Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1909 — Government Farms For All. [ARTICLE]

Government Farms For All.

A golden opportunity awaits the homeseeker in several sections of the west where large engineering works of the government are now ready to supply water for irrigation. The prospective homeseeker will not be compelled to take a chance in a lottery, and if he acts with promptness he will find a home on his arrival. Some of the best opportunities will be found in the projects in the northwest where the soil, crops and climate are alike attractive to farmers who are accustomed to the conditions of the upper Mississippi Valley and New England. Although these projects are located in what may be termbd new country, the settler will not have to put up with isolation, nor will he be remote ’from excellent transportation or educational facilities. So rapid is the development of the irrigated regions that the country has more of a suburban than rural appearance. The farms are 40 to 80 acres, and are so laid out that from 8 to 16 farm houses line each mile of the'main highways, giving plenty of neighbors and creating social conditions which even today are unknown in many older settled sections of the east and middle west. The healthfulness and charm of these valleys, the abundant and certain crops, the nearly ideal conditions of social life arfd the assurance of an independent living should cause a marked decline in the undesirable efflux of our good citizens to Canada. The Reclamation Service at Washington, D. C., the bureau which is promoting the work, is endeavoring to acquaint the public with the manifold advantages of our irrigated west. Inquiries addressed to the Statistician will receive prompt attention.