The Bowbells tribune. [volume] (Bowbells, Ward Co., N.D.) 1899-1969, 1911-06-09
TO OPEN ON
AUGUST: IS
Best Authority Says that Berth.
old Lands Will Be Open
Early Next Fall

Ml1OC, IN. u. June O-AccOfu-
ing to information (which is
, considered authentic the actual
, work of opening the Fort Bert
hold Indian reservation will
start on or about Aug.l4. It is
given on the best authority that
Minot will not only be the head
quarters for the land office
operations but one of the main
registration points will also be
located here.
From four to five thousand
people will probably flock to this
city, and extensive preparations
| will soon be started to house and
feed the crowd.
The land to be opened was all
surveyed in the fall of 1909. 1t
will be opened under what is
known as the lottery system and
shall be disposed of by proclama-
tion under the general provisions
of the homestead and townsite
laws of the United States, and
shall be opened to settlement and
entry by proclamation of the
president which proclamation
shall prescribe the time when;
and the manner in which the
land be settled upon, occupied
and entered by persons entitled
to make entry thereof, and no
person shall be permitted to
to settle, occupy or enter any of
said lands, except as - will be
prescribed in said proclamation.
Providing, however, that the
rights of honorably discharged
Union soldiers and of the late
Civil and Spanish wars and Phil
ippine insurrection as prescribed
4,by law shall not be abridged. r"
The part of the reservation
that will be opened for. SETTLE
ment contains about 100000
acres. This land compares
favorably with the finest agri-
cultural lands in the state of
North Dakota, and is that bor-
tion of the reservation lying east
and north of the Missouri river
in Mountrail and Mclean count
les, about eighty miles north
west of Bismarck and about for
ty miles southwest of Minot, the
metropolis of western North
Dakota. The towns of Plaza and
Ryder which have also been
named as registration points are
practically on the border line of
the reservation.
The land on all sides of the
reservation is improved and
settlers have been living on same
for about seven years. The soil
is of avery nice black loan ex-
cept in some places where, it
changes to dark chocolate loan
all underlaid with a very heavy
yellow clay sub-soil. No alkali
or gumbo. There are a few
stones in some places but not
enough to make it Objectionable.
The lay of the land is on the
level order. having long slopes
and just rolling enough to afford
good drainage.
Each and every person who
desires homestead in this land
will be required to go in person
at the time set for the registra-
tion usually lasting about three
weeks, to either Of the places
named as registration points.
About thirty days after the
registering as many names will
be drawn as there are quarters
to be allotted.
The Indians are to be paid q
certain price for the lands and q
board Of appraisers will set the
sum, the price should range from
about So to IS per acre. The
homesteader will he required to
pay the stipulated sum to the
government in five payments.
He will be given six years time
to do this.
Any person, male or female
over the age of twenty-one who
has homestead right can make
entry on the land.
Tuesday evening the new 20
horse power gasolene tractor of
the Bowbells Implement Co.,
went up and down main street
ever the old waterworks ditch
mounds, and with it's big wheels
crushed all the hard pieces Of
dirt that heretofore had caused
all traffic considerable trouble.