Show LANDis LAND Ib is Dry Fanning tIme the Solution of Pressins Press ins Problems Problems- Contrary to commonly accepted ideas as the lie statement may be It is nevertheless an amply demonstrate fact that lint wherever In Iii this hits great ari arId empire the annual rainfall average as high as 12 inches as good crops crop can be raised irrigation a as with it This means that hint almost every acre of the great plains between the lie Mis river and the Rocky mountains and most of 01 the lie parks park and plateaus between the he ant amid the tho Pacific will produce as abundantly abundant as will tho ho rich prairie lands of lows lawn Missouri tutu and I Illinois I und and much mor abundantly than the lit richest of th the lands in any of the lie older states stales alon along the Atlantic seaboard that hint there I Is enough land nuts now utilized if at nl nil for fat grazing to make possible th the trebling or cm quadrupling of the tho presen farming population of the lie Unite States that lint outside of comparatively comparative small areas In western Texas and i portions of Utah Nevada Arizona Idaho Wyoming South Dakota an amid southern California there lucre is little ai am able land in mi the great groat West that thiat ma manot not bo be divided Into forty aero farms faim each one cue of which will bo be capable o of supporting an average sized family Probably there is no exaggeration i ithe him himlie the lie statement made by ly one writer iem that tha the region between the he foothills of th the Rocky mountains bounded on th lit south by tY hue tho Rio Grande and on omi I th lie north by the tho Canadian border is capable capable cap cap- able of producing fruits cereals cereals- vegetables vege- vege tables and live stock sufficient tot for th lie support of the entire population o othe of the globe This vast urea area of fertile and amid as ye yet almost unutilized land hand Is the lion ion upon which the American people must build for fat the continuance o otheir of their prosperity for at tt least a to conic como Properly utilized It ma may solve many perplexing problems I It will trill relieve the congestion of th lie cities provide un an outlet for danl daul capital anti and afford for tho he enterprising and discontented for decades It contains the lie richest riches mineral deposits the hue greatest forest fores resources the tho most fertile soil and th lie most genial and amid salubrious climate on this continent What Its development and amid lion iou would mean to the tho transportation manufacturing mercantile financial and labor interests of the tue nation cannot can can- not be 10 even dimly foreshadowed I It would furnish u a stimulus that lint would bo be felt not merely In iii the great groat centers center of population and 1101 industry but In the remotest hamlet and on time the most Iso iso- farm In tho ho republic Magazine S |