The Republican journal., 1910-07-21
The Lure of the West.


Efforts to Retain Within Our Borders
Those Who Are Seeking Homes in
Canada.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 18th. Ca
madam authorities and the large land
corporations of the Northwest Terrific
ries are making strenuous efforts to at
tract settlers. An active campaign is
now being carried on in New England.
Hundreds of thousands of our citizens
have left this country, taking millions of
dollars with them. In some States the
exodus has assumed such proportions as
to occasion alarm and the authorities
have instituted remedial measures to
stay the flood of emigration. In few
of the States Land Boards are conduct
ing real estate exchanges and are making
laudable effort to acquaint homeseek-
ers with the advantages and opportuni-
ties of their own agricultural districts.
The lure of the West, however, is still
strong and compelling, and the wonder
full industrial and agricultural develop
ment which is now going on in the arid
and semi-arid regions is attracting ambi-
tious and adventurous young Americans.
Our own Government is endeavoring by
opening to entry new farming regions,
and by the dissemination of literature
concerning the opportunities in the far
West to hold within our own borders the
constantly increasing stream of home
seekers whose eyes are turned toward
the setting sum-
Out in the Great American Desert stu
pendous engineering works are being
erected involving the expenditure of
millions of dollars Massive masonry
dams now block abysmal canyons and
hold back the enormous flood flow of tor
rental streams. Thousands of miles of
canals, many of which carry whole riv-
ers, now water millions of acres of des-
ert. The transformation which water
has wrought in this rainless land is mar
velous and the annual harvests are val
ued at more than quarter of billion
dollars.
On many of the great irrigation works
4 the Government there are hundreds of
farms on which water is ready for the
coming of the homemaker. With
modest capital of 81, 900 or more man
can establish comfortable home on one
OF these farms, and secure an income for
himself and family and enjoy a degree
of independence and freedom from WORRY
unknown in the cities. The Statistician
OF the Reclamation Service at Washing
ton, ID. c., reports that hundreds of
homeseehers are leaving the cities and
towns where the increased cost of living
has made difficult the problem of making
both ends meet. These people include
all professions and trades, from college
professors to mine workers and factory
hands, and in a majority of the cases in
vestigated, success has followed their
ventures into the newly opened farm
land of the West - - -: 80 r. stt,,s3:
The requirements are not so much a
knowledge of farming as sufficient capt.
tai to get started and plenty of pluck
and energy. The first few years on an
irrigated farm in a new country call for
hard work and plenty of it, but the as
sured rewards of industry are greater
than in the humid region. Many of the
new farmers are securing annual returns
greater than their original capital, and
this too in the third year on the land.
Back to the farm" in the arid West
does not mean isolation and loneliness,
nor the absence of the comforts and lux
uries which are customary in the East.
The irrigated farms are small, communi-
ties are compact, the telephone, rural
delivery, rail, and even trolley transpor-
tation, are all enjoyed. Churches,
schools. and social organizations are
quickly established. In all these factors
which go to make farm life agreeable
the reclaimed districts are not far behind
the older settled parts of the country.
While we have such advantages to offer
our good American citizens there is no
excuse for the repatriation of our people
who are tiocking to Canada
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