The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-11
General Land Office Report.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.-The annual re-
port of Commissioner General of the Land
Office Croft, shows the number of agricul-
tural patents issued during the fiscal year
ended June 80, was III, 247, embracing
IS, 759, 500 acres, as against 70, al issued in
1889, with an aggregate area of II, 300, $50
OF mineral and mill site patents, l, 407 were
issued, showing an increase in the year of
494. Of coal patents, 224 were issued, an
increase of SO patents, representing 10, 1916
acres.
State school selections aggregate $50, no
acres. Selections for the previous year
aggregated only 1872, $50 ares.
The acreage of swamp lands patented to
the several states during the year was 10, :
010,935. There were patented or certified
under the law for the benefit of railroad
companies during the year 363,S62 acres.
This decrease far the year of 81, 1873 acres.
Total cash sales during the fiscal year, 81
| 302, $40 acres.
Original homes-leads. timber culture,
state sections of school and swamp, rail
road sections and other of miscellaneous
character G, 1862, 2S5 acres.
The Indian lands disposed of aggregate
| 1885, 1905 acres making grand total of H.
| 79S, S37 acres. The total cash receipts of
the Office from various sources during the
fiscal year was 81, 7S0517. OF this amount
| $6,349, ia were received from cash sales.
| On June 30, 1889, there was 276, Isl final
entries of all kinds pending, and at the
close of the fiscal year, 1890, there were
POS, 269 pending, showing decrease as
compared with the previous year of $685.
entries. RAILROAD selections amounting tc
90, 446, 955 acres were pending at the close
of the year, and increase over the previous
year of 1872, 704 acres There were als(
Oregon wagon road selections pending tt
the amount Of 304, 942 acres.
Elk parte mineral interests are in arrears
about two and half years. Contest cases
quasi contests and ex parte coal entries are
up to date
The mileage of land grant railroads &C
tually constructed up to the close of the
last fiscal year was 1902 miles. Survey!
nation in field of 4,462, 69l
acres including Arizona. 597, "a,
acres; California, 162,O31; Colorado, 473,
457; Dakota, 929, 992; Montana, 62O, 161; Ne
vada, 40S, S57; New Mexico, 237, 437; Utah
576,525; Washington. $50, 122; Florida
2,519; Idaho, 90, AS; Minnesota, 1885
Nebraska, % 1899; Oregon, 81, 100.
Upon the subject of the forests on the
public domain, the commissioner finds tina
the most valuable timber on the public
lands is being rapidly exhausted, and tn,
laws relating to the subject utterly made
qrate to properly protect either publ,
forests from unlawful appropriation or tn,
interests of settlers. Over $3.50 were re
ceived last year from timber Expectations
Provision should be made for the Legitimate
procuring of timber from the public LAM
by mill men and lumber manufacturer
for sale to the extent necessary to supply
the community in the locality in which
they operate with lumber and timber pro
ducts needed in the settlement thereof
But the expectation of public timber shoul,
be prohibited, and also the removal o
timber from any reserved land an,
from the mountainous regions an,
other wooded lands at or nea
the vicinity of the head waters
or sources of streams which, for climatic
economic or public reasons, should be he'll
permanently as forest reservations, excep
ton being made in favor Of settlers or min
ers for their personal necessities.