The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-07-24
SEN. BORAH'S
LAND MEASURE
He Thinks it Will Meet the
Needs of the Home
steader.

what was known as the Borah home
stead law by the senator's political
opponents during last years campaign
and the statement by the senator
that the defects in the bill were all
of them due to the amendments fore
ed into the measure by his democrat
ic opponents; and that he would see
that those defects were remedied at
the earliest date possible? Well,
the senator has been redeeming that
promise, as the following from the
Lewiston Tribune shows. 1t says:
Writing from Washington. ID. c.,
in response to an inquiry from the
Tribune as to more specific data as t.
his new three-year homestead bill,
which received favorable action in
the senate a few days ago, Senator
Borah, under date of July 16, says:
This bill provides that IN lieu Of
the acreage cultivation the parties
shall be permitted to make improve
ments to the amount of not less than
$1.50 per acre except as to enlarged
homesteads and these ar not less
! than rs cents per acre. The law Is
designed to cover the situation in the
timbered sections. Where parties
are unable to clear the land they
may in lieu thereof make improve
ments to be estimated In dollars and
cents / believe this law will meet
the situation and that the three-year
homestead law will now be a prac-
tical, efficient and beneficient law to
the homesteaders. 1t may be that
experience, as usual, will develop
other situations to be met, but l do
not now see them. The other bill re-
ferred to is a bill introduced by Sen
ator Pittman and extends the non
residence feature of the enlarged
homestead to the states named in
said bill. doubt if this bill will
have any practical application in
northern Idaho, as it relates alone
to dry farming. But in any event
Idaho has the same law now with
this exception The Idaho law re
quires the homesteader to reside with
in 20 miles of his land. The pro
posed law by Pittman does not re
quire this nearby residence. 1 was
not quite willing to have non-resi
dents taking up lands and residing
in other states. l hope, however, tt
get the Idaho law amended SO as tt
permit the non-residence features II
apply so long as the entryman re
sides within the state and cut out thu
2O-mile limit, but | think every maj
who takes up a homestead ought II
be a bona fide resident of the state
Under this law as proposed, partie
: in New York and Washington coul'
0 have homesteads in Idaho"
The Borah Bill
Senator Borahs bill is as follows
: THAT the provisions pertaining t
cultivation by entrymen of home
stead lands as set forth in the sec
ton of the act approved June 6, 1912
entitled An act to amend sectio
2291 and section 2297 of he revise
statutes of the United States, rela'
ing to homesteads,' be amended t
reads as follows:
Provided further, that the entry
man shall, in order to comply wit
the requirements of cultivation here
in provided for, cultivate not les
o than one-sixteenth of the area OF hi
{ entry, beginning with the secon
{ year of the entry, and not less tina
. one-eighth, beginning with the thlr
9 year of the entry, and until fins
& proof, except that in the case OF eI
u tries under section 6 of the enlarge
'r homestead law double the area
c cultivation herein provided shall b
III required: Provided, that the entr.
y man in lieu of cultivation require
le herein may make Improvements upo
le his entry by constructing fences
e buildings, by slashing, clearing, or
Otner ways preparing Tic io"" ~
cultivation, by planting orchard,
by otherwise making the homestea
IN habitable or capable of productio
Or said improvements to aggregate g
r amount each year of not less ths
lie $3.50 per acre, except that in cas-
C. of entries under section of the e
IN larged homestead law the amount
OF improvements shall be not less tn;
or rs cents per acre: Provided, tn
n the above provision as to cultivate
shall not apply to entries under Il