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Show INCREASED VALUE OF FARMS Census Bureau Gives Aggregate In th Arid and Semi-Arid Heg'onn as 10,483,COO,COf). The arid and sem! arM regions make a remarkable showing In farm values, according to the census taken last year. A bulletin recently Issued by the census bureau shows that the aggregate aggre-gate value of farm land In the sections sec-tions named Is tlO.48S.000.000. This enormous value Is all the more) remarkable re-markable because of the contrast with the $3,249,000,000 Indicated by the census cen-sus of 1900. The value of farm land In the arid and aemlarld regions In 1910 wai nearly half that of all tbe farm land In the United States ten years before that year. Whether values of this kind In other parts of tbe countrj Increased In the same proportion oi not. It Is evident that they made i big advance; and from It all one maj form an Idea of the vast growth In th country's wealth from this source. The census report should open tht eyes of people In tbe east and rolddh west to the Importance of that par of the country which Ilea west of thi ninety-eighth meridian. It fonm nearly half the area of the natlona domain outside Alaska and the Insula possessions; and tbe great Increase Ii farm 'and values In ten years aug gests the Importance of tbe part I will play la the national developmen ', of the future. |