The Dickinson press., 1917-09-01
NATIONAL FOREST
RESERVE Will Be
OPENED FOR ENTRY

The Dakota National Forest Re-
serve, which forms portions of town
ship 1876, ranges 1O1 and 1O3, about
20 miles south of Amidon, in Slope
county, comprises about 5000 acres of
land and will be available for home
stead entry under a recent proclama-
ton by President Wilson, will be sub
ject to entry after 9 o'clock a. m.
September 10Th.
w. B. Dickson, register of the local
land office, explains the act as fol-
lows:
irrespective applicants may during
the period of twenty days preceding
the date on which the land shall be-
come subject to entry selection or
location of the form desired under
said Proclamation, execute their ap-
plication in the manne provided by
law and present the same, ACCOMPANY
led by the required payments, in per-
son, by mail or otherwise to the
United States land office at Dickin-
son, North Dakota, and all applica-
lions so filed, together with such as
may be submitted at the hour fixed
will be treated as though simultane-
ously filed, and disposed of in the
regulations Of May ~, 1914, which in
brief provide:
1. That where there is no conflict
the application shall be allowed.
2. That where there are applica-
tions conflicting in whole or in part,
drawing shall be made to determine
priority of rights.
g.. Where any applicant fails to
obtain all the land applied for by him
he will be permitted to elect whether
he will retain the land secured and
amend his application to embrace
other lands not affected by pending
applications and otherwise subject
thereto when such amended applica-
ton is presented or otherwise his
original application without predju-
dice, and in the event of such with
drawal the fee and commissions will
be returned by the Receiver.
Applications conflicting in whole
with those previously allowed will be
rejected in the usual manner.
These lands are not available for
homestead entry under the enlarged
Homestead acts. The tract applied for
shall not be for more than one
hundred and sixty acres and shall not
exceed n mile in length.
Intending homesteaders are per-
mitted by the provisions of the Proc
lamation to go upon the lands to
examine them with a view to making
entry thereof or settlement therein
when they shall become subject there
to-: but are strictly prohibited from
performing any act Of settlement OF
being on or occupying such lands
prior to 9 o'clock a.. M, standard time:
September 26, 1917. No rights are
acquired by such acts of settlement:
made prior to said September rs
1917, and all persons attempting to
make such settlement shall be consid-
cred as t"respassers.
The 20 day period prior to Septem-
Der 10, 1917, during which prospective
applicants may execute their applica-
tons in the manner provided by law
and present the same, accompanied
by the required payments, to this Of
flee, in person, by mail or otherwise
commences with August 80, 1917, al
9 o'clock a.. m.
The officers before whom such ap'
p%lications must be executed and &C
knowledged are the following: Thu
Register and Receiver Of the Dickin
son office; any United States Com
missioner within this United States
Land District, or the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court, or the Judge Of tn
County Court, whose offices are a
Amidon in Slope County, North Da
kota, being the county wherein sait
lands are situated.