Newspaper clippings - Land settlement - Transcript (part 2).
Date
1924
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Publisher
UNKNOWN
Abstract
"Figures made public today by the interior department's general land office disclosed that the largest amount of land disposed of went into homestead entries commuted entries and sales to the general public, the figures reaching 523,968,614 acres. Railroad and wagon road grants aggregated 161,539,168 acres and educational and other grants to state governments totaled 137,668,490 acres. Included in the rest of the total [186,604,733 acres] disposed of war grants to war veterans and Indians under timber, swamp and desert lands."
Description
20 page typed transcription, created by Click Relander.