Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-18 | Page 8 | Lands in West Open to Entry

OPENjf ENTRY I Stock Raising Homesteads and Non-Irrigable Tracts Are I Made Ready m WASHINGTON, 19.9 N rly Jm threi million i of land In Wyoni- ' Ing, California and Montana were classified during August by the de-partment de-partment of interior under the slock raising homestead law which makes HI public lands available for entry for stock raising purposes in hor.iestead3 of 640 acres or less, the departm-nt today announced The areas In ths United States were Wyoming ,2,011,-i'S4; ,2,011,-i'S4; California, 915.591), and Montan.t, Since passage of the act In 1916 M moro than eighty-one million acre-1 El have been classified as slock raising BB land, through the geological survey. KB Approximately 740. 000 acres in Mon- H tana. Colorado and Idaho were classi- BH fled durfng the month under laws pB which provide for entry of non-lrrl- Wm gable tracts In sub-dl islons of Jjo IS acres or less for dry farming purposes Kw and 151.000 acres In California and WM Wyoming were placed within prorut - Ht ing oil and gas restrictions under an flB act passed Iat February Ml