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THE TREASURE STATE 



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Packing Apples in the Yellowstone Valley. 



Havre. Helena, Kallspell, Lewistown, Miles City and Missoula. A person desiring to 

 make homestead entry should first decide where he or she wishes to locate then go 

 or write to the land office of the district in which the land is located and obtain 

 from the records diagrams of the vacant land. 



A personal inspection of the land sought to be entered should be made to ascer- 

 tain if it is suitable and when satisfied on this point entry can be made at the local 

 land office or before a United States Commissioner. 



Any one desiring to obtain information in regard to vacant lands in any dis- 

 trict before going there for personal inspection should address the register and re- 

 ceiver of the particular land office who will give such information as is available. 

 The local land officers cannot, however, be expected to furnish extended lists of va- 

 cant land subject to entry except through township plats which they are authorized to 

 sell at a nominal price. A plat showing the vacant land in any township (a town- 

 ship being six miles square) may be had at the price of $1.00. 



All unappropriated surveyed public lands adaptable to any agricultural use are 

 subjected to homestead entry if they are not mineral or saline in character and are 

 not occupied for the purpose of trade or business and have not been embraced within 

 the limits of any withdrawal, reservation or incorporated town or city, but homestead 

 entries on lands within certain areas are made subject to the particular requirements 

 of the laws under which such lands are open to entry. 



Homestead entries may be made by any person who does not come within either 

 of the following classes: 



(a) Married women, except as hereinafter stated. 



(b) Persons who have already made homestead entry, except in certain cases 

 where former entry has been cancelled through no fault of the entryman. 



