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Show IMPORTANT LAND DECISION. Under a recent decision of the Secretary of the Interior any woman born in the United States and of the age of 21 years or more, whether married or single is entitled to make entry under the Desert Act, and a woman of foreign birth who has declared her intention to become a citizen, or has married a citizen of the United States, and might herself be lawfully naturalized may make an entry thereunder, in the case of a married woman it is immaterial whether or not her husband has exhausted his rights under said act. Under this ruling a wife as well as her husband may obtain a section of desert land at $1.25 per acre, (25 cents an acre down and $1 an acre within three years), together with the usual costs of entry, and final proof, without residence. But the land must be redeemed within three years by bringing water on to it, and irrigating the same, and raising a crop thereon which would not have grown there without such irrigation. The water right must also be a permanent one for said land. |