Show i ariy Settlers Promised Titles Tiles to Their Homesteads l ff At lAND LANDI I OFFICE Will Willi i rA PASS UPON r N Ni J y i Delay Delay Due to Driveways for Stock Soon to End I Some Applicants Have I Waited Long Explanation I fA A FTER delay which in some AFTER instances has extended from rom ate in 1916 a large number of razing homestead entries on the thes s 1 public ublia lands of Utah are about to toi 1 i decided by the general Jand land office of ot withdrawal by the i government and designation of stock in various parts of ot the state itch Ich have conflicted with such drive- drive Pay ay applications make matte possible the 1 l I passing upon the homestead en- en its Ics The was made today f Gould Blakely register of ot the the- theland land landco Ico co for tor Utah who says that scores of ot for homesteads who have lied for tor months and years Cars to prove on their entries may now do so in such Buch Instances where their tries have been wiped out by the application Thesis These Instances fe to re comparatively few it is t said ald sald beuse beuse be- be use It has been the policy of the de- de to invade the rights of entry- entry en an DS little as possible in holding own tho the ambitious claims of the who have sought driveways much as six miles wide and many lies in length DRIVEWAYS DESIGNATED to M M. B. B Leming acting al 81 chief of the field service In the sense sence nee of ot Ralph S. S Kelley It ft has been beene i e duty of his department to pass upon e stock driveway applications and to tox x their limits The Tho law provides that Individual i stockmen or associations of ot stockmen could apply for driveways up five miles wide leading from sum- sum tier to winter ranges or from grazing titters inters to railroad shipping points or orron from ron rom forest reserves to winter ranges These driveways are now nov In C Ce In various arious parts of Utah Nevada nil and d Idaho the tho latest one withdrawn ending from the vicinity of ot Salt Lake o southern Utah Some of or these are oro now so connected that Js possible to drive herds of cattle nd rid d from Idaho to Arizona rough ugh ough portions of ot Utah and Nevada OADS INCLUDED Although tho applicants Invariably for tor the widest driveway obtain obtain- le Ie even more than five miles in where they could coull let their stock ate aze at leisure in passing from one art rt of ot the tho state to another it has een een the policy of ot the tho field service to Strict the driveways to a quarter of ot a ae ae ale le e in the most part and where pos- pos I Ihlo ihie the tho department has designated ho to public roads to constitute portions C the driveways In this manner the theand and ind oW office co has met the evident at- at of ot the stockmen to appropriate cds of miles of ot public land to the nt of or the individual settler Furthermore where a IL settler has toted lo- lo ted cd ted In good faith mid and his entry hap- hap as to b bo be In the path of ot a proposed heway It has been tho the policy of ot the theand and ind office to arrange arranJo the tho driveway round the land which has been en- en tred as a stead homestead There Thero are many driveway Continued on page o 8 8 GENERAL LAND OFFICE Continued from page 1 still before the department and andas andas as a consequence there are still many homestead entries that must still be beheld beheld beheld held up pending investigation by the field service |