White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-01
Land Office
Busy Place
THAT SETTLERS
ANXIOUS TO LOCATE IN NJ
VADA Will. KEEP RECORD
OFFICIALS HUsTLING.

The Elko Free Press of recent date
prints a story on the affairs of the
United States land Office recently
opened at Elko,and of which John e.
Robbins, formerly of Ely, is register,
A. G.. Dawley. receiver, and Fred r.
Bessey, clerk According to the Free
Press business in the new Office is
booming and the Office force over
head and ears in work.
In the state of Nevada there are
/ 5,13S, ,593 acres of land good. bad or
Indifferent. which is open to home
stead entry. OF this amount 29,359,-
141 acres are surveyed and 25,799,-
452 are nnsurveyed. OF these lands
there are in Elko county 6,188,437
acres of surveyed land and 37.187
acres which are unsurveyed. In
other words, Elko county has practi-
cally one-ninth of the total land in
Nevada open for entry. says the Free
Press.
Your Uncle Samuel keeps abreast
of the times. Some time ago the law
allowing only 100 acres to be home
steaded was revised so that under
certain conditions homesteaders
might take up an extra quarter sec
ton. or 500 acres in all. But since
then conditions have arisen which the
government did not forsee and there
/ is now about to be presented to con-
gress bill which wills permit the
granting of 640-acre stock raising
homesteads. The idea of this mea-
sure is that in many localities
there Is land which is not adapted for
farming purposes but upon which
cattle raising could be carried on
with profit But while that is true
the government fully recognizes that
man can't raise many cattle on a
160-acre farm, and IL is proposed to
give him more room and allow him
to take up $40 acres in districts
where farming alone would not pay
but where cattle might easily be rails
ed. The draft of this measure has
been made by the department of the
interior and sent to the various Unit
ed States land offices with requests
for suggestions as to the advisability
of such an act. Ii Is believed such an
act will be passed.
The requirements of the 640-acre
stock raising entry are that perma-
nent Improvements of s1.25 an acre
must be made before patent will be
issued and one-half of this must he
made within three years time.
The act creating the Elko land Of
flee was approved October 3, 1913.
Lands embraced within the jurisdic-
! ktion of the Elko Office are those in
the following counties: Churchill,
Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander,
Lincoln, Nye and White Pine. The
official boundaries of the Elko land
district are: At point between
ranges 3S and 39 east, township AZ
north; south to point between town
ships Is and l6 north; thence
west to a point between ranges 50
and Sc: then south to point be-
tween townships 5 and 6 north.
Then east to the Utah line.
All the old records made at the
Carson City Office covering land in
the Elko district were moved to Elko,
Carson City getting the copy which
was made. The Elko land office has
the record of every land transaction
made in this district and all matters
which we're pending the last OF the
year 1918 were held up until the Elko
Office was opened and then these mat
ters we're shifted to the Elko Office
for disposal.
Many people still seem to think
that government land matters should
be sent to Carson City. All matters
sent to Carson City from this district
are promptly returned to the Elko
Office. Carson City has nothing to do
with land matters in this end OF the
state. All applications must be made
to the Elko Office.
The lands which the Elko Office
have to do with mostly are the home
stead, desert and mineral. The
homestead entries are. of course. the
biggest end of the business.