A.-Contracts entered into by the surveyor-general of Oregon on account of the $28,000 assigned to Oregon for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891-Continued. No. Date. Name of deputy. Location and description of work. Estimated liability. Horace G. Hurlburt... All the township and section lines necessary to $750 570 3,700 Feb. 24 Rufus S. Mooret...... All the township and section lines necessary to 571 Apr. 10 573 May 7 complete the hitherto unsurveyed portions of Peter Applegatet..... All the township and section lines necessary to William M. Busheyt.. All the township and section lines necessary to 575 June 12 Albert C. O'Neel...... All the township and section lines necessary to 576 June 17 577 June 18 578 June 20 579 580 William M. Bushey... Andrew L. Porter.... complete the survey of Ts. 12 and 13 S., R. 10 W., All the section lines necessary to survey T. 10 S., All the township and section lines necessary to June 22 John W. Kimbrell .... All the section lines necessary to complete the June 23 Robert O. Collier and * Work returned, but office-work not completed. Notice of approval and bond by Commissioner Deputy in field. Deputy preparing for the field. General Land Office not yet received. B.-Contracts entered into by the surveyor-general of Oregon for survey of public lands, payable from special deposits by individuals, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. All lines necessary to complete the survey of T. Thomas E. Todd t..... All the township and section lines necessary to 765 8,486 C.-Special deposits made by the Oregon and California Railroad Company during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. REPORT OF THE SURVEYOR GENERAL OF UTAH. UNITED STATES SURVEYOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 17, 1891. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith in duplicate the annual report of the United States surveyor-general's office for the district of Utah for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, accompanied by the following tabular statements, viz: A.-Statement showing condition of resurvey of public lands under "appropriation for resurveys," approved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. B.-Statement showing condition of surveys of public lands surveyed under repayments made by the Central Pacific Railway Company approved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. C.-Statement showing condition of surveys of public lands under regular appropriation returned and approved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. D.-Statement showing condition of surveys of public lands under appropriation for survey of appraised and relinquished military reservations approved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. E.-Statement showing number of townships, extent of mileage, and character of soil surveyed under repayments made by the Central Pacific Railroad Company and approved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. F.-Statement showing number of townships, extent of mileage, and character of soil surveyed under regular appropriation for the survey of public land approved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. G.-Statement showing number of townships, extent of mileage, and character of soil surveyed under appropriation for the survey of appraised and relinquished military reservations and approved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. H.-Recapitulation showing number of miles of surveys approved and number of acres embraced therein, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, also total number of acres surveyed up to June 30, 1891. I.-Statement showing contracts returned prior to June 30, 1891, but which have not yet been approved by the surveyor-general. J.-Statement showing contracts let prior to the commencement of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, the field-notes and plats of which have not yet been returned to this office. K.-Statement showing contracts let during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, the field-work of which is not yet completed. The above statements show that the number of miles of surveys approved was 1,466 miles 28 chains 90 links; the number of acres of public lands surveyed up to June 30, 1891, to be 12,755,475.08; the number of contracts returned to the office, but not yet approved, to be 2; the number of contracts let prior to the beginning of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891, but which have not yet been returned to this office, to be 6; also that 5 contracts, amounting to $8,000 in the aggregate, were let during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. There were 98 township plats, 2 exterior plats, and 18 supplemental township plats made and approved during the year, also 5 township plats that are not yet approved; there has also been the usual amount of miscellaneous drafting, tracing, etc., done in the agricultural department. The Central Pacific Railroad Company deposited on selections $3,620.15 for fieldwork, and $452.51 for office work, making a total of $4,072.67 during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. The Union Pacific Railroad Company deposited on selections $35 field-work and $3 office-work, making a total of $38 during fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. There were not any "special deposits by individuals for the survey of public lands" made during the year. In the mineral department there were 207 orders issued during the year, as follows: 140 lode claims, at $27. 33 amended surveys, at $15. $3,780 495 3 placer claims, at $27 7 mill-sites (with lode), at $10 81 70 24 consolidated claims embracing 107 locations, at a total cost of.. 2,889 7,315 930 8, 245 Paid for conflicts.... Grand total paid into this department of the office during the year.... There were 774 mineral plats made embracing 164 lode claims, 33 amended surveys, and 7 mill-sites. There are 15 mineral claims in process of working up. There are not any claims in the office that have not been taken up. In addition to this work the mineral department has examined and approved 49 additional field-notes, for which this office made no charge to claimants. During the past year the series of detailed schedules of mining claims mentioned in my last report has been, for the more important and intricate mining districts, completed and an improved, though by no means perfect, connected map of all the claims in Tintic district made? Your attention is again earnestly invited to the need in this office of an appropriation for the office and field-work necessary upon connected plats of the mining dis tricts. The lack of complete connected plats of the districts very much increases the current work and the liability to error in the examination of mining claims. I would respectfully refer you in this connection to my estimates of June 19, 1889, and July 9, 1890. I have the honor to be, most respectfully, ELLSWORTH DAGGETT, U. S. Surveyor-General for Utah. The COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE, Washington, D. C. A.-Condition of resurveys of public lands under appropriation for resurveys approved during fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. Amount of contract, $178.50; cost of survey, $167.46; excess, $11.04. B.-Condition of survey of public lands surveyed under repayments made by the Central Pacific Railway Company approved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. Arthur F. Bensont..... 166 Aug. 9 Township lines: East and north boundaries, T. 11 N., R. 2 E. Subdivision lines: T. 11 N., R. 2 E. of the Salt Lake base and meridian. 835. 35 Cost of survey, $1,041.84; amount of contract, $1,041.50; deficiency, 34 cents. + Cost of survey, $384.47; amount of contract, $384; deficiency, 47 cents. C.-Condition of surveys of public lands under regular appropriation, returned and approved during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1891. 13 S., R. 9 E.; east boundary, T. 21 S., R. 3 E.; east, west, South and east boundaries, T. 18 40 60 13 S., R. 9 E.; east and south and contingent to contract. Subdivision lines: *Amount of contract, $3,000; cost of survey, $2,545,08; excess, $454.92. |