Maps for Public Lands

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 5, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 30.

Maps for Public Lands

The United States government has interested itself in getting out a large number of maps. These maps, among other things, cover all of the territory where there are public lands that are still open for settlers. A bulletin from the officers of the United States Geological Survey states that any settler who may desire information regarding any part of the territory may write to Washington, D. C., for a map that will give him all the information that he may desire. He can then go to the nearest land office and locate his claim with better success and accuracy than tho he employed some one of the land sharks that will ask a fee of $150 to $200. These maps can be had at ten cents each. By the use of the maps, a man in Maine, California, or anywhere else, who desires, for instance, to settle in Montana, can tell whether any particular land is level or rough, what streams cross it, what the water supply is, etc. In writing for maps, address the United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.