The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1905-12-15
GRAND SHOWING FOR MINoT DISTRICT
(Daily Optic.)

daily Optic.)
According to the annual report Of
Secretary Hitchcock, which was made
public last Saturday, the Minot land
office is credited with the largest re-
ceipts of any land Office in the United
States, during the past year, the
amount reaching $4s1. .433.81. The
total receipts of all the land Offices in
the country reach $6, 136, ,376.76. The
office coming next in standing, to. the
local Office, is the one at Susanville,
CAL, the amount being s266, ,376.23,
while Duluth, Mimi, ran up to $243, ,6s0.-
22. Among the offices where the ex-
penses exceed the receipts, may be
mentioned, Des Moines, Ia, and To-
peka, Kan. ..4. ~
In North Dakota, the Devils Lake
office comes next to the Minot Office,
in point of receipts while the Bismarck
Office is third. The statistics, regard
ing the North Dakota Offices, are given
in the latter portion of this article and
furnish information of interest to the
people of the state at large. The COM
pensation, received by the receivers at
the Minot, Bismarck and Devils Lake
offices, is $1,000 per year. The salary
paid the receivers of the three remain
ing offices, for the past year, ranged
from 81, ,450. so to $2,93s.00.
Seven thousand dollars was. appbr-
toned to North Dakota, June 80, 1905
for. the surveying Of pubic land, and
during the past year the surveys of
978, ,779 acres of land has been approved
by the commissioner of the general
land office.
The total amount of lands surveyed but
unappropriated in the. United States is
258, ,0OO, 900 acres, while the total
amount unsurveyed is SIS, 900, 600 acres,
but Of this amount 368, ZOO, 900 are in
Alaska, and the largest amount in any
other state is 36,0QO,000 in Montana.
The total amount Of public lands ap-
propriated is sos, 200, 900, and the total
amount reserved amounts to 183, ,0OO.-
600. North Datota has 5,79, ,015 acres
surveyed, but unappropriated, 1921, 291
acres unsurveyed, 3,4s8,70 acres re-
served and 81, ,421, ,O65 acres already ap-
propriated.
Referring to the Devils Lake Indian
reservation the secretary says, that
there were oximately 566 claims Of
16O acres each in the land restored to
the public domain, and 161 entries were
made, aggregating "a, $50 acres during
the sixty days following the opening.
Afterwards 157 entries were made,
q, ,548 acres, and this means
about Il, $40 acres still available: This
land has 70 be paid for at the rate Of
81. so per acre in addition to the resi-
.dence thereon. .si .5sss5 .ssslz
Considerable space is given to the in
yestigation Of charges in regard to land and
frauds, and q list is given of the in
dictments and convictions in each state.
The number Of indictments in North
Dakota appear aas thirteen q
Six contracts have been Jet on irri-
CATION project Sf the lower Yellow-
stone, which embraces land in North
Dakota and Montana. The heaviest Of
these were. to the Widell Finley Co.. Of
Mankato, for division ! of the canal, ilrlll
costing $l6s.s6s, and Is Callahan Bros.
PRelan e Shirley sof Omaha for divi-. Ii.
sionss 2, s and z Of the cansl, costing
.44s5s. 1856. 75s y .1.5 y
STATISTICS 81 ] NORTH \ DAKOTA OFFICES.
Minot, ,ss clerks; :, 40 entries, receipts
$48l, ,48S. 81, expenses ntaining office,
$l4 351 .2266, comp ensat ion 4 Ct II receiver,
$8,O
B Bismarck, ]: S: clerks; 764 .ei, ies, so-
talt treceipts ls366, 96R. .6Q, ct
tanning Zee, III. III: al Gompep-
;ssfS sof receiver, 1000 s;s5
yils: Lake ;ls &, q e1ltrs q