I hope it will be. I know that if the gentlemen of this committee could understand the condition of affairs with reference to the surveys there it would be adopted. The gentleman from Illinois called my attention several days ago in the committee room to the fact that so many millions of acres of Wyoming lands had been surveyed. and took the ground that there was sufficient of such lands for all the immigration going in there. He was correct as to the amount of the surveyed lands. but I call his attention to the fact that those figures include a tract of land 40 miles wide and 450 miles in length along a landgrant railroad where the land is of such a character that a jack rabbit would starve to death upon it. Our people want the lands outside of theland grants. which can be had for $1.25. instead of $2.50 an acre. and where something may be raised when they are settled upon.
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