Show RECLAIMS MILLION A YEAR YEARB I B Jy ly I ITI Irrigation ri ign lou eminent io m l ii t I N Is Making Valuable Wild ild Lands Washington April 15 Mommy 15 Many II persons per roms r- r sons oms mm will I II I I be lie surprised to II learn that time the government turned astone an aim area aiea Ilea equal lo to the state of Massachusetts Massa Massa- had b by private Irrigation ton enterprises en cn- been wrested from time un- un watered and valueless wastes of time the west Now o comes come the time United States Slates government to lend a hand and amid pu push h orward the time task of or reclaiming time the desert places The Time secretary of or the Interior estimates estimates esti esti- cst cst- mates matIs the time area alea of time the great American desert at oat acres of or which area en the time present pro- pro projects involve lc less s than one twenty t 11 It I IK Is th time the guess of or experts that thal time government Io will wi soon be bC lug Ins ng the time desert at al a n rate rale of acres acm a 0 year yeam S. S The Time money spent In iii reclaiming lan land must under time the law laum be he repaid by settlers Ir in annual payments extend extend- lug Ins ng over oVel a period of or ten years About 80 per pel cent of or time the irrigated lt amis In lii the lie west Is devoted to 10 raising forage crops time the other 20 per IOL cent cont generally raises line fine fruits vegetables potatoes N. etc The reclaimed area atoa alo will wi be used chiefly lou for time support of herds and flocks H. H Which means meat mol for lot export The Thc United States is IN now a great exporter of foods products Our cd and canned meats go with anc 10 cre our oum OU wheat to lo all al purl parts of or the earth alth Tho Time new productive area arca added ac e to 10 o othe I th the great wesl ivest will wf first feed new population und and time the surplus will wi go o no lie doubt Into Inlo that trade with wit the awal newly awakened peoples of or Asia and |