The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-06-02
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Only About 100 Acres u SUI.
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Now.
FREE HOME BILL CAUSED 4 BOOM.
land HISS Been Flied Upon Rapidly
slnce That Measure Deuame !
Certainty.-Ncw Towns Feel
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Mitchell, s. D., May 2s.s@Three
months ago there was about 10000
acres Of government land on th.
fankton reservation which was open
to homestead entry, but q wonderful
change has taken place in the guam:
tity of land that is now on the mar.
Fket. There has been no great boom in
the fling of this land, but a steady
increase over the preceding months
and up to the present time there is
but q handful of land left for future
settlers. Since the free homestead bill
has EEL Unsigned by the president the
land has been rapidly taken sup, and
as an example of the desire to take
up the reservation land,stherc were
twelve persons yesterday who made
filings for homesteads, among them
being several women. The opening of
the Milwaukee, railroad into Charles
Mix county. which embraces, portion
OF b reservation, has had a good deal
70 do with the taking up of theSlands.
IN conversation with Register Foster,
OF United States land Office, he
stated that at the present time there
were only about 1900 acres of land
left on the reservation, and Of this
amount there were hut six full quar-
ter sections available, the balance be-
ing cut up into forty and eighty-acIre
tracts. At the present rate Of taking
land there will be no vacant land on
this reservation within the next week,
although some of the forty and cigh-
ty-acre tracts will be left, as the gen
eral. rule is for the land to be held In
large tracts, q smaller tract being Of
no benefit to anybody for farming
purposes.
The reservation was opened to the
public for fling five years. ago this
month, and even at that time there
was no general rush for the land. On
the first day that the land Office here
was opened to receive filings on the
reservation there were but 67 quar-
tiers taken up, the first being that of a
woman. The second day there were
only 81, and for several weeks the set
tiers came struggling in for land.
Since then the procedure has been
much the same. When the reserya.
ton opened there were 1884, 900 acres
Of land for settlement, and consider.
ing the rate at which the filings start
ed in, the land has been taken up
quite rapidly. A good many quarters
at the opening were taken by soldiers
as declaratory statements, and a large
number have gone back to the gov
eminent, andsthese have oil been filed
upon again by new settlers who have
come into the country,
The new towns 1.-THE vicinity of til,
reservation have felt the impetus Of
the new settlers who have just come
into the country, and a rapid growth
is reported among all the towns which
are located on the Milwaukee roads
newSline Of railroad. Several of the
old towns have been absolutely de-.
serted by the people who have resided
there for years, and moved their
buildings to the newer towns on the
railroad. With all the lands gone on
the reservation that country will set.
tie down to q faster growth and de-
velopment than If there was still a
large quantity Of land to be taken, is
the opinion expressed by an old resi-.
dent down in TINT