii*n tal, lode ,
B»lford City, lode
Iowa, lode ,
Iowa, mill site
Columbine, lode
Home Shoe, lode
Clifton Boy, lode
Caledonia, lode
*AttidB.
Conaty.
Gonniflon.
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Boulder.
Kio Grande.
Clear (.Yeek.
Rio Grande.
Clear Creek.
Do.
BlPaao.
Do.
Pitkin.
Ouray.
Summit.
Ouray.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Park.
Do.
Do.
Lake.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Grand.
Pit kin.
Do.
San Juan.
Da
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Da
Da
Da
Do.
Do.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Do.
Pitkin.
Da
Da
Do.
Da
Da
Do.
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Da
Da
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Gilpin.
Cleitr Creek.
Da
San Miguel.
Pitkin.
Do.
Eagle.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
COLORADO. 379
D. — Statement of surveys of mines amd mill sites tn Colorado^ etc. — Continued.
Date of
pXOTftL
Survey \
No. ■
1
188a
Oct. 8
6021
6021
5035
5036
9085
6088
6005
6131 I
6000 1
6010 \
6074
5004
Name of claim.
5002
5002
5002 I
6002
5002 ,
5802
5002 .
6017
6017 I
6106 I
6140 I
6130 I
*5407
5497
5951
5080
6003
6181
6129
6046
6147
6117
6117
6119
5992
6992
6002
5092
5892
609-2 I
5092
50»2
5002
6802
5902
5002
51^
6884
6884
5884
5884
6985
6136
6118
6118 ,
fill8
6118
5078
5978
61182
5602
5036
5936
6112
6112
6112
6112
6112 I
6116
6116 I
6116 ;
6116 I
6116
6116 I
Li8sie,lode
Wolt'tone, lode
Sobofield, lode
American, lude
Nettie, lode
Chicago TimeB,lode
Molntoeh, iode
2a S.. lode
Victor, lode
Great Eastern, lode
Dallas, lode
Whale, lode
Hartfitrd, placer
IJte, placer
Onray, placer
St. Louis, placer
Beaver, placer
••101," placer
Abeline, placer
Nlsrht Bird, lode
Wllhelm,lode
Leap Year, lode
Teliow Jacket, lode
Crebec, lode
CroMGuttlode
Cross Cut, mill-site
Hero, lode.
MayB.,lode
Toronto Girl, lode
Limestone, lode
Monntain Spring, lode
Pride of the West, lode
Broker, lode —
Ontario, lode
Old Stag, lode
W.P.Clode
Little Star, lode
Lone Star, No. 1, lode
Lone Star, No 2. lode
Lone Star No 3, lode
Lono Star No.4,lode
Matchless, lode ..'.
Lackawana Boy, lode
Carbonate, lode
Carbonate No. 2, lode
Carbonate No. 3, lode
Carbonate No. 4, lode
North Ettd.lode
Polo, lode
Plqoa, lode
Palisade, lode
Pensnln, lode
Proctor, lode
Bastem Star, lode
TenneHsee, lode
Ethlena,lode
Ariadne, lode
Extenition, lode :
>Loward. lode
Deaflhoad, lode
Little Eva, lode
Ronita, lode
Jacob Straeder, lode
Stonewall, iode
Pitkin • Aspen, lode
A<<pen, lodA
Wanielllode
Hooper.lode .
Loco, lude
Franklin, lode
Diws, lode ,
Legal Ttinder. iode
Lei£Rl Tender No. 2, lode
Legal Tender No. 3, lode
Lesal Tender No. 4, lode
Legal Tender No. 5, lode
Legal Tender No. 6, lode
*AandB.
County.
Pitkin
Da
Onray.
D6.
Do.
Pitkin.
Gilpin.
Dolores.
Pitkin.
Bonlder.
Ouray.
San Mignd.
Delta and Gnnniaon.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
San Jnan.
Do.
Dolores.
Lake.
Dolores.
Onray.
Do.
Do.
Summit.
Gunnison.
Dolores.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Pitkin.
Gnnnison.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
San Jnan.
Do.
Dolores.
Clear Creek.
Do.
Do.
Do.
San Miguel.
Do.
Gunnison.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
380 BEPORT OF COMMISSIOmBB OF GBNEBAL LAND OFFICE.
D.Statmnent of surwjfa ofmimM tmdmOlsUM in Colorado, 0(0.— Contioued.
Date of
proTftl.
^•'
im.
Get. 16
6116
16
6116
17
6U12
17
6133
17
6144
17
601.9
17
*6(i6'2
17
6002
17
0002
18
•6171
18
6171
18
*6I70
18
6170
18
*6172
18
6172
18
6060
18
6008
18
6008
18
6100
18
5934
18
6034
16
5034
18
S034
18
6034
19
6075
19
6075
19
6075
19
6075
19
6076
19
6075
19
6058
19
5494
19
5000
19
6052
19
6057
19
6037
19
*5»97
19
6097
21
6052
21
5B62
21
6050
21
6059
21
6050
21
5954
21
6011
2i
6065
22
6006
22
6006
22
6063
22
6037
22
6138
23
6039
23
5981
23
6024
23
6024
24
6180
24
6180
24
6042
25
■♦6030
26
6030
25
6035
25
•5946
26
5946
25
6053
25
5060
26
•61&3
26
6183
26
6183
26
6183
26
8087
26
4400-3
Name of daim.
6067
6031
5890
6062
6062
6151
LeiKil Tender No. 7, lode ...
"87," lode
Brooklyn, lode
Albert, lode
Pul«r dtar. lode
Udd Cap, lode
Tif;ne,lode
Euphrates, lode
Eaphratet, miU-eite
Treasary, lode ,
Treaanry. miU-eite
Golden Ejcg, lode
Golden Egv, mlll-Hite
Topaey,Ioue
Topsey, mill-site
Eveoln^ Star, lode ^
Pembina, lode
Amerloaa Flaic. lode ^
Joseph B. Johnson, lode
Tornado, lode
Tornado N'o.2,lode
LltUe Robert, lode
Lime, lode •
Quartsite.lode.
Johanna Mlninfe, lode
Balsam, lode
Spnioe,lode
Valley View, lode ^
Arci4de,lode
Keno lode • <
Texas, lode.
T.P.M..lode
Dallas, lode
ZiilOflode
Gemini No. l.lode
Gemini No. 2, lode
Peak, lode
Palisa^le, mill-site
KearsarKe, lode
Kienzi, lode
Enterprise, lode
Contention, lode '.
Mammoth, lode
Lincoln, lode ,
Bemice,lode
Crvstallode
Golden Sand, lode
Olive, lode -•
Bonan8a,lode ■
Star Konte, lode
High Grade, lode
Lnnado, placer
Hiunie Mciore.lode
Lizzie, lode
Iraiiistan, lode
Collier, lode
Lewis, lode
Huckleberry, lode ."
U.S., i.»de
U. S, mill site
Cross Cut, lode
Mnry Newoombe, lode
Mary Newcombe,mill site
Cambrian, lode
Lucky Baldwin, lode
Dick, lode
Old Kentuck,lode
Silent Friend, lode
Prou<ction. mill site
KevstoDH, ItMle
Bouldr*r City, lode
BIuH Ribbon, lode
Orphm Girl, lode
Dttzter, lode
James Bell, lode 1.
Augusta, lode
Teegarden, lode
•AandB.
County.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Park.
Gilpin.
Lake.
Clear Creek.
Do.
Do.
Con^oe.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Da
Eagle.
Pitkin.
Do.
Gunnison.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Ouray.
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Do.
La Plata.
Lake.
Coster.
San MigueL
Lake and Park.
Do.
Lake.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Do.
La Plata.
Do.
Do
Clear Creek.
Sagnache.
San Miguel.
Gilpin.
Gunnisoo.
Gilnln.
Pltkiii.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Lake.
Do.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Do.
Do.
Gunnison.
Do.
Gilpin.
Summit.
Chaffee.
Do.
Do,
Do.
Lake.
Pitkin.
Gilpin.
P.irk.
Pitkin.
Clear Creek.
Do.
Dow
Digitized by VjOOQIC
COLORADO. 381
T>.—Statemmi of 9wrv^9 of minM wmI mUl iiioo in ColoradOf etc^CouHnu^
Sorr^
Ko.
UMl
Ost. 80
•6787
80
6757
80
6767
80
50118
80
0064
80
6878
80
6R78
81
0064
Not. 2
6087'
6087
00U8
00U3
6008
0003
6070
6030
6028
6028
4996
4997
6191
4005
4908
6094
6094
6U91
6137
0072
6084
6060
6061
6991
4999
6045
604A
6000
5808
5m
6998
5998
5998
5996
599M
Sim
509R
5998
5098
6154
11
6047
H
6199
12
6077
18
6077
12
6122
12
6122
12
6122
12
5828
18
6092
18
6002
18
0092
U
6111
14
6114
15
6040
15
6103
10
6149
16
6022
18
6036
18
6078
19
6009
10
6217
19
6076
19
6143
19
5074
20
6040
20
6040
21
4H34
28
6158
22
6028
Kameof olalm.
Mary F., lode
Oro Fino, lode
The SUyer Age, mill dte .
Koonday San, lode
Denmark, lode ...^
Silver Cord, lode
Mark.lode
Oreat Weetem, lode
Little MelTlna, lode
Same, lode
Minnehaha, lode
Sanger, lode
Xebiila, lode
La Place, lode
Star Ronte, lode
Amy Clode
The HartroaD,1ode
Brightim, No. 2, lode
Joint Track, lode
Paddy Hollow, lode
llta,Iode
Fourth of Jnl V, lode
Mount Eathdin, lode
Humboldt, lode
Jay Eye See, lode
Bird, lode
Peon, lode
Carrarsuplaoer
Crown Point, lode
Solitary, lo<le
BifE Bonanza, lode
Tliree Brothers, lode
Penotmcot, lode
Sherman, lode
Rnllion,lode
Roberta, Itide
H.B.P..lode
Keystone, lode
Grey Lime, lode
Pas7ile.lode
San Juan, lode
San FraDcisoo, lode
Eastwrn, lode
Spar, lode
J.M.P..lode
Argenta, lode
Yankee, lode
Lota, lode
Modern Science, lode —
SUr, hide
Sebraaka, lode
Silver H< »rn, lode
Sea Bird, lode
Apex, lode
Hidden Treasure, lode . . .
Bedman, lode .
Lime Kine, No. 1, lode. ..
Little Chief, lode
Brooklyn, lode
Boodle, lode
Silver Bow, lode ,
Julia Fowler, lode
Hughes, lode
Switser. lode
Horse Shoe Prince, lode.
Katie, lode
O.I.C.,lode
TwUightlode
Janitor, lode
Pearl, lode
Extension Bast, lode
Cash Entry, lode
Esmeralda, lode
Sliver Crown, lode ,
Homestake. lode
Iron Edge, lode
Andrews, placer
Ooonty.
Clear Creek.
Bo.
Do.
Summit.
Clear Creek.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Boulder.
Do.
Gilpin.
Do.
Do.
D..
Dolores.
Clear Creek.
Do.
Do.
Summit.
Do.
Dolores.
Summit.
Do.
Gilpin.
Do.
ChaflTee.
Pitkin.
Do.
Summit.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Pitkin,
Do.
Custer.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Do.
Do.
Dolores.
Summit.
Dolores.
Ouray.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Park.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Gilpin.
Guunlson.
ChufTee.
Clpar Creek.
Jelfereon*
Lake.
Saguache,
Ouray.
Pitkfii.
Gilpin.
San Juan.
Clear Creek.
Ouray.
San Jnan.
Do
Pitkin.
Bagie.
Ouray.
*A. and B.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
882 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER O^ GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
D. — Statement of 9urvey$ of mines and mill sites in Colorado j «to.— Continued.
Date of
SnrvBv
proTftl.
Hu^oy
1889.
Kov. 28
6026
22
6126
22
4306-4{
28
6()19
28
6019
25
6115
26
6116
25
6116
25
6115
25
6116
25
6179
26
6195
26
6132
27
6083
29
6033
20
6083
^29
6083
29
6095
29
6095
29
6095
29
6038
29
6065
29
61U2
29
6066
29
6174
29
6174
29
6(»00
80
6088
80
6088
8
6079
Beo. 8
6079
4
6211
4
6157
4
6620
5
6026
5
6926
5
50-^6
5
5926
7
6015
7
6013
7
6106
7
6161
7
5616
9
6073
9
61)60
9
6060
9
6050
9
60:.0
10
6999
11
5867
11
6189
11
6189
11
6189
11
6189
11
6189
11
6205
12
5995
12
6204
12
6061
14
6081
14
0124
14
6187
14
6187
14
6187
14
6187
14
6187
14
61 «7
14
6963
16
6044
16
6044
17
6120
17
6201
17
6201
18
6216
18
6034
19
6190
19
6169
19
6218
Name of eUdm.
Swamp, lode
Loyal XiPa^ue, lode
Little Flov, lode
Buckeye, lode
Butterfly, lode
Louisa, lofle
Blao<« Diamond, lode
Graoie, lode
Silver Chord, lode
Clipper, lode
lunsiimok, lode
Mountain Queen, lode
Santa Cruz, lode
Alcyon, lode
Partner Newoombe, lode
West Cbase, lode ,
Chase No. 2, lode
SranleyNo. 1, lode
Stanley No. 2, Inde
Staolev No.3,lode
Child Dust, lode
Lone Widdow, lode
IConteChristo, lode
Crnsaro, lode
Sundown, lode
Silver Star, lode
Hopewfll, lode ,
Annie, lode
Denver City, lode
W voniinK V alley, lode
Wyoming Valley, No. 2, lode
Rnby.loae ,
Centennial, lode
Enmka.lode
Cashier, lode
Morning Star.lode ,
Smnseler, lode
Mammoth, lode
MidniKht,lode
Legal Tender, lode .'. .
Ab«*ndeso, lode
Rocky,l<ide
Midnight, lode
Three Brothers, lode
A. A. Devore, lode
F. J. Smith, lode
Magill,lode
Victor Lee. lode
nmbria,loae ,
Mnscotte, lode
Tarira,lode ,
Dick, lode
Bwing,lode
Rncker, lode
Suien Sabe,Iode ,
ary.lode
M.A.P..lode
Guadaluap, lode
Myers, placer
Bunker HilLlode
Eagle PA«a.lode
Kiowa, lode
Bacon, lode
Bumsides. lode
Mary W., lode
Ro8eF.,lode
Hattie M.,lode
Iron Silver, placer ,
Result, lode ...? ,
Robert Emmet, lode
Highland, placer
Silver Glance, lode
Silver Glance, No. 2, lode . . ,
Snow Flake, lode
Time, lode
Satellite, lode
Altoona, lode
Montana, lode
Cotuty.
Dolores.
PitkiB.
Lake.
San MigueT.
Do.
Eagle.
Do!.
Do.
Do.
Boulder.
Gunnison.
Dolores.
Gnnnlson.
Gilpin.
Da
Dolores.
Do.
Do.
Ouray.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Da
Da
Do.
Summit..
Do.
Lake.
Clear Creek.
La Plata.
Summit.
Do.
Da
Da
Saguache.
Do.
Ouray.
Do.
Snn Juan.
Boulder.
GiljHi.
Do!
Do.
Pitkin
Da
Da
Da
Do.
Do.
Do.
Dolores.
Lake.
Ouray.
Gilpin.
Clear Creek.
La Plata.
Summit
Do.
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Da
Da
Dolores.
Da
Do.
Boulder.
Lake.
Ouray.
Boulder.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
COLORADO. 383
D.— iStofomeMt of »urv€y$ ofmfimm and mill Htm in ColoradOf etc, — Continned.
Date of
ap-
proTal.
1B88.
Deo. 19
20
20
SO
80
90
21
21
21
23
23
2i
24
2i
24
24
26
28
26
26
26
28
28
28
28
80
80
81
81
81
81
81
81
81
81
1800.
Jan. 2
2
2
8
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
6
6
6
6
7
7
7
7
8
10
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
15
15
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
16
Surrey
No.
6197
*6200
6200
6200
6-JOO
6200
6232
6159
61.'i9
6101
6101
6101
6160
6141
6064
6173
6173
6173
6173
♦5443
5443
*6166
6166
6181
5020
6177
6177
6104
6104
6210
6210
6210
6210
6210
6014
6206
6142
6010
6150
6155
6155
6155
6148
6148
6148
6096
6212
6212
6178
6227
6227
6227
6223
6182
6162
Name of
Huron, lode
Jtfitrrtniac, lode
Wild Cat, lode
Tellnrid-, lode
Bismuth, lode
Merrimao, mill site
Silver Wheel, lode
Nellie (i.lode
nn1on,lode
Samoa, No. 1, lode
Samoa, No 2, lode
Gen. P. H. Sheridan, lode .
Pltkin,lode
Mayflower, lode
SamoN,No.3.1ode
Imperial, lode
WaHbington, lode
Molly.lode
Annie, lode
Dwver,lode
A1lfiion,Iode
Carbonate, lode
Carbonate, mill site
B.H.K.,lode
K. H. R., mill site
Exchequer, lode
Band of Hope, lode
Commerdai, lode
Hildretb, lode
Swan, lode
Garnet^lode
Redwood, lode
Beech, lode
Oak, lode
Maple, lode
Linden, lode
Cora^lode
Modoclode
Devil, lode
Mas^e. lode
General Hanoook, lode . .
Tat qnin, lode
Trojan, lode
Isle Royal, lode
Dayton, lode
Dean Richmond, lode .
Maldar,lode
Triton, lode
Mars, lode
Snn Set, lode
Twilight lode
, The Bendigo, lode
, Skeleton, lode
I Leviathan, lode
I Maatodon, lode
Ida, lode ,
! Eldorado No. 2, lode ....
I 87, lode
Smoker,lode
L.R..lode...
J. J. C.J lode .
Snow Shoe, lode..
Salphate, lode.
Mikado, lode.
German, lode.
Little Pittsbnrgh, lode.
Cyclone, lode..
Bliazard, lode. . .
Fanny v., lode.
Ptarmigan, lode.
Gray Eagle, lode.
Eyry,lode
Condor, lode ,
Colorado BeUe, placer.
I OreUa.lode
Iron King, lode
County.
Bonlder. •
Conejos.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Lake.
Do.
Do.
Onray.
Da
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Pitkin.
Lake.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Gunnison,
Do.
ChaiTee.
Bonlder.
Park.
Do.
Bonlder.
Do.
Lake.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Sagnache.
*A and B.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
S84 BEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
D. — Statement 0/ eurveyt of wntnm amd mUl $Ue§ in CoUradOf «fo.— Continaed*
1880.
Jmu
20
Feb. 1
1
1
8
8
8
8
8
3
3
8
8
8
8
8
8
4
i
i
4
6
5
5
6
6
8
6
6
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
10
10
10
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
8188
6183
0163
8156
6234
6234
6i)0A
6098
0t»08
6008
6008
d('98
64)OM
6098
6U08
6(108
6008
6008
6(108
6(»06
6288
6280
6070
6070
5781
50f<6
6121
6121
6121
6193
6193
6103
6 03
6103
6193
6103
6.'44
6244
62U
6244
6244
6244
6231
6231
6247
6220
6221
6203
6302
*6230
6230
61 M
6079
6243
6243
6243
6243
9^^S
6224
6224
6824
6201
6?08
6208
5053
5053
6220
6245
6245
6245
6165
6165
LMlChanoe,U>de
Cham pf on. lode
Tara'H Hull, lode
John nnIl,lode ,
Little KllA.liMle
Feteraoii. lode
Quiocy, lode ,
F»ir view. lode
jHokfloD, lode
Kt PrancU. lode
Grace L.,lode
St. Jammi, bidflce
MollieS.. lodffe
St. GeorsH, lode
Cantwell,lode
Sarah T., Itide t
Mtoa!fe,lo«ie
Selleia, lode
St. John, lode
St.. Jofl«*ph. lode
Duffy,lude
RoUertaoD. lode
8l.J<»8eph.inlll<dte
TeDwalKlode
Ri-MHtailo.lode
Elizabeth Hunton, lode
N»<l.l<Mle
AstK), lode
Denver, c^maolidated plaoer
Ptrat Chance. Indrt
Silver Qa«*en. loile
MnnchHr, lode
Aucklaiui. lode
Adelaide, lode
RriiiUane,l>de
Melbiiurne, lode
Manila. I'Mle
I>OQedin, lode
Syduey, lode
Iowa,lode
Pitkin Vi«w.lode
Park Queen. liMie
Silver Bluff No. 2, lode
Silver Bluff, lode
BUrk Chief. lo«le
War Cloa'1, hide
B<»ld Mclntvre, lode
KMWHhoy, lode
Mamt)lake, lode
Pari worth, lode
Clifton, litde
Aurora, lode
Loet Horaeilode
Miohlsan, lode
Lost Horte, mill site
Bis marek, lode
Royal, lode
Astor.lode
Arapahoe, lode
B*'n Harrison, lode
Silver Seam, lode
Salamnnder, lode
Jay Gould, lode
Highland Chief, lode
SUr Lights lo«le
New York, lode
O.Z.,lode
▲nmra.lode
Bl(;in.lode
Mavfluwer, lode
Sunflower, lode
Cameron, lode
F.andlC.lode
Delaware, lode
Yopsie Ko. 8., lode
Queen of the West, lode
Hudson, lode
•A^andB.
Baffle.
Jfflerson.
Pitkin.
Do.
Boulder.
Lake.
Boulder.
Baffle.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
1)0.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
l»o.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Easfle.
Summit
Do.
Pitkin.
Boulder.
Eagle.
Do.
Do.
Summit,
Do.
Do
Da
Do.
Do.
Do.
Gunnison.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Ouray.
Do.
Pitkin.
Ouray.
Do.
Gunnison.
Gilpin.
Gunnison.
Do.
Do.
Clear Creek.
San Juan.
Ouray.
Gunnison,
Do.
D.».
Do.
Pitkin.
D..
Do.
Do.
Lake.
Pitkin.
Do.
Lake.
Da
Sam Juan.
Pitkin.
Da
Do.
Onnniaon.
Do.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
COLOKADO. 385
!>, ^statement of aurveya of mines and mill sites in Colorado, etc, — Oontinned.
Name of cUdm.
County.
1890.
Feb. 12
13
13
13
14
14
15
17
17
17
17
17
17
17
17
17
17
17
19
19
20
20
20
24
24
24
26
25
26
26
25
25
26
Mar.
6105
8184
0184
6184
6295
6213
6289
6255
6255
6255
6226
6226
6226
*5901
6001
6901
6219
6219
6219
6800
6300
6300
6300
6800
6300
6300
6300
25
6300
26
6300
26
6318
26
6818
26
6303
26
6023
28
6256
28
6256
28
6256
28
6256
28
6267
28
6267
28
6267
28
6267
28
6297
1
6277
1
*6325
1
6325
1
6325
3
6322
8
6167
8
6167
3
6167
3
6167
3
6086
8
6086
3
5617
3
6278
3
6278
8
6278
3
6278
3
6278
3
6278
3
o27«
3
6278
3
6278
3
6278
5
6186
5
6254
5
*6250
5
6250
6
6214
9405
El^In.lode
Catalpa, lode
Mary Maria, lode
Oliver Croiuwell Derry, lode .
Hawk Eve. lode
Grand Duke, lode
Loot) Star, lode
BuitId, lode
Hallam.lode
Hyman.lode
Chance No. 2, lode
Chance No. 2, lode
Bona, lode ...
Eureka, lode .
Loco Foco, lode
Leon, lode .
Chief, lode .
Mexican, lode
Cloud CitT, lode.
Tom Bov, lode .
Unit, lode .
London, lode
London, mill site
Comstock, lode
I Florence, lode
Comfitook No. 2, lode
Undine, placer
I Yolande, placer
, Ked Cross, placer ,
Logan, placer ,
Water witch, placer
Silver Tip, placer
Fortuna, plac«r
Calcium, placer
Idalia, placer
Pacific, placer
Orpha, placer
Snowstorm No. 2, lode
Kain Storm No. 2, lode
La Neta, placer
Lost Dlaraond, lode
Grover Cleveland, lode
Aztec lode
Morninfc Star.lode
Arms, lode
Sterlini;, lode
NoUie G., lode
Conalan, lode ■
Dolphin, lode
CIh veland , lode
Pettie May,Iode
Atlas, IfMle
AtUs No. 2, lode
Atlas, mill site
West Vir^nla Hoosior. lode
American Girl, lode
Goldsmith Maid, lode
Alice B.,lode
Crown Point, lode
Moose, lode *
Berkshire, lode
Great Western, lode
Geneva No. 1, lode
•Genevs No. 2, lode
Geneva No. 3, lode
Geneva No. 4, lode
Geneva Na 5, lode
Geneva No. 6, lode
Geneva No. 7, lode
Geneva No. 8, lode
Geneva No. 9, lode
Geneva No. 10, lode
Clipper, lode
Thunder Cloud, lode
Prince of WalfS, lode
Banner, mill site
Hazel, lode
*A and B.
L O 25
Gunnison.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Pitkin.
Gilpin.
Conejos.
Do.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Lake.
San Miguel.
Clear Creek.
Do.
Do,
Ouray.
Do.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Gunnison.
Pitkin,
Conejos.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Hinsdale.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Eagle.
Boulder.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
San Miguel.
Do.
La Plate.
Gunnison.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do,
Do.
Do.
Ouray.
Do.
Gunnison.
Do.
Summit.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
386 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
D. — Statement of surveys of mines and mill sites in Colorado, etc. — Continned.
DAt© of c„_,^_
ap. Survey
proval. I ^'*'
1890.
Mar. fl
Apr.
6267
62»
6824
63M
6324
*6273
6273
6J78
6273
6273
6278
6288
6238
6146
6260
6192
6185
6233
6048
6270
6270
6?68
6294
6226
6225
6225
6226
6226
6226
6286
6327
6268
626M
6268
6329
6829
17
6320
18
6L88
18
6189
19
6310
]9
6341
20
6307
20
6307
20
6307
20
6307
'JO
6307
20
6307
20
6287
21
6304
21
6276
21
6276
21
6276
21
6275
22
6326
22
6049
26
6818
25
6314
26
6271
26
0812
26
6309
26
6259
26
6260
26
6269
28
6306
28
6308
81
0282
81
6282
31
628J
6344
6344
6344
6344
6344
6344
Name of claim.
County.
Alta,lo^e f.
Siffbty-nine, lode
Clio, lode.
Clio No. 1, lode
Clio No. 2, lode
Golden Crown, lode
Golden Coronet, lode
Golden Prince, lode
Golden Lin k, lode
Golden Casket, lode
Kline, mill site
Georgia, lode
Tennessee, lode
North Star, hide
Midland, l<)de
K P. Brown, lode
Chimney Corner, lode
Rose Bush, placer
Kmporia, lode
Snowstorm, lode
Rainstorm, lode
American, lode
Black Bess, lode
Ma> flower, lode
ADnie,lode
Eqiiity.lnde
Crescent, lode
Paciflc. lode
Old Judge, lode
C.S.H.H.,]ode
Long John, lode
Am)', lode
Maud S.lode
Maud S. No. 2, lode
B veuiux Star, lode
Evenioir Star No.S, lode . .
Little Annie, lode
Black Eagle, lode
Watcoga,lode
Black Bird, lode
Reynolds, lode
Tavlor,lode
Rip Van Winke,lode
Phoenix, mill site
Springfield, lode
Bomeo,lode
G.C.lode
R.G.,lode ,
Hayti,lode
Havana, lode
Baer, lode
Fisherman, lode
Edna Bxt4p>nsion, lode
Gold and Silver Coin lode .
Goloen Eagle, lode
Grand View No. 2, lode . . - .
Carpet Bagger, lude
Snow Bank, lode
Greenside, lode
Sunny Point, lode
Boston Boy,lode
News Boy, lode
Qainoy, lode
Bullion, lode
Pogue, lode
Loeber, lode
Wild Horse, lode
Fairplay, lode
Revenue, lode
Saw Tooth, lode...
Atna,lode
Arapahoe, lode
Hay market* lode
Alice B.,lode
Port Wine, lode
Newport, lode
Bridgeport, lode —
Oaray.
Eagle.
Clf ar Creek.
Do.
Do.
Boulder.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Gunnison.
Do.
Pitkins.
Lake.
Eagle.
Ouray.
San MigueL
Ouray.
Pitk&s.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
I>o.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Dolores.
Pitkins.
Clear Creek.
Boulder.
• o.
Do.
Do.
Gunnison.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Lake.
Do.
Pitkins.
Boulder.
Gunnison.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Boulder.
Ouray.
GUpln.
San Miguel.
Ouray.
Di.
Chaffee.
Clear Cjeek.
Do.
Do.
Chaffee.
Do.
Dolores.
Do.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Bo.
Do.
Do.
Da
*A and B.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
COLOEA.DO. 387
V.—Statement of surreys of mines and mill sites in Colorado, etc. — Continued.
Dote of
ap.
pToval.
1890.
Apr.
Survey
No.
6344
0844
6344
6344
6344
6344
6344
6344
6344
6344
6296
6320
6311
6299
6299
*6342
6342
6:M2
3
6342
8
6342
3
4W42
3
6342
4
6246
6
6317
5
6264
S
♦6343
8
6343
S
6343
8
6343
8
6343
8
6343
8
•6343
8
6343
8
6252
9
6321
10
6276
11
6100
11
6249
14
6274
14
6274
14
6281
15
6334
15
6251
15
6251
16
6248
17
6382
IS
6127
10
6202
21
6253
21
6253
21
6253
21
6253
22
6300
22
6261
22
6301
22
6301
22
6801
22
6301
22
6301
22
6301
23
5988
23
6364
25
6346
26
6347
26
6350
26
6350
28
6376
29
6359
29
6388
30
6351
80
6351
80
6865
Hay 2
6292
2
6292
9
6134
9
6134
10
6877
Kame of claim.
Soutbport, lode
Swamp AnKel, lode
Nellie Burns, lode K.
Carbondale Loo, lode
Kitty.lode
Minnie, lode
DoUie, lode
Carrie, lode
Toboggan, lode
Ida, lode
Emma, lode
Silyer Prmee,lode
Harrison, lode ,
Giilliope No. 2, lode
Calliope No. £ lode
Forest Kins, lode
Bonanza Kmg,lode
Palmer.lode
A]ta,lode
Star, lode
Optair, lode
Forest King, mill site
Alice, lode
N. A. Cowdrey, lode
Nortliem Light, lode
Congress, lode
Son tn Congress, lode
Senate, lode
Cabinet, lode
LyriLlode
Sonth End, lode
Beet End, lode
Alaska, mill site
Vestal, lode
Sampson, lode
Soutn Lincoln, lode
Homestake, lode
Surprise, lode
Gold King, lode
Oold Queen, lode
Fitzpatrlck, lode
Grand Vieir.lode
Maggie L., lode
Maggie L., mm site
Little Alma, lode
Mineral Chief, lode
Potrin, lode
Volunteer Extension, lode
East Rough and Beady, lode ....
Retriever, lode
Pullman, lode
LaCledeJode
Nathan Rich lode
Comstock, lode :
Oeor^riana, lode ,
Tom Hendrix, lode
WUliardL.,lode
Joe Dandy.lode
Buckeye, We ,
Bob Roberts, lode ...
Denver, lode
Chloride Hill. lode
Little Pittsburg, lode
Silver Horn, lode
Tlppec«noe, lode
Eagle of the West, lode
St. Louis, lode
Old England, lode
Richmond, lode
Maud S.,lode
Harrison, lode
Argentite, lode
Heola,lode
Calumet, lode
Lost.lode
Illinois, lode
Martin, lode
County.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do,
Clear Creek.
Ounnison.
Pitkin.
Ouray.
Do.
Conejos.
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Do.
Do.
Easle.
Dolores.
Pitkin.
Conejos.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Dolores.
Ounnison.
Clear Creek.
Do.
Eagle.
Boulder.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Lake
Clear Creek.
Do.
Pitkin.
Clear Creek.
Eagle.
Gunnison.
Gilpin.
Do.
Do.
Bo.
San Juan.
Do.
Pitkin.
Do.
Da
Da
Do.
Do.
Summit.
Clear Creek.
GUpin.
Clear Creek.
Boulder.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Boulder.
Dolores.
Gilpin.
Clear Creek.
Park.
Do.
Ouray.
D6.
Clear Creek.
* A and B.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
388 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
D.— Statement of surreys of mines and mill sites in Colorado, cte.— Continued.
Date of
ap.
proval.
May
1890.
10
10
10
19
19
19
Jane
Survey
No.
6348
6348
6348
6032
6353
6353
5786
5786
5786
6786
5786
5786
5786
5786
5786
28
6786
28
6786
23
5786
23
5786
23
5786
24
6355
26
6369
27
•6360
27
6360
27
6360
28
«6356
28
6356
28
6029
29
6381
29
6381
81
6396
31
6898
31
6398
81
6398
7
6331
7
*636L
7
636L
7
6361
7
6382
9
*6889
9
6339
9
6339
9
6339
9
6339
9
6339
9
6330
9
6272
9
6272
9
6357
9
6108
10
6368
10
6368
10
•6368
10
6368
10
6368
10
6368
11
6367
11
6280
11
6349
11
6349
11
6340
11
6349
11
6349
13
5619
14
6;)85
14
6415
14
6415
18
6100
18
6268
18
6268
18
6268
19
6380
24
6418
24
6418
24
6136
24
6404
26
6410
Name of claim.
Mayflower, lode
Sou flower, lode
Avoudale, lode
Sheridan, placer
Western Extension, lode.
Little Belle, lode
Grouse, lode
Nicbolfi, lode
Michael, lode
Salina,lode
St. Jacobs, lode
Fr\ er Hill, lode
Union Bank, lode
Nelson, lode
Lamsden, lode
Brink, lode
Clark, lode
Hopkins, lode
Cbarlea,lode
Silwr Cave, lode
Governor Thomas, lode . .
Niaizara No. 2, lode
Williams No. 2, lode
Williams No. 1, lode
Lakelet, mill site
Bismarck, lode
Bismarck, mill site
Tercero, lode
Ben Harrison, lode
C nesns, lode
Keystone, lode
PulitEer. lode
Lone Star,lo<1e
R. E.Lee, lode
Richard the 3d, lode
Kevstone N^o. 2, lode
Guilford, lode
Wooden Baffle, mill site . .
Carthage, lode
Banner, lode
Eagle, lode
Falcon, lode
Flag, lode
Curbstone, lode
Turbine, lode
Flag, mill site
Onyx, placer
Zinc, lode
Iron.lode
Uncle Sam, lode
Tender Foot, lode
Lillian Gray, lode
Fannie B., lode
Crown Point, lode
Epoch, lode
RoseC.,lode
J.M.E..lode
Park, lode
May, lode
Nannie Houston, lode
Contact, lode
Germauia, lode
Lissie, lode
Star,lode
Eurekfl.lode
Bodie,lode
Grover,lode
Pride of Hunter Park, lode .
Hauover, lode
Hanover Fraction, lode
Otting.lode
S.C. B.,lode
Bertha, lode
Monongahela, lode
Lake Huron, lode
Tingle Tangle, lode
Evans, lode
County.
Gilnin.
Do!
San Miguel.
Boulder.
Uo.
Lake.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Clear Creek..
Gilpin.
Gunnison.
Do.
Do.
Bonlder.
Do.
Dolores.
Clear Cieek.
Do.
Do.
Da
Do.
Do.
Pitkin.
Gunnison.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Chaifee &. Fremont.
Do.
Lake.
Onray.
Pitkin.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Clear Creek.
Summit.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
La Plata.
Bonlder.
:le.
Pitkin.
Onray.
Do.
Do.
Lake.
Gunnison.
Do.
San Juan.
Lake.
Gunnison.
•AandB.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
COLORADO. 389
T), ^statement of surveys of mines and mill sites in Colorado, etc.— Continued.
Date of
Survey
proval.
No.
0370
June 25
25
6370
25
8370
25
6370
26
6370
2«
(379
27
6328
27
6328
27
6328
27
6328
27
6328
27
6328
27
6328
30
6330
30
*6345
30
6345 ;
Name of claim.
Coanty.
Tram, lode Fremont.
Mountain Pink,locle Do.
Gertrude K.,Iode .• Do.
Poet master, lode Do.
Alice,lode * Lake.
Marjory, lode Do.
Bright Hope, lode Summit.
Chippewa, lode Do.
Moonstone, lode Do.
Windsor, lode I Do.
Red Wlng,lode Do.
Bolivian. lode Do.
Wolftone, lode Do.
PhoBDix.lode Pitkin.
Continental, lode i Boulder.
Polar Star, mill site Do.
*A ftDd B.
"E.—Stafemenf of mineral survtySf original and amended, ordtred in fiscal year ending Jun
30, 1890.
So.
of
sur-
veys.
.•i7
78
Nature of work.
Lodes.
Placers.
Mill
sites.
Original surveys, 1889:
July
Ill
110
121
110
58
81
76
85
50
41
46
58
' 2
5
3
2
3
Aagust
8
00
September
1
62
October
7
22
November . .
40
December
2
12
1
1
4
2
8
3
39
20
19
27
29
46
Original sui-veys, 1890:
January
1
February • -
1
March... " '.
7
April
3
May.....;.: ::::::::::::.:::::::::";:;:;:::::::::;::
Jane
2
505
905
42
31
1
I
"1
Amended surveys, 1889 :
July
i
8
1
Auimst ....................... ..
1
September
. .. . 1
October .*
1
November
2
2
1
1
Amended surveys, 1890 :
January
1
4
February
4
i
1
2
I
5
March...
1
I
April
2
May
'^.^v,'.'.xv.v'.v.
1
June ••
26
24
i
1
Digitized by VjOOQIC
390 REPORT OP COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
P. — Statement of attended pla'a and aurveye ordered by General Land Office during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
Date of
approv-
al.
Survey
No.
Name of claim.
Connty.
Oct.
Deo.
1889.
Jaly 6
6
15
31
Aag. 8
22
Sept 5
10
16
26
3
8
4
• 11
Not. 15
20
25
11
18
18
18
1880.
Jan. 7
18
27
30
Feb. 28
ICar. 10
21
27
29
29
29
Apr. 2
2
4
5
7
9
May 10
13
16
22
June 23
26
27
I
2810
1705
799
504
1528
2269
2388
4215
704
2198
5374
5374
2217
2323
608
2153
3779
954
2316
2316
448
1090
217
B414
1885
3894
679
3290
909
4356
713
802
4283
650
979
A 377
5320
680
1990
491
916
6149
2137
4533
403
American Eagle, lode . .
JaHA,Iode
<}. M. Favorite, lode
LI ttle Bertha^ lode
White Fawn, lode
Eldorado, lode
Taeeert, lode
Golden Wonder, placer .
Mitch ner, lode
Pavmaater, lode
Robert Falton, lode
Emily, lode
Silent Friend, lode
Sapinero, lode
Ward H. Lamon,lode...
Lilly.lode
Stilwell.lode
Fairmoont, lode
Hand W.. placer
Vivian, placer
May Qaeen, lode
Gray Eaglis lode
Oberto, lode
Kiinefnindd. mill aite
Early Bird, lode
Golden Star, lode
Tenth Legion, lode
Buckeye, lode
Acroas the 0<v»an, lode. . .
White Prince, lode
Glf^ngarv, l^xle
Yati'rt, IcMlo
Bl tnik Hon se, lode
Sydney MyorH, lode
Biiltiinorc. lodo
ModoHt (iirl. lodo
Sri vouit*^, lode -
Ll viui^ston County, lode .
Qne«^u uf tli« ni!l8,lode..
Liidy Jane, lodo
Lillio.lodo
St^itzer. lod^
G -: ' ' * d, lode..
Va-iiiJi . e
Tituaville, lode
Clear Creek.
Hioadale.
Lake.
Do.
Summit.
Ouray.
San Juan.
EajEle.
Boulder.
Ouray.
Park.
Do.
Ouray.
Do.
Boulder.
San Juan.
Pitkin.
Lake.
Clear Creek.
Do.
Lake.
Do.
San Juan.
Clear Creek.
Gnnniaon.
Paik.
Clear Creek.
Gunniton.
Lake.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Eagle.
Clear Creek.
Lake.
Do.
Boulder.
Clear Creek.
Easle.
Lake.
Do.
Jeflferaon.
Clear Creek.
Pitkin.
San Juan.
* Leadville land diatrict.
t Central City land diatrict.
: Denver larnl dintrict.
S Garfield land diat i ict.
O. — Statement of persona employed in office of surveyor-general of Colorado during fiscal
year ending June 30, 1890.
Name.
E. C. Humphrey
W. F. Gowdy
W. H. Hancock
RJ.Fiah
W.L.Hull
J. A. Gooch
J. M. Shannon
W.H.Holmea
O.E. Harria
E.S. Davis
P. H. VanDieat
W.P. Jones
W. P. Carat arphen
Capacity.
Name.
Capacity.
Surveyor-general.
Chief clerk.
Clerk.
DraughtamaiL
Clerk?
Do.
Do.
Draiightaroan.
Clerk.
Chief of mineral division.
Chief of laod diviaion.
Drnagbtaman.
Do.
E. T. Woodson
Anna Dawson
M.G.Marsh
M.A.Camp
C.A.Walker
G.T. Blair
i Geo. W. House
1 A. E. Ix)we
Draughtsman.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Cleik,
Do.
Do.
; T.E.Jenkina
Geo. K.Kimball
Evelyn Meldrun ....'. .
Thomas H. Bates . . .
Sam'lSplatt
Do.
Do.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
COLORADO.
H*. — Statement of appropriation for surveyor-general and clerks.
391
Dftte.
Diabarsetnento.
Amount
Totah
1889.
Sept. 3D
30
Paid surv6yor«seneral
$625.00
1,455.00
Paid clerks
Paid iiQrTevor>sr606ral
$2,080,00
Beo. 81
625.00
1,443.70
31
Paid clerks .-•
1800.
