The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-16
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Facts Showing How Rapidly the Newer
States and Territories Arc
Being Populated.
Dakota Takes tho Load In Tho Amount
Of Land Taken by Actual Settlers
4 Good showing Also Madc BY III,
= Southern States, Sd Long
Neglected.


An official statement, furnished by tho
Commissioner OF tho General Land oflcc,
shows something Of tina marvellous rhri,l'ts
with which the newer states and Terri orios
aro becoming populated, and tho enormous
drafts which are bcing made upon the pnb
Ito domain In order to satisfy the require.
mcnts OF actual settlets II nls5 indicates
that shb fuhli6 lands remaining In the
Southern states, which hid been 10 Iona
neglected, arc rapidly coming under settle.
mcnt Tho statement Includes the moro
Important s Transfers r.. q gse!'s .ndy ,ns
Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mis-.
sissppi, Nebraska, urc,on, Washington md
Wisconsin An compared with tho year end
20 june w lNS., the statement shows nm
increase Of II vi In thu number uf entiiet
Fash ealHs, orik hal htmcsteAd entries and
umDef.cnlture entrics aud 100, sls ~ tho
number ot acres entered. Thu amount re-
oeiveu from cash sales increased from III.
Sla,sA IN lSs. 10 ssys,,,laN III issa III. t,otee
than Us per cent In isSa tho number III
presumption and other filings and of app'i.
cations TO purchase mineral, timber and
stone lands In tho same States and Terri.
tories was A,.0S,t and tho amount II foes 70.
ccived, sds,s0s; In 1881 tho number and
amount ~rro respectively N, 5st and sul,
saa The amount Of fccs and commissions
paid on account Of original homestead en-.
tries " les. was eASd,tUi; In lss3it Wal
Dakota, Of course. takes the lead both in
the amount OF land taken by actual settlers
and In tho amount sold eor cash. In that
TERRITORY tht huinber III homestead entries
increased from Ia, iHi covering 2,AAas
acre to =, Al, covering Z, Nj. 80 acres The
number Of timber. culture entries ran up
from aaiS covering l,i,Gass acres 10 Y,
sales inoreassi FROM s:ssss acres Il ss;s No. !.
~ 70 l.alSo.l acres 1t sSloa.aS. Probably
tho history OF no state or Territory can
furnish parallel 10 these fgules
In Florida the cash sales increased from
l2Ss.. acres At slaS uIis, ~ ~, ~ acrsr, n
4Ai ,ask and The number OF original homo.
acres
The public lands OF Kansas have been
pretty closely cnllcd, and, although tho cash
sales Increased from pN.ra acres At ollS.
sS 20 laslt acres At elsaS... tho home.
stead entries fell OF from hs,s& acres Ia
decreased frosn .ss usS acres to ~. >ta, acres
In louisiana the cash sales decreased from
NJ, ads acres Mt e.Hs 10 to aas,aO acres .,
eASSlA but the home stead entries ran ur
nom ssss covering Iii. III acres, 10 sea, COW
ering tsa,,iae acres and tho timber culture
entries increased from l,uot acres TO ID
acres
In Minnc<o.a there Was decided increase
In casn sales from II ,itia acres at sSS.s,
30 to sAssa acres At el, Ssl,asS hut there
was falling on In original homestead on
tries from a>S,3iS acres 70 ssi,s.s acres
and In timber culture entries from
l;hstl acres To lsas,s 10 acres Tho homo
stead settlers Of this state are rapidly 40
curing. patents for their farms after five
years OF se.t,ement, rs also Is thu case |,
kansas In Minneso n they received patent,
TO - - asr.s this year against sAa,,S
lat year In Kansas the amount In ISIS
vas % ,o>l acres, against An 10 in isSs
There were no entries In Mississippi undcl
the Thinker Culture act but the cash sale'
increased from MO- acres ut s.si.s.u x
saaas acres at Stn,its, and the originA
homestead entries from lsSasS acres I,
ld,.O.a acres
Nebraska still has = largo area II fcrtil,
puhac lands which arr olon to settle
men' In that state the namhcr q
original homestead entries in lisa wa
a.a, covering l.l,ssa acres. In lsSs there
We're !, Is ensries, covering slGNN acres
The cash sales in reased from ila.asa acre
NJ sliS,..S TO tsAts.s aclos at SILL ,Nss, and
the number II timber. culture entries ran III
from a,,Ss covering ssNasM acres, to Ssld
covering 1, 1, ~ acres
In Oregon the cash sales Increased from
S,Sla acres at S>ssu 10 Ns,ai acres a
81 hut tho homestead entries fell q,
from lIssS. acres TO lll,ssa acres and III,
nmees,ealtare entsics from ss,uss acres Il
NJ, tta acres
in Washington Territory. however
there wa remarkable Increase, not
only in cash sales hut In Homestead ans
timber culture entries The cash sales In
creased from u. 80 acres Mt 1iIasla, Il
sal TN acres ut SAIL .il6; tho original home
stead entries from II. IL. acres 10 Mi /. q
n tAa 49,
=. ~ acres u ~ W. acres
In Wisconsin. while the cash sales fell of
from ~ I'D acres, 1T 4sNaSS to 81, 81,
acres az $sai ,las. the ORIGINAL homestead Ell
'rlas Increased from STU covering sS,aa'
acres To III, cover ny Ill, sus acres
While the foregoing ngures do not eovel
MI the Stases amt Territories in which unoc
cu led lands are still open 10 settlement
they arr believed 10 show fairly the enor
nous growth in population of tho new
States and Territories generally, for they In
clude the Territories In which about three
ioarthS of the public land sales and entrlo
were made last year
In tho South the entries In Alabama ans
Arkansas will probably show as great an Ia
crease relatively as In those Southern State
ftr which the oiiieial figures are given
il known, too that during tho past Yea
there has been large Increase OF tMMigra
tiOn 10 New MextcA Utah, Montana an,
other Territories and consequently a YER
large Increase In tic amount Of pubic Ian,
which has GENE into tho possession et aeta
nj sestlcrx