Page:Looters of the Public Domain.djvu/259

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The last "line-up"—This remarkable picture, taken at roll-call, on Saturday afternoon, October 26, 1907, by Mrs. J. N. Watson wife of the Register of the United States Land Office at Lakeview, Oregon, is a faithful representation of the rush to secure claims whenever a large body of Government land is thrown open to public entry, and marks the last event of its kind of any moment, that will probably ever occur in Oregon. About 40,000 acres that had been segregated from a forest and opened to entry on the 27th of the following month. Three weeks before theopening applicants commenced to line up at the local land office, and the number increased daily until the opening day, when 224 were in line