THE STORY OF OUR PUBLIC DOMAIN 21 



cial purposes have been acquired by purchase since. 

 There are no original Public Lands in Kentucky and 

 Tennessee, and none can longer be identified in Il- 

 linois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Ohio. Small 

 areas remain in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Mich- 

 igan, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Wisconsin in 

 widely scattered tracts, much of it unlocated. 



The great bulk of it of course is thoroughly 

 well known. The General Land Office quoted the 

 unappropriated and unreserved Public Lands cover- 

 ing seventeen states as totalling, in 1927, 193,737- 

 588 acres or 302,715 square miles, of which 53,850,- 

 590 acres are still unsurveyed. They are distributed 

 according to the accompanying table. 



AREAS OF PUBLIC LAND IN ACRES 



Public Lands constitute twenty-six per cent of 

 the total areas of the seventeen states therein named, 



