Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1899-11-16
AS TO PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Report OF Com mtssluner Hermann Gives
Some Intev ssting Figures.

Report OF Com mtsaluner Hermann Gives
Some Intevssting Figures.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-The tables
accompanying the annual report of
Commissioner Hermann Of the general
land Office, will show some interesting
facts in regard to the public lands
throughout the country which have
been surveyed or still remain unsur-
veyed, but have not been appropriated
or reserved for public use. The tables
show that in Minnesota there remain
t,627 1894 acres of public lands, of which
S,3l7, ,4s6 acres have been surveyed.
South Dakota has 12,1O7,114 acres of
public lands, of which l1,O76,557 acres
have been surveyed. North Dakota
still has large area of unappropriated
public land-l9, 92S, 030 acres, according
to the figures Of the land commissioner.
Of this immense tract 1901. .y04 acres
have been surveyed. There are Al
counties in Minnesota in which all the
public lands have been disposed of. 10
in South Dakota and two in North Da-
kota.
In the majority of the counties in
Minnesota containing public land only
a small number of acres remain, run
ming from 4O-acre tracts to a couple of
thousand acres. Among the counties in
Minnesota that still have areas Of pub
lie land is Crookston county, which has
l,4oO,SSS acres of prairie and timber
land, some of which is swamp; 1tasca
county, loss, 1852 acres. largely timber,
gold in the north, with light soil, agri-
cultural in the south, iron belt in the
center running east and west. Lake
county has 766, $50 acres of public lands
and St. Louis county 7S6. $50 acres. The
land in Lake county is timbered, has
light soil and contains some iron. That
in St. Louis county is of similar char
acter. In the counties of Roseau, Cook,
Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard and Pine
there are public lands ranging from
5000 acres to more than 100000 acres,
some. of which is timbered and valua-
BILE, while other portions are swampy.
In the Dakotas.
In South Dakota there are a number
Of counties which contain large tracts
of unappropriated public lands. Ly-
man county has 1,004. 900 acres of rough
and rolling grazing lands. In jackson
county there are 4l3.OO0 acres of agri-
cultural and grazing lands. In the
counties of Stanley, Nowlin, Sterling,
Harding, Ewing, Scobey, Ziebach and
Charles Mix there are tracts ranging
from about ~. 600 acres to 700. 900 acres.
Among the ~ counties in South Da.
kota which have exhausted their pub
lie lands are Hanson, Hutchinson, Lake,
Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Beadle
and Dewey.
In North Dakota most of the land is
placed under the classification of agri-
cultural, farming and grazing lands,
and there are thousands Of acres re-
manning to be settled in this state.
Billings county has 3,743, 100 acres;
Stark county, 2,4s6, 800 acres; Morton
county. 1850, 900 acres; Ward county,
8, 235, 1872 acres; Williams county, 2,062,-
4S2. In the counties of Foster, McIn-
tosh, Kidder, Emmons, Burleigh and
Mclean there are areas of public land
ranging from about 2, 600 acres to nearly
l 900, 900 acres. Cass and Traill coun-
ties have exhausted their public lands.