The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1893-09-17
The new COUNTRY.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS RE
CARDING ITS AREA.
HOW TO GET LETTERS PATENT
And other Information For the ,!,:u,
owner The strip Reservations
The CoGnty limits.

The New Oklahoma, or the Choro.
llee race which was opened for settle.
mcnt yesterday is large tract of
laud lying between the southern bor-
der of Kansas and the northern border
OF Oklahoma Its eastern limit is the
Arkansas river. The reservations of
the Ponca and Otoc Indians. living
within that district are not vet avail.
able 10 settlers. The strip is nearly
200 miles long from east to west. with
uniform width from north to south
Of sixty miles, and contains 6.O22. .754
acres. Add to this 9o7ll acres for ihc
Ionkawa and PSI. 02O for the Pawncc
reservations (both opened with
the strip proper September ld), and
the grand total is 6. 39d Is5 acres
Nearly sS5,0 acres should be de-
Quoted for allotments to resident In
dians school purposes townsitcs.
military posts saline lands. .te The
'rcmu"'.ts aFtae matos . 500 900
acres or o.e- o.1 uou'. steJds on 90
a.l.s cl. s1ma ,t 'Hc somi-ar'd
land a u0t especially desirable .ar
farming purposes. aud p.Ihally mot 90
exceed 2o COO to 27, pl qelrtcr sections
viii be Immediately 5,ctpied Persons
cannot settle on so4tiols thirteen.
sixteen, thirty-throc ard thirty-six in
each township set aparo for schools
and publ. b1jldiny,; nor on the So.
called saline reserve lands; nor on
Camp Supply military reservation;
nor on Chil!o..o Ia lian School reser.
vation; nor on tracts allotted to indi
vidual lad ans Ey,rything else in
the strip is suhj,.t to entry under
hcmcstcaa laws.
B'ipre receiving pltelt, tho settler
must, in addition t. complying with
tha laws regarding entry pay to the
government s., 50 per acre for any land
east of 9,ll degrees; 81 50 per acre for
land between o. and 0slI degrees
Four per cent annual interest will
be aided from date of catry. The land
Office entry fee is 81 flr - acres or
less AMI So for over 50 acres, with
co nmissioa Of two anI one. half cents
per acre. The final pra1f fees are 81
with Il commission of two and one
half cents per acre.
Following the nracti that obtained
when Oklahoma was opened, town
lois in the county seat towns will
probably belong t. tho fist boomers
holding town lot certificates who are
required to Immediately make substan p
tial improvements to hold title. No
price will have to be paid for these
lots other than the usual foes.
Two methods are prescribed for
founding townsites on public lands
exclusive of above named county seats.
first-A pat must bo died with the
eounty recorder and copy sent to the
general land otilco. Thereafter the
president may cause the lots within
town limits to be aueti1ned OF 10
highest bidders at a minimum price OF
sl0 per lot Lots undisposed of may
afterwards be sold at private sale. An
actual settler upon any lot and upon
any additional lot on which he may
have substantial improvements, can
prove up and purchase same as pre-
empt.on at such minimum.
second-t'nder the secQad @etnod,
lands actually settled on As a townsite
may he entered at the land ON e in
trust aud lots disposed of under terri
tOrial laws. One hundred and less
than 900 persons may eater not to eS-
ceed SEQ acres; 200 and less .han 1880
not more than go acres; 1000 and
over, 1890 acres and ea,h additional
600 up to 5000 inha oitants may en-
ter 3eO acres Such lind must be
paid for at the govercmcRt pv,ee per
acre
Whvn 1t Is desirable 70 establish a
townsite on lands tina may have been
previously entered rs n homestead.
the entryman may aFp'y to the sesre-
tary Of th e interior T. purchase such
lands, file plat at the proposed site,
and DaV $40 per acrc