THE STORY OF OUR PUBLIC DOMAIN 45 



PATENTS GRANTED FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1927 



CLASS 



NUMBER 



OF 

 PATENTS 



AREA 



Commuted homestead 357 



Timber and stone 308 



Public sale 466 



Desert land 471 



Cash miscellaneous 194 



Desert-land reclamation i 



Desert-land segregation 4 



Town site 5 



Town lot 410 



Homestead 3i5 



Enlarged homestead 2,020 



Forest homestead 312 



Indian homestead (reservation) 1,121 



Reclamation homestead 154 



Soldiers' additional homestead 54 



Stock-raising homestead 6,152 



Forest lieu selection 46 



Military bounty land warrant 17 



Mineral 475 



Coal 4 



Private land claim 26 



Small holding claim 145 



Swamp 26 



Umatilla Indian land 2 



Abandoned military reservation 23 



Choctaw scrip 4 



Valentine scrip i 



Ware scrip i 



Wyandotte scrip i 



Cemetery site 5 



Railroad 45 



Timber culture 37 



Timber sales 75 



Forest exchange 27 



Indian 6,408 



Special acts 63 



To complete record 211 



Supplemental (act Apr. 14, 1914) 20 



Total. 



22,796 



Acres 



36,765-74 



25,456.15 



39,204.73 



76,157.92 



16,100.68 



i 20.00 



16,154-18 



486 . 19 



970.247 



365,588.71 



570,961.52 



33,833.o8 



217,248.206 



12,398.93 



1,660.70 



2,400,604.81 



6,395-53 



970.48 



56,429.92 



240.00 



10,593-85 



1,743-838 



12,632.35 



80.00 



5,649.77 

 589-82 



85 



40.00 



40.00 



85.158 



117,919.713 



5,957.69 



10,564.39 



16,365.74 



384,310.40 



12,572.10 



4,456,893.392 



generally to mineral fuels, fertilizers, coal, phos- 

 phate, sodium, oil, oil shale, and gas, and in 1926 to 

 sulphur in Louisiana, and gold, silver and quicksil- 

 ver in the Southwest. 



