Arizona republican., 1904-07-14
THE WORK OF A YEAR
Surveys and Their Cost, Ordered Through Surveyor.Generars Office.

During the fiscal year ending June | 30, 1904 contracts were awarded by the
 office of the surveyor general for the l survey of public lands in Arizona,
 whose liabilities aggregate $500 The | township surveys embraced in ttese
 several contracts were equally dis.rib-
 uted. as far as the eXigencies of the case would warrant, throughout the entire territory, from the international
 boundary line to the south rim of the
 grand canyon of the Colorado liver:
 applications, in most instances, for the
 survey of these several townships hav-
 ing been on file in the office for the
 past ten years. Through the cffors of
 the surveyor general the allotment to Arizona for the survey of the public lands, from the regular appropriation for the several districts. for the past year, was increased from $14C0e to s2S.000, these several amounts, together with S2,OO0 deposited by individuals and corporations for the survey Of railroad ana coal lands will be suffic- tent to survey in the neighborhood of 1,700 miles of standard township and section lines, which will embrace about 100000 acres.
 All bona fide settlers, whose claims are at present upon unsurveyed publ c lands, would do we'll to file their appli- cations for survey with the office of the surveyor general without delay. providing they desire to secure title from the government to their lands.
 It is estimated that over 200 settlers will be able to file upon their several classes of claims within a year on the lands that are now being surveyed.
 The survey of eighty-five miles of standard lines were accepted during the year, together with 296 miles of town ship and 1,271 miles of section lines, embracing 461,934.33 acres. The sur vey of these lines were embraced in eleven contracts or special instruc- tions and the majority of the townships were in the indemnity limits of the Santa Fe Pacific Railway company, in the San Francisco forest reserve.
 Returns of surveys under twenty-five contracts or special instructions were filed during the year.
 The survey of two private land claims, or Spanish grants, were ac- cepted during the year, being the San Rafael de la Zanja, or Cameron grant, which was recently sold to W. c. Greene. and the San Jose de Sonoita grant, both of which are situated in Santa Cruz county.
 One hundred thirty-four orders were issued for tie survey of mineral claims, embracing 451 lodes, five placer and four millsite claims. One hundie ed ffty-one mineral surveys were sp- proved, embracing 557 lodcs, IS placer and 35 milisite claims. There were also prepared S3 sheets of mining districts, l whose. preparation involved the map ping of over 2,OO0 patented and survey ed claims.
 Some idea of the immense amount of , work that has been done by the office during the fiscal year just passed may he summ arized by stating that over l .00O Dlats CT maps were prepared and approved ana 7,500 pages of field no @ were checked, transcribed, compared and approved. Two thousand s7v n hundred letters were received and 3 647 were dispatched A new system was adopted for the filing of the majority i of all records, necessitating in many i cases an entire reindexing.
 Besides the regular annual congress sional appropriation to the district cf Arizona for clerical hire in the Cf- fee of the United States surveyor gen. | eral S16,525 was deposited by indivi1- l uals and corporations for office work and stationery during the year.
 The report concludes by stating that the office force is now working up n | returns of surveys, agricultural and that were filed during the lat ter rart of May-havirg dispos2d of six months of arrears work that had 1 accumulated on July l, 1903.