Making $2.100.000 that were applied in payment of the surveys of the public lands nade during the last fiscal year. If the deposit system is abolished. as it will be by this legislation. it certainly will be necessary to make larger appropriations for the geneial surveys. even if the demand is no greater for the next fiscal year than it has been in the past. Lit the tide of immigration from foreign countries is pouring into this country in a much larger volume than ever before. People are going upon these public lands and settling. Many of them are unsurveyed.
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