The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-30
Homestead Entries.

Q. In what way can public land be
taken under the reclamation law?
A. The only way I'm which land can
be taken is under the terms of the
homestead law, which requires actual
settlement and cultivation.
Q. Can take up homestead under
She reclamation law and obtain title
while I am earning a living as clerk
or school teacher in q nearby city?
A. You cannot obtain q homestead
unless YOU live upon the land and make
it your home. Occasional absence is
allowable, if some good reason is given,
but you cannot live elsewhere and
claim a homestead.
@. Tt is necessary for me TO live on
the land more than once I'm six months2
A. Yes; actual and continuous resi-
deuCe is required by the law, and you
must establish your home on the land
and live there for the fun term re-
Quired
@. Must / move onto the land at
once2
A. You are given six months from
the time Of taking out your first papers
TO establish a residence, and before the
end of that time you must be actually
living on the ground.
Q. Is tt sufficient to erect an Ordi-
nary claim shauty with one door and
window TO make a h0me2
A. No: the claim shanty and nom
inal residence which may have suf-
need under some conditions VIII not
be sufficient on the irrigable land An
actual home. where YOU sleep and take
your meals habitually viii be required.
O. Can ] enter 100 acres and then
sell off parts of it2
A. You can only obtain title TO a GER
tain piece Of land, which may be forty,
al . -
convey any title TO this. or TO any pOr-
tion of 1T, until you have lived on it
at least five years. You may be able
10 reliuQuish or give up a portion of it,
and i'm that event some other person
can make a new homestead entry, but
YOU cannot transfer TO him any rights
or privileges. and he must begin his
term of residence from the time he
makes bis entry,
Q Must I live on the land if the
water is not ready for CultiVatiOu2
A. Yes after you make YOUR home
stead entry you must comply with the
terms of the homestead law. No excuse
VIII be accepted because of lack of wa
ter, as it is not desired to have people
enter the land until water is ready for
their use; and the fact that lands are
entered upon before water is ready is
presumptive that the person making
the entry does it for speculative pur-
poses, rather than for am actual home
.. How much land can I enter at
first?
A. Under usual conditions there is
no law TO prevent your entering 100
acres at first; but this entry is merely
preliminary, and viii be cut down to
forty eighty or 100 acres. according to
the plans finally determined upon. Tt
VIII also be subject TO certain Hmita-
tions, charges and terms. which can
hot be given until the contracts for
construction have been let.
O. What assurance is there that the
land which I enter viii be irrigated2
A. You can have no assurance that
the land viii pc Irrigated until such
time as public- notice has been given.
III you enter i'm advance OF the public
notice YOU make a speculative entry.
wholly at your own risk, and without
any guarantee or safeguard that water
viii be supplied, and with "a reasonable
probability that you may lose your
homestead right
Water Users Associations.
O. What are the water users ssso-
Citations?
A. These are associations of indf-
Viduals owning or having claims TO
water and lands to which water NAV
be supplied by the works constructed
by the government
Q. Why are the associations formed
A. They are formed m orLer 10 as
sure the government that the land
owners viii apply for water from the
irrigation works. and that they viii so
adjust the existing claims to the use
of water that the administration of all
the water available for lands In pri-
Vate ownership, whether from private
or government irrigation works. shall
be under one control VIZ. that of the
svater users themselves. This organ
, izaUOH IS necessary I'm order that the
secretary Of the interior may have the
supervision over the distribution OF
water 10 lands ia private ownership.
contemplated By section Of the recIa-
nation act.