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Show HOMESTEADING ON NATIONAL FORESTS According to the annual report, which has Just been submitted by the local office of tho forest service, a total of 428 forest homestead applications applica-tions were received from persons desiring de-siring to occupy land in national for erjs of this district for agricultural purposes. By the terms of a special act of congress, which was passed Tune 11, 1906, the secretary of agriculture has authorlt to classify and list for open Ing to homestead entry any lands tti the national forests found to be chief ly valuable for agriculture. Examination Examina-tion and listing Is usually made by application, ap-plication, the applicant being given a preference right to file upon the land, if, upon examination, It Is found to be agricultural and subject to entry under tho above act of congress. Of this grand total of 428 applications applica-tions received for lands on the thirty -four national forests of this district, 261 applications were for lands In Idaho Ida-ho 72 for lands in Utah, 53 for lands in Nevada, and 42 for lands In Wyo minn of this number, a total of-Sl applications was withdrawn, 11 were cancelled because the land applied (or was included In recommended eliminations elimi-nations and six were cancelled because be-cause the land applied for had previously previ-ously been withdrawn for administrate administra-te purposes Seventy oue applications applica-tions were rejected because the land upon examination. wa9 not found to he chiefly valuable for agriculture Thirteen applications were suspended for the reason that the land applied for was included in phosphate withdrawal with-drawal and congress has not yet authorized au-thorized the homesteading and acquiring ac-quiring of surface rights for agricultural agricul-tural nnrnnsp! tn lranrte i n r 1 n rl 1 n a nirh deposits, has been done in the case of coal lands A total of 22S applications received favorable action, leaving sixteen waiting wait-ing examination Of the -28 different agricultural tracts examined and list ed for homestead entry in district No 4 of the forest service during the patt fiscal year. 140 were in the state of Idaho. 36 in Nevada, 37 in Utah, and 15 In Wyoming. The forest in Utah, upon which there has been the most extensive settlement during the pa3t year, was the La Sal national fores! 10 homesteads aggregating 1,225 acres of land having been classified and opened to entry on that forest. Since the passage of the forest homestead act in J 906, 37 homesteads, agcreeat ing ,"4s n t"p. have been listed in that one forest alone. On the Dixie forest a total of 57 individual in-dividual tracts have been examined classified as agricultural and listed for homestead entry, aggregating a total acreage of 6,994 acres On the Ashley national forest 37 different tracts have been opened to entry, the total area h,lnn A (OA r. r.r-sc, LVrl v. tli i fta BMnll. cations have received favorable action on the Powell national forest thereby there-by opening to entry 5,875 acre3. On the Uinta national forest :i 51 acres have been classified upon application of thirty persons Taking the state of Utah as a whole, 259 Individual tracts located in the twelve national forests In this Btate, have been examined, exam-ined, classified as chiefly valuable foi 'agriculture, and opened to homestead entry under the provisions of the forest for-est homestead law, the total area thus classified in this state being 32,-576 32,-576 acres. Eight hundred and fifty-five applications applica-tions in the national forests of Idaho, included in this district, have been acted upon favorably and total or 95.848 acres of national forest land classified as chiefly valuable for agriculture agri-culture and opened to homesteii entry. en-try. One hundred and forty-one applications ap-plications In Nevada have received favorable fa-vorable consideration, the total area in the national forests of thst 6tate classified as chiefly valuable for agriculture ag-riculture rearhlug 15,023 acres. One hundred and ninety-eight applications appli-cations received for land included in ihe national forests of Wyoming, comprised com-prised In district No. 4, have received favorable application In addition a considerable area of land not applied for has been classified and opened to homestead entry, the total area in 1 the Wyoming forests of this district so classified amounting to 47.6'JO acres. Since ...e passage of the forest homestead act, 1,453 individual tracts have been examined and classified in district No. 4 alone, and a total of 1 in. 108 acres has been classified as chiefly valuable for agriculture and opened to homestead entry. The only forests In this district which contain no forest homesteads of land classt fled as chiefly valuable for agrlcul ture, are the Kalbab and the Mahtl national forests of Utah. Upon the other forests the areas so classified and entered range from 160 acres on tho Moapa national forest of Nevada, to 46,238 acres on the Teton forest of Wyoming. oo |