Mht. —
Paid BurTevor-ffeneral
2,068.70
62&00
1,408.50
Paid clerks
Paid snrveyor-general
Paid clerks
2,028.50
Apr. 10
10
6a 68
120. 12
Paid siirvf*vor*ireiieral ..............■■.........*.......••............
197.80
Jiii)o30
566.36
1, 567. 69
30
Paid dorks
2,124.05
.95
BalADce Qnexpended ..•.
1880.
AvLg. 17
Nov. 0
COHTRA.
Draft fW>m United States Treasurer
2, 125. 00
2,125.00
2,125.00
2, 125. 00
. ..do
1800.
Jan. 25
...do
May 8
do
Bftlarr^^ on hand due United States...... ,......-
8,500.00
8,500.00
July 1
.05
IP. — Statement of appropriation for contingent expenses.
Date.
Amount
Total.
1889.
Sept 30
Dea 81
Paid for office rent
$375.00
375. 00
....do
1890.
Mar. 31
..do
375. 00
June 30
. do
333 ^79
Balance unexpended
41.21
1889.
Auk. 17
Xov. 9
CONTRA.
Draft from United States Treasurer
$375.00
37&00
875.00
37&00
...do
1890.
Jan. 25
... do .*
May 8
....do
Balance on hand due United States
1,500.00
1, 500. 00
July 1
41.21
Digitized by
Google
392 REPORT OP COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
K^.^Siatement of appropriation for inspection of surreys.
Date.
Disbunemeiita.
Anionut
Total.
Jan© 30, 1890
Paid for insDection T. 8 S. R.88 W
$75.45
BalaDCd nnexpended
1, 324. 65
May 8.1890
OONTBA.
Draft from United States Troasnrer
$1,400.00
Balance on hand dae United States .....*
1,400.00
1,400.00
July 1,1890
1, 324. 55
H**. — Statement of special deposits made by individuals.
Date.
18
I
Jaly 1 Balance as per last rei>ort .
31
AuR.
31 1
Sept. 30 1
Oct.
31
Nov.
30
Dec.
31
1800. I
Jan.
31
Feb.
28
Mar.
31
Apr.
30
May
31
June 3U j
Feb.
28
Feb.
28
May
3
Juno
7
1888.
Aug.
17
Nuv.
9
1890. 1
Jan.
25
May
8
Jane 30
1890.
July
1
Deposits for mineral surreys .
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Deposits for Rico townsite ,
Deposits for Claim No. 2, V. & Stv V. grant..
Deposits by Oney Catstarpben
Depo.sit8 for Aspen lownsite
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Balance .
Balance .
Amount. I TotiU.
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$11,039.96 $11,039.96
8,587.50
4, 137. 50 ,
4,029.01 I
3.225.25 I
2,110.00
3,085.00 I
3. 070. 00
1, 182. 50
2,095.00
1,512.50
1, 880. 00
2, 020. 00
25.00
6.08
1,495.42
25.00
10, OQO. 00
10,000.00
10,000.00
8,000.00
7,425.71
46. 426. 71
34, 3^5. 75
45, 425w 71
7, 425. 71
I. — Deputy mineral surveyors on active duty in the field.
Name and address.
Jacob J. Abbott, Lake city
James W.Abbott, Ouray
Osmer H Aikine, White Pine
Albert £. Aims. Kico
Max Boebmer, Lead ville
Ebenezer C. Babbitt^ Aspen
Frank L. Biddlecom, Ouray
Blair Burwell, Durango
Francis F. Bruni, Fair Play
Henry D. Bat eh, Aspen
Christopher S. Batterman, Aspen
Edwin K. Chnse, Central city
Leonard Cutshaw, Denver
Charles B. Cramer, Brcckenridge
Benjamin L. Cress, Red Cliff
Thomas P. Crai^r, Aspen
Charles W. Comstook, Golden
William A . Carlyle, Aspen
Jan.
Feb.
July
Oct
Jan.
Ftb.
July
Nov.
Feb.
Jan.
Mnr.
Jan.
July
July
Ang.
May
Nov.
Mar.
17,1890
14, 1890
10, 1888
15. 1888
17, 1890
8.1890
7,1885
3,1888
27, 1890
25,1890
31, 18c 0
17, 1890
21, 1^83
15, 1884
4,1884
16, 1887
10,1888
12.1880
' Albert E. Chase, Georcotown
John C. F. Christian, Leadville
Harvey G. Denniston, Denver
Thomas L. Darb v, Lea<i ville
James Dyson, Sfl verton
Ernest LeNeve Foster, Georgetown
William J. Fine. Gunnison
John E. Field. Denver. ^
J. Sire Greene, Denver
James M. Gardner, Del Norte
I George R. Hurlburt^ Ouray
Victor (J. Hills, Puel.lo
Robert W. HoUis, Silvei ton
William H. Holmes, Silver Cliff . .
EUerv W.Hunt, Rico
Frank D.Howe, Aspen
George Holland. Leadville
Lee Hayes, Aspen
Feb.
Apr.
Sept
Feb.
Mar.
Nov.
Feb.
Mar.
Sept
June
Jane
Dec.
Dec.
Mar.
July
Oct
May
Jan.
27,1890
28,1890
9,1884
8,1890
25,1890
12, 1889
27,1890
25,1890
18, 1882
23,18^
1,1885
14.18h3
8,1884
26.1884
10.1886
29,1887
21,1888
17,1880
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COLORADO. 393
I. — Deputy mineral surveyors on active duty in the field— Continued.
Name and addresa.
CommiB-
Bioned.
Frank F. Johnson, E«t4ibrook
Thomas W. Jay cox, Leadville
Finney Jones, Irontitn
August Kopp^ Silver Cliff
S. ISmmett Kirkcndall, Saguache. .
Henry C. Lav, jr.Tfllaride
William C. Cacy, Carbondale
Theodore H. Lowe, Colorado i
Springs. I
George N. Law, Rico
George E. Marsh, Georgetown
Frank P. Monroe, Glen wood
Springs.
Charles J. Moore, Lendville ,
MarccUns T. Moi ri . 1, Golden
Jesse F. McDonald, Robinson
George T. McDonald, Aspen
Frank A. Maxwell, Georgetown ...
Alexander J. Mitchell, Aspen
Charles W. Miller, Aspen >
Arthur A. Miller, Platora I
George Mills, Ouray
John H. Marks, Aspen
Augu»te Mathez, Central city
TheophilnsS. Mathis,Telluride ..
George W. Nyce, Aspen
George D. Nickel, Del Norte
John O'Connor, Montrose
Wi Ilia m Byrd Page, Leadville
William H. Powless, Alma
Oct 9, 1882
Aug. 28, 1885
Mar. 25. 1889
Oct. 15,1883
May 28,1888
Aug. 7,1883
May 3, 1888
Feb. 8, 1890
June 30. 1890
Feb. 8, 18S^
Feb. 8, 1890
Apr. 14,1885
Jan. 24, 1883
Hay 12,1}<83
Apr« 15. 1869
Sept. 9.1884
Jan. 14,1886
Mar. 29, 1887
Aug. 12, 1889
Jan. 17,1890
Apr. 24,1888
July 21, 1888
May 2, 1890
Apr. 16,1888
Jan. 17,1890
Feb. 13,1889
Ang. 2.1886
Oct. 14,1885
Joseph Paxton, Abuen
Howard Piatt Leadville
William H. Rose, Yampa
Charles A . Russell. Boulder
Samuel A. Rank. Central oitv. . ..
George M. Robinson, Leadville
Fmnk P. Swindler, Glenwood
Springs.
Richard A. Skuea, Pitkin
Caryl W. Smith, Red Cliff
Edward S. Snell, Boulder
John J. Steavenson, Denver
Charles F. Saunders, Aspen
Fred. H. Stevens, Idaho springs . . .
Edwin A. Sperry, Bieckenridge...
James F. Smith, Fair Play
John A. Storm, Denver
Samuel J. Spray, Salida
Robert R. Sterling, Crystal
Htlgh R. Steele. Breckenridge
George W. Teal, Boulder
Alfred Thielen, LeadviUe
Heiliger J. Van Weterlng, Buena
Vista.
Walter H. Wilev, Idaho Springs. ..
Edward R. Warren, Crested Butte
Georffe B. Walker, Breckenridge . .
Charles A. Walker, Breckenridge..
Porter P. Wheaton. Georgetown. . .
Thomas Withers, Denver
Commis-
sioned.
Sept 18,1889
Feb. 8, 1890
Aug. 23, 1883
Feb. 8, 1890
Jan. 17.1890
Jan. 7, 1890
Apr. 17,1883
May 18,1886
May 15,1886
Oct 19,1886
Mar. 23,1888
Oct 12.1888
Dec. 1, 1888
Feb. 25.1889
Apr. 29.1889
Jan. 17 , 1890
Do.
Do.
Feb. 8, 1890
Feb. 25,1889
Jan. 17,1890
Mar. 8,1883
Ang. 23, 1883
June 12,1885
July 28,1885
Feb. 8,1890
Aug. 25^1886
Aug. 2,1887
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BEPOBT OF THE SUBVETOB OEHEBAL OF DAKOTA.
Unitkd States Surveyor-General's Office,
^irron, S, Dak,, July 17, 189J'.
In compliaDce with your circular letters £ of April 23 and July 3, 1890, 1 have the
honor to submit, in duplicate, my report of surveylui;^ operations in this district for
the fiscal year ending .June 30, 1890, with tabular statements, as follows:
A. — Showing contracts entered into on accoopt of appropriation of $20,000 for
survey of public lands for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
B. — Showing contracts entered into on account of apportionment made to Dakota
($93,000, March 17, 1890) for the survey of ceded Sioux Indian lands, act approved
March 2, 1889.
No contracts were entered into during the fiscal year on account of special deposits
by individuals for the survey of public lands, and no deposits were made lor such
surveys.
The following table shows the number of miles of public surveys in this district
upon which office work was completed and returns transmitted during the fiscal year :
Standard lines
Galde meridiaus
Township and range lines.
Section lines
Meander lines
Conneotins lines
Boandary lines
Betraced standard lines. . . .
Retraced township lines . .
Retraced section lines
Retraced boandary lines...
ToUl.
Measurements.
mu$. Cits. Lk$.
82 18 64
47 78 Al
360 M 23
2,219 43 96
50 07 00
13
64
28
129
47
15
1..
8
40..
2
7
49
1
67
43
2, 926 40 55
Township plats prepared (46 townships subdivided) 138
Exterior diagmms prepared 8
Mineral plats prepared 192
The aggregate of deposits for ofiRoe work on account of mineral surveys during the year amount
to : $2,4P0
For additional reports 30
Total 2,510
Total 81
Mineral surveys approved . - 35
Amended mineral surveys approved 1
Total 36
Placer claims examined and reported 6
Very respectfully,
BoETius H. Sullivan,
Surveyor-Ge^ieraK
Hon. Lewis A. Grofp,
CommiB9ioner General Land Office, Washington, D, C,
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DAKOTA.
396
A. — StatemeHt showing ooniraeis entered into on account of apportionment of |20,000, fn<ide
to Dakota for the survey of public lands during the fiscal year ending «/uit6 30, 1890.
34
Sept 14
Oct. 0
35 Nov. 12
1890.
Feb. 15
46
50
Feb. 21
Feb. 18
Charles H. Bates and
RoecoeE. Watson.
WiUiam Alloy
George W. Cooley . . .
Roscoe E. Watson. .
George W. Cooley. ...
Gforo:e X. Dike and
Louis G. 8 tine
Mar. 27 Richard G. Anderson
and Porter Warner.
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Apr. 1
June 28
FiankS. Peck .
Roscoe K. Watson.
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The sub<11\ i-ioiisl hikI meander linpsof Ts. 160, 161
and 162 N.. Ks. 65aud 66, T. 160 N., R. 67. andT.
167 N., R. 68; all west of the fifth principal meri-
dian, Dakota.
The section and meander lines of the nnsnrreyed
portions of Tr. 126 and 127, N., R. 62 west of the
fifth principal meridian, Dakota.
The lines between Rs. 2 and 3 and 3 and 4, throafh
Ts. 7 and 8; the lines between Ts. 6 and 7 and 7
8, f hroueh Rs. 3 and 4; the lines between Ts. 7
and 8, fhrongh R. 2; also, the subdlvisional lines
of Ts. 7 and 12, R. 1 : Ts. 8 and 10 and 12, R. 2 ;
Tr. 7 and 10, R. 3, and T. 7, R. 4 : all east of the
Black Hills meridian and south of the Black
'Hills base line, Dakota.
The subdivisional and meander lines of T. 150 N.,
R. 61 ; of Ts. 158, 159 tad 160 N., R 62; uf Ts. 158,
150, 160 and 161 N., R. 63, and of Ta. ISO, 160,
161 and 162 N.. R. 64; aU west of the fifth prin-
cipal meridian, in the State of Korth Dakota.
The sabdivlaional lines of T.9S., R8.2 and 8 E.
of the Black Hills meridian. South Dakota.
The subdlvisional and meander lines of T. 156 N.,
R. 59 : Ta. 157 and 158 K, Rs. 60 and 61 ; T. 167
K., Rn. 62 and 63; Ts. 164 and 155 N.. R. 69;
Ts. 150. 151, 152, 153. 154 and 155 N., Rs. 70 and 71 ;
and Ta. 154 and 155 N , Rs. 72 and 73; all west
of the fifth principal meridian, Dakota.
Th« second standard parallel firom the line be-
tween Rs. 8 and 9, to the meridian of ]03o W.
from Greenwich ; all township and ran{(e lines
between the west boundary of R.9 and said
rooritlian of 103°, and between the first and beo-
ond htflndard parallels ; and so much of guide
meridian, township and range lines, as are north i
ofthH ilrHt standard parallel, east of said merid-
ian of 103° s<mth of the north fork of the
Cheyenne river and west of the south fork of
said rivrr ; all north of the Black Hills baseline
and east of the Black Hills meridian. South
Dakota.
The subdivistonal and meander lines of so much
of T. 5 of Rs. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, as lies south
of the norih fork of the Cheyenne river and
west of the south fork of said river; all north
of the Black Hills base line and east of the
Black Hills meridian, South Dakota: Provided,
howev«'r. that surveys shall not be made of any
sections we^t of or inter>ected by the meridian
of 103° west of Greenwich.
The subdivisional and meander lines of Ts. 155 and
156 N., Rb. 74 and 75 ; all west of the fifth prin-
cipal meridian. Noith Dakota.
The snbdiviaionat lines lof T. 17 N., Rs. 2 and 3
B. of the Black Hills meridian, South Dakota.
$2,470
126
2,550
3,700
610
8.000
200
300
1,220
640
Total.
19, 815
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396 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
B. — Statement sharping oovtnutB entered into on acoovnt of apportionment made to Dakota
($93,000, March 17, 1890) for Ihe survey of aded Sioux Indian landSy act approved March
2. 1889.
No.
39
40
41
43
44
1890.
Mar. 12
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Di'puty.
Horace J. Anstin.
Character and location of work.
Batimated
MileaT.WooUey.
Edwin H. Van Ant-
werp.
Bwiffbt C. Rice and
Edwin H. Van Ant-
werp.
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Cyrus WnltRiind Mon-
roe Warner.
.1 The Black Hills base line from the sonth fork of
the Chevenne river to the west boundary of R.
I 79 W. of the fifth principal meridian; the
I fourth, fifth, and aixtbjiruide meridians Aram the
said base-line to the first standard parallel
north, and the serenth guide meridian from the
White river to the first standard parallel north ;
I nil east of the Black Hills meridian, South
Dnkota.
.1 The first i^tandard parallel f^om the south foik
I of the Cheyenne river to the Misnonri river ;
I the second standard parallel from the Big Chey-
enne river to the Mii*Bonri river^ and the fifth,
sixth, and seventh fniide meridians from the
I first standard parallel to the most northerly in-
I tersected boundary of the lands of the Great
1 Sioux Indian Kesi'rvation. ceded per act of
Congress approved March 2, 1889; also^ the
north and west boundaries of T. 5, R. 20 ; all
I ease of the Black Hilln meridian and north of
the Black Hills base line. South Dakota.
The northern boundary of the Ix>wer Urul6 In-
dian Reservation; so much of the forty-fourth
degree of norih latitude as forms a portion of
the south boundary of said reservation, and the
remainder of paid south boundary ; also the first
standard parallel through Rs. 76, 77, 78, and 79 ;
the second standard parallel from the closing
comer thereon of the line between Rs. 79 and
80 W. to the standard comer thereon of the
same range line, and the line between Ra. 79 and
80 from the White river to the northwest cor-
ner of the said renervation ; alro the retrace-
ment of so much of the line between Rs. 72 and
73 as forms a boundary of said reservation ; all
west of the filth principal meridian, South Da-
kota.
All surreys necessary for the completion of all
exterior and subdivisional and meander lines,
between the base-line and the first standard
parallel north, from the east bank of the Mis-
souri to and including the lines between Rs. 78
and 79. excepting American island, in the Mis-
Houri river; and the subdivisional and meander
lines of Ts. 102 and 103 N., R. 76, and T. 103 N.,
R 77; also retrace the baseline fiom the west
bank of the Missouri river to the closing cor-
ner to T. 100 N., Rs. 73 and 74 ; thence survey
and mark the east boundary of the Rosebud
Indian Reservation due north to its intersec-
tion with the right bank of White river; all
west of the fifth principal meridian : Provided,
j That no surveys be made within the Rosebud
Indian Reservation. Also, survey, mark, and
establish all standard township, section, and
meander lines between the Black Hilla baae-
line and White river, from the seventh guide
I meiidian east of the Black Hills principal me-
ridian, to the west boundary of R. 79 W. of the
fifth principal meridian; all in the State of
South Dakote.
The line between Ta. 103 and 104 N., R. 79 ; ihe
line between Ts. 105 and 106 N., R. 72, 73, 76, 77,
I 78, and 79, and the lines between Rs. 76 and 77,
77 and 78. and 78 and 79, through Ts. 105 and
106 N. ; also complete the subdivisional and
' meander lin« s of Ta 102 and 103 N.. R. 76 ; T.
103 N.. R. 77 ; Ts. 103 and lOl N., R. 79 ; T. 105
N., R. 71, and Ta. 105 and 106 N., Rs. 72, 73, 74,
75, 76, 77, 78, and 79 ; all west of the fifth pi in-
I cipnl meridian, South Dakota : Provided, That
no si.rvey be made within any existing Indian
reservation.
$2,000
2.050
1,350
9,660
6,000
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DAKOTA.
397
B. — Statement showing ofmtraots etiiered into on account of apportionment made to Dakota
(193,000, March 17, 1890) /or the survey of ct4*'d Sionx Indian lands, c<c.— Continued.
No.
45
47
48
49
52
53
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May 8
liar. 27
Deputy.
Biohard G. Anderaon
and Porter Warner.
George S. Gheyney.
SliBatterwortb .
Franks. Peck.
Dell B. Piper and
Hiram A. Sonle.
Thomas F. Marshall.
Character and location of work.
, Eatimated
cost.
The second standard parallel from the meridian
of 1030 west from Greenwich to the fourth
fniide meridian; the third fraide meridian and
the fourth euide meridian, both through Ts. 5,
6, 7, 8. All township and ran^re lines between
Mtid meridian of 103^ and the fourth iniide me-
ridian, and between the second standard par-
allel and the north fork of the Chej^enne
river, indndinfl: the line between Bs. 16 and 16.
through Ts. 5, 6, 7, 8 ; also the sobdivisional
and meander lines of Ts. 1, 2, 8, 4 of Ks. 14 and 15,
and Ts. 2, 8, 4 of B. 16: all north of the Black Hills
base line and east of the Black Hills meridian.
South Dakota: Provided, hotower. That no sur-
reys shall be made south of the north fork of [
the Cheyenne river and west of the south fork
of the same river.
All township and range lines between the south
fork of the Cheyenne river and the line be-
tween Bs. 18 and 10, including the last-named
line, and between the Black Hills base line and
the first standard parallel north ; also the sub-
divisional and meander lines of so much of Ts.
1, 2, 8 S , B. 13 ; Ts. 1, 2. 8, 4 8.. Bs. 14, 15, 16. and
T. 1 N.. B. 16. as lie north of the Pine Bidge
Indian Beaervation and east of tiie south fork
of the Cheyenne river: all east of the Black
Hills meridian, South Dakota.
The north linear boundary of the Pine Bidge In-
dian Keservation; the third guide meridian (line
between Bs. 12 and 18), and the lines between Bs.
13 and 14 and 14 and 15, from said reservation
boundary, to the Black Hills baseline; the lint's
between Ts. 1 aud 2, 2 and 3, and 8 and 4 S.,
through Bs. 13 and 14 ; the line between Bs. 10
and 20. through Ts. 1 and 2 N., and the lines be-
tween Ts. 1 and 2 and 2 and 3 N., through Bs.
10 and 20; also the subdirisional lines of T. 1
S., B. 18. and Ta 1 and 2 N.. Bs. 10 and 20; all
east of the Black HUls meridian, South Dakota :
Provided, hotoever, that no surveys shall be made
west of the south fork of Cheyenne river.
The subdivlslonal and meander lines of so much
of Ts. 4, 5, 6. 7, and 8, Bs. 10, 11. and 12; Ts. 5, 6,
and 7. B. 13; aud T. 5, Bs. 14 and 15, as Ih-s
north of the north fork of the Cheyenne river
and eaHt of the south fork of said river ; all
north of the Black Hills base line and east of
the Black Hills meridian. South Dakota: Pro-
vided, however, that surveys shall not be made
of any sections west of or intersected by the
meridian of 103^' west from Greenwich.
The fifth guide meridian iline between Bs. 20 and
21) and the sixth guide meridian (line between
Bs. 24 and 25), fi^m the Black Hills base line to
White river, and all township, range, and sub-
division liufs between said firth and sixth fuide
meridians from the Black Hills base line ft
White river; also the subdivisiooal lines and
meanders of Ts. 7 and 8 N., ttom the line be-
tween Bs. 23 and 24. to the east bank of Mis-
souri river ; all townships between the second
standard parallel north and Cheyenne river
which lie west of the line between Bs. 26 and
27. and T. 8 N., B. 23: aU east of the Black
Hills meridian. South Dakota: Provided, that
no surveys are to be made within any existing
Indian reser\'ation.
AU township and range lines between the fifth
and sixth guide meridians and between the
31ack Hills base line and the Big Cheyenne
river; also the subdivisional and meander
lines of Te.l and 2, B.21, and Ts. 1, 2, 3, 4, Bs.
22, 23, 24; all north of the Black Hills base line
and esst of the Black Hills meridian. South
Dakota.
$5,800
6,000
8,000
5,700
0,000
6,000
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398 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
B. — Statement ehowing oontraota entered into on account of apportionment made to Dakota
(993,000, Maroh 17, 18^) for the eurvey of ceded Sioux Indian lands, eto.— Continued.
No.
64
55
65
67
58
50
60
61
62
Bate.
1800.
Mar. 27
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Depaty.
MilMiT.WooUoy and
Biruey C. WooUey.
Frederick W. Petti-
grew and Frederick
C. Flickinger.
Carl Gnnderaon .
Character and location of work.
Charles H.Batea.
George W. Carpenter.
Horace J. Aaatin .
OleQuam.
B. Channing Chllcott.
Horace J. Austin, and
Elbert D. Hawkins.
AU township lines between the first standard
parallel and Cheyenne river firom the sizth
gnide meridian to the east bank of the Missouri
rlTsr, and the subdivlsional lines and meanders
of all townships between the second standard
parallel and Cneyeune river fVom the line be-
tween Rs. 26 and 27 to the east bank of Mis-
souri rlrer; all north of the Black Hills base
line and east of the Black Hills meridian, Sonth
Dakota.
The snbdiTisional lines and meanders of Ts. 6
and 6 K. of thw Black Hills base line from the
line between Rs. 22 and 23 to the east bank of
Missouri river; aU east of the Black Hills
meridian, South Dakota.
AU township lines between the sixth and seventh
' guide meridians from White river to the first
standard iwrallel north, and the subdivisional
' lines and meanders of sit townships in B. 38
I from Whit« river to the flr«t standard parallel
north, snd Ts. 1 and 2 N., R. 20 : all east of the
BlM'k Hills meridian. South Dakota.
. The west boundaries of the Standing Rock and
I Cheyenne Kive^, Sioux Indian Reservation, the
same being the meridian of 102<' west from Green-
I wich, from the south fork of the Cannon Ball
I river to the Cheyenne river; also the subdl-
vislunal and meander lines of T.8,R.13; Ts.
6, 7, 8. Rs. 14 and 16; and Ts. 6, 6. 7, 8, R. 16; aU
north of the Black Hills base line and east of
the Black Hills meridian, Sonth Dakota.
The subdivisional lines and meanders of Ts. 1, 2, 8,
and 4, Rs. 17 and 18; Ts. 8 and 4, R. 21 ; all town-
ships in Rs.21 and 22 between the first stand-
ard parallel and Cheyenne river, and T. 7, R.
28; all norih of the Black HUls base line and
esHt of the Black Hills meridian, Sonth Dakota:
ProviAed, that no survev be made within any
existing Indian reservation.
AU meridian, township, section, Mid meander
lines between the Black HiUs base line and the
first standard parallel firom the seventh guide
meridian to the east bank of Missouri river,
excepting the subdivisional survey of Ts. 1 and
2, R. 20, and also excepting Farm island, in the
Missouri river; all north of the Black Hilla
base line and east of the Black H^ls meridian.
South Dakota: Provided, that no surveys be
made within any existing Indian reservations.
The fourth guide meridian (between Ks. 16 and 17)
and the lines between Rs. 16 and 16, 17 and 18,
through Ts. 1, 2, 8, and 4 ; the lines between Ts.
1 and 2,2 and 8, 3 and 4. through Rs. 15. 16, 17;
snd the east and south boundaries of T. 1, R.
18; also the subdivisional and meander lines
^it Ts. 1, 2, 8, 4, S., R. 17; aU south of the Black
Hills base line and east of the Black HUls
meridian. South Dakota: Proridsd, Aotoeosr,
that surveys sbaU not be made within the Pine
Ridge Indian reservation.
The line between Rs. 10 and 20, through Ts. 8 and
4 : the line between Ts. 8 and 4. through Rs. 10
and 20 ; the west and north bounaaries of T. 5, R.
10; also the subdivisional and meander lines of
Ts. 3, 4, and 5, Rs. 10 and 20 ; all north of the Black
Hills base line and east of the Black Hills me-
ridian. South Dakota: Provided, however, that
surveys shaU not be made within any existing
Indian reservation.
The subdivisional and meander lines of all town-
ships in Rs. 25, 26. 27, from the first standand
parallel north of the Black HUls base line to
the left bank of White river, exoeptingTs.
1 and 2 N., R. 25; aU east of the Black HUls
meridian. South Dakota.
Total
Bstimated
cost.
13, 000
6.000
4.000
5.100
2,000
2,100
6k 000
02.750
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REPORT OF THE SXJRVEYOR-OENEBAL OF FLORIDA.
United States Surveyor-General's Office,
Tallaha89eey Fla,, July 7, 1890.
la compliance with instractions oontftined in yoar circular letter £, dated April 23,
1890, 1 have the honor to sabmit, in dnplioate, the annual report of this office in rela-
tion to the surveying serrice in thin district dnrins the fiscal year ending Jane 39, 1890.
I also submit daplicate t^ibolar statements as follows :
A. — Number of townships surveyed and miles ran.
B.— Number of plats and transcripts made.
C. — List of contracts entered into.
D.— Plats and descriptions of private claims for patents.
There have been portions of two townships surveyed upon petition of settlers, con«
taining 2 miles 14 cnains 45 links of line.
A contract was entered into with R. F. Ensey, by special instructions furnished him
January 3, 1890, for the survey of an jsland in T. 8 S., K. 23 £., and his field notes
were retnrued to this office ; but, being found defective in essential points, they were
returned to him for correction. He has since abandoned the survey.
Under directions from the General Land Office I have recently issaed special instr ac-
tions to R. B. Bnrchfiel for the sarvey of an island in T. 37 S., R. 41 E.
No contracts payable from general appropriation have been entered into, there hav-
ing been no appropriation set apart for extending public surveys in this State daring
the current fiscal year.
No examinations of field work have been ordered or executed.
There are no arrears of office work uncompleted in this office ; but quite an amount
of such work has been carried to completion during the last half of the fiscal year.
There are to m^ knowledge no deficiencies remaining nnliqaidated arising under
previous appropriations.
There have been made and approved six plats and d^criptions of private land
claims and three township plate by requisition of the General Land Office; also two
plats, in triplicate, of lands surveyed as above stated.
Three lists of swamp and overflowed lands selected by the State of Florida, cover-
ing 1,086 acres, have been presented in due form by the proper State officer, under
act of Congress of September 28, 1850, and were examined and approved by this
office. Duplicate copies thereof were transmitted to the General Land Office and
triplicate copies to the Gainesville land office.
Another list was presented for approval, bnt upon making personal examination of
the lands included they were found to be not such as are described in said act as
swamp and overflowed, and the selection was therefore rejected.
Documents have been transmitted to the several land offices, to other officials, and
to individuals during the past fiscal year, as follows :
General Land Office :
Letters and reports ,... 77
Diagrams 2
Plats and descriptions, private claims for patent 6
Plats of new surveys 2
Transcripts of field notes of same 2
Lists of swamp lands selected 3
United States land office at Gainesville :
Letters 7
Diagrams 2
Plats of new sarveys 2
United States Treasury Department, letters 20
Secretary of Interior, letters 2
Florida State officers, letters 4
Individuals, letters 144
Total 4 273
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400 KEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
OFFICE PROPERTY AND RECORDS.
On December 13, 1889, I took charge of this office, receiving from my predecessor,
Hon. W. D. Bloxham, the property thereof, which was found to correspond with the
official inventory. Many of the volumes of field notes were found with their binding
in a torn and injured condition. I have caused them to be repaired without expense
to the department, as a temporary means of preserving the volumes until rebound.
The index diagrams of the records being found incomplete and so worn with age and
use as to be unserviceable, I have had new indexes constructed and carefully verified.
Of the nineteen volumes of township plats several are in bad condition both as to
the binding and the plats themselves. Many plats seem to have been injured by the
wear and tear of putting such lar^e volumes in cases where they stand on ed^e, beinff
constantly taken out for nse. If the cases could be fitted with rollers on which each
book could rest horizontally, it would prevent further injury from that cause. Sev-
eral of these plat-books should be rebound, and the maps that are torn or defaced
should be replaced by new ones reprotracted from the field notes.
MINERAL LANDS.
No surveys have been made by direction of this office under the* laws relating to
mining claims. I have received several applications for the appointment of United
States deputy surveyors of mineral lands ; but as I have received no authority to
make such appointments, and no instructions whatever from your department relat-
ing to these mineral lands, I have simply filed the applications for future action.
Great activity has prevailed for several months past in various counties of Florida
in prospecting and staking valuable and extensive deposits of the mineral known as
phosphate rock : and at certain places the work of mining and shipping this substance
is being conducted on a large scale. It can hardly be doubted that the discovery of
these deposits in Florida, exceeding in extent and thickness all such beds previously
known in the world, is an event destined to produce great increase of value, not only
in the mineral lands of the State, but the agricultural also. In the general effort to
find and secure phosphate lauds, many have decided to proceed in accordance with
the law of United States mineral lands, and are awaiting action by your department
in the premises.
This remarkable discovery of unsuspected wealth within a few feet of the surface,
in scores of townships, has caused large numbers of men to explore the country geo-
logically with spades and boring apparatus. By such means other useful substances
are said to have been found, such as marl, kaolin, fossil guano, slate rock, mica-
schist, mica, zinc ore, and sulphur, and specimens thereof submitted to the tests of
the State chemist, showing that Florida ought long ago to have received the benefit
of a thorough geological survey.
SWAMP LANDS RECLAIMABLE FOR SUGAR FARMING.
A very important recent agricultural development in this State is the establishment
of sugar farms upon farms reclaimed by draining. These sugar lands previously were
vast watery areas of saw-grass growing upon deposits of pure muck of unknown depth.
Of the quality of this material an eminent official chemist wrote of a sample that ''it
seems t.o equal the best potting-mould and partakes more of the character of a manure
than of a soil." When drained and cultivated it produces from 30 to 40 tons of cane-
stalks per ac:e of a quality equal to the best raised in Cuba.
There are many places m this State where extensive sugar-mills, like the successful
works at St. Cloud, may be operated upon similar reclaimed lands. The saw-grass
marshes of south Florida are reported susceptible of drainage and reclamation. As
soon as this is well done they are likely to command a large pnce per acre, judging
by past experience in Polk county.
The unsnrveyed portions of this State are said to include large areas of such land,
and as its prospective value, which in past years was considered nothing, is now shown
to be considerable, it is respectfully suggested that this office be authorized to take
advantage of any season or unusual dryness to extend the lines of survey in that
region. Capitalists interested in cane culture are favorably impressed by the success
achieved in Florida, and are said to be considering plans for draining and reclaiming
tracts of saw-grass marsh, where canals of no great depth or extent, with ample dif-
ference of altitude, may be relied on to carry off the water to the Atlantic or the
Gulf. I would respectfully recommend that a portion of the general appropriation for
surveys be set apart for this purpose, to be used under direction of the General
Land Office, in case the recent low stage of water in the regions referred to should
again occur.
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THE 8PANI8H ARCHIVES.
Since 1849 this office has beeu the depository of that larj^e mass of ancient doca-
ments of the Spanish provincial governiueDt left at St. Augiutine when the United
States acquired title to Florida. These records contain the Basis of titles to lands to
an extensive amount, and probably contain also historical matter of mnch value. In
my opinion they are worthy of better care than they have heretofore received. It
is believed that the Spanish land titles derived from them and preserved in other
records, written and pnuted, are bat a portion of the important matter stili looked
up in these archiveS| which contain the probate records, the original wills, the
dockets of civil ^nd criminal coorts, and voluuiinous records of naval and military
history.
These records are uniqne, and in case of loss can not be duplicated or restored.
They are not wholly safe from tire. They have long been subiect to the destructive
attacks of insects which perforated some of the volumes and bundles to an alarming
extent, so that I have nsed means for destroying the moths. ' These original mann-
scripts are of much the same character and importance as those of some of the Pacific
districts, where they have been honored with a special officer as keeper of Spanish
archives. I would respectfully recommend that provision be made for a competent
clerk and translator, who shall index, translate, and preserve the valuable por Lions
and make their contents accessible to investigation, before the fading of ink and
ravages of insects shall render them useless, or tire shall entirely destroy them.
A similar collection of Spanish archives of the province of West Florida was kept
at Pensacola in care of an officer called '' keener of Spanish archives." When that
office was discontinued in 1649, the papers in nis charge were retained at Pensacola.
At the suggestion of :^our office I have made investigation, and find that only a small
portion of these archives are extant, the remainder having been destroyed by fire.
JNO. C. SLOCUM,
Survey ar- General.
Hon. Commissioner of the General Land Office.
A. — Statement of toumshipe eurveyed.
Deacrtpdon of survey.
^•S'Mact..
jr. o.
IslandllkT.46S.,IL34B 1 60
Portof aAmeialand,T.47S.,R24B ..{ 0 24
Total i"? 14
12fi.«0
Kame of deputy.
Wio. E. Loper . .
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Date of
approval.
Nov. 0.1889.
Do.
B. — Statement of plate and tranecripte made.
Plat sent to-
Date.
Tranacript
sent to—
Date.
T 31 S. I1.26B
Looal land office
General Land Office..
Local and Qeneral
Land Office.
....do
Aug. 23, 1888
JaiiTlT.UOO
Nov. 0,1880
...do
Sec 21 T.7 8..B.18B
Sec.8ilT.4«sl.B.a4B
Sec.l,T.47 8..B.24B
Seo.6.T.lN..B.28W
Office.
....do
Nov. 10,1880.
Do.
Looal land office
Qeneml Land Office . .
Nov. 18, 1880
Feb. 15,1880
SecU T 08. B.23B
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C. — List of surveying contracts.
Dftteof
inftaniotioiis.
Name of deputy.
DMCiiption of aniyey.
Satlmated
liaUUty.
Jao. 24.188»
Jaa. 8,1880
Kay 20.1890
Wm.B-Loper ....
RP.Biiiey:
&B.Biii«4fiel....
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I7S.0O
80.00
Island in BOO. ao. T. 8 S.. R. 28 E
IfflMidIn <mwt?.T.?7 8,.R.4I K
40.00
D. — Plat and deBoripH&n of private land olaimsfor patentt.
Date.
Claimant.
Where sent.
Sept 11,1880
Ool 12.1880
Do
Joseph 8. Sanches ....
Thomas Travers
Philip Bmbara
James Rose
Seo.48,T.43..R.29B
General Land Olllee.
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Do.
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Do.
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Sea.48.T. 7S..R.20B
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Mar. 1,1800
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BEPOBT OF THE SUBVETOB-OEVEBAL OF IDAHO.
United States Sdbveyor-Gbneral's Office,
Bois4cityy Idaho, July 21, 1890.
In compliance with the instraotions of yonr cironlar letter, initial £, dated April
23, 1^, X have the honor to sabmit, in duplicate, my annual report of surveying
operations in this district for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, with tabular state-
ments as follows :
A. — Statement showing contracts awarded under the apportionment of |10,000
allotted te this surveying district Arom the Congressional appropriation of March 2,
18t^, for surveys and resurveys of public lands, as per official letter £ of August 20,
1»90.
B. — Statement showing lauds embraced in special instructions to Edson D. Brign,
United States deputy surveyor, dated December 19, 1889, for surveys under the
''* special-deposit " system.
No contracts were awarded for surveys of public lands under provisions of sections
2401, 2402, and 2403, Revised Statutes, and no surveys were authorized under said sys-
tem except those referred to in statement B.
No deposits were made during the year by railroad companies for field or office
work.
The deposits on account of office work in connection with surveys of mining claims
And mill sites for patent (Chap. YI, Title XXXII, Revised Statutes) amounted in the
aggregate to |E2,585.
One additional deposit of 97 was made on account of office work in connection with
survey of **Mallan'' townsite, situated on nnsurveyed public land in Shoshone
county, CoBur d'Alene land district.
Mo deposits were made for surveys under provisions of sections 2401, 2402, and 2403,
Revised Statutes.
During the fiscal year surveys were executed aggregating 576 miles 26 chains and
62 links, classified as follows :
Towiwbip lines
Seotion lines
Meander Ifnee —
Staodsrd lines
Meridian IJnea
Indian-reservation linee.
Connecting lines
Total.
Meaanrements.
Miles. Oh*, Lt.
1U6 60 22
831 10 55
77 74 81
18 00 00
47 15 00
23 50
15 04
576 28 02
Eleven townships and fractional townships were surveyed. '
Plats and transcripts of field. notes have been prepared, approved, and transmitted
to your office (under contracts Nos, 119, 121, and 12-i respectively) of all these surveys,
excepting 11 or 12 miles of work executed in accordance with statement B, but not
yet approved.
The foresoing does not include surveys by Edson D. Brings, United States deputy
surveyor, for allotment purposes within the Nez Perc^ Indian Reservation, in accord-
ance with instructions of letter, initial E, dated July 19, 1889. A portion of the
returns of said work from De^iuty Brigffs has been received, examined, and sent l>aclc
to him May 31 last for corrections, explanations, and completion.
The survey of the "Pocatello" townsite, at the junction of the Utah and North-
ern and Oregon Short Line railroads, within the Fort Hall Indian Reservation (more
fuUy described in my last annual report) was completed, approved, and accepted by
theSecFHtary of the Interior, as per official letter G of April 12, ld90.
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The survey of *' Mnllan " towDsite, in nortberu Idaho, near the MullaD pass, tbrou^b
which are being conBtrncted the Washington and Idaho ^Union Pacific) and the
Northern Pacific railroads, waa executed, approved by me, and accepted by your ofiSce,
as per letter, initial E, of April 24, 1890. The above townsites were surveyed under
approved special instructions referred to in my annual report for I8tif*-W.
Survey of " Bellevue townsite addition/' in sec. 36, T. 2 N., R. 18 E., Idaho, under
contract No. 120, dated May 28, 1889, FrankC. Mandell, United States deputy surveyor,
was executed and completed returns made to this oflBce during the fiscal year. The
official plats and transcript of field notes have been approved, and are this day sub-
mitted for your action.
There were completed during the year, viz :
Plats of exterior lines of townships 2
Plats of townships subdivided 24
Plats of townsites and townsite additions 9
Plats of mining claims and mill sites (36 of which were plats of consolidated
claims) 249
Connected sheets of mineral-claim surveys 14
Total 297
Six consolidated mining claims (embracing 36 locations), 43 single location mining
claims, 7 lode claims and mill sites in connection, and 1 mill site were surveyed for
patent; in all, 69 mineral claims.
Seventy certified transcripts of approved field notes of agricultural, mineral, and
townsite surveys were prepared ana transmitted.
Applications for survey, accompanied by certificates of locsaUons, of 60 mining
olaims and mill sites were received, examined, estimates on aocoant office work fur-
nished, and orders for surveys issued.
Six sets of special instructions to deputies were prepared, each in triplieate, for
surreys, viz: Within the Nez Pero^ Indian Reservation, of Pactional townships, in
accordance with accompanying statement B, and of public lands under regular con-
taraete respectively ; also many special instructions for mineral-claim surveys.
Five hundred Mid thirty -five letters were written, comprising 638 pages of press
copy.
Knmerous petitions team settlers for survevs of pobUo lands in different portions
of Idaho were examined, and many oi them submitted to your office, accompanied by
affidavits of settlers, with the surveying contracts which were awarded during the
fiscal year.
