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Show i- ! -h HELPING THE SETTLERS. Uy nlllxlnlg his nnmo to tho act which enables settlers of reclamation projects to obtain patent nnd water rights claims upon tho completion of threo years resldenco President Toft on Friday ngaln enmo to tho aid of the pioneer builder and developer of tho nation's resources. Hero again tho peoplo of tho west are benefitted especially by this president pres-ident who believes In encouraging h'? fellow man. They profit as thoy did to a largo degreo when tho threo year homestead law was signed by the president. Under tho terms of these laws the greatest hardships on the settler, the long tlmo of resldenco required, to prove up with Its restraining clauses, have been removed. As an outcome not only does tho settler profit and the country's Innds promlso to bo moro quickly developed, but tho states In which these homesteads nro located locat-ed will also profit In the Income from taxes two years In advance of the tlmo heretofore secured. As the homestead law now stiiuds, n poor man may go upon the open range where there Is public land, stako out his claim, go to th6"'lnnd olllco nnd file within six months, begin be-gin living on thu place. Then ho ls allowed to be off to work, or fcr any other reason, for five months In the yenr, simply writing tho land olllce when ho leaves and when ho" return?-At return?-At tho end of the three years Jiq may jnake final proof, or at any tlmo within with-in two years thereafter, and ho Js then a freeholder with something he can cnll his own. There is a requirement require-ment In tho law that at least uten acres on n quarter section must be cultivated the second year, nnd twenty twen-ty acres the third, and until final proof Is made. This Is simply n precaution pre-caution against clerks, counter Jumpers, Jump-ers, and others of tho soft-pawed variety va-riety taking ndvantngo ot tho thrift of their wives to put them out on p their simps In town nnd talk abou' 'ir.y ranch."- Tho cultivation of the twenty ncres will causo this class to think twice before trying the pro,!-otltlon, pro,!-otltlon, nnd will hnvo n tendency to develop tho whole west by Ir-iveus-Ing tho cultivated and croppml ncre-ago. ncre-ago. Equal advantages aro found In tho reclamation project act. Already tho land offlces nro beginning begin-ning to feej tho Increased Impetus of tho land business. Mnny nro coming Into Colorado from tho eastern states, called out by tho moro liberal homestead home-stead law and tho opportunities hero presented, while thoso already holding hold-ing claims nro- getting In their applications appli-cations for proof ns quickly ns thoy can, so that thoy can get final papers pa-pers and a basis of credit with tho grocer nnd tho seed store for next year's supplies. Resides tho benollt to tho farmor clnss, tho passago of tho bill will ma-terlally ma-terlally aid tho growth of tho financial finan-cial standing of tho stnto. When n mnn gots his final papers his land ls taxable, and tho county nnd stnto get tho benefit of two years moro of taxes than heretofore allowed. Tho now homestead law Is something some-thing tho peoplo of tho west should bo grntofui for, and thoy nro. In theso ns In everything else ho has done President Tnft has proven hlmsolf the frlcn dof th,o poor mnn. |
