Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-03-20
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
320-ACRE HOMESTEADS

ably in the house on Representative
Mundell's enlarged homestead bill
The text of the bill is as follows:
Any person who is a qualified
entryman under the homestead
laws of the United States may en-
ter, by legal subdivisions, under
the provisions of this act, in the
state of Colorado, California, Ida
no, Montana, Nevade, North Da-
kota, Oregon, Utah, Washington,
and Wyoming, and in the Terri
tories of Arizona and New Mexi-
co, 800 acres or less of non-min-
eral, nonirrigable, unreserved and
unapproapriated surveyed public
lands which do not contain mer-
charitable timber, located in a rea-
sonably compacted body and not
; over one and one-half miles in ex-
treme length.
Any person applying to enter
land under the provisions of this
act shall make and subscribe be-
fore the proper Office an affidavit
as required by section 219O of tie
revised statutes and in addition
thereto shall make affidavit that
the land sought to be entered is
of the character described in sec
ton one of this act, and shall pay
the fees now required to be paid
under the homestead laws.
Any homestead entryman now
occupying lands of the character
. hereinbefore described, heretofore
entered by him, upon which final
proof has not been made, shall
shall have the right to enter pub
lie lands subject to the provisions
of this act. lying contiguous to
his former entry, which shall not
together with the original entry
exceed 800 acres, and residence
upon and cultivation of the orig
inal entry shall be deemed as
residence upon and cultivation of
the additional entry.
At the time of making final
proof, as provided in section 1921,
of the revised statutes, the entry
man under this act shall, in addi-
ton to the proofs and affidavits
required under the said section,
prove by two credible witnesses
that at least one eighth of the
area embraced in his entry was
continuously cultivated to agricul-
tural crops other than native
grasses beginning with the sec
ond year of the entry, and that at
least one quarter of the area en-
braeed in the entry was continu-
ously cultivated, beginning with
the third years of the entry.
Nothing herein contained shall
be held to affect the right of a
qualified entryman to make home
stead entry in the states named
in section one of this act, under
the revised statutes, but no per-
son who has made entry under
this act shall be entitled to make
homestead entry under the pro-
visions Of said section, and no
entry made under this act shall
be committed.
Whenever the secretary of the
interior shall find that any tract
of land subject 20 entry under
this act do not have upon them
such a sufficient supply of water
suitable for domestic purposes as
would make continuous residence
upon the lands possible without
serious hardships to entrymen, he
may in his description designate
such tracts of land, and thereaf
ter they shall be subject to entry
under this act without the neces-
sity Of residence; Provided, That
in such event the area cultivated
IN any such entry shall not be less
than one-eighth of the entire area
of the entry, during the second
year, one-fourth and during the
third year, cne-half and during the
fourth and fifth years after the
date of such entry
The provisions of this bill will |
beneficial TO North Dakota under Il
present condition of the setttleme.
of this state, for the reason that tt
most of the public lands in this sta
have now been homesteaded. TIL
lands have been culled over nnal tt