Work was largely performed also upon 9 (fractional) township plate of" special-
deposif surveys executed by Edson D. Briggs, United Htates deputy surveyor, under
instructions, as per annexed statement B. The office work in oonneotaoo with said
surveys has since been almost completed, and the plats and transcripts will be ap-
proved and submitted to your office as soon as Deputv Briggs can be heard from in
reference to a matter requiring some explanation, which he nas been called upon Uk
give.
In addition to the foregoing 2 reports were prepared by this office during the
year upon arid lands ami irrigation in Idaho. One of these, referred to in my anuual
report of a year ago to your office, was to the Senate Committee on Irrigation, which
held a session at Bois^ city, August 17, 1889, and was accompanied l)> maps or dia-
grams of the several counties t^o illustrate. Another report, better suited to the
needs of the people of Idaho, who are familiar with all the localities, was prepared
from the same data at the request of Governor Shonp.
Referring to my annual report of last year to your office, I desire to repeat a rec-
ommendation therein made: That either the irrigation and reclamation of the arid
lauds of the West be undertaken by the government, "or the lands be granted to
the respective States and Territories upon such terms and conditions as will assure
the construction of necessary canals and reservoirs for reclaiming all of the lands
possible.
" When thus reclaimed these lands in Idaho will support a dense population, afford
homes for thousands of settlers, and be a source of wealth to their possessors and of
revenue to the governments, both State and national.
"The immediate enhancement in the value of lands now a desert waste would be so
great as to £ar more than refund the cost of irrigation, and the work is of such char-
acter as should be undertaken either by the federal government or by the Territory
or State, in order that the greatest good may result to the greatest number.''
The matter of irrigation is of. vital importance to Idaho, and is attracting wide-
spread attention to this Htate. The calls upon me are so numerous for inf<»rmation
in the premises, and the subject is one of such importance to your office in relation
to our irrigal)le arid public lands, that I have deemed it advisable to incorporate a»
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a part of this report the followiog from that originally suhmitted by me to Hod.
Oeorffe L. Shoup^ governor of Idaho, as hereinbefore stated :
Irrigation in uiis btate to the extent of the normal flow of streams has reached its
limit in several connties, while in some it has been overdone, notwithstanding the faot
that we have 8,791,350 acres of good agricnltural land capable of reclamation by water,
of which only 740,350 acres are now reclaimed and in process of reclamation, being
only 8 per cent, of what might be accomplished. This estimate does not include the
large areas of agricultural land in Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Nez Perc6, and Shoshone
counties, which are not arid, and do not require artificial irrigation except to a limited
•extent ; nor does it include a considerable area in oth^ portions of the 8tat«, where
the elevation is snch as to insure rainfall sufficient for the growing of crops.
Thus it appears that about 8,051,000 acres of irrigable land, now arid, belong to the
government, and ever will belong, as a heritage for sage-brush and Jack-rabbits, until
fitorage reservoirs and main canals are ooustrnct-ed.
It therefore remains for Congress to devise the plan and formulate the proceedings
by which this warer, which is in excessive abundance, shall be brought to these lands
And maintained and controlled for the greatest good to the greatest number.
Hundreds of millions of pounds sterling have gone and are still going from Eng-
land to India, where every available site for a canal is being occupied by an Englisli
joint-stock company. They realize from 8 to ^5 per cent, yearly on their stock, and
each one improves annnally as an investment.
The fever caused by this success in India has extended to the Unir«d States, but
the methods of joint-stock companies do not harmonize with our republican ideas.
Local control in the hands of the land-owners concerned might be arranged, it would
seem, to suit every irrigation basin, leaving nothing more to be desired.
The plan I have adopted for presenting this subject by oonnties, rather than irri-
gation districts or water-sheds, will present to all inquirers a full conception of the
immense possibilities in store for each one of our counties and for Idaho as a whole.
ADA COUNTY.
Area of county square miles.. 2,484
Area irrigated acres.. 60,000
Area irrigable do... 900,000
Canals from fiois^ river, 9; total length, 149 miles; proposed, 130 miles.
Canals from Payette) river, 4 ; total length, 66 milen ; proposed, 120 miles. «
For the 250 miles proposed in this county extensive and elaborate surveys and
estimates have been made and their management is placed in the hands of capable,
energetic men. As these canals will be of great capacity and occupy a high leyel,
the whole of the arable portion of Ada county seemn likely to be soon irrigated and
settled up with ten or fifteen times its present population.
ALTURAS COUXTY.
Area of county square miles.. 2,100
Area irrigated acres.. 14,500
Area irrigable ; « do... 268,000
Lost river : | Other small creeks :
liTigatod acres.. 5,000 I Irrigated acres.. 1,000
Irriprable do... 100,000 i Irrigable do... 2,500
-J Lava-b^ plains :
Irrigable do... 150,000
Total irrigated do... 14,500
Total irrigable do... 268,000
Wood river:
Irrigated do... 7,000
Irrigable do... 12.000
Trail creek :
Irrigated do... 500
Irrigable do... 1,000
Deer creek :
Irrigated do... 1,000
Irrigable do... 2,500
The valleys in this county are not wide, excepting those of Big and Little Lost
rivers and the great plains or Lava desert, which absorb those rivers even at their
flood tide. Except for the reason just mentioned there is an abundant supply nsnally
until about July 1 ; after which thr snpply is deficient and the only resort must be to
reservoir storage. For this purpose a number of sites have been found, and their lo-
cations reported to the Bureau of (reological Survey for technical examination.
Storage for the needs of Logan county must also be provided here.
The valleys of Lost river and the so-called Lava desert are said to contain 150,000
acres of ^ood land, now wholly destitute of water, even for stock. The monniain
drainage into these rivers embraces certainly 1,000,000 acres, or five tithes more than
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enongb if properly stored and utilized. Even in flood times all this water finds sub-
terranean channels, the locations of which are bnt partially disooyered, their geo-
logical features onlv surmised, and their remedy a matter of vague suggestion. Aa
this soil is very rich and the water superabundant, reservoirs will not oe required
when the loss through the ** sinks " referred to shall be avoided. This region may be-
come reclaimed sooner and at less expense than the average of other localities.
BBAB LAKE COUNTY.
Total area of county, 1,300 ^uare miles, less area lake-water surface.
Irrigation in this county is now practiced to a greater extent proportional with its
HVie than any other county of Idaho.
A very careful estimate made by the ex-county surveyor J. C. Rich, civil engineer,
who furnishes the statements iu report from which the following is tabulated, puts
the area now irrigated at 21,500 acres, and an additional 40,000 acres might be reclaimed
from the desert by the construction of thirteen reservoirs at a total cost of $59,500,
or $1.50 per acre on the land reclaimed ; number of canals and ditches, 69 ; total length,
206 miles ; cost, $73,500 ; irrigated, 21,500 acres.
A project was inaugurated in Utah by a corporation foreign to the laws of this
State, with a capital reported at $2,000,000, for diverting the waters of Bear river
and Bear lake by means of a canal extending into Utah for use and disposal in
that Territory. Filings for this purpose were recorded according to the forms of law
upon, all the waters or Bear lake, Bear river, and its numerous tributaries, includ-
ing the right to raise the surface of Bear lake several feet to serve as their storage
reservoir.
In the counties of Bear Lake, Bingham, and Oneida we have 250,000 acres of good
arable land which can rely only upon this source for their water supply; and ite di-
version, control, or interference by any party foreign in interest to the settlers upon
these lands will be opposed by the authorities of Idaho.
BINGHAM COUNTY.
Total area of ooanty, 12,364 square miles.
This is a large county and embraces an immense scope of valley along the Snake*
Blackfootu Teton, and Bear rivers and other minor streams. In this section the
facilities for irrigation are so inviting that a large amount has already been accom-
plished, viz:
Irrigated and in process - acres. . 284, 750
Irrigable do... 2,503,500
Length of canals constructed miles.. 617
Cost of canals (present) $593,400
Considering that most of this work has been done within the past two or three
years, and that the progress at thin time is more rapid than ever before, it is fair to
conclude that within a comparatively short period this remaining two and a half
milions of acres will be under cultivation.
It is well that the people of Bingham have from the first paid more attention to
agriculture and less to mining. They are demonstrating that even in Idaho, where
there is gold in every hill and valley, our sage-bruflh plains are the best paying luineB.
With so great a body of irrigable lands above the American falls it was feared by
those who first began to collect facts and study the features of the country with the
view to irrigation that this region above the falls might consume all the water, leav-
ing none, or but little, to be conveyed by canals to the high plains farther down
Snake River valley. Fortunately, however, nature has placed a dam of hard trap-
rock across the whole valley, from foot-hill to foot-hill, at the American falls, thus
compelling all the waters above it, whether in open streams or filtering through the
soil, to collect together again and pass over at the falls, losing nothing of its nor-
mal volume except the loss by evaporation.
Irrigation surveys by the government upon a practicable basis and under compe-
tent supervision in Bear Lake and Bingham counties would disclose all the feat-
ures pertaining to a water supply, and point out what works are needed and the cost
of their construction.
BOIS]^ COUNTY.
Total area of county, 3,024 square miles.
This county embraces the north half of the basin drained by the north fork of
Bois6 and the entire upper basin of the Payette rivers, and is generally hilly and
mountainous.
The only considerable bodies of farming land are Long valley, on the north fork
of Payette, and in the Payette valley, below the junction of the north fork. The
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first 18 estimated at 60 miles in lenffth by 9 miles in width. The latter consists of
foar isolated settlements of from thirty to fifty families each.
Settlement oommenoed in Long valley only six years aso. The present population
is estimated at 900, and many extensive ditches are now built and in process of con-
struction.
The conditions here are peculiar. On the east are high, extensiFe mountains, afford-
ing late summer irrigation on that side of the valley, while upon the west side the
mountains do not afiEord late irrigation, but the river water is very accessible and
always abundant.
Another peculiarity exists in the soil or the climate, for only about one-half as
much water is required here as in Ada or other counties.
The inhabitants here have formed associations for constructing and operating
their own ditches, and say they need no outside aid to reclaim all the irrigable land
in the valley. They deprecate and distinst such aid as an unncessary interference,
and say that their " home systevn *' has all the strength needed to do the work, with
the flexibility in the control to correct errors or redress grievances promptly.
This valley of the north fork of the Payette, iu its geographical position, its direct
northerly course, and its moderate fall, is very inviting as a railroad line, which, when
built, can not fail to secure a fair traffic at once. Where a railroad ought to be coo-
construct-ed there is capital waiting to build such, and this route will not long re-
main unoccupied and unnoticed. The south portion of Bois6 county is very produc-
tive in mineral but nearly worthless for agricultore. On the upper waters of Moore's
creek are situated the great '* Bois^ basin " placer mines, where at one time eiffbteen,
or twenty thousand men might be counted washing ont, with primitive appnances,
more than $60,000,000 worth of gold. The tailings cover all the valleys 15 to ^
feet deep. The hills to their very tops are terraced with ditches, and the gulches
everywhere spanned with old flumes now mostly neglected and going to ruin, not
because of exhaustion of the mineral wealth, but because of the insufficiency of water
and its storage.
All the hi lb in an area of 400 square miles are good placer ground if plenty of
water for bed-rock flumes were available. It is said that this might be brought
from upper south fork of Payette through a gap near Pioneerville, out such would
be a costly undertaking.
Main canals built aud building, 37 miles, exclusive of those in the settlements of
Garden valley. Squaw creek. Horseshoe Bend, and Squaw Creek flat.
Area irrigated and in process acres. . 83, 500
Additional irrigable land do ... 262,000
CASSIA COUNTY.
^ Total area of county, 5,100 square miles, or 3,264,000 acres.
One-half of this county is undulating, prodncins good grass; one-fourth is level
farming land, and one-fourth is high mountains, where much snow accumulates dur-
ing the winter.
Length of canals and ditches miles. . 314
Number of canals and ditches 303
Irrigated land acres.. 82,000
Irrigable land do... 55,000
Besides the land above reported as irrigable there is a large body of rolling plains
on the upper i>art of Salmon Falls River valley, estimate at three-fourths of a
million acres, situated too high to be reached with water except from far up Snake
river or by a canal through the Salmon Falls Kiver cafion. The land is good, but its
reclamation is thus made uncertain.
Only the streams from the mountains on the south of this county are available,
and these are now fully utilized by the inhabitants to the full extent of their natnral .
flow, without reservoirs. They have a great abundance of water usually until the
latter part of June, and thereafter but very little. On this account and without
reservoirs irrigation iu this county has i-e<iched its maximum as now practiced, and
the tendency at present is for the settlements co become smaller instead of larger.
The reclamation of all this body of fine land must principally come from Snake
river, at a point 600 or 700 feet higher than at Starrh's Ferry, or from a system of
reservoirs to impound the water at points so situated as to readily recover all the
land of valae and sufficient in size to perfect the entire crops on all the lauds to their
full maturity.
Sites for about twenty-five reservoirs, covering areas from 20 to 2,000 acres each,
with a depth of water varying from 15 to *M) feet, have been found, in all sufficient
for the 737,000 acres above reported as irrigable, the whole to be obtained at a cost
not exceeding 80 cents per acre on the land thus benefited. Of these reservoirs a few
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may be selected that woald cost $50,000, which woald relieve the present settlers and
add 10,500 acres to the irrigated lands.
The water which natare supplies the earth with is not measured in Idaho by the nam-
her of rertioal inches of rainfall during the year, but by the number of feet in depth of
(compact) snow covering the mountains and high table-lan^^s in the spring. This
seldom fails to reach G to d feet, but in the winter of 18^- d9 the faIling>off was an-
Srecedented. The best record of this falling off was reported by Mr. Thomas A.
tarrh, whose observations were upon Snake river at his ferry. Here the river is
800 feet wide and the usual rise in the spring is 6.5 to 7 feet; last year it was only 2
feet. When it is considered that as the stream rises higher and higher the current be-
comes more and more rapid, we may conclude that Snake river aid not convey more
than one-fourth its nsoal quantity of water, and its season was also correspondingly
shortened. Still there was water enough for all Idaho had it been held back by souie
s.vst«m of reteutiun nutil needed for irrigation.
. CUSTER COUNTY.
Total area, 4,350 square miles.
This county has three distinct agricultural valleys, which embrace the principal
portion of its irrigable lands.
Lost River valley for aboat 45 miles in length and 6 miles in width lies in the
southern part; Pansimeroi on the northeast has a valley about 45 miles long by 10
miles wide; and Round valley on the Salmon river, near the center of the county,
is about 10 miles in diameter, in which Challis, the county seat, is situated.
Lost River valley : I Round valley :
Irrigated acres. 8,000, Irrigated acres. 6,000
Irrigable -do... 164,000 Irrigable do... 42,000
Pahsimeroi valley : '
Irrigated do... 10,000 Total irrigated do... 24,000
Irrigable do... 240.000 Total irrigable do... 446,000
The soil of these valleys is of superior quality, and though high in elevatiovi they
are so protected by mountain rangCH that immense herds of cattle, horses, and sheep
find abundant pasturage through the winter. No railroad line is in or near this
county; no route of emigrant travel throngh it. Even the government surveys have
scarcely touched it, until last season some surveys were made in the Lost River val-
ley. The only encouragement the settlers have is the excellence of soil, their ready
market at neighboring prosperous mining camps, and in the salubrious climate of that
region. Their season for irrigation is not a long one, and it is probable that canals
around these valleys on a system of total circnmvection would be sufficient with-
ont reservoir storage, at least until the whole reclaimable area shall become oc-
cupied. It is estimated that about 220 miles of canal would do this, and that it
won Id have no aqnedncts or costly mechanical structures ; that all the surplus water
from the gulches conld be passed over weirs constructed of rough stone, everywhere
at hand, and that the cost of the whole would not reach $1 per acre on the land sup-
plied.
ELMORE COUNTY.
Total area of county, 2,700 square miles.
North of the base line the surface in this county is mountainous and unfit for culti-
vation, except about 20,000 acres along Sonth Bois^ river. The soil is here very pit>>
ductive and may be irrigated by ditches from the river at an expense of about |10,000.
South of the base line in Elmore county the surface inclines rapidly towards Snake
river and is part of the great valley of that stream, containg 450 square miles,
210,000 acres of which is very good farming land. The creeks traversing this dis-
trict flow from the low range of mountains skirting the south side of South Boisd
river, which do not keep up the flow of water long in the spring. To irrigate
this fine tract of country a belief existed that water miffht be brought through this
range of hills; but upon examination and survey it is said to have been found very ex-
pensive. It therefore seems imperative th^it this portion of Elmore county must look
to Snake river at some point above the American falls for its irrigation.
Th^re are no canals or ditches in this county, except such as are supplied by springs,
which are distributed to quite a number of ranches with astonishing results; four
crops of alfalfa, yielding eight tons of hay per acre, in one season, are reported.
In this county, about 12 miles southwest of Rocky bar, Mr. A. D. Foote, engineer
in charge of the United States irrigation survey in Idaho, has discovered locations
for five great reservoirs with an average capacity of nearly 1,000,000,000 cubic feet of
water. Nature made these reservoirs, now slightly out of repair ; but at small expense
they may be again restored. These reservoirs can not serve to irrigate any of Elnuwe
county; but as tributaries of Boisd river they will abundantly re-enforce that stream
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to fiTigate the half million ncres of fftrmiug lands in Ada connty,if this plan shall
be fonnd cheaper than by extendiu^he great Snake River canal.
In this connection provision should be made to sapply with water the extensive
placer grounds lying along Snake river, jast above its confluence with Bois^ river.
Laud irrigated acres. . . 10, 000
Land irrigable ' do.... 230,000
LEMHI COUNTY.
Total area, 4,300 square miles.
The total area of this county is about 2,750,000 acres, of which the irrigable portion
is estimated by the county surveyor, Hon. J. W.Birdseye, at 500,000 acres, or 18 per
cent, of the whole. Its principal streams are the Salmon and Lemhi rivers, the valleys
of which contain most of the irrigable land, lyin^ in two planes, the lower one, not
much above the level of the river, being easily irrigated, contains most of the present
population ; but the upper one, caUed *' the bench " lands, situated upon a plane 50
to 100 feet above the rivers, is yet unimproved, although the soil for most purposes is
considered preferable. The expense of bringing the river water upoa the ''bench lauds "
is too great for the settlers, and the water from the small tributaries will not afford a
lastiag supply unless held back in storage reservoirs. For this purpose many sites
favorable for construction of reservoirs have been located; but, as is the casein
several other counties, irrigation surveys and estimates must be made before an in-
telligeut decision can be reached as between the supply from local lateral streams
impounded and from the main rivers through long and large canals.
For the re- enforcement of the Lemhi river there is a very good site for a larse
reservoir at its head, near the county line, from which point to the mouth of the
Lemtii the valley descends at an average rate of 40 feet per mile, thus giving the
hydrographic eogiueer easy opportunity to cover with water every arable acre in
the valley.
To cover the '* bench lands'' along the Salmon river, if the river be the sonree of
supply, no reservoirs would be needeid, and, as the fall is only about 15 feet per mile,
a few long canals, instead of frequent short ones, would probably be adopted.
The plan of frequent ditches, one higher than another and covering it, as it were,
is not desirable, the low lands being in danger of an nncontrollable oversnpply and
excessive saturation.
Besides the irrigable lands of the main valleys of the Salmon and Lemhi rivers,
estimated at 500,000 acres, there is a wide expanse of such land at the head of the
Lemhi, also some fine tracts on the Pahsimeroi and Birch Creeks, all of which may
easily be supplied with irrigation, and thus swell the estimate of practicable irriga-
tion in Lemni county to at least 600,000 acres.
Land irrigated acres.. 10,000
Land irrigable do ... 600,000
Number of (small) ditches, 250 ; aggregate length miles . . 800
Number of (miners*) ditches (additional) do.. . 200
LOOAK COUNTY.
Total area, 5,200 square miles.
This is a large county, inost of which is good land and susceptible of irrigation
wheu entered upon with adequate means and on well-matured plans.
Irrigation has now reached its limit so far as homestead settlers may accomplish it
with their limited means.
Along Camas creek is located the principal agricultural settlement, extendinff
about 30 miles in length by 3 in width. The gulches furnish water for only a limited
period, but numerous large springs, together with a soil naturally moist, combine to
make this a prosperous settlement. A number of small reservoirs are recommended
for this valley, by means of which the area of cultivation would be doubled and
furnish late irrigation to the ranches now improved.
Silver creek, fed by numerous spring, carried last year, in that exceptionally dry
season, 7,000 miners' inches, and supplies 6,000 acres of cultivated land. The utility
of water and the wealth in our basaltic soil when irrigated are here illustrated in
sharp contrast with the barrenness all around, where the soil is the same, but with-
out water.
Along Big aud Little Wood rivers and on Clover and Fish creeks are settlements
to the extent of easy irrigation, which, for so dry a season as the last, has proved to
be overdone, compelling some settlers to go with their stock to the monntain», and
«ome others to leave this section of the country.
Land irrigated acres.. 50,000
Land irrigable do.. 1,250,000
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This great, almost compact body of fine arable land can be covered by the pro-
posed Snake River canal, or quite as abandantly from the Wood rivers, which have
their sources in the main Sawtooth, a range of mountains which is very high and
prolongs its snow-melting season until Augnst.
Good sites for storage on these rivers are not wanting. On the Upper Little Wood
river one site is reported where a dam 600 feet long and 100 feet hi^h would form a
pool a half mile wide by 5 miles long, sufficient for supplying with water 80,00(^
acres of land during the irrigating season of one hundred days.
An area of about 80,000 acres might be supplied from an immense outpouring of
water from the walls of the ca&on on Snake river above Salmon falls. This water
is supposed to come from the '^ sinks " of Lost river, but can not be conducted out
from the cation except by a flume 2 or 3 miles long.
Four good sites for reservoirs are reported in Alturas county, on Big Wood river,
sufficient in size to supply all the valley of that river to its mouth.
At a point a few miles above Starrh's Ferry it is proposed to construct a dam in
Snake river 35 feet high, and to extend a canal to a point opposite the great Shoshone
falls, so as to cover about 200,000 acres, iucluding several hundred acres of rich placer-
mining ground. For this purpose a company is organized, surveys and estimates have
been made, and preparations begun for commencing the work.
Recommendation has been made to the proper authorities that a few artesian wella
be sunk in this country and elsewhere as experimental at government expense. If
successful, individuals would thus be induced, in such localities, to sink other wella
for themselves.
Much field engineering will be required in Logan county and works of considerable
magnitude muse be constructed ; but the reclamation of so large an area of good land
is an inducement sufficient to warrant twice the expenditure of money necessary for
the work.
ONEIDA COUNTY.
Total area, 2,600 square miles.
Irrigation in this countv has been accomplished to its fullest extent until assisted
by storage reservoirs on the small tributaries or canals from the main Bear and Snake
rivers. Some of the smaller reservoirs will doubtless soon be built by the inhab-
itants; but for the larger body of the unreclaimed lands in Oneida county main canala
on a high level must be constructed, notably in Ts. 14 and 1.5 S., R. ^i8 E., a body of
40,000 acres awaits a canal from Bear river.
The report from this county states that a syndicate has been organized in Utah for
monopolizing the waters of Bear river, with the purpose of carrying it into that Ter-
ritory for disposal, against which diversion from Idaho the people of Oneida county
protest.
About 20,000 acres of irrigable land in this county are in Snake River valley, out-
side the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, which all depends upon the proposed canal
from that river.
Area now irrigated in Oneida acres.. 38,800
Area irrigable and unreclaimed do 148, 000
The benefits of irrigation are nowhere in Idaho more clearly apparent than in Oneida
county, nor the process of its utilization anywhere better understood. Their plan of
ownership and control of the water by those who are the consumers works well here,
where the associations are small, and probably would work as well on a scale very-
much larger.
OWYHKE COUNTY.
Total area, 7,812 square miles.
In this county irrigation has reached the extent possible by the present settlers auci
from the natural supply of the local streams. Its arable lauds are mainly in the great
valley of Snake river, and, like the rest of the valley below the American falls, they
are so high above that river's chanuel that the water supply for irrigating these lands
muse come from some point above the falls, or from the lateral streams coming in
from the mountains. From this latter source there is no question as to the abundance
of water if sufficient storage be provided, and for this purpose good sites have been
found for most of the needed localities.
As the waters of these lateral streams in Owyhee county subsi:ie about one month
earlier than those of Snake river, a corresponding increase of storage capacity will
be necessary. This and the existence of cafions at points at and below the foot-hills
will probably complicate the subject of the water supply in this county and call for
more exploration and more engineering skill than in any other part of Idaho. A very
careful hydrographic survey is here neces'^ary.
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Area irrigated aoras.. 21,dOO
Area irrigable do... 248,500
Number of ditches 66
Total length of ditches miles.. 15*
About 50 miles of small ditches, also about 60 miles of ditches used for mining and
milling purposes, are not inolnded in the above.
WASHINOTOX COUNTY.
Total area, 2,900 square miles.
This county is bounded on the east by a low range of mountains, and on the west
by Snake river, which is in a deep valley, too low to be brought out for irrigation.
The irrigable lands of this county lie in i horseshoe form, being about lOO miles
around its outer limits and 30 miles across the chord of its inner segment, embracing
an area estimated at a half million acres, less than one- tenth of which is yet irrigated,
and that which is irrigated is but poorly supplied with water. Improved lands here
that have water are worth $20 per acre.
The mountains that supply this valley with water are not high nor extensive ; their
snows melt away in the early spring ; the flood water is soon gone, and the long dry
season then commences. The inhabitants of the lower valley And that the settlers
above them can absorb all the water at this season when it is most needed.
On this subject Hon. T. C. Galloway, of Weiser, says:
** Unless means are devised for holding back, and a better way established for dis-
tributing and using water in this county, the larger and longer ditches will be aban-
doned, while the smaller ones will become sources of strife and litigation."
The Weiser river, with its twenty-five tributaries, are all within this county, and
the county embraces the whole of the Weiser drainage and no more. It is therefore
a separate drainage and irrigation district, the storage system the only possible plan,
and it in this locality is a great and pressing want. Sites for storage reservoirs are
reported to exist on almost every tributary to Weiser river, and the work of improv-
inff them ought to begin at once.
Here is a county exactly comprising one irrigation district and no more, where the
storage system only can be adopted, and where no conflicts with other interests do
or ever can exist ; where there are 40 miles of main ditches, covering 40,000 acres now
improved, but only feebly supplied with water, and where ten times as much more
l^ood land lies a hopeless desert. Action might here be taken without delay or further
investigation, as well now as at some future period, to construct these reservoirs and
test the plan of local control at the same time.
Congress might grant the remaining government land in this county that can be
irrigatod to the county authorities, to aid in the construction of the reservoirs and
main canals, authorize the county commissioners to issue $400,000 in ^^ water bonds ''^
and to construct and control the necessary works under iron-clad regulations govern-
ing the expenditures and accounts thereof. The net proceeds from the sale of lands
and water rents would soon pay off the bonded indebtedness, and pay the govern-
ment its price for the land al^to, if that be desired. The tax duplicate of Washington
county would soon foot up $10,000,000 and the water rents furnish a perpetual fund
sufficient for all county purposes. To the people of the county it would socially
prove a blessing, to the county itself a speculation, and to the government a much-
needed and very valuable experiment on the great problem of irrigation and water
control.
The immediate surrender of this isolated basin by the government would not inter-
fere with the plans or prospects of any other locality, nor is there any cause for
awaiting the surveys of this (or, indeed, any other) region, while there is cause for
hastening to relieve the present settlers from distress such as that which resulted
from the dearth of water last season.
Land partly irrigated acres. . 40,000
Land irrigable do... 500,000
Main ditches number.. 5
Aggregate length miles. . 40
There are also numerous small ditches which have not been reported.
IDAHO, SHOSHONE, NBZ PSRGES, LATAH, AND KOOTENAI COUNTIES.
Reports from these counties all agree in describing the surface of the country as
being intersected bv rivers which lie too far below the arable plains for their waters.
to be brought out for irrigation.
Besides this, the rainfall is usually sufficient for all agricultural purposes, and
very satisfactory crops of grain, grass, vegetables, and fruits grow and mature even
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asfar iio<1;b as Bonuer*8 ferry, on Kootenai river, in Kootenai county. Some of the
upland prairies are extensive, oomposed of a warm gravel and loam soil ; timber is
never inconvenient, and with a climate bnmid encmgn for the farmer there is nothing
to prevent the formation of dense and prosperous settlements except the want of
water for stock and domestic use.
From the great Camas prairie, in Idaho county, and the prairie between Haydeu
and Fish lakes, in Kootenai county, come no complaints, of want of water for irri-
gation ; but they do want water for their stock, and urgently request that the gov*
•emmenv sink artesian wells at a few widely separated localities as experimental.
They are too poor *Ho take the chances," bnt not too poor to sink such wells for
themselves when they know the cost and have a reasonable certainty of water.
In the prairie last named three wells have been sunk, at a distance of three and five
miles apart, to the depth of 172, 225, and 311 feet, respectively, and some water
•obtained in each by pumping; bnt it is believed an artesian flow might be secured
at the depth of 1,000 or 1,200 feet.
As the Lewiston and CoDur d'Alene land districts are not^ by the General Land
Office, classed as ''desert" land districts, and the means of irrigation are not needed
nor asked for, the call upon the government for experimental artesian wells is not
without precedent nor without abundant need. There are many similar prairies in
these counties equally desirable for settlement and equally dependent on outside aid
inthifi direction, in all of which population and improvement would soon follow the
successful search for water. Nothing more is wanted and nothing more is wanting.
The mining interests in this panhandle of Idaho are rapidly advancing, and the
•demand for agricultural supplies is correspondingly on the increase. The way to
'''open np'' these lands to settlement and to supply the increasing mining camps is
by the means of experimental artesian wells.
KECAPITULATION.
CoimtieB.
Approxi-
I mate area.
Irrigated i
and in , Irrif^able
procesa aa as reported,
reporiwd. I
Ada
Alturaa* I
Bear Lake
Bingham t
Boi&....!
Oaseia
Onster l
Elmore
Lemhi
Logan
Oneida
Owyhee
WaabiDgton
Total 56,174
I Total area
The irri-
Sq.miiM.
Aerei. ,
Aeret.
PtremU.
Per cent.
2,424
60,000 1
900,000
6.26
62
2,100
14,600
268.000
6.18 1
31
tl,800
21,500
40.000
3&6
74
12,364
284,760
2.603,600
10.6
36.5
8,024
83,500
262,000
24
18
5,106
82.000
685,000
U.1
32.5
4.860
24,000 '
4M,000
6.1
17
2.700
10,000 ,
280,000
4.2
14
4.300
10,000 1
600,000
1.64
22.2
6,200
60.000,
1.260.000
2.6
30
2,600
88, 800'
148.000
20.8
11.2
7, 812
21,800 .
246.600
8
42
2,000
40,000!
500,000
7.4 1
20
740.350 8,031.000
0.2
24
* Mnch on Lost river and lava bed. t This area inolades the lake. X Mnch of this is " in prooesa. **
The counties of Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Nez Percd. and Shoshone, as before stated,
4ire not arid and require very little irrigation: hence are not included in the above
tabulated statement.
A great and increasing demand for public surveys exists. Judscing from the peti-
tions and affidavits of residents on the lands, this demand usually comes from bona
fide settlers, who have actual improvements, many of whom have been on their claims
for a number of years and desire to acqnire title to their homes. In some instanoe«
the survey of heavily-timbered lands is sought. As a rule this office can not deter>
mine as to the advisability of surveys until the standard and township lines are run.
Such exteriors should be surveyed over all portions of the State where practicable, in
•order primarily that the surveyor-goneral may form an intelligent epiulon as to what
townships should be subdivided, and secondarily in order to complete the public-land
system of surveys, as nearly as possible, over this entire surveying district. This
would also enable settlers on unsurveyed land to denote, in their petitions for surveys,
the township and ran^e in which their claims are situated— an impracticable matter
now over a large portion of Idaho which has not been penetrated by public surveys.
I especially recommend an early extension of surveys in northern Idaho, where a
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large number of people have settled withiD the last few years, and where many
others desire to make their homes when surveys are assured.
The nsaal apportionment of the appropriation for saoh work each fisoal year is
totally inadequate to meet the demands, and I suggest that at least the amount of
my estimate, per letter of Jane 25 last, be apportioned to this surveying district
from the appropriation for the coming fiscal year.
The resources of Idaho are not surpassed in extent by those of any of the Bocky
Mountain or intermountain States or Territories. Although most of her mineral
lands are scarcely prospected, yet has the output of minerals from this State grown
until for 1888-'89 Idaho stood third In the production of precious metals (117,344,600),.
and for the year I889-'90 the estimate, irom data thus far received, will aggregate
about 120,000,000.
The timber resources are of an extent little known outside of Idaho. Virgin for-
ests stretch f^om a few miles north of Bois^ city in a northerly direction to th&
British possessions, and in a northeasterly direction to the Rocky mountains. The
varieties are mostly pine, fir, spruce, hemlock, cedar, and cottonwood.
There is great activity in railroad construction, the Union Pacific and Northern
Pacific companies having occupied, with main and branch lines, most of the avail-
able passes and valleys in the '^Panhandle," while surveys for railroads have also
been made in other portions of the State.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Joseph C. Strauohan,
U. S, SMTveffor-Q^muiral far Idahow
Hon. Lewis A. Groff,
CemminUmeir Genital Lamd Office,
Watihingtanf 7>. C.
A.^StatetM9it tikowing amtraets mtered into mnder appropriation of Mar eh 2, 1889.
Charaoter and locality of work.
LiabU.
ity.
128
1800.
June 9.
Osoar Sonnenkalb and
Samnel Q. Rhoades.
194
June 10.
Samael G. Rfaoadea
and John A. Long.
The aobdivialoii lines of the following townsUpa,
Tiaj Ta. 6 N., B. 2« B.| 0 K., R.36 E.; 0 N., B. 28 E.;
0l!r..B.20K.: 7N..R22E; 7 N., R 23 B.; 7 N., B.
84E.;7N.,B.26E.;7N.,B.2«E.: 7 N., B. 27 E.; 7
N., B. 28 E.: 8 N., B. 21 E.; 8 K., B. 23 E.; 8 N., R. 28
E.; 8K., R27 E.; 8 N., B.28E.; 9 N., R.21 E. ; 0 N.,
B. 22 E.; 10 K , B. 21 B. of the principal baM and
Bois^ meridian, district of Idaho. Also exterior
lines of towosbip8.vlz: 7K.,B.27B.; 6 N.. B. 28
E.; the north, east, and west exteriora of 8 N., B. 27
S.; the north and east exteriors of 7 and 8 K., B.
28 B.; the north and east exteriors of 6 N., B. 20 £.;
1 mile of aonth exterior 8 N'., B.2I E.; and 3 miles
east exterior 10 N.. B.21 E,of the principal base
and Bois6 meridian, district of Idaho.*
AU of the heretofore ansnrveyed exterior, subdivision
and meander Iin(>s of the follovine townships, via :
S. 6 N.. B. 30 E., fk^ctional; 5 N., B. 40 E.; 4 iif., B. 30
E.. fractional ; 4 N., B. 40 E., fractional ; 8 N., B. 41
E.; 8 K., B.42 E.; 6 N.. B. 44 £.; 4 N., B. 45 E.; 5 N.
B. 45 £.; 6 N., the principal base and Bois^ merid-
ian, district of I«faho. Also the resorvey of the
north tier of sees, l^ 3, 4, 5, and 6, in T. 7 S.. Bs. 80,
40, 41, 42, 48, and 44 >... incladmg abont 36 miles of
flnt standard parallel south, abont 86 miles of
subdivision lines south of said sections, about 36
miles of subdivision lines between said sections
and aboufc l'> miles of closings ; and surveys in f^ac*
tional Ts. 5 and 6 8., B. 38B:, embracing about 5 or
6 miles, said resnrveys and surveys being more
particnlarly described in aecoinpanyins special
instructions; also the survey of Ts. 2 and 4 8., B. 7
E., of the principal base and Bois6 meridian, dis-
trict of Idaho, t
* Contract approved July 11, 1800, as per official letter E of that date.
t Contract approved July 10, 1800, as per official letter B of that date.
$4,200
0,800
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414 KEPOBT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENEKAL LAND OFFICE.
A. — Statement showing eontraeta entered into under appropriation of March 2, 1889 — Cont'd.
Contract.
No. Date.
125
Jane 12.
Name of deputy.
George P. Traek.
Character and locality of work.
The meander and section lines and the previonsly-
nnsnryeyed exterior lines of T. 50 N.. B. 3 W. , of
the principiJ hase and 6ois6 meridian, district of
Idaho. Also the surrey of exterior bonndaries
and neceasarv intersections with pnbUcsarreys in
connection therewith of the "winter pasture"
attached to Fort CoBur d'Alene military reserra-
tion, properly situate in Ts. 60 and 61 N., R. 6 W.,
of the principal base and BoisA meridian, dis-
trict of Idaho, more particularly described in the
special InstructionB which constitute a part of
tnls contract.*
Liabil-
ity.
$500
* Contract approTcd July 17, 1800, as per official letter E of that date.
B. — Statement showing lands embraced in epecial inetruetione for Burveg under provieiome
of BeeHona 2401, 2402, and 2403, U. S. Revieed Statutes.
Date of
special
instrucUona.
Deo. 10, 1880
Name of deputy.
Bdaon D. Briggs.
Character and locality of work.
The heretofore unaunreyed portions
of fraotionallv - surreyed town-
ships, via. T. 88 N., B. 4 W. I T. 88
N., B. 4 W., and T. 84 N., & 6 W..
of the principal base and Boiae
meridian, dlatnet of Idaho.
Bemarks.
Authorised per letter B of
September 98, IffiO. 8ar-
Toys made and office work
now almost completed.
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BEPO&T or THE SUBVBTOB-OEirEBAL OF LOTJISIAHA.
United States Surveyor-General's Office,
Netv Orleans, La., July l\9, 1890.
I have the honor to sabmit herewith the annnal report of the operation of this
office for the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1890, accompunied by the following tabular
statements, viz:
' A. — ^Estimate of fnnds for surveying eeryice in Loaisiana, for salary of surveyor-
general and his clerks, and for the contingent expenses in his office for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1892.
B. — Statement of office work in arrear in the surveyor-general's office for the dis-
trict of Louisiana.
C. — Statement of surveying contracts entered into by the surveyor-general of
Louisiana on account of the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889.
D.— Statement of surveying contracts ent-ered into by the surveyor-ffeneral of
Louisiana on account of the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
E.— Statement of amount due deputy surveyor for expenses incurred while on his
way to make field examinationb.
F.—Statement of surveys made under '' special instructions," as authorized by
the General Land Office.
OFFICE WORK.
With the small and entirely inadequate clerical force allowed the office during the
vear a large amount of miscellaneous work has been done. The force has oeen
largely employed in reproducing and reprotracting, from the original field notes of
surveys, township plats, in lien of those lost, worn out, and injured ; in preparing in
duplicate patent plate of confirmed and surveyed claims as basis for the issue of
patents thereon ; in investigating applications for ''certificates of location," under
section 3 of the act of June 2, 18&8, and issuing scrips on the same and copying the
evidenoes filed in support thereof; in correspondence with the department and
attorneys and claimants with regard thereto; in keeping up with the general and
miscellaneous correspondence with the deputy surveyors, individuals, etc.
I took charge of the office on the 20th day of May last, relieving Mr. Calhoun
Fluker, who turned the office over to me in a most creditable and satisfactory con-
dition, and whose administration of the same, so far as I am able to form an opinion,
was most honorable to him and beneficial to the government. My own incum-
bency since that time, up to the 30th of June, has been so short that I have but
little to report as coming within my observation and under my own control and
supervision.
In reporting therefore upon the general needs of the office and its present con-
dition and the necessity of bringing up the office work and field work so long in
arrears, I feel that I can best do my duty in that regard by calling attention to,
while at the same time I fuUy indorse the same, the remarks and recommendations
of my predecessor in his report for the year ending June 30, 1888, and found on
pages 447 and 448 of the '< Report of the Bureau " for that year.
%* It is certainly remarkable that years should be allowed to roll on, decade after
decade, leaving the citizens totally unable to obtain patents on at least 5,900 private
claims, solely bdcause the office possesses no "clerkiB" to prepare plats of survey.
Time only adds embarrassments to this matter, and unless it is soon attended to the
embarrassments will certainly increase. But, since my predecessors have nrjB^ed the
same matter for years past, 1 am satisfied that the department is fully cognizant of
the facts in the premises.
FIELD WORK.
Two contracts for surveys were awarded to deputy surveyors this year : One to
George O. Eln.s, deputy surveyor, under his own bid foi the resurvey of <* Pecan
island," in the sonUiwestem district, liability 9l|^^; the other to Buffln B. Paine,
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416 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
deputy surveyor, for the Harvey of several eowashipB and fractioaal townships within
the limits of the '' Hoama gr&nt" and the location of the claims of John McDonoagh^
jr., aod Henry Foatnot, in the Boutheodtern district of Lonisiana, east of Mississippi
river, as required by decifiion of the Secretary of the Interior, dated January 6, lti38,
and January 25, ld89.
The contract for surveys and resurveys of all the remaiuing townships in the
''Houma grant," stated in exhibit D, was the result of the decisive legislation on
the subject of this celebrfited grant contained in the act of Congress approved March
2, ISr^, commonly known as the **Gay bill.'' These surveys when completed, as
they will be in the coming fall or winter, will be of great importance to the large
number of settlers on the lands, who are anxiously awaiting their approval in order
that they may place their claims in record in the manner pointed out by law In
this connection there is an important subject which I think should in advance re-
ceive the consideration of the department and be the basis of instructions to this
office at an early dale. I refer to my duty in the matter of compiling and transmit-
ting with the returns of surveys lists of selection oi swamp lands under the act of
Coiigres.s granting such lands to the State of Louisiana, which may, by the field
notes of survey, be found within any of the townships returned and to be retnmed
within the old lines of the claim. As I understand the decision of the department
of nth April, 188H (15 Copp's L. O., 32), overruling the former decision of May 3, 1881
(8 Copp's L. O., 21), the position it now asvames is that no lands were granted to the
State under either of the swamp-land grants within any one of the tnree snbdivie-
ions of the '^ grant," either that of Donaldson and Scott, or of Daniel Clark, or of
William Conway.
