Show I L it enacted by the senate and I of the I of representatives W States of America m con- 1 person is a qualified un-f. the homestead laws of the Ld States may by legal under the provisions in the states of Colo-do f this Washington and yie territories of Arizona and hundred and or of unreserved 1 surveyed public lands which do not contain located in a reasonably compact and not and one-half miles in extreme length That no land shall be subject to entry under the provisions of this act until such lands shall have been designated by the secretary of the ulterior as not in his susceptible of successful irrigation at a reasonable cost from aay known source of water That any person apply-ag to enter land under the visions of this act shall make and subscribe before the proper officer an affidavit as required by section twenty-two hundred and ninety of the revised and in additon thereto shall make affidavit that the land sought to be entered is' of the character described in section one of this and shall pay the fees now required to be paid under the homestead That any homestead of lands of the character herein upon which final proof has not been shall have the right to enter public subject to the provisions of this contiguous to his former entry which shall together with the exceed three hundred and twenty and residence upon the cultivation of the original entry shall be deemed as residence upon and cultivation of the That at the time of making final proofs as provided in section twenty-two hundred and ninety-one of the revised statutes the under this- act in additon to the proofs and affidavits required under the said prove by two credible wit nesses that at least one-eighth of the area embraced in his entry was continuously cultivated to agricultural corps other than native grasses beginning with the second year of the and that at least one-fourth of the area embraced in the entry was so cultivated beginning with the third year of the That nothing herein contained shall be held to affect the right of a qualified to make homestead entry in the States named in section one of this act under the provisions of section twenty-two hundred and eighty-nine of the revised but no person who has made entry under this act shall be entitled to make homestead entry under the provisions of said and no entry made under this act shall be That whenever the of the interior shall find that any tracts of in the state of subject to entry under this do not have them such a sufficient supply of water suitable for domestic purposes as would make continuous residence upon the lands he in his nate such tracts of not to exceed in the aggregate two million and thereafter they shall be subject to entry under this act without the necessity of That in such event the on any stich entry shall in good faith cultivate not less than one-eighth of the entire area of the entry during the second one-fourth during the third and one-half during the fourth and fifth years after the date of sueh and that after entry and until final proof the shall reside within such distance of said land as will enable him successfully to farm the same as required by this Approved February V. S. Dear Here is a dollar for your If you can maintain and carry out the sentiments expressed on its title it's likely to live a long since no nor good man ever lived or died without such colors have to he nailed to the Respectfully A. R. |