The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-26
Sale ofIPubIic Domain.


commissioner of the general land
office for the fiscal wear ended June
80, 1857, Will show an inroad upon
the area OF public domain unprece-
dented IN the history of the country.
The report last year showed the
disposal OF lands by cash sales to
amount to 1,5S7,6I7 acres. This
year the report will show, under the
same head, 3,699S99 acres of agrcuI-
tural land alone, including tSifiDg
sales OF Indian land, to which should
oe ADDED sales of S7,061 acres under
the desert land act, and 1874 acres
OF coal lands. Homestead entries
last year covered 5,O2S,1 acres,
While Tor the fiscal year Just closed
there were taken under this act the
enormous area of 6,347,729 acres.
The increase in settlements under
the agriculture act is striking. the
last report showing entries under
this law Of 1,763, 799 fOI the fiscal
year ended June 80, 81, while for
the fiscal year ended June 80, 80
the number Of acres was 2,G09, 797.
The grand total of acreage taken
for the fiscal year ended June 80,
81 was POSSESSES, against Is SOS, $40
for the fiscal year closed last June.
Total receipts Of the Office for
the fiscal year Of 1880 81 were S5.4O6.-
3SS, while for the year Just closed
the receipts were $S,361,O91. The
principal sales were for agricultural
lands, among them being: Califor-
mia, 1924 acres at 1901, 644; Colo
RADIO, 74,1S9 acres, $I16,97O; New
Mexico, 4 1926 acres, $500; Oregon,
57,75e acres, $1!4,512; Utah, $500
acres, $17,242; Washington Terri
tory, 1914 acres, $24O,230; Wyom-
ing, 2,7S1 acres, $1,000. The
mineral land entries for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1881, covered
2O7, 189 acres; for the fiscal year Just
closed, 370,623. Most of these en-
tries were made in Colorado, where
1,772 acres were taken. Then fol-
lowed California with S,113, Mon
tana with 1897, Nevada, 1866. Ari-
IONA, 1,733; New Mexico, 1,Ol4;
Utah, 1,142, the rest all being under
500 acres.
There does not seem to have been
much activity in the way of new
discoveries in the Black Hills,
since Dakota shows only ISL acres
taken for the year, under the desert
land act. There were 1885,
$50 acres taken during the
fiscal year ended5 June 80, 1881.
There was some increase in this
class of settlements during the past
year, there being taken 1865, 055 acres
settlement under this act was con.
fined to three states and eight terri
tories. The largest amount was
taken in Montana, which leads off
with 81, 682 acres; followed by Wy
oming, 1924; Idaho. 32.747; Utah,
12,717; California, 1894; New Mex
leo, 1878, Oregon, 5,055, and Ari-
iona, 1920. Receipts from these
ssles were 99,1S2. The immense
tide of immigration which has
poured into the west during the
past year has made its showing in
vast tracks taken under the home
stead law. In the southern states,
also, there has been quantities of land
taken under this act, but over one
third of the whole homeSteads for
the past fiscal year have been To-
Gated in the single territory of Da-
kOta, where the entries cover an area
Of 2,187,451 acres made as against
2S6,S72 for the fiscal year ending
June 90th, 81. Minnesota comes
next with homestead interest for
SS0,334 acres. Close to it comes
Kansas, with 557, 452, and Nebraska
with 473,816. Next in amount after
homesteads, comes the entries under
the timber culture act, this class of
claims being limited at one-quarter
out Of each complete Sec
ton open to settlement, 1900, 1877
acres were entered under the
timber culture act during the
fiscal year ending juno 80, 1882,
Dakota furnished over one-half the
amount, and there were taken up
under this act during the past fiscal
year the following number Of acres,
in the respective states and terri
tories, at 1872 acres. Arizona, 19,o
812 acres in California, 1,403; in
Colorado, 47,11o; in Dakota, 81, $50 :;
in Idaho, 623; in Iowa, 292 ,2ss; in
Kansas, ] ,01s; in Louisiana, 179, 500 :;
in Minnesota, 35,5O9; in Montana,
$4,000; in Nebraska, 1920; in New
ada, 1882; in New Mexico, 1926;
in Oregon, 1878; in Utah, 1896; in
Washington Territory, 1924. The
commissions collected in this class
of entries for the year were $7o4, 1SS
fees, $l63,677; there was a large
amount of land aggIegating 615, 1856
acres, taken up under the various
acts providing for state elections, |
for school purposes, swamp indem-
mites, railroad selections, and
various kinds of script. Colorado
furnished the largest amount of this
kind Of location which covered
258,659 acres; next came Alabama,
with 93,949; Nevada, With 69,SO5,
and Nebraska with. 6S.546.