DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL MONEY ORDERS.-Continued.

States and Territories.

West Virginia..

Domestic. International.

Amount.
$9,516,058.39]

Amount.

$377,058.24

1,322,703.35

92,623,99

2,712,516.00

76,611.22 Tutuila

8,415.76

14,227,684.33

187,327.71 U.

2,015,311.24

179,933.53

Shanghai

1,627,525.19

87,979.84 Supt. M. Q. system..

2,868.79 201,753.16

3,286,408.09

99,738.78

8,455,468 35
2,753,195.40]

777,244.74

Total

38,658.79

$313,551,279.88 $22,974,473.11

The number of domestic orders issued during the year was 40,474,327; the number of international money orders, 1,311,111.

of the fiscal year, June 30, 1902, 4,731 were Presiden266; 71,193 were fourth-class, showing a decrease of In the year 1790 there were 75 post offices in operation. States which then constituted the Union was, in round numbers, 3,930,000 people, served by 75 post offices, an average of 1 office to 52,400 people. At that time the population of the thirteen Since that time the offices have been multiplied over 1,000 times,

while the population has multiplied over 20 times.

STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS, EXPENDITURES AND MILEAGE-1875 TO 1902.

United States Land Office Statistics.

(The report for 1902 prepared for The American Almanac by the United States Land Office.)

May 20, 1862, to June 30, 1902.)

The receipts of the General Land Office for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902, were: From disposal of public lands, $5.880,088.65; from disposal of Indian lands, $288,666.68; from depredations on public lands, $41.415.97; from sales of timber under acts of 1891 and 1897. $27.478.70; from sales of Government property, $1,014.45; for furnishing copies of records and plots, $23,262.73; total, $6,261,927.18. This is an increase over 1901 of $1,289,766.39.

HOMESTEADS IN THE UNITED STATES.

(Table showing the number and area of final homestead entries made from the passage of the Homestead Act, May 20, 1862, to June 30, 1902.)

AREA OF PUBLIC LANDS UNAPPROPRIATED AND UNRESERVED, SUBJECT TO ENTRY AND SETTLEMENT IN STATES AND TERRITORIES, JULY 1, 1902.

(a) The unreserved lands in Alaska are mostly unsurveyed and unappropriated.

The following statement shows the land area, expressed in square miles and acres in States and Territories having public lands: the total of public lands surveyed up to June 30, 1902, and the total area of public lands remaining unsurveyed within each State:

There were 91,212 acres resurveyed in Cheyenne and Cherry counties, Neb., not counted in this column. This estimate is of a very general nature and affords no index to the disposal volume of land remaining, nor the amount available for agricultural purposes. It includes Indian and other public reservations, unsurveyed private land claims, as well as surveyed private land claims in the districts of Arizona, California, Colorado and New Mexico; the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections reserved for common schools; unsurveyed lands embraced in railroad, swamp lands and other grants; the great mountain areas; the areas of unsurveyed rivers and lakes, and large areas wholly unproductive and unavailable for ordinary purposes. TABLE SHOWING THE LAND AND WATER AREA OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES.

(c)

(a) 674 square miles of Lake Michigan "included. (b) 230 square miles of Lake Michigan included. 16,653 square miles of Lake Superior, 12,292 square miles of Lake Michigan, 9,925 square miles of Lake Huron, and 460 square miles of Lakes Erie and St. Clair included. (d) 2,514 square miles of Lake Superior included. (e) 3,140 square miles of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie included. (f) 3,443 square miles of Lake Erie included. (g) 891 square miles of Lake Erie included. (h) 2,378 square miles of Lake Superior and 7,500 square miles of Lake Michigan included.

The area of Lake Michigan is included in the table, and so much of the areas of Lakes Superior, Huron, St. Clair, Erie, and Ontario as is within the jurisdiction of the United States.

For the States bordering the oceans the general shore line is taken as boundary, thus including the areas of bays, inlets, etc.

*Report covers twelve months from December 1 to November 30; all other figures for calendar year. During the civil war records very incomplete.

The American Indian.

The annual reports of the agents of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1901 showed that the Indian population, exclusive of Alaska, was 269,388, distributed in the several States as follows:

The expenditures of the United States on account of the Indians in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902, was $10,049,584. The expenditures from 1789 to 1902, inclusive, have been $389,282,360.

The five civilized tribes, Indians and colored-Cherokees, 31,000: Chickasaws, 6,000; Choctaws, 16,000; Creeks, 10,000; Seminoles, 2,757; total, 65,757; total colored Indian citizens and claimants. 18,750; grand total.

Six Nations, Saint Regis, and other Indians of New York.
Eastern Cherokees of North Carolina...

INDIAN AGENCIES AND SCHOOLS.

The following table contains a list of the Indian agencies and schools, with the names and addresses of the agent or superintendent in charge: