Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-12-22


Townships. Washington has $3.50
acres, or three townships and 16;400
acres.
|. North Dakota has no excellent
land; Montana has no land rated
either excellent or good; Idaho has
no excellent land; Utah no land rat
| ed above poor; Nevada no land
above poor, and but 5000 acres
(three townships and 1880 acres)
of that; Arizona has nothing better
than poor land Ind 949,313 acres OF
that grade; New Mexico has no land
above fair; Wyoming's showing is
the same; Colorado has no excellent
land; Oklahoma, 1,700,604 acres;
Texas, 1,591,147 acres. Of other
western states South Dakota has 81
052,820 acres, located in the south
east principally; Kansas has 1885,
287 acres, and Nebraska 8,120,907
acres, in the case of both the states
last named, located in the eastern
third, except for small areas.
Readers of the Democrat, accus-
toned to following through with
analyses, will note that none of the
great irrigation projects sponsored
by the United States is intended to
serve one acre of excellent land, and
very little if any good or fair land.
Arizona has the Roosevelt (Theo-
dore) and Coolidge dams. The gov
ernment certifies that Arizona has
nothing but poor land to be served
and only forty-One townships, 4,673
acres of that The great Boulder
dam in the Colorado serves no land
that is excellent or good and very
little, if any, that is fair.
The grand Coulee dam in the Co
lumbia in Washington, will serve
Gated in the Great Bend country, for
merly notable for the production of
wheat and wheat alone. The appar-
ent inconsistency of this work, that
will cost many millions of dollars,
rests on the conclusion that while
the government is engaged in an eff
fort to increase the wheat area in
the Great Bend region it is at the
same time engaged in the effort to
restrict acreage of wheat in other
parts of Washington and in the
United States as unit.
This comment has no partisan
bearing Both parties, or members
of both parties, for political rather
than for industrial reasons, have
advocated and promoted work of
this kind.
If the authenticity of this very
much reduced analysis is doubted by
any reader of the Democrat he will
be able to secure the complete re-
view and tabulation through his
senator or representative in con-
gress.
The facts appear to have escaped
the attention of the press in gen..
eral and have had scant considera
ton by statistical analysis of public
business.
The incentive for this communica-
ton is especially to attract the at
tention of youth-of young men
of life, will marry and
search for locations to establish
homes. Older persons will be inter-
ested but they will not be so vitality
for they will not "go
vest in search of Edens.
A similar showing might be made
with relation to the Atlantic and
Gulf Coast states, but Ohio youth is
not drifting in these directions in
search of homes.
Ill advised legislation and un-
promotion have made of the
semi-arid and arid west the Col
cotha of great hopes; the charnel
house of honest endeavor, the bone
yard of ambition. The writer has
the "back country" of that
region, where tens of thousands up
OH tens of thousands Of young
lives, that would have been assets to
the United States, have been wreck
ed upon the rocks of adversely. The
truth dealing with the available