The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-03-18
PROPOSED NEW
HOMESTEAD
Bill, Allowing Thrae Hundred and
Twenty Acres, Is Due
To Pass This Session

The enlarged homestead bill
agreed on by the conference o
western senator's and congress
mea recently, and introduced ir
the house by Representative
Mondell, of Wyoming, chalrmar
of the public land committee
reads as follows:
ANY person who is a qualified
sntryman under the homestead
laws of the United States may
enter. by legal subdivisions, un-
der the provisions Of this act,
in the state Of Colorado, Cali
fornia, Idaho, Montana, Nevada
North North Dakota, Oregon,
Utah. Washington and Wyom-
ing, and the territories Of Ari-
zena and New Mexico. 800 acres
or less, of non.mineral. non
irrigable, unreserved and unap-
propriated surveyed public
lands which do not contain mer.
charitable timber, located IN a
reasonably compact body and
not over one and one.half miles
| in extreme length.
ANY person applying to enter
land under the provisions of
this act shall make and su bcribe
before the proper office an afi.
davit as required by section 2190
of the revised statutes, and in
addition thereto shall make
affidavit that the land sought to
be entered is of the character
described in section one of this
act. and shall pay the fees now
required to be paid under the
homestead laws.
" Homestead entryman HOW
occupying lands. of the charac-
ter herein before described, here
tofore entered by him, upon
which final proof has not been
shall have the right to enter
public lands subject to the pro.
visions of this act, lying cont.
guous to his former entry, which
shall not, togeteer with the ori.
ginal entry exceed 800 acres, and
residence upon and cultivation
of the original entry shall be
deemed as residence upon and
cultivation of the additional en-.
try.
AT the time of making final
proof az provided in section 229I
Of the revised statutes. the en-
iryman under this act shall. in
addition to the proofs and atl.
davits required under the said
section, prove by two creditable
witnesses that at least one
eighth of the area embraced in
his entry was continuously cul'
tivated to agricult ural crops
other than native grasses begin
ming with the second year of
the entry. and that at least one
quarter of the area embraced in
the entry was 50 continuously
cultivated. beginning with the
third year of the entry.
" Nothing herein contained
shall be held to affect the right
Of a qualified entryman to make
homestead entry in the states
named in section one of this act
under the provisions of section
2289 of the revised statutes, but
no person who has made entry
under this act, shall be entitled
to make Homestead entry under
the provisions of said section,
and no entry made under this
act shall be committed.
whenever the secretary of
the interior shall find shat any
tracts of land subject to entry
undsa this act do not have upon
them such a sufficient supply of
water suitable for domestic pur.
poses as would make continuous
residence upon the lands posi-
BILE without serious hardship to
entrymen. he may at his discre
ton designate such tracts of
land. and thereafter they shall
be subject under this act with.
out the necessity of residence:
Provided, That in such event
the area cultivated in any such
entry shall not be less than one