Show ii I MORE ABOUT SMALL SMA L IRRIGATED FARMS j jn 5 U uvo wE n 11 n n n n n n n i n n n fl n n fl n n n i j u to u w w w ii Jan GA pre pro if f Ious letter In this series gave a n brief account of the tha alfalfa farms supplemented by cows COI and creameries I which a IL Chicago o man thinks Is just junt Ju t the tho thing thin for the ho lands rands nuts now being Ir Irrigated Irrl ir irrigated rl atell on the tho Colorado Desert Dellert In lu lut t r southeastern California and which he ho h Is II backings backing ith his money one by Iy assisting small email settlers setters to get Het a n start These farms furnish n a striking contrast with those of or and 61 IO acres which arc are being In the sane same section under the tho Desert land lant law Hut K 1 I here Il Is 19 tho the story of at another anther manone I of the tho richest manufacturers In the tho Mississippi thinks think that thaI twenty noes makes u a farm aria Just tour four times too loo big Ilg for Cor the average settler who has little to Invest except his hili la labor 11 Inv hot bor and brains This Thill other manufacturer Is l N C Nelson Nolson of oC St SL Louis who conducts a IL amodel n model Industrial town at nl Illinois Illinois armors the riverfront river from front the great Ml lI metropolis Mr Ir Nelson U a n philanthropist though of or a n practical kind sluice since his hIli Idea hI III It Is I to help hell people to help them themselves themselves selves and to show them then how to become Independent Instead of ot dependent For years hn hI has haR been blen casting longing eyes eeR towards the Iho deserts of oC the west He lie was Wile looking for a n place whore where poor pear peo people o Ile who ho arc are out of or health particularly with pulmonary or throat thront diseases eU might go 10 and forget their Ills 1111 while en engaged In profitable outdoor pursuits IN THE DESERT He Ile wanted a very dry dr place where whore the air Is IH filled Oiled with healing balm and where tho the sunshine takes the th place of oC drugs and artificial heat He Its found this Ideal spot on the western edge of or the desert about miles earl cwt of DC Los Ioa Angeles Hero Meru o he hl established the tho In Inv dlo Health Camp Imp amp about eighteen months ago Ho lie bought a tract of oC land which Is In by wells ore 1 Is and ond ad proceeded to erect cheap hut but comfortable quarters for Cor hi his co colonists colonl colonists tH whom he had no difficulty In In ample numbers Mr Stu h Nelson believes that t true pros In hr the thc mail land of ot Irrigation Is s to tobo tolie tobe bo lie had hod by Iy tho the Intensive cultivation of ot little farms rather than the tho wasteful tilling of ot big bl ones oneil And at nt India Indio ho believes five acres ocre are enough On these small areas his hili settlers are arc rail rah railing I ing Ill table grapes melons melone sweet pota potatoes potatoes toes other products which are arc readily sold In Itt nearby markets at al fancy tancy prices In that favored spot these gar gardon garden don den crops mature earlier than thun else elsewhere elsewhere where hero In California and are therefore very eT profitable Tho The Indio people her be 1 they the will achieve Independence be ho before before fore roro many tunny of or their neigh neighbors neighbors bors who ore are acquiring front from to one hundred and I t times thin r es 1 d under tho the desert land lend landIn law In as nR they are buying from Mr 11 Nelson Nel on at Rt cost price and line paying for e or with the this proceeds of or their land lond and labor laborThe laborThe laborThe The truth of oC the tho matter Is IK that the thi th ther people of t are making makinI makin tn homes homel mo en mill and r tilling illig the the land while their their more ac acquisitive are speculating lit In tho the public domain This speculation will go ItO on as ne n long Ion as 1111 the tho land laws continue to favor faor human greed rather than human need The Tho Desert act not only enables tho the acquirement of at largo large tracts of or government land but bUl It re requires rev quires no settlement or residence what whatever whatever ever WILLIAM I K E S t Tm |