Show HOW LEGION MEN GET LAND applicant for fo r homestead should first make personal Pe inspection spec tion of district in response to many inquiries from ex xe service men in the ali middle west re ga carding ding government imd grants irvin 1 I Fen trite secretary af argonne post of it the lie american america legion in ves des koinm la has made an investigation if the situation persons desiring to make homeN homestead tead entries said mr fearlie should sli first fully inform themselves as to the character and quality of lands they estre desire d to enter mid arid should in no case cae apply to enter until they have exe ex mined each legal subdivision for which tb 0 i make application satis aneti v information concerning abo lands may he be obtained obtain eil from a personal to the district in chich one wishes to take out land each applicant Is required to swear that he Is well acquainted with the chara di alneer clor of the land described in his application and the only way that he can cain assure himself that prior settler sett lera haie no claim s to make a personal inspection of same an ex service man Is required to establish residence on the land ln la rolled rol ved after tits his entry Is allowed un jeci an extension of time Is granted on account of sickness climatic climate I 1 reasons or similar excuses credit is given for service sen ice in the army navy or marines providing the applicant has had bad eighteen months of service if emch Is the case tle me applicant Is re quiren to live on the land only seven months it if lie he obtains so much credit for military service that there Is required only one years residence he must prove only such amount ti of cultivation as will prove his good faith as s homestead claimant if his credit for service requires more than one years residence he must show cultivation to the extent of bric six cs of the area of the land beginning with the second year regard lew les of credit for service all apall can 3 3 must prove that there Is 13 a habitable house on the land there Is only one portion of the country where here land may be without the requirement of a homestead at sentinel ariz there are acres open for which no homestead la Is required but which necessitates the payment of seventy fire dollars for three hundred and twenty stores acres and an expenditure of one dollar per acre for improvement this Is arid land which may be used tor for cotton ral sing if irrigated when irrigated it sells for from two to thre hundred dollars an acre it Is eU estimated mated that the cost of irrigation on oil three hundred and twenty acres Is about approximately acres of land aro open including every state west of the mississippi river except iowa and texas the first thing to do Is to decide on the state then get the location of the land offices in ill that state all blank forms of affidavits and other papers may be obtained for the district office in ID which th tho land lies laking out a homestead Is not a speculative proposition if the applicant I 1 can an afford to establish himself for the period required under the homestead laws taking advantage of the credit allowed him for service in the world war he will be well repaid artter a few years 1 |