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Show of the act above mentioned, no claims could bo considered by the land office , which did not contain at least 4U j acres, and these had to conform to tho j ordinary section surveys, I The act cited, however, allows tracts ; as small as 2 1-2 acres to bo taken up, ' and to be described in Irregular shapes, ; so that a Bmall piece of ground suit-j suit-j able for agricultural purposes following follow-ing tho meanderlngs of a stream, can now be patented and legally secured. A monument Is located as in the case of mining claims, from whence all measurements are mado by carefully conducted survey and tho exact boundaries boun-daries of the tract determined upon. BOUNDARIES OF . AGRICULTURAL CLAIMS G. C. Thompson, of the Forest Service, Ser-vice, who has recently completed surveys sur-veys and details of boundaries of a number of, agricultural claims in the Salmon forest of Idaho, is spending a week or so at the district offices, preparing his reports. UTr. Thompson Thomp-son was formerly assigned to the Salt Lake office before the establishment of the Ogden headquarters, since which time his duties have been confined con-fined to the fourth district. Mr. Thompson's work Is largely in connection with the determining of boundaries of claims recently brought under the jurisdiction of the agricultural-claim act, which was passed June 11, 1906. Throughout the forested for-ested regions of the west hundreds of squatters or settlers have, In years past, taKen up their residence in Isolated Iso-lated districts, where small pieces of agricultural land could bo found along the banks of mountain streams. These settlers have built homes for themselves, fenced in their little Irregular Ir-regular fields and pastures and permanently per-manently located themselves without, however, having secured patent to their claims. Previous to the passage A |