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Show i: to meet existing conditions, it ia a practical certainty that the proposition would not attract settlers in sufficient nunbers to bring the surplus irrigable land under cultiva-' t ion by July, 1919,. and'thus protect the water-rights. We offer the 'prospective lessee 40 acres or more of raw, rough, uncultivated sage^-bruah land, devoid of fences, ditches, or buildings,- land that requires months of great labor to • Y; y y 1 realize any returns. In fact, the first year there is no return at all, and the second year the returns are meroly nominal. It has been found by actual experience that the cost ,- . of clearing thia land, fencing a3 required by law, plowing,.' ; ' flO ;t - levelling, and constructing the necessary laterals, ditches, a. ; ' At-eto. j, ia from §3.00 to $10.00 per acre. For these reasons,"no rental.is charged the first '.;",' year under the plan proposed, and merely a nominal rental for the second ysar, with $1.00 per acre, the third, fourth and -7 fifth, yeara. It la, also intended to pay the lessee the cost of fencing, levelling,, and clearing the land actually brought: under cultivation the first year, from the individual bank ' - -o •' • • . •: account _3fyifae allottee. '""-.f There are aporoximately 16 heads of familieio^ , • eu Ox.,the -w-... F-iy y -; non-progressive type, under thi3 jurisdiction who will not '' *^?' ' *w -'.'* •"'*" admit that they have allotments,, and who it 13 anticipated . ( • • • \ •• • ••y.fA ••:!• fy- '. A A-yfA' -J_ |
