Show SAND USAND TURNED INTO DOLLARS 4 Desert D e se rt Wastes Th Thought ou g Ii t U Useless se I ess Few Years Ago Redeemed by Means of Irrigation Nobody needs to worry any longer over the fact that most of the naturally natural natural- ly arable land of this co country Is pied The results already achieved from front the Irrigation of large tracts of what a few years ago still believed to tobe tobe tobe be be desert wastes forever useless show that most of this sand can be literally turned Into dollars There is water enough the enough the only problem is capital and engineering ability for the husbanding of natural water supplies and the systematic spreading of them over thirsty soil which then becomes astonishingly fer fer- tile Ule The irrigation work In this country already theady completed and under way will redeem more than 60 million acres of the tho desert ready for cultivation I ready to add half a million prosperous prosper prosper- ous homes to the millions already es es- es It is estimated that by these means the soil of this country would be made to support in comfort fully five times Its Us present population Those rhose who cultivate these redeemed j desert serl spaces agree that the profits are greater and surer than from land which depends upon the uncertain r rainfall for its productivity They declare declare de de- de- de clare dare that the gentle genUe and timely seepIng seepIng seep seep- Ing of at water from Irrigation ditches through the soil soll is the Ideal way of watering it whereas rains often come at the wrong tim time often oUen In deluges and overwhelm young crops and oftener oftener oftener oft oft- ener yet too late to save the burnt burnt- up V |