The National Reclamation Homestead Law, requiring five years' residence and cultivation by the settler on the land irrigated by the Government, and payment by him to the Government of the cost of the reclamation.
Sometimes there was an actual settler who wanted a farm or a pasture.
This law makes a gift of 160 acres to each settler and home-builder who will occupy, improve, and cultivate his claim for a period of five years.
It is no longer the logger or the settler that causes our forest fires.
Our great coal fields, during the last Administration, were put in the hands of the Government, and hereafter no settler can get anything more than a surface right to those coal fields.
The Donation or Carey Act, under which the State selects the land and provides for its reclamation, and the title vests in the settler who resides upon the land and cultivates it and pays the cost of the reclamation.
The settler has had either to pay more than the cost figure he relied on or seek cheaper land in Canada.
Each settler for each share worked out in the Mesa canal, received four lots, or five acres.
McGrath is understood to have been the first settlerof the locality.
The first settler was James Pearce, a noted character in southwestern annals, son of the founder of Pearce's Ferry across the Colorado at the mouth of Grand Wash, at the lower end of the Grand Canyon.
One settler who had two doors had her husband nail one up so that when the Indians did come to call on them, she could stand in the other door and keep them from coming in.
A son of Harrison Pearce, and former assistant in the operation of the ferry, James Pearce, was the first settler of Taylor on Silver Creek, Arizona, where he still resides.
Shumway's Historic Founder Shumway, on Silver Creek, five miles above Taylor, has interest of historical sort in the fact that it was named after an early settler Charles Shumway, one of the most noted of the patriarchs of the Church.
The colonel said he was the first settler in the valley of the Piedernales and for many miles around.
The settler and his wife used to trek fifty miles in an ox-wagon to the bit of land he had bought.
Two great hay-wagons had been blown several yards into a fence, and we heard that a shack eight miles off had been blown over, and the settler had had all his limbs broken.
The appearance of Alfred Clarke, despite the fact that he wore the regulation hunting garb, indicated a young man to whom the hard work and privation of the settler were unaccustomed things.
They expected to find him dead, and were overjoyed to see the big settlercalmly sitting by the brook binding up a wound in his shoulder.
She was particularly noted for a rare skill in the treatment of illness, and her deftness in handling the surgeon's knife and extracting a poisoned bullet or arrow from a wound had restored to health many a settler when all had despaired.
Practically every settler in the Valley was at this meeting, which was destined to become historic.
And yet it is history that the old Territory of Arizona in days gone by was the "wildest and woolliest" of all the West, as any old settler will testify.
I agree with you," replied the Governor, "and I observe that there is already a settler on the other side of the stream.
He started on his mission in July of this year, after having the petition signed by almost every settler in the township.
Governor of Upper Canada, the year following made and ordered out a patent for 720 acres, round the lake, to Allan McNab, as a settler under McNab of McNab.
You will be minute and particular in your examinations, and will visit every lot, value the same, and if possible see every settler personally, and ascertain from him the truth or falsity of the complaints made to the Government.
The venerable Donald McNaughton--the oldest settler in the township--was called to the chair.
If one climbed the path leading to the top of the rugged slope he could see a single cottage that looked as if a settler had come to stay.
I shall now make a few remarks upon emigration to that province, and point out what the settler will have to expect.
The timber which is cut down for exportation, is chiefly from the forests on or near the Ottawa river, and the emigrant settler has neither interest or concern in it.
I do not believe that a settler ever sold a tree when he was clearing, although if water-carriage was convenient, he may afterwards, when he was in competent circumstances, have done so.
He often took the very farm which the Canadian settler had abandoned, and, by superior management, made that a source of profit which had only impoverished his predecessor.
It is not altogether harmful that the settler should be self-reliant.
Thus it would be about three years before Mr. Halliday was definitely accepted as a settler and leaseholder, and he impressed upon John that they must both put their backs into the work if they intended to be successful.
