Billings Sees Huge Crowds for Crow Reservation Lottery
Registration for homestead parcels in the ceded Crow land opened last Thursday and runs daily to the 28th with drawings starting in July. About 40 000 will sign up across sites, including 5 000 in Montana, possibly 10 000 if rail washouts are cleared. Billings, busy with tents, vendors and police, greets a cosmopolitan throng as crowds fill hotels and show venues while hopefuls await the lottery outcomes.
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Crow Indian Reservation
Montana
Billings
Mecca
West
Sai
Homesteads on the Reserve Seek Federal Land Openings
Congress approved a bill for homesteading lands within national forest reserves. The act outlines application procedures with forest service exams, filing timelines, and priority rights for settlers before 1906. It limits homesteads to 160 acres, one mile long, and requires survey and listing with metes and bounds.
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National Forest Reserves
Congress
K. A. Sherman
Forester
Washington, D. C
Forest Service
Washington
Beav erhead County Seeks Jail Bid in Lima Mont
Sealed proposals for the construction of a stone jail at Lima Montana are due by 10 am July 16 1906 at the Beaverhead County Clerk in Dillon. Bids require a 10 percent certified good faith bond with the County Commissioners to open and award bids July 16 1906, with right to reject any or all bids.
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Lima
Montana
Dillon
Beaverhead
W. M. Oliver
Beaverhead County
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