Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-06-25
ISOLATED TRACTS.
Another Department Ruling
Regarding Sales Of Isolated
Government Lands
Form Of Application Blank
Changed With VieWOf Head
ing Off Spectators


Probably with the intention OF
leading of speculations in timber
lands, the department, by general or.
ders from time to time, lately, has
made changes in the form of appli.
cation for the sale of isolated tracts
of government land. Formerly all
that was required to bring an isolat.
ed tract into the market was the
publication of application after
first obtaining the authority through
local land Offices from Washington
made by any person, providing the
land surrounding had been taken for
a period of three years. Later this
was modified SO that the land could
be advertised and sold at any time
after the land surrounding was taken
under the land laws. Then came an
order obliging the applicant for sale
of the tracts to make oath that zap
plicant desires to purchase same for
his own individual use and actual
occupation, and not for speculative
purposes Now the new form pro-
vides further
That he has not heretofore
purchased any public land sold
as an isolated tract under an
application for such sale present
ed by him, and has purchased
& directly or indirectly, no lands
+ under the provisions of the act
of June 81, 1906, etc.
1t has been the custom heretofore
for persons without restrictions to
apply to have isolated tracts sold
and at the sale bid them in purely
for speculation purposes. In this
section, however, in most instances,
persons living on lands adjoining iso-
lated tracts have appeared at these
sales and ssbid up" as high as to
eliminate the speculative feature and
it is doubtful If the government will
receive as much for these isolated
tracts hereafter as heretofore, al
though it is Difficult to understand
what there is in the laws to prevent
a person at the sale from buying all
the land he has the money to pay:
for, providing he is the highest bid
der, any ruling of the department
to the contrary notwithstanding.
The law under which isolated tracts
are sold is as follows ,sz@s
=
ut shall be lawful for the =
I: commissioner of the general =
I: land Office to order into market I:
. and sell, at public auction, at the 3.
I: land office of the district in Z.
= which the land Is situated, for I:
= not less than $1.25 per acre =
q $3.50 If within the N. p. rail I.
= road land grant, any isolated =
!. or disconnected tract or parcel z.
= Of the public domain not ex- 4
z ceeding one quarter section, =
= which. in his judgement, it =
= would be proper to expose for =
q sale after at least thirty days, Z.
q notice by the land officers OF Z,
= the district in which such land I.
= may be situated .
q %%$&% $@%%$
The new form Of application for
the sale Of isolated tracts, just re,
ceived from the general land Office,
reads as follows
APPLICATION. FOR SALE OF $50.
LATED OR DISCONNECTED
TRACTS
Department Of the Interior,
| United States Land Office,
|
<. -. ~, 19..
To the Commissioner OF the Genera
Land Office 81.
The undersigned, whose postoffics
ADDRESS Is
respectfully requests that the
Of Section 4. Il. Town
ship Range 4, be or
dered into market and sold under tn,
| act OF June ~, 1906 (34 Stats, SIT
Il q M Kite unf ri :,