The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-01-20

The report Of Hon. r. W. White, q ~
missioner Of Lands and Immigras6h,
furnishes 10 its statements Of transfsrbf
lands very conclusive and satisfaesdfy
evidence Of tho progress Of the sese
during four years past We extract San
pages 8 and Q of the report: IN
Herewith I submit q tabulated stESe-
ment of the sales of Internal Imp5dee.
ment and School Lands for the past Sur
years with an aggregated statemeHtsof
sales Of the same class of lands from tAe
year 1858 to 1880, inclusive, q periSdeof
twelve previous years. sf
From these it will be seen that 4he
sales of Internal improvement LAseis
proper for the last four years excesdSin
acreage the sales of the twelve previous
years by l9,55995 acres, and thas she
amount of purchase money for the ssne
during the last four years exceeds tia of
the twelve previous years by sc, 2x4e0,
and that the excess of sales of sslFsol
lands for the past four years over tha kse-
vious twelve years is 104, 8O5,7s scyfs,
the purchase money for which exnsstds
the amount received during the prsHxus
twelve years by $161, 295.58. ~
1t is believed that the sales in he
United States Land Office at Gaine4y2 lle
equal, if they do not exceed, those mdde
in this office. a
These are exclusive of sales and Cre:ats
of swamp lands to settlers, corpor&tifns
and others, and, taken together with Me
latter, indicate condition of progressive
development unequaled by anythipgS;in
the previous history of the State. :.
In the spring of 1883 John A. Heaasr.
son, Esq, was appointed agent to seLact
lands granted to the State by act of.Qfn
gress of September 2sth, 1850 By Che
terms of his contract he was to bear All
| expenses of making the selections aad sot
| procuring the proofs required by the :rrses
Of the department in Washington, shsSw
ing that the lands selected belonge8sto
the class granted by the act. He stAes
in his report that he has filed in the ot1ce
of the United States Surveyor GenKal
sixteen lists of selections numbered fam
FIVE (5) to twenty (2O) inclusive gan
bracing one million five hundred and fSur
thousand four hundred and fifteen Sad
! sixty-five oue-bundredths acres (l,sA4,
4l5.65-lOO). Ofthese seven hundred Sad
sixty-seven thousand seven hundred SID
sixty-eight and sixty-two one-hundrodfsh,
| (767, 768.62-lOO) acres have already beer
patented to the State, which are inctudf
in the patents above enumerated. Eol
the balance of 73e, 647.03-1OO acres sse
hope to receive patents very soon.
The success of securing future selsc
tions and patents will depend greaay
upon the action of the Surveyor Genefts
in extending the surveys over vast sreA'
of the unsurveyed public domain of tE,
State. 1t is estimated that there are a.
tween FIVE and six millions of acres 3
this class of lands south of the 27N
parallel of north latitude. Besides tnet2
there are other large bodies Of unsurveyEl
lands in different portions Of the StasSS
1t has hitherto been the practice OF I'll.
government to patent only surveys
lands, except unsurveyed portions I:
townships which have, in few instaneea
been pate, ted. For the continuation ag5
completion of the great enterprises nos
chartered and in process of developments!
it is of the utmost Importance to the Stat;
to have the surveys extended as rapidly
as possible, in order to enable her to ~
cure such portions of these lands as passee
under the grant.