Letter from John Fitch Kinney, 13 March 1865
Washington, D.C.,
Hon. Wilford Woodruff:
My dear Sir—Your letter of Jan. 24th, enclosing an act creating
an agent to receive and manage the Agricultural fund of the Territory
has come to hand. I will procure from the General land office such
information as is within their power and forward the same to you.
Agricultural scrip is now being issued by the States that have availed
themselves of the act, and such scrip is now in the market, and is
being bought by speculators to invest in public lands. This scrip I
was told was selling for seventy cents on the acre, and the fund appro-
priated for college purposes. However I will endeavor to procure and
forward you more satisfactory information than I now possess.
I forwarded by late mail to you ten sacks of books under brass
