.... 9,700,000
_Timber and stone entries_.................................... 7,600,000
_Cash entries_, including entries under the
preemption and other acts................................... 276,600,000
_Reservoir rights of way_....................................... 300,000
_Forest reserves_ (tracts of forest land
permanently reserved from sale).............................. 57,900,000
For national reclaiming purposes............................. 39,911,000
Reserved for public purposes (public buildings,
forts, etc.).................................................. 6,700,000
_Indian reservations_........................................ 73,000,000
_Entries pending_............................................ 39,500,000
_Unappropriated public land_................................ 841,872,377
_Total (including Alaska)_................................ 1,852,683,377
By June 30, 1912, homestead entries had increased to 127,800,000 acres;
timber and stone entries to 13,060,000 acres; forest reserves to
187,400,000 acres, and there was left 682,984,762 acres, more than half of
which was in Alaska; that is, of the billion and a half of acres,
exclusive of Alaska, over a billion have been sold to private uses,
granted in aid of private enterprises, used for public improvements,
appropriated forever to public uses, or given to the support of education.
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