The Estancia news. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1904-1912, 1908-02-14

of natural timber, on which ordinar
crops will not grow and matur
without irrigation.
A married woman can make
! desert land entry, if it is for her ow
use and made with her own money
The settler must pay rs cents n
acre when the entry is made. H
must expend not less than 81 pc
acre each year, for three years, Il
procuring water for irrigation and il
! permanent improvements and mus
cultivate one-eighth of the land en-
! tered
Before the expiration of one yea
after the date of the entry, the entry
man must file in the land office
corroborated sworn statement show
ing how the 81 per acre has been ex
pended A failure to file this state
ment, within the specified time, +
good ground for contest.
Within four years from the date O.
his entry the claimant must prove its
reclamation and pay further gov
ernment fee Of 81 per acre.
Desert land entries can be assigne,
to any qualified person who has new
er made or held an entry, and the as
signee can comply with the law arc
make the final proof.
800 ACRE LIMIT
The entry Of agricultural land is
restricted to 800 acres by any one
person, under any or all of the agri'
cultural land laws. For instance: II
a 32O-acre desert entry is made a
settler Is not entitled to a home
stead, or il homestead entry of 100
acres is made a settler can then only :
enter 160 acres more for a desert en-
try, etc.
However, this does not apply to
scrip entries nor to isolated tracts
purchased at public sale.
COAL LANDS
Coal is abundant in the territory
and is found, as far as discovered,
in vast fields in Colfax, Lincoln, Nc
Kinley, northern Rio Arriba. San
Juan, Sandoval, San Miguel Santa
Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Union and Va
lencia counties.
COAL LAND ENTRIES
Lands more valuable for coal than
for any other purpose, may be pur-
chased by any qualified person at
$40 per acre when they are situated
more than fifteen miles from any
railroad, or 500 per acre
If within fifteen miles Of such rail
road.
Or instead of paving for the land
at once, the applicant may within 60
days after possession and appropria-
ton, file his declaration of intention
to purchase, which will hold the land
FOR fourteen months from date Of ap-
plication. Applications to file or
purchase must be swon1 to by The ap-
plicant before the Register or Re-
;eiver of the land Office district in
which the land is located. Assign
nents of the right TO purchase are
recognized.
SCRIP ENTRIES
Soldiers and sailors additional
rights are assignable and
,an be located by the assignee upon
lny land subject to homestead entry.
These rights come in 40, 80 and 120
scres sizes, and are now selling at
rom $1,000 to $4,000 per acre.
There are other kinds of scrip
hat may be located ON public land,
nut generally the price is too high to
,e available except in extraordinary
,ases.
There are several kinds of scrip
ssued by the General Land Office of
he Department of the Interior which
an be located upon unappropriated
,ublic lands of the United States by
imply filing in the respective land
ffice with an affidavit describing
he land sought to be entered and
,roving that the same is of a non
mineral character and worth more
or agricultural purposes than for
Minerals.
The several kinds Of scrip can be
purchased from land scrip brokers
nd range in price from six CO. to
orty (40) dollars per acre, according
o value. Certain kinds of scrip can
e located on unsurveyed land Most
lasses, however, can only be used
n surveyed lands.
BEARING LANDS
There are great sections of miner
.lbearing lands in the territory
which can be located only under the
mineral laws of the United States,
9th lode and placer. Tracts more
aluable for mineral than for agricul-
ural and stock raising purposes are
ot subject to location or entry un
er the homestead and desert land
Avs.
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