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Show M ""1ir" ' , B Romance of Conservation. H There is in the conserving of fl national resources much that par- H takes of the intensely romantic. H Try to think of tiie untold wealth B , which is represented in the Na- H tional Domain. Wo are told H sometimes that the public lands H have all boon taken up and that H the man who wants to get a farm H from Uncle Satn must ho disap- H pointed or else go into Canada to H get land to till. And yet the H Government still has millions of B acres which lie ready for tlie H hand of the farmer, the fruit H grower, the miner and the lum- H berman. Rich as is the domain H already absorhed by the farmer, H :and, alas, by the speculator, that H -which remains is vastly richer. H Take the Indian Territory; once H it was thought to bo worthless savo for the red men to use for H hunting grounds. Now those m same red men and their doscend- H ants havo become immcnsoly H rich out of the oil and asphalt H . lands, the coal lands, the fnrm-H fnrm-H . ing lands, and it might be nd- H (led, the town sites. In the once- H doMpised arid lands intelligent Hj farmers arc getting rich by "dry H farming," and others arc got- H tfng even richer with the aid of H irrigation. Other lands arc H proving valuable for coal, peat, H borax, phosphates, and for othor B thingr, which once were not M known to exist in them. Tho H Government is teaching the peo- H pie what can be found in these H lands, and how to use them, The H search is, fascinating, and the H Nation is profiting through it. H Some of the interesting fon- H twos of this enlightened ontor- H prise will bo shown at tho San Diego Exposition, Those who H are nblo to study what ia thora - ...I'ahCNv.n will bo more than repaid M V' spend On it. |