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Show FOUKST IIO.MFSTF.II) LAW It is confidently assorted that pur- N eople have not. realized the possibilities possibil-ities hold forth by the forest homestead home-stead law. The boundaries of national na-tional forests In Utah encompass practically 8.000,000 acres, and it is 1 fact, that thousands of tracts of land of less than 1C0 acres each are suitable for cultivation and residence). In the canyons and in the ravines ind draws tributary thereto, on the benches and slopes, and ou the plateaus, pla-teaus, of which there exists an ond-ess ond-ess variety within tho forests, there are opportunities for a forest homestead home-stead entries. Such entries cannot he made until a designation or, rathc-i, listing as agricultural Is made, and that is usually done on application of a citizen described a particular j marcel of land. Tho act of Congress approved March 4, 1915, allow ng an entryman to file his application for enlarged homestead on undesignated laud and Utaeh thereto petitloji for deslgna? Mod, has stimulated the interest of tho public in the dry homestead. The act applies both to the resident and .nonresident form of entry. Under the former method of designation It fre-uuntly fre-uuntly transpired that tho tract desired de-sired by a citizen was not designated ind he must need wait the result of action on his petition, and it not infrequently in-frequently happened that while w I wailing the land was taken under some oilier form of entry. |
