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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



THE ROSEBUD INDIAN RESERVATION. 



382,000 Acres of Fertile and Well Watered Lands Open to 

 Settlement. 



Some two years ago the Chicago & North- Western 

 railway built the Verdigre and Bonesteel line to the 

 eastern border of the Eosebud Indian Reservation, thus 

 securing the only direct line from Chicago, Minneapolis, 

 St. Paul, Sioux City, Omaha and other points in the 

 West to the fertile region which is now to be thrown 

 open to settlement under the United States Homestead 

 laws. 



$50 an acre. With an altitude of about 2,200 feet, 

 they are in a region which can not be excelled for 

 healthfulness. 



A heavy influx of people is looked for at these 

 points of registration, and everything possible is being 

 done by the North-Western line to spread broadcast all 

 information in the shape of maps and folders that is 

 of interest to applicants for these lands. 



The Temple Pump Company, Chicago, TIL, ad- 

 vertise in our columns their famous gasoline engine, 

 "The Master Workman." It costs less and is less ex- 

 pensive to run than other engines is the claim of the 



A SOUTH DAKOTA WHEAT FIELD. 



Under President Roosevelt's proclamation United 

 States Registry Land Offices are to be opened July 5th 

 at Yankton, Fairfax and Bonesteel, S. D., for the 

 registration of applicants for these lands. The regis- 

 tration books will remain open vintil July 23d. and corn- 



manufacturers. It has two cylinders and weighs less 

 than half the weight of one-cylinder engines, so can be 

 mounted on any light wagon. It has no vibration. It 

 can be adapted to more uses than other engines. This 

 firm was established in Chicago in 1852. 



HOMESEEKERS IN ROSELAND COUNTY-TRAIN LOAD OF EXCURSIONISTS AT BONESTEEL. 



mencing July 28th, drawings will take place, to de- 

 termine the order in which the applicants will be per- 

 mitted to make final entry and settlement. The final 

 entry begins at Bonesteel. August 8th. No one is 'per- 

 mitted to register or make entry to land by mail, but 

 must be personally present at one of the three point? 

 named for registration and at Bonesteel for final entry. 

 The lands are well watered by the Missouri, Nio- 

 brara and White Rivers and are remarkably fertile, 

 situated in the midst of the great corn belt of the Mis- 

 souri Valley, where similar land is worth from $20 to 



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THE PRIMER OF IRRIGATION, a finely illustrated 

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