7,600,000 Cash entries, including entries under the preemption and other acts...................................
"The French in the Heart of America"
John Finley
The preemption and timber culture laws were repealed in 1891. It has also been provided that no public lands of the United States shall be sold by public sale, except abandoned military reservations of less than 5,000 acres, mineral lands and other lands of a special nature, and isolated tracts that have been subject to homestead entry for three years after the surrounding land has been disposed of.
"Studies in Civics"
James T. McCleary
Unfortunately for them, they found the various points of vantage already garrisoned with notices of "preemption" for mining purposes in the name of the various members of the Alvarado family.
"A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready"
Bret Harte