Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-09
BIC TEXAS LAND SALE.
Six Million Acres For Use of
 Settlers Only.
ALL KINDS OF SOIL AND CLIMATE

ALL KINDS OF SOIL AND CLIMATE Get an Oil We'll or a Mine-Area Of. fered by the State Is Part of Pub.
 lie School Domain-There will Bs No "Land Rush"-How the Tracts Are to Be Purchased.
 An area of 6,OOO,OO acres, forming part of the public school domain, will
 be disposed of on Sept 1 at the first
 public land sale ever held by the state of Texas Provisions made by the leg
 1slature last winter for the sale under direction of Land Commissioner J. J.
 Terrell are designed to eliminate spec.
 ulators and dispose of the land to actual settlers, says a Dallas (Tex. dispatch
 There will be no Hand rush." such as is characteristic of the opening of federal domain, because the lands to
 be disposed of are not in a solid block, but are situated in every section of the state. The larger portion is close to the western and northwestern from tier.
 The area involved is twice as large as the state of Connecticut and larger than Massachusetts. New Hampshire or New Jersey. Some of the lands are located in East Texas, along the Sa bine and Lower Red rivers or their tributaries, and some of them in West Texas, on the Rio Grande, more than 900 miles further west. Some are in the northern part of the Panhandle and others down close to the Gulf of Mexico, sections so far apart that q difference of more than 100 degrees in temperature has been registered at the same hour of the same day.
 After the 6,OOO,OOO acres have been disposed of there will still be 12,OOO,. GOO more acres in the public school do main-all at present under lease to cattle men-to say nothing of the state university lands. More than 10000 let ters of inquiry have been received at the office of the state land commis- sioner
 All qualities of land are represented in the offering-grain lands, cotton lands, sugar lands, rice lands, fruit lands, grazing lands, timber lands, general farming lands. oil lands and mineral lands. The oil and mineral lands of course are subject to special laws, but much of the land to be sold may have oil or minerals not yet dis covered. The purchaser would be am- ply protected under state laws should he be so fortunate as to strike an oil gusher or mine. Brewster county, in which much of the land is located, is rated among the richest quicksilver bearing sections of the world. As to climate, the illustration has been made that in one part of this 6,000,000 acres corn is being planted at the same time that roasting ears are being eaten in another part. An overcoat may be worn with comfort up in the Pan handle, while life is being enjoyed In a cottage by the sea or on a private yacht along the gulf, both in Texas.
 This land sale brings fresh evidence that agriculture is pressing ranching out of its historic zones In the south west. The terms prescribed for the sale require each applicant to forward to the state treasurer at Austin one forteth of the price he offers for each 1 tract. The balance will bear per cent interest, payable on Nov. 1 of 1 each year. After three years resi- dence, one may pay for the land in l full and get patent or may hold it l forty years by paying the interest each | year. After the land is awarded the ! purchaser has ninety days in which to settle. Settlement may be made on ! either the tract designated as home or on either of the additional tracts. ! Within thirty days after the ninety i
  affidavit that he has settled. After one settles he has the right to sell the land to another who will carry out the contract. After settlement. one can move from his place of settlement to one of the other tracts purchased. One must live on the land three successive years. This time is counted from date of award. The land goes to the high est offers if there are no obstacles.
 One may purchase in tracts of eighty acres or multiples thereof up to the quantity allowed to one purchaser. Tn the counties of Bandera. Brewster. Crockett Fl Paso. Jeff Davis. Loving. Pecos, Presidio. Sutton and Val Verde one may buy eight sections of $40 acres each. more or less, but in other counties one cannot purchase more than four sections. The land pur- ,hased by one as an actual settler or ls additional land direct from the state since April 10. 1901. will be count .d against him in ascertalning the quantity he can buy on and after Sept. l. 1905.
 A separate application must be used 'or each tract. Blank applications nay be obtained from any county clerk n Texas or from the land office at Aus in by sending two cent stamp. Ap- 'licants must designate one site as lome tract and may ask for others as additional thereto provided the addi- ionsl land Is within five miles of the lome tract.