22 CLASSIFICATION OF THE PUBLIC LANDS. 



Enlarged homesteads. — An act known as the enlarged-homestead 

 act, approved February 19, 1909 (35 Stat., 639), provides that in 

 the States of Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, 

 Wyoming, Arizona, and New Mexico a homestead entry may com- 

 prise 320 acres of nonmineral lands which have been designated by 

 the Secretary of the Interior as not susceptible of successful irriga- 

 tion at a reasonable cost from any known source of water supply. 

 On June 17, 1910 (36 Stat., 531), a similar act was approved apply- 

 ing to Idaho, and on June 13, 1912 (37 Stat., 132), one applying to 

 California and North Dakota. The requirements as to residence and 

 cultivation on an "enlarged homestead " are, under the act of June 6, 

 1912 (37 Stat., 123), the same as those for other homesteads, but 

 enlarged-homestead entries may not be commuted by cash payment. 

 The enlarged-homestead acts further provide that tracts in the States 

 of Utah and Idaho which have not upon them " such a sufficient supply 

 of water suitable for domestic purposes as would make continuous 

 residence upon the lands possible " may be subject to entry without the 

 necessity of residence, but one-eighth of the area of the entry must 

 be cultivated from the beginning of the second year and not less than 

 one-fourth from the beginning of the third year until final proof has 

 been submitted. 



Desert land. — ^Under the desert-land acts entry may be made on 

 lands which, by reason of lack of rainfall, will not produce native 

 hay or other agricultural crops or trees without irrigation. Such 

 lands may be entered by irrigating and producing crops on not 

 less than one-eighth of the area. No residence is required. Any 

 person duly qualified may enter an area not exceeding 320 acres of 

 such lands. It should be noted, however, that this 320-acre area is 

 limited by the fact that one person is not permitted to acquire more 

 than 320 acres of land under the public-land laws, mineral entries 

 not being taken into account. The entryman is given three years 

 in which to reclaim his land, which must be nonmineral in character. 



Reclamation act. — Under the act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat., 388), 

 the Government is building great irrigation projects for the reclama- 

 tion of arid and semiarid lands in the West. Lands thus reclaimed, 

 which must be nonmineral in character, may be entered by any person 

 qualified to make a homestead entry. The enterable area is not more 

 than 160 acres but is different in the different projects and in different 

 parts of the same project. No charge is made for the land, but the 

 entrymarrmust pay his proportional part of the cost of the project 

 in ten yearly installments. Three years' residence on the land is re- 

 quired, as under other homestead laws, and at least one-half the area 

 of the entry must be cultivated before title can be obtained. 



Isolated ifracte.— Small tracts of public land surrounded by lands 

 which have already been entered may be purchased as isolated tracts 



