He is a man of profound learning and has intense interest in the welfare of agriculture. He wrote me a letter and I am going to read the letter: I do not know that you will be Interested In what I am about to write you. but I am going to tell you anyway. It is in regard to the Immigration problem as affects the small landowner of the lower region of the lower Rio Grande Valley. People have been brought down here In great numbers for the land companies. They were sold land In small tracts at from $300 to as high as $1.000 per acre. and they were told that the land was worth this much because it would grow citrus fruits and early vegetables for the northern market.
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