Show REDEEMING THE DESERT acreage equal to the state of ohio set aside by uncle sam D C kept 2 the united state government owns about acres of land in ania country which has up lo 10 recently been open to settlement nett lement of the amount about acrea have been withdrawn from entry pending investigation by the engineers in the reclamation service who hope to reclaim them the work has but just begun in order to appreciate the proportions and to realize th importance 0 the new irrigation movement it should bo borno in mind that the state of ohio has but a little over abrea of land all told and utah has about 54 the reclamation service hat then started out to redeem an area larger than tha S stale of ohio and hlll boon increase the amount of I 1 land under ita consideration to an area as large an utah but uncle tam if immensely rich in he still liaa abw of 1 and in alaska ho cauin what wo berm hia country lie paid si cents an acre for those alaska anaf it alight all to he worth at leat 1 an acre now and perhaps more it would take a pretty rood gold mine to equal thai investment |