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Is Any Desert Land Still Available For Free?

Some people don't believe there is any acres here, twenty there -- that with
Desert Land Still Available For FREE. just a little bit of earth moving can be
They are wrong. There is still some prepared to produce a crop on a plateau.
available.Certain restrictions do apply. Those plateaus don't have to be the same
For example: You must be a resident in size, or even go in the same direction
one of these states where the desert land either. The last piece of land I leveled
is available ... Arizona, Nevada, this way was only 19 acres altogether and
California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New it had huge ravines running through it in
Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, every direction. Using a dozer and
Washington, or Wyoming. No State pulling a land plane(TM) behind me I
residency is required in the State of leveled that ground to farmable
NevadaThe Desert Land Act was passed smoothness in less than one day, but it
specifically to encourage the economic was in three plateaus which fed each
development of arid and semi-arid public other and the last plateau drained to the
lands of the Western United States. You middle and ran out from the middle
may apply for one or more tracts of land between plateaus three and one. No, it
totaling no more than 320 acres. wasn't conventional, but it
Individuals may apply for a desert-land worked.Remember too that the term
entry to reclaim, irrigate, and cultivate "agriculture" includes animal husbandry.
arid and semiarid public lands.You'd Instead of bringing in holsteins or
better take note before heading off thoroughbreds, bring in MINIATURE horses,
across the landscape, most of the miniature donkeys and even goats. These
suitable lands for agricultural can be easy maintenance, high value
development have already been placed into "crops." Again, look for strategic
private ownership. The remaining acres points where the flow wants to escape and
are managed for multiple uses. There is with just a little effort you can dam up
fierce competition among users for these natural outlets to create your own
public lands. Along with the problems of reservoirs for your stock, and you will
finding suitable public land, you can only need to haul in minimum amount of
expect to find limited water available hay and water to sustain your
for irrigation, and an extremely high animals.After you have found lands that
cost of development. On top of that, it you feel can be economically developed
is extremely difficult to acquire a you'll have to determine the legal land
desert land entry. But, and this is a description. Then you contact the BLM
big but, you can turn the land into very State Office where the lands are located
high cash value property. Just for an and have them verify that the lands are
example, worhtless land I walked over as available for desert land application.
a child was worth thousands of dollars Next you must acquire an application from
per acre by the time I was grown. What the State Office and also find out which
made the difference? It was mostly BLM District administers the lands.The
natural population expansion and highways application form you want to use is No.
coming through.There are other ways to 2520-1. Two copies are required. File
improve the land.. #1, cash crops that your application with the administering
thrive in the desert, like the jo-joba BLM District Office.In the application
bean plant. Then there are plants that you will include the description of the
should be cash crops like your mesquite lands. You must include evidence of your
beans and cactus pears. Given just a tad legal right to the use of any water for
of water in dry years mesquite beans are irrigation. That means you must secure a
sweet and delicious. In two years out of permit from the State Department of Water
five the tree doesn't even need the tad Administration to explain where your
of water. Cactus pears and cactus pads water is coming from. You must include a
are becoming more acceptable to American detailed description of soil
palates all the time. #2, Get your land characteristics, irrigation requirements,
first, then you could be the one that and economic feasibility.Here's the worst
convinces Congress to pipe ocean water part of it. You must include full
back up along the Gila River Bed and disclosure of your plans,
create ocean front property all along the arrangements--financial and
way with dams like the one at Painted otherwise--pertaining to the development
Rock. With huge surges of population and operation of your desert-land entry.
growth in the States of Utah, Idaho and Your application must be accompanied by a
Montana Congress could see the wisdom of non-refundable fee of $15.00 and a
diverting streams of fresh water down partial payment of 25 cents per acre.The
into areas now called arid. The only BLM will approve your application if it
railroad left in the United States that decides the lands are classified suitable
is making a profit is the Union Pacific. for desert-land entry. The BLM will
By issuing contracts for trainloads of reject your application if it decides the
ice to be delivered to reservoirs in lands are classified unsuitable for
these regions. Where could the ice come desert-land entry.After your application
from? Tugging ice bergs to Washington is approved you have four years to
and Oregon for loading. When you import develop an adequate water supply to
water into the area in front of the Rocky reclaim, irrigate, and cultivate all of
Mountains Congress will increase the flow the lands. At least one eighth of the
of rain and moisture in this area.Before land applied for must be properly
you can claim any of these lands you must cultivated and irrigated by the end of
prove they are unreserved, those four years. Each year for three
unappropriated, non-mineral, non-timber, years from the date your application is
AND incapable of producing an approved, you must account for the money
agricultural crop without irrigation. you spend on improvements to reclaim,
There is an addendum to that criteria.. irrigate, and cultivate the lands.You
the lands you want must be The lands must must submit statements of two credible
be more suitable for agricultural witnesses who can testify to the
purposes than for any other. Boy, what a expenditures made for improvements on
tall order. But I've had friends do it your desert-land entry during the
and they cvouldn't be happier. After you preceding year. You must submit itemized
find them, these properties must be statements showing the manner in which
surveyed. If you get more than one tract the expenditures were made. At the end of
of land they must be sufficiently close the third year you must submit a map or
to each other that the BLM will be plan showing the character and extent of
foreced to believe you can manage tgen the improvements placed on the
satisfactorily as an economic unit.To desert-land entry.Under no normal
apply for your land you must be a citizen circumstances will the BLM extend your
of the United States or at least have time to meet the annual proof of
declared your intention to become a compliance. To wit: the BLM will cancel
citizen. Being an illegal alien is not your entry.There is an out for some of
good enough at this time. Oh yes, you these problems; a group of applicants can
must also be more than 20 years old.The band together to develop a common water
BLM estimates that a 320-acre tract of delivery system and share in the cost of
land will cost you in excess of $250,000 a common water delivery system to reclaim
to construct the irrigation system and the land parcels. The group as a whole
prepare the land for cultivation. That's must show that each individual
because they are thinking too big. The desert-land entry involved in a group
government thinks square fields -- I proposal is economically and physically
invite you to think about farming within feasible.Before you get your title the
the natural barriers the land provides. BLM will conduct an on-site examination
It is said that a tourist looks at the of your desert-land entry to determine
(desert) scene and sees what is left whether the requirements of the act have
while a geologist sees that scene and been met. If you meet the final proof
studies what is gone.I want you to look requirement, you will receive a patent
for pressure points where the lay of the from the BLM which delivers a completely
land tries to rise, and strategic points legal title to the land tracts into your
where the flow wants to escape and just a hands. Your FREE land is now
little effort can make a major YOURS!Independently less than wealthy,
difference. If you think NATURAL PLATEAU Lin Stone is the author of: HOW TO BUY
farming you can take a dozer in there and LAND AT TAX SALES. That book is so good
follow the contours of the land to it is still selling after seven years.
produce plateaus of small acreage, five




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