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entrymen use them merely for grazing headquarters 

 during a few weeks or months each year and maintain 

 their homes elsewhere. 



Desert-land entries must be for lands incapable of 

 producing a crop without irrigation, and water must be 

 conducted to the claim before the entry will be ap- 

 proved by the Interior Department. (See "Circular 

 from the General Land Office * January 25, 



1904.") 



No claims can be initiated for agricultural land in 

 forest reserves until it is classified as chiefly valuable for 

 agriculture, listed in the local land office, and opened 

 by the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with 

 the act of June 11, 1906. , (Appendix, p. 175, and note 

 the provisions with regard to the Black Hills Forest 

 Reserve, and certain counties in southern California.) 

 Applications for classification and listing must be mailed 

 to the Forester, Washington, D. C., by the applicants, 

 and will secure to them a preference right of settlement 

 and entry unless the land was occupied by a bona fide 

 settler prior to January 1, 1906, in which case the set- 

 tler has the preference right. 



All applications must give the name of the forest re- 

 serve and describe the land, examination of which is 

 requested, by legal subdivisions, section, township, 

 and range, if surveyed, and if not surveyed, by refer- 

 ence to natural objects, streams, or improvements with 

 sufficient accuracy to identify the land. 



Only one tract of land will be examined on the appli- 

 cation of the same person, but if it is rejected or with- 

 drawn a second application will be considered for other 

 land. Applications received at Washington in the same 

 mail for the examination of the same tract of land will 



