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stock in the Mississippi Delta. 3d. As a sanitary measure avoiding 

 or preventing the epidemics of malaria and fevers that prevail as a 

 result of the annual overflow of the low lands of the Mississippi 

 Valley from Omaha to New Orleans. Government has found this to 

 be one of her perplexing as well as expensive wards to regulate at as 

 great an expenditure yearly as the cost of hundreds of miles of this 

 steel canal, and the loss of crops, live stock and property for a single 

 year would complete our system from the Canada line to Galveston. 

 Some of the advantages of our enterprise are: 



ELEVATOR. 



1st. The rise in value of all this land. 



2nd. Valuation of crops, fruits and dairy products not over- 

 looking the poultry industry that now excells in all our great central 

 western states the entire wheat crop. 



3rd. Rents and revenue from water tax. 



4th. Freight and traffic for the Railroads. 



5th. Happy homes for the millions in our country with the best 

 climate in the world. 



6th. The building of villages, towns and cities. 



7th. The opening and developing of the greatest iron and coal 

 mines, furnaces and foundries in the world for the manufacturing of 



