Excerpt from Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1932Original public-land entries for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, embraced acres, while those for the decade closing the same date covered acres. The new entries last year were, therefore, more than acres in excess of the annual average for the past 10 years.The homestead laws retained their usual leadership. They accounted for almost 90 per cent of the areas in new segregations and more than 75 per cent of those patented.N O spectacular finds, of valuable ores were made, but the search for minerals continued along normal lines. Patents for 301 mineral entries were issued, as against 222 the year before. Satisfactory progress was made in the disposition of oil-shale cases.The additional sum of made available for protecting public lands and timber enabled the Office to materially reduce the field arrearages. New cases received were substantially the same as in 1931, but those reported, considered, and closed were as against The number not reached for investigation was as compared with on hand at the beginning of the year.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.