The Parker post., 1913-03-01
PUBLIC. LANDS
In ARIZONA
MILLIONS OF ACRES OPEN TO
HOMESTEAD, DESERT ENTRY
AND SCRIP FILiNG-HOW TO
OBTAIN TITLE.

There is in Arizona, several mil
lion acres of Government land open
to homestead, desert entry and scrip
filing.
To make a homestead entry you
must be an American citizen Tor
declared your intentions to become
81 years Of age. This opens this
class of entries to all citizens of the
United States of legal age, except
married women, and allows the filing
upon 160 acres or less. AS one of
the requirements for a homestead
entry is residence on the land, the
question of citizenship of the state
in which the land is located does
not enter into it. A resident of New
York can, while visiting Arizona, file
on land and give his New York ad
dress as his home postoffice, but he
must establish a residence on the
land within six months and make it
three years after the time of estab
fishing actual, permanent residence
thereon. During each year the entry
1nan may be absent from the land 5
consecutive months, by notifying the
Land Office of such intended absen-
ce,but during the other seven months
of the year he must be a continuous,
bona flee resident on the land. He
must also cultivate not less than
one sixteenth of the area of his en-
try, beginning with the second year,
and not less than One-eighth, begin
ming with the third year and continu
ing until final proof is made. The
successful growing of a crop on the
cultivated land is not required.
All surveyed, non-appropriated
lands are Upen to this class of entry
The enlarged homestead entry per-
mits filing upon 32o acres or less of
non mineral, non-timber, non-irrigable
land, and must be designated as
such in the Liant Office The require
ments for this class of entry are
the same as by the Three Year
Homestead Law or ''160 Acre Home
stead Law"
The term ''nOn-irrigable" is de-
fined in the Land Office instructions
as follows: Land which, as a rule,
lacks sufficient rainfall to produce
agricultural crops without the neceS-
sity of resorting to unusual methods
of cultivation, such as the system
commonly known a dry farming"
and for which there is no known
source of water supply from which
land may be successfully irrigated at
a reasonable cost"
The ragula tions require that at
least one eighth CT the area embrac-
ed in the entry be cultivated to ag-
ricultural crops, beginning with the
second year of the entry, and that
one-fOurth of the area embraced in
The entry be cultivated, beginning
with the third year of entry, and con-
tinuing to date of final proof The
rules and regulations do not require
the successful raising of a crop. Res
ideDce is required within six months
from date of filing, and must be
Iona fide, continuous residence dur
ing the three years.
The desert land entry is the most
common entry made in Arizona. This
provides for the entering of 320 acres
Of land by a citizen of the United
States, Cor one who has declared his
Intentions of becoming a citizen),
over 21 years Of age. Under this law
husband and wife can enter sep
arate Claims, providing they are
otherwise qualified. The entryman
must be resident of the state in
which the land is located, at the
time CT making the entry.
All land entry laws are designed
fer the development and settlement
OF a new country, and the govern
mcnt offering cheap land as an in
ducement for settlers to come. The
homestead laws require the estab-
fishing and maintaining of a per-
manent home and residence on the
land to procure title so a resident of
another state may locate lands under
these laws and within six months
establish residence on the land,
thereby becoming a resident of the
state.
No residence ON the land is re-
quired for a desert entry filing, but
the entryman must be a resident,
that is, have home within the
state at the time of making his fill
ing
The desert entryman is required to