The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-04

! gregate mileage or original surveys and
| resurveys being / ,955 miles. Inc mile
| age of returns of surveys IN SIX Whole
and fractional townships. when We're
filed after June 80. 1898, aggregates ago
miles. The deposits made by the North
ern Pacific Railroad company are as fol-
lows: For field work, Sl2.6o5; Tor office
! work, $929,5O for examinations in the
field, $1,263.50: for advertising. 500. Ex-
terror township plats made during the
year, %; township plats MADE, us;
books of field notes examined 81: pages
of transcripts written, 3,096. deposits
made for office work on mineral sur
yeys aggregate $3.50: deposits made
for Office work on reports on placers,
$40; orders issued for surveys, 204; or
ders issued for amended surveys, s;
supplemental orders issued for surveys,
10; orders issued for reports on placers,
2; surveys examined and approved III;
amended surveys examined and APP
proved, II; reports on placers examined
and approved. 2; plats made' ole; tran-
scripts made of surveys ana reports on
placers, 1874: surveys plated on con-
nected sheets, $50: surveys REPEATED
on connected sheets, 331; new connected
sheets made, So; connected sheets re-
plated, 81: deputy mineral surveyors
appointed, 6.
The surveyor general also estimates
that $4,000 will be required for public
surveys in Montana for the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1901. In support OF MS
estimate he submits the following state
ments with reference to the demand lot
surveys within the state:
'All of the desirable surveyed land in
this state is taken up. and the demand
for surveys is on the increase. settlers
are continually petitioning for surveys,
and those who We're disappointed last
year bitterly complained because the
apportionment to this state for the MS
cal year dS9S-99), $4,000. was INSULT
cient for the demands upon 1t. l am
unaware what the apportionment to
this district for the fiscal year ending
June 80. 1900, will be, but $4,000 Will
not be more than sufficient to survey
townships now petitioned for by three
or more settlers and by the state. which
has now on file applications for the sur
vey of 50 townships, and it will require
not les than 900 to survey them. The
days of the old custom of having cattle
Craze at large over vast areas OF the
public domain and without attention
except at spring and fall roundup are
practically ended. Cattle must now be
under control and be fed during the
winter months. The result of this is
that, instead of there being few cat
tlemen owning thousands of cattle the
conditions are reVerSed-thousandS OF
men own a few cattle. This means the
establishment of numerous homes along
the valleys of the mountains and the
couleeS of the plains, with the result
that applicat tons for surveys from set
tiers are on the increase. The desire
to obtain title in some cases Is so
strong that those who have means for
doing so will avail themselves of the
provisions of section 2401. revised stat
utes. The apportionment to this state
for surveys asked for. $4,000 is be.
lieved to be a very conservative eSti-
mate of the probable needs Of the SER
vice during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1901, it being only $4,000 in excess
Of the apportionment for this fiscal
year, and which was totally made
quate for the demands upon it by at
least S25, 600"
Collector Browne of Great Falls has
informed the treasury department that
he favors the suggestion recently made
by Consul General Foster of Halifax
concerning the admission of sealskin
garments worn by foreign tourists
coming to the United States. Mr. Eos
ter reported that the friction over the
enforcement Of the Davis law for bidding
sealsiins or garments to be brought in
unless accompanied by certificates set