Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1911-12-28
IMPROVE YOUR LAND.
Water Must Be Put to Beneficial Use
or your Rights are Forfeited.

Side tract, one is confronted with
acre after acre of land that is yet in
its virgin state, while here and
there is a few acres that served the
purpose of a prove-up crop, while
the owner, thinking he has done
his duty, has returned to his home
in the east to await the develop
ment of the country, that his land
may enhance in value as result |
thereof. To such owners Il word of
warning and advice may not be out
Of place.
This procedure might work to
advantage where land has been
thrown open to homestead entry,
but under the Carey Act there are
certain other rules to be complied
with. In purchasing land under
the Carey Act, right to the use of
water is also purchased, and this
right is what puts the value upon
the land, H. without it your land is
practically worthless. But the
statutes Of the state of Idaho put a
limit upon the time that advantage
must he taken of this right and the
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1854 OF the Idaho statutes reads as
follows:
All rights to the use OF water acquired
under this chapter or otherwise, shall be
lost and abandoned 10y failure, for the
term of five years, to apply IT to the
beneficial use for which it was appropri-
ated, and when any right to the use OF
water shall be lost through the non-use
or abandonment, such right to such
water shall revert to the state and be
again subject to appropriation under this
Chapter; Provided, further,
That any person or persons who are
owners by decrets OF court or by appro-
priation OF water right, and who have
with reasonable diligence, annually in
creased the beneficial Use OF the water
covered 10y such water right, or who dc
hereafter with reasonable diligence, an
nually increase the beneficial use of the
water held under such water right, shall
not be subject to the penalties OF aban'
donment and loss 10y non-use OF sucl
water right, As provided in this section
Three years have already elapsed
since water was available for thi:
tract, and there is but short two
years remaining in which to tax,
advantage of this right. A loss %
your water right means total loss
to you as the land is of no valu'
without it. This is the law and m
one has a right to inform you other
wise. 1t is therefore imperativ
that your holdings should be pu
under cultivation if you expect t
realize anything from the same.
But this is only one of the rea
sons why you should improve you
land if you expect to realize an
benefits from it. Considerable Ian
has changed hands here within I'll
past year, but it has invariabl
been land that has been PARTIAL
improved at least. Prosperity
purchasers are, as rule, lookin
for land that has at least bee
cleared of the sage brush, and Ian
that is under n crop of some kin
finds much more ready sale tina
land of any other description, al
at n price far above what it has co
to place it in a producing position
At the present price of improve
land. due to the fact that mal
have found that they have mo
land than they can economical
handle, there is little, if any, d
mand for unimprovcd land, Al
the nonresident would find it I
to his advantage to have his hol
ings put under cultivation, II
has any desire of disposing of
and should he desire to still co
tinue to hold it, the law says
MUST put his water right to beI
fetal use or forfeit it.
To the nonresident land hole
who can not he here to persona
look after the clearing and impr'
ing of his land, we might add Il
there are reliable parties here W
could he intrusted with this We