The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-08-30
LAST BIC LAND OPENING

OPENED TO LAND SEEKERS
NEXT MoNTH-RULEs FOR
REGISTRATION.
President Wilson on August 5, 1913,
issued proclamation for the opening
of the Fort Peck Indian reservation in
Northern Montana. Until such time
as agents are named the Great Falls
land Office is holding all filings adj
dressed to the registration agent, and
will deliver them to him upon his ap-
pointment. Filings will be made be-
ginning September 1, 1913, and con-
tinue to September 20. The land will
be open to actual settlement May L,
1914. The registration places are
Glasgow, Havre and Great Falls,
Mont. The final drawing is to be at
Glasgow, commencing September g.
The reservation is located in Sheridan
and Valley counties.
The opening of Fort Peck reserva-
ton will mark the last big opening of
agricultural land in the United States.
Six new towns will be started on this
big land area.
The total acreage of reservation is
2,068,693. The land allotted to the
Indians is 1858 acres. The land
that is thus left vacant is soon to be
opened for settlement and covers l.
345,00O acres.
Land now under cultivation is $500
acres. Last year there were only
1900 acres under cultivation and the
year before practically none.
1t is estimated by agricultural ex-
perts that when this land is cultivated
by the white settlers it will add about
100000 more bushels of grain to the
nations annual production.
Flax this year is running from Is
to rs bushels per acre, wheat from 20
to 25 bushels per acre, and oats so to
IS bushels per acre.
The rules under which the opening
is to be made are as follows:
All persons qualified to make a
homestead or desert land entry for
said lands may, on and after Septem-
Der 1, 1913, and prior to and including
September 20, 1913, but not thereafter,
present to James w. Witten, superin-
tendent of the opening, in person, or
to some other person designated by
him at the cities of either Glasgow,
Great Falls, Havre or Miles City
Montana, sealed applications for
registration, but no envelope must
contain more than one application;
and no person can present more than
one application in his own behalf and
one as agent for soldier or sailor, or
for the widow or minor orphan child
of soldier or sailor, as hereinafter
provided.
Each application for registration
must show the applicants name, post.
Office address, age, height and weight,
and be sworn to by him at either Glas.
gov, Havre, Great Falls or Miles City
Montana, before some notary public
designated by the superintendent, and
not otherwise.
Persons who were honorably dis.
charged after ninety days service in
the army, navy or marine corps of the
United States, during the war of the
rebellion, the Spanish-American war
or the Philippine instruction, or their
widows or minor orphan children
may make their applications for regis.
tration either in person or through
their duly appointed agents, but nc
person can act as agent for more than
one such applicant, and all applica
lions presented by agents must be
signed and sworn to by them at one
of the places named and in the same
manner in which other applicants are
required to swear to and present theil
applications.
Beginning at 10 o'clock a. m. or
lSeptember %, 1913, at the said City
of Glasgow, and continuing thereafter
from day to day, Sunday excepted, al
long as may be necessary, there shall
be impartialIy taken and selected in
discriminatory from the whole number
of envelopes so presented such mum
Der thereof as may be necessary tx
lcarry into effect the provisions of this
proclamation, and the applications fol
REGISTRATION contained in the en-
veIopes so selected shall, when cor
rect in form and execution, be mum
bered serially in the order in which
they are selected, beginning with mum
Der one. and the numbers thus as
signed shall fix and control the ordel
in which the persons named therein
may make entry after the lands shall
become subject to entry.
i A list of the successful applicants
showing the number assigned to eacf
of them. will be conspicuously posted
land furnished to the press for publica
ton as matter of news, and proper
notice viii be promptly mailed to eac1
person to whom a number is assigned
Beginning at o'clock a. m. on MAJ
IL, 1914. and continuing thereafter on
such dates as may be fixed by the
Secretary of the Interior, persons
holding numbers assigned to them IN
der this proclamation will be per
mitted to designate and enter tht
tracts they desire in fulhIment Of the
conditions set forth IN the proclama
tiOn.