Excerpt from Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1897; Report of the Secretary of the Interior, Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office This report embraces tabulated statements showing the business done in the district land offices, 117 in number, with reports from the surveyors-general, numbering 19, giving particulars of operations in their respective districts during the fiscal year, and also a showing of business transacted by the various divisions of this Bureau and with it the history of the field service in depredations, surveys, and for estry work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.