Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-01-15

ant OF the land.
By ac; approved August 80, 1890, ever,
pers,,n thereafter is limited to 800 acres
of public land, and may not after such
date enter, under any of the laws, more
than that. quantity. Prior TO the passage
of this act person, by proper manipula-
ton, might enter 400 acres under the
different acts as personal right; but the
act limits those who thereafter apply to
the quantity stated.
By late act the register and receiver
are authorized to extend the time OF pay
ment on pre-emption claims Tor the
period of one year, where, through loss
of crops, the pre-emptor is unable to pay
for his land within the statutory period.
THE UNsURvEYED AREA.
The surveyed public lands of Western
Washington are fast being disposed OF;
in fact, there cannot be more than zoe, 600
acres in the whole of the western portion
Of the state that are now subject to entry,
while there are in round numbers 2,5O0, 900
acres as yet unsurveyed. These unsur.
veyed lands comprise some of the best
farming, timber and mineral lands of the
state, and though nearly all at the pres
emit are somewhat remote from market
are becoming valuable as the population
of the state increases. The largest amount
Of uHsurveyed land, and that in which
settlers would be more apt to secure lands
suitable for agriculture, are in the eastern
portions of Whatcom, Skagit, SnohoInish,
King and Lewis counties, also on the
western and southwestern slopes of the
Olympic mountains.
To one intending to make home on
public land, would say, select the local
ity which you wish to live in. II the land
is surveyed, secure tracing of the town
ship; then 60 to the neighborhood. and,
if you are an actual settler and intend
making yourself part of the community,
information will be Immediately and
cheerfully furnished you as to desirable
locations and tracts. If, on the other
hand, you go with the purpose merely Of
exercising one OF you rights and intend
after making cororable compliance with
the law to abandon the tract, you will be
apt to receive cool reception all around.
The intending settler on unsurveyed
land should be specially careful that his
claim does not intrench upon that of
prior settler. While the government does
not directly recognize any rights to squat
ters as against itself, yet, as between two
persons claiming the right to enter the
tract OF land after survey, the preference
will be given the prior settler. The
decisions also are to the effect that after
due settlement has been made and resi-
dence commenced great latitude will be
allowed settler in good faith on unsur-
veyed land to be away from his claim.
A settler should also be cautioned about
settling on sections 16 and So Of each
township. BY section 10 OF the enabling
act, admitting Washington as a state,
sections 16 and So, both surveyed and un-
surveyed, provided they are not mineral
in character, pass absolutely to the state.
So that any settler on unsurveyed land
who may chance to settle on either OF
these sections subsequent to the admis-
sion of the state would either have to lose
his claim or purchase the land from the
state.
A settler within the primary limits Of
the grant to the Northern Pacific railroad
company (the north line of which com.
mences about the northeast corner Of
township q north, range 5 east, and runs
in souteasterly direction to the Cascade
mountains) should be very careful also
not to settle upon an odd-numbered sec.
ton, for such sections, both surveyed and
unsurveyed, are vested in the company
by virtue of the act of congress granting
it such lands.
A settler on unsurveyed lands within
the indemnity strip may file for and en-
ter lands both in odd-numbered and even
sections prior to the selection by the COM
pany. T. M. REED,
Register U. S. Land Office.
New Years Pr.
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