UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 FOREST SERVICE 



(From the Forest Service, Uritecl States Department of Agriculture , 



bc.n Francisco Office) 



HOMESTEADS LISTED Gil 

 "-TIOIIAI F OPES 13 



Eighty applications were filed with the District For- 

 ester at SanJrancisco, during Feb ruary, under the Forest Homestead 

 law for the listing and opening to entry rf lands within the natirnal 

 forests of California. In addition to these there were twelve re- 

 quests to amend previous applications by including 210 re land. The 

 lands applied for will be examined, and if found to "be chiefly valu- 

 able for agriculture will be listed with the Department of the Interim 

 to be opened to settlement nn<? homestead entry* 



Every applicant must be qualified to make a homestead 

 entry and will not receive title to the land until he has complied 

 fully with the homestead la' rr chich requires residence upon and cultiva- 

 tion of the Irnd for a ^erioc 1 of three years. 



During the month reports were made on 55 different- 

 tracts which had previously been applied for. Sixty tracts, embracing 

 9,491 acres, were listed to be opened to entry. 



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