They embrace 19 million acres, and more than cover the ground.
Grand Coulee Dam has made feasible the irrigation of about 1-1/4 million acres of sage brush, bunch grass, and marginal wheat lands.
It has been estimated that there are about a million acres of irrigable land contiguous to the River between Chelan and The Dalles.
The local traffic is sure to be immense, for it is estimated that there is a million acres of land immediately contiguous to the River, irrigable and adapted to intensive farming.
It was held that it would not be difficult to increase the mulberry area in Japan by another quarter of a million acres.
The area of arable land alone in Alberta is estimated at 100 million acres, of which less than 3 million acres is under cultivation.
Land companies in the Transvaal alone possess some 12 million acres, the bulk of which has been bought for supposed mineral values.
The works necessary for the reclamation of at least a million acres of this land should be carried to completion with all possible expedition.
If it can do that in the Colorado River Country is there any reason why it should not take a million acres of land in northern Minnesota, which it now owns, and reclaim it and settle it in one-acre garden homes?
The lands in the delta of the Colorado River where the Japanese are now settling comprise more than a million acres of the most marvelously fertile land in all the world.
I might as well have held title to half a million acres of the Clear Fork Valley as a paltry hundred and fifty sections.
The Bovril company, in Entre Rios and the adjoining province of Santa Fe, have nearly half a million acres of freehold and a quarter of a million acres of leasehold land.
On one occasion, for example, Congress passed a bill to sell to settlers about half a million acres of Indian land in Oklahoma at one and a half dollars an acre.
In the case of Brazil no figures are available showing what portion of the 988 million acres of total area is commercially available.
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