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Show APPENDIX C 805 Purposes of Federal Grants to States-Continued State Canals, River Improvements Acres For Railroads Acres Wagon Roads Acres Swampland Acres Swampland Indemnity Acres Percentage of Net Proceeds Miscellaneous Acres Ohio 938 ,294 80,773 26 ,251 3,roads Louisiana _ . Indiana 500 1,746 ,000 ,224 373 ,057 9,504 ,412C 5, roads, levees 3,roads 170,580 1,254 ,310 4,880 Mississippi___ Illinois 500 533 ,000 ,368 1 7 ,075 ,345 ,133 3,287 1,457 ,060 ,614 56,781 2,309 3, roads, canals 3, schools Alabama. __ Missouri_____ Arkansas___ Michigan____ Florida 500 500 500 1,751 500 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,236 ,000 2 1 2 3 9 ,747 ,837 ,563 ,134 ,479 ,968 .721 ,058 ,705 418 3,346 7,686 5,655 20,211 ,715 ,936 ,575 ,922 ,108 22,951 85,585 24,390 115,600 3, internal imp. 3, internal imp. 5, internal imp. 5, internal imp. 5, schools 50,181 --- •¦-....... 221,013 Iowa 500 1,522 ,000 ,349 4 ,706 ,945 3?? 874 3,251 ,112 ,683 322,280 109,600 5, internal imp. 5, schools Wisconsin 302,931 California 500 ,000 . 2,193 965 d Minnesota. _ Oregon 500 500 500 500 ,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 8 ,047 ,469 4,706 286 ,591 ,108 5, internal imp. 5, internal imp. 5, internal imp. 5, roads, ditches 5, schools 5, internal imp. 5, schools 5, schools 5, schools 28,392 127,324 3,021 12,800 32,800 32,000 370,000 371,440 463,120 . 2,583,890 Kansas 4 .176 ,329 Nevada Nebraska.. __ Colorado 500 500 ,000 ,000 -- North Dakota. South Dakota Montana Washington 5, schools 5, schools 400,000 Idaho 482,187 Wyoming 5, schools 5, schools 532,480 1,150,000 Utah Oklahoma 5, schools 450,000 New Mexico 5, schools 3,040,000 Arizona 5, schools 1,900,000 Alaska* 5, schools 103,350,000 ¦ Nevada was permitted by an Act of 1880 to exchange its place grant of sections 16 and 36 for 2 million acres which it could select where land appeared to be most valuable. b Oklahoma was given two sections in each township of public lands and sections 13 and 33 in some Indian tracts. c Includes indemnity land. '' Not until 1906 was California given the retroactive equivalent of 5 percent of the net proceeds from the sale of public lands. e Alaska was given the right to select 103,350,000 acres of public lands of which 400,000 were to be in National Forests. Source: Various sources were relied upon in compiling this table. |