No. it is not. and .it is not for the reason that there are so many deluslbnits in the House here who imagine that a man who. goes out and mnakes entry on a homestead in a neiv countriy has some. vohfideiful j)rivilege given" to him by the Federal Government. whereas in truth and in fact the country where lie goes owes nmbie to him after hehas spent three years there in building ulJ the oiuhtrk than heowes to it or than lie receives from the Government. Railroad companies interested in the question of immigration and the further settlement of the West have made calculations as to the value of a settler in a new country. and their estimates show that a new settler adds each year about $1.000 to the increased production of a new territory..
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