Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-03-28
RESTORATION TO ENTRY or LANDS II

RESTORATION TO ENTRY OF LANDS IN
National Forest. Notice is hereby given
that the lands described below embracing Az "a
acres, within the Black HIS National Forest ;
ID, VIII be subject 10 settlement and cutTy uu.
der the provisions of the homestead laws OF the
united states ana the act OF June II. 1906 "a
Stat, 233) AT the United States land office al Ra
pld city, ;. d., on May II, 1908. ANY settler
Who was actually and M good laith claiming any
OF SAID lands Tor agricultural purposes prior to
January /, 1906 aud has not abandoned same
has preference right 10 make a homestead en-
try Tor the lands actually occupied. said lands
were listed upon the applications OF the persons
mentioned below, who have a preference right
subject 10 the prior right of any such settler,
provided such settler or applicant Is qualified 10
make homestead eutry and the preference right
is exercised prior to May II, 1908, on which date
the lands VIII be subject to settlement and en-
try by any qualified ersOn. The lands embrace
a tract of lOl. IA acres situated in the w u of NE
Il, the y w d and the Il of Sc n, Sec. 2, r. I
D. Il. f., b. H. NJ, bounded and described as
follows; Beginning at point from which the
quarter section corner common to Sees. and II
bears SOUTH distant 70 chains; extending thence
n 2U0O chains thence west 20.OO chains: thence
n. q deg. 22 min. west, 9.75 chains; thence n
PC deg 10 min. e. l1.90 chains: thence n 80 deg
% min. west, 1907 chains; thence ~ SG deg 50
min. T., 1853 chains; thence south deg. % min
west, 22.63 chains; thence south "A deg SO min.
T., lO.45 chains, thence south deg. 10 min y ,
1896 chains; thence south "a degN22 min west
2 II chains; thence n. is deg. 20 min. west, go
chains; thence south SS deg. ~ min. west, 7.26
chains, TO the point of beginning, listed upon the
application Of John G. Brown, of Custer, South
Dakota.
The SE u, Section l. T4S, H. E., appIica-
tiOn OF Miss Ethe Downen, OF Custer, South Da-
kota.
Also tract of l562 acres, situated in the W
a OF SW a, Sec. 4, the s u of NE a. the Sc a,
sec; 5, and the y of NV u, Sec. >, +. 4 s., X.
f., bounded and described as follows: Begin
ming at point identical with the section corner
common to Sections t. q, S and Q, extending
thence 50 deg. 80 min. west, 2397 chains:
thence south 7s deg. 30 min. west, 6.45 chains;
thence \. % deg. 90 min. west, 677 chains;
thence n. II deg. 20 min. f., 5.l5 chains; thence
n deg. 90 min. f., $40 chaiuS; thence south
90 deg. As min f., 22.74 chains thence south 50
deg. 80 min T., 70 - chains; thence A. sG deg. 10
min. west, 1868 chains; thence south 45 deg. 81
MIN. f.. 1921 chains; thence south ~ deg. 90
min. west, 7.52 chains; thence south 3S deg. %
min. T., li4l chains; thence south 90 deg. 30
mln. H., i6.Z7 chains; thence south 81 deg. 20
min. west, 3.7S chains; thence " 90 deg. 90 min.
west, 1915 chains; thence south IL deg. 80 min.
west, 1896 chains; thence south 80 deg. - min.
west, 1883 chains; thence " 1892 chains, 10 the
point OF beginning, application OF Charles A.
Bronson, of Rockford, South Dakota. X. A.
BALLINGER, Commissioner of the General Land
Office. Approved February 2s, 1908. FRANK
PIERCE, First Assistant Secretary of the In
terror