Important Land Office Notice Opens Door to Fresh Entries
Montana land offices report a new federal provision allows settlers who forfeited homesteads due to crop failure illness or other misfortune to reenter land under the homestead law. Applicants must file affidavits with details on entry date residence, improvements, crops, sickness, casualties, and supporting medical testimony if available. The register and receiver will judge each case for eligibility and the right to a second entry.
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Montana
Land Department
Act of Congress
Land Office
Department OF the Interior
General Land Office
Washington, D. C
United States District Land Offices
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
District Land Office
W. Lampreaux
Com’r
Fee Law Provisions Update for Recording Fees and Mining Claims
The legislation updates schedules for filing recording fees including instruments 30 first folio and 10 per entry. It sets 200 for filing and indexing mining location notices and 100 for annual labor affidavit filings. It confirms repeal of conflicting acts and stresses that representation work is required to hold mining claims, warning against non-forfeiture notices.
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Huon
Chas. S. Hartman
A Prosperous Country The Valleys of the East West and Main Boulder
The Valleys of the East West and Main Boulder are highlighted as prosperous regions with strong growth potential. Readers are invited to learn about development, industry, and community vitality shaping the area.
Boulder River Valley Promotes Dairying and Investment
The Boulder River valley in Sweet Grass county spans 54 miles with 65 miles of irrigating ditches and 10 400 acres under fence. It supports 1 500 horses 3 000 cattle and 22 000 sheep and will yield 100 000 bushels of grain and 2 000 tons of hay this year. The land offers beauty sport and rich opportunities for investors and dairy farming, emphasizing soil conservation and year round labor in dairying and poultry raising as major drivers of value.
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Boulder
Sweet Grass
Graham and
Lot
Missouri dairyman notes shift to grass and livestock growth
John L. Irwin cites regional development from soil cultivation to grass farming and livestock. He recalls Westward expansion, rising towns, and hogs following cornfields as changes transform rural Missouri.
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John L. Irwin
Missouri
Great West
Grazing Rules for Yellowstone Park Leases Enforced
Interior Department issues grazing limits for Yellowstone Park lands. No grazing sheep or cattle without supervision. owners must prove title and have surveys before stock moves onto park lands. Leaseholders with 50 to 320 acres may keep stock temporarily only under patrol watch. Unauthorized stock incurs swift action.
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Rales
Yellowstone Park
Secretary of the Interior
Nogers
Relocators Probe Abandoned Castle Mines For Promising Claims
The people of Castle have spent two weeks relocating the old Castle mines. About a hundred sites have been located with six to seven thousand dollars spent. Relocators worked blindly, staking claims already represented and patented.
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Castle
Once A Week Promises Rare Novel and Library Premiums
The issue promotes Peg the Rake by Rita as a featured novel and offers a one year subscription for six dollars and a half with delivery payment, plus twenty six volumes of the Semi Monthly Library. Premiums include handsomely bound works by a standard author and access to travel sketches, portraits, verse, and European news. Leading American and European writers contribute to this high class weekly. The Semi Monthly Library includes works by Ossip Schubin Edgar Fawcett Gilbert Parker Darley Dale David Christie Murray Rider Haggard Grant Allen Hector Malot and others.
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United States
Peg
Rita
America
Europe
Ossip Schubin
Edgar Fawcett
Gilbert Parker
Darley Dale
David Christie Murray
Rider Haggard
Grant Allen
Hector Malot
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Kellogg’s
Vienna
Delaine Sevary
Arnold Charlies
AGEST
Vermont
H. O. Kellogg
Boty
Cueerecey
Sweet Grass County
The
Hood
Esther Christiansen
Sheridan, Mont
Mer. Co
Geo. T. Chambers
Board of County Commissioners
Big Timber
Park County
Thomas Cruse Savings Bank
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