5-31-287 NP 16 1912 [Circular No. 149.] VACANT PUBLIC LANDS IN THE UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, US GENERAL LAND OFFICE, July 1, 1912. The following tables, based on reports furnished by the district land offices, show, by States, Territories, land districts, and counties, the area of unappropriated and unreserved public lands, surveyed and unsurveyed, and a brief description of the character of the vacant lands. No more specific description of the character of the land, climate, water, or timber can be given by the General Land Office. Counties and States in which there are no unappropriated lands are omitted. A township diagram, showing only entered lands in any township, can be procured by sending $1 to the register and receiver of the land office for that district. The diagram required should be specified by township and range number. While the figures in the tables may not be absolutely correct, owing to liability to error in a work of such magnitude and to the necessity of making estimates of unsurveyed lands, it is believed that they afford a close approximation to the actual areas. The statement is intended to inform correspondents and the general public as to whether there is much or little public land in the several land States and Territories and the land districts therein and in particular counties or localities. In many counties only a few acres are reported as vacant. Neither the General Land Office nor the local land officers can furnish information as to the location of such tracts, but such information may be obtained from the records of the local land offices, which, when not in official use, are open to inspection by prospective home seekers or their agents. Before entry personal inspection of the lands should be made to ascertain if they are suitable, and when the applicant is satisfied on this point entry can be made at the local land office in the manner prescribed by law, under the direction of the local land officers, who will give full information. Should anyone desire information in regard to vacant lands in any district before going there for a personal inspection, he should address the register and receiver of the proper local land office, who will give full information regarding vacant lands and the steps necessary to be taken in making entry. All vacant unappropriated public lands, nonmineral and nonsaline in character, are subject to entry under the homestead laws. 55640°-12-1 260132 Statement, by States, Territories, land districts, and counties, showing the area of land unappropriated and unreserved on July 1, 1912. [Counties containing no unappropriated lands are omitted.] 024713/70 Statement, by States, Territories, land districts, and counties, showing the area of land unappropriated and unreserved on July 1, 1912-Continued. |