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Crensliaw County, 85,000 in Monroe, 100,000 in Franklin, 40,000 in Oon- 

 eculi, and smaller tracts in others. In Mississippi, Scott County reports 

 42,000 acres 5 Lauderdale, 40,000 ; and Winston, 30,000. In Florida, where 

 7,827,724 acres are still unsurveyed. Clay County reports 140,000 acres ; 

 Santa Rosa, 87,000; the southern counties, embracing the "everglades," 

 have been to a small extent appropriated by private parties, though 

 large areas have been donated to the State as " swamp lands." Louisi- 

 ana has 1,229,396 acres yet unsurveyed. Our correspondent reports 130,000 

 acres in Bienville, 29,000 in Claiborne, and smaller tracts in other par- 

 ishes. In Arkansas vast tracts of government land, aU surveyed, are 

 open to settlers ; about half of Garland County, 309,000 acres in Van 

 Buren, 100,000 in Pike, and large bodies in other counties. These South- 

 ern States probably still contain from 15 to 20 million acres of United 

 States land open to settlers under the land laws, by i)urchase, pre-emp- 

 tion, and homestead titles. North of the Ohio Eiver the government 

 title has been extinguished to all lands in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, 

 except a few isolated small tracts of refuse land. In Northern, Michi- 

 gan several counties still report vast bodies -, Chippewa, 500,000 acres ; 

 Delta, 100,000; Alcona, 30,000, &c. Very large tracts are found in 

 Northern Wisconsin; Oconto and Lincoln Counties are supposed to have 

 upwards of a million acres ; in the southern counties also large bodies 

 are found unoccupied. In the absence of definite statistics it may be 

 safe to estimate the amount of government land in these States uncov- 

 ered by private titles a,t from five to seven million acres. 



West of the Mississippi Eiver, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Colorado 

 still embrace 67,884,579 acres of unsurveyed land, Iowa, Missouri, and 

 Kansas having completed their surveys. The total a-mount of surveyed 

 land in these six States is 230,104,921 acres. Of this area a very large 

 amount has been donated to States and railway corporations, and a very 

 large area taken by private claimants. It is not unreasonable, however, 

 to estimate that about 100,000,000 acres, or one-third the area of these 

 States, remains at the disposal of the general government. 



In the Territories of Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, 

 and Montana, embracing an area of 438,119,680 acres, about six-sevenths, 

 or 373,748,118 acres, remain unsurveyed, but of this area a considerable 

 amount will inure to railway corporations as soon as the surveys are com- 

 pleted. Probably 250^000,000 acres of land suited to agricultural settle- 

 ment yet remain at the disposal of the government. 



On the Pacific slope three States, California, Oregon, and Nevada, and 

 two Territories, Arizona and Washington, covering in all 351,408,000 

 acres, about five-sevenths, or 250,290,564 acres, remain unsurveyed. In- 

 dividual or corporate title lias attached to an area about equal to the sur- 

 veyed lands, but of the remainder a large proportion is coyered with 

 mountam ranges, or with an arid climate, rendering it unfit for any kind 

 of farming except, perhaps, sheep farming. 



In regard to lands at the disposal of the different States, the information 

 is less general or specific. None of our correspondents found any such 

 lands available for private settlement in the New England or Middle 

 States. Craig County, Virginia, reports 2,000 acres. State lands un- 

 disposed of are also reported in several counties of North Carolina, 

 viz, Pamlico, Hyde, Graham, Bladen, Caldwell, Allehgany, Camden, Hen- 

 derson, Tyrrel, Wilkes, and Montgomery. Similar reports from Beau- 

 fort, Colleton, and Clarendon, in South Carolina. Camden, Georgia, 

 reports 60,000 acres. 



All ttie Gulf States report considerable bodies of State land disposa- 

 ble in different counties. Texas on her accession to the Union stipu- 



