Then there is this great Peralta grant. involving 7.000.000 acres of land. covering with its dark and blighting shadow the southern half of Arizona. the southwest corner of Kansas. taking in the whole of No Mans Land. part of the Pan Handle of Texas. and part of the Indian Territory. What was the basis of that claim? Simply a voluntary agreement not reduced to writing to colonize a few immigrants on that territory. The papers in that case show that not a dollar of money was invested by the men who were engaged in that great enterprise. a transaction involving 7.000. 000 acres of public lands. a territory that is almost onequarter the size of the great. grand State in which I live. and not a dollar of money invested in it. Let those men come to this body.
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