PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY
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States Hid Territorial
Area
L" n ap prop riated ami Unreserved
Total Land Surface
Total
Including
Water Surface
Am I
Acres
Acres
Florida
35,111,040
S7.54--.240
Georgia
—
23,584,000
37,929,600
Idaho .
8,805,112
53,346.560
53,688.820
Illinois.
—
35.867,520
36,266.600
Indiana
—
23,068.800
_ io.560
Iowa
—
35,575.040
35,934,0-0
Kansas
4,346
52.335.360
52,581,120
Kentucky .
—
25.715.840
25.982.720
Louisiana
14,240
31,043,840
Maine .
—
19.1S.
21,145,600
Maryland
—
6,3ty.
7.889.2W
Massachusetts
—
5,144.960
5,290,240
Michigan
ra.«a
36,7^7
37,107,200
Minnesota
25i
51.7,
54,196,480
Mississ •
33,800
29,«7.
29,993,600
Missouri
18
4S, 9*5.280
44,428,800
Montana
5,973,741
94,078,0*)
Nebraska
66,844
49,r:
49,612.800
Nevada
70.2S
70,841,600
New Hampshire
—
5.779,840
5,978,240
New Jersey .
—
4,808.960
M88VHD
New Mexico
18,44
78,401,920
■-3,760
New York .
—
30,498,560
31,490,560
North Carolina
—
31,193,60ft
33,552,640
North Dakota
81,044
44,9 r
45.335,680
Ohio
—
_•■. : ..600
26,265,00m
Oklahoma
7,404
44.4-:
Oregon .
14,0"
61,186
Pennsylvania
—
Rhode Island
—
South Carolina .
—
19,516,800
19,S'-
South Dakota
288,472
49,1.'
49,073,600
Tennessee .
—
I m «,O0i
Texas .
—
167,934,720
170,173,440
Utah .
29.P91.715
•7,760
54,393,600
Vermont
—
5,839.860
6,120.966
Virginia
—
23.767.6SO
27,281,280
Washington .
1.086,686
f.,040
44,241,280
West Virginia
—
15,374,080
15,468,800
Wisconsin
5,154
35,363,840
35,882.240
Wyoming
19,679,595
62,460,160
1
02,664,960
Tota
1
553.101,888
1,903,289,600
2,315,310,720
The public lands are divided into two great classes. The one class have a dollar and a quarter an acre designated as the minimum price, and the other two dollars and a half an acre, the latter being the alternate sections, reserved by the United States in land grants to railroads, &c. Titles to these lands may be acquired by location under the homestead laws ; or, as to some classes, by purchase for cash. The homestead laws give the right to 160 acres of a-dollar- and-a-quarter lands to any citizen or applicant for citizenship who will actually settle upon and cultivate the land. The title is perfected by the issue of a patent after three years (law of June 6, 1912) of actual settlement. The onlv charges in the case of homestead entries are fees and commissions. On July 1, 1920, 553,101,888 acres were unappropriated and unreserved, of which 352,781,760 were in Alaska. During the fiscal year ended June 80, 1920, the area patented was 11,850,401 acres, of which 9,981,043 acres were patented under the homestead laws. It is provided by law that two sections,
