The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-03

largely covered with mining pros
poets, upon many of which work is
in progress. The remaining area elm
mated is sagebrush land on the north
boundary
From the Cassia Division Is sec
tons if land in the west SIDE are elm
mated. Almost the entire area is cul
tivatable. The Goose Creek Division
discs number of small areas of agri-
cultural lands, totaling 17k sections.
On the Sublet division the east boun-
Diary line is changed so as to eliminate
23 sections of bench land which con-
tains no timber, nearly all of which is
we'll suited for dry farming purposes.
The unappropriated portions of
these eliminated areas will become
subject to settlement and entry on
such date and after such notice by
publication as the Secretary of the
Interior may prescribe. Until such
publication and notice no persons are
permitted to gain any rights from any
settlement or occupation and all such
settlement and occupation are forbid
den by the Presidents proclamation.
The elimination from the Caribou
National Forest are mostly of lands
valuable only for grazing purposes,
although considerable portions can
also be utilized for agriculture. Some
what over 5000 acres along Stump
Creek, in Township South. Range
46 East; about 1000 acres are along
Sluv Creek, in Township 9 South,
Range "A East; an about 5000 acres
are grazing land along Tin Cup Creek
in Township 5 South Range A East.
These comprise the principle Areas,
the remaining tracts being scattered
areas of agricultural and grazing
lands along the exterior boundaries.
The unappropriated portions of the
areas eliminated are restored to the
public domain, and will become sub
ject to settlement and entry under
the general provisions of the home
stead laws upon due notice and afte.
the period of advertising prescribed
by the Secretary of the Interior
The Occur d'Alene examinations
are as follows: In T. Al NJ, r. 3
w., B. NJ, Sections II and 13; in
n. A NJ, R. 5. W., B. NJ,
Section 80, and parts of Sec
tions 20 and 80; in T. 40 n, R. 3W.
B. NJ, Sections 9 10, IL Section II,
N 1-2 Section Is, Sections 16, Il,
and 2S. The Examinations in Town
sips Al and A are at the northwest
ern extremity of the Palouse Divi-
sion, and adjoin the Occur Alene
Indian Reservation. That in Town
shop 40 adjoins Occur d'Alene Lake,
on the west boundary of the Forest,
and consists of yellow pine bench
land, mainly agricultural. Practical
ly all the land eliminated is already
patented. 1t was found by the field
examination that, aside from the land
now eliminated, the areas within the
Forest chiefly valuable for agricul-
ture are widely scatter small areas
which can best be opened for settle
ment by listing under the Act of June
II, 1906. 1t is thought that nearly
| If not quite all of the land OF this
character in the Couer d 'Alene For
est has already been applied for I'M
| der this act.
The Pend Oreille elimination COM
prises Sections and 16, T. 81 NJ, R.
2 f., and the S. u of Section 10, II.
63 N, R. E., B. NJ, and is all patent
ed land. Whatever land chiefly avlu-
able for agriculture lies within the
Pend Oreille Forest is not along the
| Xterior boundaries but forms mar
strips within the Forest. Since
elimination Of such strips is imprac-
ticable, agricultural development of
the land can best be brought about
by listing under the Act of June II,
1906. More than $500 acres of such
lands have already been listed for
entry under this act, and consider
tteble. amount which has been applied
for is~Still to be examined and re-
ported uhsa