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Show If SEVEHTY APPLICATIONS FILED FOR HOMESTEADS All Come in Within Two Days, ; and This Breaks Former Records. II Seventy applications for homesteads, 1 all but three of which call for 320 I acres, making a total of 12,920 acres, with foes and commissions of more B than $2000, -vvero filed in the offices of HS the registrar and receiver of the United B Siates land office, Tuesday and Wednes- H day, breaking all records for the period H of'tinie consumed. It Coal entries for this week tako up I about 4000 acres, to be distributed I nmong twenty-nine applicants. Tho government will receive $200,000 for this land. Tho annual report for tho fiscal year, ! to bo forwarded to the general land of- j! ficc at Washington, shows that, tho local lo-cal office has dono the greatest amount L' of business during the last year in its Ji his tor v. Beceipts top tho $250,000 mark, of t which amount $.175,000 comes from coal land sales. Modifications in tho laud laws have boon followed br a trcmcn- i dous increase in the number of filings on dosort and dry farm lands. Tho largest percentage of homesteads ij in the last year have been taken up in I Box Eldor county, which is developing i faster than her sister counties. |