Show BOAD tj RULING AS TO homesteads washington WASHINGTO jan 30 the national reclamation act requires that settlers in order to obtain water rights under government irrigation projects must reside on or in the neighborhood of their land heretofore I 1 neighbor neighborhood hodd has been construed to mean within twenty miles of the land secretary garbold today issued an cordei substituting sti fifty for twenty miles so that settlers during the early years of de development elopement elop ment may reside in neigh boring towns while cevelo developing irrigated homesteads this change ange is due to the development of transportation por tation lines in in the irrigated country |