The New York herald., 1851-12-03


may be estimated in proportion.
The locations by military bounty land warrants
during the fiscal year commencing July lst, 1850,
cover an area off, 900 acres, making m aggre.
gate Of cash sales, and locations by warrant, during
that period, Of 1900 S7 ID 100 acros which. at the
minimum price, would amount to 8, 1916, ,059 36l00
dollars. The Gales, however, exceeded the mini
mum price by 62 S55 o. 100 dollars. The whole
number Of land warrants issued to the 1st Novem-
Der, 1861, under the Mexican Bounty Land
act of llth February, 1917, is sO,7Si. or this
number 66,6lS have been returned TO tho General
Land Office as located; and Of these located land
warrants Go 200 have been patented. The whole
number of lazd warrants issued up TO the same
period, under the General Bounty Land Law Of
18th September, 1850. is 5t,20l. OF this number,
3,70s have been returned to the General Land
Ofce as located; and Of the located land warrants
Of this class, $50 have been patented.
Sirce my last annual report, there have been
Issued and transmitted to their respective destna
tons, upwards Of seventy Eve thousand letters
patent for public land titles Of all descriptions. and
the labors Of the accountants and book keepers
have been diligently prosecuted. The quarterly
Of. the Surveyors General, including California and
Oregon, am gratified to be able to state, have all
been adjusted at this Office, to the Both September
last; and the accounts Of Deputy Surveyors, as far
as received are all dusied to dates more recent,
with the exception Of two suspended cases.
The quantity Of public land proclaimed for mar
kst sace the date Of my last annual report, amounts
to T,13i ,sS7 acres and the estimated quantity
available for market during the coming year, win
not be less than ~ fscres as shevn by the
tables submitted.
Late in the spring the District Land Office at
Defiance Ohio, was destroyed BY fre and It's records
all consumed. This office promptly supplied the
Register and Receiver with lists Of the lands yet
remaining unsold in that district and the duties of
that sfice we're shortly afterwards resumed.
Evny precaution has been adopted, by official
regulation and system, TO detect and arrest any
atten pts 10 i'm pose upon the Office fraudulent assign
'ments Of warrants under the Mexican Bounty Land
act Of February H. 1Sf7 the warrants in thst class
havisg been held to be sssignable. Measures have
been adopted to secure accuracy and neatness In
the epgroesng Of all the patents, and subjecting
them 20 proper test, by careful examination OF
n Board and the business generally, IN its multi.
fariOus details, is sstisfactOriy rosressns
PACIFIC sURvEYs-oREooN.
Within the last half century our peculiar systsn
Of public land surveying, commencing In the rich
valleys OF the Ohio and It's Tributaries the early
theatre Of the daring pioneers OF Western eiviza-
tion-hss been extended ever the vast expanse OF
The numerous public land states and Territories,
since brought into political existense on the Allan
tic slope. Sinse the adjournment Of the last Con-
gress Its practical extension 10 the remotest verge
Of our Pacific border hss been commenced. There
the industrious land surveyor s now found greeted
by the adventurous e1pectants Of advancing civiz-
alton in Ossgon, between the Cascade Mountains
aud the coast stretching his chain along the fertile
valleys OF the Unpqua and the Willamette, or
otherwise laborisg in his vocation, at times en-
compassed with difficulties demanding iudomitabls
energy 10 overcome Amidst the formidable bill
ranges, extensive forests and mountains, which im-
tArt TO the physical fcstures Of the country extra
ordinary grandeur, the surveyor is engaged IN sur
mounting ebstaclss unpfecedented IN ais proies
sienal experience. That which 70 the past genera
ton was almost IN Utopian idea, the settlemsnt
and surveyins of Oregon, s now rapidly becoming
practical business reality, under the provisions q
the act &C 2Tth september, lSJO, 10 create tue
ofico Of Surveyor General et tos public tsots IA