The next moment not a settler was to be seen; all had dropped upon the ground, and were concealed by the ferns.
There was an answering flash from the ferns, each settler taking aim, and the Indians sprang into the air, or fell headlong before the bullets.
Amount paid to first whitesettler for claim (no improvements) 250.
The next day a white settler was found killed near that spot—presumably by some member of Sleepy Eyes' band.
From a manuscript journal kept at this time, and belonging to the great-granddaughter of Robert Barber, the first settler in Lancaster County, are gathered the few details known of this massacre.
In Quebec every settler on public lands is allowed, after receiving a patent, an exemption of not to exceed 200 acres from that of his widow, of his, her or their children and descendants in the direct line.
But as things looked quiet and peaceful, he determined to visit them, and persuaded an old settler and his son, named Espic, to guide him to the locality.
The settler on a small farm of this description is almost sure to do well, if he is industrious, and provided that he keeps clear of that colonial pest, the public-house.
The settler may thus not only find amusement for himself in shooting or fishing, but may make a very agreeable addition to his bush fare by his morning's ramble.
I need scarcely say, that this unbecoming and greedy canvassing for business, tempted many an unwary merchant and settler to venture beyond his depth, and ultimately led to ruin and a prison.
Sugar and other necessaries were equally high; and many a poor settler who had never refused his hard-worked servants their tea, sugar, and tobacco, was compelled to stop those indulgences.
They finally killed small game and after many adventures reached the home of a settler forty long days later.
The city of Roanoke was originally a land grant to Thomas Tosh, an old settler who came to "Big Lick" and settled there after King George II and King George III had granted him sixteen hundred acres of land along that fertile valley.
This he called "Burke's Garden" and in telling others about it the old settler said "I have indeed found the Garden of Eden.
Every able-bodied settler is needed to drive them away.
As they disappeared, a settler at one of the port-holes drew a bead upon the last savage, but a random shot from somewhere in the forest dropped him like a stone.
Another early settler of this border state was James Harrod, of whom we have but little record, for he was a lover of solitude and his expeditions into the wilderness were usually taken alone.
One evening the big Indian came into Austin, and, after prowling around for a time, committed some theft upon the property of a settler named Gravis.
Accordingly he bought, thru Mr. Halseth of Sioux City, a yoke of oxen and a wagon, the standard equipment of the pioneersettler of those days.
With the first influx of the settler the fire menace greatly multiplied, for not understanding the nature of this menace, they themselves unintentionally set many of these fires.
A house made of lumber was a luxury which many an early settler had to look forward to for many a hard, long year, and often he had to die in the dug-out or sod shanty.
Similarly, if the heirs of a deceased settler should not reside in the colony, fifteen per cent was to be levied on the inheritance.
One settler is said to have sold a small hog for forty-five dollars; with this he bought eighty acres of land, which is today worth almost one hundred eighty dollars an acre.
Soon after another venturesome settler brought in a general merchandise store and then the rush began, all fearing they might be too late to secure choice locations.
The first white settler in the county to die a natural death and receive Christian burial was William H.
It appears to stand distinct and alone, forming a landmark on the horizon that has guided many a settler and traveler to home and safety.
The first settlerof Sutton was Luther French who came in March, 1870, and homesteaded eighty acres.
One early settler tells of her first experience with the Indians.
During the century in which his racial type was developing the Dutch settler moved from point to point with his cattle in accordance with the season and the pasture, and lived an almost nomadic life.
No State in the Valley of the Mississippi offers so great an inducement to the settler as the State of Illinois.
A settler having a family of young children, can turn their youthful labor to a most profitable account in the growth and perfection of this plant.
It will be noticed that the Humber is therein spoken of as the Toronto River, and that the earlysettler or trader St. John is named, from whom the Humber was sometimes called St. John's River.
This Mr. Ashbridge is the early settler from whom Ashbridge's Bay was so called.
