The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-01
Diagram Of Fort Hays Military Reservation.

grant. I'VE will do something there this
year, but cannot say what at this time.
The agricultural college and State Nor
NAL school officials have been instructed
the lands that have been given them and
use them for experimental purposes or
but no money is to be spent upon them
until clear title is established. This is
q bigger job than is generally admitted
The present holders Of the property had
their claims approved by the interior DE-
appeals from adverse decisions by the LAND
office and by the commissioner of public
The fifteen homesteaders who carried
their claims up to the department Of the
Meta Nett b Beam. +. D. Hastings, Fred II.
Olson. p. H. Henclxle, Susan ". Henckle,
II. q. Freese. j II. Moore. r. Long. a.
B. Jones. Cyrus Monroe Henry Knoche,
Although there will probably not be a
branch agricultural school established on
years to cone-that is, 2 school attended
by pupils-the reservation will come in
hand for experimental purposes is the
statement Of President Nichols. "Our
school has been handicapped always for
tsl q o f Ia fbe Sues ee f6n7
500 to 5000 acres of land on which to con-
acres. This has been entirely Inadequate.
The Fort Hays reservation furnishes US
1000 acres, and we can utilize big por-
ton of it.
school on the reservation to accommodate
your classes in agriculture?
classes to the reservations; The, only pu-
pills who will go there will be those who
want to earn something by working We
summer in order to help them out. We
will have to employ help, and might as
ing the winter months the pupils will be
kept at Manhattan. The reservation will
raise stock and other things out there for
our home farm, which is too small to
During the summer months, however, we
will do some experimenting on drouth re-
the great problem for solution in western
Kansas We hope either to find a way to
make the present kind of grain grow out
there or find a new grain and forage that
will do well. That country was made for
something, and we viii try to find out
The legislature meant well in dividing
the land between the Normal and the
Agricultural school. It did not know Of
the presence Of the settlers and the entries
that had been allowed at that time The
entries that are established lie principally
along the Big creek, fork Of the Smoky
Hill river. There are other settlers on the
uplands. but they never carried their
claims beyond the adverse decision of the
land office The Ellis County Agricul-
tIlral association has a fair ground On
the reservation also.
The act passed by the legislature de-
scribing the division of the land and uses
reads. in part. as follows.
sec. 2 The following described tracts
of land lying within the reserva ton afore-
said. to-wit. Section So township 10 s.,
range 19. VI; section 81, township 49, s.
range 49, w: section 1. township IA, S.,
range 19. W: sections and g. the east
half Of section 2, the north half Of sec
ton II and the northeast quarter of sec
ton is, all in township "a. s.. range Is,
w. are hereby placed under the direc-
ton Of the regents Of the State Normal
school 1t shall be their duty to lease
or rent the said lands to the best adj
vantage and all moneys derived for rents
from such lands shall be collected by
the regents. aforesaid. who shall deposit
the same with the treasurer Of the board,
TO be expended by the said board Of re-
gents for the equipment and maintenance
Of said auxiliary Of the State Normal
school.
Sec 8. All the remaining lands Of the
reservation aforesaid are hereby placed
under the direction OF the board Of regents
of the State Agricultural college. except
the north half or section s. township IA. S.,
range Is. W. which, with the buildings
thereon shall be used jointly as may be
determined by the boards Of regents Of
the institutions aforesaid r
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