Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-09-01
Department of the Interior.
General Land Office.

August 10, 1909, directs that certain
lands in the Cheyenne River and
Standing Rock Indian reservations
in North Dakota and South Dakota
be opened to settlement and entry
under the general provisions of the
homestead laws in the following
manner:
l. The lands to be opened are
bounded on the north by the Cannon
Ball river, on the west by the 102d
degree west longitude and are about
80 to 10 miles west of Aberdeen,
South Dakota. The Missouri river
forms a part of it's eastern boundary
The tract Is about ninety miles long
and varies in width from east to west,
from 80 to "a miles. About 2,019, $3.50
acres are in South Dakota, and about
217,36O in North Dakota, making a
total approximately 2,237,040 acres.
OF this area about 124,3l4 acres are
embraced in sections 16 and SO which
have been granted to the states for
school purposes, and allotments have
been made to about 5000 Indians.
Other portions have been reserved
for churches, schools and agency pur-
poses, and otherwise disposed of, and
there will perhaps be something over
100000 acres which will become
subject to entry.
Commissioners appointed by the
president are now at work classify
ing the lands into agricultural land,
of the first class, agricultural land
of the second class, grazing lands,
timber lands and mineral lands. The
agricultural, grazing and timber
lands are being appraised at from
so cents to S. per acre. The mineral
lands cannot be entered under the
homestead laws.
l cannot at this time furnish maps
of these reservations or give any def
mite information as to the character
of the lands, the kind or the quality
of the soil, or the kind of crops to
which they are best adapted, further
than to say that they are generally
prairie lands, and am told that inn
proved farms in that vicinity are
selling at from $1,000 to $500 per
acre. One line of railroad has been
completed through the northern part
of the reservation and at least two
other lines will soon be constructed,
one through the central and the
other through the southern part.
I cannot give any information as
to the annual fall of rain and snow
in that locality, or as to the tempera-
ture or other CLIMATIC conditions
further than is contained in the
statement compiled by the United
States weather bureau from records
made by it, at its station nearest
these lands. About March I, 1910, T
will furnish to each person to whom
a date for making entry is assigned,
a complete map showing the allotted
lands, the school and reserved lands,
and the classification and appraised
value of each quarter section sub
ject to entry, but until that map has
been compiled no officially AUTHENTIC
map can be obtained from me or any
one else.
2. The method of registering for
these lands.-All persons qualified to
make homestead entry who desire to
acquire title to any of these lands
must go in person to Aberdeen,
Pierre, Lennon, LeBeau or Mo-
bridge, South Dakota, or Bismarck,
North Dakota, between Octobed 4
and October %, 1909 and there swear
to and present their applications for
registration (if they are not entitled
to register through agent as herein
after specified) as the towns named
are the only registration points des-
ignated by the president in his pro-
clamation.
No person can present more than
one application in his own behalf and
one as agent for soldier or sailor
Or his widow or minor orphan chill
dren, and if more than one applica-
ton for registration is presented by
the same person in his own behalf,
or more than one by him as agent,
or If his application is presented in
any other than his true name, or is
not sworn to at one Of the registra-
tion places named above, the appli-
cant will be denied the right to make
entry under any number assigned to
him. T. ',
3. Application for registration
When an application for registration
or an agent visits one of the regis
tration points, between the dates
named, he must swear to his appli-
cation for registration before a no.
tary public having a certificate of
authority printed In large letters on
a light yellow cardboard eleven by
fourteen inches in size, and signed
by me; and he should not swear to
his application before any notary
who does not exhibit a certificate Of
that kind or swear to it at any other
place than one of the registration
points named above. -
Applications for registratiin must
be in form and words like the form
hereto attached and a blank applica-
tion will be furnished each applicant
by the notary before whom he ap-
pears, as I will have them printed
and furnish them to all authorized
notaries free OF cost. Applicants
should carefully examine their appli.
cations after they are sworn to and
see that their names, postofice adj
dresses and street number are plainly
and carefully written into the appii-
cation and that It bears the proper
date and has the signature and seal
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