Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-01-01
PROSPECTIVE HoMEsTEADS.
v. s. Engineer Taylor Tells How They
May Be Acquired.

May Be Acquired.
The lands Immediately commanded
by and proposed to be irrigated from
the canal under construction by the
government in Nevada, comprise it is
estimated, approximately 215,000 acres. i
situated in the vicinity of Wadsworth
and in the Carson Sink valley. They IL
clude parts of Lyon, Storey, Washoe
and Churchill counties.
Of these lands about 900 acres, N
Guiding railroad land, are now in pri-
vate ownership and partly under cut
tivation; some 10000 acres are en-
braced in the Pyramid Lake Indian
Reservation, and the remaining 125,-
900 acres belong to the public domain.
Of the public lands about $4,000
acres are now open to entry under Tie
Homestead Law, subject to the provis-
lens of the Act of Congress Of June
II, 1902 known as the National lrrl-
cation Law. BY this law the Secr5-
tary of the Interior is empowered to
limit the area of land to which any
homesteader can acquire title to such
acrea ge-nOt less than 40 Or more
than $50 acres-as will in his judge
ment, when thoroughly and carefully
titled under irrigation, support a fam
lily in comfort.
no ic 91CO ant hOrlZp6
fix the price per acre and the terms
and conditions upon which water will
be supplied for the irrigation of these
lands.
Filings for these lands will be rec
eived at any time at the United States
Land Office at Carson City, Nevada
on payment of the usual homestead
filing fee There is no other charge
for the land.
Actual and continuous residence on
the land is required and this cannot
be gotten until all payment for water
have been made.
Homesteaders must take water from
the government irrigation system, and
before acquiring title must have at
least half of their land under cultiva
ton.
The unit of the homestead entry
has not yet been fixed.
Neither the charge for water mol
the terms of payment and conditions
on which it will be furnished have ye'
been fixed.
The lands have not yet been classi
fed, nor have the exact tracts which
will be irrigated been determined.
The branch or laterals canals have
not yet been located.
The Secretary of the Interior ha
ordered that as soon as PRACTICABLE
all of the public lands shall be SUIT
divided into homestead or farm tracts
any one of which can be entered o.
qualified homesteader. In maxim
such subdivision the engineers will b
guided solely by the character Of so
there shall be included in each homo
stead as nearly as may be, the pr
scribed amount of irrigable land =
average quality, and lying suitably &c
both irrigation and drainage with r.
ference to the bitches for these pu
poses.
Only the main canal from the Tru
kee river to the Carson river is NO
under construction.
Water for small portion of the Ian
will be available in the spring of 1870
but by far the greater part will hay
to wait until 1906 or 1907 before watt
will reach it.
Until water is at hand for it's irl
cation no one can make a living upC
these lands; but those filing in a
vance of the arrival of the water wi
not on that account, be excused fro
residing thereon Actual bona fide r
sidence is required.
L. H. TAYLOR
Engineer U. S. Reclamation Servic
In charge Truckee Project.