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a failure or has been abandoned. There are well established methods 
in use in the reclamation of salt marshes and if these are used the work 
should be successful. There has never been a known ease of failure to 
effect complete reclamation, in which all proper precautions were taken. 
After reclamation the lands are very fertile and should repay the expend- 
iture for reclaiming them. It is generally conceded that 1 acre of 
reclaimed salt marsh land is worth 4 or 5 aeres of upland, and, 
according to the well substantiated figures quoted from Shaler earlier 
in this article, the cost of reclamation should not exceed one-fifth of 
the final value of the land. 
THos. H. MEANS, 
In Charge of Alkali Land Reclamation. 
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