The Holbrook news., 1909-12-17
A BILL

IO the COmmlCJee on the PuDnC
 Lands and ordered to be printed.
 To encourage and promote
 the sinking of wells on de
 sert lands in the Territory
 of Arizona.
 Be it enacted by the Senate
 and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
 Congress assembled,
 That it shall be lawful for any
 citizen of the United States, or
 any person of requisite age or
 who may be entitled to be come
 a citizen and who has filed his
 declaration to become such', and { upon payment of twenty-five cents per acre, to file declara-
 ton under oath, with the
 register and the receiver of the
 land district in which any desert
 land is situated within the Terri
 tory of Arizona, that he intends
 to dud, sink, or drill, or hat he
 or his predecessors in equity \ have already bug sunk, or drilled
 a well upon certain designated
 nonmineral, and unappraprioted
 public desert land notexceeding forty acres in area, on the surfa- cewhereof there is not any con- tinuous flowing streamor spring of water, for the purpose of ob- taining water for drinking Lurp- oses or for the watering of live stock or for mechanical use, and that he intends to complet the sinkining and construction of l such well to a depth of fifty feet 1 or more within the period of l fifteen months next following | : the filing of such declaration
 Said declaration shall particularly i describe said forty acres if surv-
 eyed, and, if unsurveyed, shall
 describe the same as nearly as possible without a survey, inclu- ding reference to substantial cor
 ner posts or monuments of sto-
 nes erected of ninety days and 1 within the period of fifteen mon
 ths after filing said declaration, upon making satisfactory proof 1 to the register and receiver afo- sresaid, that he has completed such well to a depth of fifty feet
 or more, that such well is made and lined or cased in a work manlike and substantial manner with view to reasonable perma- nency and practical use, and that
 said well has developed and made available a supply of water sufficient for continuous and
 practical use for the purposes state { and if not a citizen at time Z of making entry, that he has
 since perfected his citizenship, 1 f and upon payment to the receiver of the additional sum of one dollar per acre for the tract of land not exceeding forty acres upon which such we'll is located, I a patent for said land shall be r issued to him; provided, That in z case the land is unsurveyed at !. the time of making final proof, the applicant may elect to await c the making of the reguler gover- n nment survey; or may, at his c own expense and under the SUD- o ervision of the United States surveyor-g general for the district f, of Arizona, cause a definite survey to be accomplished which h shall conform asnearly as practi- 4 cable to the United States system f, of public-land surveys, showing Ii the exterior bundary lines of said tract to be right lines made due i, north and south and east and ;c west, and none of the side lines f, exceeding twenty chains in leng- " tn, in accordance with which a f patent shall be issued, And pro- h vided That no person shall be per f, mitted to enter andreceive fe patent for more than eight tracts II Q Q -