SOURCES OF WATER SUPPLY. In connection with special instructions to be issued, provision will be made for the notation, in desert regions, of the location of streams, springs, or water holes, which, because of their location, may be deemed to be of value in connection with the utilization of public grazing lands and which may be designated as public watering places. The appropriate legal subdivision or subdivisions within which these are located will be listed separately and will be submitted with the returns of survey, a copy thereof in duplicate to be transmitted to this office for further action. Very respectfully, CLAY TALLMAN, Commissioner. STATISTICS RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. Area of States and Territories. [Based upon careful joint calculations made in the General Land Office, the Geological Survey, and the Bureau of the Census.] Owing to their location adjoining the Great Lakes, the States enumerated below contain approximately an additional number of square miles as follows: Illinois, 1,674 square miles of Lake Michigan; Indiana, 230 square miles of Lake Michigan; Michigan, 16,653 square miles of Lake Superior, 12,922 square miles of Lake Michigan, 9,925 square miles of Lake Huron, and 460 square miles of Lakes St. Clair and Erie; Minnesota, 2,514 square miles of Lake Superior; New York, 3,140 square miles of Lakes Ontario and Erie; Ohio, 3,443 square miles of Lake Erie; Pennsylvania, 891 square miles of Lake Erie; Wisconsin, 2,378 square miles of Lake Superior and 7,500 square miles of Lake Michigan. In addition to the water areas noted above, California claims jurisdiction over all Pacific waters lying within 3 English miles of her coast; Oregon claims jurisdiction over a similar strip of the Pacific Ocean 1 marine league in width between latitude 42° north and the mouth of the Columbia River; and Texas claims jurisdiction over a strip of Gulf water 3 leagues in width, adjacent to her coast and between the Rio Grande and the Sabine River. NOTE. The land offices in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa are abolished, and the vacant tracts of public lands in those States are subject to entry and location at the General Land Office, Washington, D.C. List of offices of United States surveyors general. Field division headquarters of special agents of General Land Office. A. Administrative duties. Appointments; bonds of officials, except mineral surveyors; correspondence concerning local officers, surveyors general, etc.; establishment of new land districts, changes in location of district land offices, changes in district boundary lines, discontinuance of local land offices; publication of notices of intention to offer final proof; opening and sale of Indian reservations; printing and binding; bird reservations; national monuments; leaves of absences; requisitions for supplies; record of attorneys and agents admitted before department and its bureaus, also before district land offices. B. Record of patents; use of rectigraph and photostat machines in making photographic copies of papers. C. Homesteads, all original, except forest and reclamation; final homesteads; commuted homesteads; homestead declaratory statements; timber and stone entries; public sales; isolated tracts; certified copies; private sale, lands in Missouri. D. Mails and files. E. Surveys. F. Railroad grants; cash sales under act providing for adjustment of railroad grants; wagon roads, rights of way for canals, ditches, etc.; reservoir declaratory statements, State selections (Carey Act). G. Desert-land entries, original and final; State selections (except Carey Act); Indian allotments and Indian homesteads; swamp lands. H. Contests. K. Reclamation; preemption; homesteads in national forests; town sites; military bounty land warrants; abandoned military reservations; agricultural college and other similar scrip; lieu selections; graduation and credit system entries; private land claims; Minnesota drainage; Chippewa logging-Minnesota. L. Drafting; forest reserve eliminations, restorations, etc.; national monument files; compilation of United States and other maps; blue printing; mounting of maps and plats. M. Accounts; repayments; monthly schedules; statistics. N. Mineral entries; contests involving character of land; protests in mineral cases; coal, oil, phosphate and potash withdrawals and restorations; Northern Pacific classification; mineral segregation plats; bonds of mineral surveyors. O. Posting, tract books. FS. Soldiers' additional homesteads; fraudulent entries; timber trespass; unlawful inclosure public domain; suits to set aside patents: disbarment of attorneys and agents. Average number of employees of the General Land Office, July 1, 1915. In General Land Office, Washington, D. C. In 13 offices of surveyors general. In 99 district land offices. In the field service... In the surveying service. In logging service. Total..... 536 189 408 150 144 38 4 9 1,478 |