The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1916-07-07
Colville Reservation Opened
Registration Began Wednesday of This Week.

BY proclamation OF President Will
son the long-anticipated opening of
the agricultural land embraced with
in the 0,000-acre area of the
South Half of the Colville Indian
Reservation, the largest remaining
Indian reservation of the Great
Northwest, will take place this sum.
mer. This important reservation
opening makes available to home
stead settlement, on 800 and 160-
acre tracks. approximately 100000
acres of farm and grazing land in
the Columbia, Okanogan, San Poll
and Nespelem valleys of north-cen-
trail Washington; in Okanogan and
Ferry counties-along and adjacent
to the lines of the Great Northern
Railway.
The Governments customary lot.
terry system of filing for homestead
entry will be observed in the COL
vile opening. Registrations will
begin on July 6, 1916, and will con-
tinue Sundays excepted) daily un-
til and including July %. 1915, and
these may be made at any of the
following officially designated re-
gistration points on the Great North
ern Railway, all of which are cities
and towns in the state of Washing
ton: Spokane, Wenatchee, Omak,
Colville and Republic. The draw
ing for the selection of entrymen
will take place at Spokane July 27,
1916. The selection of the land by
the successful applicants will COM
mence at the Land Offices at Spo-
kane and Waterville, Washington,
September 5, 1916.
The Colville lands open for settle
ment have been appraised by the
Department of the Interior at from
25 cents to $3.50 per acre; the ap-
praised prices of the lands average
$3.50 per acre. At the time of en-
try only one-fith of the purchase
price of the land must be paid; the
balance may be paid, if desired, in
five equal annual installments.
Those who have properly made en-.
try will be allowed until May l,
1917, within which to establish re.
sidence.
Round trip Homeseekers' Fares
via the Great Northern Railway are
in effect to all the registration
points named and also to Orville
at the head of the Okanogan Valley
from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chica
go, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Loui:
and corresponding territory or
June 3Oth and July 4th and 18th
and these make it possible for per
sons living in the Midwest and the
East to make the round trip to the
Colville registration both economi
cally and advantageously. Particular
attention is called to the fact thai
by buying his homeseekers' tick
ct via the Great Northern Railway
to Orville, Washington, which take!
the same fare as the registration
points, the intending entryman may
without any extra cost, visit Spok
ane, then proceed to Wenatchee
then follow the Great Northern
Wenatchee-Orville line north thr,
Omak to Orville, visiting enrout'
the West Okanogan Valley Irrigation
District; then, on his return trip tt
Spokane he can follow the Grea
Northern's Orville-Spokane line cas-
and south thru Colville-or he ma,
reverse this route-and thu she ma,
complete circle tour of investiga
ton along and about the Colvill'
country, and at the same time in
clude the entire length of the Wen
atchee North Country.
The Colville Reservation, bound
ed on three sides by rivers, extend
from the Columbia River on tn
east and south to the Okanogan Riv
err on the west; it's northern borde
is about 35 miles south of the Can
adam line. The Reservation meas
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