The *'Gay bill'' seems to proceed upon this construction, and, as I interpret it,
consecrates the entire grant to homestead settlements under the laws of the United
States, reserving to the State any right she may hare to the "surplus" after all
actual settlers shall have been satisfied. The qnestion, therefore, of the State's right
to saoh lands as may be returned as swamp under the sarveys now under oontraot,
not depending upon their phvsical oharacteristios as swamp and overflowed landa,
but rather upon the status of the construction to be placed upon the lands referred
to. I submit that this constrnotion shonld at this time be settled by the department,
or at least so far settled as may be necessary to the issue to me of the necessary in-
structions in the premises.
SATISFACTION OV CONFIKMKD AKD UNSURVBYKD LAND.
ClaivM under seeHon 3 of the act of June 2, 185!;}.
I find that during the fiscal year recently closed five of these claims have been ad-
justed by this office under the act of 1858. In this connection and in relation to this
head of office matter, I respectfully refer yon to, while approving the same myself,
the remarks of my predecessor on p. 448 of the Bureau Report of 1888 :
**The subject of the survey and the disposition by the United States of the beds of
shallow lakes, ponds, former streams, etc., in this State, is one of increasing interest.
Every year of increased and better drainage and levee construction increased the
number of acres of these valuable lands, while the removal of obstruction rafts in
the navigable streams, and, where total overflow is not prevented thereby, serves to
diminish the period ot overflow, thus increasing the time within which crops may be
raised on such landn. As they are of immense fertility and often near cities and
towns and railroads, which give them additional value, they attract the attention of
cultivators and capitalists who are constantly seeking means through this office of
acquiring title to them. But practically the subject is environed with so many legal
difficulties that, after learning them, many applicants in despair give up their efforts.
I find that in 1877 the Bureau, after a full review of the embarrassments surronndinff
the subject, resolved to refer the whole matter to Congress, and I understand that
such determination has been considered a bar to any proceeding under then existin|c
circulars and decisions. 1 refer to pages 11 and 12 of the Land Office Report ft>r 1877.
" As Congress has not taken action and some thirteen years have elapsed since the
matter was so referred to that body, my recommendation is that the land depart-
ment should go on and perform its duty under existing laws; and that for this pur-
pose the " Circular of July 13, 1874 " (I Copp's L. O., 69) should be extended to dis-
tricts for which there are surveyors-general, or at least to the district of Loaisiana^
and that a sufficient sum be annually set apart f¥om the general appropriation for
the survey of the public lands to pay for such surveys as may be made under such
circular. It is rather an anomalous condition of affairs, and one not very credit-
able to our land system, which practically denies many legal steps by wbich every
class of our citizens, settlers or capitalists, seek to honestly acquire title to tbese
lands.
'* If they apply to the United States land office for the proper district they ara
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tbere told that the township plats and tract books do not represent the desired tracts
as sarveyed lands, bat as lakes, streams, ponds, etc., whose areas are nnknown, and
that until they are sarveyed and the survey returned to the proper land office they
are withont authority to take any action at all looking to the acquisition of title. In *
brief they are referred to tbe surveyor-general in order to have the necessary survey
made. When they come here they are told ilrst, that, under the existing instructions
and decisions, the whole matter is io suspense, that iw was referred to Congress in 1877,
and that, as that body ban taken no action, the surveying department will rake none ;
moreover they are further told that if this office could lawfully survey these lands no
funds sre allotted to pay fur such matter, and if they reply that thev are willing under
the " deposit system " to pay for it themselves they are then told that, under tne con-
struction placed on the laws founding that system, it does not apply to lands of that
status. They then go to the State laud office, hoping to tind in the State legislation
some law or syst^-m arising under the supposed grai>t of such lands to tbe State under
the federal swamp land grant, but are there met with the information that, in the
absence of federal survey and selections and approval ol these lands as inuring to the
State under these laws, its officers are powerless to allow sales or any other kind of
disposition known to tbe laud laws of tbe State applicable to other lands. Thus
practically every avenue of acquisition is found closed or so snrrouuded with expense
and difficulty that the attempt is abandoned. And thus the richest lands in tbe State,
probably amounting to half a uiillion acres and of untold fertility^ are placed beyond
the reach of the citizens and must remain tbe breeding places of tbe alligators and
suakcH, iufeeting tlie surrounding air in hot weather with miasmatic poisons, instead
of being drained aud put in cultivation by the poor honieseekers or the more power-
ful capitalist or land improvemeut company. Some of these lakes contain from
lO.OuU to 2yifOGQ acres, while those that contain from 500 to 5,000 acres are numerous.
** I stron<rly recommend that tbe bureau should take the subject in hand and
supply instructionH aud money with which this office may take action in particular
cases wbeu proper application is made for that purpose."
It may not be iuappro{iriate for me testate, though the subject has not been sub-
mitted to this office offiirially, that funds have to be apportioned to the district for
tbe survey of the ten military reservatiouH on the '*Gulf coast,'' west of the Missis-
sippi river, which it is contemplated to offer at sale under the act of July 5, 1884.
The old surveys were made about 1H30, and an examination of the field notes shows
the most crude and imperfect methods of marking the lines and corners were prac-
tised. MoHt ot the lands were then and are yet prairie or sea marsh, or upon sea
shore and otherwise uutitted for perpetuating liues and corners of the public sur-
veys. It is too plain that any tract to be <lisposed of under this law will have to be
resurveyed, and thin can be dime better in the dry months of the fall and early winter
than at* any other season. Hence, if this matter is contemplated at all, it is now time
to ei»ter upon the preliminary steps.
I have the honor to be, most respectfully, your obedient servant,
Chas. B. Wilson,
Surveyor-General, Lawieiana,
Hon. Commissioner of General Land Office,
Wanhingtofif D. C,
A. — Eetimate of funds io he appropriated for the ftseal year endina June 30, 1892, for eur-
veyitig in Louisiana^ for oompensation of surveyor-general and his olerhs ana contin-
gent expenses of hitt office.
SURVEYS.
In the southeastern district * (10,000
In the southwestern district 7,000
In the northwestern district , 10,000
In the district north of Red River 10,000
For oritriual surveys, rcHurveys, and corrective surveys of confirmed pri-
vate land claims and donations 8,000
45,000
salaries.
Salary of surveyor-general 2,000
Salary of clerks and draughtsmen for current work of the office and to bring
up arrear work, including salary of chief clerk 18,000
OONTINaEKT EXPENSES.
Messenger hire, stationery, binding, and other incidental expenses 1, 200
Total 66,200
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418 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
B.-
-Siatement of office work in arrears in the surveyor- generaVe office, dietrict of Um^
ieiana.
(1) CoDtiDuiD|( and oompletiug the exhibit of private land claims for all the dis-
tricts of the State, except the s ntheastern district. (See L. O. R. for 1886, p 507.)
(2) Pieparation of patent plats in duplicate for the located confirmed private
claims for 5890 claims. [%ii& L. O. R. for lr89.)
(3) Two hundred township maps to be reprotracted or reproduced. (See L. O. R.
for 18H9.)
(4) Examinations and researches to prepare confirmed private land claims for hot-
vey and location. (See L. O, R. for 1889.)
(5) One thousand onehundrad and twenty-four private laud claims, for which cer-
tificates of location are to be issued under the act of Congress approved June 2, lU58.
(See L. O. R. for 1889.)
ADDITIONAL.
(6) Indexing record of letters to officers from October, 1886, to date.
(7) Indexing record of letters to individuals from January 1, 1889, to date.
(8) Indexing books of field notes in the dilfereut districts.
(9) Copying general index of Commissioners'' letters to surveyor general from J alj
26, 1H03, to December 26, 1873, and completing said index to date.
(10) Labeling and wrapping anew bundles containing field notes, and also plats,
certificates, and orders of survey.
(11) Labeling and wrapping anew the bundles containing letters from registers
and receivers.
(12) Labeling and wrapping anew old vouchers for disbursements.
(13) Recording nearly all the field notes for preservation, a great number of which
have become so torn and partly defaced, on account of constant use and age, as to
render them illegible, and if not soon recorded will become useless.
C. — Statement of surveying ooHtraot entered into by Ike surveyor-general of Louisiana on
account of the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889. {JSee Commiseian-
er's letter dated June 13^ 1889 j.
No.
Date of con-
trftot.
Name of deputy
enrveyor.
Locality of work.
District.
Estimated
liablhtiea.
1
M»y22,188»
George 0. Elms...
Survey of "Pecan iiOand,"
T. 15 S.. lU. land2W^T.
15S..R. 1E.;T. 16S..R, I
W.,andT.l6S.,R.lE.*
Sontb western dis-
trict
$1,900
* Survey completed; field notes returned, and are now under examination.
D. — Statement of surveying contract entered into by the surveyor-general of Louisiana on
account of the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889. iSee Commieeion-'
er's letter of March 4, 1890).
No.
Date of con-
tract.
Nov. 11,1888.
Name of deputy
surveyor.
Locality of work.
District
Estimated
liabUity.
Buffin B. Paine . . .
Fractional Ta. 8 and 9 S., R.
IE.: Ts. 8,9,andlOS.,K,2
E. ; Ts. 0 and 10 S.. R. 3 E. ;
T.10S.,R.4E.;T.10S.. R.
6 E., and location of the
claim of John McDonoffh,
jr., & Co., and of Henry
Fontenot. (See decision of
the Secretary of the Into-
nor of January 6, 1888, and
January 2A, 1880.)*
Southeastern dis-
trict, east of
Mississippi
river.
$7,500
* Survey commenced early, but on acount of high water the deputy abandoned his work and
returned fleld notes of T. 10 S., R. 4 E , which are now under examination. The balance of the work
in the field is much advanced and will soon be completed.
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£. — Statement of amount due deputy surveyor for expeneee ineurred vaihtte on hie way Pk
make field examinations under special instructions, as authorieed (y the General Land
Office, remaining unliquidated.
instenotionft. ! 2f*m« ©' deputy Borveyor. LocaUty of work.
ICar. 22,1889 i BnffinB. Paine ■ T.IO S.,R2E.*.
Difltriot
Sonthvestem...
I Amoant
I due.
$63.75
* Ezamination coantermanded Harob 29, 1889, by CommlBsioner General Land Office. Approprla*
tion exbaoated. Coantermanded while deputy wae on bis wav to make examination. (Adjnated. See
Commlssioner'e letter, Jaly 10, 1889, for next Congreaa, aa deficiency.)
F. — Statement of surveys made under special instructions, as authorized hy the General
Land Office, remaining unliquidated.
Date of
instmotionii.
June 29. 1880
Name of deputy surveyor.
Greorge H. Orandjean .
Locality of work.
District
TB.12andl88.,B.llK.«^ Soutbeastem, east of
river.
Amount
due.
$270. 7&
* Surveys completed ; plat and field notes transmitted November 17, 1888. The amount of $120 paid.
(See Comroisaioner's letter, July 17, 1889) ; balance of $lfi0.75 reported to tbe Comptroller of Troa«ury
to be submitted to Congress. (See Commissioner's letter, August 14, 1889.)
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BEPOBT OF THE SUBVETOB OEVEBAL OF KnOTESOTA.
Ukited States Survieyor General's Offiche,
St, Paul, Minn,, Jtdy 11, 1R90.
In ooinplianoe i^ith instraotions oontained in your letter E of April 23, 1890^
I have the honor to sabmit hero with, in daplicato, my aoDual report of the sarreyiDfl^
OperationH iu the district of MiDnesota for the fiscal year eudiug June 30, 1890, with,
the following tabular statements :
A. — Statement of contract entered into by the surveyor-general of Minnesota for
the survey of public lands, payable frofn the appropriation for the fiscal year, ending
Jane 30, 1889. Contract not closed at date of last annual report.
B. — Statement of contracts ent^ered into by the surveyor-general of Minnesota for
€he survey of public lands, payable from the appropriation for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1890.
There have been surveyed during the year nine townships or fractional townships
«Dd five islands, the field notes of which have been approved and the surveys ac-
cepted, and triplicate plats of the same transmitted to tbe proper local land offices.
Contracts have been entered into for the survey of six^ other towoships, of which the
surveys of four townships are reported as completed, the field notes not having been
returned to this office.
The number of miles run and marked in the field during the year is as follows :
HeMaromeots.
Standttrd and meridian lines.
Township lines
SoetionliDes
ConneoilDflr lines
Meander lines
Totri
MiU$. Oh§, Lkg.
55 S8 80
88 76 S4
381 08 77
1 78 OB
7 10 88
«r la ""m
The number of acres surveyed is 143,390.49, which, added to the apaount previonsly
reported (42,848,625.29)^ gives the total number of acres surveyed in this State to date
4S2,992,015*78l The number of township plats made is 27. Applications which are
being received at this office from settlers on unsurveyed lands, asking for the survey
df the townships in which tney are located, indicate an increased demand for sorveys
during the present fiscal year.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
John F. Norrish,
Surceyor- GtneraL
Commissioner of General Land Office,
Wathingion, D. C.
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A. — Staiemeni ofoontraots enierdd into by the surveyar-aeneral of Minnesota for the aurvof-
of publio iand§f pajfahlefrom the appropriation for thefieoal year ending June 30, IQtff,
{Contract not elosed at date of last annual report.)
1l
Kame of deputy.
Date of
contract.
Deaoriptioii of work.
Esti-
mated
liability.
Coat of
B1U T«jr«
5
J.B.Biai»biiiy
1889.
Mar. 21
The fifteeDtb standard parallel, from the
comer to T. 161 N.. Rs. 42 and 43 W., eaat
84 miles to the comer to T. 161 N.. Rs.
88ainH)» W. -The fitth Ru^de meridian,
from the comer to T. 161 N., Ks. 88 and
8» >V ., north to the Intemational bound-
ar> line. The west and north exterior
township lines of Ts. 161 and 162 N., Bs.
89, 40. and 41 W.. and the west and north
exterior towni>hip line of T. 168 N.. R. 89
W. Sobdivisions of Ts. 161, 162. and 168
N..R.89W ;Ts.l61aodl62N.,R.40 W.;
and T. 162 N., R. 4 1 W. of the fifth prin-
oipal meridian, MinnesoU*
(Special instiaotions. dated Jnly 6^ 1888,
directs deputy to omit the snrrey of T.
161 N.. R. 39 W.. and that part of Ts.
162 and 163 K., R. 89, lyinf; in the Great
Hosean swamp, and in lien thereof to
survey T. 161. R. 41 W.. and that part of
T. 163. Rs. 40 and 41 W., lying south of
said swamp.)
12,750.00
$2,«5i.»
* Sorveys completed and accepted.
B. — Statement ofoontraots entered into hy the surveyor-general of Minnesota for the surr^
ofpuhlie lands, payable from the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.*
^1
Name of deputy.
EraestB.Coley
Oeorge F. Hamilton .
Alvin C.Bailey.
John Abercrombie .
J.B.Bgan
Jacob A.Westby.
...do.
10 I E. W. & E. H. Grifflln.
Date of
contract.
1880.
An«. 6
Oct 15
Nov. 12
Nov. 14
1890.
Jan. 6
Har. 14
- jM. B.Haynes
11 I John B. Bawley and
Jacob A. Westby.
..do....
Apr. 9
Apr. 22
Jane 12
Description of work.
Esti.
mated
liability.
IsUnd in Itasca lake, in sec. 11, T. 148, R. $10. 0
86, fifth mt-ridian.t
Bast and weat exterior lines of T. 64. R. 13, 1, 800. 00
and N. exteiior T. 63, R. 14 : sabdlTlBion
T. (j4. R. 13. and T. 63, R. 14, W., fourth
meridian.l
Fourth fmide meridian through Ts. 149 and 450. 00
160 N. between Rs. 8) and 32. and north
and south exterior lines T. 150 N., R. 32
W., sniHlivision fmctional T. 150 N., R.
32 W., fifth meridian.^
Island in R**d Rock lake, in fiecs. 82 and 38, . 12. 00
T. 128, R. 40 W., fifth meridian.^
Three islands in Pelican lake, in sees. 1 50.00
and 6, T. 120. Rs. 24 and 25, and sees. 81
and 86, T. 121. Rs. 24 and 25 W., fifth me-
ridian.^
East and west exterior lines of T. 64, R. 13, >1, 800. CO
and north exterior T. 63, R. 14 ; subflivi- .
sion T. 64, R. 13. ani T. 63, R. 14, W., fourth '
meridian. II i
SuhdivlHion T.60N., B. 19 W., fourth me- 650.00
ridiHn.||
SubdiviHion T. 60 N., R. 24W., fourth me- ; 800.00
ridisin.il i
Liland in Swan Lake, in Sees. 23, 24. 25. and I 30. 00
26. T. 110 N.. R.39. W., fifth meridian. IT '
West exterior line of T. 64 N„ R. 17 W., and 1, 450. 00
subdiviHion of T. 64, R. 12 W.. and T. 64
N., R. 17 W.. fourth meridian. ||
Costol
Barve]^
$882. 6a
12.00^
60.00^^
30.0^
* Special instructions.
tNo survey : deputy has left the State.
i Deputy failed to execute survey ; work relet.
I Survey completed and accepted.
I No returns.
tl Survey completed.
See contract No. 8.
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BBPOBT OF THE SUBVETOB-OEVEBAL OF MOHTAHA.
United Statbs Survbtor-Ghneral's Office,
Belena, Mont, July 16, 1890.
In oorapUance with the instraotions of your letter £, dated April 23, H K), I have
the honor to submit herewith my report, in daplicate, of the sarveying operations of
this district for the fiscal year ended June 30, 18^9.
During the fiscal year sarveys have beea approved and reported as follows:
AORIOULTURAL SURVEYS.
Base, standard, and meridian lines.
Exterior township lines
Bnlidivisional lines
CloHiaf^ and connection lines
Meander lines ,
Boandarie-t of Indian reservations .
Townsite lines
Totol
Measarsmenta.
ifOst.
OhM. IAb.
66
65 66
120
60 51
1,118
28 87
4
66 56
60
53 57
818
18 28
1
2 74
1. 675 51 19
There were made during the year plats, transcripts of field notes, etc., as follows,
viz :
Standard and exterior plats 9
Township plats 83
Towns! te plats 4
Transcripts of field notes 34
Descriptive lists of townships for land offices 96
Tracings, sketch maps, meander sheets, blue prints, and transcripts for deputies,
settlers, special agents, etc 130
Total 356
Twenty-five townships and fractional townships, one townsite, and the surveys of
Eart of the south and east boundaries of the Crow Indian Reservation, and the
oaiidaries of tbe Blaclcfoot. Fort Belknap, and Fort Peck Indian Reservations have
been surveyed and accepted. The maps and transcripts of field notes of the surveys
of all the Indian reservations were furnished, as required by their contracts, by
the surveyors.
One contract was let payable from the fund of special depositors. No deposits
were made by any railroad company for surveys, nor for surveys of private land
olaiios, nor for office work of township surveys.
MINERAL SURVEYS.
Orders issued for surveys 350
Supplemental orders issued for surveys 43
Orders issued for reports on placers 24
6u pplemental orders issued for reports on placers I
Surveys examined and approved 32a(
Amended surveys examined and approved 18
Beportson placers examined and approved 18
Plats made 913
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MONTANA. 423
Trauscripts made of surveys and reports on placers 309
New conDeoted sheets made 84
Total agricn It aral and mineral plats made 1,009
Deposits for oi&ce work on mineral surveys $11, 506
Deposits for office work on reports on placers 5^40
Total 11,775
Number of letters received 1, 553
Number of letters written 2,594
A new '* Manual of Instructions for United States Deputy Mineral Surveyors for the
District of Montana" has been completed and published, including sample field
not«s, and plat of lode and mill site, with instructions for writing field notes of ** con-
tiguous " lodes ; also specimen field notes of ** repor^i on placer " claims, for the
uidii nee of mineral depntien in executing surveys under the provisions of Title
XXII, chapter 6, United States Revised Statutes.
A very Urge amount of miscellaneous work was also performed, which is not in-
cluded in the above statement, and which can not be given in detail.
Eleven contracts for the survey of public lands on tbe public domain, and also on
the Crow Indian Reservation, have been let; estimated liability, |34,0t)0; and orders
of survey have been issued for survey of Fisher's island, in sees. 11 and 12, T. 19 N.,
R. 3 £., and Bowers's island, in sec. 4, T. 19 N., R. 3 £., as authorized by Commis-
sioner, liability, $50.00.
Appended hereto are exhibits A, B. and C, showing the contracts let, and when
issued, fi»r the fiscal year ended June 30, 1890.
There are now in this office awaiting examination field notes of contracts amount-
ing to $3,350; of one island (Fisher's) in sees. II and 12, T. 19 N., R. 3 £., and of
towuHhips surveyed by United States Deputy George K. Reeder, under the direction
of G. V. N. Ogden, detailed clerk of the General Land Office, on Clark's fork of the
Columbia river, in this Stat«. Those were filt^d in this office by the surveyor, and
were ordered to be examined, plats and transcripts made, and transmitted to the
Commissioner, as if regularly surveyed under contract by his letter E, dated March
11,1890. For list of these townships, see exhibit D. These are partly examined
and platted. One other contract (No. 22<S), estimated liability $1,700, has been ex-
amined and maps nearly completed. The field notes of one contract, estimated value
$1,150, have been examined and returned for correction. The field notes of con-
tracts to the estimated value of $36,870 have not yet been returned by the deputies.
These, however, with perhaps one or two exceptions, are all in the field prosecuting
their work.
lu the case of United States Deputies Rakowicz and Mead, contracts 224 and 225,
in the Flathead Lake and Bitter Root River valleys respectively, in the western part
of the State, tliey were prevented from finishing their w6rk last year by the smoke
from the burning timber, which obscured the sun, and made the use of the solar com-
pass impossible during nearly the whole of the working season. They obtained an
extension of time, and are now finiHhing their contracts in the field.
Contracts Nos. 19G, 203, and 210, amounting to $ t,909.39, have lapsed, owing to ex-
piration of limit of appropriation, and thus form a deficiency, of which $ij|8()9.35
was due from the appropriation of 1p<85-'86. and $2,040.04 from the appropriation for
1^86-'^<7. They were examined, approved, and returns forwarded to Commissioner
from this office. The deputies having signified their assent to their being approved
withtmt payment made except through deficiency bill to be passed by Congress, Nos.
196 and 203 were approved by the General Land Office, and triplicate plats were filed
in the local land offices. No. 210 is now being examined in the field by a special ex-
aminer.
All of the sum apportioned to this district by the Commissioner for surveys during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 18U0, has been contracted for. This result has been
in great measure owing to the surveys be«ng confined to agricultural and settled
lauds, and also to augmented rates being allowed by the terms of the last appropria-
tion. I would also state that the recent practice of allowing surveyors-general to
appoint local examiners to inspect and report on the work as soon as completed has,
at least in this dintrict, worked very well, and has enabled the examinations to be
conducted with great promptness, efficiency, and economy, and has obviated in a
great measure the delays which formerly occurred in approving the returns of con-
tracts.
The Rompensat'ou per mile allowed for public-land surveys is in most cases insuf-
ficient. Whilst there still remains some comparatively level land to be surveyed in
Montana north of the Missouri river and along Milk river, the greater part of the
State consists of narrow valleys along the principal streams and their braucbes, sep-
arated from each other by hills, mountains, or arid table-lands. In the west, par-
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424 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
tionlarly on the Clark's fork of the Colnmbia river and the Flathead Lake region,
there is a great deal of good agrioultaral laud, bnt heavily timbered, which, iu the
interest of the government a» well as of settlers, shonld be surveyed. It is found by-
experience that it is impossible to survey this country (with any profit to the sur-
veyor) even at the highest augmented rates allowed.
Under the most favorable circumstances the ground in any specified section of the
country is generally so broken, and the quantity which can be surveyed so difficult to
estimate, that even in large contracts it falls short, and the surveyor finds that he
has made a large outlay tor a comparatively small compensation. Hence it is noto-
rious that it is almost impossible to have surveys made iu distant and rough sections
of the State unless the settlers assist the surveyor with their own labor, or that of
their teams, free of charge. They should not be put to ttas expense ; the <:ompenHa-
tion should be such as to Justify the surveyor in undertaking the work without call-
ing on the settlers for aid.
I would also state that for several years past the amount appropriated for clerical
labor in the agricultural department has been insufficient to handle the work which
has to be done. The draughtsmen particularly not only have the examination and
plattings of field notes and numberless maps to make, but a large amount of other
work, snch as tracings, diagrams, etc., to execute. Their number is so small that,
when there is much extra work, the examinations and plattings are much retarded,
to the great loss in time of the government, settlers, and surveyors. The unequal
proportion arises from the fact that the apportionment of surveying funds to a dis-
trict is made out at the discretion of the Commissi oner, whilst the amount to be paid
for clerical labor is absolutely fixed by &ct of Congress, and there is no common rela-
tion between the two. There should be some means devised by which there should
be a reasonable proportion between them.
ACGOMPANTINO BXHIBITS.
A. — Statement showing contracts let under appropriation for pnblic snrveys for
fiscal year ended June 30, lc$90.
B. — Statement showing contracts let for surveys within the Crow Indian Reserva-
tion.
C— Statement showing contracts let during the year payable from '* special de-
posits." •
D. — Statement showing the township and other lines snrve^ed by George K. Reeder,
United States deputy surveyor, on Clark's fork of Columbia, under direction of Q.
V. N. Ogden, detailed clerk of General Land Offioe/ now in surveyor-general's office,
and being examined ard platted by order of Commissioner.
Very respectfully,
GEO. O. EATON,
Surveyor-General far Montana,
Commissioner General Land Office,
Washington, D, C.
-Statement showing contraotn let and payable from the appropriation for public sarveye
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1890.
No.
233
Date.
1890.
Jan. 4
1889.
Dec 5
To whom let.
Description.
Geo. T. Lanport .
FaulS.A.Bickel..
Survey of the Cooke City crnide ramdian north 11 milea
50.12 chains west of the fifty-seventh mile-post on south
boundarv of Montana, throauh Ts 9 aorl 8 S., betw**eQ
Bh. 14 and 15 £.; the south, west, and north boundaries
and subdivisions of T. 8 S., R. 14 E. ; the west boaudarv j
and subdivisions of T. 9 S., R. 14 E. ' i
Survey of the fractional south, west, and fractional north
boandaries and subdivisions of fractional T. 15 N.. R. 5
W. ; fractional wpHt boundary and Hubdivisions of froc-
tional T. 16 N.. R. 4 W.; west boundary and Hub<ii vis-
ions T. 16 N., R 5 W. ; fourth standard north run weHt2^
miles to standard corner to Ts. 17 N., betw«>en Rs. 6 and
7 W. ; we!4taiid fractional north boundaries and sobdivis-
sioufyaotional T. 17 N., R. 6W. : fira tionalsou«hand west
boundaries and subdivisions, flractional T. 19 N.. R. 7
W. ; south, west, and fractionalnorth boundaries and
subdivisions T. 19 N.. R. 8 W.
I Bati.
I mate.
$1,220
1,800
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A. — Statement 8haw%ng oontracts let and payable, etc, — Continued.
De^crlptton. ' ^**"
286
287
289
241
1890.
Jan. 20
Feb. 18
Mar. 1
Rodney W. Pftf^e
■odll'ewto&OiT.
Panl&A.BIokel.
Geo. T. Lvnport .
George Sheets.
May 15
June 5
242 ; June 21
Apr. 11
Jaae20
Victor E. Toll...
Paul 8. A. Biokel
and Galen H.
Wheeler.
Anfcns McGill-
▼ray;
William E.Kem.
...do
Snrvey of the principal meridian of Montana through
fractional T. 30 and Ta. 81 and 82 N.. run 16 miles north
to the atandard townnhip corner tn Ts. 82 and 33 N., be-
tween Ka. 1 E. and 1 W. ; the eighth standard north on
a parallel of latltnHe east through R«. 1 to 30 E., Incla-
sive, 180 milt*s; Tantic guide meridian 12 miles north
through Th. 83 and 34 N., between Ra. 16 and 17 B. ; tho
Belknap guidv meridian 12 milea north through Ts 33
and 34 N.. between Rs. 20 and 21 E., and 6 miles aonth
through T. 92 N., between Rs. 20 and 21 E.; the Fort
Browning ^nide meridian 12 miles aonth through Ta32
and 31 N., 1>etween Ra. 28 and 27 E. ; exterior boundaries
and subdiviaiona of Ts. 33 N,. Rs. 17. 18. I9.20,21,22,and
23 E. ; exterior boundaries and HnbdiviHions ol T. 34 N.,
Ra. 19 and 20 £. ; exterior Itonndaries and subdivisions
of T. 82 N.. Rs. 20. 21, 32. 23» 24 26, and 26 E.. and exterior
boundariea, snbdiTiaiona, and meanders of Pactional
T. 31 N., Ra. 23. 24, 2S. and 26 E.
Snrrer of the snbdiviaion lines of Araotional T. 0 N., R. 5
W.
Survey of the fractional west bonndarv, sabdivlaiona and
meanders of fractional T. 2 S., R. 14 £. ; fractional aonth
boundary, anbdiriaiooa, and meanders of fractional T.2
S., B. 13 E. ; fhictioual eaat bonndary, snbdiviaiona, and
meanders of fractional T. 1 S., R. 16 E.; anbdivisions
fractional T. 1 R.. R. 17 E.; fraetionHl east and west
boundariea. snItdivislonM, and meandera fractional T. 8
N., R. 81 E. ; exterior boundaries and snbdi visions T. 1
S., Ra. 46 and 40 E ; exterior boundaries and subdivis-
ions Ts. 2 and 8 S.. R. 47 B. ; exterior boundaries and
snb«1ivlsions, Ta. 4 and 6 S.. R. 48 E. ; eleventh guide
meridian run south 6 milea through T. 5S., between Rs.
44 and 45 E.; Orat atandard parallel south mn 12 miles
eaat through Rs. 45 and 46 B.. and weat 6 milea through
R. 48 E. ; exterior boundaries and aubdiviaiona of Ts. 4
and 5 8., R. 45 E ; exterior bonndarles and snbdviaiona
T. 6 S., R. 46 E. : twelfth auxiiinry guide meridian run
sooth through Ts. 6, 7, 8, and 9 S.. between Rs. 47 and 48
E., toaoothem boundary of State; exterior boundaries
and aubdiviaiona of Ts. 7 and 8 8., R. 48 E. : exterior
boundariea and aubdiviniona of Ta. 7 and 8 8.. R. 40 B.
Snrvey of the fhiotlonal south boundary , snbdi visitma.
and meanders of fraction>tl T. 6 N., R. 38 E.; snbdivixions
of T. 8 N., Rm. 4.*^ and 46 E.; anbdfvisions and meanders
of fractional T. 15 N., R. 55 E.: east and weat boundaries
and subdivisions T. 5 K., R. 42 E.; subdivisions Ta. 1. 2,
3, and 4 N., R. 48 B.; RubdiviHlons T. 4 N., R. 42 E.;
subdivisions T. 1 N.. R. 48 B.; south and east boundaries
and AobdiviHlons T. 1 8., Ra. 53 and 54 E.; flrat atandard
Karallel aonth mn eaat through Ka. 61 and 62 E. to east
oundary of State ; eaat anil north boundariea and aub-
diviainna Ta. 2. 8. 4, and 5 S., R. 61 E.; aonth and eaat
boundaries and aubdivialons Ts 6 and 7 8., R. 61 E.:
fractional north boundariea and aubdiviaiona fractional
Ta. 2. 3. 4. and 5 S.. R 62 E.; fractional south boundaries
and subdivisions fractional T. 6 and 7 S.. R 62 E.
Survey of the base line eaat through R. 6 E.. the eaat and
north boundaries and subdivisions fractional T. 1 N., R.
6E.
The survev of the fourth standard parallel north through
R. 2 and fractional R. 3 W.; the.nouth and east bound*
ariea. subdivisioni, and meanders of T. 16 N.. R. '2 W.; ,
the fractional eaat boundary, snbdi visions, and meandera i
of fractional T. 16 S., K. 3 W.; the south, wat. and
fractional east bonndai-i"8 and Hub<liv1rtiona of T. 18 N ,
R 7 W.; the weat an<i fractional north boundariea and
subdiviaions of F. 27 N., R. 8 W.; the west boundary
and Hubdiviaioos of fraotioiial T. 28 N., R. 8 W.
The Aurvev of the aonth boundary and subdivisions of
fractional T. 15 N".. R. 1 ( W ; the north and fractional
west boundarvof T. 15 NT., R. 14 W.; the eaat and weat
boundaries and subdi^ iaiona of T. 16 N., R. 14 W.; the
aouth and weat boundaries and subdiviainns of T. 16 N.,
R. 15 W.; the fourth atandard pamllel north run west
40.43 chains through R. 13 W., and 12 miles through Rs.
Hand 15 W.
The survey of island in sees. 11 and 12, T. 19 N., R. 3 W.
Island in sec. 4, T. 19 2?.. B. 3 E
$10. 009
159
4,409
115
1,800
765
26
26
* Spedal instmotions.
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426 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
B. — Statement ihowing oontraote let for surreys within the Crow Indian BeservaHon, pay-
able from appropriation of |100,000 made 6y 9ih section of 4M)t of Februarg 8, 1887
{fli Stats /Mti),
Surrey of the Clark's Fork ^ide m«ridiAn run mmth
through tractional T. 2 and Ts. 8, 4, 5, Q, and 7 S , between
Ka. 23 and 24 E ; flrnt standard parallel soath run west
through Rs. 22 and 23 B.. and east throii«[b Ra. 2^ 28, and
29 B : west and north boundaries and snbdi visions Ta.
4 and 58m K. 28 E; west and north boundaries and snb-
divislona T. 5 S , B. 22 E ; south, eaiit and north bounda-
ries and subdivlnions T.7 8., R. 24 £; east boundary
and subdiTlRiotisT.6S.,R. 24B; east and north bonnd-
ariesand subdivisions Ts.6,4,Mnd8 SmR.24£; soath,
A-actional west and north boundaries, subdivisions, and
meanders T. 2 8., R. 25 £ ; west and north boundaries
and subdivisions T. 2 S.,R. 26E; fractional west boundary,
sul>division and meanders T. 1 S., R.S6 B; west bounda-
ries Ts.4 and 5 S., between Ra. 27 and 28 B., run south
12 miles to first standard uaruUel south, to be desiic-
sated as Pryor's Cieek KUide meridian j east and north
boundaries and subdivisions T. 6 S., Rb. 28 an<l 29 E ;
west and north boundaries and subdivisions T.4 S , K.
31 £ ; north and west boun aries fractional T. 9 &, R.
34 £ ; fractional north and wei*t bouDdMries and sub-
divisions T 9 8 , R. 33 E ; west and north boundaries and
subdivisiouRT. 88., Rs. 33 and 34 E ; west and north bound-
ries and subdivisions T. 7 S., R 34 B : north and west
boundaries and subdivisions fractional T. 9 8., Ra. 36 and
37 £.
C. — Statement shoioing contracts lei during the year payable from ** special deposits,^*
No. Date. ' To whom let.
240
1890.
May 21
Gustavo A. Kom-
berg.
Description.
Eati.
Survey of the north, west, and ft^otional east boundaries
and subdivisions of T. 5 N., R. 12 W.
$110
D. — Statement showing the townships and other lines surveyed by George K, Reeder, United
States drputy surveyor , on Claries fork of the Columbia^ in Montana^ under direction
of G. V. A\ Ogdettf detailed clerk of General Land Office^ now in surveyor-generaVs
ojljlce, and being examined and platted by order of the Commissioner,
When surveyed.
Description of surveys.
1888.
August, September, October,
and November.
Fifth standard parallel north through fractional R. 27 W ; exterior
lines of fractional T. 21 N., Rs. 27, 28, 29 VV., and T. 22 N.. Ra. 29 and
30 W ; subdivision and meander HnoHof fractional T. 20 N., R 27 W ;
subdivision and mennder lines T.21 N., Rs.27. 28, .;9, and 30 W ; aiib>
division and meander lines T. 22 N., Ra. 29 and 30 W.
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EEPOET OF THE SUEVETOEOEVEEAL OE HEVASA.
United States Subyetor-Gbnbral's Offics,
Beno, Nw,f July 16, 1890.
In compliance with inatrnctions contained in yonr letter £ of date April 23, 1890,
I have the hoDor to submit herewith annual report, in duplicate, of the survey iug
•operations of this district for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
I also submit in duplicate tabular statements as follows:
A. — Appropriation account for compensation of surveyor-general and employ^.
B. — ^Apprupriation account for contingent expenses.
C— Appropriation account of special deposits by individuals for pay of clerks,
•etc., for office.
D. — Appropriation for survey of public lands.
E.— Balance of special deposits for survey of public lands and mining claims.
F.— Statement of contracts entered into with depnty surveyors for the survey of
public lands.
The number of miles contracted for chargeable to the appropriation for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1890, are as follows :
Stmidftrd lides
To wDnbip lines ...
Subdivision lines .
Total
Meaaurementa.
MiUt.0h8.Lk9.
6 00 00
27 00 00
a05 40 00
138 40 00
The number of miles chargeable to the appropriation of August 4, 1886, which have
been approved, were as follows :
Heaanrements.
I MUu.0h9.Lh8,
Standard lines I 3 40 00
Township lines 40 10 00
SnbdiviHion lines i 879 64 76
Connecting lines I 3 23 10
Total I 935 58 86
_ _ _ I
Number of mining plats drawn, 188.
Sixty-six applications for mineral surveys have been made and |2,030 deposited in
the United States Treanury for office work on the same.
There are four contracts under the appropriation of August 4, 1886, which have
not be(>n acted upon. Of these the field notes of contracts lb7, 188, and 189, compris-
ing fifty-two townships and fractional townships, have been in thif^ office for more
than a y»*ar; and the tield work of contract 186, comprising twenty-one townships, I
nnderstand is about completed, but the field notes have not yet been returned to this
office.
I would urge the importance of clearing off the arrears of work in this office. The
accumnlation of old work embarrasses the current business, and the delay is a great
.injustice to the deputies who have done the work.
427
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428 REPOBT OF 00MMIB8I0NER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
It is my pnri^se to clear off tbisold work as rapidly as possible, and to tbat end I
wonld ask a liberal appropriation for office expenses.
There is qaite a nnuiber of settlers in varioas parts of tbe State wbo bave asked
that the public snrveys be extended bo as to ei able th«*m to obtain title to their
lands; and an no surveys bave been madt) in this 8(ate outside the limits of the Cen-
tral Pacific Railroad grant for a number of yearn, I wonld recommend that, in addi-
tion to tbe amount appropriated for surveys wiThin those liiults, a sufficient sum be
appropriated to extend the surveys in other parts of the State to accommo<latetbem.
The lands of this State, even those desiji^nated as second and third rate in the field
notes anil plati of the public snrveys, need only irrigation to make them produce
as abundant crops as regiouH favored by a more generous rainfall. And for much of
this land irrigation is entirely practicable, needing only capital and tbe co-operation
of the settlers to store tbe water in tbe mountains in the season of rainfall and bring
it upon tbe lands as it is needed.
During the past year great interest has been manifested by the people of the State
in the problems of water storage and irrigaticn. A State board of trade ban lieen
organized, and plans are being matured for building storage reservoirs and construct-
ing extensive canals, whicb will bring under irrigation many times the area now cul-
tivated.
For the last three years the rainfall has been exceptionally light, and last summer
nearly all the streams of the State, including the Humboldt, Truckee, Carson, and
Walker rivers, went entirely dry. The heavy snowfall of last winter, coming after
a series of dry years with short feed, caused a heavy loss of live stock throughout the
State; but tbe melting of the snow has filled the ground with water, restored the
springs and streams, insuring good crops and abundant feed for stock, and enabling
the quartz mills, which had been stopped irom lack of water, to resume operations.
This puts life into tbe languishing industries of the State, and gives reasonable assnr-
anceof a prosperous season both m agriculture and mining.
In view of this improved condition of affairs in the State. I feel justified in asking
much more liberal appropriations for surveys than have been made for several year»
past.
Geo. F. Tcrrittin,
U, 8, Surveyor-General for Nevada,
Hon. Lb WIS A. Qroff,
Commissioner of General Land Qffiee,
A. — Statement of aooount of appropriation for salaries of surveyor-general and employ4t
during the flsoal year ending oune 'SO, ItiOO.
Dr. Cr.
TJnlted States Sarveyor-G«nerft1 C. W.
Irish, to amount paid quarter ending
September 30, 1880
To aDioiint paid quarter ending Beoem*
ber31.l889
To amount paid quarter ending March
31.1890 .„.. r ,
To amount paid fractional quarter end-
ing June 23, 1800
To balance returned to Uniti d States
Treasurer
$1,070.97
1,061.84
1,07S.00
092.41
100.28
4,800.00
By appropriation for salaries of sur-
veyor-general and employ6s
$4,800.00
4,300.00
B. — Statement of aooount of appropriation for rent of office, fuel, hooks, stationery , etc.
during the fiscal year ending JunedO, 1890.
Da.
Ca.
To amount paid quarter ending Septem>
b««r30,1889
To amount paid quarter ending Deoem*
ber31,1889
To amount paid quarter ending March
31,1890
To amount paid fhkctional quarter end-
ing June 23. 1890
To balance returned to United States
Treasurer
$160. 75
198.14
174.50
221.13
66.49
800.00
By appropriation for inoldentnl ex-
pennes in office of surrey or^general
of l^evada
$800.00
800.08
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429
C—StaimMHt of aeoauni of $peokU dopoHU fry individuals for pubho-Uind 9wrvey$ and
nUnerai e/oiiM, for pay of olrrks, draughttm^m, and ooniingeni eacpon$6$ of office durin§
iheJUcal yoar ending June 30, lo90.
