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matter of wild adventure, at a cost of months of arduous 

 travel and at a hazard of life, not only because of the 

 human foes, but for scarcity of food and water. One 

 never appreciates the full stride of American progress 

 until he has traversed in a Pullman car such a territory 

 as this, where "Valley of Death" and "Journey of the 

 Dead" are names still borne by waterless tracts, and 

 justified by bleached bones of cattle and lonely mounds 

 of scattered graves. 



"Rescued from centuries of horror and planted in 

 the front rank of young rising states by the genius of 

 our generation, the desert parts of the West is a land of 

 broad ranges, where hundreds of thousands of sleek 

 cattle and countless flocks of sheep browse upon the 

 nutritious grasses, where fields of grain wave in health- 

 ful breeze, where orchard trees bend under their weight 

 of luscious fruits, and where the rocks lay bare in- 

 exhaustible veins of precious metals. 



"Here may be found today as profitable large 

 ranches as any in the country, and innumerable small 

 aggregations of cultivated acres, whose owners sit com- 

 fortable upon shaded verandas, while their servants till 

 the field." 



"If you own ten acres of irrigated land here, you 

 are that much-vaunted, but seldom encountered, inde- 

 pendent farmer." 



For instance, a man went out West, took up a gov- 

 ernment claim and borrowed the money to pay for it. 

 Here he put up two tents, in which he and his wife and 

 two children lived. From the first year's crop on this 

 land he made enough money to pay for his farm and a 

 perpetual water right, to build a house and a barn, to 



buy a team and all of his farming tools. 



There is plenty more government land waiting to 

 be taken. This is an excellent opportunity for poor 

 men to become independently rich. To the ambitious 

 young man, whether he intends to be a farmer, a ranch- 

 man, a mine operator or an engineer, we can repeat the 

 famous advice given by Horace Greely, forty years ago, 

 "Go West, young man ; go West." 



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