| Acres. | |||
| An increase of 896,139.75 acres, as compared with the previous fiscal year. | |||
| Agricultural-college scrip locations | 960.00 | ||
| Bounty-land Warrant locations | 50,820.00 | ||
| A decrease of 33,900 acres as compared with the previous fiscal year. | |||
| State selections: | |||
| School indemnity | 85,474.65 | ||
| Internal improvements | 81,400.46 | ||
| Agricultural colleges | 680.00 | ||
| Salt springs | 18,836.62 | ||
| 186,391.73 | |||
| A decrease of 28,600.80 acres as compared with the previous fiscal year. | |||
| Scrip locations: | |||
| Sioux half-breed scrip | 1,879.05 | ||
| Chippewa half-breed | 640.00 | ||
| Valentine scrip | 1,417.70 | ||
| Porterfield scrip | 240.00 | ||
| Cole scrip | 480.00 | ||
| 4,656.75 | |||
| Scrip located under acts of June 2, 1858, and June 22, 1860 | 87,573.44 | ||
| An increase of 4,429.84 acres as compared with the previous fiscal year. | |||
| Under the swamp act | 75,388.08 | ||
| A decrease of 127,537.77 acres. | |||
| Certified for railroad purposes | 278,334.11 | ||
| A decrease of 328,006.54 acres. | |||
| Total | 9,333,383.29 | ||
| A quantity greater by 647,204.41 acres than that disposed of the previous fiscal year. This increase is largely due to the greater quantity taken under the homestead and timber-culture acts. | |||
The cash receipts were $1,883,113.56, a sum less by $139,418.60 than that received the previous fiscal year.
During the fiscal year 8,445,781.64 acres of public lands were surveyed, and 1,039,214.26 acres of private land claims, a quantity of public lands greater by 414,769 acres than that surveyed the previous year. The entire quantity surveyed is 734,591,236 acres, leaving of the public domain yet to be surveyed 1,080,197,686 acres.
The report of the Commissioner recites the appropriation for the survey of public lands and private land claims, and the distribution of the appropriation among the sixteen surveying districts. It also contains the report by the surveyors-general of surveying operations in their respective districts, and the statement that the boundary line between Colorado and Utah Territory has been surveyed and marked.
The applications for certified copies of patents, papers, &c., have greatly increased. As the compensation received for such copies under the law must be turned into the Treasury, the Commissioner suggests an amendment, so that the moneys received for such copies may be made applicable for the payment of copyists employed upon the work.
He suggests that abandoned military reservations that are found to
