Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-17

OF the amount leased in January 2l5,T51
cres or2sl per cent. was taken up by one
orporation: SD, 2S7 acres or over 50 per cent
we're leased by eleven Arms or corporations
There are three leases comprising between
1000 and 10000 acres,
Four between 1900 and 5o,'91 acres.
Three between $1,000 and AZ 900 acres.
Two between 10000 and 1000 acres.
Sixteen between 100 o and 10000 acres.
Fourteen between 5000 aud 100 o acres.
Eighty-two leases IN all.
In Crockett county leo, iS0 acres were leased, |
Of which 1920 acres were taken up by two |
firms.
In Tom Green $685. $50 and 2il,s2O by seven
firms.
In Preside 1O7, $50 and ST $50 by four firms.
In Pecos 5000 and IS 40 by one firm.
In Motley l52,767 and ii, 647 by one firm.
In Hemphiil, 10000 and 92.lsO by two firms
In Floyd. 1890 and 80 .l2o by one firm.
NOTES on APRIL LEASES.
In april one corporation leased 1906 acres
or nearly 20 per cent. of the entire amount:
Sii, $50 acres, or 51x per cent, were leased by
four Arms or corporations. There are two
leases between 5000 and 100000 acres; one
between $1,000 aud so, 900 acres: three between
1900 land 10000 acres, four between 10000 and
1900 acres, and ten between 5000 and 10000
acres.
In Crosby county there was leased 53.l2D
acres, OF which two firms or corporations got
1920 acres.
In Cottle, lOsSo, and $3.50 by one firm.
In Borden, lo1,iOJ, and 100 by one corpo-
ration.
In Archer, 1920, by three firms.
In Kent, Is, 7i0 and TO- 10 by two firms.
Ia Motley, l7O,sIO ami l6O,6iO, by one cor
poration.
In Cara, 4i,l6O aud sI,76o, by two firms.
| In Floyd 300, all by one Arm.
| In Dawson 7,ilo, all by one firm.
In Dickens IL, $50, al by one firm.
| In Throckmorton $3.50 and 1850, by one
| Arm.
firms.
| NOTES on JUNE LEASES.
In June lO6,2i0 acres, or so per cent, were
leased by five firms or corporations.
There was one lease over 81, 600 acres.
Four between $1,000 and 5000 acres.
Six between 5000 and 10000 acres.
In Presidio county II 1927 acres We're leased
: and one man got 1900 acres.
In Lubbock 0,2ic, all by Two firms.
In Knox 7.O40, all by one firm.
Il In Haskell $50, all by one Arm.
In Hall county 1920, all by one firm.
In FL Paso, $50; all by one firm.
In Cottle, 7,Oio; all by one frm.
In Donley, IL $50; all by one firm.
GENERAL NOTES.
The total amount OF leases Is !,222 acres,
OF which .557 acres, or nearly 90 per cent.
; were leased by fifteen corporations.
3 One corporation leased 2S5,5i7 acres.
Another corporation leased I30.53O ncres
Another 99,si0 acres.
For every acre leased of tho school lands
0 another was leased from private firm OF
) corporation, making $4,000 acres placed un
a der fence since January by the operations Of
the lease system.
One corporation attempted to lease the en-
tire Panhandle, but the land board got con
scisnce-strlcken and refused.
The larger proportion OF the smaller lease,
were made by cattle companies which ha,
already had the land inclosed in big pas
e lures.
d Andast the leases increase, as the lanC
N is being "tied up" from settlement, tn,
II sales decrease, the actual settlement O
e the country is retarded. What ar
r the figures? From the same article
= we reprint them:
l. school lands sold at the January meet
n ing OF the board, res. 30 81
School lands sold at the April session,
2B32
y school lands sold at the June session,
IN Mres -
n. AT the time ofthe January sales the hmi
n, 10 the amount thatany, indivldualmigh pun
= chase was seven sect ms, yet large proper
{ ton CT the land was sold In lesser quantitie,
ie Allowing for the excess OF the limit unde
r the old law over thnt o
90 tho new, there Is stili fa
Ing OF o'nsarly 40per cent. in sales fror
~ january TO April. and nearly 50 pc
te cent. nom April to June.
ne THE GAZETTE saw no "bad points
" In d law which proposed rental fron
s. public lands, just as so many preten
10 yet not to SEQ them. But when TIL
d, GAZETTE sees that the law is putin
ir litinto the power of rich cattle king
81 and 'syndicates and corporations out
ht side Of Texas" TO "tie up" West Texa
r. from settlement, when The GAzErr
IS, sees sales decrease and the settlement
re Of the country inpeded by the leas