The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-06-19
HUNTLEY LAND DRAWING.
Registration For Big Land Lottery Is
Now In Progress.

w o'6 eo"O 1OtteTf -
Now In Progress.
BILLINGS, June IT, Registr alton
for the drawing of the lands OF the
Huntley project is going on at a fair.
ly rapid rate, and up to date approx.
mately 1880 persons have deposited
the required afid avits in the big tin
receptacle in the land Office. The
work is carried on 10 a name slight.
ly different this year from tha of last.
No questions whatever are asked in
the land Office, and the prospective
homeseeker who has made the required
affidavit brings. or mails it TO the
land Office, in q sealed envelope, where
it is deposited in a large box, to re.
main until it is drawn out, June 26.
The registr alton viii! close the evening
of June %. The drawing will be be-
gun the following day, and will con.
tinue Is long thereafter as may be
necessary.
Only 1000 envelopes will be drawn
out and numbered, regardless OF the
number which may have been received.
As the envelopes are taken from the
big revolving box they will be nun.
bered consecutively in the order 10
which they are drawn. The envelopes
will then be opened and the afidavits
ex amined to ascertain whether the
successful person has presented more
than one affidavit, or otherwise than
provided for, and if SO his name will
not be retained on the list.
All persons who are successful will
be notified. The names will be posted
10 the Billings land Office and a list
will be furnished the press as a nat.
ter Of news. and the register and re-
ceiver of the local land Office also will
notify each Of the fret 633 applicants
what day he must be present TO make
entry OF the land.
Commencing on Monday, July %,
entry will begin and the first fifty win.
ners will be given 40 opportunity to
make entry. Numbers 81 70 100, in.
elusive, will be given opportunity to
enter the next day, and SO on in nu.
merical order, fifty entries being made
each day until the 633 farm units are
taken. If the holder OF q winning
number is not present on the day his
number is called he forfeits his right
to enter until after August @, when
all lands not then taken may be en-.
tered by any qualified person.
All those who enter these lands will
be required to pay the usual fees and
commissions collected At the land Of
fee, and the sum of 81 per acre due to
the Indians as purchase price, $50 per
acre as building charge and such ad-
ditional charge 10 may be fixed from
time to time as the charge for opera.
ton and maintenance
These payments must be made a.
follows: At the time OF entry each ap'
plicant must pay to the receiver of the
land Office at Billings, the usual feet
and commissions and 81 of the Indiar
purchase price for each acre entered
and in addition thereto the following
Three dollars on account of the build
ing charge and 80 cents as operating
and maintenance charges for each ir
rigable acre embraced in his entry
making something over 81 60 per acre
which must be paid at time of entry
Thereafter he must pay OF the Indiar
purchase price Is tents annually fol
four years for each acre, and not les,
than % per acre on account of tht
building charge. The building charge
must be paid in not less than four mol
more than nine annual installments II
addition to the payment made at time
of entry. The farm units are for tn,
greater number forty acres in size
but q few more remote from the town
sites are eighty acres in size. Thu
townsites number eight, and it is un
derstood that the lots will be sold q
auction. 1t 10 expected that every on
OF those persons who draw winning
numbers will take advantage of tn,