Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-28
THE LAND OFFICE.
Points From the Report of the
Land Commissioner.
There are Still 579,664,693
Acres of Public Land.

Com missiOner Carter Discusses at Some
Length the Subject of Irrigating the
Millions of Acres In the arid Region,
and Suggests Two Ways of SurmOunt-
ing the Difaculty.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S.-The report
Of Commissioner Carter OF the opera
tions of the general land Office during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, has
been made public. A comparative state
ment Is made showing the number of
agricultural, mineral and coal entries
made during the fiscal years 1885 and
1887 and the fiscal year 1890 and 1891.
Patents issued during the fiscal years
1890 and 1891 were; Prescriptions, 149,-
5i5; homestead, 75,545; timber culture,
5,340; military bounty land, 723 agri-
cultural college scrip, 80; miscellaneous
scrip, 446; mineral, 3,199; coal, 450. The
total number of agricultural patents
issued during 1885 and 1887 was A, ,443,
against total of 231, ,607 during the
years 1890 and 1891, an increase of 1S7,-
1874 patents. The increase in the num-
Der of mineral patents issued was 967
and of coal patents, S9s.
A statement of the acreage of the pub.
lie lands disposed of during the year
shows that the cash sales covered 2, 143,-
090 acres. OF this amount 4, 391 ,418 were
pre-emption cash entries; 259,913 acres
were timber and stone land entries; 400,-
432 acres were desert land entries 49,
691 acres were mineral entries and 3d.
955 acres were private entries
OF the miscellaneous entries (not
CASH 5,040. 393 acres were homesteaded,
and 969,006 acres were entered under
the timber culture law.
The railroad selections amounted to
1857 ,572 acres, the state selections to
ia, ,404; the Indian allotments to H.
495, and the original swamp selections
to 30, 1877 acres.
The total area of public land entries
and selections made during the year is
given as 10,357 ,231 acres, exclusive of
100, ,469 acres of Indian land.
The total cash receipts during the
year were s., 429, 800 Filings were made
during the year to the number of 90, 0,241,
the fees on which amounted to $77, ,069.
The number of final entries made dur
ing the year was l,034, representing all
acreage of 1859, ,905.
There were 45,s45 original entries
made during the year, aggregating {, ,400,-
S32 acres.
The net total decrease in tine Sumber
of entries made during the year y s 15,-
664, representing an acreage of 2,596, $50.
The decrease in final entries was 1.736;
In acres, 1,252, $685. OF the mineral and
mill site patents 1,792 were issued, as
against ,407 during the previous fiscal
year.
or coal patents 326, were issued, an
increase of two in number and decrease
of TAB In acres.
The increase in the approvals for edu-
cational purposes during the year was
216, 399 acres.
At the close of the fiscal year there
were found to be 83,059 final entries
pending in the Office, against 20S, ,064 at
the close of the previous fiscal year, a
decrease of 1875, 900.
Railroad selections amounting to 49,
S46,577 acres were pending on July /,
1891, which is a decrease of $50. .078 as
compared with the fiscal year $780,
Vacant Public Lands.
The following shows the vacant pub
lie lands, in acres, in each of the public
land state and territories: