EXHIBIT D.-Statement showing mineral resources, etc.—Continued. UNITED STATES LOCATION MONUMENTS ESTABLISHED AND APPROVED. Mineral surveys executed during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901. Examination and report on expenditures, returns filed. Examination and report on errors in surveys, returns filed Amended surveys ordered and returns filed. Amended surveys ordered and returns not filed United States mineral monuments established and approved Total. THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. VAST AREAS UNAPPROPRIATED. SANTA FE LAND DISTRICT. The area of the Santa Fe land district is 31,468,590 acres, of which only 12,995,514 acres are appropriated, or about 40 per cent, which, however, is a larger per cent than the area appropriated in any of the other three land districts in the Territory. The area reserved in grants, military and Indian reservations, etc., is 5,364,562, while 13,108,914 acres are still subject to entry under the land laws-an area three times that of New Jersey, more than twice that of New Hampshire, more than twice that of Maryland, almost three times that of Massachusetts, more than three times that of Hawaii, five times that of Connecticut, eleven times that of Delaware, more than twice that of Vermont, and more than twenty times that of Rhode Island. Bernalillo County has an area of 3,281,260 acres, of which one-half, or 1,625,888 acres, have been appropriated, 653,800 acres reserved, and 1,001,572 acres are still subject to entry, of which 707,648 acres are surveyed and 293,924 acres unsurveyed. The eastern part of Colfax County has an area of 1,798,000 acres, of which all but 10 per cent is appropriated, the appropriated area being 1,798,000 acres. The area still subject to entry is 172,868 acres, of which 149,828 acres are surveyed and 23,040 acres unsurveyed. The northern part of Guadalupe County has an area of 1,589,760 acres, of which 559,893 acres are appropriated and 1,029,867 acres are still subject to entry, of which 1,019,867 acres are surveyed and 10,000 acres unsurveyed. McKinley County has an area of 3,255,940 acres, of which 1,363,291 acres are appropriated, 999,616 acres reserved, and 893,133 acres unappropriated, of which 794,174 acres are surveyed and 98,959 acres unsurveyed. The western part of Mora County has an area of 1,249,000 acres, of which 785,647 acres have been appropriated and 463,353 acres are unappropriated, of which 361,193 acres are surveyed and 102,160 acres are unsurveyed. Rio Arriba County has an area of 4,259,000 acres, of which 1,150,215 acres have been appropriated, 840,161 acres reserved, and 2,268,624 acres are unappropriated, of which 1,469,224 acres are surveyed and 799,400 acres are unsurveyed. San Juan County has an area of 3,697,000 acres, of which only 243,084 acres have thus far been appropriated, 1,958,400 acres are reserved, and 1,495,516 acres are unappropriated, of which 1,014,916 are surveyed and 480,600 acres unsurveyed. The eastern part of San Miguel County has an area of 2,331,000 acres, of which 1,246,784 acres have been appropriated, 202,550 acres are reserved, and 881,666 acres are subject to entry, of which 791,806 acres are surveyed and 89,860 acres unsurveyed. Santa Fe County, the smallest county of New Mexico, has an area of 1,370,830 acres, of which only 581,649 acres have been appropriated, 188,900 acres are reserved, and 600,181 acres, or more than one-half, are unappropriated, of which 552,625 acres have been surveyed and 47,556 acres are unsurveyed. Northern Socorro County has an area of 2,148,000 acres, of which 895,457 acres have been appropriated and 1,252,543 acres are unappropriated, of which 1,124,463 acres have been surveyed and 128,080 acres are unsurveyed. The area of Taos County is 1,470,000 acres, of which 699,054 acres have been appropriated, 119,931 acres reserved, and 651,015 acres are unappropriated, of which 349,662 acres are surveyed and 301,353 acres unsurveyed. Valencia County has an area of 5,018,800 acres, of which 2,219,020 acres have been appropriated, 401,304 acres are reserved, and 2,398,576 acres are unappropriated, of which 2,110,704 acres have been surveyed and 287,872 acres are unsurveyed. By these figures it will be seen that there are still 2,662,804 acres of unsurveyed land in the Santa Fe land district, and that there are many good-sized farms that could be cut out of the unappropriated area in this one district of the Territory alone. LAS CRUCES LAND DISTRICT. The annual report of the Las Cruces Federal land district for the past fiscal year indicates that there are still 19,259,464 acres of public land in Dona Ana, Grant, Otero, Sierra, the southern part of Socorro, and Luna counties subject to entry. This is an immense domain, equal to the State of South Carolina, larger than the State of Maine, and three times the size of the Kingdom of Belgium, which supports over 6,000,000 people. Of the public land in the district 13,766,806 acres are surveyed and 5,492,658 acres are still unsurveyed. The area reserved amounts to 695,675 acres and the land appropriated thus far to 1,314,861 acres. The land is mostly mountainous and grazing land, but with irrigation systems part of it would be good agricultural land. In Dona Ana County, including that part now a part of Luna County, there are still 2,562,642 acres subject to entry out of a total area of 3,041,000 acres. Of this public land 1,946,295 acres are surveyed and 616,347 acres unsurveyed, while 335,378 acres are reserved and 142,980 acres are appropriated. In Grant County, including that part now a part of Luna County, there are still 5,200,400 acres of public land out of a total area of 5,986,000 acres. Of the public land 3,811,518 acres are surveyed and 1,388,822 unsurveyed. The area reserved is 7,414 acres, and the area appropriated 778,186 acres. In eastern Otero County, out of an area of 2,732,000 acres there are still subject to entry 2,583,211, of which 1,387,211 acres have been surveyed and 1,196,000 are unsurveyed. The number of acres appropriated thus far is only 148,789 acres. In Sierra County, out of an area of 1,973,000 acres, there are appro |