The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-07-24
VERY LITTLE HonEsTEAOiNo
NOW BEING DONE.
RECORD OF PAST QUARTER
Some Farms Still Left In Western
Kansas and Oklahoma, But Extra
inducements VIII Have 70 Be
Made 10 Settle Them.

Washington. July 23.-Homestead.
Ing has about run its course iu Mls.
-ouri Kansas and Oklahoma. During
the past three months only about
1900 people made homestead entries
on public land there 4 few years
ago that many entries would be mac.
in most any one of the dozen or 500
land Offices Of that section. The great.
or activity IS now shown IN South.
Western Kansas and Western Oklaho.
ma. the land Offices at Dodge City
and Woodward alone showing more
entries than for all the other land
Offices combined
The Topeka district has practically
done no busiues during the past quar-.
ter. according 10 reports 20 the gen
cral land office. Only four cash en-.
tries and four original entries were
filed and four final proofs taken The
Guthrie land office made even a
worse showing than Topeka Tho
l.awtou Office reported no business cy.
cept hlings on homesteads In the
BIG Pasture" which were auctionod
on TO the highest bidder last spring
El Rno reports lo4 cash entries.
tweuty-four entries on finals Alya re.
ports scvcnty-three original entries
and ll3 finals
But Woodward still shows signs OF
life. It's land office reports i37 casn
/ entries. 59S original and $50 finals.
1 Dodge city IS also in Woodward's
/ class It's land office reports nlnn'y.
/ six cash entries, $50 original entries
and l70 finals. The Colby. Kan. dis.
trict whore business ought to bee good
as at Dodge city, made poor show.
ing n reports nineteen cash entries
/ l1G original entries and forty-twD
finals.
The only land Office I'm Missouri s.
located at Springfield and It report
223 cash entries. l2G originals and
forty.scvcu finals These homostcads
were all taken In the southern part
Of the statc-the mountainous land is
sul left
1T is only a question Of short
time until the government will have
10 give additional Inducements to sc-
cure settlers for Western Kansas and
/ Oklahoma said an official of the gen.
/ cral land Office Nearly all the good
/ land has been taken II will keep
/ homesteador scratching now to
make living OFF 1850 acres of the
land stIll subject TO homestead entry
There are only two ways for the gov
nrumcut to encourage settlement
there. one Is by irrigating all In"
somiarid land that it can. The 9th.
or is to enlarge the homcsteads At
present homcstcads are limited To lGJ
acres This should bee increased To-
40 az last Then people would -
ia there and take up the rest of the
public Mud And $40 acres Is not t13
much. II will take that amount to
keep family IT grazing privilege
ON surrounding land are curtailed /
look for some of the members OF con.
gross from that section TO press leg.
islation increasing homesteads next
winter. one onterprising representa-. .
tive got them increased In one land
district I'm Western Nebraska, and
there is no reason why similar lcgls. .
latiou should not be enacted to help .
out Kansas aud Oklahoma
II Is understood that the Missouri
delegation will press bill authoriz- .
iug the government To turn over ulI .
its remaining public land in that
state 10 the educational institution
of Missouri