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THE IERIGATION AGE. 



tion and fill out the season. There is courage born of year. Scores of hundreds of men and women, many of 

 conviction and fostered by hope in the super-abundant whom came from the crowded cities in the East and 



View of Hayden Lake, 18 Miles from Spokane. 



s fe which springs from the broad desert when moisture South, are doing that much or better today. The home- 

 is applied and this gives a constant inspiration to indus- making instinct, characteristic of the true American, 



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Farming in the Big Bend Country. 



try and stimulus to greater things. won out and as a result they are independent and able 



Five to 10 acres of land in the irrigated districts to dictate the prices of their products. 



Bowl and Pitcher Rapids, Spokane River, 9 miles from Spokane. 



will provide shelter, food and raiment for a family and The Government of the United States recognized 



enable its owner to put aside from $500 to $1,000 a the possibilities of the lands in the Northwest, where 



