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Show be wresied from tho "useless" class and made valuable. One is by putting water on it and the other by taking water off of it. Reclamation by drainage drain-age is of equal value with reclamation by irrigation, and in many cases vast j tracts of water-logged land are brought under the plow. There is now on the eve of completion comple-tion probably the greatest drainago enterprise en-terprise ever undertaken in the United States. In February, when tho work shall have beeu finished, more than 500,000 acres of exceedingly rich laud will have been added to Missouri 's tillable are.i.'and something like a million mil-lion acres in addition trill have been greatly benefited indirectly by the improvement. im-provement. In 1S11. an earthquake, producing a cataclysm, visited southeastern Missouri Mis-souri and changed tho topography of ,the whole section to 6Uch an extent that hundreds of thousands of acres were inundated, hills were converted into lakes and high ground became low. In ISO" the landowners of tho region met at Capo Girardeau and laid the foundation for the recovery of the rich soil which was covered by water a swamp. The promoters labored diligently dil-igently and, after nino years of effort, the drainage district was organized in 1912. Twenty-seven different contracts were advertised. They called for a total of $3,903,949.53 worth of endeavor en-deavor represented in ditches, canals and dams. The drainage works are in the form of a T, the long stem of which is ninety miles in length and takes the water from a strip on either side from fourteeu to forty miles. Tho top of the T is the "diversion" canal which leads the water into the river. The whole undertaking contains more than 650 miles of ditches of varying size, some of them 17o feet wide and twenty-two feet deep. Only five miles of ditching remain before the job can be called thoroughly well done. The completion com-pletion will lie marked with a raighty I celebration, in which thousands will I participate. Laud values, as a result of this 1 drainage project, have leaped upward j with giant bounds. Twenty-five years j ago the land was worth only so much j as' its timber might cut, and it was I sold as low as $1.-5 an acre. Now there is a different story. People who bought the land at $1.25 to $5 an acre are asking ask-ing $200 for it, and tho demand is brisk. Everybody in that particular corner of Missouri is rolling in wealth and there is a millionaire to every squaro yard. So much for drainage in a region by many persons accounted a hopeless waste. The success of the Missourians can be duplicated wherever low-lying binds are found. In Utah there are many such areas. Tho state has favorable favor-able law? for the organizing of drainage drain-age districts, and we are pleased to note that there is no little evidence of activity along this line. DRAINAGE THE THING. The rri'luin.'illon of land by drainage is rnminff in for MOM and more tttOO' lion i project after project Is proving prov-ing successful beyond Pipclfttlon. TVre are two wnys In wlibh land can |