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Show -f V T .J, BIG AREA8 OF ' IDLE LAND . -x " . ' y" - Hero and thcro, oil over Utah thcro ar0 bjg' tracts of land held In private ownership, nnd lying Idle year after year In some cases tho owner ")'& 4 willing to sell at a fair figure; and to that oxtenf, ho Is doing his sharo In tho advancement of the, state, even if he can not improve, nut also here nnd there are men who own big tracts which they either will not or can not Improve, nnd which no reasonable sum of money will buy. That hurts Utah. Also, It Is the sheerest kind ot business blindness on the part ot the owners Either ho wants some ono else to make thoso ldlo tracts valuable, or ho hopes for tho Impossible. ' Tho state cannot advance unless tho tillable land Is tilled. Men with big tracts hold at their own cost. Every acre broken nnd Improved makes moro valuablo every other acre In the neighborhood. Tho nearer the cultivation, tho greater the benefit to tho ldlo ncres. Many n man worth five thousand dollars today, and owning ftvo hundred ncrc3 of ldlo land, could bo worth ten thousnnd dollars by giving nwny half his acres to some ono who would clear and cultlvnto It. And he need not give It nway. There are plenty or persons willing to buy nnd clear; to rollow the direction ot tho Agricultural Agricul-tural College and Lowls A. Merrill in cultivating. Getting land at a dollar an aero or less, and holding It tor ten, without stripping It of a sagebrush sage-brush or burying In it tho point of a plow, doe's moro to retard tho advancement ot Utah than ex-cesslvo ex-cesslvo railroad rates, tradesmen's monopolies, ;or nny other ono thing. And any tlmo tho owners of big tracts will make fair prices on half their holdings, hold-ings, the other half will double In value, the volume of production In Utah will bo multiplied,, and the usefulness of this commonwealth and Its citizens In tho activities of the nation will tremendously Increase. Goodwin's Weekly. t 7 A |