The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-21
OFFICERS ARE ARRIVING.
All Preparations Are Being Arranged
For Land Drawing.

Provo July 20.-George c. Hunt, inspect
or of special agents, general land office
Washington. ID. G., who is in the city
arranging for the opening of the Uintah
reservation, expresses himself as being
well pleased with the building obtained
for registration offices, and with the eff
forts made by the city officials, CONNER
ciaI club and citizens generally to take
care of the people, who Will be here TO
register, ana looks upon the location. for
! registration offices at Provo, Price, Nerndl
and Grand Junction as very CONVENIENT
for all who may desire to register He
| states that it is not the pohcy of the
government TO have these offices IN large
cities, for the reason that in all large
! cities there are many people Tho VIII
register without any intention whatever
| OF taking up land, and that class OF
applicants the government IS not dcSlr-
soldiers would be benefited by registra-
ton office in Salt Lake City does not
seem well taken because they can (and
they are the only persons who cam regis
ter through an agent They also have an
advantage in filing the land at the
Nernal laIlu ONCE IN THIS thdl tney can
them sixty days IN which to select the
I land they desire TO enter while other ap-
designated for them to do SO. .---
Land Commissioner Richards will be
| here with a corps Of clerks before the 1St
of August, and while the registration is
going on till the 18th. will exercise a
general Supervision over all the registra-
Quoted here. commencing on the 18th, with
Commissioner Richards and two local
citizens as a committee in charge. The
names of the persons registered at the
several registration offices will all be for
warded here in envelopes, and after be
ing thoroughly mixed in a box viii be
drawn by boys selected for this work.
Inc numbers viii be mailed 10 persons
entitled to them. If they so desire, and as
the order of registration has nothing TO
do with the order of darwing, and the order
in which the numbers are drawn is what
] which.
crs may select land, there is no particular
advantage in registering early. as the last
person registered is just likely to be
the first in the drawing as otherwise.
The first fifty names drawn will be re-
CURED to make their filing at the land
Once in Vernal on Aug. q. the second fiji
" ON the 18th, the third fifty on the goth,
and so on till all who desire to file under
the privilege obtained under the drawing,
nave done so, Tor sixty days. when the
remaining land II any, VIII be thrown
open TO the general public, except that
those who have drawn numbers and failed
TO enter land under their privilege win not
be permitted to enter any Of the land on
, the reservation. The order OF entry at
the land office of the fifty each day will
be in the order of their numbers, but If
the holder of the number is not present
when his number is called the number
viii be held Till the other numbers for that
day are called. when il will be called
again. and the holder given another
chance. If he is not there his chance is
lost.
There is a rumor here to the effect
that there Is $4,000 deposited in the Yer
lltti Ddnh. Wnlcn VIII be paid Tor the
rights to selection of land under the first
ten numbers drawn. This is only a rumor
and it seems improbable that il is true,
as the government is trying in every way
possible to prevent other than bona fidc
home seekers to obtain the land. That
they want the land for n homestead is
part of the declaration applicant fer
registration makes when he takes the
oath, and any collision the part of
the person registering with land specul-
atOrS or agreement to sell his land when
drawn is punishable by Imprisonment in
the penitentiary. and the government
has several special agents in the field
looking after just such cases.
An impression exists among some peo-
pie that there will be charges made for
registering and that certain amount will
have TO be paid when the drawing is
made This is erroneous. There is no
charge for registering except that the no.
tary public. who fills out a blank fur
nished by the government. to which the
applicant for registration subscribes I'M
der oath before registering will charge p
cents for administering this oath and fill
ing out the blank. Then the next charge
Il the filing fee I'm the land office. where
entry is made. which is the same as
homestead filing fee. Sl6 or $lz Then
when the requirements as to residence,
improvements, etc. are filled and the en-
tryman proves up and receives his pat
ent from the government he is required
60 pay for the land at the rate of 81 %
en- acre, which amount goes to the In
dams.