The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-11-11

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Correspondents Of the Leader.
WASHINGTON. d. c., Nov. 8.
The annual report of Edward C,
David. for the fiscal year of 1880,
United States surveyor general for Wyo-
ming, has been submitted to the com
missioner of the general land Office,
from which the following facts are OBJ.
tanned.
The report will be in full in the an
nual report Of the commissioner, which
will be made through the secretary Of
the interior to congress in December
next.
Under presumption laws, entries Is,
involving 17sl.ss acres; receipts 81
9o3. Is.
Desert lands entries. 107, involving
"a ,282. 03 acres; receipts So, 572.62.
Final desert, entries 10. involving
5.96l.14 acres.
Mineral lands. entries 2, involving
Ill e5 acres; receipts s430. 90.
Excuses. timber culture and home
stead, entries 2. involving rs. 90 acres;
receipts S57. 80.
Entered under homestead laws, entries
Ga, involving 9,216.5I acres; receipts
81, 024. 90.
Final homestead entries 10, involving
1873 1 acres; receipts s1O6. 90.
Timber culture entries 8, involving
7s4. 80 acres; receipts $40.
Aggregate entries. 225
Aggregate acres. Al, 635. OF
Aggregate receipts. $40, lac. 80
Railroad land selected, acres. ...I,l20
Presumption Filings. .............. so
Homestead filings.
Coal filings. ...3
Mining applications ................6
The Sd. 9th. 10th. 18th and 18th
guide merid,aus W. and the Sd. 9Th. 9Th.
9th. 10th. 18th and 18th standard
parallel n. have been extended and as
tablished for a total distance Of 513
miles % "a chains.
The exterior township boundaries of
101 W have been surveyed and estab-
lished, the total length Of which is s97
miles 24.S1 chains.
The section of legal subdivision lines
of SO W, embracing an area of 1.104.-
COS. 9S acres, Of which 2.026.42 is min
eral lands, and 1850 miles and 57.s4
chains in length have been surveyed
and established. The most eastern of
these subdivisions are grazing lands on
Spoon Bill creek and the Niobrara
river. The middle portion are on the
Laramie and Medicine Bow and mainly
within the Union Pacific railroad grants.
The northern surveys are on the tribu-
tariea of the Powder river and are very
fair grazing lands. The southern sub
divisions are on the North Platte and
Snake rivers, and the western portions
are on the Bear river and Hams Fork
Of Green river. The total acres subdi-
vided in Wyoming is now TO- 2e. s66. 80
acres.
The proposed for the ensuing
fiscal year are the extensions of stand
ard and exterior township lines in the
valleys of the North Platte, Powder.
Cheyenne. Snake and Bear rivers and
their tributaries; ard for the subdiyis.
ion Of each township In the valleys as
have settlements, agricultural and
grazing lands. susceptible of irrigation
and such as are found with timber and
coal.
Crook county, embracing Cheyenne
river and a part of Powder river. will
soon be organized, and is reported by
the assessor to contain one of the best.
most fertile and desirable portions of
wyoming; where farming is carried on
to a considerable extent. and potatoes.
wheat, oats ard corn are raised with
out irrigation. This is the garden spot
of Wyoming. Coal oil flows out spon-
~taneously and is dipped from the sur
face of the water in some of the
springs tributary to the CHEYENNE river
and is sold to the quartz mills in the
Black Hills at "a DER gallon. being pre-
ferred to any other for l~ubricatinr pur-
poses.