Show i MORE HOMESTEADS FOR PEOPLE There is every reason to believe that much benefit will be he derived ed b by bythe bythe the people from the operation of such sucha such a law as that foreshadowed in the bill recently introduced by Senator Reed Smoot relating to arid and semi arid ands In brief the bill proposes to let each citizen take up a n tract of three hun hundred hundred dred and twenty acres of land on which there is no water water land land not possible of Irrigation Irrigation and and reclaim It without having to reside upon it I There are aro hundreds of thousands of acres of such land in Utah and in Idaho and Montana and Wyoming In Inthis Inthis Inthis this state It is not available by homestead home- home stead entry because the tho present law lawr r requires li i th tho homesteader to to live 11 upon tho land while ho he Is perfecting his title And while there is plenty plent- of the theland theland land It is not inviting One can not Dot make a home of it One can not ask aska a wife to live livo there and one would hardly want to bring up his children there While the land Is in process of reclaiming it is not attractive It has no water of or any sort and can not nope hope to have any For years it will be very desolate In time tilDe when dry farming shall hall havo have reclaimed It it one may hope to have buildings and some foliage And by that p process ess the land now Utterly utterly utterly ut ut- terly valueless will become blessed homes home for the people There is no land of this character In Utah now that can be bo secured The state is not selling any having exhausted ex cx- hausted its allotment aBetment And yet yeti i if men could homestead a half section of this dry land and perfect title without havIng having hav hay ing to resl reside e on It millions of ot acres in these states would be bo transformed from rom desert into productive farms The soil is good It does docs produce crops Tho The Agricultural college of Utah has proved pro that Scores of or men in every part of the tho state have proved it The reclaiming of it will be tedious but It will pay handsomely Wheat rye oats barley and all sorts of root crops are arc produced In this soil soil soli abundantly It is to bo be hoped the tho bill may be enacted into law and at the earliest possible date It can not take uke one penny penn from the public treasury without without without with with- out vastly enriching the citizenship of tho the United States It will make pro productive Pia and valuable land that is now utterly worthless and undesirable on the tho terms at which the government go has been holding It |