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Show Homestead and Preemption Entries" (Cont.) Original Final Commutations1* Preemptions Year Number 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 Totals 410 383 425 285 213 158 185 144 475 689 684 571 415 460 483 474 482 455 662 524 1,181 1,077 612 661 383 291 182 115 51 2,992,058 Acres Number Acres Number Acres Number Acres 70,925 3,081 1,089,936 _____________________________________________________ »* 50,141 1,815 654,015 ___________________________.....____________________ > 53.440 1,187 389,970 30 2,230 __________________________ 37,435 821 202,666 18 1,324 __________________________ 29,299 499 114,481 18 1,440 __________________________ 19,868 418 53,719 17 1,319 __________________________ 22,694 249 37,398 11 1,064 __________________________ 18,260 254 33,506 4 240 __________________________ 55,092 243 30,200 . 26 2,121 __________________________ 85,734 168 20,576 6 481 __________________________ 82,712 335 41,541 16 2,112 _____.....________________ 79,840 418 49,392 14 1,567 __________________________ 56,209 660 70,830 26 2,873 __________________________ 59,070 357 41,965 20 2,092 __________________________ 61,536 353 44,497 13 1,172 ........._________________ 60,127 370 46,056 8 642 _________.....____________ 43,569 340 39,458 15 1,783 __________________________ 57,315 330 42,903 __________________________________.......____________ 79,452 422 65,753 18 2,170 __________________________ 69,641 306 43,147 40 4,289 __________________________ 146,766 342 41,506 _____________________________________________________ 147,916 376 45,097 _____________________________________________________ 76,875 438 57,461 .....___________________________.......______________ 80,452 173 23,138 213 27,101 __________________________ 46,139 199 24,659 245 31,680 __________________________ 31.441 515 63,423 344 42,081 __________________________ 22,173 262 30,289 159 18,299 __________________________ 15,514 249 33,526 142 20,769 ______....._______________ 7,442 196 23,405 12 1,518 __________________________ 510,748,328 1,623,691 270,415,324 186,674 27,413,863 a Preemption entries and commuted homesteads are not available in the Annual Reports for the years before 1881, nor have I been able to fill in the commuted entries for the years after 1919 save for scattered years and for 1941-1967. Most of the later commuted entries are for homesteads on Indian lands. b An official of the Department of the Interior told the author that commuted homesteads are included in the final entries in the columns above, though in some of the earlier years this is not clear. Homesteads on ceded Indian lands are not included. In Public Land Statistics, 1967, p. 6, the total acreage "granted or sold to homesteaders" i.e. final entries including commutations and homesteads on ceded Indian lands, is 287,300,000. Jerry A. O'Callaghan, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, to the author, January 8, 1965. oo o APPENDIX A |