213,763.57
Brownson do 400,722.48
Monroe do 446,631.61
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Total for Michigan}
proper, } 1,061,127.66

WISCONSIN.

Mineral Point Dist. 67,052.55
Green Bay do 68,365.53
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Total for Wisconsin}
Territory, } 135,418.08

MISSOURI.

St. Louis Dist. 32,914.57
Fayette do 55,839.58
Palmyra do 101,018.00
Jackson do 28,995.19
Lexington do 42,801.45
Springfield do 320.00
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Total for the State, 261,888.79

ARKANSAS.

Batesville Dist. 2,021.22
Little Rock do 22,291.92
Washington do 43,360.81
Fayetteville do 8,723.72
Helena do 312,169.09
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Total for the Territory 388,566.76

[A] Returns only to May 31st.

[B] Returns only to July 31st.
Since those periods, sales at
these Offices have been immense

The reader will perceive that the sales of the three first quarters of
1835, almost doubled those of the whole year of 1834. The inquiry was
often made of the writer, while travelling in the Atlantic states in the
summer of 1835, whether there was still opportunity for emigrants to
purchase public lands in Indiana, Illinois, &c. where land offices had
been opened for sale of lands many years. He found almost everywhere,
wrong notions prevailing. The people were not aware of the immense
extent of the public domain now in market, and ready to be sold at _one
dollar and twenty-five cents per acre_, and even in as small tracts as
forty acres. Take for example, the Edwardsville district, in which the
writer resides. It extends south to the base line, east to the third
principal meridian, north to the line that separates townships 13 and 14
north, and west to the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, and embraces all
the counties of Madison, Clinton, Bond, Montgomery, Macouper, and
Greene, a tier of townships on the south side of Morgan and Sangamon,
five and a half townships from Fayette, and about half of St. Clair
county. The lands for a part of this district have been in market for 18
or 20 years;--it contains some of the oldest American settlements in the
state, and has also a number of confined claims never offered for sale.
And yet the receiver of this office informed