Show LIrA KOED HOMESTEAD WW ho ua 1119 i tad BILL NOW 10 wat AGREED TO JT 1 dies lies to utah only where three hundred and twenty T wrel ity acres may be entered As dry farming land washington HINGTON D C feb 12 conferees ees on the enlarged homel bill have agreed upon the pro ns s on that measure and senator t t yesterday made a report to nate the part of the bill re ang g residence was amended by aiding ing that no land can be taken talen the provisions of the bill with first being designated by the gitary tary of the interior sec 6 the residence idenie section was amended ato to apply only to utah and lim the land to be taken to two 3 n acres discussing this agreement sen smoot moot said sec 6 with the esi dence clause allowing utah to enter acres with iding on it means that nearly southern counties and a few lie e northern counties will be ly benefited for millions of can an be entered under the pro of the bill and made dr of it should result in hi the of all the small grains on dry lands ands instead of irrigated lands lag g the latter for intensified ang g or the raising of crops more able le than small grains the thought this should bo be con to utah as they considered Sf ming arming to be in the experiment tage ge and they knew of no state r adapted than utah to demonie the feasibility of it I 1 pre hat in a few years this bill will be enlarged to provide for similar entries in all the western states the bill doubles the amount of land that inrid be taken up as a home chend and it will be reported from conference in the house by chairman mondell of the public lands committee it is expected that the passage of this bill will mean the settlement of vast tracts of land in utah which are not now attractive to the settler A great increase in population in that state is expected as one of the results of this legislation the bill fixes the homestead limit upon the alwa of lands described at 3 acres peres and provides definite requirements quire ments for cultivation the lands subject to such entry must be designated by the government as and non timbered so far as utah is concerned it is provided that two million acres may be taken up in this way and that in cases the land has no water fit for drinking the settler need not live upon ic it is i s said that thousands of acres of this class of landfill land will be beat at once ance taken up settlers upon all of this land will engage in what is known as dry far farming this move should promote the settlement of many thousand acres of land in the arid and states said chairman mondell in these places the settler now does not feel that acres are enough to to support his family the increate inc u in i made as an especial inducement to settlers |