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Show I NEW HOMESTEAD LAW. The 320-acro homestead lTiTnow intwprelftd to open In ' V , fWn ,m land under Hint Jaw an opportunity to I those who have t ken P and n . : further use their honicsieau ub"10- , . ... I ! Sai those who hlivo taken less than the maximum can now ent,r additional land up to the full amount ' Heretofore the interior department ha held a cine b op I posite view. More than a year ago Congrossimm Mom c 1 failed I ho I attention of the department to the. fact that tin, proven was not I in aeeordanee with the terms of the law or sound pub c o I Secretary Fisher, in a letter to the commissioner ot the gen- I cral land office, has held the criticism of the Wyoming member well I Sen that the provision in the department s circular of 1nslr.1ct.9ns 1 o the land office was not in accord with the law or sound pub- I lie policy, and directing that the language objected to be stneken I 'New instructions, embodying the changedMnterprclatiqn of the 1 law will ho sent to all land offices. ' r , , , I Members of congress have received Ihousnnds of complaints 1 from entrvmen who desire to take up additional tracts under his 1 law, who have only filed'on 160 acres. The result of the new I pretation will be to enable these to acquire laud up to the hill H amount 1 Under this new interpretation Utah entrymon. for instance, can I take up 40 acres at one point, 40 at another, and so on until the 1 320-aore homestead right has boon exhaled. This will make it 1 possible for homesteaders under the Sniool ncl to carefully select their land, avoiding ground not fertile or not favorable to culliva- tion. ( The new ruling will be of great benefit where a 320-acrc tract is Ht cut with gullies or encroached on by rocky foothills. |