The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-01-08
NEW REGULATIONS FOR PUR-
CHASE OF LAND UNDER TIM
BIER AND STONE LAWS.
MINIMUM PRICE WILL BE $3.50
PER ACRE, BUT MAXIMUM
MAY BE MUCH HIGHER.

ulations, under the timber and stone
law. which are of interest to pros
pective purchasers of timber and
stone lands in this land district
Under the old regulations, the land
was purchased at a fixed price g:
$3.50 per acre, but under the new
regulations the land will be ap-
praised and while the minimum
price will be $3.50 per acre, yet the
maximum might be very much more
than that.
The following are the new regu-
lations in part:
"Rcgulations Under Timber and
| Stone Law.
Department of the Interior, Gen
eral Land Office. Washington, d. c.,
| November so, 1908.
Registers and Receivers, United
States Land Offices
"Sirs: -Theregulation under the
act of June 3, 1878 GO Stat, so,
and amendatory acts, commonly
[ known as the timber and stone law,
are hereby revised, modified, and re-
issued as follows:
Provision for Apprnismcnt.
ANY lands subject to sale under
the foregoing acts, may, under the
direction of the Commissioner of
the general land Office, upon appli-
cation or otherwise. be appraised by
smallest legal subdivisions, at their
reasonable value, but at not less
than $3.50 per acre; and hereafter
no sales shall be made under said
acts except as provided in these reg
ulations.
Character of Lands Subject to Entry.
"All unreserved, unappropriated
nonmineral, surveyed, public lands
within the public-land states, which
are valuable chiefly for the timber
| or stone thereon and unfit for cult
walton at the date of sale, may ,be
sold under this act at their appraised
value, but in no case at less than
$3.50 per acre, in contiguous legal
subdivisions upon which there is no
existing mining claim, or the i'm
provements of any bona fide settler
claiming under the public-land laws
The terms used in this statement
may be defined substantially for lne
purpose of constituting and applying
| this law:
90. Unreserved and inappropriate
ed lands are lands which are not IN
cluded within any military, Indian
or other reservation or in a national
| forest, or in withdrawal by the
| government for reclamation or other
purposes, or which are not covered
or embraced in any entry, location
selection, or fling which withdraws
them from the public domain.
"3. Unoccupied lands are lands
belonging to the United States upon
which there are no improvements
belonging TO any person who has
initiated and lis properly maintain
ing a valid mining or other claim
to such lands under the public land
lays. Abandoned and unused mines,
shafts, tunnels, or buildings occu-
pied by mere trespassers not seeking
| title under any law of the United
States, do not prevent timber and
stone entries if the land is otherwise
capable of being so entered.
ID Nonmineral lands are such
lands as are not known to contain
any substance recognized and class
ed by standard authorities as min
eral, in such quantities and Of such
qualities as would, with reasonable
nF r;, n
paying mine thereon, induce a per-
son of ordinary prudence to expend
the time and money necessary to
such development.
IS. Timber is defined as trees of
such kind and quantity, regardless
of size, as may be used in construct
ing buildings, irrigation works, rail
roads, telegraph and teleph one lines,
tramWays, canals, or fences, or in
timbering shafts and tunnels or in
manufacturing but does not include
trees suitable for fuel only.
sc. Lands valuable chiefly for
timber, but unfit for cultivation are
lands which are more valuable for
timber than they are for cultivation
in the condition in which they exist
at the date of the application to pur-
chase, and therefore include lands
which could be made more valuable
for cultivation by cutting and clear
| ing them of timber. The relative
| values Tor timber or cultivation must
be determined from conditions of
the land existing at the date of the
| application to purchase.
81 Lands in all public land states
may be entered, but timber and
stone entries can not be made in the
territories or in the district of Alas
ka.
by Whom Entries May BE Made.
IS. One timber and stone entry
may be made for not more than 16C
acres (a) by any person who is q
citizen of the United States, or who
such citizen, if he is not under 81
years of age, and has not already
exhausted his right by reason of {
former application for an entry O.
that kind; or has not already ac
CURED title to or is not claiming
under the homestead or desert lane
laws through settlement or entr,
made since August 80. 1890, an.
other lands which, with the land h
applies for, would aggregate NOR
than 800 acres, Of % by an asso
citation of such persons, or (c) b
| a nj of u,hN or
holders is SO qualified.
80. A married woman may max
entry if the laws of the state i