THREE PIONEERSHIPS 



owners have comparatively little idea of the 

 wealth gathered in their acres. The greater 

 part of eastern Kansas and Nebraska is as 

 fertile as any corresponding piece of land 

 in the world. That is a great thing. The 

 world's free land, all that is good for any- 

 thing, is gone. A little land in the world 

 is yet to be had at a very low price. Part of 

 it is in Siberia, part in South and Central 

 Africa, and part in northwestern British 

 North America. Portions of the Torrid zone 

 will yet be open to civilization, it being an 

 interesting fact that we are learning how to 

 live in the hot quarters of the world just at 

 the time they are being opened. It remains 

 true that no large tracts of valuable land 

 are easily to be had. Never until recently 

 could that be said. 



Down to within 25 years if men anywhere 

 quarreled with one another, one party or 

 the other could move to some place where 

 good land was to be got, practically for the 

 asking. You cannot do that any more. On 

 the other hand, the population of the world 

 is increasing by leaps and bounds. Popula- 



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