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Table 3. — Approximate subdivision of the lands within the Atlantic and Pacific land- 
grant boundaries. 
(According to tenure for each State and for the entire grant.) 
Arizona. 
New Mexico. 
Whole grant. 
Area. 
Percentage of 
area. 
Area. 
Percentage of 
area. 
Area. 
Per 
cent- 
age of 
whole 
grant. 
In 
State. 
In 
grant. 
In 
State. 
In 
grant. 
Railroad lands: 
Selected and patented. 
Selected, not patented . 
Acres. 
2, 321, 320 
2, 593, 620 
1, 478, 320 
935, 280 
3, 291, 960 
10.3 
11.5 
6.6 
4.1 
14.6 
7.3 
8.2 
4.6 
2.9 
10.4 
Acres. 
2, 137, 200 
542,550 
523, 520 
140, 280 
482, 200 
254, 600 
1, 458, 200 
338, 640 
952, 040 
448, 320 
1, 966, 240 
23.1 
5.9 
5.7 
1.5 
5.2 
2.7 
15.8 
3.7 
10.3 
4.8 
21.3 
6.7 
1.7 
1.6 
.4 
1.5 
.2 
4.6 
1.1 
3.0 
1.4 
6.2 
Acres. 
4, 458, 520 
3, 138, 080 
2, 001, 840 
1, 075, 960 
3, 774, 160 
254,600 
5, 990, 480 
468,480 
1, 044, 630 
1. 400, 440 
8, 187, 360 
14.0 
9.9 
6.2 
State lands, all other kinds. 
National forests 
3.3 
11.9 
American Lumber Co. 
(originally railroad 
lands) 
.8 
Indian reservations 
Indian allotments (out- 
side reservations) 
Mexican land grants 
Private holdings (mostly 
homesteads) 
4, 532, 480 
129,840 
92, 640 
952, 120 
6, 221, 120 
20.1 
.6 
.4 
4.2 
27.6 
14.3 
.4 
.3 
3.0 
19.6 
18.9 
1.5 
3.3 
4.4 
U. S. Government lands. . . 
35.8 
Total 
22, 550, 600 
100.0 
71.0 
9, 243, 800 
100.0 
29.0 
31, 794, 400 
100.0 
Note.— The figures given here are only approximations. Much of the land has not yet been surveyed 
and exact figures could not be obtained. The estimate in acreages assumes all sections to contain 640 
acres, which, of course, is not exact. The percentages of the different kinds of tenure are doubtless fairly 
accurate, at least to units place. 
The present use-control of the land. — The problem of how to control 
the range in separate units of such size as to make the business of 
raising stock profitable has been before all stockmen ever since the 
ranges commenced to be crowded, even in local areas. In earlier days 
there was an abundance of feed for the animals of those who had 
the courage and skill to enter the business, but in a relatively short 
time the excess feed was all used in the more favorably located places, 
and the contest for place began. 
The necessity for individual control has kept pace with the growing 
specialization of the business, and rising prices have made profitable 
greater and greater expenditures for rights or privileges in a range. 
The struggle has gone on from one degree of intensity to another until 
at present many individuals and firms have invested large sums of 
money in permanent improvements, such as wells, reservoirs, pipe 
lines, troughs, corrals, fences, houses, etc., as well as in the purchase 
or lease of part of the lands they are using. Whenever it has been 
possible, such men have got legal control of all their land and fenced 
it. In practically all cases the improvements have been protected 
by some sort of legal control of the land on which they have been 
made. A few men make their investments as small as possible with 
the object of making some one else bear their burden of capitaliza- 
tion, and thus take advantage of the open range condition. 
The existing system of management in this industry is determined 
in many cases by the possible use which may be made of Government 
land and the legal control of the land upon which stock water occurs. 
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