THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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THE SHOSHONE RESERVATION HOW TO GET 

 LAND. 



One-Third of Purchase Price Payable Down 25 Cents 



an Acre Yearly Until Balance of $1.50 



an Acre Is Paid. 



The general land office has issued the following cir- 

 cular with reference to the proposed opening of the 

 Shoshone or Wind River reservation in Wyoming. 



The ceded portion of the Shoshone or Wind River 



ervation within two years after the opening are required 

 to pay $1.50 per acre, but in homestead entries made 

 thereafter the sum of $1.25 is to be paid. Fifty cents 

 per acre is to be paid at the time of making the entry 

 and 25 cents per acre annually thereafter until the price 

 provided for has been fully paid. Lands entered under 

 the townsite, coal and mineral laws must be paid for 

 in amount and manner as provided by said laws. 



Notices of locations of mineral entries are required 

 to be filed in the local land offices of the district in 

 which the land is situated, and unless entry and pay- 

 ment shall be made within three years from the date of 

 location, all rights thereunder shall cease. 



Near the Site of the Sawmill in the Ancha Mountains, Where 800,000 Feet of Lumber Have Been Cut for the Salt River Dam in Arizona. 



Indian reservation in the State of Wyoming, which em- 

 braces the land lying north and east of the Big Wind 

 River, is to be disposed of under the provisions of the 

 homestead, townsite, coal and mineral land law of the 

 United States, and will be opened to settlement and 

 entry, and by proclamation the President will prescribe 

 the manner in which such lands may be settled upon, 

 occupied and entered by persons entitled to make entry 

 therefor, and no person will be permitted to settle upon, 

 occupy or enter said land except as prescribed in said 

 proclamation until after the expiration of sixty days 

 from ' the date when the same is opened to settlement 

 and entry. 



It is also provided that the rights of ex-soldiers 

 and sailors, under sections 2304, R. S., shall not be 

 abridged. 



All persons making homestead entries in said res- 



in case any entryman fails to make any of the 

 payments for the land, as provided, within the time 

 stated, all rights covered by such entries shall cease, 

 and payments which have theretofore been made will 

 be forfeited and the entry held for cancellation. 



Commutation of homestead entry may be made of 

 these lands under section 2301, R. S., but the parties 

 will be required to pay the price for the land as fixed 

 by the act. 



After the expiration of five years from the date 

 of the opening, all the lands then undisposed of, except 

 mineral and coal lands, shall be sold to the highest bid- 

 der for cash at not less than $7 per acre, and any of 

 such lands remaining unsold after eight years from the 

 date of opening may be sold to the highest bidder for 

 cash without regard to the minimum limit of price. 



The ceded portion embraces about two-thirds of 



