Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
HOME SEEKERS
line IGNORED
ORDERS ARE TO MOVE INTO
SOME ENCLOSURE
BALLINGER RElTERATEs HIS IN
sTRUcTloNs
Yuma Land Applicants May Get an
Early Start, but 1t Must Be in the
Manner Provided by Sec
retary of the Interior

The United States land office at Los
Angeles received instructions from Sec
retary of the Interior Ballinger yester-
day relative to the allotment of lands
in the Yuma irrigation project. The
latest orders are in explanation and
pursuance of the orders received last
week, which spread CONSERVATION
through the long line of homeseekers
who were camped on Broadway, and
later at S1S West Second street. The
effect of the order is to annul all pre-
vious drawings and assignments, and
necessitates that the whole contest be
gone over again.
The local land office posted instruc-
tions yesterday comprising the latest
rulings, and large crowds gathered at
the door of the land office and at other
places where the circular was posted
The instructions from washington fol-
low:
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 20, 1910.
In accordance with the instruc-
tions of the honorable secretary of
the Interior the following regula-
tions governing the allotment of
farm units in the Yuma irrigation
project are hereby made public:
The officials of the local land office
will secure a large auditorium or
suitable and adequate inclosure (the
same to be announced later, with
in which prospective applicants for
these lands will be permitted to as
semble prior to 8 o'clock a. m. on
March L. 1910, but no applicant VIII
be permitted to enter the building
or Enclosure secured for that pur-
pose after that hour.
Must Fill Out Card
A card printed with blank spaces
suitable for the signature, postoff1ce
I,.s .s.-I,f i frrlNt
be distributed to each of the appli-
cants, and after these cards have
been filed out and signed by the
applicants and returned to the reg
lister and receiver they will be used
as a basis and means of identifica-
ton when applications to enter the
lands are presented.
All qualified persons who thus
present cards will be permitted to
file their applications at the local
land Office at any time between
o'clock a. m and 4:30 o'clock p. M,
Sundays excepted, before but not
including March 20, 1870 All the ap-
plications to enter the same farm
unit presented within this time will
be assembled into one group and
considered as having been stimuli
taneously presented. Notices will
then be at once issued to qualifed
applicants in each of the groups
thus formed, notifying them of an
hour on a specified date when they
will be permitted to appear at this
Office for the purpose of mutually
determining among themselves the
method by which one of them will
be awarded the exclusive right to
enter the tract for which they have
all applied and if they fail mutu-
ally to agree on such a method, the
officials of this office will award the
right of entry to one of them in the
following manner:
To Settle "Ties" by Drawing
The name of each qualified appli-
cant for the same tract who appears
at this office at the hour named
will be placed on a separate small
card, and each of these cards will
then be placed in a sealed envelope
which bears no distinctive marks,
and all the envelopes then placed
in a receptacle, and after they nave
been thoroughly mixed, some per-
son selected by the applicants for
that purpose, or by the officials OF
this office if the applicants fail to
make a selection, will then draw
one of the envelopes from the re-
ceptacle. The qualified person whose
name is contained in the envelope
thus drawn will be awarded the
right to make entry of the tract
for which all the applicants nave
applied.
No payments of fees or Install
ments on the purchase price of the
land will be required at the time
applications are filed, except in
cases where there is but one quail
fed applicant for farm unit, and
after the right to the given farm
unit has been decided by the draw
ing as above set forth, the success
ful applicant will be required to file
the necessary water right appli-
cation and make the necessary pay
ment within ten days, and If he
fails to make such filing and pay
ment within that time, the lands
covered thereby will be open to
entry by the first qualified person
who applies therefor.
The register and receiver desire
particularly to impress upon all ap-
plicants that there will be no occa-
sion for rush in filing their applica-
tions after they have been permit
ted to register on March l, as there
will be ample time between March