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


was purchased at fixed price e
$3.50 per acre, but under the new
regulations the land will be APP
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:
Regulations Under Timber and
Stone Law.
Department of the Interior, Gem
eral Land Office, Washington, d. c.,
November so, 1908.
Registers and Receivers, United
States Land Offices.
"Sirs: -Theregulations under the
act of June 3, 1878 GO Stat, S9),
and amendatory acts, commonly
known as the timber and stone law
are hereby revised, modified, and re-
issued as follows:
Provision for Appraismcnt.
ANY lands subject to sale under
the foregoing acts, may, under the
VA SS'ioA VI llkS AiollI VI
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,
nonmneral, 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 he
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 tide settler
claiming under the public-land laws
The terms used in this statement
may be defined substantially for the
purpose of constituting and applying
this law:
2. Unreserved and inappropriate
ed lands are lands which are not IN
cluded within any military, Indian.
or other reservation or in national
forest, or in a withdrawal by the
government for reclamation or other
purposes, or which are not covered
or embraced lin any entry, location,
selection, or filing which withdraws
them from the public domain.
80. 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 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.
"a. 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
prospects Of success in developing
paying mine thereon, induce 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
ing buildings, irrigation works, rail-
roads, telegraph and telephone 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 for timber or cultivation must
be determined from conditions of
the land existing at the date of the
application to purchase.
~. 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.
'S. One timber and stone entry
may be made for not more than 160
acres (a) by any person who is a
citizen of the United States, or who
has declared his intention to become
such citizen, if he is not under 21
years Of age, and has not already
exhausted his right by reason of a
former application for an entry of
that kind; or has not already ac-
CURED title to or is not claiming
under the homestead or desert land
laws through settlement or entry
made since August 80, 1890, any
other lands which, with the land he
applies for, would aggregate more
than 800 acres, Of (b) by an asso
citation of such persons, or (c) by
corporation, each of whose stock
holders is SO qualified.
49, A married woman may make
entry if the laws of the state il
which she applies permit married
women to purchase and hold TO
themselves real estate, but she mus
make the entry for her own benefit
and not in the interest of her hus