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Show Ci-:APTER III T}{E :3ACK-TO-TEE-LJ.lJJ I.lOVEr,SilT Dur Lng the arid vii thdrew ad 2J1d recorded. r-e the official reached, pe a t e d until the from va t i on 7hat drew, for drawing North hopefuls, a Platte dollars that in of source of the The a land it a to many Again was process re- complet- of free military land reser- had been 75,000 lottery attracted arnaz emerrt parcels and There so many in view of the Eearly tyro-thirds of the land for any purpose but apiece, were was except grazing. valued at still True, several thousand estnated by one source cumulative expense incurred by the applicants the filing vastly land exceeded the passion total value was l'1Land land.:L rapant in America. Ir:etaphorically speaking, Fove!1ber 29, of the advent of the New Freedom the back-to- the Certainly, by the auplicat:ion first winner. and read. Forest Reserve I'ever had de ene d useless h andf'u L the on that many sections qu a.Ld, ty of Land involved. a the ob- huge lottery bin 2. name .i,n northwestern rebraska. applic211tS. was was an 531 applications had been wi thdravm, land the The a:PJ!lication. an was ing in October of 1913, we e k official reached into feder8 scure last the back-to-the-land Lotteries and Land Hunger," 1913, p. 685. The Outlook, |
