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Show - :y - as rooky aa a stone quarry and impoasiblaof any agricultural davelopeaient. ^n other carta of the land are heavy growths Expense of •-u-duing, 0£ underbrush and cotton woods that could not be reduced at an expenao of less than §40.00 an acre. A few acres ot ths traot are comparatively level, and, although covered with sage brush and greasewood, It might bo subdued and placed under cultivation for -$15.00 or 320.00 *n acre. In my view, it ia possible that i!r* Upp, the purchaser, if so inclined, might succeed eventually in subduing from SO to 75 acres of this traot, but ha could not do it at an expanse of lass than 425.00 or 330.00 an acre, above tho cost, to him, ox* ths land. It Is quite certain that of the 131.30 acres of ths tract, he would have left on r.is hands approximately 30 acres, at a coat of *10.00 an acre, upon which no sane man -would pay th© taxes fcr it. The proposed purchaser, i'r. Upp, I understand, purchased the land aa a gomble and new would be very glad if he could rid himaelf of the',."bargain?. _i •-- :,7 ww, . ;, ---.. ee ' . • I • I ' . ' . • It aruat be borna in mind, In considering this proposition, that, while the land is shewn by all the maps to be under an irrigation ditch, by far the greater part of it is no more irrigable than the top of a mountain would ba. It would be simply a practical impossibility ever to level, plow and raise crops - Purchased z.3 a : axels, |