New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-05


ward Of ,4t0 600 600 acres
In tho work of surveying extension in the land,
States and Territories mentioned IN the foregoing
exhibit the tracing Of the great meridians ana oese
T,es and establishing enduring monuments, require
the highest professional skill because upon these lines
are closed and perpetuated the township hhes-tAe
whole framework of the system.
pncp,l ard side neridans have been and established
"a he cxtert tvS MUGS
Base lines to,the extent 4SiS miles
,ro,,,so, IL $50 miles
Tn. otIeT lines Of ne public surveys township and snbd
;;i ton he commencement Of operations to the present
period have been extended
EQUAL Al o6'sls
THE suryeys have been completed in Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Alabama, Mississippi, Eichignn, Arkansas,
and Iowa, and nearly so in Missouri, Louisiana, and
Florida, excepting in the last-named, the Ever
clades, in the Southern Peninsula. 80
The details of the Der of miles end acres sur
veved In each department during the year ending goth
SeItember, 1860, are exhibited in an accompanying
The work has heen coextenfive with the funds ap-
propriated and includes public lande-confed private
claims Indian reservations, and boundaries between
States and Territories. During q at period there have
been returned surveys equal 70 &C. 1888 hne miles or
an area Of IL $50 Az 92.1t0 acres.
The existing machinery is divided into eleven snr-
veying deportmepte iis personnel consisted during the
last year Of eleven sur eyOrs general, elgnyVe EN-
ploycs, one hundred deputy surveyors having four
hundred assistants in the capacities OF compafsnen,
chd.lnen, 0aR1nen, HAlneI, anu lehlhh'tib'
The surveying archives Of OHIO, ISDIAEA, MIcHI-
GAN, ALABAMA ard MISSISSIPPI have long since been
delivered over to those States pursuant TO law Inc
archives for ILLINOIS and ARKANSAS where the sur
views are completed, may I've transferred to the State
authorities whenever the Legislatures Of those States
shall have passed hcts Of acceptance az required p%the
laws Of Congress Of the Eth January 1910 and I'D
January 1853. In the case CT Missouri Louisiana,
Florida, and Iowa, the surveying machinery is IN prog
ress of being wound mp; the transfer IN hke manner
is proposed when the Leeatures Of thofe States shall
have passed the prerequisite ects of acceptance.
The fragmentaIy work which may remain In any OF
these States after the Surveying Department IL closed
within their limits, such surveys Of private claims,
islands or ntersal Parcels oiEeyubbc land can at any
time hereafter be executed through the fundamentally
Of the General Land Office in virtue Of the powers con-
ferred upon the Commissioner by acts Of Congress for
that purpose.
MIssorRI-Having the object in view of an early
closing of lis Office tie SurveyOrGene1al has been in
truced TO direct his force with diligence and energy
tothe complete protracton In tpcate OF ill field notes
Of townships or Of surveys Of parcels of land rot yet
reduced 10 patsthen 10 have all allotmeets OF the
School lands under the acts of Congress of 1872 1874
and 1881 brought TO O termnation-to have disputed
questions Of confirmed locations promptly settled and
plated, with any other cases Of confirmed titlcs.
LoUIsIASA.-The existing contracts for suryeys are
all required TO he executed before the 3Oth Of June
next The field work, therefore, in this State, may he
regarded as nearly completed excepting the New:Or-
leans township for which, with its exterior relations
Of private titles and swamp, the has
recommended an appropriation Of 5000. The item
has heretofore been brought 70 the attention of Con-
grese is desrable and is recoHmended yet this par
cular service need not delay the oloting Of thai
veyinp department because the work can hereafter be
done under the orders of this Office whenever authority
shall be given by Congress for is execution OF the
reauidte augmented rates.
IRE field work Of past wears has been pressed with
greater speed than the Office work Of the Louisiana
Surveying Department and hence large accumulation
of desk labor exists The SurveyorGenera has been
instructed to bring up the arrears ookingto the event
nal transfer Of the archives 10 the State.
The estimates submitted have IN view the closing OF
the Surveying Department IN the two States, Mis-
souri, and Louisiana, dispensing with the chIeI officers
there ar ,oon as the public interest will allow, and
completing transcripts by direct authority from this
Office out Of the anticipated pursuant 10 the
Inmates presented, those means TO be applied In the
most eifectuai manner TO the end contemplated.
IL FLORIDA the field operations were carried on
along the Atlantic Coast, east Of Indian River and in
the vicinity Of Mertts Island also east aud west Of
the Okeechobee Lake and in the neighbOrhood OF Car
losahatchee River. The estimates submitted are for
sub.diyisional work of certain arabic lauds-about
twenty townships, equal 10 800 acres, situated
north of Carlosahachee River, and west of Okeecho.
bee Lake In addition TO Ills, the Surveyor General
recommends the extension Of township lines over a re
Qion OF country south of CarOsahatcbee III latitude
s6o 30 and north of the Everglades on the ground Of
the existence of extensive bodies OF land not falling
within the Swamp Grant, but the information IN our
possession does not satisfy us Of the present necessity
Of this work, which would require augmented rates,
and NAV be done at any future period when circun-
stances NAV render il desirable.
Tie question Of the true boundary between Florida
and Georgia is one of long standing and should be
promptly settled. The Commissioners appointed M.
der the act Of Congress Of May A. 1896 having dis
agreed az TO the true of 81. Mays River the
boundary has neyerbee since finally determned Geor-
Ria insisting that Elico;s Mound established In 1900,
1T the source of that river was not the real source Of
the river, and in 1879 the State applied TO Congress
for authority to and mark the boundary according
TO the true intent end neening OF the treaty Of ll91
with Spain; bnt nothing further in respect 10 the de-
termination Of that line has since been ordered by Con-
gress--ElioOts Mound and the initial point Of the
boundary at the mouth OF Flint River connected
by actual measurement in direct line early 1926,
by the u. S. Surveyor General, aud the public surveys
In Florida have been closed thereon
The failure Of the Commissioners by dsaPTecmentto
caIry out the provisions Of the said act Of 1896 having
stated lett the question rs TO the true boundary un-
settled, the provisions OF tie recent act OF Congress,
approved pill Is 1860 "fO settle the ter 10 lands
'5along the boundary line between the States Of
Florida and Georgia catspt properly be carried out
in settling the oOermDous private rights Of the people
in Georgia aud florida until final adjustment of the
boundary is had pursuant 70 further legislation Of Con-
gress.
Kansas NEBRAsKA.-Tfe SuivcyOr-GepeJal reports
that the surveying service bias progressed during the
last year 20 the extent Of the appropriations. The re-
turns Of the ield-wok consisting In Kanss Of ,l46
miles township and sub-diviaonal work, principally
kew-York Indian lands and in Nebraska, 3 6l9 miles
on the Missouri River near the confluence Of the Neo
brarab aud Missouri Rivers, and the Platte River,
near Fort Kearney, and On the head waters OF he Big
Blue River.
la this surveying department, 80 township plats for
Kansas have been prepared aud sat 10 local land Off
ces for an area
II. ps;, previously reported 9' AcIOs
Making plsts dolly returned for total area
H. Kansas Of iE"V"'" sIes
Thirty -e4at township plsts
for kebtAslA have been
prepared during the past
year and transmitted for
or area Of. ................ Ts.61LBS acres
Plsts previously ported fos 8 Sc, 537 ~ Berea
MAKING pls,s returned for surface of.. 45t'5b ssrth