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Show September. 15, 1914, Education-Schools-83642-14-83814-14, is tMliMWIIIIHtCMW. - • , t[ sound, and I desire to endorseit and do hereby recommend and-request that authority be extended us immediately to negotiate leases as therein recommended. I quote from this' report: .7e must increase the population of the district by inducing white men to come in from the outside country. Only one system appears to me to be practicable and promising of permanent results. The total finds available for indutrial development should be segregated and treated as a special individual Indian account forindust-rial uses only. This fund would lose its iden- \^ tity in part if it were treated as ordinary Individual Indian deposits. All land not in cultivation should then be offered for lease for a period of fisre years and a part of the lease contract should be that the local office would pay during the first year a contract price to the lessees of the estimated cost of fencing and placing the land under cultivation. One of the greatest difficulties" in securing white men to lease land is the distance fron railway and the fact that the white man has no wa:y of living v/hile he is getting the land under cultivation. Sy leasing the land, to him and paying him for his work of placing the land under cultivation we overcome tho great question of the living and accomplish our end of getting the land under cultivation and increasing the population of the district. ,The estimated C03t of, nlacingAthe land under cultivation would oe irom ,-?3.00 to possibly as high as $10.00 per acre. The lower figure would be for clean level land having no growth upon it and requiring only plowing and fencing and seeding; the higher figure |