APPENDIX B 
THE SMOOT-MONDELL BILL FOR HOME- 
STEADING OF DRY-FARM LANDS 
Section 1 
That any person who is a qualified entryman under 
the homestead laws of the United States may enter, 
by legal subdivisions, under the provisions of this 
act, in the states of Colorado, Montana, Nevada, 
“Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, and the 
territories of New Mexico and Arizona, 320 acres, 
or less, of. nonmineral, nonirrigable, unreserved, and 
unappropriated surveyed public lands which do not 
contain merchantable timber, located in a reasonably 
compact body, and not over one and one half miles 
in extreme length. Provided, that no lands shall be 
subject to entry under the provisions of this act until 
such lands shall: have been designated by the secre- 
tary of the interior as not being in his opinion sus- 
ceptible of irrigation at a reasonable cost from any 
known source of water supply. 
Section 2 
That any person applying to enter land under the 
provisions of this act shall make and subscribe, 
before proper officials, an affidavit, as required by 
Section 2290 of the Revised Statutes, and in addition 
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