Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-11-30
HOMESTEAD LAWS.
How the New Amended Law Will
Work in Nevada.

stead law, WHICH permits tne tdkln
ND OF 800 acres of land-double the
usual l60-in certain districts which
are shown to be arid, the provisions
OF the law are not generally under
stood.
There are tracts of land coming un-
der this designation which are within
the development of irrigation through
artesian wells, they offer fairly good
chances for the residents of Reno
In some cases man may take up Il
homestead and live in Reno, depend
ing on whether the lands have been
so excepted from the usual rule as to
residence, by the secretary.
Particular information respecting
certain districts may be had at the
office OF Surveyor General Kyle in the
postofficc or from Register Cohn Of
the land Office in Carson.
The provisions of the law relating
to home csteading on 320 acre tracts are
as follows:
That any person who is qualified
cntryman under the homestead laws
OF the United States may enter, by
legal subdivisions. under the provis-
ions of this act, in the States OF Col
orado. Montana, Nevada. Oregon.
Utah, Washington and Wyoming, and
the Territories of Arizona and New
Mexico. three hundred and twenty
acres or less, OF mineral, non
irrigablc. unreserved and unappro-
priated surveyed public lands which
do not contain merchantable timber
located in reasonably compact body
and not over one ond one-half miles
in extreme length; provided. that no
lands shall be subject TO entry under
the provisions OF this act until suclt
lands shall ahve been designated by
the Secretary of the Interior as not
being, in his opinion, susceptible of
successful irrigation at a reasonable
cost from any known source OF water
supply.
Section 2 That any person apply
ing to enter land under the provisions
of this act shall make and subscribe
before the proper officer an affidat
as required by section twenty-five
hundred and ninety of the revised
statutes, and in addition thereto. shall
make affidavit that the land sought to
be entered is OF the character de
scribed i'm section one OF this act, and
shall pay the fees now required to be
paid under the homestead laws.
See 3. That any homestead entry
man of lands of the character herein
described, upon which final proof has
not been made shall have the right
TO enter public lands, subject to the
provisions of this act, contiguous to
his former entry which shall not, to-
getker with the original entry exceed
three hundred and twenty acres, and
residence upon and cultivation OF the
original entry shall be deemed as resi-
dence upon the cultivation of the ad-
ditional entry.
"Sec. 4. That at the time OF making
final proofs as provided in section
twenty-five hundred and ninety one OF
the revised statutes the entryman, un-
der this act shall, in addition to the
proofs and affidavits required under
this section, prove by two credible
witnesses that at least one-eighth of
the area embraced in his entry was
continuously cultivated to agricultural
crops other than native grasses begin
ming with the second year of the entry.
and that at least one fourth of the area
embraced in the entry was so continu-
ously cultivated beginning with the
third year of the entry.
Sec. 5. That nothing herein con
tanned shall be held to affect the right
of qualified entrymen to make home
stead entry in the States named in
section one of this act under the pro-
visions OF section twenty-one hundred
and eighty-nne of the revised stat
utes, but no person who has made en-
try under this act shall be entitled to
make homestead entry under the pro-
visions of said section, and no entry
made under this act shall be com
mutcd
"Sec 6. That whenever the Secre-
tary of the Interior shall find that any
tracts of land in the State of Utah,
subject to entry under this act do not
have upon them such an sufficient sup
ply of water suitable for domestic pur-
poses as would make continuous resi-
dence upon the lands possible, he may
in his discretion, designate such tracts
of land not to exceed in the aggregate
two million acres, and thereafter they