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Show Land of Lit,-els Value. P.Tld cf Kr.e al s' s flr Pol ems . It is quite likely that ten or twelve acres of this allotment could be subdued for, perhaps, 320.00 an acre, but it is problematical whether it would be worth much for agricultural purposes even if it were subdued. The land is almost pure sand, and, practically, the entire tract is covered with sand dunes varying in height from five to thirty feet, some of them being as large aa an ordinary two-story house. A part of thia land, if it were leveled, could bo irrigated from the Leland Ditch, but there are other parts of it which could not be irrigated, because of their height above the Ditch. In the vicinity of th© Towee sYamiore Tract, there are other allotments of similar topography and general character. T>yajor ineale has exchanged some of the worst of these allotments for more desirable lands on the Indian Grazing .Reserve; but It is not possible for him to make exchange* of all these undesirable allotments, because there is not sufficient acreage of good agricultural lands in the indian Crazing Reserve, susceptibtl'e of Irrigation from th© present system, to enable hiai to make the exchanges. Voiaing one of the problems which confronts him, Superintendent Xnealo said to me: Just what can be done with these nearly worthless allotments, which cannot be exchanged, I am unable to say. If the policy of permitting no sale of |