Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-09-15
MANY ARE WAITING
FOR ENTRY LISTS
BILL CREATING NEW DRY FARM
HOMESTEAD LAW OF IN
TEREST
800 Acres Instead of 100 Acres to
BE Allowed 10 EntIyman.-Com-
plete Provision of the Act Given
Herewith.

The instructions recently issued by
the commissioner of the general land
office to the register and receiver of
the Boise land office, with respect to
the governing terms of the new "dry
farm" bill passed by the last congress
making it possible for entrymen to
file on 800 acres of dry farm land,
have created a great deal of interest
in this state and many prospective
settlers are waiting for the pending
lists eliminating the lands to be class
flied as dry farm" and to which the
commissioner referred in his instruc-
tions.
Through this bill $4,000 acres of
dry farm land is added to the entry
books of the various land offices of
Boise and as soon as classified the
land can be filed upon. Upon receipt
of the lists to be issued by the COM
missioner entrymen will be afforded
an opportunity to secure the land
they desire. Those homesteaders who
already have a homestead claim Of
$50 acres and wish to file on dry
land adjoining their entry can do so
through the new law, taking an all
ditional 100 acres.
Copies of the law passed by con-
gress and which is of more than pass
ing interest in this state, have been
received bv the register and receiver
of the Boise land office. These are
as follows:
Be it enacted by the senate and
house. Of Representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem-
bled, That any person who is a quail
ified entryman under the homestead
laws of the United States NAV enter
by legal subdivision. under the pro-
visions of this act, in the state of
Idaho. 800 acres or less, in the State
of Idaho. 800 acres or less Of arid
non-mineral, non-irrigable, unreserv-
ed and unappropriated surveyed pub
lie lands which do not contain mer-
chantable timber. located in a reason
ably compact body and not over one
and one-half miles in extreme
length: Provided. That no lands shall
be subject to entry under the pro-
visions Of this act until the lands
shall have been designated by the
secretary of the interior as not be-
ing, in his opinion. susceptible Of
successful irrigation. at a reasonable
cost. from any known source of wal
ter supply.
Sec. That any person apply
ing to enter land under the provisions
of this act shall make and subscribe
before the proper officer an affidavit
as required by section 229O of the
revised statutes and in addition there
to shall make affidavit that the land
suoght to be entered is of the char
acter described in section of this
act, and chall pay the fees now re-
quired to be paid uner the homestead
laws
Sec. 8 That any homestead en-
tryman of lands of the character
herein described. upon which fna
proof has not been made. shall have
the right to enter public lands sub
iect to the provisions Of this acr
contiguous to his former entry. whicl
shall not. together with the origina
entry exceed 800 acres. and resi-
dence upon and cultivation of the or
iginal entry shall be deemed as res
idence upon and cultivation of th'
additional entry.
Sec a. That at the time Of MAX
ing final proofs as provided in sec
tion 2291 of the revised statutes, tn.
entryman under this act shall in ad
aition to the proofs and affidavits re
quired under said section prove b,
two creditable witnesses that at 1eas
one-eighth Of the area embraced n
his entry was continuously cultivatei
to agricultural crops other than ma
tive grasses beginning with the see
ond year Of the entry and at leas
one-fourth Of the area embraced IL
the entry was so continuously cult
waited beginning with the third yea
: Of the entry
Sec. 8. That nothing herein con
tanned shall be held to affect the righ
of a qualified entryman to make hom'