Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-04-04

RESTORATION TO ENTRY OF LANDS IN
" National Forest. Notice is hereby given
that the lands described below embracing Az "a
acres, within the Black Hills National Forest, 5.
d, will be subject to settlement and entry un.
der the provisions of the homestead laws of the
United States and the act of June II, 1906 GA
Stat, 23) at the United States land Office at Ra
pld City, 5. d., on May II, 1908. Any settler
who was actually and IN good faith claiming any
Of said lands for agricultural purposes prior to
January |, 1906 and mas not abandoned same,
has preference right to make homestead en-
Try for the lands actually occupied. Said lands
were listed upon the applications OF the persons
mentioned below, who have Il preference right
subject to the prior right of any such settler,
provided such settler or applicant is qualified to
make homestead entry and the preference right
Is exercised prior to May II, 1905, on which date
the lands Will be subject to settlement and ell
try by any qualified "erSon The lands embrace
tract OF lOl IA acres, situated in the w u of NE
4, the NV = and the y OF Sc a. Sec 2, I.
81, X. f.. b. Ii. NJ, bounded and described as
iollOws: Beginning at point from which the
quarter section corner common to Sees. and II
bears south, distant 20 chains; extending thence
\. 900 claluS; thence west 20.00 chains: thence
\. II deg. % mln. west, 975 chains; thence n.
u deg 10 min. E., ll.90 chains: thence Y. 81 deg
70 min. west, 1907 chains; thence N. sc deg. Sc
min. E., $3.50 chains; thence south deg. % min.
west, 22.63 chains; thence south "a deg. 50 min.
T., 10. 70 chains; thence south deg. 10 min. f.,
l766 chains; thence south S4 deg. % min. west,
2l7 chains; thence \. Is deg. 30 min. west, 600
chains; thence south So deg. % min. west, 7.26
chains, to the point Of beginning. listed upen the
appllcatloh OF John c. Brown, Of Custer, South
Dakota.
The Sc n, Section l, T. 4 s., r. E., applica-
ton of Miss Effie DOwnen, of Custer, South Da-
kota.
Also a tract of 1562o acres, situated in the w
y OF SW u, Sec. 4, the S a of NE "A, the Sc a,
Sec; 8, and the y y of NV u, Sec. 9, T. 4 s., X. 3
f., bounded and described as follows: Begin
ming AT point identical with the section corner
common to Sections 4, 8, 8 aud 8, extending
thence n. 65 deg. 80 min. west, 23T chains;
thence south rs deg. 80 min. west, 6.45 chains;
thence n. Is deg. 90 min. west. 67 chains;
thence n. n deg. 90 min. E., 5.15 chains; thence
n. deg. 90 min. E., $40 chains; thence south
90 deg. IS min. E., 22.74 chains; thence south 90
deg. 80 min. E., 2032 chains; thence N So deg. 45
min. west, 563 chains; thence south IS deg. SO
min. f., 1921 chains: thence south AZ deg. 90
min. west, 7.52 chains: thence south IS deg. 90
min. f., 1l.4l chains thence south So deg. 80
min. f., 1927 chains; thence south 81 deg. 20
min. west, 3.7S chains; thence N. 60 deg. 80 min.
west, 1898 chains; thence south IL deg. 30 min.
west, 1926 chainsi thence south 80 deg, 10 mir.
west, 1879 chains; thence n. 1892 chains to the
point OF beginning, application of Charles A.
Bronson, OF Rockford, South Dakota. X. A.
Commissioner of the General Land
0fice. Approved February %, 1908. FRANK
FIERCE, First Assistant Secretary OF the In
terror.