Show 41 1 F tr REACHING CHANGES ars IN I 1 LAND LANS I 1 ar reach nr rig changes will be made ahe land and horr estead laws jams of the united states with mth resulting N h n fit to utah if the present q sion of cong congress TeSS acts faor favorably ably on measures mpa recommends ei in the 1925 report repert of william spry commissioner of nf the federal general land office a in his annual report the report states that the present fi f ral land laws are out of date and in reed of much revision some sh ul I 1 he be repealed as no loneer longer use fu etheri should be abutted and extended and some new nem measures eh sh mid uld be p pissed ased rc cording to the enort ohp roni recommends re feal of the stock raisin raising homestead law of 1916 and find propone the leases leasing of lands to to stock raisers under a si measure homesteads al eady ready established under the 1916 G law ian ho however weier are not to be affected T rider the present law 1 a home ineader is limited to acres on a homestead horn estead ar grnant int the report proposes to permit stockmen to lease as much federal land as they wish and recommends that surface mineral airlifts en on all homesteads be retained by the govern government mint I 1 la is also recommended that a homesteader home homos teader be permitted to pur rh leanse se as much as acres adjacent or adjoining his original homestead I 1 the PI present limit is lbs acres it is proposed proposed that a man who files oh a born estead be allowed ahr three years vears in aich which to make maue improvements and eata establish blish residence the present gix six month limit baft considered coraide red far too barrt under present conditions within three vears s it is pointed ott it a homesteader honest cader his has a chance to fatall manent improvements ar tange for loans and make a livinia at t some eivir bg occupation while get ret tinz ready to move on his homestead this rives gives him min a chance to pet get ready to w work his hi land in the proper fash ion w so 0 o he can make a real IV ing oie he 1 h s home on it surface mineral rights now rc re moved to the only urt der r stock raising ra ilein agreements should bo to reserved by the government on AJI 1 l hornest homesteads hom esteada eads in thi tha of the federal land office chief |