Show THE GENERAL GENERAl LAND OFFICE Report of Commissioner Carter for Last Year The report of Commissioner Commissioner Carter Carter for the fiscal year ending Juno June SO 80 1891 has been made public A comparative statement is made mado showing the number of agricultural mineral and coal entries entres made mado durin during the fiscal years 1581 and and the fiscal years 1890 18 0 and 1891 Patents issued during the fiscal years 1890 and 1891 were Pre Pre-emption homestead homestead homestead home home- stead timber culture j military mil mit- mi- mi itry bounty land agricultural college college college col col- lege script 32 miscellaneous script scrIpt mineral 8 31 coal The total number of agricultural patents patents pat pat- pat ent issued during and 1887 was vas 41 47 against a total of ot 2101 during the tho years 1800 and 1891 an increase of ot patents Tho The increase In tho the number of ot mineral patents Issued was 67 and of ot coal patents 32 32 The lands number of ot acres of public disposed of during shows that tho the cash sales amounted to acres Of the miscellaneous entries not cash 50 M- n. n acres res were homesteads acres were vere entered under the tho timber culture cal cul turo ture law Tho The railroad selections amounted to acres tho the state se selections so- so 1740 acres the Indian allotments allot allot- alot- alot ments ment to and the original orinal swamp sections to 2161 acres Total cash receIpts receipts re re- re- re during daring the year Filings durn during tho the year 2241 the fees feos on which amounted to Final entries entres during daring the year were 51 representing an acreage of j jori ori original inal entries entres the tho same tie tune time aggregating ag aggregating ag- ag I acres Decrease of entries for tor the the year representing an au acreage of Patents Patent to land grant gant railroads during the year acres an increase se over previous years of Surveys havo have been accepted durn during the year to the amount of The vacant public lands In ia the public land states and territories terri tern tories is The approvals durin during the year under the different grants gats to the tho several states for educational purposes and under the saline grant havn having the effect of ot a patent embraced an area of ot acres Of this amount Nevada received approvals approval a for acres Oregon Idaho South Dakota 4 1382 Colorado Minnesota Missouri Misouri 30 80 3 L Louisiana 1045 The increase Inthe In ia inthe the approvals for educational purposes during the year was acres At the tho close of the fiscal year there were found to be bo final en entries res pending in ia inthe inthe the office against at the close cose of the previous fiscal year a decrease ase of ot 1200 Railroad selections amounting to 2846 17 acres were pending July I 1 1891 which is a decrease of ot as compared with the last preceding fiscal year The following shows the tho vacant public lands in acres in the Western states states states' and territories Arizona California Colorado Idaho Kansas Minnesota Montana Nebraska Nevada New Mexico North Dakota Oklahoma Oregon 3 South Dakota Dakota Dakota Da Da- kota Utah Wash in ington ton Wyoming Mr Carter protests protest that the unsatisfactory tory the granting of swamp lands to the states cannot properly be urged against the plan proposed for the settlement of the arid land question and then says While the swamp land grant states state may have been indifferent and unwise in dealings with a grant gant which was but amere a amere amere mere incidental matter the desert land grant states could not afford to thus deal with wih and consider a question queston of vital im ira ira- Indifference would court ad adversity adversity act ad- and recklessness would bring ruin When a proposition of this gravity i Is submitted submitted submitted sub sub- to any organized body of citizens directly interested in its is wise consideration tion and solution they will wi consider wisely and act well wel |