Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1895-11-14
Our Happy Day Named!
RESERVATION TO BE THROWN
OPEN NOVEMBER 18th
A Commercial Center.
Odchard Land, Grain Land, Timber Land
and Mineral Land-H0w to Secure
Homestead.

Homestead.
WASH, ID. c., Nov. 18th, '95:-Reg-
lister and Receiver:-Publish III local
papers that the President has signed
the proclamation opening NeZ Perce
lands to settlement and entry on the
18th INST.
l.. w. LAMoREUX.
The news of the opening of the res.
ervation was welcomed by universal If
not demonstrative rejoicing. No sim
! gle item ever ment as much for T.ew!s-
ton as does this announcement. This
is the realization of fondest hopes.
Lewiston will at once take rank as n
great commercial center.
The above advice to intending set
tiers on Nez Perces land, it will be oh
served does not fix an hour for the
opening. This being the case the rul-
ings and the law will fix the hour at
at IL o'clock midnight, on the morning
of the 18th inst. Under the homestead
laws the first act is the commencement
of settlement which will hold the land
for 80 days to be followed by legal
filing in the land Office. Tn" cons
mencement of settlement must consist
of some improvement that adds to the
land, the planting of something or Il
permanent foundation for a building.
TO make a legal filing the applicant
must be armed with three legal forms
ii homestead application, homestead
affidavit and non-mineral affidavit.
These blanks must be filled out by the
applicant but must be subscribed to
before the officers of the land Office.
The provisions of the homestead atfi-
davit are In substance a statement un-
der oath that the entry is made in
good faith, exclusively for the benefit
of the settler and not for speculation
and that he has not made Il legal home
stead filing under the laws of the
United States since Aug. 80, 1890 and
that he is not the owner of 100 acres Of
land in the u. S. at this time. The
usual fee of SIG will be charged at the
time of entry and price fixed by law is
1878 an acre for agricultural land and
S. an acre for timber and mineral land.
The following sketch, descriptive of
the NeZ Perces lands was written for
the Spokesman Review by Newton
Hibbs of this city: at is mistake
to suppose that the cream of the Nez
Perce reservation has been secured by
the Indians. An Indian loves the as
sociations Of his childhood. He loves
his hut his garden spot, his fishery, his
bath pool and his sweathouse. When
offered the choice of an allotment of
land for future home, he selected as
nearly as possible the spot on which he
was born. Therefore the Indians hold
the little bottoms, the hooks among
the rocks on the river beach, and 10y
the little creeks where the waterfalls
sing and the willows shade the grass
plats. The broad bench lands where
the orchards are to be planted, that
will grow the worlds supply of winter
apples, are yet unclaimed; the plateaux
that will grow the wheat, flax, barley
and oats are yet vacant, and the bunch
grass on vast areas grows untrod and
uncut to fall and enrich the soil foi
future farmers. There are no barren
watses of rocks nor beds of brickly
pears within the bOarders of the reser-
vation. There is verdure on all the
prairies, and forests cover all he noun
tains.
FERTILE DOMAIN.
There are water ways and canyons
which dram and divide the lands o
the famed POtIatch i'm manifold. These
favored localities are as free from
spring frOsts as the Walla Walla ano
Naki vaIlavS and fort;to ~,