3) LANDS OF THE ARID REGION OF THE UNITED STATES. 
Commissioner of the General Land Office, a copy thereof to each, and the 
original shall be retained in the office of the Surveyor-General of the United 
States for preservation. 
Src. 7. That each person applying for the benefits of this act shall, in 
addition to compliance therewith, conform to the methods provided for the 
acquirement of a homestead in sections twenty-two hundred and eighty- 
nine to twenty-three hundred and seventeen, inclusive, of the Revised 
Statutes of the United States, so far as they are applicable and consistent 
with this act, and shall also furnish such evidence as the Commissioner of 
the General Land Office may require that such land has actually been re- 
deemed by irrigation, and may thereupon obtain a patent: Provided, That 
no person shall obtain a patent under this act to any coal lands, town sites, 
or tracts of public lands on which towns may have been built, or to any 
mine of gold, silver, cinnabar, copper, or other mineral for the sale or dis- 
posal of which provision has been made by law. 
Sec. 8. That the lands patented under the provisions of this act shall 
be described as irrigation farms, and designated by the number of the tract 
or parcel and the name of the irrigation district. 
Src. 9. That the right to the water necessary to the redemption of an 
irrigation farm shall inhere in the land from the time of the organization 
of the irrigation district, and in all subsequent conveyances the right to the 
water shall pass with the title to the land. But if after the lapse of five 
years from the date of the organization of the district the owner of any 
irrigation farm shall have failed to irrigate the whole or any part of the 
same, the right to the use of the necessary water to irrigate the unre- 
claimed lands shall thereupon lapse, and any subsequent right to water 
necessary for the cultivation of said unreclaimed land shall be acquired 
only by priority of utilization. 
Sec. 10. That it shall be lawful for any person entitled to acquire a 
homestead from the public lands as designated in section one of this act to 
settle on an irrigation farm contiguous to any irrigation district after such 
district has been organized by making the notifications and declaration 
provided for in section five of this act, and by notifying the recorder of 
such irrigation district, and also by complying with the rules and regula- 
