The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-29
Three-Fourths of Men Who
Drew Claims Dispose
OF Them.
FOR THE COUNTRY
Is illegal, Technically, Yet Government
Recognizes Fact That This Method
Gusts Spectators and Opens
Way for Aericulturists.

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hands since the opening. 1t is a we'll
known fact that perhaps three-fourths
of those who drew claims in the open
Ing had no thought of making the
Rosebud their permanent home. They
filed upon h land merely as q Specula-
lion. These spectators are gradually
being weeded out. and farmers who de-
sire to cultivate the and and make
their permanent residence thereon are
occurring their claims. The spectators
vell out; that is, they sell their relin-
punishment to the quarter to the farmer
for so many hundred dollars. He has
bis filing papers made out for the claim
and places them together with the first
settlers REIMBURSEMENT before the land
bffice officials at the same time. In this
manner when the REIMBURSEMENT goes
On record, his filing papers are already
made out and the next to go on record
on that particular piece of land, it
having become vacant upon the first
settlers REIMBURSEMENT being put on
record in the Ian office. In this man.
ner a large number of the Rosebud
claims have been sold. While the SELL
ing of ACCOMPLISHMENTS is technically
against the rulings of the interior de-
partlnent, that department realizes that
1T is a good thing for the country to
be opened, inasmuch as it allows the
agricultural classes to get hold of the
tIAAu oOokiSA IA NAASS SooAN SAAS
SPECTATORS had to prove up on it. Ev-
Fry time a REIMBURSEMENT is turned in
in this way the government gets a
rakeoff of $3.50, too, which is to be con-
sidered as a factor in the case. The
second settler, too. always makes a bet
ter settler han the first.
The homestead law permits a settler
10 offer final proof on his homestead
after fourteen months of continuous
residence upon and cultivation of the
same. The first six months of con-
%structive residence may be counted in
MS a part of this time, so that to prove
up one must actually reside on the land
eight months. Quite a number of the
settlers are proving up their claims at
this time. A number, too, are adver-
tised to make final proof in January.
Of the total number of settlers, per-
haps 40 per cen are availing them
selves of h right to Communicated
is, prove up after fourteen months. OF
course all balance due the government
Cor the land must be paid up.
There are several flourishing new
towns on the Rosebud. Beginning with
the largest and named in their relative
size and Importance, they are: Greg
Dry, Burke, Herrick, Carlock, Dallas
and Dixon. All of these are regular
government townsites except Dallas. 1t
was started last winter on an indian
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ter of a triangle made by three other
towns, its territory is necessarily quite
small.
Gregory is the largest and most inn
portant and influential of all the new
towns on the Rosebud. 1t is located on
II splendid natural tOwnsite in the CEN
ter of a vas territory of the best land
in the county and has enjoyed a sure,
steady and permanent growth from the
beginning. It's location is to the west
near the line of Trip county, beyond
which lies the great unopened portion
of the Rosebud reservation.
In Trip county alone lies more than
u million acres of ~unoccupied and un-
allotted government land, for the most
part leased to cattlemen as range for
their herds of took. 1t is expected that
for soil, water and grass in the whole
state, will be thrown open to settlers
within the next four or five years.
Gregory is but five miles from the
Trip county line. 1t is therefore the
frontier town and the natural gateway
for the great reservation to the west.
When Trip county is opened Greg
Dry will be the Bonesteel of the OPEN
ing, except hat she will become a much
more important place; the unopened
tract of government and in Trip
county which would become subject to
homestead entry in the event of the
opening being nearly three times as
large as the ftract of Rosebud land
thrown pen last year in Gregory
county.
Burke and Herrick are oth good
towns. Though not so large as Greg
ory they are both flourishing young
cities and like 1t are located on the line
of survey of the Chicago and Norths
western railroad west from Bonesteel.,
surrounding territory is large and
their trade exceptionally good. Burke
IA boast. of the best hotel accommo-
dations in the county. She likewise has
a furniture store that would do credit
to a city the size of Mitchellsor .Yank-.
ton. She also has the most complete
and up-to-date drug store on the reser-
walton.
Carlock and Dixon are both thriving
little towns and good. trading points.
LIMESTONE IN ROSEBUD LAND.
Development Of, the Discovery Will