I rode over different parts of my Territory for twelve years. I went up and down different streams. and at the end of that time very few entries had been made. and the principal land office did not pay but little more than the salary of $500 per year. When immigration began to come in and men began to settle in the valleys. then the lands increased in valueand the more desirable tracts grew in value each yearin proportion to the increase in the population. The same has been the history throughout the entire West. I have been told that at one time a purchaser went to a land office in the rich prairie country of Illinois and entered 500.000 acres of that land at $1.25 an acre on his own account. and that neither he nor his heirs own an acre of it today.
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