| Show WILL GET i lAND fROM UNCLE SAM Order Giving Bona ona Fide Settlers More Morer r Rights Has Just J Been Issued That the United States govern ent nt has decided to 10 give ie more liberal treatment of bona bonn fide squatters on land which has been Included within national forests orests since the time of actual I ancy anc of the land by the squatter Is made manifest st by b the order just Issued by b Sec Secretary S Secretary c Wilson The druer Is a follows A prawn person who wh has hils settled upon and i continuously occupied lands AV thin a national forest before Its crea creaton creaton creaton ton and is at the present time occupying sidi ELIch lands m tn good faith and is in all alt allu u Je snoots com with the homestead law has the right to include within the thc lAnes Jines of his homestead acres after the theland theland theland land Is surveyed Therefore if it the inn Ian IanIs lant innIs Is occupied for agricultural purposes and andis andi i is not more valuable for its timber than I fur such purposes and there are no cir dr circumstances which in the opinion of the district forester lend tend to discredit the good I hith of the claimant he should be al at allowed r lowed to make application for the patent patentIng patenting Ing lag of such lands under the act of June Junen II n 1906 1900 and the examination for listing should be made with a view of listing aires acreS of land where possible The tracts as listed should conform as far as practicable to the form forni of the public lani lan I surveys The listing of ot lands as above should not in any an way war govern the de det t of the total area or amount of land listed for applicants applicants cants rants under the act of June 11 1006 ioe who t were wr not residing upon the land before the creation of the forest In cases where less than O acre acres of land has been listed the land to a person who settled upon prior to the creation of the forest an ad additional area sufficient to complete the homestead entry may ma be allowed upon proper application A squatter who had in good faith taken taker possession of a parcel of ot national forest land before the national forests were c created Is not dispossessed of his claim l bY b y the forest service and If he lives livest i t 1 ion on It and cultivates it until the land has lias been surveyed he lie is able to get his homestead Just as though he had set settled tied on any auy part of ot the unreserved pub lu I domain But since the passage of n tb th act of June 11 1906 which permits the F of agriculture to list for set land lantI which he finds chiefly valuable valuable valuable able for agriculture it has been possible for squatters to apply appl for the listing of thir lands under this act and thus to too o title prior to the government sur sury survey wy vey y |