Db.
To amoont pAid qiubrter ending Septem-
ber80.1889
To Aisonnt paid quarter ending Decern-
ber81.1880
To amount paid quarter ending Marofa
31,1890
To amount paid fraeiiooal quarter end-
infr Jiine23, 189U
To balance returned to United Statee
Treasurer
amount appropriated .
Cb.
$52aM
620.00
D. — Statement of aoeount of appropnation for surveys of public lands during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1890.
Db.
Ce.
Balance June 30, 1800
«1,«30.00 1
Appropriation
$1,630.00
E. — Statement of account of special deposits hy inriividuals for surveys of public lands and
mineral claims in Nevada for the fiscal year ending June 30, IndO.
Cb.
Db.
To amount paid qnarter ending Sep-
tember 30, 1880
To anion nt pfiici quarter ending De-
cember 31, 1^^
To Hmnant paiii quarter ending March
31,1J<»0
To amount paid qnarter ending June
80,1800
To balance
$8.16
9.00
234.00
18.00
18,316.60
18,6b6.76
By bfllanoc July I, 1889
Bv amount dt^pOHired qUMter ending
Septemiier 30, 1889
By amount d«>poKited quarter ending
December 81. 18'<9
By anionut d»>portited qnarter ending
Maroh31,1800
By amount 'leiionited fhictional qnar-
ter ending Juue 2:i, 1880
By amount deptwited fractional quar-
ter ending June 30, 1800
$16,655.76
680.00
1,090.00
380.00
80.00
18,685. 76
F,— Statement of contracts entered into by the United States surveyor -general for Nevada
with deputy surveyors for the survey and resurvey of public lands during the fiscal year
ending June 30, lo90.
C«n tract
Name of deputy.
Character and location of field work.
No. 1 Date.
*
191
Sept 18, 1880
June 18, 1800
J. M. Houston
Thomas H. George. . . .
Nnrrh, east, and part of south boundary of sec. 29, T. 0 N.,
R. 27 E., Mount Diablo meridian.
Bant, south, and west b 'undaries, and so much of the
flrat standard parallel nortti as constitutea the north
boundttry of T. 6 N.,R. 35 £., from the northwest comer
of tuiid townahip eastward to the southeast comer of T.
6 N.. B. 36 E.; also all the subdiriaion linen of said T. 6
N..R. 36 £., together with all the west boundary and
the weat 3 miles of the north boundary and all subdi-
▼iHion lineM included between said west boundary and
eastWHrd to and including the east line of sec. 4, the
south line of sue. 3, aud the eaai lines of sees. 10, 16, 2i, 27.
and 34, all in T. 6 N , K. 35 £.. Mount DUble meridian.
* Special insirnctions.
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EEPQET OF THE SUEVETOR-OEHERAL OF HEW MEXICO.
United Statks Survbyor-Gbnerai.'s Ofpick,
Santa F4, N. Mex., July 19, 1890.
As directed in yoar letter £, dated April 23, 1890, I submit my report for the fiscal
year endinp^ June 30, 1890.
During the year ten contracts have been awarded for the survey of pnblic lands
in New Mexico, all of which are made payable from the appropriation for the survey
of public lands. The annexed statettient, marked exhibit A, fully describes each
contract.
Of the contraet<4 therein mentioned, Nos. 249, 250, and 251 have been executed and
returned, and the surveys provided for have been accepted by your office.
The burveys provided for in contract No. 252 have been executed and retnmed,^
but are not yet accepted.
The annexed statement, marked exhibit B, is a true statement of surveys which
have been returned and reported during the year. The number of miles of different
lines established, as therein stated, is as follows :
Standard
Township and township retracements
Sabdivisions
Closings
Keservation
6* ant boundaries.
Meanders
Total
Measurements.
Milu.
83
186
096
46
1
4
2
40 00-
49 47
60 W
OS 79
56 10
00 90
71 18
813
40 63
All of the surveys approved and reported by this office, as above stated, have been
executed in whole or in part during the year, with the exception of surveys executed
nnder contracts Nos. 238, 240, and 241.
The number of miles of different lines established is as follows :
Standard
Township
SnbdiTision
Closfnes
G ran t Doundaries.
Meanders
Total
Measorements.
32 00 90
166 11 76
349 08 99
38 00 99
4 00 99
585 01
During the year surveys of nineteen townships and fractional townships have been
reported. All of these surveys have been accepted, and triplicate plats have been
filed, with the exception of surveys executed under contract No. 238.
It is greatly to the credit of the deputy surveyors who have executed work under
these different contracts that in not a single instance has work been rejected upon
an examination of the surveys in the field.
The demand for pnblic surveys seems to be increasing. I am constantly in receipt
of letters from settlers in all parts of the territory inquiring as to the manner of pre-
paring applications for survey of pnblic land. In reply to all of these letters I have
given instructions, which are in all cases full and complete, and which direct in the
minutest particulars as to the form and substance of the application. Notwithstend-
ing this, applications for public surveys are in many cases not only defective in form,
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bat tbey do not coutain the information which is necessary to form an intelligent
opinion as to whether or not the township i» of the character which the public inter-
est reqniren to be surveyed.
In view of the fact that settlers on pnblic lands are not accnstomed to prepare
documents of this character, to hold them to technical aconracy would, under exist*
ing regulations, be an effectual bar to the survey of government lands. This diffi-
culty might be obviated by furnishing a blank form, to be prepared under the direc-
tion of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, which might easily be compre-
hended, and when properly filled out to coutain all tne information required.
I have had many applications and letters of inquiry relating to the survey of town-
ships made fractional by preliminary surveys of unconfirmed grante. In these cases
settlers have been promptly advised that under the rulings of the department such
townships are not surveyable.
The only possible objection to surveying townships which are made fractional by
these preliminary surveys is that the lines upon which the township lines would
close may not be adopted when final action is taken on the grant. On the other hand,
a reference to the map of this Territory will show that surrounding many of these
preliminary surveys the government land is nnsurveyed. Some of this land may be
classed as the richest in New Mexico, and upon which settlers have lived for years,
mnking improvements and cultivating the same, without being able to obtain title to
their homes. If these lands were surveyed they might be disposed of to the mutual
advantage of the government and the settlers.
That the present state of affairs is a hardship on the Rettlers needs no farther demon-
stration. Unless final action is to be taken in regard to these unconfirmed grants in
the very near future, I am of the opinion that this rule should be abrogated. If it is
not thonght to be advisable to close on these grant lines, which may not be permanent,
and to complete the survey of the fractional township in case the grant is finally de-
clared to be invalid or the boundaries changed, the township lines might be extended
within the boandaries of the preliminary survey, and that portion of the township
which is in conflict with the grant might be withheld from sale and entry. This is
especially so when only a small portion of the township wonld be cut by the line of
the grant.
That the title to the land included within the boundaries of these grants has been
so hopelessly imperfect for so many years is enough in itself to serioasly impair the
prosperitv of New Mexico. It is an additional hardship that lands not included
therein should be tied up also.
During the year plats have been made as follows:
Township 57
Diagrams of ext'Orior lines 20
Mining claims 164
Orants 2
Miscellaneous plats 6
Mining districts 24
273
MINING.
The aggregate of deposits made on account of mining claims during the year is
91,59G. Dnnng the past sixty days there has been a great increase in tne number of
applications for survey of claims, and especially so for claims located in the Las Cruoes
district. Reports from different parts of the Territory indicate that new discoveries
are being constantly made.
Many of the locators of mining claims are poor men, who, because of the great cost
of patenting their claims, find it necessary to make the statutory expenditure year
after year for the lack of ready money to perfect their titles.
In referring to the mineral resources of New Mexico, it must be remembered that
some of the richest mineral land in the Territory is within the surveyed boundaries
of confirmed and unconfirmed Spanish and Mexican grants. As under the laws of
Spain and Mexico, the right to mines was reserved to the government, unless ex-
pressly granted, in confirming Snanish and Mexican grants, the mineral shonld be
reserved to the United States, unless it clearly appears that the mineral was expressly
granted by Spain or Mexico.
During the year twenty-four diagrams of mining districts have been made, and
even now this work is not up to date. It is my purpose to push this work to com-
pletion as soon as poHsible.
In a number of cases errors have been discovered in old surveys in connecting the
same with locating monnments or pnblic survey corners. The serious nature of
such errors is evident. Errors of this class have been found in the work of depu-
ties who have left the Territory and on not now be found. If practicable, there
should be Home method of correcting these errors without putting the mine owners
to expense.
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432 BEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
OBANTS.
Durio^ the year the houndaries of the grant known as La Salina, which said gmat
was confirmed to the heirs of Henry Voloker, baye beien established. Prior to the
survey an investigation was made for the purpose of furnishing information upon
which to base special inptractions.
Only one petition has been filed under section 8 of the act of June 22, 1854.
The claim above referred to is tiled by the Indians ol Isleta, who claim certain
lands outside of the boundaries "of the grant confirmed to them, and which ia
alleged to have been purchased by them in 1750. They claim to have been in
actual possession of the laud ever since the date of sale to the pueblo. No evi-
dence has as yet been submitted in support of the case. The failure of claimanta
to present their claims may be easily accounted for. It is a matter of some expense
to present a claim before this ofiQce. Witnesses must be brought here and an attor*
ney must be employed. Even should the surveyor-general return a favorable
report to Congress, thr* return for all this trouble and expense would be very small.
Past experience tibows that the report would probably not be acted on by Congress,
wilhout which action the oi>iuion of the surveyor- general would amount to noth-
ing, in view of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that the
favorable opinion of the surveyor-general is no evidence of title.
There is uo subject that more justly demands tbe immediate attention of the gov-
ernment of the United States than this matter of unsettled laud claims. The num-
ber and character of unseitied claims, so far as they have beeu filed in this office,
is given iu the unuexed statemuut marked exhibit C. But there is also a very
great number of juHt claiuis that have not beeu tiled.
New Mexico was first taken posHcsHion of by Spain, through an expedition com-
manded by Coronado, just three hundred and fifty years ago, before De Soto had
reached the Mississippi. It was permanently settled before 1600. From that time
till l&2i title to lauti within its borders was gradually passing from the govern-
ment of Spain to private parties, in a similar manner the republic of Mexico, by
wise colonization laws, endeavored to promote the settlement aud private owui-rHhip
of lands, while the governors acting under her authority often gave away land
with^what seems to us reckless prodigality. When New Mexico became a part of
the Uuit^id States it contained a population of bO.UOO. Some of these were wealthy
and held great tracts of laud, often given them as a reward for military services.
Although smalier hoMings of laud are more consonaut with our ideas of what is
best for a free community, still, it must not* be forgotten that the government of the
United States agreed to protect these persons in the enjoyment of their property,
whether they resided here and became citizens of the United States of removed
southward and remained citizeos of Mexico. A large number of these claims have
been adjusted under the provisions of the law of 1H54 establishing ^he office of
surveyor- general, and the remaiuder would soon be disposed of if Congress would
act upon the reports of the surveyor-general. A careful re-examination and
resurvey would, however, in many cases, be desirable, by reason of the contiicting
reports of previous surveyors general, aud in order that all the facts obtainable
hesring on each case might be laid before Congress. If, however, Congress should
he unwilling to take the responsibility of deciding these cases, it should empower
some tribunal to proceed to decide bhem.
SMALL HOLDINGS.
By far the larger part, however, of the H0,000 people who became citizens of the
United States by the annexation of New Mexico were poor. They and their ances-
tors had been located where they were by the colonization plan pursued by Spain
and Mexico.
About the time of the discovery of New Mexico Emperor Charles Y of (Germany
(being also King of Spain) decreed as follows:
<*If in that which is already discovered in the Indies there should be any places
and districts so good that it may be proper to found settlements, and any person
should make application to settle aud reside in them, in order that with a greater
will and profit they may do so, the viceroys and presidents may give them in oar
name lands, house lots, and waters in conformity with the disposition of the land."
This plan was pursued until the annexation of the territory by the United States.
Under the republic of Mexico the colonization laws and regulations became a very
complete system, admirsbly adapted to the character of the people they were de-
signed to benefit and to the character of the country to be occupied. The governing
ideas always were that to any one without land lands should be given as long as tbe
government had unoccupied land, and that it was better for the nation that the
country should be settled and the land reduced to private ownership.
Generally the lands and waters were assigned to each person ** in conformity with
the disposition of the land" by an inferior ofilcer (alcalde) sent with them tor the
purpose. The result would be a placita with its outlying lands, something like the
loliowing:
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434 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL L^ND OFFICE.
The Arabic figures indicate the house-lot, on which the maD lives with his family,
and the Roman nnmerals his farm-lot, on which he raises the little crop of wheat and
yegetables by which they snbsisC.
The moisture which causes his crop to grow comes not from the blue sky over his
head, but Irom the aoequia at the rear ; and when his turn comes to use it he cnts ita
bank with his hoe and the life-giviug water qnicklv fills his first square of earth to
the depth of a few inches ; then, as the ground all slopes gently down toward the
the river the water moves quietly on from cross-rid^e to cross-ridge, leaving the
squares behind it so thoroughly soaked that under the warm sun of New Mexico
they will produce luxuriantly of whatever may be required of them. From the nat-
ure of his onltivation his land must extend from the acequia downward as the land
slopes, and so farms that look all out of shape t.o the eastern man are the almost uni-
versal custom here. And they are more apt to erow narrower than wider, for if a
man who owns a strip 200 yards wide and one-ionrth of a mile long dies, leaving
four children, then each of them, without will or deed, but simply because every one
understands it, becomes the owner of one- fourth of it — that is, of a strip of the fnll
length and fifty yards in width. Again, the owner of lot 3 may on marriage aoqnire
with his wife lot 14. Then ho goes on cultivating the two without seeming to try to
get his holdings consolidated;
Of course the owners can not make entries under the land laws for land in saoh
shapes. Their not living on the lauds would also prevent entry.
The owners of all the farm- lots up and down the river live together about the
plaza, in which they can quickly rally in case of an Indian attack, the regulations
requiring every man to be supplied with arms aud horses for the couimou defense.
Unitedly they dig the aceouia and do other work for the common good; unitedly
they rear the village church and maintain its worship. Sometimes the settlement
was established by a formal grant, which gave to it also the land for 10 or 20 miles
on either side of it. In such cases it is specified that this is for the common benefit
of the settlers, by furnishing them pasture land and wood land, and for those who
should afterward join themselves to the new settlement. The idea of the Mexican
people always was that the large tract gave the settlement room to grow, and that
any new-comer or boy coming of age, wno wanted a piece of land out ot the com-
mon stock to cultivate, could have it and could go on to improve it by taking oat a
new dit-ch or otherwise.
In view of these facts I think that every one living in this community at the time
that it was transferred to the United States had a certain interest in the outlying
lands, and that they did not belong exclusively to the heirs or assigns of the one or
more settlers mentioned in the original papers. I also think that every member of
such a community, no matter how poor he may be, was included in the provision of
the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; that Mexicans electing to become citizens of the
United States *' shall be protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty aud prop-
erty.'^ In order to protect them in their propertv in land, and to avoid taking it
away from them ana throwing it into the mass of its own property, the public do-
main, it was necessary for the United States to determine what the property of each
one was. That should have been done at once. As it was not done and matters
were allowed to drift along in the old way, I consider that the Mexican custom as
to the rights of newcomers who joined themselves to a community continued to ran,
and that every person now holding land on a grant made under the colonization
laws has an interest in the outlying lands of the grant.
The question as to what each man owns should be settled at once. The whole
prosperity of New Mexico depends upon it. The gravest evils have already resulted.
Supposed interests in community grants have been bought up, and under them large
tracts have been fenced and poor men have fouud themselves substantially shnt np
to their farm-lots and thereby reduced to the greatest distress. Where they could
get a living from the farm-lot combined with the herd of goats and sheep living on
the common pastures, and with the privileges of the common timber lands, they
can not set it from the farm-lots alone. The result is wide-spread snfl'eriog, rentleaa-
ness, ana trouble, which threaten the peace of the community.
I think that the remedy for this is surveys, combined with anthority given the
land offices to issue patents to each man for what belongs to him.
The deputy surveyor going to such a community and telling the people that he
has come to assist them in getting title to their homes would be rendered every as-
sistance. Let every farm-lot of long occupancy be surveyed and shown on the
township plat as belonging to its owner.
Then, if it be an unconfirmed communitv grant with outlying lands, assign to
each one a wood-lot, say of the same size as his farm-lot, in payment for his inchoate
right in these outlying lands. Lands that could be made very valuable can not be
left as uufenced commons for the benefit of a few goats and cattle.
The system that was adapted to the old times and the needs of a sparsely settled
community must now pass away and be replaced by the American plan of individual
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ownership and inclosed lots, and the sooner the governmeut makes the inevitable
change the better it will be for all concerned.
After the plat goes to the register, the indications of ownership thereon should be
subject to contest by any one claiming the same land in the same manner that entries
are now. Bnt there woald be but few contests. The ownership of lots in this coun-
try is well known and universally acquiesced in, with rare exceptions. Lonff-con-
tinued occupation, with the consent of the government and all parties interestea, con-
stitutes as jubt a claim as property is held by anywhere. A settlement of these
matters in accordance with justice will be a permanent settlement, and will be the
best fi>r the government and the best for all interested in New Mexico.
Certain title to the land is the foundation to all values. Enterprise in this Tt^rri-
tory is greatly retarded because that foundation is so often found lacking.
ARREARS IN OFFICB WORK.
Office work has been completed on all public surveys which have been returned and
accepted.
The current work incident to mineral surveys is well in hand, as plats have either
been n)ade or are now being completed of all surveys which have been returned and
accepted during the year. The work of preparing maps of the different mining dis-
tricts has been neglected for years. Notwithstanding the fact that twenty-four maps
have been made during 4;he year it will require much labor to bring them up t >
date.
Corrections have been made in the field notes of surveys executed by D. J. M. A.
Jewett under his contract No. 216. If the field notes of these surveys are accepted,
plats of twenty-four townships and fractional townships must be made.
A complete and convenient index shoold be made of the plats and notes of all sub-
divisional lines.
The annual reports of the surveytir-general for New Mexico for the fiscal yei^rsend-
in^ June 30, 1^, and June 30, 1889, make mention of arrears of office work then
existing. With the very limited clerical force now at my disposal, it is absolutely
impossible to attend to the work which should have been done years ago, and at the
same time to give prompt attention to the current work of the office. Descriptive
lists should be made of all surveys, as is provided in section 2395, United States Re-
vised Statutes, which has not been done, and the field notes of surveys should be
copied. The work of classifying and recording Spanish archives should not be neg-
lected. This matter has been referred to your office and its importance explained.
Every document relating to the title to land should be recorded and the copy com-
pared with great care with the original. These documents contain the evidence of
title to vast tracts of land, and age and much handling are fast rendering them useless.
If these documents were properly recorded, the record could be used and the orig-
inals need only be occasionally referred to.
In order to thoroughly understand the necessity for this work one need only go over
the records and note what much handling has done in the way of mutilation and
obliteration.
If these documents are to be preserved, the appropriation asked for that purpose
(92.000) must be made.
The total number of claims filed is 212. Of this number 65 have not been recorded
at all, but most of them consist of but few papers: 131 claims have been partially
recorded, which leaves but 16 cases recorded in full.
It IB estimated that it would take one man from a year to a year and a half to do
the recording and he would need an assistant to nelp him in comparing, who
shoald be a skillful Spanish scholar and experienced in this kind of work. The
Indian pueblo grants have never been docketed, and there are some papers in these
cases that are not recorded. The Spanish arqihives, consisting of documents not filed
as claims against the United States, have been indexed up to and including No. 1249.
Eighty-eight other Spanish documents of the same class nave been put in wrappers
and briefed, but are not yet recorded. There are probably about fifty other unindexed
documents, some of which are very voluminous, which have not been touched. The
completion of the indexing has been impossible on account of the lack of sufficient
force in the office.
The Journals of the Departmental Assembly should be either translated or critically
examined and searched for action touching land titles. As an instance of the mis-
takes made in this office through ignorauce of the contents of these Journals and
other Spanish documents that had not been indexed or translated, permit me to call
your attention to the grant reported as No. 106, known as the Juan Otero jrrant.
This grant was approved by the surveyor-general in 1875, an<jl subsequently sur-
veyed to the extent of a square league, or more than 4,300 acres. A number of years
ago the translator of this office discovered, among the nuindexed archives, official
docn meats showing that this grant had been revoked by the departmental assembly
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436 REPORT OF COMinSSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
within four months after it was made. The dooumente were in the caatody of this
office at the time the grant was approyed, hot being no indexed they were praotioaUy
nnaTailable and their existence was doubtless unknown to the surveyor-general.
Bfany claims on the priyate land claim docket have never been correctly or fnlly
entered, as the original entries wefH made bv an incompetent person, and the inad-
eqnaoj of my office force makes it impossible to correct the errors and supply the
omissions made.
A correct chronological list of the governors, captains-general, and political ohiefe
of New Mexico is much needed. A full and correct list of these officers has never
been made.
An index showing the documents iu which the signatures of these and other offioers
are iound would be of ffreat value in comparing the signatures claimed to be thoee
of these officers upon documents filed as muniments in claims against the govern-
ment.
APPROPRIATIONS.
By letter of June 16, 1^0, I submitted my estimate for surveying service in this
district for the fiscal year ending June 30, ls92, as follows :
Salary, surveyor-general $3,000
Salaries, clerks surveyor-general's office 15,000
For preservation of Spanish archives in this office 2,000
Contingent expenses, surveyor-general's office I,d00
For surveys and resurveys of confirmed private land claims 5,000
For surveys and resurveys of unconfirmed private land claims 20,000
For surveying public lands • 10,0i»0
For examination of surveys (old) and resurveys 5,000
61,500
In the letter above referred to the necessity for making the several appropriations
asked for was fully set forth.
I desire at this time to again call your attention to the imperative need of an ap-
propriation for the survey of unconfirmed grants.
I think it is generally realized by the officers of the government, and by members
of Congress, as well as by the citizens who have taken the trouble to post themselves
in the matter, that the unsettled condition of land titles in New Mexico should not
be allowed to continue. The first step to attain the object of bringing order out of
this confusion must be careful surveys to determine the amount of land that should
be embraced in valid private laud claims, to reconcile as far as possible conflicting
boundaries, and to prepare maps showing the extent and position of each claim.
To do this iu so vast a territory will require mncl) labor and a lar^e expenditure
of money, and I am satisfied that in justice to the people of this Territory the items
asked for for the survey of land claims should not be re<luced.
As the matter now stands I am in many cases unable to recommend the reservation
of land for ancient and valid grants, for the reason that the description given in the
documents, by virtue of which colonies were settled and put in possession of lands
in different parts of the Territory scores and even hundreds of years ago, are often
simply statements of natural objects which bound such claims on the different sides,
and these boundaries can not be determined with relation to the public surveys
without a careful location of the grant on the ground.
And so in hundreds oif cases claimants under the United States land laws are coming
in conflict with the ancient inhabitants wnose rights were guarantied by solemn
treaties of the nation.
Entrymen make filings upon their villae:es, hom«^, and churches, and I know of no
way of preventing this confusion except as suggested above.
It has heretofore been impossible to do anything, because the money necessary for
the requisite surveys has not been appropriated.
In some cases I have evidence from my deputies that a large grant has been ex-
tended by an erroneons preliminary survey iu one or more directions beyond its plain
boundary calls. The persons holding small tracts within these extended boundaries
know the facts and that their rights are paramount to the grant claimants. This
state of th i ngs prod uces ill- feel i ng.
Good understanding could be re-established by a careful resurvey in which all par-
ties could see that justice was intended.
These surveys and resurveys are equally needed whether a land-court bill is enacted
or not.
* The necessity for a small appropriation for preserving the Spanish archives of this
office has been fully set forth on a previous page.
The great number of irregularities in the older of the public surveys has been often
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called to your attention, and I troBt that the item fbr reaaryeys and examination ot
old sarveys will not be reduced.
As to the need of an inoreatied appropriation for the clerical force of this office, it is
evident that if the necessary work is to be done in the field my force of clerks must
be in proportion.
EXHIBITS.
A.— Statement of all contracts let during the year for public surveys.
B.— Statement of surveys returned and reported durins the year.
C— Statement showing the condition of all unpatent^ grants now on file in thia
office.
Very respectfully,
Edward F. Hobart,
Surveyor- General far New Mexico,
Hon. Lbwis a. Groff,
Ckmmieeioner General Land Office,
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438 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
^.Statement of contracts let under appropriation for puMic surveys for fiscal year
ending June 30, 181K).
No.
Date.
M9
1880.
Aug. 10
250
251
Noir.20.
Dec 17..
252
1800.
May 5..
258
254
May2..
MayO..
255
JaneS..
250
June 7..
267
June 23
258
Jane 28.
Contractor.
Walter G. Marmon .
Leonard M. Brown .
...do
Liabil-
ity.
G^rge H. Pradt.
Mark Howell....
Daniel B. Merry .
Leonard M. Brown .
Daniel B. Merry . . .
Walter G. Marmon .
ClaTton 6. Coleman .
9725
200
275
SOO
1,400
800
500
2,600
Deaoriptlon.
Bxterior lines between Rs. 12 and 13 K.. T. 27 N. ; be-
tween Ts. 28 and 27 N.. B. 18 B., and between Ta. 27
and 28 N., R. 13 E., and the sabdivisiooal line* of T.
27N.,R.13B Accepted.
S^bdi▼l8ional lines of T. 17 8., R. 8 W . Aooepted.
Range line between Rs. 8 and 0 W., T. 20 S., R. line
between Rs. 7 and 8 W., T. 29 S.. and the snbdiris-
ional lines of fractional T. 29 8. , R. 8 W. Accepted.
Township lines between Ts. I and 2N., R. 21 W.. and
sabdiTisional lines of fractional T. 2 N.. R. 21 W.
Reported.
Lines of T. 0 S., R. 17 E. Not reported.
So much of the following extenor and sobdJ visional
lines as are now unsurveyed and which lie oatslde
of the Ramon Vi^ril grant: Range line between tiM.
5 and 6 E.. T. 10 N., and the siibdiviaional lines of
T. 10 N., R. 6 E. ; also the retraoement and re-estab-
lishment of such exterior and sabdirisional lines as
may be necessary. Not reported.
For sarrej of the rangeline between Rm. 6 and 8 B. ,
Ts. 0 and 7 S. Township line between Ts. 6 and 7
S., R. 6 E. First aaxiliary guide meridian east in T.
10 S. and subdivisional lines of T. 0 S., R. 0 B., and T.
16 8., R. 13 E. Not reported.
Survey of so much of the sabdirisional line of T.8S..
Rs. 17 and 18 E., as shall be found to be outaide of the
Anton Chico grant. Not reported.
Survey of so much of the following exterior and sub-
divisional lines as shall be found to be ouulde the
Beaubicn and Miranda grant: Sixth correction line
north in R. 15 E. The unsurveyed portion of the
range line between Rs 14 and IF B.. T.25 N., and sub-
divisional lines of fractional T. 25 X. , R. 15 B. Not
reported.
Resurvey of the exterior and subdivisional linen of Ts.
18, 14. 18, 10 8 , R. 21 W. The closings of said town-
ships, together with the olosingN of Ts. 1, 20, 21,S.,R.
21 W., on the boundary line between New Mexico
and Arizona. Not reported.
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B. — Statement ehowing eurveye approved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
^i
4
Date.
S88
1888.
Jnly 14
840
Deo. 17
841
Deo. 28
842
Doa 26
846
1889.
Jan. 7
848
Apr. 8
847
May 9
848
Jane 18
349
Ang. 10
860
861
Nov. 20
Deo. 17
(*)
Depaty.
Beiyamin F. Bailey .
...do
WiUiam White
....do
...do
Walter O. Mannon .
Howard Coleman . . .
Leonard M. Brown. .
Walter G. Marmon .
Leonard M. Brown.
...do
do.
Desoriptlon.
Such portions of the line between Ts. 9 and 10 8., Be. 14 and
15 B., and between Be. Hand 15 B.. Ts. 9 and 10 8.; alAO snob
enbdivialonal Unes of T. 0 8., R. 14 E.. and T. 10 8., R. 15 E., as
shall be found to be outside of the Fort Stanton militarj
reservation. Not aocepted.
The exterior and snbdiTisional lines of those parts of Ts. 7 and
8 8.. Rs.2 and 8 W.« now included in that part of the Fort
Craie military reservation lying outside of the Pedro Ar>
menaarey grant, No. 34. Aooepted.
Exterior lines between Rs. 20 and 21 W., T. 6 S., and subdivia-
ional lines of T. 6 8.. R. 20 W. Aooepted.
All that part of the township line between Ts. 28 and 24 N., K
17 E. outside of the Mora grant, and the subdivisional
lines of all thai part of T. 24 N., R. 17 E., outside the Mora
grant. Accepted.
The sixth correction line north through Rs. 18 and 14 E., town-
ship line between Ts. 28 and 26 N., R. 14 E. Range line be-
tween Rs. 13 and 14 £., and U and 15 E., T. 26 N., and subdi-
visional lines of T. 25 N., R. 14 £. Aocepted.
Township line between Ts. 1 and 3 8., R. 21 W. Range Unes be-
tween Ks. 20 and 21 W., T. 1 8., and subdivisional lines of
fractional T. 1 8., R. 81 W. Aooepted.
Range line between Rs. 12 and 13 E., T. 188. ; exterior lines of
T. 17 S.» R. 12 £., and the subdiTisional lines of T. 17 8., R. 12
B. Aooepted.
Third correction line south in Rs. 8 and 0 W. ; east and west
boundaries of T. 17 8., R. 8 W. ; east, south, and west bound-
aries uf T. 16 8., R. 8 W., and subdivisional lines of T. 16 8..
R. 8 W. Aocepted.
The exterior line between Rs. 18 and 14 B., Ts. 26 and 87 N., be-
tween Rs. 12 and 13 E., T. 27 N., between Ts. 26 and 27 N., R.
13 E., and between Ts. 27 and 28 N., R. 13 E., and the subdivis-
ional lines of T. 27 N., R. 13 E. Aooepted.
T. 17 8.. R. 8 W. Accepted.
Range line between Rs. 8 and 9 W., T. 29 8. ; range line be-
tween Rs. 7 ar d 8 W.. T. 28 8. ; subdivisional line of frac-
tional T. 29 8., R. 8 W. Aooepted.
Exterior and subdivisional lines of fractional Ts. 16, 17, 18| 19 9?;
fractional R.7iW.
* Special instmctions.
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Asi of Spanish and Mexican private land elaims in the Territory of New Mexico iMek
MeK,f or have been tranemitted to the Generdi
ITOTB.— The lea^e below xefenrad to is the leapi*
lile
6fo.
11
Name of olaim.
Cm» Colorihdo .
H^h Stephenson or
Town of Tecolote. .
Loe Togo*.
John SooUy or La
Jnnta
40 I Town of ChlUU. .
41 I AguaNegra.
47
Las Animas .
Alexander Vall6
Baoa location
Town of Las Vegas.
Town of Taijqne .
Area of grant
I olaimed or esti-
matecL
Aooording to Arch-
er's survey, 20.186
2S square leagnee. . .
4 square leagues,
more or less.
4 square leagues.
1 square league.
BHtimated propor-
tion of land.
Are*
I* of grant, aooording
to omolal suryey.
181,779.87 acres, or 80
leagues and 1,671.47
aeres.
10.612.ff7 acres, or 2
leagues and 1,882.80
aeres.
48.123.38 acres, or 11
leagues and 880.30
aeres.
0,640.60 acres, or 2
leagnes and 900 acres.
108,607.04 acres or 26
leagues and 1.04 acres.
41,481 acres, or 0.
leagues and 2,418.48
acres.
4,447.03 acres, or 1
league and 100.76
acres.
541.55 acres, or about i
of a league.
490,440.96 acres, or 114
leagues and 1,065.04
acres.
7.185.66 acres, or 1
league and 2,846.27
acres.
^e^,-'*- **^S^
nral.
timber.
PeroenL
76
10
10
30
10
50
10
PeremL
76
7G
50
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441
«r0 now either pending in the ofioe of the United 8tatee eurvejfor^general at Santa F^, 2i.
Land Office, and atUl remain unpatented.
of 25,000,000 sqaarv vOriM, eqaiTAlent to 4,840.28 mtm.
Names of claimftoto »t
time of fillnK petition
in the office of tbeUnited
States surreyor-generaL
F(nnner attoiv
neys.
Present attor-
neys.
Action
taken by
sorveyors-
generaL
Bemarks.
Bafoel Ontierres, Hatlano
Pino, Francisco Bao%
Bartolo Oarola, and Jos6
SaisforthemselTes and
the inhabitants of Casa
Colorado.
The heirs at law of Joan
Antonio Oarcia, de-
ceased, and Hngh Ste-
phenson, a ▼endee of
iisid heirs.
The heirs of Salvador
Montoya, deceased, for
themselTes and behalf
of the inhabitants of
the town of Tecolote.
Donaciano Yiffll, for him-
self andthelegalrenre-
sentatires of Francnsco
TTtOiUo, Diego Pa-
dilla, and Bartolom6
Karqnes.
John ScoUy, William
Smith, Gregorio Tnijillo,
Augnstin Doran, James
Giddings, Francisco
Rmoero, and their heirs
and representatiTcs.
Ines Armenta, Salvador
Tafoya. Marcello 6a-
nil6.Gabriel Moya, Jos6
M. Lnoero, Jos6 Padilla,
Sabino Gonzales, and 41
others.
Antonio Sandoral
Ceran St. Vrain and Cor-
nelia Vigil.
Alexander yall6
Heirs of Lnis Maria Baca.
Francisco Lopes, Henry
Connelly, and Hilario
Gonsales, for them-
selves and on behalf of
the residents of Las
Yegas and vicinity.
People of the town of
Tiyique.
J. Hooghton .
Approved
John S. Watts . . > Frank Springer
H. N.Smith Catron, ThorU'
.do.
Watto, Smith, |.
A Honghton. i
ton A Clan-
§Y and Lonls
nlslaoherfor
heirs of Salva-
dor Montoya I
Fiske A
Warren and
M.Salaaarfor
inhabitants..
.do.
J. Houghton,
M. Ashorst.
T. J. Whea-
ton, and H.H
Smith.
W. H. Henrle,
H. M. Atkin-
M. Ashnrst. S.
M.Baird.
Smith & Hongh<
ton.
Approved
...do
Johns. Watts.
Smith, Hough-
ton A Ash-
nrst.
S,M.Batrd.
.do.
.do.
..do
..do
..do
..do
.do.
The timber land is
about twice as much
as the agrlcnltnral
Sarveyor-general has
recently (J one 80,
1890) recommended
the making of a new
survey.
Principallj erasing and
timber land.
Land generally very bro-
ken and covered with
pine, pifion, and cedar
tiffiber, with some
small prairies pro-
dudog fine grass.
Surveyor- Gen oral
Jnlian, on July 12.
1887, recommendea
that a necw survey be
made.
This claim was con-
firmed by Congress
to the extent of only
6 square leagues.
Land mostly rough and
broken, covered with
a heav^ growth of
pine, pinon, cedar,
and oalc timber.
The area of this survey
was intended to be
1 square league me-
cording to a new
standard vara, as de-
cided by Commission-
er Spurks.
This claim is entirely
in the State of Col-
orado.
This claim was for the
same tract of land as
that granted to the
town of Las Vegas.
On March 22. 1887. Sur-
veyor-General Julian
recommended the ex*
■eculion of a new sur-
vey. It was partially
executed.
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C—Liit of Spanish and AfeJDioan private land dainu in the Territory of New Mexico toibtefc
Mex,f or have been transmitt^ to the General
22
24
27
31
U
45
47
46
60
51
52
File
No. ;
Name of claim.
I
20 Town of Torreon. . .
21 Town of Manziuio . .
45 Town of San Isidro
j Jornada Del Maerte
05 Town of Las Fram-
02 ' Sebastian Martin .
07 I Yioente Dnran de
I Armija
04 Town of Ghamita . . .
Ramon Vi|^l
Garvacio Nolan.
Ojo del
Santo.
Bspiritu
Jo86Satton
51 Antoine Leroax .
93 ' Bemab^M.Montallo
181 I Antonio Sedillo. .
87 Ojo de en Medio .
183 Roque Lovato ...
89 LorensoMarquez.
139 I CayaranDgn6 ...
137 Juan B. Vald^.
Area of grant
as claimed or esti-
mated.
1| square leagues.
Estimated pro]
tionof
Ai*ea of grant, according |
to official survey.
AgricuU- ^^*°K •
From 2.000,000 to
% 500, 000 acres.
About 11 leagues
and 4. 105.00 acres.
7 square leagues .
About 24 square
leagues.
About 3,840 acres.
About 6,000 acres..
About 20,600 acres.
14.146.11 acres, or 8
leagues and 1,125.27
acres.
8,080.74 acres, or 2
leagues and 9.18
acres.
11,470.68 acres, or 2
leagues and 2,796.12
acres.
Per eenL Per eenL, ,
15 85
20
46,461.22 acres, or 10
leagues and 3,058.42
acres.
51387.80 acres, or 11
leagnes and 3,644.72
acres.
57.18 acres
1,686.29 acres
31,802.92 acres, or 7
leagues and 1,420.96
acres.
S75. 968.71 acres, or 132
leagues and 3,061.75
acres.
113,141.16 acres, or 26
leagnes and 298.87
acres.
69.445.56 acres, or 16
leagues and 1.07 acres.
126,024.63 acres, or 29
leagues and 156.41
acres.
151.056.90 acres, or 84
leagues and 3,467.45
acres.
88,079.78 acres, or 20
leagues and 1,274.18
8,546.06 acres .
1,619.86 acres .
13.706.02 acres, or 8
leagues ana 685.18
1,086.30 acres
6,683.29 acres, or 1
league and 2.248.01
10
95
100
5 :
20
I
20
20
5 !
90
00
5
95
80
a?
80
90
«5
95
95
97
89
96
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443
are either now pending in the office of the United Statee eurveyor-generalf Santa F4, N,
Land Office, and sUll remain unpatented — Continaed.
Names of olaimantB at
time of fllinff petition in
the office of the United
States sunrejor-general.
Kerio Antonio Hontoya
and other inhabitants
of the town of Torreon.
Koman Sisueros. for him*
nelf and residents of
the town of Manzano.
Boloros Perea, Francisco
Sandoval Jos^ Andres,
Sandoval Antonio Baca,
ntsiderio Valdez, and
Jo»6 Antonio Montoya.
Juan Bautista, Vigil y
A larid, Antonio Josd Ri-
vera, and Michael S.
Hon ok.
Cristobal Bomero
Mariano Sanchez .
Gaspar Ortiz
Manuel Tnnillo, for him-
self and otner residents
of the town of Chamlta.
Ramon Vigil
Fernando Nolan, Engenio
Nolan, Maria Leo nor
Nolan, and her husband,
Aberta Maria Mar-
tina Delgado, §t al.
The survWing heirs at
law of Luis Cabeza de
Baca.
Jos6 Sutton
Antoine Lerouz, for him-
self and the Ic^l repre-
sentatives of Pearo
Vigil de Santillana, J nan
Bautista Vigil, and
Cristobal VigOL
The heirs of the original
grantees.
Felip6 Chaves, for him-
self and as agent for the
heirs and legal repre-
sentatives of Antonio
Sedillo.
J. Francisco Chaves
Gaspar Ortiz Alarid, for
himself and for the heirs
and legal representa-
tives 01 Roque Lovato.
Pablo Fernando and Fe-
lipe Delgado and the
heirs of Simon Del-
gado.
John W. Conway and
wife.
Joa6 Luis Valdez, Joe6
Francisco Valdez. Ma-
ria Ignaclo Valdez, et ol.
Former attor-
Present attor-
neys.
J. Houghton.
M. Ashurst.
...do.
...do.
J. S. Watts.
T.D. Wheaton.
J. S. Watts...
W.Claude Jones
Smith 9l Hough-
ton.
J. S. Watts.
Henry Hilgert
and J 0 li n
Gwin.
J. Bonifacio
Chavez.
JohnGwyn,jr..
S.B.£lkins.
Samuel Ellison.
...do
John Dunn and
Oliver Lesli
EUia.
Action
taken by
surveyors-
general.
Approved
...do
Rejected.
Approved
.do.
.do.
.do.
.do .
.do.
.do.
..do.
..do .
.do.
..do.
.do
.do
.do
.do
.do
Remarks.
Nearly all this grant is
either grazing or tim-
ber land.
This grant is best
adapted to stock rais-
ing, but many portions
are farmed.
With the exception of
about 600 acres, this
grant is a barren
rocky waste, destitute
of water, wood, and
grass.
This grant was never
surveyed.
A new survey of this
grant has been or-
dered, but is not yet
made.
Nearly all this grant is
arable.
The lands in this grant
were restored to entry
by order of the Secre-
tary of the Interior,
dated January 9, 1888.
April 3, 1886, Surveyor-
General Julian recom-
mended the rejection
of this claim.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended a new
survey of this grant.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended a new
sur\'ey of this claim.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended Uie re-
jection of this claim.
Do.
Do.
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444 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
C.^Liit of SpaHUk aful Mejoioan private land elairM in the Territory of New Mexico which
Mex.fOr have been transmitted to the General
71
FUe
No.
180
186
78
182
138
lil
145
186
148
Name of claim.
Gotera..
Joa4 F. Baca y Ter-
ras 6t al.
Ranoho del Rio
Grand4.
LoaCerrtlloa
TownofOalisteo.
Cebolla
Town of Cienegnilla
Ci^a del Bio .
Mesitade Joana Lo-
I pex.
160 > JaaoGabaldoii.
184 ! Nacimiento....
