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Show INCREASED VALUE OF FARMS Census Bureau Gives Aggregate In the Arid and Semi-Arid Regions as $10,488,000,000. The arid and semi-arid regions mate a remarkable showing in farm values, according to the census taken last year. A bulletin recently issued by the census bureau shows that the aggregate aggre-gate value of farm land In the sections sec-tions named is $10,488,000,000. Tills enormous value is all the more remarkable re-markable because of the contrast with the $3,249,000,000 Indicated by the census cen-sus of 1900. The value of farm land in the arid and semi-arid regions in 1910 was nearly half that of all the farm land in the United States ten years before that year. Whether values of this kind in other parts of the country increased in the same proportion or not, it is evident that they made a big advance; and from it all one may form an idea of the vast growth in the country's wealth from this source. The census report should open the eyes of people in the east and middle west to the importance of that part of the country which lies west of the ninety-eighth meridian. It forms nearly half the area of the national domain outside Alaska and the insular possessions; and the great increase in farm land values In ten years suggests sug-gests the importance of the part it will play in the national development of the future. |