The National tribune., 1900-08-30
STILL FREE LAND FOR SETTLERS.
More Than IL 900, 900 Acres Subject to Entry
in South Dakota.
CHic1go Record

According to the reports just completed
by the Registers and Receivers of the
seven United States Land Offices in this
State, South Dakota has an aggregate of,
in round numbers, II, 100000 acres Of va
cant Government land which is now sub
ject to entry by qualified applicants.
The Rapid City District is the largest
in the State, as well as one of the largest
in the country. 1t contains total Of 49,
1S1 900 acres. OF this amount 2,370, ,622
acres have been appropriated. There are
embraced in Indian, military and timber
reservations a total Of 2,656 695 acres. An
aggregate of 345.552 acres not yet sur
veyed will be subject to entry whenever it
is surveyed. OF the lands now subject to
entry there are a total of 1888, ,231 acres,
divided among the various Counties in the
district as follows:
Butte. 1,247,913; Choteau, 501 ,105; Gus
ter, 304 ,235; Delano. 62S,016; Ewing, 643,
403; Fall River, 500. .7S0; Harding, SO4,
Meade, 2S7, ,944; Pennington, 124, 1873;
Rinehart, 500, 40; Scobey, so, ,16S; Wag-
ner. 457, 400; Washington, SS,279; Zie-
bach, 57S.767.
The character of the land in the vari-
ous Counties is described as follows: Butte
County, agricultural and grazing: Choteau,
agricultural and grazing; Custer, broken
agricultural and mineral; Delano, rolling
prairie; Ewing, rolling prairie; Fall River,
part billy, agricultural and grazing; Hard
ing, agricultural and grazing; Lawrence,
broken timbered, mineral and prairie, agri-
cultural and grazing; Martin, agricultural
and grazing; Meade, billy, timbered and
prairie, agricultural; Pennington, hilly,
timbered, agricultural and mineral, and
prairie agricultural and grazing; Rinehart,
rolling prairie; Scobey, broken and we'll
watered; Wagner, rolling prairie; Wash
lpgtOn, agricultural and grazing; ZIebach,
broken prairie.
OF the S244, ,7S3 acres in the Rapid City
District-including that which is not yet
surveyed-it is estimated that about 2 per
cent. is timbered, about 13 per cent. agri-
cultural, about % per cent. arid and about
60 per cent. grazing land.
The next largest Land District in the
State, so far as the amount of land at
present subject to entry is concerned, is
the Chamberlain District, which has to,
tai of /, ,706,520 acres of vacant Govern
ment land subject to entry. The vacant
land is distributed by Counties as follows:
Brule, $3.50 acres; Buffalo, 1O,6S0; Greg.
ory, 1890; Lyman County now includes
the former Counties Of Prat and Presho
have been entered in the various Counties
as follows: Bfule, 524,62O; Buffalo, 131 ,.
$50; Gregory, 112,123; Lyman, 2S6, ,165;
Stanley, 81 $40.
The Pierre District comes third with a
total of 1859, ,029 acres now subject to en-.
try. These lands are distributed among
the various Counties Of the District as fol
lows: Stanley, 1862, ,942 acres; Hughes,
81 ,524 acres; Sully, 22.115 acres, and Ly-
man, 12,44S acres. The total number of
acres in the District is co.'s, $50. OF this
amount 1,225,663 acres have been appro-
priated, leaving the amount subject to en-
try as above stated. In the Pierre Dis
trict there are 3, 1853, S5S acres included in
Indian reservations.
In that portion of the State east Of the
Missouri River vacant Government land
is becoming a curiosity. In the Aberdeen
District there are a total of only 219,266
acres Of vacant Government land which