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VOLUME 8. June 17, 1910 NuMBER 24 
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CANADIAN authorities and the large 
land corporations of the Northwest 
territories are making strenuous ef- 
forts to attract settlers. An active 
campaign is now being carried on in 
New England. Hundreds of thous- 
ands of our citizens have left this 
country, taking millions of dollars 
with them. In some states the exo- 
dus has assumed such proportions as 
‘to occasion alarm and the author- 
ities have instituted remedial meas- 
ures to stay the flood of emigration. 
In a few of the states Land Boards 
are conducting real estate exchanges 
and are making a laudable effort to 
acquaint homeseekers with the ad- 
vantages and opportunities of their 
own agricultural districts. 
The lure of the West, however, is 
still strong and compelling, and the 
wonderful industrial and agricultur- 
al development which is now going 
on in arid and semi-arid regions is at- 
tracting ambitious and adventurous 
young Americans. Our own govern- 
ment is endeavoring, by opening to 
entry new farming regions, and by 
the dissemination of literature con- 
cerning the opportunities in the far 
West, to hold within our own bor- 
ders the constantly increasing stream 
of homeseekers whose eyes are turn- 
ed toward the setting sun. 
Out in the Great American Desert 
stupendous engineering works are 
being erected involving the expendi- 
ture of millions of dollars. Massive 
masonry dams now block abysmal 
canyons and hold back the enormous 
flood flow of torrential streams. 
Thousands of miles of canals, many 
of which carry whole rivers, now 
water millions of acres of desert. 
The transformation which water has 
wrought in this rainless land is mar- 
velous and the annual harvests are 
valued at more than a quarter of a 
billion dollars. 
On many of the great irrigation 
works of the. Government there are 
hundreds of farms on which water 
is ready for the coming of the home- 
maker. ~ With a modest capital of 
$1,000 or more a man can establish a 
comfortable home on one of these 
farms, and secure an income for him- 
self and family and enjoy a degree 
of independence and freedom from 
worry unknown in the cities. The 
Statistician of the Reclamation Ser- 
vice at Washington, D. C., reports 
that hundreds of homeseekers are 
leaving the cities and towns where 
the increased cost of living has made 
difficult the problem of making both 
ends meet. These people include all 
professions and trades, from college 
professors to mine workers and fac- 
tory hands, and in a majority of the 
cases investigated, success has fol- 
lowed their ventures-into the newly . 
opened farm land of the West. 
The requirements are not so much 
a knowledge of farming as sufficient 
capital to get started and plenty of 
pluck and energy. The first few 
years on an irrigated farm in a new 
country call for hard work and 
plenty of it, but the assured rewards 
of industry are greater than in the 
humid region. Many of the new 
farmers are securing annual. returns 
greater than their original capital, 
and this, too, in the third year on the 
land. 
‘“Back to the farm’’ in the arid 
West does not mean isolation and 
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loneliness, ‘nor the absence of the 
comforts and luxuries which are eus- 
tomary in the East. The irrigated 
farms are small, communities are 
compact, the telephone, rural deliy- 
ery, rail, and even trolley transporta- 
tion, are. all enjoyed. Churches, 
schools, and social organizations are 
quickly established. In all these fae- 
tors which go to make farm life 
agreeable the reclaimed districts are 
not far behind the older settled parts 
of the country. While we have such 
advantages to offer our good Ameri- 
can citizens there is no excuse for 
the expatriation of our people who 
are flocking to Canada. 
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Our Weekly Letter From ‘: i 
Washington 
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By F. J. Dyer. 
(Special to The North Shore Breeze. ) 
Washington, June 15.—Among the 
meanest frauds that can be perpe- 
trated on the public is the substitu- 
tion of some other article for the 
food-stuff which it believes that, it is 
buying, the adulteration of food- 
stuffs, and the misbranding and un- 
derweighing of articles offered to 
the publie. 
The same criticism applies to 
drugs, in even greater degree. Many 
a life has been sacrificed, doubtless, 
to the greed, carelessness. or ignor- 
ance of persons who have substitut- 
ed some other article in a preserip- 
tion for the article the doctor in- 
tended the patient should have. 
The fraud upon the public in a 
monetary way is perhaps the least 
serious aspect of the case, but. in 
these days of high living cost that is 
a consideration which must be reck- 
oned with. The Department is try- 
ing to compel dealers in foods and 
drugs to give the publie what it asks 
for and what it. pays for. In this 
effort the public should uphold the 
Department, which has a big fight 
on its hands, for it is doing a great 
and a good work. What the Depart- 
ment is accomplishing in this line is 
indicated by a number of food and 
drug decisions which have just been 
made publie. 
The Department of Agriculture 
has issued a comprehensive study 
upon irrigation experiments and in- 
vestigations in Western Oregon, by 
A. P. Stover, who was in charge of 
the work. 
In the introduction to the report 
