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There are people that
took
homesteads on this land. There is a homesteader that took a homestead,
by the
name of Katie McCarthy, and the estimate of her homestead was that it
contained
1,200,000 feet of standing pine.
Another man by the
name of
Olaf Thompson has got a homestead in the same township, same range,
that
contains 250,000 feet of standing pine on his homestead.
Another man by the
name of
Tom Carey has a homestead in the same township, same range, that
contains
250,000 feet of standing pine.
Another man, Levi
White by
name, has got a homestead in the same township, same range, that
contains
500,000 feet of standing pine.
There was another man
who
took a homestead in the same township, same range, Fred Sibley by name,
that
contains 800,000 feet of standing pine.
Another man that took
a
homestead in the same township, and range, Charles Louis Hemming, and
his
homestead contains 1,500,000 feet of standing pine.
Another man, by the
name of
Samuel F. Beals, has got a homestead in the same township and range
that
contains 600,000 feet of standing pine.
There are also 15 more
homesteaders in the same township that has pine standing on their
homesteads. Their land contains all
the way from 150,000 to 200,000 feet of standing pine on each homestead.
There is another
township
also, township 150, range 33, where there are eight homesteaders
located in the
same town, and the aggregate of those eight homesteaders is over
2,700,000 feet
of standing pine on their claims.
There is another township, township
149, range
34, There are fifty-fire homesteads
taken in the said township, and they contain all the way from 150,000
to
1,000,000 feet of standing pine on each
