Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-01-04
new REGULATIONS
AFE ADOPTED Fer PUBLIC LAND
ENTRIES.
Inferior T(rartment issues RCGu!a-
tiOnS Under New Act OF Congress
Relating TO the Locating of Tim
Der and Stone Lands. No More
$3.50 Lands.

SEATTLE, Jan. 2.-The receiver
of the land office yesterday received
a copy Of the new regulations for
locating stone and timber claims on
government land. Contrary to the
expectations of many who are de-
sirous of locating timber lands in
Washington and Idaho, the regula-
tions do not state upon what basis
the land shall be appraised. For
the present, if party locates on the
timber land, the application is filed.
giving precedence according to the
order of filing. The amount to he
paid for the land will be decided lat
er when the department of the in
terror decides upon the basis Of ap-
praisement. A synopsis of the new
regulations follows:
All unreserved, unappropriated,
Ionmineral surveyed public lands in
public land states, valuable chiefly
for the timber and stone thereon, and
unfit for cultivation at the date of
sale, are subject to sale at their APP
praised value, in no case to be less
that $3.50 per acre.
Entries may be made for 100 acres
or less by any citizen of the United
States or one who has declared his
intentions to become such, and not
under 21 years of age, and who has
not made a former entry under the
act, and who has not, since August
80, 1890, taken up under the agri-
cultural land laws, lands which with
the land applied for, will aggregate
more than 800 acres.
TO obtain title, the applicant must
fiT;, personally examine the land.
Second. present an application and
sworn statement accompanied by the
filing fee of $40; at the same time
the applicant must file his estimate
of the timber thereon, based on ex-
animation, and his valuation of the
land and the timber, stated separate
ly.
Third, deposit with the receiver
the appraised price of the land and
the timber thereon within thirty
days after notice from the local land
office as to the amount of such ap-
praisal.
Fourth, publish notice OF his appli-
cation and proof
Fifth. make his final proof.
The examination of the land above
referred to must be made not more
than thirty days prior to the date Of
application.
The appraiser appointed by the
chief of field division will examine
every legal subdivision of the land
applied for, and appraise the stump
age value of the different kinds OF
timber and the value of the land
separately, at an aggregate value OF
not less than $3.50 per acre, on each
legal subdivision.
Such land will be sold at such
price only unless thereafter reap
praised under the provisions of this
circular.
Should the department fail to ap-
praise the land applied for within
nine months after the date of such
application, the applicant will be
permitted to purchase it at the esti-
mated value fixed in his application,
not less than s250 per acre.
Should the applicant feel aggriev-
ed at the value fixed by the apprais-
er, he may enter protest and deposit
the estimated cost of reappraisal.
not less than $1OO with the receiver.
such sum or such part as may be
required to be devoted to paying the
expense of such reappraisement.
This reappraisement will be made
by some officer other than one max
ing the first appraisement, if ap-
proved by the chief of field division.
the local land office and the com
missioner Of Z general land office.
will stand Bruins ;alue of the land.
an" at athdst.,t:a this after'- :, he sold
A McDermoth officiating.