Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-05-28
Dietrich Opening at Sho-
ShOne Promises a
Big Crowd
All Preparations Being Made to
Care for Home Seekers Who
Will Visit City by Hundreds

arrangements Tor Lne opening 10 EN-
try and settlement of the Dietrich tract
of $4,000 acres of arabic land, lying
just east of Shoshone, have been com.
pIeted by c. B. Hurtt & Co., of Boise,
the general sales agents. The opening
will be held by the State Land Board
at Shoshone, on June s next. Regis
tration of those desiring to secure
some of these lands will commence on
Tuesday next, June l, and will continue
until the night of June 7. 1t is expeced
that the registration for this drawing
will be larger in number and more
widely spread than any previous like
occasion in Idaho, and that the entire
tract will be filed on by the end of the
week of the opening
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DRAWING.
There is to be drawing under the
rules established by the State Land
Board for Carey Act openings. Parties
who register for the drawing will be
required to deposit an amount equal to
three dollars and quarter an acre, for
the land applied for, with slight addi-
tional fee. If after the drawing the
intending purchaser files on land, the
deposit is used as first payment on
the land and water right. However, if
there is no entry on lands the deposit
is at once returned to the person making
it. The amount that must be deposited
by the person registering is as follows:
On filings of 40 acres, s131.50 on so
acres. s261. so; on 12O acres, 1891. 80;
and on 16O acres, S521. so.
When anyone registers, receipt is
issued to the person, such receipts be-
ing numbered serially. On the day of
the drawing, the registrar of the State
Land Board will carefully check over
the register number, and deposit small
blocks of wood, with the same numbers
stamped on them, in large barrel
churn. This churn is sealed, and prior
to being opened is revolved until the
numbered blocks are thoroughly mixed.
At the time of the drawing, the churn
is opened, and a blindfolded person
draws the blocks one afteranother until
all are taken from the churn. The first
number drawn is the first filing number, |
and the person holding the receipt with
like number has first choice of all the
lands opened, and so on until the lands
are all taken.
The drawing is under the immediate
supervision of the State Land Board. /
The method of deciding precedence is
the one always followed in Idaho in
Carey Act drawings and has the adj
yantages of absolute fairness.
A lease has been taken on the Sho-
shone opera house and the lower floor
has been remodeled, and will be used as
a registry and filing office. The draw
ing will be held in the open air, unless
weather conditions should prove unpro-
pitious. in which event a large tent will
be erected.
Arrangements have been made with
the Oregon Short Line and o. R & N.
Railway companies for one and
third round trip rate to Shoshone from
all points on these two roads
Tickets at these rates being offered on
June 8. 6, 7 and S, good to return until
June Is. The Oregon Short Line COM
pav will also run special trains from
on the Wood River Branch,
to Shoshone, and thence to Dietrich,
in the center of the tract to be opened,
the morning of June 6, and 8. The
train will return to Shoshone at noon
for lunch. A run will be made in the
afternoon to Dietrich at l:30, and the
train will return to Shoshone and Rich
field for the night.
The Oregon Short Line has arranged
.xith the Pullman Car Co., for the use OF
Pullmans at Shoshone during the nights
IF June 6, 7, 8 and 8, SO that no uneasl-
ness may be felt by persons attending
he opening on account of hotel accom-
nodstions. Shoshone has two excellent
hotels and ample restaurants and other
places of entertainment
ruE LAND TO BE oPENsD FOR ENTRY
The Dietrich Segregation, as 1t Is
snown. comprises $4,000 acres of ex-
.eptionalIy fine land lying Immediately
sast of Shoshone, and on both SIDES
If the main line of the Oregon Short
.ine. 1t is a rectangle, six miles from