Imperial Valley press., 1908-01-25
FINAL RECEIPTS
Not Yet Ordered By Land Commissioner For Im-
 periaI Valley
IESURvEY NOT COMPLETED
seceiver Robinson Denies Widespread Report and Explains Why Final Proofs Must Await Corrected Descriptions of Entries.

Proofs Must Await Corrected
 Descriptions of Entries.
 It was reported, with a great flourish of trumpets and sound ng of hewgags, a few days ago hat a Los Angeles attorney had deceived from the Commissioner If the General Land Office a etter announcing that orders lad been sent forth for the issue f final receipts on Imperial Valley Land entries and that all he troubles of land claimants therefore were over.
 Efforts to induce the Land Commissioner to issue final re- eipts, subject to correction of description when the resurvey hall be completed, are being lade, and it is possible that a uling to that effect may be contemplated, but no instructions ave been given to the Land ffice in Los Angeles to issue < nal receipts at this time.
 The Press caused inol1iries to e made at the Land Office, and he report was pronounced by eceiver O. w. Robinson to be rroneous.
 ''Each mail brings us checks in final . hyment," said Robinson, land many quiries in regard to the supposed rul g of the Secretary of the Interior and le commissioner. We have not re- eived any instructions to that effect. he report, which has been widely cir Hated through the country. papers, Eobably originated from letters to the cal official from the commissioner re- becting several final proofs which had een submitted to the commissioner, nd which he now states are found to tisfactory.
 The commissioner directs that the cord entrymen in these cases be re- Wired to submit an affidavit duly cor borated, definitely identifying the nd claimed, in accordance with the survey now being made in the valley. his affidavit cannot be filed before re- rvey, hence there can be no final re- ipts before then" ' To make clear his point, Receiver Johnson stated the procedure required making desert. land entry.
 ''In the first instance" said he, "the Pplicant is required to show by affi- wit, corroborated by two witnesses, at the land is lesert in character, and at it will not produce an agricultural op without artificial irrigation. The plicant then makes his first payment 25 cents an virtually filing e, and receives receipt for the nOunt. Within one year of the date this filing, and for two successive ars following, he is required to show
 affidavit that he has expended at ast $1 an acre per annum in reclaim g the land. On or before the expira- bn of the fourth year. the entryman ! required to make final proof, showing at he has developed sufficient water
 permanently irrigate each legal bdivision of his entry and has actually en water rnnning over all of it. He lst also show that he has cultivated least one-eighth of the claim. This stimony must be corroborated by two tnesses- Any applicant, either na- reborn or naturalized, male or female er the age of 21 years, may enter act under the desert-land act, not to ceed 320 acres.
 In view of conflicting surveys which Ne been made of the valley by indi- lual and corporate interests, no one which agrees with the official survey 1854-6, and because under such pri- De surveys numerous enteries were lde which could not be reconciled tn the official government survey, townships in question are being re- fveyed. All claims filed previous to