The Dolores star., 1909-04-09
new HOMESTEAD
RULES APPROVED
REGULATIONS UNDER WHICH $40
ACRES OF ARID LAND MAY q
Bs ENTERED.
MUST BENON- -IRRIGABLE
LISTS OF LANDS SUBJECT TO EN-.
TRY WILL De SENT TO LOCAL
LAND OFFICES.

Washington.-Secret Ballinger Of
the Department Of the Interior has ap-
proved regulations under the act of
Congress. providing for an enlarged
homestead in Colorado. Montana, Ne
vada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wy
oming, Arizona and New Mexico.
The regulations provide for the max
ing Of entries for 800 acres of land Of
non-mineral. non-timber. non-irrigable
public lands in the above named states
and territories.
Non-irrigable land Is construed to
mean land which as a rule lacks suffi-
cient rainfall to produce agricultural
crops without the necessity of resort
ing to unusual methods Of cultivation
such as dry farming.
Lands containing merchantable tim
ber mineral lands, or lands which may
be irrigated at a reasonable cost from
any known source Of water supply,
may not be entered under this act, and
no one entry shall embrace in the ag-
gregate more than forty acres Of land
susceptible of irrigation from natural
sources.
Lands which are subject to entry
under this act will be designated as
such from time to time, and lists
thereof sent to the register and re-
ceiver of the proper local land office.
Until such lists have been received by
the local land officers, no application
to enter will be received.
Entries must be in q reasonably
compact form, and in no case exceed
one and one-half miles In length. En-
trymen for lands heretofore entered of
a character which would bring them
within the provisions Of this act, may
(if proper proof has not been made.
and upon the classification and desig-
nation of their lands as falling within
the provisions Of this ac) make an ad-
ditional entry, the aggregate Of both
entries not to exceed 800 acres.
Proofs must show that at least one
eighth of the area Of the entry has
been continuously cultivated to agri-
cultural crops, beginning with the Sec
ond year Of the entry, and that at least
one.fourth has been cultivated, begin
ming with the third year Of the entry.
and continuing to date of final proof.
The law prohibits the Communication OF
either the original or additional entries
made under this act.
Section of the act relates exclu-
siyely to lands in the state of Utah
which do not have sufficient water
suitable for domestic purposes as to
render continuous residence possible.
Entrymen of such lands, after they
have been designated az coming with
in the provisions of the act, will not be
required to prove continuous residence,
but they must reside within such dis
lance from the land entered as will en-
able them to successfully farm the
same as required by the act. Entries
made under this section cannot be
commuted. Entrymen must show that
not less than one-eighth Of the land
entered was cultivated during the sec
ond year, not less than one-fourth dur
ing the third year. and not less than
one-half during the fourth and fifth
years after entry. Applications and
proofs may be made before the usual
officers.
The first designation Of lands out
side of Wyoming will be made from
data now available in the course OF the
next thirty days. and the lists of such
lands forwarded to the respective local
land offices within which time the for
NAL regulations will also be issued.