We started out the next morning after our arrival to find a quarter section of land.
This was part of the land of the Louisiana Purchase, and my father bought a quarter section (160 acres) from the man who preempted it from the government.
After visiting in the East a few years ago I decided that I would not trade my quarter section in Fillmore county for several times that much eastern land.
But if to each of the majority of these men were given a quarter section of land in the Garden of Paradise as it existed before the fall of Adam, they would still be looking out for some new location.
A quarter section of land, which is the ordinary size of an American farm in the States most devoted to agriculture, is a hundred and sixty acres.
Arriving in Oregon, he settled near Athena in Umatilla county, where he purchased a quarter section of railroad land and began farming.
He also leases a section and a half of land belonging to others and a quarter section on Dry creek, together with a half section in Franklin county.
In 1872 they removed to Walla Walla county, Washington, where Mr. Lambdin preempted a quarter section of land just across the line in Oregon, on the present site of Freewater.
Mr. Walker's bill granted a homestead of a quarter section to every settler on payment of twenty dollars, after three years' occupancy and possession.
Hurley's quarter section was a matter of four miles away, and Joe had met the man only once before.
Took jobs here and there for four years, and then applied for a quarter section.
His knowledge of farming as it is practised in England may be said to have been still extremely small, but of farming in the Dominion he knew almost enough to manage a quarter section of his own.
My idea is to learn farming out here, and some day to take up a quarter section of land.
There'll be room for that and for everything on a quarter section," she encouraged.
The two together were the original quarter section.
There was the quarry of perfect marble on Hafler's quarter section.
When an individual furnishes the Trustees with money to purchase a farm of a quarter section or more, for a freedman and his family, he will get, in due time, a deed of the land at $1.
Every individual owning a farm not less than a quarter section, or forty acres, shall be entitled to membership in this association, by the payment of five dollars towards the general expenses.
By the above plan it will be seen that any person investing fifty dollars for a quarter section, one hundred dollars for a half section, or two hundred dollars for a section, and so on, will hold the land as security at $1.
Of late he had been reading the papers at Grants' in the evenings, and had learned that the Government of Canada was prepared to give a quarter section to any man who would live on it and establish a farm.
Then he would go to the nearest Dominion Lands Office and file on a quarter section away in some remote region, where there would be little chance of his identity being discovered.
Quarter section had been added to quarter section, bought when land was cheap and paid for by dint of untiring labour and at the sacrifice of physical comforts and mental advantages which Riles considered of no moment.
They bought a bit of flower-decked prairie, a quarter section crossed in one corner by a little creek flowing southward until it joined a larger steam flowing into the Arkansas River.
The place was filled with all sorts and conditions of men and women attracted by the possibility of getting a quarter section or a town lot practically free in the Cherokee strip; there were half a million of them on the border-line!
What price would they command when any head of a family may take possession of a quarter section of land and not pay for it until the end of five years, and then at the rate of only 25 cents per acre?
Actual settlers under existing laws are protected against other purchasers at the public sales in their right of preemption to the extent of a quarter section, or 160 acres, of land.
The mechanic who emigrates to the West and pursues his calling must labor long before he can purchase a quarter section of land, whilst the tiller of the soil who accompanies him obtains a farm at once by the bounty of the Government.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarter section" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
