Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-06-04

feited, or abandoned his homestead en-
try prior to February 8, 1908, ii the
former entry was not Cancelled for fraud
or relinquished for "a valuable consider
alton. Where such entryman sold his
improvements or sold the relinquish-
ment of his entry, he is not entitled to
make a second homestead entry, re-
gardless OF the fact that his improve
nents may have cost him more than
the amount received for them.
d. One who has already made final
proof on less than one hundred and six
ty acres may, if he is otherwise quail
fed, make an additional entry for such
amount of land as will, when added to
the amount for which he has already
made proof, not exceed in the aggre-
gate, one hundred and sixty acres.
Commissioners appointed by the Gov
ernment have classified the lands sub
ject to entry in the Flathead Reservation
as follows: 4o,229 acres as agricultural
lands of the first class; 75,oIo acres as
agricultural lands of the second class,
and 1886, I89 acres as grazing lands. These
lands have been appraised at from $I.25
to $500 an acre. Portions of the lands
thus classified in the Flathead Reserva-
ton have been withdrawn from entry
under the Reclamation Act and will not
be subject to entry under this opening
l cannot give you the area of the lands
SO withdrawn or tell you the probable
date when they will become subject to
entry. The Occur d'Alene lands sre now
being classified into agricultural lands,
grazing lands, and timbered lands, and
the lands in the Spokane Reservation
which will be subject to entry are being
classified as agricultural lands. These
lands will be appraised before they be-
come subject to entry, but l am unable
to give you at this time either the area
which will be embraced in the various
classifcations or the price at which they
will be appraised.
There are about 200, 900 acres in the
Occur d'Alene Indian Reservation, in
GLIDING the timbered lands, all of
which will be subject to entry under
the homestead law at their appraised
value, and there will probably be about
so, 600 acres of the Spokane lands
which will be classified as agricultural
and be subjet to entry. The timbered
lands in the Spokane Reservation can
not be entered.
l have no personal information as to
the character or productive quality of
these lands. 1t is reported that they are
best adapted and some of them we'll suit
ed for the growing of wheat, oats, barley
and other small grains, root crops, and
! fruits
All the registration points are located
on railroads at the following distances
| from St. Paul Minnesota: Kalispell,
!, 2o7 miles; Missoula, 1854 miles; Occur
d Alene, 1852 miles, and Spokane, LAS
miles by one route and I,5II miles by
the other Spokane is located 3219 miles
by rail from Coeur d'Alene, 2s7 miles
from Missoula, and 268 miles from Kalis-
pell.
If you contemplate attending this reg
istraton, it may be to your advantage to
investigate the cost of transportation to
and from the points as compared with
the cost of the round-trip excursion tick
ct to Seattle, Washington, which will be
on sale at reduced rates, with stop-over
privileges at the registration points, by
all or most of the railroads during the
time the registration is in progress.
These are the only Indian lands to be
opened this year. except the Cheyenne
River and Standing Rock lands in North
and South Dakota, which may be opened
in October next. Information as to the
opening of those lands will be mailed to
you as soon as it is ready for distribution
Very respectfully,
JAS. w. WITTEN,
Superintendent Opening and
Sale of Indian Reservations.