Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . sold amounts to 614,023. lencounties, including San Francisco, contain no state land. , , , , According to the list of the counties that contain any school landswhatever, Merced has the smallest amount, 20 acres, and San Bernar-dino the greatest, 244,964 acres. Most of this, however, is desert area,incapable of producing agricultural products. The acreage of vacant lands in the counties is as follows: School Lands Still Unsold.* County Alpine Amador Butte Calaveras __ Colusa Del
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . sold amounts to 614,023. lencounties, including San Francisco, contain no state land. , , , , According to the list of the counties that contain any school landswhatever, Merced has the smallest amount, 20 acres, and San Bernar-dino the greatest, 244,964 acres. Most of this, however, is desert area,incapable of producing agricultural products. The acreage of vacant lands in the counties is as follows: School Lands Still Unsold.* County Alpine Amador Butte Calaveras __ Colusa Del Norte _-_El Dorado _. Fresno Glenn _— Humboldt — Inyo Kern Lake Lassen Los Angeles Madera Mariposa _. Merced Modoc Mono Monterey _- Napa Nevada 120 160 2,185 720 600 320 1,920 440 440 1,128 24,010 132,487 9,395 7,451 44,992 594 600 2,331 6,953 20 16,186 22,297 4,420 1,903 640 Placer Plumas Riverside San Benito San Bernardino - San Diego San Luis ObispoSanta Barbara _- Santa Clara Santa Cruz Shasta Sierra Siskiyou Solano Sonoma Stanislaus Tehama Trinity Tulare TuolumneVenturaYoloYuba. 955 520 20,738 549 244,964 16,944 3,647 129 1,777 75 14,120 8,204 283 605 1,280 7,1 4,462 1,150 1,274 80 480 510 •Fractions of acres are omitted, but included in the total acreage. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. O The ten counties having no unsold school lands left are: Alameda,Contra Cosia, Kings, Marin, Orange, Sacramento, San Francisco, SanJoaquin, San Mateo, and Sutter. Chapter 395, Statutes of California, 1915, provides for the sale ofschool lands suitable for cultivation to actual settlers. The determina-tion of whether the land sought to be purchased is suitable for culti-vation lies with the Surveyor General and the State Board of Control,as does also the fixing of the price, which is determined by examinationand appraisement in each particular case. School lands not suitable for cultivation will be sold pursuant tothe provisions of chapter 389, Stat
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