Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-28
MISREPRESENTATION
Within Next Year Uncle Sam
Will Open 100000 Acres
For Settlement
ALL LAND IN THE NORTHWEST
First Lottery Date October Z, for the
Lower Brule Reserve Comprising S.
$50 Acres-Most Important Tract Is
in Yakima Country Whore Over
Million Acres Will DO Disposed Of.

Spokane, Wash, Sept. 2S.-Homes
for 81. 900 families will be provided in
the northwest by Uncle Sam during
the next twelve months, when, it Is
given out, the government will open to
settlement 1910, 900 acres of timber,
agricultural and mineral land in east
| ern washington, northern Idaho, wes-
tern Montana and South Dakota. The
occupation of these lands, situated in
eight Indian reservations, will marx
the most important period of develop
ment since the first railroad invaded
the forests, valleys and sagebrush des-
erts, west of the Rocky mountains, ana
means the obliteration of the frontle
with it's picturesque cowboys n the
vivid, adventurous heroic days, which
will never again have a counterpart
in this country. The lottery system
has been decided upon in the DISPOSE
ton Of these reservation lands, which
are located as follows:
Colville, eastern Washington, 1000
900 acres; Yakima, central Washing
ton, 1,145,000 acres; Occur d'Alene,
northern Idaho, 100000 acres; Lemhi,
central Idaho, 100000 acres; Blackfeet,
southern Idaho, 100000 acres; Flathead,
western Montana, 100000 acres;
Rosebud and Lower Brule, South Da-
kota, s91,560 acres.
First Lottery Date Fixed.
The Lower Brule reserve, comprising
$500 acres, will be the first to be
opened. The land has been appraised
and the regulations issued for its dis
posal. Homeseekers have until Octo-
Der z to file applications for lottery
tickets in the drawing which will take
place at Pierre the following week.
Each applicant must SO to the Pierre
land district and make oath on his
ticket that he is entitled to take public
land under the homestead laws. If
successful in drawing a homestead he
must pay the government the appraised
value of the land, in annual Install
ments. The value is placed at from
$1.25 to 81 per acre.
In the Occur d'Alene reservation,
land can be taken under the homestead
or mineral laws. The survey is being
made, and when completed the govern
ment will allot to the Indians their
share, and then classify and appraise
the surplus amounting to $1,000 acres,
and order the lottery. Settlers will
not be able toswork their farms until
the spring of 1909, as 1t will require a
year to appraise the lands.
Tract in Yakima Country.
The most important tract to be OPP
is i'll the Yakima country, where
I ,145, 900 acres of land will be disposed
of in various ways. The government is
constructing an irrigation plant to COW
er 100, 900 acres of land. The irrigated
tract will be divided into 40-acre plats.
The settlers will be required to pay in
money the government put into the
project. This will make the land cost
the settlers $50 an acre. 1t will be used
chiefly for sugar beet and alfalfa Gull
ture. The timber land on the Yakima
reservation will be sold under the
sealed bids. ALI other land, except
mineral, will be awarded under the
act. The allotments and
schedule of reserved lands have been
approved and the land commissioner is
ready to open the reservation just as
soon as the reclamation project is COM
This will be in time for Gull
tivation Of crops neXt year
Opening May Be Delayed.
The work of making the allotments
to the Indians will begin this fall, and
officials say the opening may be de-
layed until the spring of 1909.
Most OF the Indians on the Flathead
reserve have been allotted their land and
the Indian commissioner soon will APP
point appraisers to fix the value Of the
acres of surplus land. 1t is the
intention to classify this land into first
and second class agricultural, timber,
mineral and grazing land. The survey
is practically completed, and it is ex-
pected to open next year to enable the
to put in a crop. However, the
opening may be delayed until fall If the
work is not completed this winter.
Nine months more will be required
to complete the allotment of the Rose
bud land to Indian children, but az
soon as the work is completed the
$4,000 acres Of surplus lands can be
opened to settlement. Several town
sites are to be located by the govern
ment on this reservation.