Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1910 — GIRLS TAKE UP HOMESTEADS [ARTICLE]

GIRLS TAKE UP HOMESTEADS

Young Women in Colorado Prepare to Teach School and Also Prove Claims. Greeley, Col. —Teaching school and homesteading land will be the combined industries of some fifty young eastern girls in Weld county this school year. Recently these teachers have been busy building their claim shanties, and in many cases the girls bhve done the work themselves. Whenever possible four girls have taken up adjoining quarter sections, and have erected a common home at the point where the four claims meet, the house being so arranged that one room is located on each claim. Each young woman will occupy the room on her own land, thus fulfilling the requirement of the homestead law which demands that the person taking up the land live on it for a certain period of the year.