New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-27
THE PUBLIC LANDS.

SIR: VIII you kindly inform through your Valuable
papcr how one could set about making claim 10 any "
the public lands and what the conditions are under WHICH
one could obtain title Also where said lands are ocaS
ed and IL unmarried females entitled to take up
claim Any information relating TO the subject Will w
gratefully received by MoRhiN" "o
Brooklyn. Dec d. 1886.
Free homes on the public lands can he acquired
in two WAYS by homestead OF timber culture eh'ry.
The first is general IL its application; the Secouu
applies ouly 70 prairie lands Ang person twc",y
one years old who Is citizen. or has legally oe-
clared an intention become one. can take up LOU
acres of Ian under the homestead law. resi-
dence on the land Of five years is necessary TO ge'
complete tltie In addition there are laho
Office fees to be paid amounting TO from
Sls TO So Under the timber culture ac'
100 acre, can he taken NJ. To complete 'ie'o
stated area of forest trees must be planted anG c
rivated each year for eight years The sam" per,
son can take ND land under both of these acts' IN"
thus secure 800 acres.
Under the presumption act 160 acres can be taken
I'D at the minimum price for which public ianus ai0
Sold 81 20 an This must be paid Id t"nH
months. There are certain lands knUwn as desert
lands $40 acres of which can be acquired on pay
ment of twenty-five cents acre, the construction
of means of irri ya5ion. and the payment OF 81 an
acre ut the end of three years. An Unmarried woman
If IF the legal age and citizen, can take I'D
claim.
There are SIS. 900 900 acres of public land open
to settlement But thirty five per cent oil IL 10
mountainous or barren, and permanently uhaVaF
able for agriculture or stock-raisng. VI tne Sixty
i've per cent remaining one-half or II Is not lnhe
date Y available for settlement owing TO swampV
or arid nature OF its soils The arid region Is rapihV
growing less The great Arercan desert tor-
merv began just west Oft the Mssi 'sippi XIV T. ielr
by wear 1t nas been pushed further and further to
tbe southwest. until 1t is now almost regarded as
myth. But to the poor homesteader these ara
lands are of snail use except len bordering on
stream or BODY Of water There IS vast aectloneA
tending from the British possessions on the north TO
the iulf of California at the south aud reaching 10
the Rio Grande where cultivation Is practicable
only through irr CATION. The valley lands IN THIS
region have been taken up as rule. Inc area
available for immediate settlement without oD'
stacr is about equally divided between prairie ana
timber land The former can be brought under
cultivation quicker ald easier, but the la'ter
has compensatlng advantages for the harder labor
demanded There is Government land avaliaole
for homesteads IN Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona'
California, Colorado. DIto5a. for'd, ldhno hah-
sas. Louisiana, Mic 1igln. Minnesota. Mississippi
Missouri. Montana. Nebraska, Nevada, New-Me1-
leo. Oregon. Utah. Was ugton, Wisconsin aud
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which they offer to SETTLERS at nominal prices rang
ing f., IN SIX cents to as mlny dollars per acre By
addressing the Land Com missioner Of any state
| full particulars in regard To these lands could he
! obtained From the United States Land once In
Washington further particulars could be obtained
IN regard to the Government lands.-tdl
! A GRADUATES VIEWS OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE
TO the kdttOr OF me Trtbune'
SIR In note published in your issue lately the nsn
uation is made that Columhis undergraduates are dis
orderly disrespectful ETC.. aud Parent goes on To say
that the above direct result or the interior
ence of the trustees In the administration OF tho
,aa.o - a..t ,ry InsnuatlOu tiat the STU
dents are dsordery. ETC. These charges are raise aho
unmerited. I challenge comparison OF The recoru %
Coumbs students in that respect with that OF the SUI
dents Of any other institution They have never at
teinpted TO blow up the building Win gunpo"uer' no
tarred and feahered obnoxious professor nor nave
they ever outraged the not only or society put o
common deceucy done lately IN sister INSTITUTION
! ia soph0mOrc-freshnan feud, ana yet suen gro7'
offences as those nave mentioned are allowed 10 dss
pear in oblivion while the comparatively slhil SINE "
the ouupa men are treasured up and never forgotten
In an experience OF four years as an a
d-,r,Icry There was some slight trouble on one occa
sion "A gentleman who mas now reslsheu aia ~
class which picked up bv the reporters Vi one u, w.
New-l Ork Journals aud made the oasis or tWocoin
article which the brilliant imagination Oh t repoI
Ived lending part The real facts or the case occupy
inr tniec lines while the rest Of the two columns wa
romance. pure and simple LII acouhl9 '"ie. 10 49,.
have passed unnOuced but here OF course, IL wac evn
meuted on No. sir. there is no disorder at column
worthy Of the In the past her graduates nav
always been men OF recognized birth aud breeding an
their successors the undergraduates OF today inher
those ancestral traits in word they are gentlemen
In regard 10 the alleged dsrespect allow me 10 sa
that I'm most cases where professors complain OF no
being 1t Is their own fault Inc Undergo
of u,tIay "A sharp wideawake person with an inherel
hatred OF tie esutism bgOed conservatism ana SHAH
which form large part OF the inteccta makeup
some professors The manly, upright aud earnest mel
her. OF the faculty have never had u complain IN ul
he mem
: even though severe are respected. In proof
which may conclude by saying that for the last nv
wears the statistics OF the graduating Glasses nave SNOW
J. that two teinen always been considered at one
the most severe bestnd the most popular professor
s These two are J. III. Van Amrfngc and K NJ sWltn 49,
q Aetc- ORR, Dec. "a. 1886. IL AfRAOLr' o.