Show SURVEY HOMESTEADS I ON NATIONAL FORESTS During the 1916 field season just opening entry or final proof surI surveys surveys sur- sur veys will be made of ot homestead I I claims within the national forests of ot the Intermountain district t by byl I I Forest Service surveyors Forty Forty- eight of these claims are in Idaho 23 in Nevada 31 in Utah and 2 in Wyoming The surveys will be handled by two crews in charge of ot Mr R. R D. D Garver Garver Garver Gar- Gar ver and Mr F. F C C. C Haman Work will start immediately Mr Hamans Haman's crew beginning in Nevada on the Ne Nevada Ne-I Ne vada national forest and Mr Carvers Carver's Garvers Garver's Gar Gar- vers ver's beginning in Idaho on the MII- MII doka forest All AU of at this survey survey survey sur sur- vey work is under the general supervision supervision supervision super super- vision of Mr W. W B. B Rice of the tho Ogden Ogden Ogden Og- Og den office once of at the forest service The surveys Include all homestead homestead homestead home home- stead claims within the forests of this district requiring survey to enable en en- enable able the to offer final proof prior to January 1 I 1918 there being many others on surveyed lands not requiring special survey SurI Surveys Surveys Sur Sur- veys are made from Crom a a. year to a year I I I. I I and a half halt In advance with a view I to having all office work by the forest for tor- est eat service and the general land office of of- I flee fice completed by the time the thu claimants claimants claim claim- ants aro are ready to offer final proof and apply for patent to their lands I Under the old procedure when a homestead within a national national national na na- forest wished to secure title to lands or to irregular tracts of ot surveyed agricultural land where metes and bounds survey was necessary he was obliged to have his claim surveyed at his own exp expose se by a n surveyor approved by tho survey sur- sur vey general Such a survey cost cosI the claimant anywhere from to GOO according to the tho distance which the surveyor was forced to travel time consumed etc eta The act of ot August 10 10 1912 authorized authorized authorized au au- the forest service to make these surveys surreys tree free of ot chu cha homestead claimants within tho the national national national na na- na- na forests Since tho the passage of that act approximately such surveys have havo been made mach by the service service service ser ser- vice within district four tour alone alono and this seasons season's work will bring the number up to over n |