Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-04-19
dan CARSON TELLS
OF STALKING CLAIM
Richmond Boy Writes Back
From Wyoming Where He
Went for Government Land
(From Lexington Herald)

u IOlD ilCl elioI
Sitting in a South Limestone street
fraternity house reading glowing ac
counts of ell doradoes offered former
service men by the government and
the little to some of the ell
dorado land were two entirely different
one Kentuckian we'll
known here found. Daniel G. Carson,
of Richmond, known as exit" to the
students at the University. of Ken
lucky, which he attended before leav-
ing for Wyoming to stake a claim on
government land offered former SER
vice men is the man.
Carson served number of months
with the American army in Siberia
returning and receiving discharge
shortly before the opening of the fall
semester at the University.
In letter written to friend here,
Carson recounts some of the trials
encountered in stalking claim to
government land. The letter follows:
1906 Spruce street,
1906 Spruce street,
Crock Springs, Wyoming.
"Dear--
'Well boy, l suppose you think that
talk is cheap with some people, but
you desired information about these
lands in this section. If information
of lands in general was what you
wanted, / am qualified to speak, but
for anything definite you must wait
until get located myself. Probably
you know by now that our dope or
the Government irrated land rattle
was just about wrong, conservatively
speaking. Maybe you would be in
terested in hearing about the recent
drawings.
81 arrived in the little village of Tor
rington around 8 p. M, March a. The
applications and water rental deposit
had to be in the land office by a. m.
March 5. Torrington was overrur
with soldiers-haven't seen as man,
in one place since whisky was votet
out of the army. There were 5000
acres divided up into 80 tracts anc
only 3,251 ex-service men filing, SC
you can see the chance that even {
lucky man up against Along with
yGuri application there wasaa cash de.
ip2S9it Of Sa,10 per acre. for each acre
under water, this money to be- return
/, ed if the applicant :wss un.ucky. In
| fihdlfqlttaally mine hasn't been returned
I! yft. .,Eyerybody's number was put
~ N keg and at 2 o'clock they Started
tqo draw them. a The first manlout OF
the keeg Won. Oh, it was an exciting
afternoon, Notwithstanding the fact
that 9, blizzard was. raging and the
fat supply of %chow''' was about ex-
hFlaflprls5tteedLIi u ~ .,f-n.i fG6n i"niin"e
~ THE. other 5000 acres was Opened
! IN the Shpshone region ON March 12
Iinnd was not as desirable land,% conse-
Iquently, the competition was Tighter
but l may as well state thatlI don't
own any land in that locality either
There is still large quantity OF
grazing land left, however, to be
homcsteaded in tracts up to $40 acres
and this scheme appeals to me more
and seems AMIDST as good as the gov
eminent irrigated land, only here arc
two kinds of this dry land and the
worst isn't worth having, so my bust
ness for the past ten days has beer
looking around for the best and l be-
lieve this best grazing land lies ir
Fremont county around little space
called Pinedale. In addition to taking
up section (64O acresO you may al
every reasonable terms buy up to 100
acres with water on it from the state
Also at a low figure $3.50 per acre.
| it is DOSSihle To oct 100 more acres Ot