Show KENDRICK KINDRICK HAS NEW PlAN fOR WESTERN lAND 7 Wyoming Senator Evolves Aided and Directed u Settlement of Areas Capable Capable Capo Cap- Cap o able of Development r WASHINGTON W Dec 12 By Dy A A. P P. p i Selection of or the settler and of or th land with ith a vie to reducing the o overhead o was the manner in inh tit h Senator Democrat Wyoming n toda today epitomized epitomised his own plan plait for foe providing ailed ed and dl- dl i reeled settlement settlement of of federal Irrigated 3 gated land bandy The plan has been r submitted to congress In the form a t a 3 bill now being by byl lie l' l Ic e senate committee on irrigation atlon wand and reclamation Me If The weightiest factors against f i of ne newly nely ly placed farmers on oni i reclaimed land Senator Kendrick fi bald ald ala have keen been een found to be first r. r f r fhe he initial high cost of ot the land J 1 b Ih n the lack of adequate capital capital and experience on the part of or the farmer armer Under the old homestead 9 acts tS the procedure amounted practically r t callY to the allotment nt of land by I. I lottery no no attention being given I. I either to the ability of the settler or the productive capacity of the acres assigned him This has been continued to a degree and eve we ue fin find s1 l a II farmer paying the same samer price for worthless acres acres' as d does es 1 his is neighbor who drew rich ilch bottom bottomlands t N lands re ready dy for production LA fLANS cs loo FARMS As outlined in the bill the secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary of or the Interior would be empowered empowered empowered em em- powered in future developments to set a aside sufficient irrigable gov- gov owned nt land l in each l project project to comprise 6 farms a or if adequate acreage is not available to acquire b by purchase for not more than 10 an acre l re or by py y gift sufficient sufficient sufficient suf suf- to make u up the required aIe arta aYea 3 Land so set aside would be classI classified class class classified I fled according according- to fertility character charac- charac lei ter of or surface and distance to market marIet market mar mar- ket Iet In order that the more favored ored farms might not enjoy an economic advantage ot of the others when the plot had been divided into farms varying r in size to o meet the needs of settlers seters i slut o ot of oe e equal it value and attractiveness so far tar as feasible Each Lach farm w would be offered for sale at its appraised value based on estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated production The sales contract contract contract con con- tract would call for amortization In forty years with installments due semiannually semiannual semiannually and bearing 5 per cent In interest terest Applicants would be required to have at least one year of practical experience and capital aggregating at least 40 per er cent of ot the appraised value alue of or the he farm he sought Actual settlement on on the farm would be required according to the theauthor theauthor theauthor author of ot the bill and until payment payment payment pay pay- ment has as been completed ted every sale or lease affecting the property would be subject to the approval of of the secretary of or the interior I G En E LIEN EV With a view ie to further removal of ot factors tending to prevent present successful successful suc- suc farming Senator Kendrick added to the bill a provision empowering ering pring the Interior department l In its discretion to order the clearing or 01 i levelling of or the tract set aside so as to make it uniformly ada adaptable table to Irrigation the cost being as assessed assessed assessed as- as I against the tra tract t. t Authority Author Author- It ity j also would be given for an ad adI adVance advance ad- ad I vance of no more than to each farmer based upon the value of-im- of the total loan being re restricted restricted rea re- to not more than 60 per cent of the value alue of or Improvements The government would take a first lien as security My ly object has been to remove some of or the disabilities the present I day settler meets as compared with his brother of two or three decades ago said Senator Kendrick When we consider that the government go simply turns over 0 the land at a aprice aprice aprice price and nd then makes the farmer repay every cent expended for his benefit we realize that no much real generosity g Is being shown The plan should draw to the new projects of the experienced tenants of the east and from the high rental districts of or the middle west They will quickly see that their yearly rental will more than meet all aU operating operating- costs on the he Ir Irrigated Irrigated irrigated Ir- Ir land Even if it costs twice the original estimate and costs twice the computed annual upkeep upkeep up up- keep when It Is ready for maximum maxi maxi- mum production that land is worth twice the price of or any farming land landin in the country The Impression that a general discouragement had set In on federal federal federal fed fed- eral irrigated projects was entirely unfounded he lie said During a recent trip to several of them he said he had found many thriving prosperous prosperous prosper prosper- prosper prosper- ous communities In which a large proportion o of the farmers were steadily paying up ups up's on their land and water indebtedness |