Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-08-23
A FARM FOR
THE ASKING
There Are Over Twenty Thousand Square
Miles of Unappropriatsd Government
Land in the Santa Fe Land
District.
LESS THAN ONE HALF APPROPRIATED

The area of the Santa Fe land
district is 81, ,46S, $50 acres of which only
12,995,514 acres are appropriated OF
about 40 per cent which however is a
larger per cent than the area appro-
priated in any of the other three land
districts Of the territory. The
area reserved in grants, military and
Indian reservations, etc, is 1854, 562
acres, while 13,10S,94 acres are still
an area three times that of New Jer-
sey. more than twice that of New
Hampshire, more than twice that of
Maryland, almost three times that of
Massachusetts, more than three times
that of Hawaii, five times that of
Connecticut eleven times that of Del
aware, more than twice that Of Ver-
mont and more than twenty times that
of Rhode Island.
Bernalillo county has an area of
3,2S1, 260 acres of which one-half or
1,625,SSS acres have been appropriated,
653, 500 acres reserved; and ,001 572 acres
are still subject to entry of which 707,-
GAS acres are surveyed and 293,924 acres
unsurveyed The eastern part of Colfax
county has an area of /, 1885, 900 acres of
which all but 10 per cent is appropriat-
ed, the appropriated area being 1,79S, 900
acres. The area still subject to entry is
172,S6S acres of which 149,S28 acres are
surveyed and 23,O4O acres unsurveyed
N1,n1 n,,t 1n1,
has an area of 1,5S9,760 acres of which
559,S93 acres are appropriated and l.
O29,S67 acres are still subject to entry of
which 1019,S67 acres are surveyed and
10000 acres unsurveyed. Mckinley
county has an area of 1886, $40 acres of
which 1,363,291 acres are appropriated,
999,G16 acres reserved and 893,133 acres
unappropriated of which 794,14 acres
are surveyed and 9S,959 acres unsur-
veyed. The western part of Mora coun-
ty has an area of 1,249,00O acres of which
7S5,647 acres have been appropriated
and 463, 1853 acres are unappropriated of
which 361, 1913 acres are surveyed and
102, 100 acres are unsurveyed. Rio Ar
riba county has an area of 4,259,OOO
acres of which 1,150,215 acres have been
appropriated, S4O,16 acres reserved and
2,26S,624 acres are unappropriated of
which 1,469,224 acres are surveyed and
799, 400 acres are unsurveyed. San Juan
county has an area Of $685., 900 acres of
which only 243,0S4 acres have thus far
been appropriated, 1850 acres are
reserved and 1,495,o1o acres are unappro-
priated of which 1,014,916 acres are sur
veyed and 480,6OO acres unsurveyed.
The eastern part of San Miguel county
has an area of 1881, 900 acres of which
j 1,246,7S4 acres have been appropriated,
202, $50 acres are reserved and $751; ,666
acres are subject to entry of which
791, ,S06 acres are surveyed and S9,S60
acres unsurveyed. Santa Fe county,
the smallest county of New Mexico, has
an area of 1,370,S30 acres of which only
5S1, ,649 acres have been appropriated,
1855, 900 acres are reserved and 600, ISL
acres or more than one-half are unap-
propriated of which 552,e25 acres have
been surveyed and 1855 acres are un-
surveyed. Northern Socorro county
has an area of 2,14S,OOO acres of which
1896, 457 acres have been appropriated,
and 1,252,543 acres are unappropriated
of which 1,124,463 acres have been sur
veyed and 12S,OSO acres are unsurvey-
ed. The area of Taos county Is 1,470,000
acres of which 699,054 acres have been
appropriated 1881 acres reserved
and 651,0 ,015 acres are unappropriated of
which S49,662 acres are surveyed and
301 1853 acres unsurveyed. Valencia coun-
ty has an area of 5,01S,S00 acres of
which 2,219,020 acres have been appro-
priated, 4O1 ,3O4 acres are reserved and
2,39S,576 acres are unappropriated Of
which 2,11O,704 acres have been survey
ed and 2S7,S72 acres are unsurveyed. By
these figures it will be seen that there
are still 2,662,S04 acres of unsurveyed
land in the Santa Fe land district
and that there are good many good
sized farms that could be cut out Of
the unappropriated area in this ooe
land district of the territory alone
A Statehood Con vention.