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Show ) thia opinion is based on the fact that the ucnatruetion and Bsaintsnance to date of the better _ar.d irrigation projoot has ccat irore per aore Yet l'r.sold. tiiiai wo nvo able lo get fez- tho land. This may be true, however, it is equally true trait -ae have obhoi' lauds in tho iasediaia neighborhood ef this tract, that ss have had on the market for a Ion?; time, trying tc coll then fcr 512.50 per aore, lands that are decidedly hotter than ih-j land comprising the tract sold and cur efforts hava boon, and are today, unavailing. It is also true that there tare<.j many and many tracts of land that wo arv oi'iling far In advance of the construction and maintenance cost. Tha real question which confronts the Indian Offioe and the Department is a very ordinary, overy-day business proposition, gvery business man makes profits or losses on the aggra^ta amount of businesa he dceo, without consideration of single or solitary transactions. Suppose that a man ahould purchase a bunch of 50 cattle at joO.CO a head, and the next year ho sold 40 of thera at 373.00 a head, but found that he could only get $40.00 ft head for the remaining ten culls. As a business man, what would he do? lie, undoubtedly, if he A Just Comparison. were wise, would sell the oulls at £40.CO each, thereby making a comfortable profit on his transaction* Otherwise, the oh«.nces are that ho would hare to retain the culls, if he continued to demand ?50.00 a head for thera, until they died cf old ago, thereby losing the §400.00 which they would have brought him. t If tha Tokanna Unca Sam Allotment should not b© sold |