Show SENATOR S SMOOTS SMOOT'S LAND LA There seems every overs' likelihood of Senator land bill being favorably favorably favor favor- ably considered at this s session of ot Con Con- gress ress It provides that citizens may take up three hun hundred rod and twenty acres of arid land Jand and make title to It without having haYing to reside upon it The effect of it will be bo to greatly multiply tho farming dry ventures s of ot the tho state of ot Utah And er e every one of or those farms made successful as the the A Agricultural college la Is teaching the wa way will bring nearer tho the day of ot total reclamation For successful dry farmIng farming farming farm farm- ing will eventually lead to the plantIng plant plant- lag inS of trees and their fair growth ItI It will mean tho the finding of or water in I deep wells wens where no other source can be discovered And that will mean the planting of oC towns in tho the districts now known only as barren arid wa wastes tes It Is estimated that a J. J million acres of ot land Jand will be bo taken up and cultivated under this measure within a year after alter It becomes a law No o citizen clUzen of ot tho the nation will bo be deprived of ot a single ri right ht And every section of ot country countr will wm be enriched to tho the degree of productivity productivity pro pro- achieved In the region now wilderness The next step is IB for tor government to give to the state a u. great tract of public public pub pub- lic lie land arid arM and non-mineral non to be besold besold besold sold for tor the benefit of ot the state Under present conditions it cap cartS can never be of or benefit to anyone Un Under cr that rule it will be of ot vast good to citizens of or the tho state and of the nation |