Weekly journal-miner., 1915-03-24
THREE FORMS OF RELIEF FOR
 ENTRYMEN
RIDER ATTACHED TO UR- GENT DEFICIENCY BILL BY CONGRESS, AID TO WESTERN SETTLERS
(From Tuesdays Oaiiy.)

with qualification that congress has afforded him relief in an unexpected place, in the urgent deficiency bill ? passed by congress in the late ses- sion The relief comes in the shape of a rider to the bill, having no more to do with the measure than it could have to do with the ship purchasing bill. slf
 It was proposed by several western congressman to be attached to the bill while 1t was in conference. MT. Hayden was among others who urged it but during the conference, MT. Hayden was engaged in conference on another measure and was not aware of its adoption until lately when he received copy of the bill as approved by the president.
 The rider allows to the desert err tryman three forms of relief. If he has failed within the time allowed him under the desert land entry act to be able to make final proof ot reclamation and irrigation and culti- vation within the time allowed him, upon a showing of diligence and re- quirement with the provisions of the act, he may be granted an extension 1 of three years.
 r. If it then shall appear that he has still failed and has expended as much 1 IS s per acresi in an attempt to re- claim his land he may be permitted to homestead the land. There is still, then, another thing he may do. He may pay fifty cents an acre, make proof that he has perfected perman- ent improvements of the value of I SIPS an acre. and subsequently pay the government 75 cents an acre.
 This matter is of so great interest to large number of residents of this state that the provisions of the act are here presented in full:
 That the. secretary of the interior, may ill his discretion, extend the time within which final proof is required to be submitted upon any lawful pending desert-land entry made prior to July 1, 1914 such extension not to exceed three ayUars from the date of allowance thereof: Provided that the entryman opIIGsl duly qualified as signec has in good faith complied with the requirements of the law as 10 yearly expenditures and proof thereof and shall show, under rules land regulations to be prescribed by the secretary of the interior that there is a reasonable prospect that, if the extension is granted, he will be able to make final proof, of reclama- ton, irrigation and cultivation re- quircd by law: Provided further, that the foregoing shall apply only to eases wherein an extension or further extension of time may not be prop erly allowed under existing law.
 That where it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the sec rctary of the interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, with reference to any lawful pending desert-land entry made prior to July 1, 1914 under which sthc cntryman or his duly qualified assignee under an assignment made prior to the date ol this act, has, in good faith, cx- pended the sum of s per acre in the attempt to effect the reclamation of the land, that there is no reasonable prospect that, if.thc extension allowed by this act or any existing law were granted, he would be able to secure water sufficient to effect reclamation of the irrigable land in his entry or any legal subdivision thereof, the sec retary of the interior may, in his dis erection, allow such cntryman or as signce five years from notice within which to perfect entry in the manner required of a homestead entryman.
 That any dcsert-land cntryman or his assignee entitled to the benefit of the last preceding paragraph may, if he shall so elect within sixty days from the notice herein provided, pay to the receiver of the local land of ice the sum of 50 cents per acre for each acre embraced in the entry and thereafter perfect such entry upon proof that he has upon the tract per manent Improvements conductive to the agricultural development thereof of the value of not less than SIPS per acre, and that he has in good faith, used the land for agricultural pur- poses for three years and the pay mcnt to the receiver, at the time of final proof, of the sum of $ cents per acre: Provided, that in such case lnal proof may be permitted at any . time within five years from date of the cntryman's election to proceed Is provided in this section, and in {