Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-11-30
SEC. MOBILES REPORT.
TIE SALT Lake iRRloArloN con-
oREss NOTICED.
Wealth Of the Uuitcd Sbic,.-Indian
Arirs.-Cost Of The Cln,us.-
Report on Utah.
or Secretary Noble tor the Past riseHi
NNnr.

or secreiary Noble tor the Past TIseHi
Year.
WAsHINGrON, -. g., Nov. 29.--Thc
Secretary OF the Interior, John w.
Noble. IL out with his annual report 10
the President for the fiscal year ondisg
June 80, 1891. He says that tho years
OF tho present administration nave
been marked by the expansion of the
public domain for private settlement
aud that unlike NIL other countries our
boundaries are far beyond our use.
Speaking u homestead SETTLERS the
secretary says The number OF agri.
cultural patents, which includes those
for homestcad-, Issued fUr 1850 was
70,iIl, Tor 1890, III, 2i7, and Tor 1891,
lll,81l; and there were Jeff Of dual
entries for such lands at the end VI the
last fiscal year, June 30, 1891, only
si,l72. These aro results gratifying
aud encouraging.
The amount Of vacant landa remain.
ing IL 65s, BGi ,Bs3 acres. II estimated
| that nj least 800, O0O, 900 acres Of thcee
vacant lands are useless for agriculture,
| hut that 100000 that nru now desert
may be redeemed by irrigation 40 rs TO
| produce the cereal., fruits aud garien
/ products possible Ia the climate where
these lands are located. IN the gecre'
tatyis annual report for 1890 OPP. O.ll)
the question Of what legislation was
! advisable for the establishment Of
reservoirs aud Irrigation bitches was
| discussed a. some length, aud the same
/ subject has teen ably treated by tbs
| present commissioner OF the General
Land office IN his report for the last
/ fiscal year.
II has been said by an eminent
l writer on the future ~ our country
| that the child IL already born who viii
/ SEQ 900, 900. 900 OF inhabitants In tho
| United States. Long before ibis stage
/ Of our development u reached the
/ question Of the water supply aud ~
/ distfihutiOn VIII he ouO NJ vital Inter-
U-ls, aud ID. proper solution should be
| given now.
Itiaworthy or notice that
THa HmGATioS coNGREss,
held nj salt Lake CITY, Utah, Scptem.
Der i5.iT, res wed, among other things,
that II was la favor Of granting IN trust,
upon such condition ns would serve
the public intcicsts, 10 the States and
Territories necliul Of Irrigation, all
lands now part OF the public domain
within sAid States aud Territories,
except mineral lands, for the purpose
OF developing irrigation, 70 render the
land now arid fertile and capable Of
supporting population, and that a
committee should be selected to pre-
pare and resent 10 Congress the mrm'
Orlnl ot the convention.
The protection Of timber nj head
waters is warmly recommended. Fur
thuf instructions regarding the cutting
Of timber In Colorado, Montana, daho,
the DakOtas, Nevada aud Utah are
gnllpd. Congress II asked 10 take
action 10 have tue timber reservations
that arc proclaimed by the PRECEDENT
established ~ national public parks or
granted 20 tho States 10 be pfesurvCd
unlnpalred Tor public use only.
The absolute wealth Of the United
States Il estimated at 81, 900, 900,
noady 5000 per capita, ~ against s5l3
per capita Ia 1860, and Ia attributed To
population seeking settlement, which
IN turn II due 10 the treatment accord.
ed the pioneer by the rrosont admins
trniion.
During tho last year, 2,l43, 090.59
acres Of public lands were disposed Of
by cash sales; s,2ii.li0.93 by mitcel-
lancous entries, aud 1880, iBs.6i acres OF
Indian lands, aggrrgating 10, AZ, 7O0.aa
acres. The total cash receipts from
various sources for the year amounted
10 s., 400, 2a0.li.
The numb-r Of agricultural patents
Issued during the year were II 800,
which, allowing 100 acres 10 zach
patent, would embrace an aggregate ol
1897, 900 acres.
There we're patented FOR the benefit
railroad companies under Congre.sion-
nj grants during the year 3,Oss, 0To.2S
acres.
The table Of vacant public lands
shows that Utah has a total Of 70, I2s,.
0sI acres,
THE ADMINISTRATION on INDIAa
AFFAIRS
has been attended with rumarka bic
success during the last hseal year. The
labors OF the commissioner and The
very able assistant commissioner have
been great, aud the bureau hlls also de-
manded continuously the attention Of
the secretary.
Under the act grantiug pensions TO
soldiers aud sailors who are lncapac-
itated for the Performance OF manual
labor aud providing for pensions u
widows, minor children. and dependent
parents, approved june "a, 1880, the
work OF the Bureau Of Penisoue haa
| h,gn uTeatlV augmputeu. but with