Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-06-26

for making this an exceptionally pros
porous district. Magazine.
Protect Your Interests.
It Is time Settlers upon Government
Lands, and the entire West, were made
acquainted with certain facts.
Upon every entry, without exception
of government land in the arid regions,
made since October 2, 1888, patents
have been ordered by the general land
office to lie withheld. The Secretary
of Interior and Acknowledgement have
been asked to construe the act Of Octo-
Der 2, 1888, withdrawing lands from
entry and to define the arid regions.
Should they decide that all lands in
the arid regions were segregated by this
act, and all lands requiring irrigation
for their reclamation to be arid lands,
then not an acre of such land in the
great West entered since October 2,
1888, can be patented and such entries,
without unseen relief, will be Cancelled.
Tens of thousands of acres on existing
irrigating canals, actually being culti-
waited and reclaimed by water from
such canals, can not now be patented
because entered since October 2, 1888.
Thousands of bona fide settlers in Cali
fornia, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah,
Colorado, Washington, Nevada, and
throughout the entire surrounding re-
gion have been allowed to enter gov
eminent lands, are complying with the
law as they suppose 1t to he, and as 1t
has existed, are getting water from con-
structed irrigating canals, are honest,
Woodworking settlers, but who would
to-day be denied patent for that same
land, and are unconscious of the fact.
Congress has passed law its own Off.
GERS do not understand, and since OctO-
her 2, 1883, have been allowing hun
dreds and thousands of honest settlers
and entrymen to be unwittingly led in
to the entry of government land upon
which time and money is being ex'
pended, and where to-day nothing
stands between these settlers and ruin
but favorable construction of this Law
by the Secretary of the Interior. Mil
J lions of dollars are being expended by
! private capital in construction of canals
/, to reclaim arid lands, and this act o
; October 2, 1883, would forbid their rec
lamation, or that an acre of this gov
eminent land be touched since tina
date, and that these canals be rendered
} useless. 1t cannot be said that settler
should have known the possible con
) struction of that law, for not loca
} land office, the presumable representa-
tives of the government, but Is allow
| ing entries Of land to-day upon con
structed irrigating canals, where reser
voir sites, bitches or canals have no
been surveyed and set apart by the &c
, illogical survey. Thus, since Octobe
t 2, 1883, have entrymen been led to be
/ lieve the government fully understood
. the effect Of that act, and that thei
, entries were allowed accordingly. It'll
/ said that in the passage Of this act o
, October 2, 1888, entitled IAN act max
> ing appropriations for sundry civil ex
penses Of the government for the fisca
: year ending June 80, 1887, and for 9th
er PURPOSES" which act reserves from
3 entry, settlement or occupation certain
3 public lands, the conference committe
a did not intend to prevent and prohibi
! the entry and reclamation of lands ad
jacent to constructed irrigating canal
3 or those in process Of construction, bu
l that they did overlook the fact that tn
e broad wording Of the act would have
8 wide-reaching and disastrous effect NO
e intended or desired by its prof ctors
r Immediate relief can and should b
given by the present Congress. Ropes
, said act of October 2, 1883, 50 far as
t might be construed to effect Ian
Y which can be reclaimed from existin
: irrigating canals with vested rights, q
\ lowing every person who has made er
try of lands lying so adjacent to sue
canals since the passage of said act I
perfect the title to the same. Or, amen
3 Senate bill No. 2,lN and House bi
3 No. 1914, which are alike and hav
both been favorably reported by tn
: committees and have passed to . &c,
,, ond reading, by adding IN amendmen
. to Section nine of each Of the abov
t bills, beginning with the conclusion {
the printed bill as follows: "And ever
: person who has made entry unde
= homestead, preemption, or desert Ian
q laws. Of anv desert Or arid lands. Twin