Show LAM AIND AAD SETTLERS at tho present thoang YAM wier VICK has bai decidedly tho the best bent or of kno tor ter in ilia matter of tho the backbone grant kauv the only weak point in the position of VAS VAN WYCK to the fact that abbt ilia lands in question loo must most havo have beoo been worthless vort bleu until by the railroad work they ale not 0 0 t like the western wealch lands granted to railroads butt but it we vo under stand this the matter correctly they have been passed by for sixty deaia ears as ot of no BO value until protected from inundation tho the work of tho ilia railroad company was vw to build a lucce bud the th laying ol of a track arock it ii I 1 ad the keeping tho the la fit top repair ft r if these aro are the ilo facts md and it if wo we r t right they am tio then all 0 of vix VAN bountis over the a III ot of ilo ile rights ot of settlers is u met men claptrap nip when my oy manor mm or company makes so valuable Talut blo which wait wild leu ICU before that man or company is entitled to reward wo often so papers how bow a rich arm thoro them by 0 a trick gobbled of acres acre of icci govern m cat leads tho the facts that ihu the lands won were eltes until they ibey were improved by water open them that thai improve improto meat cot cost ft a go am whick IT into the a surn or of the land to a bum greater per acre tham U government land oost dust anywhere else eli in the SLITS it the farmers of the ibo valley could by giving away balf bait their I 1 und 11 a have hv moved to hem water to 0 o irrigate tho the real they would make duko money by tho the exchange we V here always b 0 id that the cry of 0 wrong to tao ilia settler beca liao giants cronl of lood have bee aten a m do to railroad companies compola hu has in the mud main been but a cry beerie when is ft company enable a lattice to own a furm la in the ibo e center ter of 0 ilia th continent an which n bl c us 0 of the action cribs raili on MI any to practically tile who a thu dim la I 1 abo I 1 farm of a saia who LQ Is ii b bat t a hundred miles milca train new it esaw is clear that to 6 uch a saulor te lUor cco acres or of lind land is ii worth t moro am than ibao rm GOO me a woud bo be without the am iho giving or of tho be land t the ho brals va a bad poll pulley that it il would livo better lur ir tia the Govera to hive built and aad owned the roada than to have given away colo colonghi to 0 o build them sad aad iboa have Do inert in tham but bul that the 04 a wronged by the arrange meat is if something which no proof ca a be to pic demanded witt swift waft rod easy core ratta kallons with the of the iho cout ment when those were farma lied it was nil but bu right that ill tarnishing I 1 them should bo be paid |