294 LAND MONOPOLY. 



not 100,000,000 has passed directly into the hands of culti 

 vators. 



Our public domain, therefore, can by no means be considered 

 limitless; the normal rate of increase of our population, (35 

 per cent.,) will give us a population, in 1920, of 171,771,610; 

 from which the reader may infer that the land question is al 

 ready one of the greatest concerns of American statesmanship. 



The report of the United States General Land Office, for the 

 year 1871, gives the following information in regard to the lands 

 in California on the 1st of June of that year. The area of the 

 State is set down at 120,847,840 acres, of which but 33,900,633 

 have been surveyed up to 1871; leaving unsurveyed 87,047,207. 

 Of the 33,900,633 acres surveyed, less than eight millions have 

 been confirmed to private claimants. The condition of the re 

 mainder is as follows : 



ACKES. 



Sold 3,591,816 



School 5,569,990 



Swamp Lands 969,702 



University , . . . 46,080 



Indian Scrip 38,425 



Agricultural Colleges 52,213 



Railroad Grants 694,684 



Internal Improvements 500,000 



Homestead Act of 1862 709,386 



Scrip Locations 935,335 



Government Sections. 6,400 



Military Reservations , 511,052 



Moating Scrip 80 



Total 11,026,163 



Total to private claimants 7,784,303 



Surveyed lands still in possession of the Government 15,900,167 



Total surveyed 33,900,633 



&quot;We will now look a little more closely at the relations between 

 &quot;God s Country,&quot; and &quot;Landlords.&quot; The best land the sun 

 shines upon; &quot;Time s latest offspring and the last,&quot; should 

 have given the American people a better chance and a fairer 

 future than they had even yet known. The State fails in one of 

 its highest obligations, unless it takes means to secure that the 

 manner in which the land is held, the mode and degree of its 

 division shall be the most favorable for drawing the greatest 

 benefit from its productive resources. A comparison, which 



