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Show U. S. WILL RECLAIM COLORADO PROJECTS Approximately 12,000 Acres Will Ee Watered and Prepared for Disposal Dis-posal to Hcmeseckcrs.- WASHJNGTO-V, Feb. 20. The rev:- -laiuatiun service h.ii complete! tie cerevsary work for watering approxi-! approxi-! mately 32,000 acres of public land in-eluded in-eluded in the Grand valley and TJa-compalire TJa-compalire irrigation piojccts in western west-ern Colorado, and arrangements are bc-in bc-in enei-ted Tor their disposal to houies-ecker:. TJiu laU'l is divid"'i into numerous valuable and attractive farms, raoirj in size from forty to eighty acres each. Water will be available for 1915 irrigation irri-gation and a crop of spring wheat ean be .grown this year if settlers prepare the land promptly. On March 29 a drawing; will be held j at Grand Junction to disoo?e of .5000 j acres und?r the Grand valley lnch-iiue j canal, and on April 5 there will be a drawing for the Un --.-om pa hgre valley lands at Montrose, Colo. Applications for the farm units on the Grand valley project ivill bo received by the project manager zt Grand Junction from lareu 2 up to aad ineludin? 9 a. m.. March 2i. ll'l?. Each ajplicant is required to deposit $3 per acre for each irritable a'-re in the farm unit selected by hint at the time of filing. Y.' litre mure than o ne a ppl i ca t i on is nuule for a given farm unit, a drawing wiil be held to determine the successful success-ful entryman. - Application for farms under the Un-eoiupahre Un-eoiupahre project will be received at ; the local land office in Montrose from 1 March 30 up to and including 9 a. m. April o. after which the drawing for tuee land? will occur. A similar ad's ad-'s a uce payment of s-3 per acre is re-f: re-f: uired, as in the Grand valley drawing. |