Show for dry homesteads washington jan 31 in order to increase stock raising by making use of idle lands the interior de pirt ment favors a new form of homestead law which bould encourage settlers to take up and or semiarid lands unless for farming purposes assistant secretary jones of the department has prepared a bill which chairman ferns of the house public lands committee will introduce whereby acres of such land could be riven to each settler with mineral rights reserved and tho ight of prospectors to explore stipulated |