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Show California to Start Soldier Homesteads SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9 California Califor-nia will start the first land settlement of soldiers in the United States next month- The colony will be established establish-ed at Delhi, Merced county, in the upper part of the San Joaquin valley and will be modeled upon the successful success-ful state land settlement project at Durham, Cal. The Delhi settlement will comprise about fprty farms of from 10 to SO acres and twenty farm workers allot- ment of from two to four acres. ' Supplies have been purchased by the state and will be sold to tho settlers at cost. . The state land settlement board passes upon applicants for farms, former for-mer service men being given preference. prefer-ence. Tho applicant must have 51500 to start and the state undertakes to finance him, the farm being paid for in small payments over a long period of time. ' Hcndreds of applicants are on t he-waiting he-waiting list. |