Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-11-20
INFORMATION TO SETTLERS.

INFORMATION 10 SETTLERS.
Mr.. Edward W. Willett, Register United
States Land Office, at Bozeman, NJ T.. has
prepared circular containing information to
settlers upon the public land. We make the
following extracts from it:
HE or she must be citizen of the United
States, or have declared his or her intention
to become citizen. the head of family, u
widow. or a single man over twenty,one
years of age, and not the owner Of $50 acres
of land in any State or Territory.
''Such claimant obtains title by making
settlement on the public lands, not reserv~
ed, to which there is no valid adverse clsim.
His settlement begins by cree ting or purchase
ing dwelling house on such land and nov
ing into 1t to make it home. The claim is
maintained by continuing to make it home
and improving it usually by fencing and cul-
tivatioD, no amount being specified bv lew.
but enough is required to show that the settle.
ment is in good faith. Next, if the land has
been surveyed and the settlement was made
after the survey, the claimant must file his
declaratory statement In this Office three
months after the date of such settlement. If
it was surveyed at the date of the settle.
ment, then within three months after the date
of the RECEIPT of the Township plats in the
District Land Office, otherwise tie date Of
settlement can only be dated back three
months from such fling.
I'm homestead claims, personal application
must be made at this Office, except in case
of sickness, distance or like cause, whereby
the applicant is prevented from such PERI
sonal application: Every person qualified
as before stated is entitled to one pre~emp>
ton, and also one homestead claim, but both
claims cannot be lawfully pending at the
same time. In each case personal residence
is required upon the tract of land claimed
After perfecting q presumption clalul. the
same person can take homestead claim. In
homestead claims five years Is required to
perfect title, but If the claimant does not
wish to wait that time, he can prove up, un~
der the 9th section, Act May 20, 1862, as in
presumption. and pay for the land. Outside
OF railroad limits land inside where the set.
Element was made before the withdrawal for
railroad purposes) the price is 81 25 per acre.
inside of such limits, where the settlements
was made after the grant, the price is % 50
per acre. This, as TO settlement, applies TO
presumption only, but in homestead the ap.
plication takes effect only from the date Of
filing.
1.-The odd numbered sections along the line
of the Northern Pacific Railroad of Montana,
which were withdrawn for railroad purposes,
February 81, 1872, to the twenty mile limit,
Ou CoCA SIuC VI tuo PAOPOcCu AoutCs AAa0IA&
in all forty miles withdraw of the route.
Where valid prescription settlement was
made before the withdrawal upon an odd
numbered section where the land was sur,
veyed and the claimant heretofore failed to
file his claim in the Land Office. the instruc~
tons of tine Secretary of the Interior is un-
dersloOd to allow three months after this
date, February 81. 1922 for such filing. and
in case of failure to file such claims before
May 81, 1872, the same will be held as for>
feited.
mine or ten townships have been recently
surveyed in this land district. The surveys
are still progressing. At the u. S. Surveyor
Generals Office 1t is expected that said town.
ships will be filed with the Register without
delay. Notice Of such fling will
be published at the date Of filing in the
COURIER and TINES.
Inquiries relative to the surveys should be
addressed to the United States Surveyor Gen.
aral at Helena, instead of to this office. There
are in this district millions of acres Of good
agricultural lands subject to presumption and
homestead claims"