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Show 1015 OFJMD Iff F Mor Tlinn Twenty Millions of rre Yrt tTnsurreyol. I. C. Thoreson, surveror general for t'tnh, has t-ompletcd his annual re-port re-port nnd forwarded It to Clar Tiitl-man. Tiitl-man. commissioner of the general Innd office nt Washington. D. C. The report re-port shows that the trttal number of ncrrs of surveyed lands In the stAte I on June SO, ltlC. was 3J.2SM41. Our-Ing Our-Ing the pset fiscal cnr the sum-jor, general's office surveyed tit, nit' ncrc of land, ll Is estimated by the report that 20.2il.S2t acres remain unxurieyed, which gives the state n total of C4,3I(,37S nrrcs of land. Thej report shows that at the present time there Is one double party In the field, I thrwj single parlies, five survejors nnd thlrty.slx nsslntants. During the Inst fluent year ths office of-fice received 116,(11.60 from alt sources nnd Its expenditure was 174.-479. 174.-479. S3. The office has n bntance of 17307,71 nml tho liabilities nre $43i.SS. The receipts of the office show an Increase over If! J. During tho jesr thirteen sections nnd fifty tnwnnhlps wrro surveyed under pe. rial Instructions, two sections nnd four townships were surveyed under field returns not filed, thirty town ships are pending surtey nnd fifty-four fifty-four townships were surveyed under field returns not filed, thirty town- iihliitt nrr tientllnir mirvov ntnl flflv. four townships were received for survey sur-vey Hlxtj-two townships, comprising JCIS'i miles were disposed of nt n cost f $ 1.72 n mile, office expense, 110.07 a mite field expense or a total of 1 1 1.19 n mile Hrturns on twenty-two twenty-two townships wcro pending at the o'lii of tho fiscal yenr. In the mineral surveys department twenty-two surveys nnd sixty-three locations were ponding on June 30, lfl. During the enr seventy-nlne surveys were received and two hun dred nnd slxty.seven locations. Thirty-one Thirty-one surrs wcro returned for rorrec lion and n hundred nnd eight lorn linns for the same renson. The office approved forty-four survevs nnd n hundred nnd fifteen locations. The Average cost of location was flf.tt There were fifty-seven surveys nnd 222 locations pending June 30, tf) 17. |
