Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-12
HOME-GETT|NG ON
THE RESERVATION.
Erroneous Notion About Selling
Chances Disposed of by Law
Ia the Case
YOU MUST LIVE ON YOUR LAND
psoalred 10 Remain There With Your
Family for Five Years-What You
Can Do 10 "A Months.

There is much wild and nonsensical
ak these days about getting rich quick
hy making lucky drawing of land on
,hs ulntah Reresvation and then SELL
mg the same. The United States Land
oMce in this city is DESTROYS that no
carson shall be deceived IN this direc-
,ior They cannot sell their changes
- they want 10 make money out Of
rsservation lands they win have TO
mild home. live there for Ave years
and iii the soil. What they can do IN
nprteen months of bonafde residence
(, also told in the following extracts
from the general homestead law fur
nished TO the Deselet News by the To-
cal land Office.
HOMEsTEADS.
oThe homestead laws secure to quail
std persons the right to settle upon
enter, and acquire title to not exceed
ing one-quarter section, or l60 acres, OF
publc land, by establishing and main
aiming residence thereon and improv-
Ing and cultivating the land for the
continuous period Of FIVE years
"A homestead entry man must be at
IA, head OF a family or a person VINO
has arrived at the age Of q years, and
citizen Of the United States, or ono
who has fled his declaration Of inten-
ton 10 become such, as required by the
naturalization laws, TO which section
Of the act OF March 3, 1891 (26 Stat H..
1906. Appendix No. 40, attaches the
condition that he must not be the pro-
pretor Of more than 100 acres OF land
In any state or territory
IAN applications for homestead entry
must be made on form No. 400L p. 2l5,
and filed IN the local Office of the land
district in which the land applied for Is
located accompanied by legal fee and
commission in each case and the proper
aaidayits made by the homestead appli
can't
THE required affidavit must be made
before the register or receiver (229O Rev.
Statl or any United States commits
sloner or commissioner of the court eX-
ercisIng federal jurisdiction in the terri
tory or before the Judge or clerk OF
ans court of record in land district In
which the lands are situated.
"A false oath taken before an oftl-
Ger other than the register or receiver,
as qualified by law to administer oaths
h. homestead cases, Is perjury, the same
as Il taken before the register or the
receiver
Where n wife has been divorced
from her husband or deserted, so that
she is Independent upon her own re-
sources for support, she can make
homestead entry as the head OF a
family or as a femme sole,
FOR HIMSELF ONLY
'ro obtain a homestead, the party
should select and personally examine
The land and be satisfied Of its charae-
Ter and true description.
He must hle an application, stating
his name, residence, and postoifice adj
dress and describing the land he de-
sIrs TO enter (Form 4-0O7, p. 2l5), and
make affidavit (Form 4-O63, p. 275l that
he Is not the proprietor OF more than
100 acres of land in any state or terrl-
tory that he Is citizen of the United
States or that he has filed his declara-
ton 70 become such, that he is the
head Of a family, or over 81 years OF
age as the case may be; that his APP
pdcatlon Is honestly and In good faith
made for the purpose of actual settle
ment and cultivation, and not for the
benefit of any other person, persons, OF
corporation, and that he will faith
July and honestly endeavor to comply
with all the requirements OF law as e
settlement residence, and cultivation
necessary 10 acquire title 20 the land
applied for; that he is not acting al
agent Of any person, corporation, OF
syndicate IN making such entry, not ir
COLLISION with any person, corporation
or syndicate In making suc(
entry to give them the ben
ont Of the land entered, or any par
thereof, or the timber thereon; that HI
does not apply to enter the same for thu
purpose OF speculation, but in gooc
lalth, 10 obtain q home for himself, anC
mat he has not, directly or indirect
~ made and viii not make an agree
meht or contract In any way or man
ner with any person, or persons, cor
noraton or syndicate whatsoever, b.
which the title which he might acquir,
ron the government Of the Unitet
states should inure, In whole or II
part TO the benefit Of any person excep
himself and, furtherh that since Aug
ust 10 1880, he has not acquired it'll
70, nor is he claiming unde
any OF the agricultural public LIANT
avs on amount OF land which, to
\ ec'her with the land he Is seeking t
uWr VIII exceed In the aggregate 80
acres and that he has not theretpfor
nag ne benefit Of the homestead laws
h. -. ~.