LIBERAL WITH THE LANDS.
A Large Amount Has Seen Granted to Public Uses by the State of Washington. After nearly 13 years of -work State Land Commissioner Calvert, of Washington, announces that of the 6G7.050 acres of lr.nd granted the state of Washing-ton by the enabling- act of 18S0 all have been selected with the exception of 3, 161 acres. These will be selected during the coming summer and the entire grant thus filed, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The granted lands are distributed as follows: State penal reformatory, eleemosynary and educational institutions, 200,000 acres; state capitol grant, 132,000; state normal school, 100,000; agricultural college, 100.000; scientific agricultural college, 100.000; scientific schools, 900; state university, 4 ; 550. These lands are exclusive of common school lands, which are sections 36-16 in every township in the state. Some of these sections have been lost by inundation and other causes. The government permits the state to select indemnity lands for those lo"st, and of , this class the state has about 200,000 acres, to select. Owing to the scarcity of remaining* government lands it is doubtful if the state can recover a ver}' large portion of the school lands- thus lost.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 180, 23 October 1903, Page 7
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197LIBERAL WITH THE LANDS. Bruce Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 180, 23 October 1903, Page 7
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