Show XU NUMBER IHEn OJ DEnS DWINDLING Th The ever dwindling number ot of moving westward to settle seUle on public lands only I 1 s-s s th ri the r. st st. eil fewer than in 1923 Interior department figures gave the total area arc of public lands homesteaded In 1924 at compared with 5 4 in the preceding year New Mexico led a list of twenty twenty- five stateS stateS' with the largest number of homesteaders during the fiscal year recently ended the states state's total of 1918 1915 entries covering erIng acres Colorado was second with wHit 1799 entries embracing a acres res Other states Included Wyoming 1788 1733 entries for acres Mon Ion Montana tana 1692 entries for Cor acres California 1420 entries for Cor acres Oregon 1188 entries for acres Idaho for Cor acres and Utah Hah GOo entries for ac acres eg 0 |