If irrigated it would make a home for a family in the southern part of the United States from a tract of 10 acres. and make the safest and surest proposition of farming that can be had anywhere. while of this land that would come under this law. 40 awres of it would not support a steer. A steer could not find enough grass on 40 acres to live on. and four families probably could live on it later. As to keeping citizens from emigrating to the Canadian possessions. that if you will permit these lands to be taken up in large tracts. men can not live on them. but if we hold this land in the Governments possession until we can irrigate it. we will keep a vast number of these people here as citizens. So that this bill will not have the effect that the gentleman from Illinois thinks it will. and I hope that all of you people who would like to see homes upon the land will say. "Let us retain the public domain until we know that we are making a useful disposition of it."
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