White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-18
REVERTED
LANDS FOR SALE
NEVADA HAS ABOUT $4,000
ACRES AVAILABLE, BY DE-
FAULT OF INTEREST AND
FAILURE TO ENTER.


form, by c. l.. Deadly, surveyor gen.
eral and state land register. The
pamphlet includes a compilation of
the statutes of the United States
relative to grants of lands by the
United States to the state of Ne
vada, and the control and dis
position of the public lands of the
United States.
In conclusion. Mr.. Deadly has ar
ranged a lot of supplementary
general information relative to land
laws and procedure. as follows;
Remarks.
As all the land grants to the
state nave been exhausted, the only
lands that the state has for sale are
reverted lands-that is, lands once
applied for and on which one
fifth of the purchase price has been
paid at the time of application.
but which became forfeited to the
state in default of interest payments
and failure to enter into contract as
provided by law. At the present
time the state has about 5000 acres
of this class Of lands for sale.
These lands are located in every
county in the state.
Any legal applicant. as defined
in section five. general land law,
can apply to purchase not to exceed
$40 acres of lands approved under
the Neutrality-suspicious. and
$40 acres under any of the other
grants. not deemed legal applicants.
Reverted state lands are sold
where originally %approyed) in legal
subdivisions. at 1925 per acre ex-
eept lands, located within twenty
miles on either side of the Central
Pacific railroad, which have been
approved to the state as two acres
for one, which are sold at s2.50 per
acre.
Applicants are not required to
pay United States selection fees nor
file a nonmineral affidavit. since
these lands have been selected and
approved to the state as nonmineral
lands.
The terms of payments are
Twenty per cent of the purchase price
at the time of application, after
which the applicant may enter into
a contract with the state by which
he agrees TO pay the balance of the
principal in fifty years. with annual
interest at the rate of six per cent.
Full payment may be made at any
time, when a patent will issue in the
name of the applicant (unless
otherwise ordered by a court having
iurisdietion) free of charges. Full
payment may be made at the time of
application. when a patent will
issue.
The state has no mineral lands
for sale. The various grants to the
state reserves the mineral for the
government. and the sales of lands
by the state under such grants we're
made subject to such reservation.
Blanks.
Forms for application will be sup
piled. free of charge. upon applica-
ton to this office. Il IS impossible
under the law for the state land
register to reserve or hold" lands
Tor an intending purchaser in antici-
patton of his or her application. All
lands must be subject to entry by
the first legal applicant. in due form.
Applications For Land.
The law requires that an applica-
ton TO purchase lands from the state
must be made in writing to the state
land register, and must accurately
describe the lands desired to pur-
chase, in conformity with the United
States survey, the number of acres,
the section of this Act under which
he wishes to purchase; also resi-
denee. postofiiee address and the
county in which the lands are To-
Gated: and shall be signed by the
applicant or his or her agent. and
the amount necessary to purchase
said land must accompany the ap-
plieation.
Unless an application containing
the above requirement in every par
ticular is received, the land cannot
be reserved. but must remain sub
ject to entry by the first legal ap-
plicant who may make application in
due form and deposit the requisite
first payment in lawful money.
This Office is not required TO ad-
vance money to make good a deficin-
ey in any remittance. but will re-