, 1908-02-08
Terms Of Subscription.
THE ENLARGED HOMESTEAD.

VI ~ hiohlllt III Tic gu ma u'iOliit
a law. Senator Smoot of Utah is work.
ing upon a bill along the same lines
and there is strong sentiment in favor
of the measure. All who have any
knowledge of the conditions existing
in the west know that there are few
tracts of 100 acres of land left in the
make a living. One hundred and six,
" acres OF average grazing land will
keep, on the average. eight head of
cattle. BY doubling this acreage, six,
teen head may be kept. OF course,
sixteen head of cattle will not keep a
family, but they Will come twice as
6 will permit the entryman to do a
great deal in the way of agricultural
development. In fact, 1t is Mr.. Mon
dell's chief purpose 10 encourage the
dry farmer.
In a brief comment upon the bill the
Denver Republican says:
liz oullpOh Is IA dDlt lOI inc en-
actment of n law Increasing the size
of homesteads in arid land from 100 TO
800 acres. Senator Smoot has intro
duced q bill To that effect in the senate,
and Representative Mondell has Il sim,
liar measure pending in the house.
Farmers who settle upon the arid and
Sannf nril 1aYar. 90 tho g,. moo. fI,a,I
be given a larger acreage than those
who make their homes in the more
humid states of The Mississippi and
Missouri valleys.
The bill is of more ~fdr-reaching i'm.
portance than appears at first blush
1t not only permits those who have
not made a homestead entry to take
a half.section of land, but it enables
those who have already made home,
stead entries of 100 acres to take on
additional entry of 100 acres of ad,
joining land. 1t is provided, however,
that no person who is the proprietor
Of more than 100 acres in IN state or
S'ii'SiS Shah dNpuiie any rights uu.
der this act. This means that large
landowners will be precluded from
making an entry under the act, JUS,
as they are under the homestead law
as it now stands, which is perfectly
right and proper.
The bill is a short one and will be
nf ipfarnGt To oil pAn,llt,nn ,,,l,,-
1t follows:
BE IL enacted by the senate ana
house OF representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem-.
lied, that any person who is a qualified
entryman under the homestead laws of
the United States shall be entitled to
enter, under the provisions of this act,
three hundred and twenty acres, or
less, of surveyed, Incorporated pub
lie land to be located in a reasonably
compact body, and mo- TO exceed one
and one-half miles in extreme length,
in conformity TO the legal subdivision
ci the public lands; but no person who
i ~ fASiAANNOT VI llitEt Nldl one nun
dred II sixty acres in any state or
territory shall acquire any rights un.
der this act.
Sec. ?. That any person applying
20 enter land under the provisions of
this act shall make and subscribe be
fore the proper office an affidavit as re-
quired by section W thousand two
hundred and ninety of the Revised sta
tutes, and in addition thereto shall
make affidavit that the land sought to
be entered does not contain a mer-
charitable growth of timber; that not
10 exceed eighty acres of the same is
irrigable from any known source OF
water supply; that in the opinion of
the entryman at least one hundred and
sixty acres Of the tract is susceptible
OF cultivation II the growing of crops.
and upon the filing of such afidavits
and on payment of the sums now re.
CURED 10 be paid under the homestead
law for each eighty acres contained in
' "tthNN ANi' NE OF sue snail
lie permitted to make entry.
Sec. 8, That any person who has
heretofore perfected an entry under
the homestead law of one hundred and
sixty acres, or less, shall have the right
10 make an entry unde this act OF
an area which, together with the for
mer entry, shall not exceed three hun
dred and twenty acres. That any home.
stead entryman now occupying lands
heretofore entered by him shall have
the right to entec u~nappropriatei pub
lie lands, subject to the provisions OF
This act, lying contiguous to his for
mer entry, which, together with the
original entry, sholl not exceed three
hundred n twenty acres, and resi-
oence upon the original entry shall
be deemed as residence upon the add.
tional entry.
Sec. 4. That at the time OF making
final proof the entryman under this
act shall, IN addition TO the proofs and
afidavits required under the home
stead law, prove by two credible wit.