Washington : Government Printing Office
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| VOLUME 13—1948 | 3552 |
Notice is given that the plats of survey of lands hereinafter described accepted July 15 and November 20, 1946, will be officially filed in the District Land Office, Carson City, Nevada, effective at 10:00 a.m. on August 17, 1948. At that time the lands shall, subject to valid existing rights and the provisions of existing withdrawals, become subject to application, petition, location, or selection as follows:
(a) Ninety-day period for preference-right filings. For a period of 90 days from August 17, 1948 to November 15, 1948 inclusive, the public lands affected by this notice shall be subject to (1) application under the homestead or the desert land laws, or the small tract act of June 1, 1938 (52 Stat. 609, 43 U.S.C. 682a), as amended, by qualified veterans of World War II, for whose service recognition is granted by the act of September 27, 1944 (53 Stat. 747, 43 U.S.C. 279-283), subject to the requirements of applicable law, and (2) application under any applicable public-land law, based on prior existing valid settlement rights and preference rights conferred by existing laws or equitable claims subject to allowance and confirmation. Application by such veterans shall be subject to claims of the classes described in subdivision (2).
(b) Twenty-day advance period for simultaneous preference-right filings. For a period of 20 days from July 29, 1948, to August 17, 1948, inclusive, such veterans and persons claiming preference rights superior to those of such veterans, may present their applications, and all such applications, together with those presented at 10:00 a.m. on August 17, 1948, shall be treated as simultaneously filed.
(c) Date for non-preference-right filings authorized by the public-land laws. Commencing at 10:00 a.m. on November 16,
1948, any of the lands remaining unappropriated shall become subject to such application, petition, location, or selection by the public generally as may be authorized by the public-land laws.
(d) Twenty-day advance period for simultaneous non-preference-right filings. Applications by the general public may be presented during the 20-day period from October 28, 1948, to November 16, 1948, inclusive, and all such applications, together with those presented at 10:00 a.m. on November 16, 1948, shall be treated as simultaneously filed.
Veterans shall accompany their applications with certified copies of their certificates of discharge, or other satisfactory evidence of their military or naval service. Persons asserting preference rights, through settlement or otherwise, and those having equitable claims, shall accompany their applications by duly corroborated affidavits in support thereof, setting forth in detail all facts relevant to their claims.
Applications for these lands, which shall be filed in the District Land Office, Carson City, Nevada, shall be acted upon in accordance with the regulations contained in § 295.8 of Title 43 of the Code of Federal Regulations (Circular No. 324, May 22, 1914, 43 L. D. 254), and Part 296 of that title, to the extent that such regulations are applicable. Applications under the homestead laws shall be governed by the regulations contained in Parts 166 to 170, inclusive, of Title 43 of the Code of Federal Regulations and applications under the desert land laws and the small tract act of June 1, 1938, shall be governed by the regulations contained in Parts 232 and 257, respectively, of that title.
Inquiries concerning these lands shall be addressed to the Acting Manager, District Land Office, Carson City, Nevada.
The lands affected by this notice are described as follows:
T. 23 N., R. 69 E.,
Secs. 1 to 36, inclusive.
T. 24 N., R.69 E.,
Secs. 1 to 36, inclusive.
T. 25 N., R. 69 E.,
Secs. 1 to 36, inclusive.
T. 23 N., R. 70 E.,
Secs. 3 to 10, inclusive;
Secs. 15 to 22, inclusive.
Secs. 27 to 34, inclusive.
The area described aggregates 81,154.39 acres.
All secs. 1 to 18, E ½ sec. 24, E ½ sec. 25, E ½ sec. 36, T. 23 N., R. 69 E., M. D. M.; all of Tps. 24 N., R. 69 E., and 23 N., R. 70 E., M. D. M., Nevada, became a part of the Goshute Indian Reservation under authority of the act of April 13, 1938 (52 Stat. 216).
All of the lands involved are within the exterior boundaries of Grazing District No. 4 established November 3, 1936.
The lands are rough and mountainous in character, have shallow, rocky soil, support scattered growths of sagebrush type of vegetation, with generally dense growths of coniferous timber on the south portion.
MARION CLAWSON,
Director.
