LAND RECLAMATION POLICIES IN THE UNITED STATES 
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Table 10 shows that in the West — the Pacific and Mountain 
States — and in the East North Central States, a very large part of 
the land in organized-drainage enterprises is improved and, there- 
fore, the districts in those States do not involve land settlement. In 
the South Central and the West North Central States the lands in 
districts are about evenly divided between improved and unimproved 
land. In the South Atlantic States — North Carolina, South Carolina, 
Georgia, and Florida — the other extreme is found. Only 16.3 per 
cent of the land in operating districts, and only 3.5 per cent of the 
land in non-operating districts, is improved, and reclamation is 
closely connected with the problem of land settlement. A very small 
part of the land is producing the means of meeting the cost of re- 
clamation, and payments of interest and principal must be met from 
other sources or become in default unless settlement is effected. In 
the States last mentioned, as well as in some other States, there are 
many districts where the promoters are carrying these payments and 
accepting the losses, while waiting for settlers. However, default on 
payments is not very general. 
Summary of acreage reclaimed under the various acts. — The re- 
sults accomplished under the various acts are shown in Table 11. 
Table 11. — Areas reclaimed under Federal and State reclamation acts. 
Desert land act: 
Original entries to June 30, 1922 
Final entries to June 30, 1922 
Carey Act: 
Applied for, to June 30, 1922 
Segregated,to June 30, 1922 
Patented, to June 30, 1922 
Included in enterprise, 1920 
Enterprises were capable of irrigating in 1920 
Irrigated in 1919 
United States Reclamation act: 
Included in enterprises, 1920 
Enterprises were capable of irrigating in 1920 
Irrigated in 1919 
Irrigation districts: 
Included in enterprises, 1920 
Enterprises were capable of irrigating in 1920 
Irrigated in 1919 
All other irrigation: 
Included in enterprises, 1920 
Enterprises were capable of irrigating in 1920 
Irrigated in 1919. 
Drainage districts: 
Included in districts, 1920 
Improved land in districts, 1920 : 
Timber and cut-over land in districts, 1920 
Other unimproved land in districts, 1920 
California State land settlements: 
Area included (approximately) 
Area in farms sold to July 1923 (approximately). 
32. 
J 8, 
*3, 
»1, 
2 1, 
2 
2 
2 2, 
a l, 
*1, 
2 3, 
2 2, 
*li 
2 28, 
2 21, 
2 15, 
2 69, 
2 45, 
2 12, 
2 11, 
378, 883 
312, 272 
340, 193 
813, 991 
018, 131 
188, 937 
804,298 
523, 929 
627, 176 
680, 643 
254, 569 
432, 109 
531, 425 
822, 887 
642,599 
004,111 
590, 331 
419, 859 
664, 730 
577, 550 
177, 579 
15,000 
11,500 
i Report of Commissioner of General Land Office for year ended June 30, 1922. 
2 Report of the Fourteenth Census. 
The area reported under the desert land act is included in the other 
classes, principally in "all other irrigation;" hence, should not be 
included in a total. Totaling the census classes gives the result for 
irrigation shown in Table 12. 
Table 12. — Area included in irrigation enterprises, 1920. 
Included in enterprises in 1920 
Enterprises were capable of irrigating in 1920. 
Irrigated in 1919 
Acres. 
35, 890, 821 
26, 020, 477 
19, 191, 716 
