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Excerpt from Yakima County When a big reservation opens; when Uncle Sam releases a rich section of country to homesteaders anywhere, even te mote from railroads, there is a wild race of thousands, more thrilling than Ben Hur's, for homes. But what is Uncle Sam doing in the Yakima Valley? He is not only opening a mag nificent Indian Reservation. He is redeeming from the desert and opening for homes a half million acres of land much of it richer than the orange groves of California. More. He is opening these same lands with the expenditure of loaned to the settlers without interest, making a homestead possible on every ten acres instead of every 160 acres. This is Uncle Sam's tribute to intensive farming, scientific agricul ture and horticulture. Nowhere could the cold, calculating unromantic engineers of the Reclamation b'ervice find another such opportunity, such possibilities; a demonstrated frost proof area near railroads and established markets, separated only by an irrigating ditch from land worth $2000 per acre, and sometimes producing that much in a single crop. The man -who elects to make his home here does not risk his money in a section undergoing a real estate boom; he takes no chances with the stability of any private corporation. He is taking land in a district in which the government prac tically guarantees the water rights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.