Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-07-07

Letters are continually arriving ask ing .he price of public lands, and some
 mIke Q request ths; agents secure
 houses for people who live Tn Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. This arises from the
 fact that people ess, are not informed in
 the lard laws, and thInk that all that IS
 necessary in taking claims is for the
 paper to be filed by an Bgent. and then they can pay out on the land the same
 ss though the purchase was from private individuals.
 Any person except soldiers snd sol
 iisrs heirs must make affidavit that they
 sre acquainted with the land they are catering, snd also make affidavit that to
 he best of their knowledge there is no
 mineral on the same.
 | PBB-BNPTIoss.
 Sectlon l76 says that every person
 being the head of family, widow, or
 single person over the age of tventy-one
 and a citizen of the United 5tstet, or
 having filed a declaration of intention to
 become such, as required by the natural zstion laws. who has made or hereafter makes 6 SETTLEMENT IN PERSON on the
 public lands subject 10 pre-emption, and who inhabits and improves the same snd
 who has erected dwelling thereon is
 authorized to enter with the register of the United States land office for the dis
 irict in which the land lies; by legal sub | division any number of acres not ex-
 ceedinR one hundred md sixty sores or
 s quarter section O. land to include the
 residence of such claimant upon paying
 the United .StBseB minimum price of
 such land. No person who IS the pro-
 prietor of three hundred and twenty
 acres can pre-empt land. No person who quits or sbsndons bis own land to
 reside on pubic land ID the same state or territory osn pre-empt Persons can however, take homesteads and timber claims whether be has tie three hundred and twenty acres or not; neither does the lsw prohibit his taking homestead
 zhen be has left Q residence on his own lsn6. The sboye only refers to pre- smptione.
 The 1rsi requirement in taking a pre- smption Is to Eeleot the quarter section desired, and ascertain from the Land Office record that it is vacant and sub jscs to entry. He must then mske some improvements. Not stick up stakes, out make some substantial improve
 nents. and then within ninety days hle idoelaTaioTy statement for the land in the local land otiios, She fees for which <re three dGlisIs. residence must be estsSlishei ca the lHnd when the improy- nenIs are first begun, and continuous tesiieGce is obligatory.
 AiieE 3 eOHlEc5e residence upon 8 pre-sm2ticn for six months settlement gan be proven aud tEe government pnoe | being paid, there viii Ee s final receip. | lsIued 70 the Pre-eGpior; but ID case | .iihsr does moi desire to make final | proof a. tae end of sir rconths, be has | shirty three months from the time be | r33ie settlement.
 HOMESTEAD Enir,es Eus, be Elsde in person. usually | before ihs Register Of tke local Land | Ofh ,e and the entry fees are sixteen | iollars. The reQuirc nsats of the home -teEd law are about the same as those | of tbe prs-empiion, creep. that residence osE De established within six months ftsr making Alag; but homestesds gre subject tc contests If settlers fail to gei | m tic iand inside of six months after entry Ilonessesds msy be proved up D sir --oBths and paid out on, the same | ls pre- emptions. bu. can be proved up ID SIX years without paying. In making inal proof the settler will be reQuired 10 give the number of times he or she has been absent from the claim, where vent, and for what they went, and are questioned regarding the amount of i'm prove;nents they have, If ID the judgment I 0f ths Register 6nd Receiver the law has uot been complied with they will not is- sue 8 final receipt.
 TIMBKB CLAIMS
 Do Bot require Q residence. Timber claims must be entered by personsl sp- plicstion sworn to within the land dis irIct where the land is situstsd, before some officer having seal and author iEed to administer oath. Claimant must have five acres broken the first year, the second year must have five acres broken and culgtivR.e She frs. breaking, the third year must put trees, seeds or cuttings ID the first i've acres and culti- vsts the second i've; the fourth year must sst out the second i've scres in trees, tree seed, or tree cuttings. IT in eight years there RTe six thousand seven hundred and fifty growing trees on the tract, claimant can make final proof and securs q psteaS Government fees in timber culture claims are fourteen dol lars for entry and ten dollars for final proof.
 All duties required by the timber oul- .ure laws may be dcne by others except ihe entry snd final proof; nor ia he or she required 10 reside near the land but Eill always be expected 10 comply with the lay in regard to improvements.
 There is nc fixed amount of improve caents required ip homestead or pre- smpiion law. residence snd cultivation ! in good faith as home and a farm to | he claimants best ability is held to be | he requirement of the law.
 SOLDIERS HoMRsrRADs.
 6oldIeTs who served ID the United States army tor ninety days and were 1onorably discharged and have lived | oval to the government can file deoIsr- story statements on one hundred and | 'iIty scSes of vacant land. by sn agent through th. rover of attorney iD s form prescribed iy law. This power | ,an be eIecuted hvtore notary public anywhere in the United States, sno 'ent to some reliable agent who will SC sct the quarter section of land and fil. on it for the soldier. This filing wIl z absolutely hold the land for six months without the residence of claimant A } he end of six months the solder must | s begin 8 residence and make another hlIR. called the final entry, at which lime he pays fee the same as in home Itead cases. Soldiers are compelled to i've st least one year on their claims, | ,ut they can deduct their service ss a ? 'oldier from the five years required by ' he common homestead and thus get their l |. patent in shorter time thnn he who has lot served his country as a soldier soldiers widows are entitled to use the deceased husbands service while in the var, to sssist her in proving up 6 claim | nd if the widow is dead. then one Of 9 he minor heirs can use the right: bu, T. 2 aust be done through the guardian O, he child. Widows and orphans of sol iers will not be required to cultivate |. be land or to personally do the work V at can cause the same to be done by thers capable to do practical farming bod faith and cultivation to the best of .. be ability ofelsimsnt is all that the law r eQuires. The above will show those in the east ho do not understand the law govern lg the public domains that it is impos- bls for them 10 acquire land in this ,untry without becoming 6 resident