3 San aemente
140 , Lnia de Armenta . .
151 Joan Salae.
10 Eotancia...
83 Cafion de Chama. .
72 148 OJo del Apaoh6 .
73 ; 152 Piedra Lnmbr4 .
74 I 143 Arroyo delosGham-
lEoa.
110 Jaan Lnis Ortis
163
San Antonio del Bio
Colorado.
156 I OJo Caliente .
154 ! San Mijpiel Spring.
i
Area of grant,
aa cialined or eitl-
Estimated propor-
tion of land.
Supposed to be
aoont 480 acrea.
About 2,000 aeres. . .
Area of icrant, aooordiuff
to official survey.
Supposed to be
abont 8,000 acres.
BellOTed to contain
about 86 square
leagues.
Abont 00 square
miles^ or 57,600
acres.
Supposed to contain
about 80,000 acrea.
About 472 acres.
Abont 320,000 acres.
About 184.820 acres.
50&U acres...
1,588.87 acres.
acres,
leagues and 586.80
acres.
2,287.41 acres
17.160.67 acres, or 3
leagues and 4,188,73
acres.
48.961.54 acres, or 10
leagues and 658.74
62.843.01 acres, or 14
leagues and 1,578.01
acres.
43,022.86 acres, or 8
leagues and 2,960.83
acres.
11,619.56 acres, or 2
leagues and 2,939 acres.
131,725.87 acres, or 30
leagnes and 1,617.47
acres.
89.408.40 acres, or 20
leagues and 2,507.80
acres.
444.24 ar.res
Agricult-
ural.
PmreenL
90
486.41 acres
415.036.56 acres, or 05
leagnes and 2,709.96
acres.
472,736.05 acres, or 108
leagues and 8,986.71
acres.
About 8 square I 48,336.12 acres, or 11
leagues. i leagnes and 503.04
I acres. j
Supposed to contain 637.28 acres
about 1.300 acres, j
About 115,200 acres. 33,250.39 acres, or 7
I leagnes and 2,868.43
acres.
About 46,000 acies.. I 18,9&'>.22 acres, or 4
leagues and 1,504.10
acres.
I
About 92,060 acres.. I 38,590.20 acres, or 8
I leagues and 3,867.96 ■
acres.
Abont 23,040 acres.. 25,176.39 acres, or 5
leagues and 3,474.99
acres.
Grazing
and
timber.
Percent,
10
10 1
I
85 I
80 I
4 I
10
12
5
5 ,
3i
97
80
90 '
dS
m!
97 I
96
97
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445
wrt novo either pending in the offioe of the United Utatee ewrveyor-general at Santa F4y N".
Land Office, and etill remain unpatented—Continned.
Names of claimanto at
time of filinff petltton in
the office of the United
States snrveyor-Keneral.
Kasario GonEales .
Heira and representatives
oi Jos6 Francisco Baoa
y Terran et al.
Inbabitants of the Rancho
del Rio Grand6.
Heirs of Manuel Delffado
Ignaelo Chaves, Vicente
Roivsl. Nicolas Pino,
and otiiers.
John T. Graham and Wro.
Blackmore.
Former attor-
neys.
Samuel KUlson.
...do
Pedro Sanchez.
S. a Ellcins .
...do
T. B. Catron .
Samuel Ellison .
Anthony Joseph, Adnlph
Guttmann. Julms Tried-
man, and Luoien Stew-
art.
Manuel Baca y Ortiz, John S. Watts.
Faustin Bara y Ortiz,
Pablo Baca y Ortiz, Sev. |
emno Baca y Ortiz, et cU.
Heirs of Domingo Rom«»ro I S. B. Elkins, T.
and Miguel and Manuel i B. Catron.
Ortiz.
Pablo Dominioiez
The heirs and lejral repre-
sentatives of the thirty-
six oriifinal fo^ntees.
The letral representatives
of Ana de Sandoval y
Manzanares.
Luis Gold
Juan Salas
Maria de los Dolores No-
lan, Antonio Nolan,
Francisco Nolan, Fer-
nando Nolan, £ui;onio
Nolan, Maria Leo nor
Nolan. 0t oL
The heirn and leeal repre-
sentatives of Francisco
Salasar.
John L. Taylor
Jos« P. GallegoB and
others.
Albino Bustamente and
Juan Jos4 Martin.
The heirs, and those hold-
ing under them, of Juan
Luis Ortiz.
J. M. LoMser and others,
residents of the town of
San Antonio del Rio Col-
orado.
Felix Galbis, Anthony Jo-
seph, et al,
Tomas Baca et a(., heirs
and representatives of
Bartolome Fernandez.
S.B. Elkins. ..
John Gwyn, jr.
J. Houfchton, J.
Bon ifacio
Chavez, John
Gwyn,jr.
John Gwyn.jr..
S. a Elkins....
T.D.Wheaton.
Samuel Ellison.
John S. WatU.
S. B. Elkins,
H.L.WiUdo.
S.B. Elkins....
S. B. Elkins, T.
B. Catron.
J. M. Lesser...
Samuel Ellison.
.do.
Present attor-
neys.
Aotion
taken by
surveyors-
general.
Francis Downs.
Approved.
...do
...do....
Remarks.
....do....
Rejected.
Approved.
The claimant has pro-
tested against the ex-
isting survey.
Not surveyed.
.do Surveyor-General Julian
recommended the con-
sideration of an equita-
ble claim.
.do.
John H. Knaebel — do.
..do.
..do.
..do.
.do.
.do.
.do.
.do.
Ejected.
Approved
.do.
The matter of a new
survey is now 1>efore
the Secretary of the
Interior, on appeal.
Surveyor-general rec-
ommended the rejec-
tion of this claim.
Surveyor-Gei.eral Julian
recommended the re-
jection of this claim.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended confir-
mation to the extcmt
of 8. 82 acres.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommendtjd the re-
jection of this claim.
S I rveyor-General Julian
recommended the ««xe-
cution of a new sur-
vey.
Not surveyed.
•I
.do ' Surveyor-General Julian
lecommended the re-
Jecrion of this claim.
.do ] Surveyor-General Julian
recommended the con-
flrmation of this claim
I to the extent that it
I was actnally occupied
I and improved.
.do..
.do.
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List of Spanish and Mexican private land olaims in the Territory of New Mexico which
N. Mex.» or have heen transmitUd to the GeneraX
File
No. i
168
147
146
167
Name of olAlin.
San Lorenso or Ala-
millo.
Jaan de Mestas
Alfoono Rael de
Agnilar.
Salvador Gonsales .
164 Town of Bernalillo .
I
166 ] .Angostura
161 Oofia Afla Bond
Colony.
Area of grant
aa claimed or esti-
mated.
! Estimated propor- !
' tion of land.
Areaoffcrant, according ; —
t« official iupvey. OraatoK
lAgrioult- ^ «
"~^- tiXr.
4 square leagnee
Containing approx-
imately MO.OOO
acren.
Aboat 180,000 acres
130,188.98 acres, or ?9
leagues and 4.270.86
acres.
1.686.47 acres
23,661 acres, or 5 leagues
and 1,BS0.60 acres.
11.674.37 acres, or 2
leagues and 2,003.81
acres.
About 6,400 acres... 2,810.04 acres
162 . Mesilla Colony
i
160 I Gaspar Ortiz y Pals.
166 I City of Santa F6 ..
160 I LaTalaya About 84,660 acres
163 I Reftigio Colony
144 ! Town of Alameda .
168 I Jacoma.
I
142 I Cafion del Rio Colo-'
rada
167 Ufia de Oato.
169 I Town of CeTiUeto .
i
170 Ignado Chares ... .
171 I Joaquin Mestas
172 I Canada de los Ala-
173 I Filip^Tafoya, et aH
176
155
{ Miguel and Santiago
Montoya.
Antonio Baca
San Karoos Spring.
About 0,600 acres . .
Fvr cent. Per cent.
16 »
20
19.328.52 acres, or 4 '
leagues and 1,962.40 j
acres.
33.960.33 acres, or 7 !
leagues and 3,678.87 i
acrea. I
Gran t has been sunreved, -
bat there is no plat on '
file in officci.
17,361.11 acres, or 4
square leagues.
1,003.55 acras
26,130.19 acres, or 6
leagues and 88.61 acrea.
106,274.87 acres, or 24
leagues and 2,108.16
acres.
46,341.48 acres, or 10
leagues and 2,938.68
acres.
About 126,000 acres. 42,939.21 acres, or 9
I leagues and 3,876.69
acres.
, j Grant has been surveyed.
but there is no plat on
file in the office.
4 square leagues .
1 square league.
324,770.13 acres, or 51
' leagues and 3,416.85
acren.
243,036.43 acres, or 56
leagues and 4,321.03
acres.
3,682.94 acres
.do.
.do.
148.862.94 acres, or 34
' leagues and 1,293.42
acre».
22.678.12 acres, or 6
leagues and 876.72
acres.
A little more than 3,263.09 acrcA
seven-«^igbth8of a ,
square league.
1 square league 43,653.03 acres, or 10
leagues and 3,260.23
acres.
2,250 acres : 1,890.62 acres
90
10 I
i
I
3 I
80
I
I 99 s
80 20
90 ' 10 I
I
50 50 I
i I
85
15 1
2t
75
10,
90
75j
25
»l
80
i
5
96
10 , 90
8 02
7 93
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NEW MEXICO.
447
are now either pending in the office of the United States aurvey or- general, at Santa Fe,
Land Office^ and still remain unpatented— Continxied,
Nunes of cUimants at '
time of filing netition in Former attor-
the office of tne United neys.
State aarveyor-general.
Bmdod Lana, Auastacio
GarclA, €t aL .
Joa6 de la las Boibal and , John Gwyn, jr.
Jeans M. Montoya. i
Jeaua Maria Ortez «t at ... — do
Preaent attor-
neys.
Action
taken by
sorveyors-
general.
Approved.!
— do I
Remarks.
do.
do.
do.
The heirs and legal repre- Samnel Ellison
sentattves of Salvador I
Gouaales.
The heirs and legal repre- | H. L. Waldo . .
sentativesof Luis,
Garcia. j
Jos6 L. Perea and others, do
assignees and legal rep- i
resentatives of Joan |
Jos6 CaUegos. i
Inhabitants of Dofia Afla i John D Ball.... l....do .
Bend. . I |
do .
.do.
Inhabitants of the civil — do ,
colpny of Mesilla. :
Jos6 Manaei Ortis ' Finke & Stevens, j
R. H. Tomp- '
kins.
Inhabitants of the city of
Santa F6.
I
Samnel Ellison..; j do
I
The heirs and legal repre- do ; do
aeutatlves of Mannel
Tn^nio.
Inhabitants of the civil
colony of Befagia
The inhabitants of the
town of Alameda.
The heirs and legal repre-
sentatives of Ignaoeo
Roivaland Jacinto Pe-
laez.
Jos6 Antonio Laforct
I
John D. Bail . . .
John Gwyn, Jr.
Samnel Ellison.
do.
Manuel A. Otero do .
Inhabitants of Cevilleta do .
do.
.do.
.do.
.do.
.do.
The heirs and legpJ repre- do .
sentatives of Ignaoio
Chaves «t oL
The heirs and legal repre- do .
sentatives of Joaquin
Mostas.
The heirs and legal repre- do «
sentatives of B.Miera
y Pacheco and Pedro
Padilla.
The heirs and legal repre- do .
sentatives of Felip^ Ta-
foya, Diego Antonio
Chaves, and Pedro de
Chaves.
The heirs and legal repre- do .
sentatives of Miguel
and Santiago Montoya.
The heirs and legal repre- do .
sentives of Antonio
Baca.
The legal representatives — do .
of Antonio Urban Mon- i
tafio. I
.do
.do.
.do.
.do.
.do.
Not surveyed.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended the re-
jection of this daim.
Do.
Da
Da
Surveyor-GeneralAtkin-
son decided the grant
papers to be forgeries.
•|
.do Surveyor-General Julian
I recommended the re-
t Jection of this olaini.
.do ! Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Da
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448 EEPOKT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE
C^Lisi of Spaniih and Mexican private land claims in ike Territory of New Mexico which
2i. Mex,f or have been transmitted to the Genered
Aroa of grant
as oUiined or estl-
Estimated propor-
tion of land.
1 square league
24 square leagues . . .
About 00 square
miles, or 67,600
acres.
Area of grant, according -
to official survey. '
18.046.G0 acres, or 4
leagues and 685.47
acres.
12.207.40 acres, or 2
leagues and 3,526.84
186,977.11 acres, or 4S
leagues and 345.07 acres. ,
Agricult-
uraL
Percent
5
I
4,840.27 acres ■ 4,840.26 acres
2,400 SQuare miles. | 843,260.59 acres, or 104
or 1,^6,000 acres. leagues and 1,246.27
Approximately 80,-
000 acres.
109 I 110
110 . 121
114,400.64 acres, or 26
lea|2ues and 1,553.26
acres.
Francisco A. G^osa. I i 1,557.83 acres.
San Cristobal i i
Ill
116 Santa Teresa | 4 square leagues, ' 9,681.29 acres, or
more or less.
II2J J J 'I Jos6TmjUlo.
113 I 127 ' Cation de los Peder-
nales.
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
122 Sauta Barbara..
125 CitineguiUa
Ill Antonio Martines.
116 Jaan de Jesus Lu-
cero.
97 Nerio Antonio Men-
toya.
49
129
126
128
San Miguel Del Bade.
J096 DominguoE ...
Maragaa
Cafiou de San Diego .
Approximately from
about 200,000 to
250 000 acres, or
from 46 to 68
leagues.
Containing about
70,000 acres.
About 62t acres.
leagues and 1,000.73
acres. '
5,999.69 acres, or 2 {
leagues and 1,059.41 1
acres. '
18.489.23 acres, or 4 i
leaKues and 1,128.11 1
acres. |
46.244.43 acres, or 10 ,
leagues and 1,871.63 !
acres.
67,480.20 acres, or 15
leagues and 2,876 acres.
60 214.13 acres, or 18
leagues and 3,790.49
315 800.80 acres, or 72
leagues and 2,800.64
acres.
889.82 acres
0,572.57 acres, or 2
leagues and 1,072.01
Orasini;
and
timber.
96
97
00 1
30
10
10
•7
65
10 I
70
07
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NEW BIEXICO.
449
4ire now either pending in the office of the United States surveyor-general at Santa F6y
Land Office^ and sUll remain unpatenteA-^ContXtm^,
Names of oUimants at
time of flllng petition in
the office oftne United
States sarreyor-general.
The heirs and legal repre*
sentatiTOB of i7aia Jan-
millo.
The heirs and legal repre-
sentatives of Baltasar
Baca and sons.
The heirs and legal reprs-
sentatives of Jos^ Ju-
lian ICartines and oth-
The heirs and legal repre-
sentatiyes of Jnan
Otero.
Inhabiunts of Sooorro
and other towns.
Inhabitants of the town
of VaUedto.
Inhabitants of the town
and Ticinlty of Taos.
David Martinea and oth-
ers.
Jesns Bsoobar, JesnslCa-
ria Bsoobar, and other
heirs of Franoisoo Osr-
da.
Sfireatre Oomes and oth-
er heirs and legal repre-
ssntattves of Joe6 Tm-
Jlllo.
Antonio Yaidei, Poliear-
pio Gareia, et oi.
Conoeptton Leyra, Pra-
denoio Martiues, et at
The heirs and legal repre-
sentatlTss of Andres
Hontoya.
The heirs and legal repre-
isentatires of Antonio
wiartines.
The assignees and legal
representatives of Jnan
de Jesns Lnoero.
The heirs and lecal repre*
sentatives of Joan An-
tonio Cabera de Baea.
Inhabitants of the settio-
mente of La Cuesta, San
Miguel Las Mnlas, El
Pueblo, etc.
Santiago Yaldex
Samuel Elliaon and others.
Amado Chares and others .
Former attor-
neys.
Samuel Ellison.
...do .
.do.
Waldo & EUi-
son.
HubbeU & EUi-
son.
Samuel Ellison.
....do
Santiago Yaldea.
Oildersleevs &
Ellison.
Samuel EUison.
John Gwyn, Jr.
B. H. Tompkins
andH.L.Lan-
gao.
Samuel Ellison..
.do.
.do.
John S. Watts.
Samuel Ellison.
Amado Chaves.
Present attor-
neys.
Action
taken by
surveyors-
generaL
Bemarks.
Approved.
...do
.do
Surveyor-General Julian
reoommended the re-
jection of U&is claim. '
Bo.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended the con-
I sideration of an equl-
I table title to the land
I aotuallyjgranted.
do I Sorveyor-Cranenl Julian
reoommended the re-
I • Jeotion of this daim.
Surveyor-General Julian
reoommended the oon-
ddoration of an equi-
table claim to the land
actually oeoupied and
I improved.
do Surveyor-General JnUaa
recommended the re-
jection of this claim,
do ..
I
B^ected..
Approved.
..do.
.do.
....do.....
B^eoted..
Approved.
....do
Ejected..
Approved.
Not surveyed.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommehded the re-
jection of this claim.
Surveyor-General J nlian
recommended the re-
jection of this claim.
No survey has ever
been msde.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended the con-
sideration of sn equi-
table daim for about
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended the re-
jection of tills daim.
Surveyors-General At-
kinson and Pullen
both rejected this
daim on the ground
that the papers were
forgeries.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended the ex-
ecution of a new sur-
vey,
Surveyor-G^eral Julian
reoommended that the
srant be conflrmed to
the heirs and li*gal rep-
resenUtives oiLoren-
so ICarques and fifty-
Mven otheis.
Not surveyed.
0405 LO-
-29
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450 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
C^Ust of Spanish and Mexican private land daifMin the Territory of New Mexico which
Mex,, or have been transmitted to the General
i
File
No.
Name of claim.
Area of grant
as claimed or esti-
mated.
Area of grant, according
to official survey.
17,018 acres, or 8 leagnea
and 8,007.16 acres.
Estimated proper.
Hon of land.
1
Agrionlt-
uraL
Grasiug
and
timber.
128
42
118
ISO
128
186
84
188
124
101
106
100
06
S2
187
198
201
»n
200
1
88
184
Saneho de Galvan . .
Percent.
7
00
50
Percent,
OS
10
56
1?4
TownofPefiaBUm-
ca.
Bod Femandes de
Taos.
Bartolome Baoa
1?ff
1.800.80 acres
IfM
1?R
Lae Trachae
10,314.65 acres, or 2
leagues and 1.634.00
acres.
3601.10 acres
10
06
60
10
10
2
26
2
8
00
5
40
00
00
08
75
08
•
07
110
Joe4 Manuel San-
chesBaoa.
Town of Albnqner*
PMrareda
1 square leagne
4sqDareleagaes....
Supposed to contain
aboQt 4^ square
leagues.
Probably about 126
square miles, or
80,640 acres.
im
4 square leagues
ini
86,024.18 acres, or 8
leagues and 1,801.04
28.851.18 aores, or 6
leagues and 1.640.72
aores.
28,028.28 acres, or 6
leagues and 1,880.88
acres.
8,647.46 aores
182
18B
Antonio deSalaiar..
BitodeloeFrUolee.
Sioi Mateo Spring...
Canada de Cochiti..
1M
Containing about 4
square leagues,
more or lees.
1B5
104.664.24 acres, or 24
leagues and 887.82
aores.
6,166.00 acres, or 1
league and 1,826.62
acres.
1B6
Santiago 'RamtrM. r .
1B7
Sebastian deVargas .
Canada de Santa
Clara.
Santo To mas de
Itorbide.
Town of Abionin ..
About 84,000 acres. .
nR
About 00,000 acres..
1R0
2 souare leaflmes. . .
140
141
Domingo Valdes....
Santo Domingo and
San Felip4.
Manuel Alvares....
Las Hoertas
About 12 square
miles, or 1 league
and 8,888.72 aoies.
..........
14?
14B
16 sonars leaftnes ..
144
14R
Town of AtrleAO
About 12 square
leagues.
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NEW MEXICO.
451
are now Hther pending in the offioe of ike United Statea surveyor-general, at Santa F4, N,
Land Office, and still remain imjMifonM^ Continued.
Karnes of olaimants at
time of flllD jc petitkm in
the ofBoe of the United
States sarveyor-general.
Former attor-
neys.
Heirs of Frandsoo Saodo-
▼alaud legal represent-
atives of Jgna^o San-
ckez Vergara.
Inhabitants of the town
of Pefia Blanoa. I
Inhabitants of Don Fer- I
nandes de Taos.
Hanael A. Otero and ,
others.
The heirs and legal rep- |
resentatives of Fran-
cisco Montes Vigil.
The heirs, assignees, and i
legal representatives of
Jos6 Hanael Sanches
Baca.
Inhabitants of the town
of Albuqnerqae.
The heirs and legal rep-
resentatives or J nan
Pablo Martin.
Ramon Salasar, for him-
self and others.
The heirs and legal rep-
resentatives ot Antonla
BosaLcyan.
Boman A. Baca and
others.
James G. Whitney and
others, legal representa-
tives of Antonio Lacero.
Harvey B. Easterday and I
Benito Borrego. i
The heirs, legal represent-
atives, and their as-
signs, of Sebastian de
Vargas.
The Indians of the Pueblo
of Santa Clara.
Mariano Barela^ Ramon
Salszar, Pablo C6rdov8^
Anastacio Costilla, ana
others. >
J. M. C. Chaves and asso-
ciate owners.
Marcos Valdes, Dolores
' Valdes and h<?r hasband,
Jos6 Maria Rodrignei,
Jalio Valdes, and Lu-
ciano Valdes, and those
holding under them.
Inhabitants of the pueblos
of Santo Domingo and
San Felip6.
Don Manuel Alvarea
The heirs and legal repre-
sentatives of Andres de
Aragon and others.
Inhabitants of the town of
Atrisco.
Amado Chaves.
John S. Watts,
Chaves 8c
Wade.
Samnel Ellison..
Chaves & Wade
W.L.Ryner8on
Breeden 4t
Haseldlne.
Samuel Ellison..
OhavesAWade,
John6.Watt8.
Breeden &
Waldo.
Fiske&Warren.
Smiths Hough-
ton, Caudale-
rioMartines.
P. L. Vander-
veer.
U. S. Pueblo In-
dian agent.
Rynerson &
Wade.
J.M.G. Chaves..
James H.Pardy.
T7.S. Pueblo In-
dian agent
John S. Watts..
Chaves at Wade.
Chaves, Chacon
A Key.
Present attor-
neys.
ClarenoeKey.
Action
taken by
surveyors-
general.
Approved.
.do.
... do...
Ejected
Approved.
.do.
.do.
..do.
.do.
do.
Rideeted.
Approved.
.do.
...do
Ejected..
Approved.
Rejected.
..7do....
Approved.
Remarks.
Surveyor-General Jnilan
recommended the exe-
cution of a new sur-
vey.
Not surveyed.
There is a petition on file
in this case asking that
a new susvey be made
of the north Doundary
line of the grant.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended the re-
jection of this claim.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended the con-
sideration of an eqni-
toble tiUe.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended the re-
jection of this claim.
Do.
Surveyor-General Julian
recommended the con-
sideration of an equi-
table claim. No sur-
vey has been made of
this claim.
Suiveyor-General Julian
recommended the re-
jection of this claim,
bat subsequently
transmitted to the G.
L. O. i.ew evidence in
support of the title.
NotiAorveyed.
Not surveyed.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
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462 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OP GENERAL LAND OFF'ICE.
C.^LxBt of SpanUh and Mexican private land claime in the Territory of New Mexico whiek
Mex,, or have heen troMimitted to the General
FUe
No.
146
102
U7
203
148
149
150
84
86
06
161
106
162
204
168
205
164
207
166
208
166
200
157
210
168
100
150
1^
81
160
211
161
212
162
102
4
5
7
23
26
34
Name of olaim.
£1 Tijo
Jos6 Antonio Lu-
GOTO.
PUsa Blanc*
Plaza Colorado ...
Gallon de Carnae .
TownofElRito.
Onadalapita
Laa Cieneqnitaa .
Las Lagnnltas..
Nioolaa Daran de
ChaToa.
Lo6 Ranohoa .
Pi^Jarito.
Cristobal de li
Soma.
Arroyo Hondo.
Joa4 0aroia
Henry YSloker .
Nenatra Sefiora de
los l>elorea*Mirie.
Cienega
Galiateo
Town of Chaperito .
Angostura de Pec6e .
Town of Cubero....
Juan Francisco
Pinard.
Area of grant
s claimed or esti-
mated.
24.880.025 aorea,or6
leagnes and 8,188-
aores.
About 4,000 acres..
Nearly 62.000 acres,
or nearly 12
leagnes.
About 180 aqnare
milea, or 261eagues
and 2,862.72 acres.
About 48 suuare
miles or §0,710
acres, being 7
leagues and 838.04
About 66 aquare
miles, or 86,840
acres, being 8
leagues and
1, 117.76 aci
20,000 aorea or 4
leagues and
2,688.88 acrea.
About 28.040 acres,
or 6 leagues and
1,888.60
Beliered to be less
tlian 11 square
leagues.
640 acres
Area of grant, according
to official surrey.
640 acres.
Estimated propor.
tion of land.
Agricult-
ural.
Ptreent.
Gracing I
and '
timber. '
Percent, I
* Mineral.
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NEW MEXICO.
453
are now either pending in the office of the United States survepor-g^eral at Santa F4f N.
Land Offloe, and slill remain nnpatented—Contmued,
Names of claim anU at
time of fllins petition io
the office of the UDited
States Borvejor-geiieraJL
Franz Haning and Charies
F. Hnnini;:
I
Juan Lucero, Agapito
Lnoero, Ignacio Lu-
cero, Maroelmo Lucero,
and others.
J. M. C. ChaTCB and others .
...do
The heirs and leipal repre-
sentatives of iTnau Ig-
nacio Tafoya and < tbers.
Bpifonlo Lopes and others
I Maria AltagraoiaGallegos
and Juan B. Gallegos.
I The heirs and legal repre-
sentatives anit assigns
I of Pe<lro Gallego and
I Juan Hianel Maes.
I Francisco Gnego,Manuela
I Meanes de Chaveb. G.
Badoracco, Jo86 Lueras,
and others.
Jos6 Chayes, T. Gallegos,
Felix Chares, Prefecto
Chaves y Chaves, Juan
Jo86 Chaves, and others.
Jos6 Maria Griego, Beyes
Bomero. Pedro Griego
y Santillanes, and 240
others.
Tomas C. Guiteres and
16 others.
Jos6 de Jesus Torres, Jos6
Dolores Moudra g o n,
Gregorio Mi<ndragon,
and 801 others.
Biego Martines, Pablo
l&artinez, Flor Marti-
nes, GabrieU Medina,
and 71 others.
Mariano Otero
Heirs, assigns, and legal
I representatives of
Henry Yolcker.
Antonio Jaques and Mari-
ano Barela.
Names of claimants are
unknown, as no petition
has been filed in the
case.
Juan Ortis
Job6 Apodaca, Lncreclo
Lusero, Jos6 E. Lucero,
Telesfor Lucero, and 213
others.
Unknown, as nn petition
is on file.
Besidents of the town of
Cnbero.
Juan Francisco Pinard . . .
Former attor*
neys.
Henry Hilgert,
H. M. Atkin-
son and John
A. Knaebel.
TTrbano Chacon.
Present attor-
neys.
W.H. Patterson.
...do «.
Samuel Ellison .
John H. Knae-
bel.
Lsnghome &,
Bonqnillo.
JohnP.Yictory.
...do
Catron, Thorn-
ton and Clan-
cy.
Edward L.Bart-
lett.
...do.
Santiago Y ai-
des.
...do.
John H. Xnae-
beL
W.H.Selden....
Fmaois I>own8 .
Francis Downs.
Johns. Watts..
...do
W.H.Seld6n..
E.A.Fl8ke...
Francis Downs.
Amado Chaves
Action
taken by
surveyors-
general
Bemarks.
I
Approved.; Not surveyed.
do Do.
.do I Do.
.do.....l Do.
.do. ....I Do.
....do ' This approYsl was only
for the land actually ^
occupied. Not sur-
I veyed.
B^ected..' Not surveyed.
i
Approved.! Do.
B^ected..! Do.
Approved.! Do.
.do.
do.
do.
.do.
Bc()ected.
Ejected.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Confirmed by act of Con-
gress of October 1,
1888.
Not surveyed.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
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REPORT OF GOMIIISSIONER OF aENEBAL LAND OFFICE.
/ Spanish and Mexican private land olaime in the Territory of New Mexico whiek
Mex,f or have been tranemiitid to the GenertU Land
Name of olaim.
Area of grant
as claimed or esti-
mated.
Area of grant, according
to offldal survey.
tionofland;
Agricult-
ural.
Gra^g
and
timber.
Joe6 Manuel Cor-
Percent
PereenL
dova.
SjnU Boaalla Mine.
•
'
TownofYallecito..
JO06 Dolores Fer-
nandez.
Francisco Oonsales.
Arqoeta
A nff ostara
Cristobal Jaramillo .
Rito de San Jos6
LosCon^os
Cafiada de los Hes*
••
tifios.
Las Talaya
ElCadUlal
ElEmbndo
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Dabatos
Gaadalnpita
Tesnque
Tawnii of T^« Oan-
delarios, Los
GueKos, Los Oal-
legos, Los Pnbla-
fios, Los Ranchos,
and El Rancbo.
Beale's Colony
Lode Basques
45,000,000 acres, or
10,867 square
leagues.
•
Rancho de Santa
Cruz.
Alfonso Ra61de
t —
About 845 acres
Aguilar.
Plaza of Guadalupe.
Santa Rita del Cobre.
31,218 fteres
RiodelOso
Meeilla Valley
Arroyo Hondo
Vallecito
San Jos6 Spring....
LaNasa
About 4 square
leagues.
Santa Rita del Cobie.
Sltio de NaviOo
Joaqtiin Garcia
Supposed to contain
100.000 acres.
Pueblo Colorado . . .
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are natv either pending in the office of the United States eurveyor-general at Santa fi^ N*
Office, and still remain unpatented~-'Contmued.
KameB of claimftnta «t
time of flline petition in
the office of tbe United
States sarveyor-general.
Former attor-
neys.
Present attor*
nejs.
Action
taken by
Burreyors-
general.
Bemarks.
Jos4 Manael C^rdOTSi for
himself and others.
Antonio Cano and other
heirs of Ignaoio Cano.
Inhabitants of the town
of Vallecito.
Jos6 Dolores Femandes,
for himself and others.
Francisco Gonzales
Unknown, as no i>etition
is on file.
...do
J. C. Hubbell
Unknown, as no petition
is on file.
Jos6 Maria Martinez, An-
tonio Martines, Julian
Gallegos, and Celedonio
Yaldes, for themselves
and others.
Unknown, as no petition
is on file.
...do
...do
...do
...do
...do
Antonio Jo86 Garcia and
many others.
The inhabitants of the
towns of Los Candela-
rioe, LoH Gue^ros Los
Gallegos, Los Publalios,
Los Banchos, and £1
Banoho.
Ko petition is filed in case,
Heirs of Antonio Ortis,
deceased.
Tomas Cabexa de Baoa. . .
Smith ftAshurst
...do
M. Ashorst..
J. Houghton.
J. Houghton.
J. Honght4>n..
JohnTownsend,
agent, Catron
&, Thornton.
JohnGwin, Jr ..
H.Clay Stephens.
John S. Watts .
....do
Jo86 Manuel Gneterex,
Gomelio Torres, and Es-
quipnla Montoya.
Inhabitants of tlie Plasa
of Guadalupe.
Heirs and letral represent-
atives of Francisco
Manuel de Elguea.
Unknown, as no petition
is on file.
Meregildo Guerra stal...
Unknown, as no petition
is on file.
Heirs and legal represent-
atives of tJos^ Garcia de
la Mora.
Heirs and legal represent-
atives of Paulfn Mon-
toya and others.
Albino l^opes
Martin B.Hayes
BafSsel Arm^o
Samuel EUlson.
John S. Watts .
...do
Dismissed.
J. Houghton....
Samuel Ellison..
Chaves & Wade,
Jesus Maria Yigil, for him-
self and others.
Jos6 Isabel Martinez and
Gabriel Archuleta, for
themselves and associ-
ates.
W.W.Wilshire
Steams & Doug-
las.
John H. Enae-
bel and Can-
delario Marti-
nez.
Not surveyed.
Do.
Do. *
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
In the present Stale of
Colorado; not sur-
veyed.
Not surveyed.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
ho.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Do.
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Do.
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Do.
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C. — LUt of 8pani9h and Mexican private land elaime in the Territory of New Mexico which
or have been transmitted to the General Land
File
Ko.
206
213
S
TT
V
V
Name of olftim.
Sftntiago B6iie .
Areaoff^raiit
0 claimed or esti-
mated.
Isleta Indiana
Pueblo of Lagona.
Pueblos of Zia, Santa
Afia, and Jem es.
Pueblo of San Cris-
tobal.
Paeblo of Znni
About 278,480 acres,
or 68 leasees and
(1,042.86 acres.
Estimated propor-
tion of land.
Area of grant, according
to official snrrey.
timber.
.1
nral.
Per cent. Per cenL
126,226.18 acres, or 28
leagues and 8,607.34
acres.
882.849 acres, or 88
leagues and 904.86
acres.
17,581.26 acres, or 4
leagues and 20. 18 acres.
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are now either pending in Ihe offieeof the United States eurv/eif^'general at Santa F^, N, Mex.^
Offlee, and eUtl remain unpatented— Contirmed,
NameftofdaimaDtftattime i
of filing petition in f
the offloe of the United I
States surveyor-general. <
Former attor-
nej's.
Trinidad Lopez, Maria
GleofAs Bone de Lopes,
and others.
Indians of Che pnehlo of
Isleta.
Indians of the pueblo of
Laguna.
Indians of the pneblos of
Zia, Santa Afia, and
Jemes.
I
Indians of the pnebio of
Znni.
Fernando Nolan.
Present attor-
neys.
Fernando Nolan.
Action
taken by
sarreyors-
general.
J. IL Clark
John S. Watts .
Samnel Ellison.
United SUtes
Pnebio Indian
agent.
do
I
United States
Pueblo Indian
agent
Approved
...do
Approved.
Senarks.
Not surveyed.
Do.
The Pueblo is extinot.
Total number of claims in this exhibit 184
Total area ofone handled surveyed claims, acres 6,788,881.61
Percentage of this area which Is agricultural 13. 21
Percentage of this area which is grazing and timber 86. 71^
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BEPOKT OF THE 8UKVET0K-GEVEKAL OF OKEOOV.
United States Sukvetor General's Office,
Portland, Oregon, July M, 1890.
In compliauce with instrnotions contained in yonr cirouUir letter £, dated April 23,
1890, 1 have the honor to submit, in duplicate, my report of transactions relating to
the surveying service in this district for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, accom-
panied by tabular statements as follows :
A.— Statement of contracts entered into by the surveyor-general of Oregon for
the survey of public lands, payable from the $10,000 allotted to Oregon out of the
general appropriation of $200,000 made by act of Congress appro-^ed March 2, 1889.
B.— Statement of contracts entered into by the surveyor-general of Oregon for
surveys, payable from the appropriation of |10,000 made by the Indian appropriation
act of Congress approved March 2. 1889.
('.^Statement of contract entered into by the surveyor-general of Oregon for
Allotment surveys on the Siletz Indian Reservation in Oregon, payable from the ap-
propriation of |I00,000 provi..ed for surveys and resurveys for allotment purposes by
act of Congress, approved February 8, 18^.
D. — Estimate of lunds required for the surveying service in Oregon for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1892.
I have to report the aggregate number of miles surveyed and reported to your ofi&oe
since my last annual report as follows, viz :
Desorlption of sorreys.
BeserratioD boundary linos ,
Donation clftim and connecting lines .
Standard lines ,
Township lines
Snbdivisional lines
Total
Measure-
menta.
MilM.ChtJJti.
68 80 13
41 78 81
8 40 70
40 11 48
416 09 07
M6 00 64
These survevs embrace 91,076.61 acres.
There have been prepared by this office 93 books of certified transcripts of field
notes, 3 plats of donation land claims, 2 plats of standards parallel, 8 plats of exte-
riors, 176 plats of subdivisions, 3 maps oi boundanr of diminished Umatilla Reserra-
tion, 2 maps of north boundary of Warm Springs Indian Reservation, 46 descriptive
lists ; 888 official letters were written, covering 1,697 pages.
There were also prepared lor the use of special agents and deputy surveyors in the
field 20 plats and 16 transcripts of field notes.
There were forwarded to the Commissioner of the General Land Office 58 books, cer-
tified transcripts of field notes ; 2 plats of reservation boundary, 1 plat standard paral-
lel, 1 plat donation land claims, 4 plats of exteriors, 45 plats of subdivisions.
In addition to this there were forwarded for the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
85 books, certified transcripts of field notes; 1 plat of reservation boundary, 21
township plats of Umatilla Indian Reservation, 2 township plats of Siletz Indian
Reservation, 3 township plats of Grande Ronde Indian Reservation.
There were forwarded to local land office 34 township plats, 23 descriptive lists,
"fi mininff plats, 4 special plats; also swamp-land lists No. 65 to 74, inclusive, embrac-
ing 3, 060.45 acres.
MINING CLAIMS.
During the fiscal year special deposits have been made aggregating $415. as follows :
$405 for office work in connection with survey of ten mineral claims ; $10 for offloe
work in connection with examination and report on two placer olaims, for most of
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which the necessary orders have been issaed to deputy mineral surveyors. Number
of mineral survevs officially made, 7 ; number of examinations of placer claims re-
ported to this office, 8 ; number of mining plats made, 35.
CONDITION OF CONTRACTS BNTEEBD INTO PRIOR TO JULY 1, 1889.
Special contract entered into with Depnty Surveyors Curr in and NolandMay4,
liS7, provided for the survey of the original boundary of the Umatilla Indian Reser-
vation in Oregon, the boundary of the diminished reservation, the extension of the
linesof public survey over the entire reservation, and the subdivision into 40-acre
tracts of such sections as might be selected for allotment to the Indians.
The field work executed under this contract was completed and returns made to
this office prior to July 1, 1888.
On April 1, 1889, Mr. B. P. Douglass was appointed special examiner of survevs to
inspect this work. These surveys were examined during the months of May, June,
and July, and while the examiner found several discrepancies in measurement and
quite a number of irregularities in the construction and markings of corners, he con-
sidered the work on the whole had been fairly well done, and recommended the ap-
proval of the surveys. ,
This repoit was filed in this office on August 30, 1889, and transmitted to your office
on the following day in response to a telegram asking for the same, thus giving this
office but a limited time in which to examine it.
Considering the irregularities were principally technical in character, and in view
of the recommendation of Examiner Douglass, who had inspected the work in the field,
and, further, considering that nothing remained for this office to do but to recommend
either the approval or rejection of the entire survey, I concurred in the recommenda-
tion of the examiner, that the surveys as executed by Ourrin and Nolaud under their
special Joint contract be approved.
Upon an iuspection of Examiner DouglaHs's report when it reached your office, and
comjparison with the deputies' field notes, the descrepaucies and irregularities were
considered to be of such a character as to preclude the work being accepted without
certain corrections being made.
In accordance with instructions from your office Deputies Carrin and Noland, on
April 15, 1890, were ordered to at once proceed to the field and make certain specified
resurveys and corrections in their work in order to place the same in proper shape for
final acceptance.
These instructions were carried out, the corrections made, and returns thereof sub-
mitted. The new township plats were prepared and the surveys were finally approved
and accepted by your office. *
Deputy Surveyor Andrew Todd completed his surveys uuder contract No. 541, dated
May 25, 1889, and returned his field notes to this office. However, before the office
work had been entirely completed we were obliged to suspend further work on
same in order t.o complete the maps and transcripts in connection with the surveys
on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, for which there was a very urgent demand.
Work on Deputy Todd's contract is now completed and transcripts and plats will
be forwarded to your office.
Contract No. 54*2, with William H. Wilbur, United States deputy surveyor, dated
May 29, 1889, provided for surveys in T. 32 S., Rs. 14 and 15 W.
When Deputy Wilbur submitted his returns they were found to contain so many
errors and irregularities as to necessitate the rejection of the work unless numerous
corrections were made in the field and the notes rewritten.
Permission was granted by your office for the deputy to apply for an extension of
time in which to return to the field and correct his work. As Deputy Wilbur evinced
but little desire to make such application, after considerable correspondence his
returns were rejected bv this office on July 2, 1890, for reasons more fully set forth
in my letter U, dated July 3, 1890, to your office, recommending the rejection of his
surveys and the cancellation of his contract.
Contract No. 543, dated May 31, 1H89, with Henry A. Harvey, United States deputy
surveyor, provided for surveys in Ts. 38, 39, 40, and 41 S., R. 12 W., and T. 39 S., E.
13 W.
These surveys were completed and returns submitted to this office, but owing to
some necessary corrections having to be made. Deputy Surveyor Harvey applied for
and obtained an extension of time to Augnst 31, 1890, in which to make his returns
He is now in the field.
With the foregoing exceptions all the work contracted for prior to July 1, 1889, has
been completed and plats and transcripts forwarded to your office.
PUBLIC 6URV1EYS.
During the past year numerous petitions have been received in this office asking
for surveys in different parts of the State. The bulk of the petitions are for sur-
veys in townships along the coast, where the lands are for the greater part broken
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ftnd mountainoas, covered with timber, often quite heavily, and almost invaiiably
covered with a very dense undergrowth, which makesthework of surveying it diffioalt
and expensive. These lauds when once cleared are generally well adapted for agrl-
cultnral and grazing purposes, and are fast filling up with settlers, who to all appear-
ances have located thereon in good faith, and with the intention of making perma-
nent homes for themselves and families. * .
