Show min IER PERSONAL OPINION by elway blake H WHAT IF 4 r J go we often wonder eliat if this and what if that well what ht if the government had instead of giving anik a man or acres of land citizen cit 1 zen who wished to make a honie home on the soil a lease on any amount he desired up to a certain limit with the SUP stipulation u lation that at the end of five years the seller betle r would woul d gain title to only double the amo amount he had farmed by the fifth year instead of acquiring acres upon which to io pay taxes by farming mere ly 40 acres a person would acquire only 80 acres upon ailon which to pay taxes and still would have the same ie i revenue e V as the settler now has who farms the minimum mum a mount amount required by law to prove up tip on an enlarged homestead on the other hand clearing or of ir sagebrush in our country would un have been stimulated many times over as the more ground ca clear ear I 1 ed the more a person would gai gain n title to so our tillable area woud n now be many times greater than it is with every man receiving land ac f cording to his industry |