The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-01-04
Will Apply to Stock Raising
Lands-Lands Unsuited
for Agriculture.
OPEN VAST TRACTS
Register Heitfeld Estimates
Over 100000 Acres Avail
able in This District.

An announcement that 1t is expect
ed will he of far reaching Importance
in the development of Idaho and all
western sections where stock raising
is among the leading industries. was
made by telegraph last Saturday from
Washington to the Lewiston land office.
The dispatch stated that the stock
raising homestead is now in force and
may be taken advantage Of by all those
desiring additional lands for stock
grazing.
This act, which supplements the
320-acre act, allows for the entry of
$40 acres of land where the same is
not adapted to agriculture or horti-
culture and not subject to irrigation
and where not principally valuable
for its timber-in other words lands
principally adapted for grazing.
The telegram received announced
| that applications for entry with peti-
tions for designation, will now be re-
ceived, but will be suspended this
suspension evidently to allow period
for the department to adopt some rule
for classification.
Register Heitfield estimates that
lands available for entry under this
act In the Lewiston land office dis
trict will reach 10000 to 100000
acres and possibly 100000 acres. In
this district such lands are located
principally in the Salmon river sec
ton of Idaho county, with some in
Nez Perce and Lewis county. Due to
the timber stand, little of such land
is located in Clearwater county and
practically none in Latah.
View is expressed that throughout
Idaho the act will result in the settle
ment of hundreds of thousands of
acres of land
The act provides that lands entered
must he in compact body, but where
| a person has entered 800 acres under
the old act, he shall be privileged to
enter additional ground up 10 $40
? acres if such land is located within a
? radius of twenty miles of the original
2 entry. However, he must first utilize
l such lands as are contiguous to this
t original entry The entryman in
e stead of cultivation must put i'm
l provementS on the land reaching
. $1.25 an acre and at least one-half
$ of such improvements must be pro
e yided within three years. If a home
$ steader has not completed proof on
e an existing entry, he can make addi-
| tOnal entry and residence on the
: original entry will he allowed but Oh
LHt uINuilolldi tHllN nC
n Improvements reaching $1.25 an acre
/ In case where an entryman has
Il made entry on lands under previous
}. acts, and where he has placed no en-
(, cumbrances on the land or has no
Il sold the same, and there is no lane
1 contiguous or within u radius o
IS twenty miles for additional entry, h,
s. may relinquish his original entry ant
4 make Il new entry for $40 acres
L The Communication provisions of tn
II homestead laws will not apply to thi
e, act
II ANY person having entered land
+ will have ninetyday preference o
is contiguous lands for an. additiona
II entry. Where such contiguous land
t. apply to two or more entrymen, tn
Is secretary of the interior will max
n an equitable division of the lands be
z tween these entrymen, alotting i
)r forty acre tracts. but if there is onl
IL one such tract, the first person NAL
X ing the application for the additions
II. entry will he given preference.
e, In all entries the government n
lie serves the right to allow qualifie
i persons to enter upon the lands
IL prospect for coal or other mineral