. Dry-farming; . LL FORHOME- RM LANDS That any person who is a qualified entryman under the homestead laws oi the United States may enter, by legal stilpdivisions, under the provisions of this act, in the st^es of Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wa^ington, 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 subj


. Dry-farming; . LL FORHOME- RM LANDS That any person who is a qualified entryman under the homestead laws oi the United States may enter, by legal stilpdivisions, under the provisions of this act, in the st^es of Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wa^ington, 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 425


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