...Section 2319, confines the right of exploration, purchase, and occupation of unsurveyed mining lands to citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens, and that the question whether an alien can inherit an interest in a mining claim located...

...Section 2319, confines the right of exploration, purchase, and occupation of unsurveyed mining lands to citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens, and that the question whether an alien can inherit an interest in a mining claim located...

...designates how one half section (320 acres) of such land can be obtained. UNDER THE DESERT LAND ACT. Citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become such, and who are also resident citizens of the State or Territory in which the land sought is situated,...

...supra, saying — A reasonable construction of tho statute would limit the application of the words "and which have not been offered at public sale according to law" to landa which at the date of the act belonged to the class of unoffered lands, as contradistinguished...

...within military, Indian, or other reservations of the United States, valuable chiefly for timber, but unfit for cultivation, and which have not been offered...United States, or persons who have declared their intentions to become such, in quantities not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one person...

...of June 3, 1878 (supra) provides : That surveyed public lands .... valuable chiefly for timber, but unfit for cultivation, and which have not been offered at public sale, according to law, may be sold .... in quantities not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one .... at the minimum price of...

...military, Indian, or other reservations of the United States, valuable chiefly for timber, bnt unlit for cultivation, and which have not been offered at public sale according to law, may bo sold to citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become such,...

...purchasers under the 5th section thereof, provides that, — Under this section, when the company has sold to citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to beromo such citizens, the numbered sections prescribed in the grant, and coterminous with the constructed...

...as mineral lands, which have been excluded from survey and sale, there have been homesteads made by citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens, which homesteads have been made, improved, and used for agricultural purposes, and upon which...

...United States, valuable chiefly for timber but unlit for cultivation, and which have not been oll'ered at public sale according to law, may be sold to citizens...United States, or persons who have declared their intentions of becoming such, in quantities not exceeding one hundred and sixty aeree to any one person...