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 PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

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States Hid Territorial

Area

L" n ap prop riated ami Unreserved

Total Land Surface

Total

Including

Water Surface

Am I

Acres

Acres

Florida

35,111,040

S7.54--.240

Georgia

—

23,584,000

37,929,600

Idaho.

8,805,112

53,346.560

53,688.820

Illinois.

—

35.867,520

36,266.600

Indiana

—

23,068.800

_ io.560

Iowa

—

35,575.040

35,934,0-0

Kansas

4,346

52.335.360

52,581,120

Kentucky.

—

25.715.840

25.982.720

Louisiana

14,240

31,043,840

Maine.

—

19.1S.

21,145,600

Maryland

—

6,3ty.

7.889.2W

Massachusetts

—

5,144.960

5,290,240

Michigan

ra.«a

36,7^7

37,107,200

Minnesota

25i

51.7,

54,196,480

Mississ •

33,800

29,«7.

29,993,600

Missouri

18

4S, 9*5.280

44,428,800

Montana

5,973,741

94,078,0*)

Nebraska

66,844

49,r:

49,612.800

Nevada

70.2S

70,841,600

New Hampshire

—

5.779,840

5,978,240

New Jersey.

—

4,808.960

M88VHD

New Mexico

18,44

78,401,920

■-3,760

New York.

—

30,498,560

31,490,560

North Carolina

—

31,193,60ft

33,552,640

North Dakota

81,044

44,9 r

45.335,680

Ohio

—

_•■. : ..600

26,265,00m

Oklahoma

7,404

44.4-:

Oregon.

14,0"

61,186

Pennsylvania

—

Rhode Island

—

South Carolina.

—

19,516,800

19,S'-

South Dakota

288,472

49,1.'

49,073,600

Tennessee.

—

I m «,O0i

Texas.

—

167,934,720

170,173,440

Utah.

29.P91.715

•7,760

54,393,600

Vermont

—

5,839.860

6,120.966

Virginia

—

23.767.6SO

27,281,280

Washington.

1.086,686

f.,040

44,241,280

West Virginia

—

15,374,080

15,468,800

Wisconsin

5,154

35,363,840

35,882.240

Wyoming

19,679,595

62,460,160

1

02,664,960

Tota

1

553.101,888

1,903,289,600

2,315,310,720

The public lands are divided into two great classes. The one class have a dollar and a quarter an acre designated as the minimum price, and the other two dollars and a half an acre, the latter being the alternate sections, reserved by the United States in land grants to railroads, &c. Titles to these lands may be acquired by location under the homestead laws ; or, as to some classes, by purchase for cash. The homestead laws give the right to 160 acres of a-dollar- and-a-quarter lands to any citizen or applicant for citizenship who will actually settle upon and cultivate the land. The title is perfected by the issue of a patent after three years (law of June 6, 1912) of actual settlement. The onlv charges in the case of homestead entries are fees and commissions. On July 1, 1920, 553,101,888 acres were unappropriated and unreserved, of which 352,781,760 were in Alaska. During the fiscal year ended June 80, 1920, the area patented was 11,850,401 acres, of which 9,981,043 acres were patented under the homestead laws. It is provided by law that two sections,