The Meeker herald., 1916-01-29

"pIe " eAeIClse JIle TIknt Vi duuiIioh-
al entry herein conferred because no
lands subject to entry under this bill
are contiguous to said original entry
or lie within the lO-mile limit OF his
original entry. II such entryman is
the head Of a family or 81 years OF
age and a citizen OF the United States
and first submits proof that he resides
upon and has not sold or encountered
the land rs occupied, entered or ac-
quirod, he may relinquish or recon-
vey to the United States the land so
entered, occupied or acquired, and In
lieu thereof, within the same land of
flee district, he may enter and acquire
$40 acres of land under this bill; and
he must also show compliance with
all the provisions of the homestead
law and of this bill, as II the original
entryman under this act, provided
that the lands so relinquished or re-
conveyed, as herein provided, shall
thereafter be subject to disposition
by the United States only on such
terms and under such rules and reg
ulatioms as the secretary OF the inter-
ior may perscribe. This provision is
intended to serve IL double purpose
to prevent speculation in relinquish-
ments and to empower the secretary
of the interior to see that justice Is
dol Q the prior owner in the matter of
any improvements on the relinqnish
ed land that the prior owner may
have left on his said original entry.
Section I forbids the application OF
the communication provision OF the
homestead laws to entries under this
act.
Section gives II preference right
of 30 days to 8prior entryman to en-
ter land contiguous to his said origi-
nal entry, with a provision for an
equitable apportionment of contigu-
Gus lands between two or more prior
entrymen who may each desire to en-
ter the same lands as contiguous to
their respective prior entries.
Section extends the right to an
entryman under any existing home
stead law to acquire, by direct pur-
chase from the government, at the
rate of $l.25 per acre, public land Of
the character herein described, con-
tiguous to his original prior entry, In
amount sufficient to make, with his
original entry, not more than $40
acres.
Section 10: The purpose is to limit
the operation Of this bill strictly to
the surface OF the lands described and
to reserve to the United States the
ownership and right to dispose of all
minerals underlying surface thereof.
This section also provides II method
for the joint use of the surface of the
land by the entryman of the surface
thereof and the person who shall ac-
quire from the United States the
right to prospect, enter, extract and
remove all minerals that may under
lie such lands, this method to be un-
der the direction of the secretary OF
the interior under such rules and reg
ulations as he may prescribe.
Section II authorizes the secretary
or the interior to withdraw from entry
and hold open for the general use of
the public, important water holes,
springs and other bodies of water
that are necessary for large surround
ing tracts of country; so that a person
cannot monopolize or control large
territory by locating as n homestead
the only available water supply for
stock in that vicinity. The provision
in this section is also in the interest
of the stockinen, and authorizes the
secretary of the interior to designate
stock driveways and withhold the
land from entry so that there may be
no Interference with stOckmen in the
movement of their stock from the
winter to the summer ranges in the
forest reserve or to other places on
the public domain.
Golden Hair and the Three Bears.