Show Entry of Timber and Other Lands WASHINGTON Sept 20The officials in i the general land office say they are not aware that as stated in a Portland Oregon despatch the government is withholding with-holding from settlers in Oregon patents for timber lands to any great extent on the ground that the lands are agricultural There are some cases held up pending investigation in-vestigation by special agents to determine I tho character of the land The great trouble that the land officials have to deal with they say is to prevent a violation of the law in regard to the entry of timberland timber-land not only in Oregon but in the northwest north-west generally By law one person can make only one entry of ICO acres of timber land Syndicates Syndi-cates have been formed and great bodies of timberland Sometimes as much as flOOO or 1000 acres are purchased by individuals indivi-duals with the understanding that when they receive a patent it would be turned over to the syndicate which not only furnished fur-nished tho money to the individual to purchase pur-chase the land but paid him also for the uso of his name In many cases these men are brought from eastern cities a men living In the country have as a general thing exhausted their right to either purchase I pur-chase or enter government land The law confines a mans right to one timber entry and one homestead one preemption pre-emption one desert land entry and one timber culture entry In some cases where a party holds a homestead I home-stead or other entry and desires Ito I-to acquire more land he purchases a timber entry To do this he has to prove that the land is timber land but in a number num-ber of instances the land which he declares is timber land is agricultural land and in these cases according to the law he loses his purchase money of 250 per acre which he gave to the local register and receiver at the time ho made his final proof The law provides for the forfeiture punishment of his attempted at fraud At the general land office here it is I thought these two classes of cases are causing caus-ing trouble in Oregon if any serious trouble exists |