, 1905-02-21
SHOSHONE LANDS,

Since the passage of the Mondell act
opening the Shoshone reservation to
settlement next June, The Republican
has received numerous queries as to
of, etc.
There will be more than 200, 900
acres of fairly good agricultural land,
but all of it will have to be irrigated
to raise crops. In addition to this
there will be han a half million
acres Of excellent grazing land. The
land susceptible of irrigation has been
investigated to some extent by the re
clamation service of the United States,
with a view to retaining it under the
irrigation act. This would in all prob
ability be the best way to handle it, as
it is not a poor farmers proposition.
The banks of the Wind river and the
Big Horn are high and it would cost a
great deal of money to get the water.
The price of the land will he as fol-
lows:
"All lands entered under the home
stead law within two years after the
same shall be opened for entry shall
be paid for at the rate of $3.50 per
acre; after the expiration of this per.
iod, two years, all lands entered under
the homestead law, within three years
therefrom, shall be paid for at the rate
of $1.25 cents per acre; that all home
stead entry men, who shall make entry
of the lands herein coded, within two
years after the opening of the same
TO entry, shall pay $3.50 per acre for
the land embraced in their entry, and
for all the said lands hereafter entered
under the homestead law the sun OF
SLIPS per acre shall be paid; pay.
lows: Fifty cents per acre at the
time of making entry and 25 cents pei
acre each year thereafter until the
price Fer acre hereinbefore provided
shall have been fully paid; that lands
entered under the townsite, o and
mineral land laws shall be paid for in
an mount and n as provided by
said laws n in case any entrymar
fails to make the payment herein pro
vided for any of them, within the time
stated, all rights of the said entrymaI
to the lands conveyed by his or her en-
try shall at one cease and any pay
ments Heretofore made shall be forfeit
ed, and the entry shall be forfeited and
cancelled, unless the secretary OF the
interior shall in his decretion. and for
good cause, excuse for not exceeding
six months, the said failure, applica-
ton for which must be made by the
settler on or before the date Of the
payment which would bring him or her
in default, and all lands except min
eral and coal lands herein coded, re-
naming undisposed of at the expira
ton of five years from the opening OF
said lands to entry, shall be SOLD 10
the highest bidder for cash at not less
than 81 per acre under rules and reg
ulations to be prescribed by the sec
Rotary Of the interior: Provided, thai
any lands remaining unsold eight yeArs
after the said lands shall have been
opened to entry may be sold to the
highest bidder for cash without regard
to the above minimum. limit of price,
hat lands disposed Of under the town
site, coal and mineral land laws shall
be paid for at the pri e provided Dy
law, and the United States agrees 70
pay he said Indians tn proceeds 40
rived from the sales Of said lands, ma
also to Fay the said Indians the sum q
SIPS per acre .or sections sixteen ana
thirty-six, or an equivalent of two $50
tons in each township of the cedea
lands, the amounts 80 realized to ~
paid to INT expended Tor said India1s
in the manner hereinafter provIded4T
THE LATEST ASSASSINATION