The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-01-10
THEY AMOUNT TO $l,OOO,OOO
And Seventy Per Cent Of
This Amount Has Been
Collected

In the biennial report to the COVER
nor. Secretary Filson, Of the school
land office. says
The total cash receipts Of the school
land lice now exceed one million dol
lars, and win continue to increase at
the rate OF a quarter oIu2, million dol
lars annually The opening Of the Kio-
wa and oomancne country win fur
ther increase the annual receipts to
about $325,0OO,
The next amount of cash receipts
from the csutuencement TO November
30, 1900. is $1,056,S16.99, Of which sum
81 ,O02 ,063.61 has been turned over g
the territoria treasurer for the fol
lowing purposes Common schools,
s752I15.O4; colleges. s121 .S42.5O; pub
lie buildings. s12O,576.96; Greer coun-
ty sections 3 and 80 trust fund, ss,-
G29.11.
The present administration has coll
lected S70i,724O2, or nearly seventy
per cent. Of the cash receipts,
During the past two years there has
been collected sil2,6O72s, which is
about forty per cent. Of the total cash
receipts
The receipts for the year ending No
vember 80. 1900. were s22O.077.64. an
increase OF s27.64s over the previous
year.
1873. S.457.54 has been turned over TO
the treasurer for educational purposes
$i20,576.96 is for public building pur-
poses, and the $S,629.li is trust fund
for such purposes as the first state
legislature may direct.
The expenses OF the school land Of
Zee are about six per cent. OF the cash
receipts, but me interest collected now
amount 20 over twenty-five hundred
dollars annually. so that the loss to
the principal OF the notes due the va
rious funds is only about four per cent.
year.
The total interest collected since
1892 amounts 10 sl9,690.77
In dividing the expense to the differ
ent funds seventy per cent. is charged
TO the common school fund, fourteen
and half per cent each TO college
and publ.e buildings fund, and one per
cent to the Greer county trust fund
The expenses Of the biennial period
ending November 80, 1898, and for the
period ending November 80, 1900, are
nearly the same, averaging about
twelve thousand dollars per year. A
considerable portion Of the expense is
due 10 the reappraisement Of the land
al the expiration of each lease-4l0O
quarter sections have been appraised
during the past two years, and the
area OF apportlonment has been ex'
tended from range thirteen west TO
ranges seventeen and twenty west.
More than 1000 quarters have been
leased since the preseat leasing board
look charge.
During tho past two years Sl56S has
bs6n.-paid United states land offices
for fees due for the selection Of large
bodies Of indemnity lands in the Kick
auoo reservation and In Woodward
eounty during the administration OF
Governor Renfrow The secretary Of
she interior having decided against the
appeal Of the school land offico the
same being paid upon his decision that
Il was a just and proper charge.
The rules adopted by the board May
2 1893, have met the cordial approval
az all persons interested IN school land
legislatlon, and are so well adapted to
sho business control Of the trust, and I
believe that voice the general sena-
nant Of an persons interested, how
ever remotely. IN the administration
of school land matters, when | urge
that these rules as nearly as possible,
be enacted into law; they arc a re-
sult OF ten years experience In the
management OF these lands, and en-
body Ia general way nearly all the
law necessary tc protect the interests
of the territory and the lessees and
the people generally ar familiar with
n procedure can control Of the land.
s'he costly failures Of many Of the
states n dealing with their public
lands 10 more apparent that oklahomn
should at once establish a permanent