completed, when title may be secured. The filing fees on an entry of this sort 

 are $16. 00. 



2. Under the Enlarged Homestead Act, a qualified entryman may appear 

 before the officer in charge of the land office in the county selected, and file 

 upon not more than 320 acres of arid territory that has been designated by the 

 government as homestead land. If the homeseeker is competent to do his own 

 locating the only expense is the filing fee of $22.00; if he knows little of soil 

 or conditions the services of a reputable land locator should be enlisted. The 

 fees for locating vary from $50.00 to $125.00, according to size of entry, etc. 

 After filing, residence upon the land must be taken up within six months. Be- 

 ginning with the second year, one-sixteenth of the total acreage must be culti- 

 vated; beginning with, and continuing thru the third year, one-eighth of the 

 total entry must be cultivated. The government defines cultivation as: the 

 plowing and seeding of the land to some crop other than native grasses. During 

 the three years of proof the entryman must not leave the land for longer than 

 five continuous months in any one year. These conditions complied with, the 

 entry becomes the property of the settler. 



3. The above mentioned act also provides for the acquisition of not to 

 exceed 320 acres of arid land, to which title may be obtained without resi- 

 dence. The locating and filing is done in the same manner as on residence 

 land. The entryman is required to have cultivated one-eighth of his acreage 

 beginning with the second year, and one-fourth beginning with the third year; 

 one-fourth must be continuously cultivated until the end of the fifth year, when 

 title may be secured, provided the entryman has personally supervised culti- 

 vation. The intent of the law is that the owner should show good faith; if it 

 be established that he visited the farm at regular intervals and assumed 

 responsibility for the tilling and planting, there should be no difficulty in 

 perfecting title. 



SALT LAKE ROUTE EXPERIMENTAL FARM AT NADA, UTAH. 



