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Show - .1 - DO - I shall havo expired in 1919, there no longer will bo cn the market cheap irrigated lands. Tho price of lands of this character probably will &dvsnca to £40.00, CCO.00 or even £60.00 an acre, and this, regardltss of' i&ketbor the projected rail-read penetratss ths Basin or not. If the railroad should ts built, tho advanco in tha priae of then© lands will be even greatar than I havo suggested. It mani-fastly would bo, therefore,,a coed business proposition to subdue thesa- Indian lands and protect tha »&tar right attaching to them., The solution offsred by you that whsra an Indian haa an allotment of ISO stores or 320 acres, granted th-\i thero is no portion thereof offrom 40 to 30 acres that is desirable ard that can be subdued at a reasonable cost, say at 510.00 or ^12.00 an acre, ^ these allotments should be sold at the market value, even if the market 'mine were aa low aa $'3.00 an acre, or leea, for the total aoreasje comprising the allotment, and the procaoda invested in other lands Thich we now havo on tha market and which m^y be aore eaaily and cheaoly subdued than, tho original allotments, viould prove deaidadly practicable in many instances, 3y combining other methods, vis: .subduing Advantage to 3o::wJ °^ tilB l»rS« allotments by leasing Indians. ard paying a cash consideration for the :.".,- .. work, and by this exchange suggested by 'A -' you, I beliove that a large portion of the '•.,- landa.comprising thosd largo allotment* ccn be handled,to the advuntsga of the owners. h0*ever> I would a^ain remind you of the fact that the time in which wo may opurai© ia inacaquate, and any work of this charaater must be done before the soascn in 1917 opens. Increase in Frice cf Land. |