Chapter II: Part I: Chapter

I. NEED OF A LAND POLICY 3
Strength of Home Ties 3
Immigrants' Love of Land 5
Need for Land Regulation 10

II. LEARNING OF LAND OPPORTUNITIES 14
Friends, Agents, and Advertisements 14
Federal and State Immigration Offices 18
Policies in California and Wisconsin 19

III. EXPERIENCES IN ACQUIRING LAND 24
Russian Sectarian Peasants in the West 24
The Successful Colony at Glendale 30
Other California Cases 31
An Oklahoma Settlement 33

IV. INDIVIDUAL LAND DEALERS 36
Land Sharks 37
Lower Type of Land Dealer 39
The Public-spirited Land Dealer 42
"Realtors" 45

V. PRIVATE LAND COLONIZATION COMPANIES 49
A Typical Company 52
The Adviser 62
Children Overworked 65
Securing Credit 66
Conservation of Wooded Land 68
The Size of a Colony 69
Learning American Ways 70
Two Points of View 72
Colony Snapshots 78

VI. PUBLIC LAND COLONIZATION 86
The California Experiment 86
State Provisions for Soldier Settlements 91
The Reclamation Act 95
Proposed Federal Legislation 98
Provision in Other Countries 105

VII. A LAND POLICY 107
Wide Range in Programs 107
Plenty of Land 111
Public Regulation of Land Dealing 112
A Public Land Exchange 122
Reclamation a Separate Function 124
A Colonization Board 127
Extension of Public Credit 135
Co-operation Indispensable 135