Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1895-10-18
Mineral Patents Issued to Wash
ington State Residents.
AN IRRIGATION COMMISSION
swamp Lands In Oregon, Transact ons
for Idaho. Educational and
Charitable Grants.


ing the year a decrease of 1905 origi-
nal entries. or 3.Ol6.6S5 acres. In the
number of final entries there was de-
crease of 65S4, amounting to 356,059
acres. In the receipts there was de-
crease of $734.370. The number of
homestead patents issued was 50.6lS. or
a total OF 20 coal and 1912 mineral pat
ants issued coal and rs mineral pat
ents were issued to residents of the
state of Washington, 8 mineral pat
ents to residents OF oregon, and 81 min
eral patents to residents of Idaho.
OF total of S.1S4,336 acres of land
patented to railroads there were pat
ented to the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company 3,343.473 acres in Washing
ton, and 91.4l4 acres in Idaho. TO the
Oregon and California company 395,l0S
acres were patented in Oregon.
Lists of swamp land selections en-
bracing 400 acres were filed by the
state of oregon during the year. Lists
embracing 400 acres were approved, and
10 acres were patented, making a total
Of S,036 acres patented to the state
since the date of the swami land
grant.
To the state Of Washington there was
tional and charitable grant the follow
ing: Agricultural college, S6,452 acres;
public buildings, 41,796 acres: school in
demnity, 1854 acres; scientific school.
81, 344 acres; state charitable, education
al, etc, institutions, S5,S02 acres; state
normal schools, 40,699 acres, making
total of 261,8 acres.
To the state of Idaho the following
selections were certified on account of
congressional grants: Agricultural
1854 acres; insane asylum, S703; peni-
tentiary, 1859 acres; public buildings,
1920 acres; state normal school, 5S07
acres, making a total of 137, 23S acres.
Indian and miscellaneous patents
embracing 321 acres were issued to the
state of Washington, 47,OO9 acres In
Oregon and 152, 52S acres in Idaho.
There were surveyed during the year
in the state Of Washington S53.907
acres of land, in Oregon 531,252 acres,
and In Idaho, 1,430.S95 acres.
SUGGESTION IN SURVEYS.
The surveyor general of Washington,
| In his report to the commissioner, sug-
| yests that the special examiner under
orders directly from the land office,
| should be required to furnish copy of
| the report containing the results of his
examination to the the surveyor gen.
| erals office. If this were done the con-
| dition of the field work of the surveyors
| could be ascertained at once, which
| would result in the saving of much
| money, time and labor.
The surveyor general of Oregon
| merely reports the work done in his Of
fee during the year, with the addition
al Information that the Willamette
Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon
Road Company deposited $13,901 fol-
The survey of lands within the limits OF
it's grant, and the Oregon ana Califor.
MIA Railroad Company deposited $2SSI
for surveys and $3.50 more for Office
work in connection with these surveys
In his annual report the surveyor
general of Idaho says: '"The growth
Of Idaho in population and materia
| welfare during the past year has beer
steady and of a substantial character
| The homeseeker of the class who at
taches himself permanently to the sol
has settled upon government lands o
embarked in business throughout tn
confines of Idaho. while the mining ope
rator and prospector has everywher
located in mining camps. Petition
from settlers and applications from tn
state land board for public survey
have continued demand for increase
appropriations for that service. TIL
applications for surveys of minera
claims for patent under the mining
laws have increased nearly three fol
over those of last year.
Owing to the decision OF the comp
i troller of the treasury the appropriate
| | for public surveys was not availabl
within land grant limits, and for tina
reason no surveys could be made With
5 the limits of the grant to the Norther
Pacific Railroad Company. The dt
: mand for surveys has been especial
c great In the panhandle" but OWN
y to said decision, settlers there could nc
q be accommodated with surveys in tn
q recently awarded contracts.
An important recommendation mad
by the commissioner is that approprif
tons for the survey of the public land
be hereafter made continuous.
= A table of estimated vacant land /
the United States gives 5,229, $50 acre
+ surveyed and 13,367,521 acres uusu
[. veyed in the state of Washington; "a
: S95, 1897 acres surveyed and 12,95l5'
l. acres unsurveyed in oregon, and S,47s
a 097 acres surveyed and 37.771 1865 acre
t unsurveyed in Idaho.
p ARID LANDS.
a Under the head of donations OF ari
N lands to states the commissioner say
Congress. at its last session, enac
& ed legislation in the form of an agre,
. ment to donate one million acres Of de-
: ert land to each of the desert Ian
states upon the condition that they |
irrigated, reclaimed, occupied and CT
tivated by actual settlers. and also thu
r | the state shall not sell or dispose
e more than 100 acres to any one perso
e This Office proceeded promptly to pr
n pare regulations concerning the sele
\ | ton of the lands. After the issue
= these regulations. in compliance vii
% the request of the state engineers
Wyoming and Idaho, this Office recon
mended to the department that an e.
PLANTATION of the effect of the regui'
lions. with regard to the reservation
r lands selected by the states. was advi
a | able for the benefit of those not familis
20 with land office procedure, and an e,
. planatory amendment was added 20 d
, circular. am advised that of the
20 states to which the act now applies, II
"a states of Wyoming, Idaho, Montar
and Washington have taken actiC
looking to the filing of applications III
der the act. Up to the time of the pr
pairing of the commissioners report al
plications had been received from bl
. one of these, the state of Wyoming ha
II ing filed three lists OF lands selecte
&c covering 34917 acres. These lists ha'
n been examined, and are now lwlitir