93/ The grant for a wagon road from Coos Bay to Roseburg was returned to the Federal Government in 1919 and the lands now constitute a part of the O&C lands in Oregon.

94/ Donaldson, The Public Domain, p. 261.

95/ Congressional Globe, 30th Congress, 2nd session, p. 472.

96/ The issue had become national in scope and railroads and "free" farms had become often repeated promises during election years.

27 For 1787 grant see Donaldson, The Public Domain, pp. 226-227. This Act was enlarged to include a majority of the States.

98 U. S. 12 Statute, 503.

99/ See Table for list of grants under the Land Grant College Act of 1862 as well as those granted to the States for Common Schools under the provisions of the Ordinance of 1785.

100/ U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare "Statistics: Land Grant Colleges and Universities, 1959."

101 Hibbard, Public Land Policies, p. 267.

102/ Total Federal acquisitions exceeded 1.8 billion acres.

103/ General Land Office Report, 1853, pp. 4-5.

104/ Ibid., p. 16.

105/ Congressional Globe, 33 Congress, 1st session, pp. 918 and 2204.

106/

Donaldson, The Public Domain, pp. 210-211.

107 Congressional Debates, 19th Congress, 1st session, p. 720

110/ Ibid., p. 449. Text of document reprinted in BLM "Selected Public Land Documents."

111

112

Ibid., p. 449.

Donaldson, The Public Domain, p. 295. These grants were commonly called Donation Acts.

113/ Congressional Globe, 29th Congress, 1st session, p. 563.

114

Congressional Globe, 29th Congress, 1st session, p. 563.

115/ Ibid., p. 1077.

116/ Richardson, Papers of Presidents, Vol. 5, p. 608, et seq.

117/ Ibid., 608-614. Buchanan also vetoed the Land Grant for Agricultural Colleges, using basically the same arguments.

118/ Bureau of Land Management, Statistical Appendix, 1960

119/ General Land Office Report, 1870.

120/ Ibid., 1900.

121

This table does not include commuted homesteads on ceded
Indian lands. The first Homestead Law was enacted May 20,
1862.

122/

123

Land Service Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 9, p. 19.

Letter from the Inspector of Land Offices to Commissioner
of the General Land Office, April 1901.

130/

The first transcontinental telegraph line was completed October 24, 1861. The last pole was erected in Salt Lake City on that date.

135/ Hugo Meyer, "The Settlement with the Pacific Railroad" Quarterly Journal of Economics, XIII, July 1899, pp. 443-444.

136/

This was computed at the time the grants were made, therefore, the great Alaska purchase is excluded in the percentages.

137/ Greenville Dodge, "How We Built the Union Pacific Railroad," Senate Doc. 447, 61st Congress, 2nd session.

146/

147/

U. S. Senate Doc. 692, 62nd Congress,
62nd Congress, 1st session. Speech of
Commissioner Dennett of the General Land Office on 100th
anniversary of the Office.

The United States Park Service, Department of the Interior, has a great deal of material on various National Parks.

148/ Richardson, Papers of the Presidents, 8, pp. 794-800.

149/ Ibid., 8, p. 795.

150/ General Land Office Report, 1885.

151 U. S. 26 Statute 1095. It is the last section of the law.

152/ Ibid., 1095.

153/ Charles R. Van Hise, The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States. (New York: The Macmillin Co., 1912), pp. 214-215.

154/ Ibid., p. 215.

155/ Secretary of the Interior Ickes wrote a volume in defense of Ballinger after he became Secretary in President Roosevelt's administration.

156/ General Land Office Report, 1912.

157/ Ibid., 1912.

158/ Senate Document 692, 62nd Congress, 1st session, Dennett speech.

159/ The National Park Service of the Department of the Interior also manages National Historical Parks, National Monuments, National Parkways, National Cemetaries, National Battlefields, etc.

160

Public Lands Commission 1880 Report, lxiii-lxvi.