Wagon-road, canal, and river improvement grants (provision for the narrow strips of common that intersect each other at every mile of the settled parts of the valley)……………………………. 9,700,000
Railroad grants for the subsidizing of the private building of railways chiefly up and down and across the valley………………………… 117,600,000
Swamp-land grants (being tracts of wet or overflowed lands given to the various States for reclamation)……………………………………… 65,700,000
School grants to States (those which we have been considering)………………………………… 69,000,000
Other grants to States (largely for educational purposes)…………………………………. 20,600,000
Military and naval land warrants……………………… 61,000,000
Scrip issued for various purposes (chiefly in view of service to the government)……………………. 9,300,000
Allotment to individual Indians………………………. 15,100,000
Mineral lands (under special entries)………………….. 1,700,000
Homestead entries (that is, by settlers taking claims under homestead acts of which I shall speak later)……………………………………. 96,500,000