clear off the small brush, but much of it is fairly open park land.
This district is adjacent to Reno and Nampa railway stations, and
offers exceptional opportunity for selecting free homestead sites.
Considerable free land is also available along the northern parts of
the municipalities of Peace and Fairview, and while homesteading is
not recommended at a greater distance than fifteen miles from a
railway or marketing centre, those who so desire can travel as far
as they please and still not reach the limit of excellent soil available
for the plow, awaiting only the nearer approach of transportation to
provide further homes for thousands of settlers who will one day
occupy it.

Homestead Regulations—Prospective settlers desiring to take
up homesteads would do well to apply to the Agent of Dominion
Lands, Peace River, for full information as to homestead duties, etc.
Briefly, every person who is the sole head of a family, and every
male 18 years of age and over, is entitled, on payment of a fee of $10,
to enter upon a homestead of one-quarter section of 160 acres. A
widow having minor children to support may also secure a home-
stead.

A homesteader is required to perform certain duties in order to
entitle him to finally receive his patent on land. He is required to
live six months in each year on his land in a habitable house for
three years. Residence duties cannot be performed by proxy. Home-
stead duties must be completed within five years from date of en-
try. A homesteader may perform his duties if he lives not more
than nine miles away on a farm of not less than eighty acres, owned
solely by him, without being obliged to live on the homestead, or he
may perform his homestead duties while living with relatives on
owned land of not less than eighty acres in the vicinity of the home-
stead. A homesteader is required to bring under cultivation in the

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