The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1909-05-14
CAN NOW FILE
ON $40 ACRES
Over Three Million Acres In This
County Subject to Entry I'm
der Enlarged Home.
stead Law.
SOME OF THE FINEST LAND IN
THE NORTHWEST

| idHdS SsuoJSGltOCul uHucI tue $40
acre homestead law. and filings ma,
now be made before this office fol
any Of the land designated in tn.
description published herewith
About i53 townships come undel
the act IN this Valley count,
alone and you can form some ides
OF the amount oil land available fol
32o-acre homesteads by reducing
it to acres-it footing up 10 ap
proxlmately 3.525, I2o acres. The
land subject to the enlarged home.
stead act does not all lie together,
but those interested can get some
idea where 1t is by general de.
scription, and than ask our local
land Office for further particulars.
Nearly all the territory south oi
line from Lismas to the Choteau
county line is included. although j,
extends into the Choteau and
Dawson counties Then ali the
country north of the line mentioned
and including the whole west
ern part of the county, embracing
the Malta. Cowan, Saco and Hins
dale country, is left out, and the
32o-acre land starts in again north
OF Nandalia and runs down as
close as six miles north OF Glas-
gov and then extending almost
solidlv north to the Canadian line.
There is also one towsnhip on the
bench land about eight miles
south OF Glasgow and north OF the
imaginary line running west from
Lismas. Then II takes in all the
land north OF the Fort Peck reser-
vation extending on east to the
North Dakota line and the cas-.
end OF the county with the excep.
tion of few townships around
Culbertson, the Missouri river
townships from Mondak west, part
OF the township in which Medicine
Lake is located and the next town.
ship north, and two town ships at
ScobeY.
Following is the order and de
sc.iptions on file at the u S. land
Office:
Pursuant to paragraph two Of the circular
OF March as. 1909, under the enlarged
homestead act Of February Io. 1909 pub
lie No. 24s) the following list of land SUBJ
iect to entry under said act is sent to you,
and you will at once comply with the in
structions and regulations contained in said
circular. The lands listed were designated
by the secretary Of the interior under the
provision Of the act. on April az. 1909:
Township "a north-Ranges AZ IS. 2o and
80. west y OF 81. east OF NJ. NJ.
Township 3 snorth-Ranges ~. 2s. 20. 90.
81 and 81; west 7. and northeast Y of 80.
north u Of "a. northwest \ and
east u Of IS. all Of SO. west u and north
cas-, i Of 81: all Of Al. a.. 43. a. IS. 46.
Al. 4s. 4o. 50. 81. 81. So. 81. IS and So.
west u and northeast \ of 81.
Township "a north-Ranges AZ. zs. 2o. 30.
81. 81. 50. 81, IS. 80. 81 and 3s: north
y of 50. cas-, y Of Al: all Of a.. 43. A,
IS. 40. ~. 4s. 4o. so. 81. s.. 50. 81. So.
81: west u Of S..
Township rs north-Ranges az. as. 20. 30.
81. 81. 50. - IS. 80. 81. 3s. 80. A.. 4s,
~. IS. 20. AZ. 4s. 4o. 50. 81. 81. s., 81.
IS. So and 81: ives. n of S..
Township 2o north-Ranges AZ. as. 2e. 80.
81. 81. 80. "a. s.. 80. 81 and 3s: south u
Of 50. north u o. 10. south n Of AZ. all
Of IS. ~. 50. 81. s., s.. 81. S. and So.
south y Of 81. southwest X Of s..
Township ~ north-Kanges AZ. as. zo. 80
and 81: south " Of 20: south u of s.:
south y Of 81; all Of s.. 81. IS. SO. 81
and 3S.
Township IS nor,h-Ranges ~. rs. zo and
3os northwest Y and east u Of 81; all of
S. and 50.
Township 20 norsh-Ranges ~. as. IS. SO.
ST. IS and So.
Township 90 north-Ranges 3o: west u of
20. all Of So. 81. IS and 50.
Township 81 north-Ranges 3s. 80: all of
So. 81. 50 and 50.
Township 81 north-Ranges 81. 3S. 80.
southwest \ and east u Of So. all Of 81.
s. and 50.