The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-04-30

Official plats of lands comprisin
irrigable unentered public domains i
the Milk River project which ar
open to entry, are on file in the oil
flee of the project manager, Unite
States reclamation service, Malta
and the land office at Glasgow.
The limit of the areas which ma
be filed on by one person is deter
mined by the secretary of the interio
in accordance with the requirement
for the support of family upon thu
lands. Contestants having a prefer
ence right on entries of certain OF th'
farm units which are shown in thu
plats will be the only ones allowed
to file for a 3O-day period starting
upon notice from the land office.
Persons desiring to file an appli
cation for entry to the public lands
must first make out an application
for water rental at the rate of SO fol
each irrigable acre in the particular
unit which he wishes to file on. Each
water rental application must be fol
a specific farm unit and more than
one person is allowed to make an ap-
plication for the same unit.
Must Deposit Cash.
The applications must be made to
the project manager, United States
reclamation service, at Malta, in the
six days between April "a and
O'Clock April 80. Applications re-
ceived after that date will be re-
ceived and the order of their receipt
noted. Those received during the
six-day period will be treated stimuli
taneously and treated according to
the number of applications. for the
same tract.
When there is no conflict, the wa
ter rental application will be APP
proved Where there are more than
one Application, the manager will
write the names of the applicants on
cards, place them in envelopes and at
o'clock on the afternoon of April
80 he will have a drawing, in the
presence of whoever wishes to be
present, and those that are picked
will be numbered in the order of
their selection, and the applications
approved in the same order.
After water rental applications
have been approved, the project man
ager will issue notice to the sue
cessful applicants which Will permit
them to make an entry on the desired
homestead. This entry should be
made within period of five days
from the time the receipt of the no
tice. Failure to enter title for the
homestead within this period at the
land office at Glasgow entities the
water rental applicant next in line to
file on the land. Whether the sue
cessful water rental applicants file
upon a homestead, no refund of the
money deposited as water rental will
be made.
The Initial Charge.
If any applicant fails to get the
land he applies for he will be per-
mitted to withdraw his original ap-
plication without prejudice, or to
amend his application to refer to
lands not under controversy. In
the event that he desires to with
draw his Application he will be re-
funded the money paid to the project
upon the presentation of
1hC IOl WdLCI lCnIdls
The initial charge of So an acre for
all irrigable land in the tract will be
accredited in the case of a finished
deal, as payment of a minimum
charge of 81 an acre for period of
three years beginning with the year '
when the entry is made, payment of |
which will entitle the entryman to :
One dollars worth of water each year {
for the three years at the rates fixed 6
by the secretary of the interior. In {
case of an entry being made after '
Tune Is, or after the period when the |
water is needed most, the payment S
will be credited as starting the fol- t
owing year. i
Sixty-Day Limit. G
The charge will be made against v
very farm unit in the district, n
whether the water is used upon the
ands or not, and no part of the SO t
N acre paid at the beginning of the
irst year of the three-year period n
will be refunded at the end of the C
eriod. c.
Until June 80, 1920, soldiers, sail o
rs and marines who served in the n
var against Germany and who have o
ince been honorably separated from a
he service or who have been trans o
erred to the regular army, navy or p
1arine corps, will have the prefer c.
nee of filing, providing that they 81
ave the civil rights of homestead a.
r. Applications from soldiers must 81
e accompanied by certified copy 81
f the original discharge or transfer Il
D the regular forces of the United a.
tates, and an affidavit stating that 81
e did not refuse to wear the uniform al
r perform the duties of the service. W
p,
Montana farmers who intend to ii
row field or grain seed during the Oh
oming season are requested to write re
le T. G. Power Co., Helena, Mont, m
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