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Show LAND GRANTS FOR RAILROADS AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS 385 Grants Direct to Railroads and Total of All Grants to States and Railroads Grants to Railroads Total of Grants to States and Railroads Percentage of States in all Grants Arizona____________________ 7,790,128 Arkansas........_____________ 23,249 California..............______ 11,588,626 Colorado......._____________ 3,757,673 Idaho______________________ 1,320,753 Iowa___________....._______ 4,383 Kansas...................___ 4,057,683 Louisiana___________________ 1,001,943 Minnesota__________________ 1,905,559 Missouri____________________ 490,705 Montana___________________ 14,739,697 Nebraska___________________ 7,272,623 Nevada_____________........ 5,086,603 New Mexico_________________ 3,355,179 North Dakota________________ 10,697,490 Oregon________________..... 3,656,085 Utah_______________........ 2,230,085 Washington_________________ 9,617,384 Wyoming___________________ 5,749,051 Total__________.___________ 94,355,739 18,333,881 25.2 11,960,083 35.6 20,440,766 20.3 8,229,277 12.3 5,575,241 10.5 8,065,645 22.4 11,852,352 22.5 12,442,975 43.0 18,327,610 35.7 7,907,727 17.8 20,703,035 22.1 10,731,334 21.8 7,812,269 11.1 16,149,838 20.7 13,861,042 31.1 10,688,932 17.3 9,737,813 18.4 12,661,855 29.6 10,092,477 17.7 318,233,203 Summary of Grants to the States and Railroads (Acres) Total of grants to public land states exclusive of Alaska Grants directly to railroads Total of grants to public land states and to railroads Granted as scrip to non-public-land states 5,280, (KM) Included in grants to public land states: Granted as scrip to public land states whose lands were exhausted 1 ,500,000 Granted as scrip to 5 southern public land states Total scrip 900,000 7,680,000 223,884,994 94,355,739 318.240,733 troops and military property. Finally, on December 12, 1945, at a time when the land grant rates were saving the government enormous sums of money and when the railroads, despite their bloated traffic, were being hard pressed to finance maintenance and improve- ments, Congress provided for the complete end of all land grant rates.117 One might say that with the repeal of the rate concessions the old Granger-Populist hatred of railroads 117 54 Stat. 954 and 59 Stat., Part 1, p. 607. |