The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-03-22
II O MES TEAD
OF ; 7 0
ACRES
MEASURE PASSED BY THE LAST
SESSION OF CONGRESS.
Full Text Of the Law Which Allows
Settlers to Acquire 800 Acres Of
Dry Farming Land.

The homestead bill. providing for
320 acres of dry farming land, which
passed the last session OF congress
and Is now a law. is as follows:
An act to provide for an enlarged
homestead-Be IL enacted by the Sen
ate and House of Representatives OF
the United States of America In Con
gress assembled, That any person who
ie a qualified entryman under the
homestead laws of the United States
may enter. by legal subdivisions, under
the provisions Of this act, In the States
Of Colorado. Montana, Nevada, Oregon.
Utah, Washington and Wyoming and
the Territories of Arizona and New
Mexico. three hundred and twenty
acres, or less, of non-mtneral, non-ir-
rigable. unreserved and inappropriate
cd surveyed public lands which do not
contain merchantable timber. located
iu reasonably compact body. and not
over one and one-half miles in ex-
treme length: Provided. That no lands
shall be subject TO entry under the
provisions of this act until such lands
shall have been designated by the sec
retary of the interior as not being. In
his opinion. susceptible of successful
irrigation at a reasonable cost from
any known source of water supply.
Section 2. That any person applying
to enter lnnd under the provisions of
this act shall make and subscribe be-
fore the proper officer an affidavit as
required by section twenty-five hun
dred and ninety of the revised statutes.
and in addition thereto shall make ar
fdavit that the land sought to be en-
tered is OF the character described In
section one of this act, and shall pay
the fees now required to be paid un-
der the homestead laws
Section 3. That any homestead en-
tryman Of lands Of the charactefshere-
in described. upon which fina1Sbroof
has not been made. shall have the
right to enter public lands, subject
to the provisions Of this act contigu-
Gus to his former entry which shall not
together with the original entry. eX-
ceed three hundred and twenty acres,
and residence upon and cultivation OF
the original entry shall be deemed as
residence upon and cultivation of the
additional entry.
Section A. That at the time of max
ing final proofs as provided In section
twenty-five hundred and ninety-one OF
the revised statutes the entryman un-
der this act, shall. in addition to the
proofs and affldavits required under
the said section, prove by two crod'
Iblc witnesses that at least one-eighth
Of the area embraced in his entry was
continuously cultivated TO agricultural
crops other than native grasses begin
ming with the second year OF the en-
try, and that at least one-fourth OF the
area embraced In the entry was so con-
tinuously cultivated beginning with
the third year OF the entry.
Section g. That nothing herein con
tanned shall be held to affect the right
os a qualified entryman to make home
stead entry In the states named In sec
tIon ono OF this act under the proyis-
ions of section twenty-five hundred and
eighty-nine OF the revised statutes, but
no person who has made entry under
this net shall be entitled to maize
homestead entry under the provisions
of said section, and no entry made
under this act shall be committed.
Section 6. That whenever the secre-
tary OF the interior shall find that any
tracts Of land, In the state of Utah,
subject to entry under this act, do not
have upon them such suf1lcient sup
ply of water suitable for domestic pur-
poses as would make continuous resi-"
dence upon the lands possible. he may.
in his discretion, designate sucn tracts
Of land, not TO exceed In the aggregate
fu=., p,Il1iop ocraa md thereafter thpy
shall be subject to entry under this
act without the necessity of residence:
Provided. That In such event the en-
tryman on any such entry shall In good
faith cultivate not less than one-eighth
of the entire area of the entry during
the second year, one-fourth during the
third year, and one-half during the