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THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY, 



HOMESTEADED LANDS. 

 Statement by counties of the number of acres deeded and the number of acres abandoned. 



Taking a district in the Lower Peninsula in which the State holdings 

 of cut-over land are the largest, viz.: Arenac, Gladwin, Clare, Missau- 

 kee, Roscommon, Ogemaw, Iosco, Alcona, Oscoda, Crawford, Kalkaska, 

 Otsego, Montmorency, Alpena, Presque Isle and Cheboygan, we find that 

 53% of the acreage homesteaded is abandoned and reverts. The follow- 

 ing table shows the result by counties: 



