The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-01
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT

The secretary's Estimates of Annro
 Land Ofice. nerai
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.- Secro.. Hoke Smith yesterday completed ny estimates of appropriations needed ;n the interior department for the isoai year ending June 30. 1896. The foIlo,. ing is summary of his estimates.
 Amount appropriated for fiscal
 year lsyo SI69 55q Q,o A, Amount estimated for fiscal year
 lo9o 1855 s05 27s CD
 Decrease :.;;;..............s IS,74i,eil.20
 Made up as follows:
 Decrease in estimate for payment
 of pensions, 1898 896.........sIO s IO Ooo ooo oo Decrease in estimate for salaries,
 pension office, 1896. ........... 1qs m Decrease in estimate for general
 ndneaan Indian service iSs6 ;.....;... 4oalenW
 and binding, ls9o................. 6i.3sS.OD
 Iotal decrease .............s 8 I4,2sl,5 ,5l62O Increase in estimate for salaries,
 general land office and general
 land land service. :......: .:............. 4O0Os3Oo Increase "a estimate for patent of-
 fice miscelr,- eous s....."......... 76,5SLO Increase in estimate for miscel-
 laneous expenses in several bu-
 reans and offices" 4l.SOs. %
 Total increases. ................S 526,925O
 Net decrease. ase...................s 13,75457l. 20
 The decrease in the estimate for pav- ment of pensions in 1896 is decrease from the appropriation for the current year. That appropriation was made before the close of the last fiscal year and was for SIC, ,OOO, 900 more than the amount actually expended last year. The estimate for 1896 is no decrease from the amount actually expended last year, but is based upon the idea that the expenditures will be station ary for the years 1894, 1895 and 1896.
 In the general land office increase of estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, are sub- mitted under the following heads: Additional clerical force of twenty in
 the once 27,750 Protecting public lands from fraudulent
 entry. protecting the public timber
 from depredations, etc. tc................. lsO coo Surveying the public lands ......... DO. I75,OOO Clerical and contingent expenses in the
 offices of the surveyor-generaL.. ....... 549I3
 Total.................................sls766 .sls7 66s 1In the clerical force of the general land offices an increase is asked of twenty additional clerks-which will cost S27, ,75O-to bring up to date the great mass of accumulated work un- disposed of by the last administration.
 There are now pending and undis- posed of in the general land office 4s,- 336 cases, involving 39, 593, ,532 acres of land. For protecting public lands, timber and recovering large amounts involved in timber trespasses an in- crease is asked of $780, 900, to be used in the employment of additional special agents engaged in the prosecution of timb Der trespasses, etc.
 The amount appropriated for this service IS more than returned to the in the actual value of moneys recovered from cash forfeited on entries, cancelled by the action of special agents and recovered in the prosecution of timber trespass, etc.
 In addition this branch of the serv- ice in the last eight years caused the of :, i6l entries of the pub lie land embracing l,22S, 272 acres, and restored the same to the public domain, valued at rates fixed by law at Sl, ,S36,- l90. This land when sold will show Sl ,945, 70O to the credit of this service in excess of all the money expended for it in the past eight years. The recovered from timber tres passers alone averaged over SlOO,OOO per annum. A much greater sum could be recovered with an increase of agents for this purpose. It is further estimated that if the in- creased force of agents is given fully S1 ,OOO, 900 should be recovered from various sources and returned into the treasury. For surveying public lands an increase is asked of s175, ,OOO, and for clerical and contingent expenses of the surveyor-genera's office, S54, 913; total, S229. 913. This increase is urged to meet the demands of the settlers for a of the lands in order that they may inaugurate their claims to the same, and before the can take any steps toward the disposition of such lands, or until they have been surveyed in ac- cordance with law. If the increase for the public lands is granted the offices of the surveyor-general will require additional clerical force, and their contingent expenses will be greater on account of increased of returns coming into these offices from the deputy surveyors.
 TRANSPORTING GOLD.