The border vidette., 1917-02-24
NEW HOMESTEAD LAW
Six Hundred and Forty Acres Stock
 raising Farms.

The new 64O-acre law permits
 all of those qualified to enter
 lands under the same to imme-
 diately make application for the
 same at the United States dis
 trict land office in which these
 lands are located, notwithstand- ing the fact that it is the duty
 of the secretary of the interior
 to finally designate the public
 lands that may be entered, which
 are lands the surface of which
 is, in his opinion, chiefly valu-
 able for grazing and raising for
 age crops, do not contain mer-
 chantable timber, are not suS-
 ceptible of irrigation from any
 known source of water supply,
 and are of such a character that
 64O acres are reasonably re-
 quired for the support of a fami-
 ly, and that said lands are non-
 mineral in character. That said
 lands contain no water holes" for watering livestock, and that said lands are not situated in or on any driveway, but are near to
 we'll defined public roads and trails.
 The law provides additional entries to four classes of persons who have made former home stead entries of land of the same class as are to be designated under the new 64O acre law.
 First-A former homestead entry of the character above described may make additional entry of tract within twenty miles from former entry, which together with former entry, shall not exceed GAO acres; Provided that all contiguous areas are entered prior to areas that do not join the former.
 Second-A former homestead who has not submitted final proof of his existing entry has an additional right to enter lands making 64O acres in the aggregate. No re- sidence is required on the con- tiguouS additional lands, but i'm must be made on the entry, equal to SIPS Der acre.
 Third-A former homestead who has proved up on a tract of land of the character permitted under the 64O- acre law and who still owns and resides thereon, may make additional entry to contiguous or adjoining lands designated for entry under this act, which, together with | the amount of land embraced in his original entry, will not ex- ,eed 64O acres. Improvements | to the extent of $1.25 per acre | on the additional entry are re- Iuired. No residence required on the additional.
 Fourth-A former homes tead l entryman who has heretofore 1 made entry of lands of the char lcted described in the new law ,f less than 64O acses; and no and of the same character ad- oins or lies within twenty miles nay relinquish his entry to the and in lieu thereof nay enter $40 acres anywhere n the same land district wherein lis original entry was made.
 Preferential rights-All for ger homestead entrymen who ave heretofore entered lands S above described and entitled 0 make additional entries that re of the same character of ands that are provided for in he 64O-acre law (and recollect hese lands must be of the same lass) have ninety days prefer nee right after the secretary ] f the interior has finally desig : ated lands adjoining these for fer homestead entries as stock aising lands, within which to . ppear and make entry on con- : guous or adjoining lands.
 Those making original applica- . ons should have in mind rights : f homesteaders who have taken 2 D lands adjoining stock raising . Lnds. Before you make ap- r lication be sure you know the :; tnds you have selected do not r ontain tracts which adjoin en- | 'ymen who have ninety days right, as in all prob / Dility those former entrymen . ill use their preferential right, nd thus take from you the DOT ons to which he is entitled.
 Under the present ruling any erson who has had or who now \