Richland County Is a Corn Raiser. 



been selected by experts with the result that the state land lands are among the 

 very best in the commonwealth. State lands which sell at public auction can not 

 be disposed of for a less price than ten dollars an acre and the payments for them 

 are in installments, if the purchaser so desires, covering a period of twenty years, 

 at a low rate of interest. The total area of public lands granted Montana under 

 the different acts was 5,867,618 acres of which in round numbers 5,100,000 acres were 

 for schools. 



The land area of Montana as given in the government report is 93,568,640 acres. 

 Of this land in round numbers 72,000,000 acres have been surveyed, leaving 20,000,000 

 yet to be surveyed. Of this unsurveyed area a large amount is in the national forest 

 reserve, Montana having an acreage of 19,000,000 acres under this head. 



According to the report of the commissioner of the general land office in 1917 

 there were 34,578 applications for the entry of public lands, involving 3,804,106 acres. 

 There were patented to homesteaders during that year 3,817,933 acres. The home- 

 stead entries in Montana in 1917 aggregated 15,197, the acreage involved being 

 3,471,286 acres. The following, covering the years 1912 to 1917 inclusive, shows the 

 number of homestead entries and the acreage embraced therein, the number of 

 entries of all kinds, and the acreage embraced in the original entries, the number 

 of acres upon which final proof was made and the number of acres obtained from 

 the government by settlers: 



