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Breaking Virgin Soil in Wheatland County. 



permitted to enter upon their lands at once and begin the building of a home, with 

 the assurance that if they comply with the requirements of law they will secure 

 title at the expiration of the three-year period. 



Ten Land Districts. 



Montana is divided into ten land districts, each containing a United States land 

 office for the administration of the public land affairs of that particular district. 

 These land offices are located at Billings, Bozeman, Glasgow, Great Falls, Havre, 

 Helena, Kalispell, Lewistown, Miles City and Missoula. Persons desiring to make 

 homestead entry should first fully inform themselves as to the character and 

 quality of the land they desire to enter and should in no case apply to enter 

 until they have visited and fully examined each legal subdivision for which they 

 make application, as satisfactory information as to the character and occupancy of 

 public land cannot be obtained in any other way. 



All proceedings connected with the entering and filing on a homestead are 

 conducted by the officials of the land office for the land district where the land 

 is located. No maps are issued showing the location of vacant public land subject 

 to entry, and this information can be reliably obtained only from the records of 

 the various land offices. Township plats, showing the vacant public land in any 

 particular township, may be secured from the land office at the price of one 

 dollar each. 



What May Be Filed On. 



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 



