This section is from the book "A Financial History Of Texas", by Edmund Thornton Miller. Also available from Amazon: A Financial History Of Texas.
The bulk of the landed domain of the state has gone to an endowment of education, and it has been in connection with the administration of this land endowment that the most serious problems of administering the public lands have arisen. In giving an account of the administration of the lands of the school and other special funds, it is most convenient to divide the lands into agricultural, including grazing, and timbered and mineral lands.
 
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