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Show Our Wild Lands. Central Oregon is the heart of Ihe largest territory in the United States without a railroad. Within the actual state boundaries are some 50,000 square miles entirely devoted to transportation transporta-tion facilities. Taking into consideration considera-tion northern California, Nevada and southwestern Idaho, the railroadless land reaches the astounding total of 56.000.000 acres. Think of an area the size of New England, and the equal of New England in natural resources, practically isolated from the world of commerce, and this in the most -progressive region in the far west! Let the man who says "all the cheap land is gone." and him who complains that the west is "crowded." consider that in one central Oregon county alone a million and a half acres of free government gov-ernment land await the coming of the home-makers. And be it known that this huge and almost untouched empire is no barren waste, but a land of opportunity. op-portunity. Within its boundaries are to be found the finest belt of pine timber in the west a river unequalled for its enormous and inexpensive waterpower possibilities, hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin wheat land, several great irrigation projects, and virtually unlimited agricultural, cattle, sheep and dairying opportunities. One may-well may-well wonder how it has come to pass that this vast empire has been left a dormant oasis, surrounded by rapidly-developing rapidly-developing regions where transportation transporta-tion is not unknown. Putnam's magazine.. |