For several years past it had been the policy of your office to prohibit the survey
of forests or heavily timbered lands, and former regulations provided that the sur-
vey of a township must be completed in its entirety unless natural obstacles rendered
its completion absolutely impossible, but owing to the restriction in the appropriation
act confining the surveys to agricultural land, provision was made for the survey of
timbered lands where they were adapted to agriculture and occupied by actual bona
fide settlers, who at great labor and expense had made for themselves permanent
homes.
The surveying instructions were modified so as to provide that a deputy surveyor
should snrvey all the cultivable land and omit the uncultivable, but that In survey-
ing a township the snbdivisional lines must be extended over all the land that can be
properly classed as agricultural. This restriction made the work of surveying a
township more tedions and expensive than if ^ deputy was allowed to complete it in
its entirety, as he was compelled to stop the survey of a line when it reached irriga-
ble land, unless lands of a proper character lay beyond. It also placed upon him tne
responsibility of determining what lands were agricultural, and consequently survey-
able, under existing restrictions.
Owing to this and the further fact that nearly all the survevors desired were in the
mountainous regions along the coast, where the undergrowth is very dense, competent
surveyors were deterred from entering into contracts even at the highest rates of $18,
$15, and $12 per mile for standard, township, and section lines, respectively, allowed
in cases of exceptional difficulty in the execution of the surveys.
Eleven contracts have been entered into and one survey provided for under special
instructions, the estimated liability aggregating (5,405, payable from the appropria-
tion for the fiscal year ending June :)0, 1890.
I expected to award contracts for other additional surveys, the estimated liability
aggregating more than $3,000, but was disappointed.
Offers had been made by competent surveyors to execute surveys in four townships,
at certain stipulated rates per mile.
The consent of your office to award the contracts and allow the rates asked had
been granted.
In the mean time this office had been furnished with copies of the Manual of 8ur-
.veying Instructions of December 3, 1889, and with the contracts prepared for the exe-
cution of surveys in these four townships. A copy of the manual was forwarded to
the contracting deputies.
The contracts were returned without being execated, the surveyors claiming that
under this manual considerable more work was required of the deputy ; and in a rough
mountainous country like that in which the proposed surveys were to be made, it
would be very difficult, making their work close within the limits prescribed.
I endeavored to find other surveyors to undertake the work, but did not succeed.
I regret this as I was very desirous of executing contracts covering as much as
possible of the amount allotted to this district. I believe, however, that oontraots
can be awarded for the snrvey of those townships as soon as the appropriation be-
comes available.
Yonr office has placed a liberal construction on the restriction confining surveys to
agricultural lands, and I am of the opinion that much less difficulty will be experi-
enced in securing the services of compettent surveyors, providing fair rates are allowed
for executing the work.
At the present time there are quite a number of petitions on file in this office, ask-
ing for the snrvey of lands that are occupied and improved by actual settlers, but the
localities and character of the land in the townships sought to be surveyed are such
as will require the benefit of the special augmented rates in order to secure contracts.
I would therefore respectfully recommend that a liberal amount be apportioned
to this district from the appropriation for the present fiscal year for the survey of the
public lands, as the demands for such as are actually needed is now very urgent and
constantly increasing.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
* Douglas W. Taylor,
XJ, S, Surveyor^General far Otigon.
Hon. Commissioner Gbneral Land Office,
Wathingiofi, D, C,
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A. — Statement of oontraots entered into by the surveyor-general of Oregon for surveys of
public lands, payable from the appropriation o/|200,60J made by act of Congress ap-
proved March 2, 1889.
No.
Date.
Name of deputy.
Location and description of work.
Estimated
liabilities.
(*)
1880.
Jaly 28
Andrew Todd
Meanders of the Nehalem river through T.4 N.,
Rs. 7 and 8 W., Willamette meridian. Oregon, f
For completion of surveys in T.31 »., R 15 W.,
$180
644
Aug. 14
George Fitzhugh
75
Willamette meridiun. 1
«45
Auk. 16
Charles M.ColUer and
Robert O.CoUier.
For completion of the survey of T. 18 S., R. 1 E.,
WilUmette meridian.;
400
MA
Aag. 16
....do
For the completion of the survey of T. 18 8., R.
R. 11 W.. Willamette meridian, t
750
548
Aug. 26
Samuel L.LoveU
of the exterior boundaries of Ts. 8 and 4 K., R. 0
550
W., and the subdivisions of the south half of T.
4 N.. R. 0 W., Willamette meridian, t
MO
Deo. 16
1800.
Albert RButtolph...
For the completion of surveys in Ts. 10 8.,R. 12 W.,
Willamette meridian. Oregon, t
\ 50
661
Mar. 10
John C. Arnold
For the completion of surveys in T. 2 S.. R 82 E..
and Ts.land 2 S..R. 83 E., Willamette meridian. §
800
562
Jane 5
Albert P. Wilson
in Ts. 1, a^Mid 8 S., R. 10 W., and Ts. 2 and 8 8.,
R. 11 W.TWillamette meridian. ||
875
568
June 14
flenry Meldrum
For all lines necessary to complete the surveys
In T. 4 S., Ra. 5 and 6 £., Willamette meridian. ||
000
554
Jane 30
BoUaCanfleld
For all lines necessary to complete the surveys
in T. 85 S . R. 14 W.. WUlamette meridian. ||
000
555
Jnne25
Albert P. Wflson
For all lines necessary to complete the surveys
in the N. | of T. 6 8., Rs. 10 and 11 W., Willa-
mette meridian. ||
400
556
Jane 28
Charles M. Collier....
For all lines necessary to complete the surveys
in T.20 S..R.2 W.. Willamette meridian. On-
gon. II
475
5,405
* Special instructions.
t Survey completed and the field notes returned
to thia office.
tSorvey oooapleted and accapted by Commis-
sioner of General Land Office.
6 Deputy in field.
11 Contract awaiting the appn
misaloner of the General Land Office.
I Contract awaiting the approval of the Com-
B,^8taienMnt of contract entered into by the surveyor- general of Oregon, payable from the
appri^priation of $10,000 made by the Indian appropriation act of March 2, 1889.
No.
Date.
Name of deputy.
Location and description of work.
Estimated
liabOity.
647
1880.
Aug. 24.
JohnA^MoQuinn
For surveying the west boundary of the Warm
Springs Indian Reservation in Oregon. *
61,000
* Deputy in field.
C. — Statement of contract entered into by the surveyor-general of Oregon, payable from the
appropriation of $100,000 for surveys and resurveys made by act of Congress approved
February 8, 1887.
No.
Date.
Name of deputy.
Estimated
liability.
540
1880.
Aug. 80.
Levi C.Walker
•
ional lines in Ts. 6 and 8 S., R. 10 W., and Ts. 7
and 10 S.. R. U W., Willamette meridian, for al-
lotment purposes in the Silet« Indian Reserva-
tion. Oregon. *
6700
* Survey completed and accepted by Commissioner of General Land Office.
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B. -'Estimate of funds required for the survejfing service in Oregon for the fiscal year end-
ing June 30, 1892.
Items.
BUBVBTS.
For roDDlnK. meaBurlfig, and marking—
Standardfl " '
Township
standards parallel I
liplines
Snbdivisional and meander lines .
Total iTor surveys
8ALAR1B8.
For salary of snrveTor-general
For salaries of clerKs
Total for salaries
CONTRIGElfT
For the pay of messenger, purchase of stationery, and other incidental expenses
Total
Total estimate for the service
12.600
7,500
30.000
2,500
4,500
1,600
TotaL
$40,000
1.600
48^500
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BEPOET OF THE SUEVETO&^^EHE&AL OF UTAH.
Unitbd States Survbyor-Qbnbral's Office,
Salt lake city, Utah, July 18, 1890.
I have the honor to Biibmit herewith, m daplicate, the annNial report of the United
States snrveyor-generars office for the district of Utah for the fiscal year ending
Jane 30, 1890, aocompanied by the following tabular statements, viz. :
A — Statement showing condition of resarveys of public lands under appropriation
for resarveys approved daring the fiscal year ending Jnne 30, 1890.
B^Statement showing condition of surveys of public lands surveyed under re-
payments made by the Central Pacific Railroad Company, approved daring the
fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1890.
C — Statement showing number of townships, extent of mileage and character of
soil surveyed under repayments made by the Central Pacific Railroad Company, and
approved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
D — Recapitalation showing number of miles of surveys approved and number of
acres embraced therein, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890 ; also, total num-
ber of acres surveyed in this Territory up to June 30, 1890.
£ — Statement showing contracts returned prior to June 30, 1890, but which have
not yet been approved by the survevor-general.
F— Statement showing contracts let prior to the commencement of the fiscal year
ending Jnne 30, 1890, the field notes and plats of which have not yet been returned
to this office.
G— Statement of contracts let during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, the field
work of which is not yet completed.
H— Recapitulation showing number of miles surveyed and returned to this office
prior to June 30, 1890, but not yet approved; also recapitulation of number of miles
included in contracts let prior to the commencement of the fiscal year ending June
30, 1890, the plats and field notes of which have not vet been returned to this office.
The above statements show that the number of miles of surveys approved was 323
miles 45 chains 11 links; number of miles surveyed and returned but not yet ap-
proved, 1,503 miles 'f7 chains ; number of miles included in contracts let prior to
the commencement of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, but not yet returned to
this office, 990 miles 2 chains 95 links; aUo that 4 surveying contracts were let during
the fiscal year ending Jnne :)0, 1890, the field work of which is not yet completed.
The numberof acres of public lands surveyed up to June 30, 1889, was 12,339/J31.19;
number surveyed and approved during fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, 91,814.41,
making a grand total of 12,431,745.60 acres surveyed and approved np to June 30,
1890.
The number of township plats made and approved during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1H90, was 6.
The number of township plats made but not yet approved is 19. There has been a
number of tracings of township plats made for the United States Geological Survey,
and about the usual amount of miscelleanous draughting, tracing, etc., done in the
Agricultural Department.
The Ceutral Pacific Railroad Company deposited, on selections, $99.74 for field work
and 112.47 for office work, making a total of $112.21 ; and the Union Pacific Railroad
Company deposited, on selections, $4,215 for field work and $526.87 for office work,
making a total of $4,741.87 during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
There were not any *' special deposits by individuals for the survey of pnblio
lands " made during the year.
In the mineral department there were 220 orders issued during the year, as follows:
198 lode claims, at $27 $5,346
11 amended surveys, at $15 165
7 mill sites applied for after lode, at $27 189
4 reports on placer claims 37
5.737
Paid for confiicts 1,180
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Making a grand total of ^6,917 paid into this department of the office during the year.
There were 936 mineral plate made embracing 238 lode claims, 6 amended sarvejs,
and 1 mill site.
There are 10 mineral claims in process of working op, 25 mineral claims snspended
awaiting instructions from Washington, 21 mineral claims suspended awaiting action
of applicants, and 6 mineral claims suspended awaiting action of deputy surveyor.
There are not any oJaims filed in the office that have not been taken up.
Considerable office work during the last year has been done in the preparation of
detailed schedules of mining claims, preparatory to the making of connected plata of
the more important mining districts; but, as in most of these district, a certain
amount of field work is decessary, for which as yet no fund is provided, but little
useful result has yet been attained.
Your attention is most earnestly requested to the argent need in this office of a
aystem of connected mineral plats, and to the applications for an appropriation for this
purpose made in estimates of June 19, 1889, and July 9, 1890, and in letters of Decem-
ber 24, 1889, and May 27, 1890.
I have the honor to be, most respectfully,
Ellsworth Dagortt,
U, S. Surveyor-General far Utah.
Hon. CoMMissioinER Obnbral Land Office,
WaskingUmy D, C.
A. — Skttement showing condition of resurveys of public lands under appropriation for
*^resurveyt^ approved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
Oontnot.
Deputy.
Resarveya.
Extent.
Rate.
Coat
No.
Date.
IM
1887.
Hw. 10
Arthur F. Benton*..
HecldiMi lines: Te. 7. 8, and 9 N.,
B. 1 E..8»lt Lake meridian
Township lines: South and east
boundaries. T.7 N., E. IE. ;aonth
boundaryVr. 8 N., R. 1 W.j east
3 E. ; east boundaryVT. 9 K., R. 1
E., Salt Lake meridian
Jf* 0. L.
U 00 00
18 78 06
81 00 70
28
♦7.00
8.46
4.20
i.20
008.00
70 85
SubdlTlsion lines: Ts.7.8,and9ir..
R. IE., Salt lake meridian
Closinss: T.8K..R.1 B
188L86
• 01
04 88 06
808.72
* Cost of suryey, $802.72; amount of oontraot, $207.80; defloiency, $4 02.
B. — Statement showing condition of surveys of public lands surveyed under repayw^ents
made by the Central Pao{fie Railroad Company and approved during the fSfoal year
ending June 30, lb90.
Contraot
Deputy.
Surveys.
Extent.
Bate.
Ooft
No.
Date.
167
1887.
Har. 10
Arthur F. Benson*..
Meridian Une: T.7K.,R.1E
Township lines: South and east
boundaries. T. 7N..R. 1 B.; south
and west boundaries, T. 8 K., R.
1 W. ; east boundary. T. 8 K., R.
2 E. : east boundary, T. 9 K., R.
1 E. ; north boundary, T. 9 N.. R.
2 B.. Salt Lake meridian
jr. a L,
4 00 00
28 72 04
225 66 10
08 81
$7.00
&45
4.80
4.20
$28.00
167.65
Subdivision lines: T. 7 K.. R. 1 E.;
T.8 K.,B.l W.J T. 8 K., Ra. 1
and2E.; T. 0 K.. Rs. 1 and 2 B.,
Salt Lake meridian
017.04
Closings: T.8K..R1W.;T.8K..
R'sland2 B., Salt Lakemerldian.
.44
258 57 05
1«18S.03
* Amount of contraot, $1,140.70; cost of surrey, $1,138.98; excess, $6.77.
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465
C. — statement ahoioing number of tawnshipet extent of nUleagef and ekaraoter of soil ewr-
veyed under repayments made hy the Central Paoific Railroad Company ^ and approved
during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
Ko.
Description.
of area.
Meridian.
Township.
Section.
Connecting
lines.
Agriouit.
ural.
Mineral
iron.
TotaL
T.7N.,K.1E....
T.8 N..R1 W ...
Jf. 0. L,
4 00 00
Jf. 0. L.
4 70 96
11 00 72
Jf. 0. L.
18 62 28
00 05 75
81 76 30
60 76 50
10 00 68
60 04 64
Jf. a L.
AOTM.
6,417.06
28,024.96
9,877.08
23,005.32
6,402.04
28,048.00
Aertt.
Aertt.
6,417.06
28,064.96
9,877.08
28,005.82
6,402.04
23,048.00
94
01 74
05 68
40
T.8 N.,R.1 E
T.8 N.,S.2S....
3 00 96
6 00 «00
6 00 OU
T. 9 N., R. 1 £ . . . .
T.9 N.,B.2£ ....
4 00 00
28 72 64
225 56 10
08 31
01,774.41
40
91,814.41
No.
Date of surrey.
Deputy.
If
1
<
June 16 to 34, 1887
Jnne 24 to July 8, ]
July 11 to 14, 1887.
July 27 to Ao^st
July 18 to August
July 14 to 37, 1887.
Arthur F.
...do ...w
Benson
167
167
167
157
157
157
4-
1887 ... . ..
... do
+
9,1887
... do
18,1887
... do
+
....do
KECAPITULATION.
— Total number of miles of surveys approved during the fiseal year ending June 30,
1890.
ITnnd.
Meridian.
Township.
. Section.
Connecting
lines.
Hesurvey -
Jf. a i.
14 00 00
4 00 00
Jf. 0. L,
18 78 08
28 72 64
Jf. a L.
81 69 70
225 .'^{ 10
Jf. 0. L,
28
Bepayments hy Central Paciflo Bailroad
08 81
18 00 00
47 70 72
257 45 80
08 69
Meridian..
Township .
Section.
Connecting lines .
Total
MeasuremeDts.
Jf.
18
47
357
70
46
08
00
72
80
69
823 46
Total number of acres surveyed up to Jane 30, 1889
Total number of acres surveyed and approved durlnst flsool year ending June 30, 1890.,
Total namber of acres surveyed and approved up to June 30, 1890.
10186 L o 30
12, 339, 93L 19
91, 814. 41
12,431,745.60
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466 REPOBT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
^.Staimnent showing amtraot$ returned prior to June 30, 1890, hut wMeh have not yet
been approved ly the eurveyor-general.
Oontnot
•
Depu^.
Fund payable ftmn~
Extent.
Bstimated
Ko.
Date.
oost
164
156
1888w
Jane 28
...do....
OttoB.SiJomon
....do
Appropriation for re«iirvey of pnb-
Bepaymente made by Union Paoifio
BaUroad Company.
Appropriation for sarrey of ap-
praised and relinquished military
reservations.
Appropriation for surrey of ap-
praised and relinqnisbed miliUry
reservations.
Appropriation for vesarveys of
pnblic lands.
Benayments made by Central Pa-
clflo Bailroad Company.
....do
Jf. a L.
09 40 00
201 40 00
114 77 00
726 40 00
33 40 00
190 40 00
72 00 00
$884.75
1,430.50
836.25
2,492.25
178.50
1.041.50
884.00
150
100
104
186
1887.
lf»7 8
...do....
1888.
Har. 8
...do....
Ang. 9
EdwudW.Koeber*..
Bobert OorUntkit....
ArthnrF. Benson t...
do
100
....do
1,503 87 00
0,497.75
* Fort Thombnrg military and wood and timber reservation,
t Fort Crittenden (Camp Floyd) military reservation,
t Field notes only returned; plats not yet filed by deputy.
F. — Statement showing eontraets let prior to the commencement of the fiscal year ent^ng
June 30, 1U90, the field notes and plats of which have not yet been returned to ihis office.
Contraot
Deputy.
Fund payable ftom—
Extent.
Na
Date.
coat.
158
101
1887.
May 8
July 9
1»9.
June 21
Edward W.Koeber*..
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praised and relinquished miUtazy
reservations.
Bepayments made by Central Pa-
clfie Bailroad Company.
Beenlar appropriation for reenrvey
and survey of public lands forfls-
eal year ending June 80, 1889.
Jf. a L.
94 64 96
808 40 00
501 08 00
$47&e5
1,277.02
8,000.00
109
Augnstua D.Femm..
990 02 95
4,758.27
* Fort Cameron military and wood and timber reeervatiott.
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UTAH.
467
Q.-^Staiement ofcontraeU lei during thefi$oal year ending June 30, 1890, the fieldwitrk of
which ie not get completed.
ContnMi.
No. Dftto.
J70
ITl
m
178
IMO.
Jane 4
Depaty.
Bdward W. Xoeber *
Jane 10
June 17
JaiMlt
Detoription.
Angastns D. Ferron t
BdwtfdW.Ko^bert.
Adolphe
BBBUBTIT.
Standard lines, second standard par-
allel north through Ba. 1 and 2 W.
Township lines, west andftaotional
north boundaries in Ts. 9 and 10
N IL 2 "W
SubdiyUion lines, Ts. 8, 9, 10, and 11 I
N., K. 2 W.
BUBVIT.
Township lines, fractional north
boundary Ts. 0 and 10 K., B. 2 W.
Subdivision lines, Ts. 8, 9, 10, and 11
N., R. 2 W.
Meander lines, island in BearriTor
in T. 9N.,R.2W. ; aUof the Salt
Lake base and meridian, Utah Ter.
All exterior and subdivision lines
comprising the arable lands in the
following townships, to wit, T. 2
S^ R.2 W.; T. 1 S., Rs. 2, 3, and 4
W. ; T. 1 S., R 2 B. ; T. 2 S., Bs. 1
and 7 E. ; T. 4 S.. Rs. 1 and 2 E. ;
T.17S.,B.7E.; T.ieS., ROB.;
T. 18 S., Bs.2,8.and6 B.; T. US.,
R.8B.; T.10S.,R.8B.; T.IOS.,
R. 1 £. of the Salt Lake base and
.meridian, Utah Ter.
All exterior and subdiTision lines
oompnsinK the arable Isnds in
the xbUowinff townships, to wit :
T. 12 S.. R. 2E. ; T. 16 8., Rs. 1 and
2B.; T.US^Rs.2and8B.; T.21
S., B.1B.; T.90S.,B.2E.; T. 19
8.,B.2E.; T.18S^R.8B.: T.17
8.,Bs.2aad4B.; T.168..R.4E.;
T.28S.. Rs.l,2,and 8 W.of the
Salt Lake base and meridian, Utah
Ter.
All exterior and subdlTlslon lines
comprising the arable lands in
the following townships, to wit:
T.80&,Rs.7and6B.; T.998.,Rs.
7and6E.; T.268., Bs.4and6B.;
T.aOSMB.5B.; T.89S.. R.SB.
of the Salt lAke base and marid-
ian, Utah Ter.
Bxtcnt
12
a
17 70 00
51 88 00
8 15 00
44 88 00
7 00 90
136 29 00
Amount of
oontraot.
9782i0fr
2,6U0i0O
2.000.09
509.00
5^702.09
* Pliable fh>m repayments made by the Central Paoiflo Ballroad Company for the rasurrey and sur-
vey ox publlo lands.
t Payable from regular appropriation for resurvey and survey of publio lands approved Marsh 8»
1889.
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468 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
BBCAPITULATION.
H. — Number of miles 8urveyed and returned to thia office prior to June 30, 1890, but not yei
approved.
Meaenrementa.
TiiDd.
Meridian.
Standard.
Military
boandaiiefi.
Townahip.
Section.
HMnrvey
Jf.ai.
840 00
M.O.L.
M.O.L.
M.O.L.
600 00
4140 00
31 40 00
106 00 00
88 40 00
227 00 00
23140 00
686 40 00
U.O,L.
Bepavmento Central PaMsifio
SaUroad
Bepayments Union Paoiflo
BaUroad
12 00 00
340 00
16 00 00
18 00 00
▲pprouriation for survej of
military reMrvation
18177 00
20 40 00
10 40 00
131 77 00
186 00 00
1, 188 40 00
18 00 00
Measnremeata.
Meridian
Standard.
Militai7 boundaries
Township
Bection
Meanders
Total
M.
20
19
131
185
1,133
18
a.
40
40
77
00
40
00
00
00
00
00
00
1,603 37
^Milder of mile* included in oontraoU let prior to the commencement of the fiscal year end
ing June 30, I8d0, the plats and field notes of which have not yet been returned to this
office.
Measurements.
Fond.
Meridian.
MU?tary
Standard, bound-
ary.
Boundary »r^-r«
Indian i ^J^' i Section.
Reserve.; "^^^P" i
Closings.
BMiayments Central Pacific
M.O.L.
24 00 00
30 00 00
400 00
M.O.L.
4 00 00
24 00 00
M.O.L,
Jf.aJD.
M.O.L.
19 40 00
M.aL.
256 00 00
420 28 00
68 OS 00
iLaL.
Begular appropriation for re-
snrveyand snrvey
Appropriation for sorrey of
8 00 00
107 00 00
2 40 00
22 69 06
9 60 00
68 00 00
28 00 00
22 69 95
8 00 00 1 136 20 00
734*83 00
2 40 00
Measorements.
Meridian
58
28
22
8
136
784
2
0. L.
00 00
Standard
-
00 00
Military boundary ----
09 96
l^nndajrv Indian Veserre...
00 00
Towni*liip
20 00
Section
88 00
Closings
40 00
Total
990
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KEPOET OP THE SUEVETOB-GEVEEAL OP WASHIHGTOV.
United States Surveyor-General's Office,
Olympiay Wash,, July 16, 1890.
I have the honor to sabmit herewith, in duplicate, the annual report of this offioe
for the fiscal year ending Jnne 30, 1890, accompanied by the following tabular state-
ments, viz:
A.~Statement showing condition of contracts not closed at date of last annual
report.
B.~ Statement of contracts let for the survey of public lands in the State of Wash-
ington, the number of miles and acres in each township surveyed, the number of
Slats made and the estimated liability of contracts under the appropriation for the
seal year eodii^g June 30, 1890.
The accompanying statements show the aggregate number of miles surveyed dur-
ing the past fiscal year as follows :
Number of ntandard lines run, 6 miles: number of township lines run, 116 miles 78.40
chains; number of section lines run, 768 miles 65.0^ chains; number of meander lines
run, 76 miles 40.83 chains ; total number of miles surveyed, 968 miles ^.28 chains.
Number of townships surveyed, 16 ; number of donation claims surveyed, 1 ; number
of township plats, tracings, et«., made, 261.
No special deposits made for survey of public lands during the past fiscal year.
Amount of special deposits for office work on mining claims, |1,285.
Number of mineral surveys, 33.
No deposits made by railroad companies for cost of surveys and ofilce work.
Respectfully submitted.
Thos. H. Oavanauoh,
U, S. Surveyor-General for Waehiugton,
Hon. Lewis A. Groff,
Commiseioner General Land Office,
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BBPOBT OF THE SUBVETOB-GEHBBAL OF WTOMIirO.
United Statbs Bubyeyor-Obnbral's Office,
Cheyenney Wyo., July 14, 1890.
In compliance with instmctions contained in your circular letter of April 23, 1890^
initial £, I have the honor to submit herewith taiy annual report, in duplicate, )f the
BurveyinK operations in the district of Wyoming, for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1890, with tabular statements a8 follows, viz :
A. — Statement of contracts entered into under the regular appropriation for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1890.
B. — Statement of contracts entered into under the appropriation of February 8,
1887, for the allotment of lands iu severalty to Indians.
C. — Statement of mineral surveys platted and transcribed.
D.— Statement of deposits made by individuals for office work on mineral surveys.
£. — Statement of contracts entered into under appropriation of March 3, 1885, for
surveys of abandoned military reservations.
BBGULAR APPROPRIATION.
Under the appropriation of $10,000 for surveys m this district, two contracts were
entered into, but too late for any field work to be done thereunder during the fiscal
year.
Of the contracts let under the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889^
the field notes of contract No. 234, dated June 19, 1889, with Frank H. Jones, deputy
surveyor, have been filed in this office, and the office work thereon will soon be com-
pleted.
Examination of the .field work under this contract is now in progress.
The field notes of surveys under contract No. 233, dated May 13, 1889, with Frank-
lin O. Sawin, deputy surveyor, have not yet been returned to this office.
SP1CCIAL DEPOSITS.
No special deposits for surveys of public land in this district this year.
AGGREGATE jOF WORK DONE DURING THE FISCAL
Number of plats and diagrams made 2St
Number of transcripts of field notes made 28
DEFICIENCIES.
Under appropriation for examination of surveys during the fiscal year ending June
30, 1889, there is a deficiency of $1,113.40 on account of the examination of the survey
of the Fort Fetterman military reservation in this district. This deficiency was re-
ported in the last annual report of this office.
Very respectfully,
William A. Richards,
U. S, Surveyor-OeneraL
Hon. Lewis A. Groff,
dmmitiioner Gm^eral Latid Office^ Wtuhingianf D, C,
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474 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
A. — Statement of oontraote entered into under the regular appropriation for tkejleeal jfoar
ending June 30, 1690.
Contract
Namoofiorre^or.
' Deaoilptioii of tarrey.
UabUity.
No.
Dmo.
1880.
287
June 18
J.B.Sluninoii
The ninth •tandud pwaUel north M milM ; the
exteriors of Ts.Sf and 88 N.. B. 00 W.; T8.88,88,
and M N., B. 81 W.; T. 38K.. Ra. 02, 08, 94, and 85 W.,
$6,000
and the anbdiyisional lines in above townshipe siir*
Teyable under the approprintion.
288
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W.O.Ow«n
Beenrvey of the aeTenth and eighth standard paral-
lels between the ninth and tenth guide mwldians
5,000
west; the ninth and tenth guide meridians west
between the seventh and eighth standard parallels;
the exterior lines of Ts. 20. 80, 31. and 32 N., Rs. 73,
74, 75. 78, and 77 W. ; also the snbdivisional lines of
T. 82 N., Bs. 75, 78, and 77 W., which are snrve} able
B.^8tatement of eontraete entered into umder the appropriation of February 8, 1687, for
the allotment of lands in eeveralty to Indians.
Contraot.
No. Date.
Name of snnreyor.
Description of surrey.
liabUity.
1800.
ICar. 22
H.B. Carpenter.
The Wind Bi-ver meridian. IS miles. The exterior
and snbdiTision Unes of Ts. 2 N., Bs. 1,2, 8. 4, and S
B. : T. 8 N., Bs. L 2, 3, 6, and 6 E. of the Wind Birer
meridian. T. 1 N.. R. 1 W. ; T. 2 N., Bs. 1 and 2 W. ;
T.8 N., Bs. 1 and 2 W., T.4 N., Bs. 2 and 3 W. : T. 6
K.. Bs. 2 and 3 W., all north of base line, and T. 2
8., B. 2 W. of Wind Birer meridian, in Shoahone
Indian BeeerraUon, Wyo.
$12,000
C. — statement of mineral surveys platted and transortbed.
Surrey.
Snrreyor.
Name of claim.
Date of
United States
No.
Dis.
trict.
register's
receipt
58
2
2
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Do.
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jy.^Statement of deposits made by indieiduale for office work on mineral surveys.
Date.
Depositor.
No.
AmooBt.
Not. 21, 1880
S.W.Dowiiey
7804
First National Bank, Denrer, Colo. . . .
100
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475
E. — Statement of eontracU entered into under appropriation of March 3, 1885, for 9urve^$
* of abandoned military reservatione.
ContHMt.
Detoriptloii of surrey.
Estimated
No.! Date.
liabiUty.
t»
1889.
Dea 10
J.E.Shumoii
The exterior and sabdiTision lines necessary to oon-
neot the lines of the pablic surveys with the new
eastern boandary of the Fort MoKinney military
reservation, in Ts. 50 and 61 N., B. 82 W.
$80
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INDEX.
Abandoned military TeserrationB, appropriations for, estimates of 264
entries on 821
in Wyoming, snrv-eys of 476
lUts and acreage of 18,186-140.166.166,266
plaoed ander oontrol ot tlie Seoretaryof tlie Interior 166, 166
sarvey, appraisal, and sale of 16
Surrey of; etc 184,186
Aberdeen and Watertown land districts, Dakota, all lands embraced witbin, traasforred to
Fargo district 168
land district, Dak., certain lands a part of, transferred to the Bismarck district 168
Aetof Jnne22, 1864, sections, only one petition filed onder .' 482
2, 1868, secdon 8, claims ander, 416
8, 1878, burden of proof in prosecntions under 850
Aoeonnts, diTision of. (See General Land Office.)
mistaken methods and practices in settlement of 13
responsibility and labor in adjusting 18
Adjustment railroad. (8e$ Kailroad.)
Agrioultaial cases involving mineral questions 832,838
ooUege scrip, entries of lands with 822
lands, surveys confined to 33,353,460
patents issued, acreage of 4,7
Akron land district, Colorado, establishment and location of 156
Alabama and Chatunooga railroad, (Ala.), ac^astment of grant to 20,199
Florida railroad, (Fla.), ad|ustment of grant to 20,102
Alliance land district, Kebraska, establishment and location of • 166
Allotment of lands in severalty to Indians in Wyoming, surreys for 474
Annual instructions for surveys, text of 34-S7
reports of surreyors-general , • 351-475
report of the surveyor-general of Arizona 353-355
CaUfomia 856-360
Colorado 368
Dakota 304
Florida 390-401
Idaho 403-413
Louisiana 416-417
MinnesoU 420
Montana 422-424
Nevada 427,428
New Mexico 430-437
Oregon 46^-460
Utah 463,464
Washington 469
Wyoming 473
Appropriations, deficiencies ot for surveys in Wyoming 478
estimates of , for abandoned military reservations 254
collecting the revenue iVom the pnblic lands 207,258
contingent expenses, offices of surveyors-general 257
expenses of inspectors 258
library 258
maps of the United States 268
salaries, offices of surveyors-general 855-257
service of General Land Office 253-258
surveying pnblic lands 253,254
for surveys and resurveys 33
Apportionment of appropriation for surveys 33,34
And lands in Idaho, irrigation and reclamation uf 42
of, reportson 404
Nevada 428
region, public lands of the, irrigation of, treatment of subject of 60-78
{8m Pnblic lands.)
Aiisonai annual report of the snrveyor*general of 363-356
artesian wells, desirability otjn 854
deposit system for surveys of pnblic lands in 863,354
desert land act, beneficent results of, in 354
Peralta private land claim in, stricken from the docket 354
private land grants in, condition of i 354
surveys in, on old contracts 87,356
no, in, payable from deposits 353
477
Digitized by VjOOQIC
478 INDEX.
Aria(ma,tO|MgraphlealBiirvev8iDj3liangei]i oondactoffUrged Sii,l9fr
White Hoantain Indian Beaerration, westem boundary of, survey of 354^ 865
(Ses PriTato land claim.)
(See Snrreya.)
Artoaian wells in Arisona, desirability of 364
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa F6 Bailroad (Kansas), adjustment of srants to 20,190,181
"BelleTne"toimsite addition, Idaho, surrey of, approved 404
Bismarck. (See Aberdeen.)
Bitter Root valley, Montana, surveys in, time for completion of, extended ^3
Blackfoot Indian Beservation, in Montana;, boundaries of, narveyof 422
Blaok HiUs land district. South Dakota, changes in boundaries of 163
Bounty land business, condition of the 12; 13, 02, 93
Bowers island, Montana, survey of 1 428
Bricks. (8€4 Oklahoma.)
Broken Bow land district, Nebraska, establishment and location of 156
Buena Vista rancho, private land claim in California r^eoted, resurvey of 55, 86t
BuffiUo, Public Land Strip, location of land office at 158
Buri-Burl private land daun in California, resurvey of 950
O.
California, Central Pacific Bailroad Company, special deposits by 382
deputy mineral surveyors of, list of 8S9
Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, subdivision of 8S0
mineral surveys in 867,358
nrivate lafid claims in, status of 358,360
Shasta land office, removal of, to Reddins district, California ISO
Stockton land district, transfer of towni&ips to, Aram Independence, Cal 152; 158
surveyor-general of, accounts of 382
uinaal report of the 350-300
surveyor-general's office, draughting department of, work of 357
offioeworkof 358
Spanish archives, department of, condition of 358
surveys of puWic lands in 38,30,850,357,800-383
swamp and overflowed lands in 388
(See Private land claims.)
(See Surveys.)
Camp MoBermitt hay reservation in Nevada, rejected survey of 55
Ca&adade los Baqueros, private land claim in Oallfomia, patent for 32,358.358
Canal purposes, acreage certified to States for 22,290
Canals ana wacon-roada, no oertifioates or patents issued for 21,22,208
Cash receipts rrom sales of public lands 8,10, U
sales of public lands, acreage of 7,321
substitution in lien of warrants or scrip locations 8:80
Cftvanaugh, Thomas H. , surveyor-general of Waahington, annual report of 408
Cedar Ri^ids and Missouri River Railroad (Iowa), a^ustment of grant to 20, 182, 188
Ceded lands of Sioux Indian Reservation 30,66^184
Central Paoifl<^ Railroad Company, character of soil snrveved in Utah, under repayments by . . 403, 486
deposits by. in Utah, for field and office work of surveys. . 483
mileage of surveys, in Utah, under repayments \fy 488, 482
special deposits by, in Califomia 386
surve vs, in Utah, under repayments by, condition of 483. 484
Chamberlain land district, Dakota, boundaries of 168^154
Chehalis land district, Washington, establishment and location of 150
Cherokee school lands, entries of, acrcMe of 387
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad (Wisconsin) adjustment of grant to 30.100
St Paul and Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad (Wiscondn), adjustment of grant to. 20, 186, 180
Milwankie and St. Paul RaUroad (Iowa), adUustment of grant to 20,200
Circulars and instructions relating to public lands 141-158
Claims, miscellaueous, pending 12
Clarke's fork of Columbia river, Montana, townships on, survey of. 483
Clay. {8e$ Oklahoma.)
Coal land patents issued, number and acreage of , 4,7,832
lands, decisions and rulings under laws relating to 334,830
entries of 388
approved, but not patented 338
canceled 383
examined and patented 332,383
pending , 833
received 888
filings on 385^338.334
in sections 16 and 86, in Colorado, instructions relative to 380
old suspended entries of, re-examine(^l 332,838
patents for, r«>corded : 882
sales of 7,8^320,881
Colorado, coal lands in sections 16 and 36 in, instmctlons relative to 380
deputy surveyors in, on active duty in the field, list of 308,808
land mstricts in, establishment and location of three additional 154. 156
mineral lands in sections 16 and 86 in, instructions relative to 880
surveys in, original and amended, ordered. 880
mineaand mill-aitea in. aurveysof 375-880
private land claims in.statusof 29^88
surVeyoi- general of, and clerks, appropriation for 881
surveyor-general of, annual report of the 803
Digitized by VjOOQIC
iNl)EX, 479
Colorado, Mirvoyor-generarft office, oo&tinfeent ezpeuMs of, mfpwatUMtm for 891
peraoDB employed in, rooteror 890
■nnreysin, amended pUtta of, ordered. 309
field noteft of 867-374
inspection of, appropriation for 302
plata and tranacripta of 866,899
apeoial depoftiu for, by individoals 898
of mineaand mill aitea 37&-889
publiclanda in 868,864
(See Private land olaima.)
{See Surveys.)
Columbia land district, WaahluKton. eatabllahment and looation of 156,167
Commlaaioner of the General Land Office, report of the 8-99
sorveys under Instrnctiona of 64
Companiea, railroad. (See Railroad.)
Competitive bida for pabUc lands 820
Con^oaKrantKo.80, private land c:rant in Colorado, atatnaof 80
Contest division. (See General Land Office.)
Contests, number of, statement of 17,280,232
Contests. (See Mineral.)
Cooa Bay military waeon-road, a^fnatment of fcrant to 20,201
Crook land district, Wyomin^c, establishment and location of 167
Crow Indian Reservation, Montana, survey of 429
]».
BagKett, Bllsworth, surveyor-gMueral of Utah, annual report of 463,464
DaSota land district. Nebraska, bouodariea of, changes m 163,1M
districts, transfer of certain lands to 163,164
surveyor-general of, annual report of the 394
surveys in 394-398
{See Surveys.)
Deeiaions and ruliufEs under mineral and ooal land laws 334-836
Desert land act, final entries of 10,11,319
oriKinal entries tmder .'. 10,11.818
rulings under 145
(See Public lands.)
lands, Tassen County, filings and entries of 9,10, 11, 818, 319, 836
Disposal of public lands by States and Territories 4-11,318-827
Donation elaima. acreage of, and amount received from 324
Draughting divlMon. (Sf«« General land office.)
Dubuque and Pacific Railroad (Iowa), acU^utment of grant to 20,183-186
Eaton, George B., surveyor-general of Montana, annual report of 42S-424
Educational granta, a^ustment of 284-239
approvalafor .\284
Commissioner's miinga relative to 241-244
_dward8,MN., timber caae of. In Colorado, I _.
Bntriea, final and onginal, number and class of 10,11
Bdward8,MN., timber caae of, In Colorado, an appealin 347
fraudulent (See Public lands.)
of all olaases of publiclanda, aggregate of 329
pending , 12
(See Public landa.)
Bxeeaaeaon entrieaof publiclanda 319
F.
Fargo. (See Aberdeen.)
Filingis ooal, number of, and fees received fh>m 9,896
Girard scrip, number of, and fees from 9,899
homestead, number of, and feea received from 9,826
miscellaneous, and feea therefrom 9,826
number of, and fees from 9
pre-emption, number o£ and fees received from 9,826
town-lot, number of. and fees received from 9,826
townsite, number of, and fees fkom 9,829
Valentine scrip, n amber of, and fees from 9,329
iSeeCoaX.)
(See Public lands.)
Final proof and payment 149-161
notices, requirementa as to 162
rules to be observed in passing en 147-161
rulinss controlling, etc 147-162
Fisher's island, Montana, survey of 429
Fkbthead Lake valley, Montana, surveys in, time for completion ot extended 428
Florida and Alabama Railroad (Florida), adjustment of grant to 20,193
mineral lands in, surveys of 400
private land claims in, surveys ot plats and description of, for patents 80, 81, 401
surveyor-general ot annual report of the 399-401
surveyor-general's office, office property and records of^ condition of 400
Spanish archives in 401
surveys in 899,401,402
plataand transcripts of 401
swamp lands in, reclaimable for sugar-farming 400
(See Surveys.)
Digitized by VjOOQIC
480 INDEX.
Fontnot, Henry, dalm of, in Louisiana, location of 416
Forests of Idaho .- iJ3
the public domain, protection of 90-S6
sarreysof, rates for, inadeanate 88,58,^8,460
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, in Montana, boandaries of, survey of 422
Haileck military reservation, in Nevada, reelected surveyof 56
Hall Indian Reservation in Idaho, Pooatello townsite within, survey of 403
Feck Indian Reservation, in Montana, boundaries of^ survey of ^22
Fraudulent entries, agents enf^acred in investigation of 338-342
cases of, final action on 338
number of 338
records of hearings in, awaiting action 338
(/8m Public lands.)
O.
•♦Gay biU" in Louisiana, result of 418
General Land Office, appropriations for. {See Appropriations.)
business of the, detailed statement of the 87-350
Commissioner of the, report of the 3-86
division B (recorder's), work performed in 91-03
C (public lands), work performed in M-96
D (private land claims), work performed in 161, 162
E (surveying), work performea in 166
F (railroad), work performed in 180
O (pre-emption), work performed In 17,18,222,223
H (contest), work performed in 17,230-232
K (State and Territorial gr kuts), work performed In 233-446
L (drHugh ting), wf>rk performed in 247
M (accounts), work performed in 240,250
N (mineral), work performed in 331
P (special service), work performed in 33S-342
increasing mafsnitude and importance of 3
transactioQsof, during year. 4
Girard scrip, filings on Innds with 0,S26
Government lots, rent of 320
Graduation entries 821
Grande Konde Indian Reservation, township plats of 458
Granite quarry on public laud, how to acquire title tu 349
Grants. {See Railroad.)
