Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-22
Yes He can at any time purchase his

Yes. He can at any time purchase his
land by paying the government price
the maximum Of which is $3.50 and the
minimum half that SUM per acre.
VII. What if buy out Homesteader !?
Then he loses the right to take up an
other free farm; but if you occupy his
land for five years you will become abso-
Lutte owner of it, or you can pre-empt at
any time.
Will Whatif Homesteader dies be-
fore perfecting his claim
His heirs will inherit all his rights on
condition of doing his duties.
TX. What if Homesteader is in debt !?
His homestead is exempt from liability
for any debt contracted previous to his
perfecting his claim to that land, and, in
some States, it is not liable to attachment
for any subsequent debts.
x. What shall Homesteader do first
on his land
If he comes in the fall, he can spend the
winter in railsplitting. In early spring
he can break up the prairie, and at once
put in a good crop of sod corn, which,
while costing little labor, often yields
twenty bushels to the acre. If he has a
neighbor he may find board from the
start If he has none, he must camp in
his wagon till he can build him a cabin,
or at least half subterranean "dug out"
XI. How is full title finally obtain
ed?
After the homesteader has resided on
his land, or titled it for five years, as soon
as he proves that fact by two witnesses to
the Register of the: Land Office where his
application was recorded, that officer will
obtain for him from Washington q full
title to his land.
XII. Where are homesteads to be
found :r..
All public lands are open to entry by
homesteaders, except such as may have
been temporarily withdrawn from market
But there are no public lands in the north
east of the Mississippi-at least none
worth taking-and only about one milli-
on acres in Iowa, and an equal number
in Missouri AS 2soon, 8however, as you
cross the Plattsmouth ferry into Nebras-
ka, you enter the most desirable district
for homesteads now remaining in all the
public domain-a region in the latitude
of New York Fcity-fertile, healthy, and
which the B. & M. railroad in Nebraska is
fast penetrating, affording access to mar
kets east. and west, as it pushes on to
Fort Kearney, opening route from the
Atlantic to the Pacific more than hun
dred miles shorter than that now travelled
by way of Omaha. The United States
land offices in Nebraska are at Lincoln,
the capital, Beatrice, Omaha, and Dakota
City.
Many men in older States, who are
themselves no longer young, and have
children ready for education, and are dis
inclined to- rough it on a raw prairie
where no wind breaks have yet grown,
will find something better than frontier
homestead, along the line of railroad last
opened through Iowa from river to river,
namely the Burlington and Missouri.
That company began running through
trains on the fifteenth of January. They
have Just received their land subsidy, and
have already put into market 100000
acres. None of this land is more than 20
miles from their track. None of it is far
from schools, villages and their custom
airy conveniences. All of it has the choice
between competing markets. Much of it
is overspread with the mold called Bluff
deposit" the same chemical ele-
ments which gave the Nile banks their
world famous fertility. The climate is
the most genial in Iowa, for the road runs
through the most southern tier of counties
except one. Payment may be made in
ten annual installments or 20 per cent
discount will be made for cash down. For
further particulars write Geo. S. Harris,
Burlington, Iowa, Land Commissioner.
Still cheaper lands may be bought along
the line of the B. 81 NJ. extension in Ne
braska, etc, etc.
Ye who are out of work on the sea-
board, ye starving clerks in Washington,
ye tenants in Pennsylvania, ye that grub
on the hard farms of New England, arise
and possess the land. In another decade
free lands will be as hard to discover west
of the Mississippi as they now are on the
east of it. J. D. B.