US Presidency
1898

The total receipts of the Patent Office during the past year were $ 1,253,948.44. The expenditures were $ 1,081,633.79, leaving a surplus of $ 172,314.65. The public lands disposed of by the Government during the year reached 8,453,896.92 acres, an increase of 614,780.26 acres over the previous year. The total receipts from public lands during the fiscal year amounted to $ 2,277,995.18, an increase of $ 190,063.90 over the preceding year. The lands embraced in the eleven forest reservations which were suspended by the act of June 4, 1897, again became subject to the operations of the proclamations of February 22, 1897, creating them, which added an estimated amount of 19,951,360 acres to the area embraced in the reserves previously created. In addition thereto two new reserves were created during the year the Pine Mountain and Zaca Lake Reserve, in California, embracing 1,644,594 acres, and the Prescott Reserve, in Arizona, embracing 10,240 acres -while the Pecos River Reserve, in New Mexico, has been changed and enlarged to include 120,000 additional acres.