Great Sioux Indian Reservation, act for the division of, provisions of 121-182
division of, etc 16
President's proclamation in relation thereto 182-lM
Historical and statistical table of the United States and Territories 177,178
Hobart^ Edward F., surveyor general of New Mexico, annual report of 430-437
Homestead entries commuted to cash 16; 11, 310
excesses on ^.. 810 «
final 10.11.321
fees, amount received firom 1 0,10,11,250,200
filings and ft^s thi refrom 0,3S5
laws, o riglnal en tries u nder 811 :*
rulings uuder 141-143
quarrying stone on, for speculative purposes 340
rulingn and decisions 141,143 •
{See Public lands.)
Hoox>a Valley Indian Reservation, Hum boldt countv, Cal., subdivision of / 850
Honnia grants townships within limits of, survey of 410
Buuo land district, Colorado, estHblinhraent and location of 156
Humphrey, E. C, surveyor-general of Colorado, annuid report of 160
Huron land dlstiict, Dakota, boundaries of, chau ges in US, 154
I.
Idaho, arid lands and irrigation in, reports on 404
in, irrigation and reclamation of 43
Bellevue townsite addition, survey of,approved 404
Fort Hall Indian Reservation, survey of townsite within 469
irrigatedand irrigable area of county Ada, etc 405
Alturas,etc 405
Bear Lake, etc 406
Bingham, etc 406
Bois4.etc 406
CaAsia,etc 467
Custer, etc 406
£lmore,eto 408
Idaho 411-418
Kootenai, etc 411-413
Latah, etc 411-413
Lemhi, etc 400
Logan, etc 408
Nez Percys, etc 411-418
Oneida, etc 410
Owvhee, etc 410
Shoshone, etc 411-418
Washington, etc , 410
Digitized by VjOOQIC
INDEX. 481
Idaho, irrigation And reolftmation of arid lands of 42
in, plan for, by oonnties 406-412
vital Importance of, to people of 404
minerals of, ffrowing output of 418
"liullan"townftite, survey of, approved and accepted 404
deposit for ^. 403
Nez Perc6 Indian Reservation, allotment surveys of 403
" Pocatello " townsite, survey of, completed, approved, and accepted 403
precious minerals of, output of 413
resources of, not surpassed, etc 418
surreyor-general of, annual report of the 403-413
surveys in, mining and other 408-405,418,414
timber resources of, in extent, little known outside of 413
virgin forests of 413
(See Surveys.)
Independence. {Sm Stockton.)
Indian allotments 828
lands, acreage of, disposed of during year 8,827
sales of 8,327
{See Public lands.)
Internal-Improvement grants, M^Jnstmentof 5,234-230
Commissioner's rulings relative to 241-244
Iowa Indian Reservation in Kansas and Nebraska, rejected survey of 65
Irrigation of arid region, subject of 5^78
(See Arid region.)
in Idaho, plan iorand importance of 42,404-418
{See Idaho.)
Nevada, practicability of 47.428
(>e« Nevada.)
Isleto, N. Mex., Indians of, claims filed by 432
jr.
Johnson, Rafael A., surveyor-general of Arizona, annual report of 853-355
Judith land district, Montana, establishment and location of 155
K.
Kansas, Lamed land district in, change of boundaries of 152,153
trust and diminished reserve lands, entries of , acreage of 327
li.
Land district in Oklahoma, an additional, establishment of 158
Public Land Strip, establishment of 158
Lamed, in Kansas, cnangeof bonndariesof 152
Stockton, Cal., transfer of townships to, from Independence 152,153
districts in Colorado, three additional, establishment of 154,165
Montana, two additional, establishment of 155
Nebraska, two additional, establishment of 165,160
North ana South Dakota, changes in bonndariesof 153
South Dakota, boundaries of, establishment of 158
Washington, two additional, establishment of. 150,157
Wyoming, three additional, establishment of 167
new, and changes in boundaries of, etc '. 162-158
offloe, Shasta. Cal., removal of, from, to Raiding, Cal .' 150
oiBMe, local, list of 158-100
(iSM Local.)
Lands. (See Public Lands.)
Lamed land district, Kansas, transfer of lands from Topeka district to 162
La Salina private land grant. New Mexico, boundaries of, establiahed 432
Lassen County desert land tilings and entries, number of, and feeaflrom 0,10, 11,826
lands, salesof 890
Lewiston land office. Mom., establishment of 166
LiUle Rock and Fort Smith railroad, Arkansas, a^jnatment of grant to 20, 186-188
Local land offices, business transacted at, statement of 288-817
expenses of, amount necessary to meet 261,282
listof loa-ioo
Logging company. (See Railroad.)
Lonlalana,aotof June 2, 1858, section 8, claims under 418,417
Pontnot, Henry, claim of, location of.. 410
Houma grant, townships within, survey of 410
McDonOugh, John, claim of location of. 416
private land claim, "Gay bill, " result o^ etc 81,410
satisfaction of, confirmed and nnsurveyed land claims in 410,417
surveying in, appropriations for, estimates of 417,418
surveyor.genenJ of; annual report of the 4liM17
surveyor-general's office, office work of 416
surveys in 416-410
field and office work of. 416,410
(See Private land claims.)
(See Surveys.)
Mt
McDonongh^ohn, claim of, in Louisiana, location of 410
Map of the United States, revision and correction of, from official surveys 10
Maps, railroad, larse number of, examined and reported on 17
State, in pnblii* hers hands 16
10185 L o 31
Digitized by VjOOQIC
482
INDEX.
Hendano and Zspftto private iMid icrant in Colorado, status of 30
HUltary boonty land-warranta, entries of lands with 822
MlUtary reseryaUons, ezistine, names, area* and locations of 167-176
on ttaeChalf coast. survey of 45
(See Abandoned.)
HiUsite. (<8m Mineral.)
Mineral and mill-site entries canceled 823
examined and iiatented 833
receive
patents for, issued 4,832
mining claims in Utah, orders issued in, receipts from 468,464
^n^Ucatlons, final proof not made 884
in which final proof was made 834
number of, ana fees from 386
contests, number of, pending 834
division. (See General Land Ofiioe.)
lands, adverse claims on, filed 382
' and mill sites sold 331
applications for, filed ».... 382
contests for, filed 882
content cases considered snd finally disposed of 332,888
decisions and rulings under laws relating to 834-336
entries of, etc 14,382
approved, but not patented 332
examined 832
in sections 16 and 36 in Colorado, instructions relative to the 886
old suspended entries of, re-examined 832,833
patentsfor, Issued 382
recorded 832
qnasi-contests for 338
railroad selections, considered and disposed of 832,333
listsof, pending 833
received 888
sales of 818
lode, placer, and mill-site claims on 832
patents issued, acreage of 8,4,7,832
protests, number of, snd fees firam 885
questions, quasi-coDteet cases involving 832,833
agricultural cases involving 882; 383
{8u Idaho.)
{S0t New Mexico.)
{Se0 Wyoming.)
Minnesota, public lands in, character of 428,434
surveyor-general of, annusl report of the 430
surveysin 480^26
clerical work of, appropriations for, insnflLoient 424
compensation for, Insufficient « 428
(See Surveys.)
Mines and mill sites in Colorado, surveys of 875-888
Mining applications disposed of 384
final proof not made 834
in which final proof was made 384
pending, number of 883
received, number of • 383
claims in New Mexico, deposit on account of 431
Oregon, special deposits for work on.*. 458.456
(iSMKew Mexico.)
Miaoellaneoua entries, number and acreage of, and amount reoetved firom 825
selections and claims pending, acreageof 12
Missoula land district, Montana, establishment anolocation of 155
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Bailroad (Kans.), a^ttstment of grant to a0,188>180
Montana, agricultural surveys in 422
Kackfootlndian Reservation, boundaries of, survey of 422
Bower's island, survey of 42S
Clark's fork of the Columbia river, townships on, survey of 428
Crow Indian Beservation, survey of 413
Fisher's island, survey of 428
Flathead Lake and Bitter Boot vsUeys, surveys in, time extended for 488,424
Fort Belknap Indisn Beservation, boundaries of^survev of. 428
Peoklndiwi Beservation. boundaries of, survev of 482
land districts in, two additional, establiahmenc and location of 155
Manual of Instructions for deputy mineral surveyors of, a new, completed and piib>
llshed 423
mineral surveys in 422
surveyor-general of, annual report of the 482-424
" appointment by, of local inspeotors of iureyi works wett 483
sarveys in, rates for, insufficient 483
(See Surveys.)
Monterey, city lands of, tract Ko. 2, resnrvey of, completed 850
• •Mullan^'townsite, Idaho, survey of, approved and accepted *• 408,404
^*
Napa raaoho. private land claim in California, survev of part of 8S0
Nebraska, Aluanoe land district, establishment and looaaon of 156
Broken Bow land distrior, establishment and location of 155,156
north boundary ot survey of 56
(See Surveys.)
Digitized by VjOOQIC
INDEX. 483
Page.
NeTftda, Irrigatdon in, practioablUtv of 47,428
mineral anrreys in, depoefts for 487
rainfall in, exoeptlonaUy light 428
Bnrveyor-geo«nu of, annnaireport of the 417,428
snrveysin 487-429
extension of, asked for by settlers 428
(Bte Surveys.)
Ifew HexlcO) act of June 22, 1854, section 8, only one petition iiled under 432
first taken possession of by Spain * 26,488
grants by Charles ot Spain in 482
Isleta, Indians of, claims filed by 488
land claims in, unsettled, number and obaraoter of 488
lands of, claims to, included in treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 484
titles to, should be confirmed 484
La Salina, private land grant in, boundaries of, established 482
mineral land, some of the richest, within boundaries of Spanish and Mexican grants 481
mineral resources of 481
mining claims in, deposits on account of 481
locators of; many poor men 481
patents, great cost of 431
placita, ^th its outlying lands, diagram of a 482,438
private land claims in, ^>anish and Mexican, pending in, list of 440-467
grants in, condition of 24,482
settlers in, hardships of 481
small holdings of land in 482
surveyor-general of, annual report of the 48<M87
surveyor-generars office, arrears in office work of 436
snrvej'^sin 480-467
appropriations for 488,488
approved 489
unsettled titles in, gravest evils resulting fbom 434
Yolcker, Henry, heirs of, grant confirmed to 482
(See Private land grants.)
{See Surveys.)
Nez Perce Indian Reservation, in Idaho, allotment surveys on 408
"No Man's Land, "Buf&lo land district, establishment of. 158
embraced in Oklahoma 16
Korrish, John F., surveyor-general of Minnesota, annual report of 480
North boundary of Nebraska, survey of 66
O.
Oklahoma, bricks, taking of clay in, for the manufacture of 846
city land district, establishment of 168
Kingfisher and Guthrie, land offices established at 16
land district in, an additional, establishment of 168
" No Man's Land " embraced in 16
regulations lor execution of provisions of act establishing Territory of 828, 229
settlemeut, opening of, to 1 16
timber on, coverecfby an unperfected homestead, use of 848
nseof, in, by bona fide settlers 848
townsites, trustees of, letter of Secretary instructing. 287,238
regnlations for the guidance of 223-827
(See Surveys.)
Omaha Indian lands, entries of, acreage of 327
Oregon, Grande Konde Indian Reservation, township nlatsof. 468
Manual of Surveying Instructions, copies of, nimished contracting deputies 460
mining claims in, special deposits for work on 468,459
forests of, rates for survey of, inadeouate «. 460
survey ot difficulty in making contracts for 460
or heavily timbered lands, survey of, prohibited 460
Silets Indian Reservation, allotment surveys on 458
townnhip plats of 458
surveying instructions of, modification of. 460
service of, estimate of funds required for 462
8urveyor>general of, annual report of the 468-460
snrveysin 458-462
contracts for, condition of .*. 450
petitions for, numerous, character of 459
CTmatilla Indian Reservation, maps of boundarv of 458^459
township plats of. 458
Warm Springs Indian Reservation, nortn boundary of, maps of 468
(See Surveys.)
Osage ceded lands, entries of, acreage of 327
entriee, suspended and unexamined 18,228
trust and diminished reserve lands, entries of,acreageof 327
Otoe and Missouria Indian lands, entries oC acreage of 327
P.
Patents, execution and delivery of 18
fbr private land claims, undelivered • 82
railroad purposes, etc 21,22,210-217
river improvements 22,281
wagon-road and canal purposes 21,22,217,218
Indian aadmisoellaneous, aoreageof ^. 6,7,827
Digitized by VjOOQIC
484 INDEX.
Patenta, isBoed, asricaltaral, acreage of 3,4,7
coal land and mill-site 4,^,332
during the vear, acreage embraced within > 3,7
mineral and mill-site, nnmber of 4,7,832
railroad, acreage of 8,7,22,210-217
swampland, acreage of 6,7,23,246
{Sm CoaL)
(iSTm Mineral.) '
Pawnee Indian lands, entries of, acreage of 327
Pecan island. La., resarvey of ^. 415,418
Peralta private land claim, Arizona, ft*andnlent character of 354
struck from the docket 354
{See Private land claims.)
Pierre land district, S. Dak., boundaries of 154
Platte land district. Wyoming, establishment and location of 167
' * Pocatello " to wnsite, Idaho, survey of, completed, approved, and accept ed 403
Porterfleld scrip, locationsof lands with 324
warrants, nnmber and acreage of 02
Pratt, Wm. H., surv^eyor-general of Califomla, annual reportof 866-800
Pre-emption division, work of 17,222,223
entries, work on, review of •- 17, 18,282|223
entry, sales of lands subject to 818
filings, number of, and fees from 825
Private entry, sales of lands subject to 318
land claim in Arizona, Peralta, invalidity of 24,854
stricken fWtm the docket 24
unfounded character of 162-164
California, Buena Vista rancho, survey of 359
Buri-Buri, resurvey of 856
city lands of Monterey, resurvey of tract No. 2 of, completed- 366
issue of patent in 32
Nap<^ rancho, survey of part of, oonflrmed 359
rancho Ausaymos y San Felipe, resurvey of east line of. 358
Cafiadade los Baqu6ros, patent for 82,358
LasPulgas, resarvey of 359
Punta ae la Lagnna, report on 359
Isleta. New Mexico, filed by Indians of 432
' claims, act of Jane 22, 1854, section 8, only one petition filed under 432
division. (See General Land Office.)
in California, large correspondence relating to 359
onepatentto 358
Spanish grants, patents for, not called for 859,860
undelivered patents for 32
surveys of, for patents 401
New Mexico, character and condition of 26, 432, 440-457
Spanish and Mexican, pending in New Mexico, list of 440-457
archives relating to 81-38,859,401,482,435
status of, in California 358,350
Colorado 29,30
Florida 81-83,889,402
Louisiana 81.416
New Mexico 24,433
grant, La Salina, in New Mexico, boundary of, established 482
grants in Arisona, condition of 1 354
scrip, entries of land with 322
Protection of the pnblic lands 79-66,888
(See Pnblic lands.)
Public auction, sales of lands at 818
land States and Territories, vacant lands in , acreage and looat ion of 96-121
service, estimates of appropriations for, preparation of 250
strip or " No Man's Land, ''^ Oklahoma, land district in, location of 158
survey and subdivision of 49
lands, abandoned military reservations, appropriations for, estimates of 254
entrieson 821
in Wyoming, surveys of 475
on, lists and^acreage of 16, 18fr-140, 165, 166, 256
placed under control of Interior Department 165, 166
, survey, appraisal, and sale of 16, 184, 135
accounts of, responsibility and labor in settlement of 18
act of June 22, 1854, section 8, only one petition filed under 482
2, 1858, section 3, claims under 416,417
3, 1878^ burden ofproof in prosecutions under 859
agricullural college scrip, entries of, with 822
surveys confined to 38,853,423,460
allotment of, in severalty, to Indians, in Wyoming 474
appropriations, deficiencies of, in Wyoming, for surveys 478
estimat es of, for abandoned military reservations 254
collecting the revenue from 257.258
contingent expenses, offices of surveyors-general 257
expenses of inspectors of surveys. 253
maps of the United States.....*. 258
salaries, offices of surveyors-general 266-257
_,^ _, ,,^ . surveys and resurveys of 38.263«854
arid region of, irrigation of 69-78,151
at pablic auction, sales of 818
bounty land basiness, condition of the 92,93
brick, taking of clay in Oklahoma for the mannfiujture of 84i
canal and wagon-road purposes, no certiflcation of, for 208
Digitized by VjOOQIC
INDEX. 485
Page.
Public lands, oanal parpofles, acreage of, certified to States for 22,220
cash receipts from saleafof 8; 10, 11, 321
■alee of; total 7,821
aabetitution in lieu of warrants or scrip locations of 830
ceded Sionz lands, snrrey of 80,55,184
Central PacifloBailroad, character of soil surveyed in Utah under repayments by. 463, 465
deposits by, in Utah, for field and oifioe work 463
mileage ofiirarvey s in Utah under repayments by 463, 466
surveys of, under repayments by 468,464
Cherokee school lands, entries of, acreage of 827
circnian and instructions relatins to 141-152
Coos Bay military wagon^road, adjustment of grant to 201
coal, decisions and ruling under laws relating to 884,836
entries of : 882
approved, but not patented 832
canceled 883
examined 882
and patented 888
receive(
filings on 0,825,882,884
in sections 16 and 86 in Colorado, instructions relative to the 888
r old suspended entries of, re-examined 832,888
saleaofT. 820,331
patents for, issued, area of 4^382
number of 4,832
recorded 882
oompetitiTe bids for 320
desert-land actk final entries of, under 818
original entries of, under 318
in Arinma, beneficent results of 854
Lassen County filings on 2,826
c sates of 820
laws, rulings under 146
disbursements for service of, total 250
disposal of the, by Btotea and Territories, statement of 4-8,818-827
disposals of, annually, from 1878 to 1800, acreage of 252
expenses incident to the 826
disposition of, during year 7,8,818-327
donation claims on 824
Bdwaids, M. K., an appeal in timber case of, in Colorado 847
entries of all classes or, aggregate of 826
desert^ final proof in 145
excesses on 810
final and original, number and class of 10,11,06*318-827
proof notices in 152
proofs in, rules to be observed in passing on 147-151
homestead, minor heirs 141-148
settlement before entry 141
original 10.11,05
pending 12
pre-emption, suspended and not examined .' 228
timber and stone, finsl proof in 145-147
culture, flnal proof in 148-146
selections, locations, and filings of, number and acreage of 84, 06
filings on, coal 0,825
feesfh»m 0
Glrard scrip 9,826
Lassen County desert land 0,825
nnmberof •
pre-emption 0,326
total ihlscellaneons 826
town-lot 0,826
townsite 0,826
Valentine scrip 0,826
flnal entries of 10, 11., 06
proof and payment in cases of. 141^151
notices in cases of 152
proofii, rules to be observed in passing on 147-151
for canal purposes 21,22,220
railroad purposes certified to States and corporations for 21, 22^ 210-417
river improvements 22,221
wagon-road and canal purposes, no certificates of 21,208
forests of the, protection of 80-86
or heavily timbered, rates for snrvey of, inadequate 88,58,428, 460
surveys of, prohibited 83,858,460
Ihkudulent entries ot agents engSKed in investigating 79^888-342
I of, final ad " "" *""
1 action on 70,888
nnmberof 70,888
records of hearings in, awaiting action , 79,888
statement in relation to 79,80
Oiiard scrip, filings on, with 9,826
government lots on, rent of 820
graduation entries of 821
granite quarry, how to acquire title to, having a, on 849
great object of government in the disposition ot 3
Blonx Indian Beservation, dlvieion of 15,121-134
heavily timbered and mountainous, snrvey of, rates for 38, 56,428,400
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486 INDEX.
Page.
Public lands, historical and Btatifttioal table of. etc 177.178
homestead claims, olay. taking; of, from, for the making of brick 346
entries of, excesses on 319
final 321
commated to cash 319
fees, amount received fh>m 9, 10, 11, 2£8, 2«0
filings on 9,325
la\7a, original entries of, under 321
ralings ander Ul~143
quarrying Atone on, for speculative purposes 349
illegal appropriation, protection of, from 79,80,838-343
in Arizona, status of 363-356
Callfomia, status of 856,857,860,361
Colorado, status of 863,364,867-374
Dakota, status of 894-398
Indian, acreage of, disposed of, during year 8^327
allotments of 3S3
sales of the 8,327
in Florida, statUA of 401
Idaho, status of ■. 403-405,413,414
Louisiana, status of 415-419
Minnesota, stAtus of 420,421
Montana, status of 422-426
Nevada, status of 427-429
New Mexico, status of 480-457
Oregon, status of 458-462
States and Territories, area of 177-179
Utah, status of 463-468
Washington, status of 469-472
Wyoming, no special deposits for surveys of 473
Kansas trust and diminished reserve, entries of, acreage of 827
military bounty-land warrants, entries of, with 322
reservations on, existing, names, area^ and location of 167-176
mineral, adverse claims on, filed 332
and mill-site entries of, canceled 338
examined and patented 333
pending 338
received 833
mill-sites, patents for, issued 4,332
sold 331
applications for 825
filed 332
contest oases considered and finally disposed of.. 832^338
contests for, filed 332
pending 334
decisions and rulings under laws relating to 884-836
entries of 14,332
approved, but not patented 332
examined 332
in California, surveys of 867,858
Colorado, original and amended, ordered 389
Florida, surveys of 400
New Mexico, richest, etc 431
sections 16 and 36 in Colorado, instructions relative to the 336
lode, placer and mill-sito claims on 332
old suspended entries of, re-examined 332.838
patents for, Issued 4,332
recorded 332
protests in cases of 325
qaestions, agricultural cases involving 832,338
quasi-contest cases involving 332,383
quasi-conteists for 332
ndlroad selections, considered and disposed of 333
disposed of 332
list of, pending /. 333
lists of, received 333
sales of 7,8,818
surveyors, deputy, in California, list of 357,358
surveys of, in Wyoming, deposits by individuals for 474
mining applications disposed of 334
final ]>roof not made 834
in which final proof was made 334
pending 333.334
received 333
claims in New Mexico, deposit on accoantof 431
Oregon, special deposits for work on 468,459
miscellaneous entries of , 325
filings and fees, total 9,326
rulings in regard to disposition of 147-182
mistaken methodn and practices in adj nstraent of accounts of 13, 249
Oklahoma, regulations for execution of act establishing Territory of . . . , 228, 229
townsites, trustees of, regulations for the guidance of 223-228
Omaha Indian, entries of, acreage of 327
original entries of g^
Osage ceded, entries of, acreage of 327
entrien of, suspended and not examined 18^228
trust and dimmished reserve, entries of, acreage of 827
Otoe and Missouria Indian, entries of, acreage of 887
patents. (See Patents.)
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INDEX. 487
Page.
Public lands, Pawnee Indian, entries of, acreage of ' 324
Porterfield scrip, locations of, with 327
warrants, number and acreage of 92
pre-emption entries of 17.18,222,223,318
entry, sales of, subject to 818
fllinffson 9,825
private entry, sates of, subject to 318
land claims, etc 23<S3, 16U164, 322, 364, 368-36G, 401, 432, 438, 440-467
(See Private land claims.)
scrip, entries of, with 322
protection of the. importance of, etc 79-80,888
railroad companies, atynstment of grants of, to, letters submitting 181-202
claiming right of way over, number of 202
maps of location, date of filing of, by 220
schedule of, granted right of way over 203-208
construction timber, cutting of, on squatter's claim on nnsurveyed 349
division. (See General Land Office.)
patents, number of 21,22.208
purpooes, acreage of, certified to States and corporations for 22,208,210-219
selections of 828
awaiting action, list and acreage of 208
railroads, land grant, mileageof, constructed 22,208
receipts from all sources 7,8^250,326
registers and receivers, amount paid to 259
earnings of 259
(See Registers.)
relinquished military reservations. (See Abandoned.)
repavments for, erroneously sold 260,328-830
revolutionary bounty land scrip, statement of 91
river improvement grants of, acreage of 22,221
satisfisction of unconfirmed and nnsurveyed 416,417
school indemnity selections of 323
selections of; railroad and other 10,11,323
Sioux half-breed scrip, locations of, with 824
Indian, entries of, acreage of 327
small holdings of, etc 26^27,432-435
special deposits by individuals for office work of mineral surveys 251
railroads for field and office work of surveys 251
for surveys of, etc 13
in Oregon for work on mining claims 468,469
(See Siiecial deposits.)
squatter's claim on nnsurveyed, catting of timber on 349
State and Territorial grants of, acreage of, approved 283,284
selections of 10,11,323
university selections of 323
supplemental and additional payments for 819
supreme court scrip, locations of, with.. 824
surveyed, area of ., 177-179
surveying division. (See General Land Office.)
service, appropriations for, report of the condition of 260
surveys and resurveys of, appropriations for 33
of, accepted, acreage of 33
contracts for, accepted, number of, by States 58
apportionment of appropriations for 34
in Arizona 87,858-355
California 38,366-362
Colorado 89,363-393
inspection of, appropriation for 892
special deposits for, by individuals 392
Dakota 39,394-398
Florida 40,399,401,402
Idaho 41,403.413,414
Louisiana 48,415-419
Minnesota 46,420,421
Montana 45,422-426
Nevada 47,427-429
New Mexico 48,430-457
Oklahoma, publicland strip « 49
Oregon 60,468^62
Utah 61,463-468
Washington 61,46^-472
Wyoming 62,473-475
rates for, inadequate 83,68,423.460
swamp, acreage of, approved 0,245
patented 6,246
selected 6,246
and overflowed, in California 358
indemnity selections of 23,824
in Florida, reclaimable for sugar-farming 400
selections of, original , 324
testimony in cases of, fees for reducing, to writing 326
timber and stone, applications for 325
fraudulent entries of 86
lawH, rulings under 146-147
saleH of 7,318
culture entries of, excesses on 319
fees, amount received from 259,260
Digitized by VjOOQIC
488 INDEX.
Pablic lands, timber culture laws, final entries of, under 322
original entries of, under S23
rullii£8 under 143-145
cuttinf: on rellnqmahed cash entries of, on university selections in Min-
nesota S4A
depredations, cases of, location and status of 340
received and acted on 338,389
on, mlin j^s, recoiumcndationH, etc., in regard to 346-350
for speculative purposes, proceedings to ei^join parties firom cutting 848
taken ft-om, and sawed on sbares 8441,347
taking of, from, covered by homestead entries 348,847
trespass on, action in cases of 343-345
agents engaged in investigating 80, 842
statement respecting #, 80,342
use of, in Oklahoma, by bona fide settlers 348
on, covered by an unperfected homestead entry 340
to build a school-house 349
title to, having a granite quarry thereon, how to acquire 340
town-lot entries oi; approved 10,228
filings on 9.325
town-lotaon, sales of. 820
townsite entries on, received and approved 10,828
filings ou 0,8M
townsitea in Oklahoma) regulations and instructions governing 10^ 223-229
on. sales of 810
Uintah Indian, entries of, acreage of 827
Umatilla Indian, entries of, acreage of 837
reservation, Oregon, township plats of 458
Union Pacific Bailroad, deposits by, in Utah, for office and field work 468
university selections of 5,234828
in Minnesota, timber cutting on relinquished cash entrieson 840
unlawful indosnres of, acreage of 888
location, area, and present status of 841,842
reports on, and action in cases of 888,841,842
Ute Indian, entries of, acreage of 827
vacant and unsettled, statement of 18,90-121
Valentine scrip filings on, with 826
, locations of, with 328
wagon-road purposes, acreage o^ certified to States and corporations for 22, 217-S19
selections oCin Oregon, acreage of 209
war of 1813 warrants, number and acreagoof 92
Winnebago Indian, entries of, acreage of. 827
(8m General Land-Office.)
(Se* Private land claims.)
R.
Bailroad,a^ufitmentofgTant to Alabama and Chattanooga (Ala.) 20,199
Florida (FL».> 20,192
Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 (Kans.) 20,190,191
Cedar Rapids and Missouri River (Iowa) 20, 188, 183
Chicago and Northwestern (Wis.) 20,190
Milwankieand St. Paul (Iowa) 20,200
St. Paul. Minneapolis and Omaha (Wis.) 20, 185, 186
Dubuque and Pacific (Iowa) 20,183-186
Florida and Alabama (Fla.) 20,192
LitUe Rock and Fort Smith (Ark.) 20,1H6-188
Missouri, Kansaa and Texas (Kans) 20,188-190
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern (Ark.) 20, 181-182
St. Paul and Dul nth (Minn.) 20,196
Northern Pacific, (Minn) 20, iPl
Minneapolis and Manitoba (Minn.) 20,191
Southern Minnesota Extension (Minn) 20,105
Vicksbnrg, iShrevejDort and Pacific (Misa.) 20,198
companies claiming right of way over public lands, number of 202
land grant, maps of location, date of filing of, by 220
one map of location, filing of 220
grants to, adiustmentof, letters submitting 20, 181-202
right of way to, through public lands, statements of 22,202
oonatmction timber, cutting or on squatter's claim on unsarveyed land 849
dlTialon. 5m (General Land Office.)
grants, afUustment of 19-22,181-202
unda patented, acreage of 6,7,22,208-210
patents, numberof 6, 7, 22; 206-219
Kirposea, acreage certified to States and corporations for a 6, 7, 22; 206-219
gging company secured approvals of articles of incorporation for 22, 202
selections 7,10,11,823
aeleotiona awaiting action, liats and acreage of 22,206
pending 12,22
(As Mineral.)
Railway oompanlee claiming right of way over public lands, number of 202
schedule or, granted right or way over public lands 208-208
Railroada, adjustment of grants to 19-22,161-202
land grant, maps of location by, fillngof • 22
mileage of, constructed 22, 206
Rainfall in Nevada, light 428
Rancho Ausamos y San Felipe, private land claim in CaUfomia, resurvey of east line of 858
Buena Vista, rejected resurvey of 55^859
Digitized by VjOOQIC
INDEX. 489
Banoho Cailada do los Bmuotos, priTAte land eUim In California, lasaa of patent in oaae of — 82, 368
Las Polgaa, ptiTate land claim in California, resarray of 859
Ponta do la Lagnna, private land daim in California^ report on 350
Bates for anrveyi* of heayil J timbered lands insnffloient 88,68,423,460
Beoeipts from all sonroes 7,8,320
Bedding. (£te Shasta.)
Begistersand receirers, amount paid to 269
earnings of '. 1 250'
Bi({ectedsanreys,eto 55,358,850
Belinqnished military reservations. {Ste Abandoned and Public lands.)
Bepaym^ts for lands erroneously sold 328-330
Besurvey r^ected of Rsncho Baena Vista 55,359
BevolntioDary bounty land scrip, statement of 01
Bichards, Wm. A., surveyor-general of Wyoming, annual report of 473
Blver improvements, public lands certified for 22,221
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad (Ark.), adjustment of grant to 20, 181, 182
St^PaulandDuluthBailroad (Minn.), adjustment of grant to 20,195
Northern Pacific Railroad (Minn.), adjustment of grant to 20,101
Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad (Minn.), adjustment of grant to 20, 101
8alea. (/Sm Public lands.)
School grant in Colorado, vaUd selections of, requisites for 242
land subject to the 241
relinquishment of selections under 242
indemnity selections 284,323
land, rights under selections of 242
lands, act of June 15, 1880, purchase of, under 242
double minimum indemnitv, selection of 841
Great Sioux and Ponca Indian Reservations 248-249
indemnity for, in reservations 241
selections of 6,10,11,234
contests against ...V. 242
section 2288, Revised Statutes, tzansfer of; under 242
trespass on 242
sections, indemnity for mineral land in 241
Selections and datms pending, miscellaneous, acreage of 12
railroad and other 7,10,11,323
river improvement, etc 22,221
State 6,7.10,11,323
school 5,10,11,234
swamp 6,7,10,11,245,324
{Se* PubUc lands.)
Seminole lands in Indian Territory, survey of east boundary of 54
Shallow lakes, ponds, and former streams, survey of 48
Shasta^ land office at, California, removal of, to Redding, Cal 156
Shoshone land district, Wyoming, establishment and location of 157
Slleta Indian Reservation, Oregon, allotment surveys on 458
township plats of • 458
Sioux ceded lands in Nebraska, survey of 55
Falls land district, Dakota, boundaries of, changes in 154
half-breed scrip, locations of lands with 324
Indian lands, entries of. acreage of. 827
Reservation, ceded lands of the 16,30,134,327
Great, division o£ etc 16,121
(Sm Great Sioux.)
lands, ceded, survey of 89,55
Sloeum, John C, surveyor-general of Florida, annual report of 300-401
Small holdings. {See New Mexico.)
South Dakota land districts, changes in boundaries of 153
Southern Minnesota (extension) Railroad ( Minn.) , acUustment of grant of 20, 195
Spain and Mexico, land grants under 24-20
Spanish and Mexican private land claims 24-20,482,440-457
archives in Califomia, great value of 368
Florida, condition and value of 31,82,401
New Mexico 432
grants. (8e4 Private land claims.)
Special deposits, amount of ^ 13,427,481.468,450,473,474
by individuals for office work on mineral surveys 261, 474
In Colorado, by individuals for surveys, etc 302
Oregon, for work on mining claims , 468,450
Nevada for mineral surveys 427
New Mexico on account or miningdi^ms 431
Wyoming, no, for surveys 473
Squatters* claims on unsarveyed land, cutting of timber on 349
State and Territorial grants, acreage of, approved 5,6,233-236
division. (8e4 General Land Office.)
selections approved, acreage of 5,7,10,11,323
university selections 6,10,11,234,323
Sterling land district, Colorado, establishment and location of 154,155
Stockton land district, California, transfer of townships to, from Independence 152, 153
Siraughan, Joseph C. surveyor-general of Idaho, annual report of 408-413
Sugar-farming, swamp lands reclaimable for 41,400
Sullivan, Boetins H., surveyor-general of Dakota, annual report of 394
Supplemental and additional payments 319
Digitized by VjOOQIC
490 INDEX.
Sapreme Conn aorip, locations of laad« with S84
Surrey and ■abdiTision of Pablio Land Strip 49
annual inBtractions for, text of • 34-37
Surveying contract Ko. 168, in Nerada, rejected survey nnder 55
division. (Ses General Land Office. )
instructions, annual, text of 84-37
Survey of east boundary of Seminole lands in Indian Territory 54
military reservations on Gnlf coast, west of the Mississippi river 45
north boundary of Nebraska 50
Sioux ceded lands in Nebraska 56.56
the Texas boandary 56-58
xeleoted, of Gamp McDermitt hay reservation in Nevada 56
FortHalleck military reservation in Nevada 65
the Iowa Indian BeservaUon 55
(See Public lands.)
Surveyors-general, annual reports of the 361-475
Surveyor>general of Arixona, annual report of the 853-355
California, acconnts of 362
annual report of the 356-360
Colorado and clerks, appropriations for 381
annual report of the 363
Dakota, annual report of the 884
Florida, annual report of the 389-401
Idaho, annual report of the 40S-413
Louisiana, annual report of the 415-417
Minnesota, annual rei>ort of the 420
Montana, annual report of the 422-424
Nevada, annual report of the 427.428
New Mexico, annual report of the 430-437
Oregon, annual report of the 468-460
Utah, annual report of the 463,464
Washington, anuTiai report of the 468
Wyoming, annual report of the 473
(See Public lands.)
Surveyor-general's scrip, adjustment of claims under 31
office, California^ draughtdng department of, work of 357
office work of 368
Spuiish archives department o^ condition of 359
Colorado, contingent expenses of, appropriations for 381
persons employed in, roster of 390
Florida, office property and records of, condition of 400
Spanish archivesin , 401
Louisiana, office work of 416
(ifoePablic lands.)
Survey?, acreage of, accepted after examination in the field 83
and resnrveys, appropriation for '. 33
annual instractions lor, text of S4-37
apportionment of appropriation for 38.34
confined to agricultural lands and lines of reservation 83,353
in AriEona,etc 37,355
California 38,360.361
Colorado 88,363-383
Dakota 38,3d4-S98
Florida 40,401
Idaho, mining and other 41, 403-405, as, 414
Louisiana 43,418,419
Minnesota 45,420,421
Montana 46,422-428
Nevada 47,427-428
New Mexico '. 48^430-457
OUahoma^ Public Land Strip, etc 49
Oregon 60,458-462
Ut«£ 61.463,468
Washington 52,468-472
Wyoming 62,473-476
inspectors of, appointment of, by snrveyors-general, works well 423
in the field, examination of 62-54
of heavily timbered lands, etc., rates for 33,58^423,460
public lands, review of work embraced in the 83-59
shallow lakes, ponds, formeuitreams, etc 48
rates for, insufficient TT. 33,681423,460
rejected, etc 55
swamp lands reclaimable for sugar>farming 41,400
underlnstructions of Commissioner, etc '. 54
(See Public lands.)
Swamp and overflowed lands in California 358
land grant of March 2, 1848, no landdlsnosed of under * 28
S'snts, adjustment of, Secretary's decision relative to 22, 237-241
demnity acts, cash accounts under 23
selections 6^23,324
total, allowed and adfusted 6^23,824
lands, acreage approved as 6,23,245
cDsimed and reported as 6,28,245
patented as 6,7.23,246
selected as 6,23,246
and swamp-land indemnity, a4Jnstment of claims for 22, 28
in Florida reclaimable for sugar-farming 41, 400
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INDEX. 491
Page.
Swamp Ittods, quantity of, approved to the aeTeial States 6,24b
patented to the MToral States «.846
selected by the sereial States 8,245
reolaimable for sagar-fiffming 41,400
selections, acreage of, etc 6^7,10,11,246,824
original 824
{Se€ Public Isnds.)
T.
Ttiylor, Douglas W., snrreyor-geueral of Oregon, annual report of .*... 468-460
Testimony In land oases, fees for redncing to writing : 326
Texas boundary, sarvey of the 66-58
Timber and stone applications 826
entries^ f^andalent .- 86
lands, salesof 818
laws, rulings under 145-147
case of M, N.Edwards in Colorado, an appeal in 847
culture entries, excesseson 819
fees, amount received from 269,260
laws, final entries under 822
original entries nnder * 822
rulings under 148-146
(See Pnbfic lands.)
depredations, rulings, etc, inreaardto 846-361
for speculatlTe purposes, proceeding to ei^oln parties from cutting 848
public, cutting of, on relinquished cash entries on nniyersity selections in ICinnesota. 846
on lend covered by an unperfected homestead entry 349
taken snd sawed on shares 846,847
taking of, from land covered by homestead entries 946,847
useo^ inOklahomiL by bonande settlers 848
to build a school-house 349
trespass, actions in cases of 848-845
agents engaged in investigation of : 342
(See Public lands.)
Topographical surveys in Arizona^ change in conduct of, urged 866
Town-lot entries approved 10,228
filings, number ofj and fees ftt>m 9,326
Town-lots, sales of; acreage of, and amount fh>m 10,320
(5m Public lands.)
Townsite flUngs, number of, and fees from 9,326
^ entries approved 10,228
received 228
Townsites in Oklahoma, regulations and instructions governing 16,228-229
sales of, acreage of, and amonntfh>m 819
(See Public lands.)
Tnnittin,Gko.F., surveyor-general of Nevada, annual report of 427-428
R8B0E v.
TTIntah Indian lands, entries ot acreage of 327
TTmatilla Indian lands, entries of, acreage of 827
Beservstion, Oregon, boundary of, maps of 468*469
township plats of 468
Union Paoiflc Bailroad Company, deposits by, in Utah for office and field work of surveys — 468
University selections 6,284,328
In Minnesota, timber cutting on canceled cash entries on..... 846
Unlawful inclosures of public lands, reports on, and action in oases of 888, 841,842
Utah, acreage surveyed in 468,466
Central Pacific Sailroad Coinimny, character of soil surveyed in, under repayments by. 463, 466
deposits by, for field and offioe work of surveys 468
mileage of surveys in, under repayments by 468, 466
surveys in, under repayments by, oondltion of. 468,464
mineral claims in. orders issued in, receipts from 468,464
Union Pacific Bailroad Company, deposits by, for field and office work of surveys 468
surveyor-general of, annual report of the 468,464
surveys in 468-468
(See Surveys.)
Ute Indian lands, entriesof. acreage of 82
▼.
Valentine eorip, filings on lands with 9,826
locations of lands with 328
TicksportkShreveport and Pacific Railroad (Hiss.), a^ustment of grant to • 20,198
YigUandSt. Train private land grant, in Colorado, statusof • 80
Yoloker, Henry, heirs of. (See New Mexico.)
Wagon-road, military, Coos Bay, a4]ustment of grant to 20,201
purposes, military, acreage certifiea to States and ooiporatlona tat 22,217-219
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selections in Oregon, acreage ot 209
Wagon-roads and canals, no certificates or patents issued for 21
Wann Springs Indian Beservation, Oregon, north boundary, maps of •—.. 468
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War of 1812 warrants, namber and acreage of • 99
Waahixigtoii, land diatriotB in. two additfonal, eatabllaliment and looation of Ifi6
razreyor-generai of, annual report of the« 460
sanreysln 4O0-A11
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Watertown. (i9«0 Aberdeen.)
White Mountain Indian BeseiraUon, western boundary of, eorrey of 854,356
Wilson, Charles B., surveyor-general of TionisJana, annnal report of 415-417
Winnebago Indian lands, entnes of; aoreage of SS7
Wyoming, abandoned nmitarv reservations, surveys of 475
land districts in, three new, establishment and looation of 157
mineral surveys in, deposits by individuals for olllee work on 474
niatted and transcribed 474
survey of land for allotment in severalty to Indians 474
surveyor-general of; annual report of the 473
surveys in 47S-475
aggregate of work on .^. 47S
dinoienoies of appropriation for .*. 473
no special deposits ror 473
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