Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-02-04
Government Lands

H Eho rrce of public lands, and some make Q Teu1ess thss agents sscure 19uses for people Tho live ID Indisra, ih'Eois and Ohio. This ayisss from the iSct thGt people east are not informed In me land laws, and think tb as ali shs. is eeees3srY in taking claims is for the paper to be filed by an agent, and then thOy can pay out on tho land the same as though the purchase was from private individuals.
 Any person except eoldiers and sol diers heirs must make affidavit tha. they are acquainted with the land they are entering, and also make affidavit ths. to the best of their knowledge there is no mineral cl the sane.
 LAMENTATIONS.
 bection l76 says that every person oeing the head Of fsmily, widow, or single person over the age of twenty-one and a citizen O. tue United States, or haVing filed a declaration of intention to become such, Gs required by the natural nation laws. who has made or thereafter nakes a SETTLEMENT IN PERSON on the p1oi;c lands subject to pre-emption, and Weo inhHbits and improves the same and Sho has erected dwelling thereon IS authorized Co enter with the register of the UnIted States land office for the dis trict m which the land lies, by legal sub division eSy number of Ecres not eI- ceeding one hundred ard sixty soras or a quarter section of land to include the re-idea nee Of such claimant upon paying the United States minimum price of such land. No person who Is the rro- PrIetor of three hundred and twenty soEes Car pre-empt land. No person Tho quits CT 6bsnGocs his own land to reside OB publlc land ID the same state JE territory cen pre-empt. Persons can however, take hOmestesds and timber clRiIas whether be has tle three hundred and twenty acres or not; neither does the law prohibit his taking a homestead when he hes lett residence on hIs own land. The above only refers to pre- eaptiOns.
 The first requirement in taking pre- mpiiOn is to select the qHarter section tesiFed, ana ascertain from the Land Office record that It IS vacant and sub- feet 10 entry. He must then make some improvements. Net stick up stakes, put make some substantial improve pcnss. and then within ninety days tle sdeclsrsyoFy stsiemen: for the land in ihe local land office. the fees for winch gre !hres dollars. A residence must be on the land when the improT. 2euts are first begun, and continuous residence IS obligatory.
 Alter eoBtinous residence upon Q for SIX months settlement .an be proven and the government prlce oeing paid, there will be 0 fina! receipt .EzCed to the pre-emptor; bat ID case sitheY does uos desire to make final pFocf e. ire end Of siI months, be has .hIrty tbrea months from the time he uEle settlement
 Ho.fRsTEAD Entries nlst be made ID person, usually before thc Register of the local Lsnd Ofhce and the entry fecs are sixteen dollars. The rsquIF, men.s of the home stead inv ere about the same as those o' the pTs-s option, except that residence .ap be cstcbil7bcd wtthin six mouths after making fling; br. homesteeds aye su isci so cOntC.tj Ii settlers fsil to get | 1n fhe laad lDs!1e of siz months alter l snsTy. HODesteaas i1sy be proved up 10 siT months and pad out on, the sGn5 | sS pre-52p!i0ls, bu, can be proved ID in | aS ye7Cs v-i oOu. paying. In making | .i- ? pTCri tas Eet.lcF vii! te rCcGiSCd l .o give She nc- i,e- cs ti=,es hs or she | 1ss been O5ssl: f.Os2 tha claim. where | gcCt. end for what thcy went, and are | questioned regarding iae amount of irl- | .r0vemcnts they have. ii ID the judgment | Dl the Registe- Rna HeceIver the lBw has | cot been compiled with they will rot is- 'ae a final receipt.
 IIEsEs OLAIHs Do not -eq1,Fe q residence. Timber | slains must te entered by personal sp- | plicGt!on sEo-a % within tbe land dis | trIc, where tbe lSnd Is situated, before | some officer having sseal and suthor- lzsd to administer oath. Claimant must | have i've acres broken the first year. the | secou1 year rouss have five acres broken snd .ulatIyatr the first breaking. the | .,ird yesr must put trees, seeds or ,uttings in the first i've acres and culti tate tEe secpnd five; the fourth year -ust sst out the second five acres in 'Tees, tree seed. or tree cuttings. If ID siSbi years tbeTs are six thousand seven hundred and dfty growing trees on the .-Hct, clRimREt Can nIase final proof and 1Cre q patent Government fees in flber oaliCEs claims ore fourteen dol ars ;sF entry aud sen dollars for final 3go0f.
 All duties required b. the timber cul- i1re laws may be done by others except he entry and final proof; nor is he or ihs require3 10 reside near the land but -ill always bs expected to comply with he law in regard to improvements.
 There is nc fixed amount of improve
 -.z--sr..a .n hA0naataa1 I .uption law, residence and cultivation n good faith as home and 8 farm to he claimants best ability IS held to be he requirement. of the law.
 SOLDIERS HoAEsTKADs.
 soli;ers wko served In the United 3tsies array l1r ninety days and were ,onorably discharged and have lived oya! to the guvernment can file declsr- .tory statements on che hundred and izty acres of vacant land, by an gent through the power of attorney m fcTm prescribed by law. TnIs power 6o be executed before notary public ny here in .he United States, and snt to scr1e reliable agent who will se- eet the quarter section of land and file ID 1t sor the soldier. This filing will bsoldteiy hold ihe land for six months yitbous the residence of claimant At he end of si1 months the solder must ,eein residence end make another ling, called the final entry, at which inc he pays fee the same as Tn home sesd eases. Soldiers are compelled 10 i've at least one year on their claims, ut they csu deduct their service as a oldier from tue five years required by he common homestead and thus get their alent m shorter time than he who has ot served his country as a soldier. oldier's widows are entitled to use the e,ensed husbands service while in the -sr, to assist her in proving up claim nd i. the widow is dead. then one of he minor heirs can use the right: but II luss be done through the guardian of be child. Widows and orphans of sol iers will no. be required to cultivate he land or to personally do the work Ut can cause the same 10 be done by thers capable to do practical farming. bod faith and cultivation to the best of be ability ofclaimant is all that the law equires.
 fhe above will show those in the east -bo do not understand the law govern