The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-10-03
SOUTH DAKOTA
OFFERS 89I,56o
ACRES OF LAND
Comes in Strong Among North,
western States That Will
Furnish Homes.
LOTTERY DATE Is NAMEE
fhs Work Of Making the Allotment
Of the Available 100000
Acres to Begin
Soon.

Acres to Begin
Spokane, Sept. ao.-Homes for s5.>
300 families viii be provided In the
northwest by Uncle Sam during the
rext twelve months, when. 1t Is given
out, the government will open to set
Element 100000 acres of timber. agri-
cultural and mineral and in eastern
Washington. northern Idaho, western
Montana and South Dakota. The oc-
cupation Of these lands. situated In
eight Indian reservations. will mark
the most important period OF develop
ment since the first railroad invaded
the forests. valleys and s~agebrush des-
erts, west OF the Rocky FOUNTAINS,
and means the obliteratioa of the
frontier with it's picturesque cowboys
and the vivid, adventurous, heroic days
which will never again have a counter
part In this country. The lottery sys-
tenn has been decided upon In the dis
position of these reservation lands,
which are located as follows:
Colville, eastern Washington, 1000
900 acres; Yakima, central Washing
ton. l.145,0O0 acres; Occur d'Alene,
northern Idaho, $4,000 acres; Lemht.
central eastern Idaho. 100000 acres;
Blackfeet. southern Idaho, 100000
acres; Flathead. western Montana, L.
BOO, 900 acres; Rosebud n Lower
Brule, South Dakota s91,560 acres.
First Lottery Date Fixed.
The Lower Brule reserve, compris-
ing 56.56O acres, will be the first to
be opened. The land has been APP
praised and the regulations issued for
It's disposal. Homeseekers have until
October Z to file applications for lot,
terry tickets in the drawing which VIII
a place at Pierre the following
week. Each applicant must go to the
Pierre land district and make oath
on his ticket hat he Is entitled to
take public land under the homestead
laws. II successful IN drawlng a nome.
stead, he must pay the government the
appraised value of the land, In an
nual installments. The valu Is placed
ut from SIPS to 81 an acre.
In the Occur d'Alene reservation, be-
ginning seventeen miles east of Spo-
kane, land can be taken under the
homestead or mineral laws. The sur
vey is being made, and when completed
the government will allot to the In
Isdians their share and then classify
and appraise the surplus amounting
to 10000 acres, and order the lot
terry. Settlers will not be able to work
their farms until the spring Of 1903,
as 1t Will REQUIRE a year to appraise
the lands.
The most important tract to be open
ed is in the Yakima country. west OF
| Spokane, where 1,145,0 0 acres of land
will be disposed Of in various ways.
The government is constructing an
Irrigation plant to cover 100000 acres
CT land. The irrigated tract will be
divided into 40-acre plats. The set
tiers will be required to pay in ten
YEARLY instalinents the amount OF
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
culture. The timber land on the Yak
sealed bids. All other land, except
mineral. will be awarded Under the
homestead act. The allotments and
schedule OF reserved and nave been
approved and the land commissioner
Is ready to open the reservation just
as soon as the reclamation project is
completed. This will be in time for
culture of crops next year.
Surveyors in the employ Of the gov
eminent are at work in the Colville
reserve, north of Spokane. In addition
to dividing 1000. 900 acres of land Into
40 and 16O-acre tracts they will sur
vey several townsites. Part Of the land
Is to be under irrigation and in this
district the farms will be limited to
10 acres, others being 100 acres. All
the land will be classified and appraised
as %irrigable, grazing, timber, mineral Or
/ ATlO. IL Will ICAuiIS loAty IL JCdIE ~
the government to have this reserva-
ton ready for settlement.
Work Is progressing so rapidly on the
Lemhi reservation that 1t is announced
the lands probably will be opened to
settlement this fall. The Indians on
Fort Hall and all that remains to be
lone is the appraisement of the Inn
provements. The appraisers will be
appointed within a few weeks. The
Did homestead law will govern the open
Ing Of these lands and settlers will not
have to pay more than from 81. 25 to
81. so an acre for tracts.
Surveyors are also at work on the
Blackfeet reservation. The first work
Is to set aside allotments for the In
dams and Their survey the surplus $780,
600 acres together with government
right to withdraw part OF this land
for an irrigation project, but SO far
there Is no disposition to do so.
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 Commissioners soon will
appoint appraisers to fix the value of
the million acres of surplus land. IT is
the intention to classify this land into
first and second class agricultural. tim
Der. mineral n grazing land. The
survey is practically completed, and it
Is expected to open next yea to enable
the settlers to put in a crop. However.
the opening may be delayed until fan
If the work is not completed this win
ter.
Nine months more will be required
to complete the allotment Of the Rose
bud land to Indian children, but as
soon as the work is completed the $685.