Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1909-05-13
DETAILS OF
NEW LAW
Relating to Acquisition of Additional Tracts Under
Act of February 10 of the Present Year.

pr request we print the full text
; -, recent new, homestead law, re-
r.rding the 320-acre area Of settle
mnnt, Those who have made inquiries
will find complete answers to all
.,,ostions It would be well to lay
asido this copy of the Monitor fol
tuture reference, in case doubt should
arise at any time. ..
The instructions are as follows:
DEPARTMENT of the Interior, Gener-
81 Land Office, Washington, D. c.,
March Is, 1909.
The Registers and Receivers, I'm
tied States Land Offices, Colorado,
Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah,
Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, and
New Mexico.
Gentlemen: The following instruc-
hons are issued for your guidance in
the administration of the act Of Con-
gress approved February 10, 1909,
Ito provide for an enlarged home
stead Public-No. 245), copy Of
which NAV be found at the end of these
Instructions;
l. The first section Of the act pro-
vides for the making Of homestead en-
try for an area of 800 acres, or less,
Of nonmineral, nontimbered. nonir-
rigable public land in the States of
Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Oregon.
Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and in
the Territories of Arizona and New
Mexico
The term "nonirrigable land,' as
used in this act, is construed to mean
land which, as rule, lacks sufficient
rainfall to produce agricultural crops
without the necessity Of resorting to
unusual methods of cultivation, such
as the system commonly known as
dry farming and for which there
IS no known source of water supply
from which such land may be success
fully irrigated at reasonable cost.
Therefore, lands containing mer-
chantable timber, mineral lands with
IN reclamation project, or lands
which may be irrigated at reasonable
cost from any known source of water
supply, may not be entered under
this act. Minor portions Of a legal sub
division susceptible of irrigation from
natural sources, as, for instance, a
spring, will not exclude such subdivi-
sion from entry under this act, provi-
ded however, that no one entry shall
embrace in the aggregate more than
~ acres Of such irrigab1e lands.
z. From time to time lists desig-
mating the lands which are subject to
elIIfy under this act will be sent to
SOu' and Immediately upon receipt of
such lists you will note upon the tract
'0oAS opposite the tracts SO designa-
'ea' Designated, act February 10,
lS0S." Until such lists have been re-
ee'ved in your Office, no applications
~ enter should be received and no en-
'l'eS allowed under this act, but after
'De receipt Of such lists it will be
competent for you to dispose OF ap-
F''e@'lons Tor lands embraced therein.
ruusf the provisions Of this act, in
''As manner as other applications for
puOfc lands without first submitting
s'sin TO the General Land Office for
Consideration.
., Lands entered under this act must
- IN reasonably compact form, and in
n event exceed u miles in length.
Inc act provides that the fees shall
'''e same as those now required to
y y paid under the homestead laws !:
-. sl0re' while the fees may not in
= ~ one case exceed the maximum fee
l. el0' required under the general
. !, ,sstead law, the commissions will
=. as'erninad BY the area Of land en-
tsesd y the entry.