Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1910 — More Land For Homesteaders. [ARTICLE]

More Land For Homesteaders.

By approving the latest step in the reclassification of the national forest and public lands Saturday, President Taft increased the public domain available to homestead entry by 1,182,816 acres, and increased the national forests 381,094 acres. The proclamation which the president signed eliminated 111,195 acres from the Gunnison forest, 5,640 acres from the Cochetopa forests and 45,489 acres from the Uncompahgre forests, all in Colorado. All these lands will be available to settlers. The reclassification is the government’s hope of stemming the tide of immigration from the United States to the Canadian northwest. With more than a million acres now available for homestead entry, it is declared that there will be no need of settlers going over the border to gain the advantages of a virgin homestead. Secretary Ballinger also made some additions to the lands available for homesteads when he designated 875,000 acres in Wyoming and nearly 4,000 acres in Colorado as available.