Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1911 — OPENS INDIAN LANDS. [ARTICLE]

OPENS INDIAN LANDS.

The President has issued a proclamation opening lands within the Ft. Barthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, embracing about 150,000 acres, and other tracts within the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations in South Dakota, embracing about 450,000 acres. The prices run from 25 cents to $6 an acre. A veteran of the Civil or Spanish War will not have to travel to the land to register his name as an applicant to be. He will simply transact this business through an agent, and if he is one of the successful drawers he will have the opportunity of getting a quarter section, 160 acres. Approximately 600,000 acres of land have been opened to settlers under the registration plan through a proclamtion signed by President Taft, 150,000 acres being in the Ft. Barthold Indian Reservation of North Dakota and 450,000 in the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations in South Dakota. The lands are to be opened under the registration plan heretofore followed.. The registration for the North Dakota lands will begin August 14 at the towns of Bismarck, Minot, Plaza, Garrison and Ryder, and the reg- | istration for the South Dakota .lands wall begin October 2 at the towns of Chamberlain, - Dallas. Gregory and Rapid Cty. Each ( of these registrations will continue for three weeks. 1 * •