The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-04-05
The 800 ACRE LAW ORD
Erred TO TAKE EFFECT

| washington, April A. secretary
| Ballinger of the Interior, has approx,
| ed regulations under the Act of Con
| gresS providing for an enlarged home.
| stead in Colorado, Montana, Nevada,
| Oregon. Utah, Washington, Wyoming
| Arizona and New Mexico.
The regulations provide for the max
| ing of entries for $40 acres of land of
| non-mineral, non-timber public lands
\ in the above named states and terri
| tories.
Non-irrigable land is construed to
| mean land which as a rule lacks suf-
| 1cient fainfan to produce agricIHur-
| al crops without the necessity of re.
sorting to unusual methods of culti-
vation such as dry farming.
Lands containing merchantable tim
| Der, mineral lands, or lands which
: nay be irrigated at reasonable cost
| from any known source of water sup
| ply may not be entered under this act
and no entry shall embrace in the ag-
gregate more than 40 acres of land sus
| ceptible OF irrigation from natural
| sources.
Lands which are subject to entry
| under this act will be designated as
such from time to time and lists there
of sent to the Register and Receiver
| Of the proper local land Office. Until
such lists have been received by the
local land officers no application to
enter will be received.
Entries must be in a reasonably
compact form and in no case exceed
| one and one-half miles in length. En-
trymen for lands heretofore entered of
| a character which would bring them
within the provisions of this act, may
| {if final proof has not been made and
upon the classification and designa-
| ton of their lands as falling within
the provisions of this act) make an ad
ditional entry, the aggregate of both
entries not to exceed 320 acres.
Proofs must show that at least one
eighth of the area of the entry has
been continuously cultivated to ar7ri-
cultural crops beginning with the sec
ond year of the entry, and that at
least one-fourth, has been cultivated
beginning with the third year of the
entry, and continuing to date of final
proof. The law prohibits the commu-
tation Of either the original or addi-
tional entries made under this act.
Section 6. Of the act relates exclu-
sively to lands in the State of Utah
which do not have sufficient water sui
table for domestic purposes as to rem
der continuous residence possible. En-
trymen of such lands, after they have
been designated as coming within the
provisions of the act will not be re-
quired to prove continuous residence,
but they must reside within such a dis
tance from the land entered as will
enable them to successfully farm the
same as required by the act Entries
made under this section cannot he
commuted. Entrymen must show that
not less than one-eighth of the land
entered was cultivated durig the third
year and not less than one-fourth dur
ing the third year and not less than
one-haif during the fourth and fifth
years after entry. Applications and
proofs may be made before the usual
officers.
The first designation of lands out
side of Wyoming will be made from
data now available in the cousse of
the next thirty days and the lists of
such lands forwarded to the respec-
tive local land offices within which
time the formal regulations will also
be issued.