Seward seaport record., 1950-03-31

How's that again? We'll, of course you know that non-veteran is re- quired to cultivate sixteenth of the total land during the second entry year and one-eighth during the third entry year. Then, doubt less, you know, too, that veteran, even though he may have nineteen months service and an honorable discharge, faces the cultivation re- quirements if he delays making proof beyond the end of his first entry year.
 Everybody knows that, you say? Then, let's get along to another point. Let's assume you are an honorably discharged veteran with nineteen months service behind you. and you find a nice piece of open unsurveyed land Yes, open land-don't go settling on land that is withdrawn from entry, for if you do, you are in trespass, and you'll cause yourself and the Bureau of Land Management more headaches and trouble than you can shake stick at.
 If you want unsurveyed land. let's assume you have checked with the Survey Office at Juneau to see if the land you want has not been patented or is not in withdrawal, and you have satisfied yourself by personal examination that no one else is occupying the land or is claiming it through a notice record ed in the US. Commissioner Off, flee.
 A settlement claim is initiated by actual occupancy of the land. If you are nineteen-months veteran, be sure to get on the land early enough to complete seven months resi- dence by one year from the date you filed your claim in the proper US. Commissioners office. Why? Because if you don't get your ap- plication for free survey into the land office by the end of the first year, the cultivation requirement. of one-sixteenth of the total acreage for the second year becomes effec- tive. Then. if you delay until into the third year. of course one-eighth of the total area is subject to cul- tivation. Those nineteen-months veterans who are already settled on land and have lived on it seven months must file their applications for free survey in the proper land office as promptly as possible in order to get credit for military service.
 Read that paragraph over again. We'll wait.
 A nOn-veteran is required to have one-eighth cultivated before he makes application for a free survey. He is eligible then to make an ap- plication if he has met the resi- dence requirements of seven months for each of three years. At the end of the third year or during any time of the third year that he has completed the residence, cultl- vated the land, and built a habl- table house, he may apply for a free survey.
 Let's take up one more point be- fore we close today's lesson.
 Do you have an additional entry? Check your papers to see if you have both an original and an ad- ditional entry if you aren't sure Now, another question-do you have an original entry already all lowed for surveyed land, and are you attempting to claim an addi- tional piece of adjoining unsur- veyed land by stalking it? If so, be dead sure, in both instances, that you are living on the original entry and your cultivation is On the or iginal.
 Officials of the Bureau of Land Management declare that there IS rejoicing in the Bureau every time homestead entryman is found to have complied with the regulations and his proof goes through slick as a whistle However, it isn't only the Government that is interested in