The Estancia news. [volume] (Estancia, Torrance County, N.M.) 1904-1912, 1908-05-08
$40 HOMESTEAD FILINGS
DURING MONTH OF nPRIL
Immigration into New Mexico has not Abated Shown by
Figures of the Santa Fe Land Office. Homestead
ers Make Final Proof on their Claims

That the month of April was a busy
month in the local United States land
office is revealed by examining the total
business transacted for the month. Al
though there were not as many original
homestead entries made last month as
in March, the number of desert entries
was more numerous. Totalling up the
homestead and desert entries and COM
pairing them with those of March the
filings exceeded last month by 440 acres.
= In March 391 original homestead en-
tries were made; forty one final entries
and nineteen desert land entries. In
April there were three hundred and
forty original homestead entries, while
the number of final entries run up to
fifty-three and the desert entries are
fifty-four.
Since the first of the year the business
has been on the increase at the local
land office and at the rate the land seek
ers are coming into New Mexico it will
not fall much below the above figure for
some months to come. New original
homestead filings as we'll as desert land
filings are being made every day and
the final entries will become more num-
erous from now on than ever before.
For the past two or three years there
have been many filings by actual set
tiers and they are beginning to make
final proofs on homestead claims. From
all indications the local land office force
will be rushed for sometime to come.
Although extra help has been added
recently the clerks have been compelled
to work overtime in order to keep up
with the increased business.
During office hours one will find all the
way from three to twenty at the land
Office every day who are there either to
make final proof or file on an original
homestead or desert claim and many
newcomers are there seeking information
regarding filings, land etc,
The total number of original home
stead entrie7 for the month of April was
$40, cove ~ $4,000 acres. This by
counties in jurisdiction of the local u.
S. land office gives the lead to Guada-
lupe, it having l05 entries credited with
total of l6,480; Torrance county is
second with 65 entries, cover
ing 10000 acres; Santa Fe county comes
third with So entries, covering 8,480
acres Mora county is fourth with SO
entries and 6,240 acres; San Juan county
has twenty-four entries; San Miguel
twenty eight; Valencia county, seventeen
Colfax county five Rio Arriba county
four; Bernalillo county, three, and San.
doyal one.
There were fifty.two final entries made
during the month of April. which i:
eleven more than in the month of March
The entries by countiet are as follows
San Miguel, ten; Mora, nine; Torrance
and Guadalupe, seven each; San Juan
four; Socorro, Santa Fe, Colfax ane
Bernalilo, each were credited with three
final entries; Valencia two, and Sando
val county completes the list will
one entry.
During the month Of March ther
were only nineteen desert land entries a.
against So during the month of April
The last months filings cover 8,48
acres, which is over six thousand acre
more than in the month Of March. Tn
filings by counties is as follows: Sa
Juan, 50; Valencia, IL; Torrance 2; Col
fax and Taos, each got one filing to thei
credit The filings in Valencia count
were large on account of the large fio'
of artesian water in the Suwanse neigh
borhood, which was struck last month.
There was only one coal land filing
the month of April and it was credited
Colfax county.
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