The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-10

| There "ere eighty mine railroad selec i rs
OF a. "a acres. and 4.S73 are were tllen
! Up as original swamp select $
! The total mi icelaneouS entries numb red
! 2,Og2, involvi 9 1881 ac. &, aud the
| amount recavei by the government there
under was $l4 50 OF.
The sale. of land .ubject to pre-emptinn
entry we're only 4, OF 2,376 acres, aud the
amount paid was $3.50 IA; While tho home
stead entries committed to cash number I'd
9ighty-niue, iuvo.vpg 10.595 acres. with
payments Announcing tn @l3, pa II.
The total number of cash sales vas 81 Of
:, 40 &c eS. tho amount received having
been $1G.c72 0G.
he aggregate number IT all classes OF
entries Nas2. 676; area o. lands dis osed OF,
1851 &C 'eS AMI tho receipt, from all
Soarc q so 127 q.
The expenses Incident to the disposal Of
public lands were; Sala les aad commits
SONS Of re Gst'r and -e'eiver, Sd, 100; mel
den'nl expenses, 81, III II; total expenses,
$40 :29 %.
The transactions relating to swamp lands
with the state ere: selected 1913 acres;
approved 13l Dos acr's paLeDteI, ISL, 37O
acrt6, tai pate ltoi 81 CO date OF gront.
u, - .9!4h scres: toI'l selected since date Of
giant, y. 81 .:l3 acre2; ~ el approved since
d .'e < grant, 1856 1913 ceres; cash indem-
nifty clalus, IL, 40 IS; ltnd Indemnity,
~, ilU acre..
rs 80 land concession to railroads, there
have be-n csttrae1 or pateItel up 10 da
l,Iji, ~ acre.
Tnere a:e Is ty-eiGh, military re1e-va-
ti01S in Florida con aiipL 10 al Of II, l24
acres That o. ga Ia Ro.a so nd IL the
larIcst, as 1t contains 5,9JS acres. fro
mill, airy re erv .tionS ha o been rsin-
pushed. one containing 10 ceres and the
other l,C2J acres.
r. 4. ~lD- IL.
analysis would be made OF The icaut public
lands ii Florids. This is possible. because
the department. after much trouble ami eX-
pen5e, has PIE AIRED at@Tnent Of such
lands by counties The stat3nIenG has been
| made 50 as to inform the general public as
to whether there IS much. little or any pub
/ lie land5 left in the several cuaties. The
! following is the stntemeat b. COUNTIES OF the
vacant public land;
Alachua, 40 $50 acres; Baker, 81, $50 acres 4;
Bradford, $50 acres Brevard. surveyed.
6S, go acres, uusurveyed 704J acres, total
800 acres; Calhoun, l180SJ acres. Citrus,
% 200 acres; Clay, 80, $50 acres; Columbia,
II, l20 acres; Dade. surveyed ia, 1893 acres.
unsurveyed 1880 acres, total 1877, 1873
acres; De Soto, l5l,G6S acres;
ton, 5 ,040 acres; HernaDdo, 6.9l2 acres
| Hillsb 70, $40 acres; Holmes, Al, $50 acres;
jackson. Isl, 800 acres; Jefferson, $50 acres ;
| Lafayette. III, $40 acres; Lake, u, 900 acres /;
Lee, surveyed, $3.50 acres; unsurveyed,
10, 440 acres, total no. 20 acres; Leon,
400 acres Levy, 40, 24O acres; Madison.
p, $50 acres; Manatee, Is ,456 acres; Marion,
$780, 40 acres; Monroe, surveyed, $3.50
acres, unsurvsyed. 705, 100 acres, total, 728, :
$50 acres; Nassau, 800 acres; Orange.
| 29,S40 acres; Osoeols, So, 400 acres; Pasco,
| 1880 acres; Polk, 81, 100 acres; Putnam,
| 1880 acres; st. Johns, IA, 720 acres; Santa
Rosa, 225, $50 acres; Sumter. 800 acres Su-
uannee. APO acres; Taylor, 1877, 12S acres
Volusia, &, 240 acres; Washington, 228, 800
acres, and Walton, 81, 920 acres.