Show IL HOW LEGION MEN GEl GET LAND Applicants for Homestead Entries ea Should First F Make Mi Personal Inspection In In- of District In re response to many Inquiries from service ex-service service ex-service men In th Middle West regarding re reo regarding gar garding government land lund grants Irvin I. I Femrite secretory secretary ur of Ar Argonne onne post of the America Ic Legion on In Des Moines In has made sir an n- n Investigation In of sf the situation Per Persons ns des desiring to to make male homestead entries said Mr 1 should first fully In Inform onn themselves n as to the Character and quality of lands they desire to enter and tind should In n no case apply to enter until they y have ex examined examined ex- ex o. o each legal subdivision for which the they make malte application Satisfactory Satis Satis- Satisfactory factory Information Cot concerning c the lands may be obtained from a personal visit to the district In n sine one wishes to take mite out land Each applicant Is required to swear that he Is well acquainted with the character of the land described In lu his application and the only way that he he am can assure himself that prior settlers r have haye no claim Is to make a personal inspection of same Ati An s ex-s service ex-service man Is required to to establish residence on the land Involved In- In after niter his hrs entry Is allowed unes uness uness un- un es ess an nn extension of ot time Is granted on account of sickness climatic maUc reasons or similar excuses Credit Is 13 given for service ser In the Army Navy or Marines Marine providing the applicant has had eighteen months of service If It such Is the case tl the e applicant Is required required required re re- re- re to live on the land hInd only seven months If he hc obtains so so o much credit lt for military service that there Is required required required re re- only one years year's residence he must prove only such such amount t ii br r cultivation as will pr prove yc his good faith as a n homestead claimant Jf If his relit credit for service requires more than one years year's residence he must show cultivation n to the extent of six one of ot the area of the land hand beginning beginnIng beginning be be- ginning with the second year Regard leg o of credit for service all appU ca cani J must prove pro that there is a n habitable house on the land There Is only one portion of ot the country where land may be obtained without the requirement of a homestead home home- stead At Sentinel Ariz there ther are acres open for or which no DO homestead homestead homestead home home- stead Is required but which necessitates totes tates the payment t of ot seventy fire fie dollars for three hundred and ald twenty acres and an expenditure of ot one dollar per acre for Improvement This Is arid land which may be used for tor cotton raising If Irrigated When Irrigated ted It sells for from two from two to thre hundred J dollars an acre ITis Ir IT IrIs IrIs Is estimated that the cost of ot irrigation Irrigation irrigation tion on three hundred and twenty acres acre Is about A acres of land am art open including every state west of th the Mississippi river except Iowa 10 and Texas lexas The first thing think to todo todo todo do is to decide on the state Then get the location locution of the land offices III In that state All blank forms of af alli lda- lda It and other papers ma may be o obtained for Cor tile the district office In n which theland the thu land lies lles Inking laking out a homestead Is not o II speculative proposition If the applicant cant can enn afford to establish himself for Cor the period required under the homestead laws laus taking advantage of ot the credit allowed him for service In Inthe Inthe inthe the World war he will be well repaid after a n few years |